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A tense classic thriller from 1951 filled with suspicion, fear, and psychological suspense. When an unexpected warning reveals a dangerous situation, an ordinary life quickly turns into a desperate fight to uncover the truth before it is too late. A gripping vintage film for fans of classic Hollywood, mystery, and film noir.
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00:00:03THE END
00:00:49This is where I live. I'm a housewife. My name is Ellen Jones.
00:00:55That Tuesday in July started out just like any other day the past few months.
00:01:01There was no warning it was to be the most terrifying day of my life.
00:01:05I remember thinking how tired I felt. Even the housework seemed drudgery and so meaningless with George confined to his
00:01:13bed.
00:01:14No one to see or care even.
00:01:17And then I got scared because I knew I was beginning to feel sorry for myself.
00:01:23George was the one who was ill and he needed all of my thoughts and attention and above all my
00:01:29cheerfulness.
00:01:30I tried not to think about us, about George. How he'd changed.
00:01:35I told myself it was just my imagination that things would be different when he was well and strong again.
00:01:42Then I thought I heard him call.
00:01:47George! Did you call?
00:01:52George! Are you all right?
00:01:56Yes, Ellen.
00:01:57Do you want anything?
00:01:59Not now. I've just begun work on an insurance report for the office.
00:02:04Well, call me, dear, if you need me.
00:02:06Okay.
00:02:07Okay.
00:02:30Somehow, I had an odd feeling. There was something about George's voice.
00:02:36I found myself thinking about the first time we'd met.
00:02:40How different he was in those days.
00:02:43I remember I was sitting in Dr. Graham's office. We were talking.
00:02:47I played one game of checkers and two games of rummy.
00:02:50And I've written letters to a wife, a mother, and a sweetheart.
00:02:53And I listened for a half an hour to a homesick young ensign from Texas.
00:02:57He was awful cute.
00:02:59Now, what else can I do to help boost the morale around here, huh?
00:03:02You could go out to dinner with me.
00:03:04We'd get about halfway through the soup, and you'd get a call from the hospital.
00:03:07You're right.
00:03:08I guess my courting will have to wait till after the hostilities.
00:03:12There's a compound fracture down the hall. He's waiting to see me, but I'll be tied up for a while.
00:03:16They tell me he's feeling blue. You see, his wife's expecting a baby in a minute.
00:03:20And I think he could stand some cheering up.
00:03:21It's practically done.
00:03:23See you later, Alan.
00:03:26Oh, I'm sorry. They told me I could find Dr. Graham in here.
00:03:29You ought to be along any minute. Why don't you come on in?
00:03:31Sure, thank you.
00:03:33Are you a patient here, sir?
00:03:35In a naval hospital?
00:03:37No, no.
00:03:38I'm just a friend of the docks. Flew in last night with a ferry command.
00:03:42The only thing wrong with me is a double-barrel hangover.
00:03:45Too bad.
00:03:46Dr. Graham will be detained, so I'm taking you for an airing.
00:03:49Maybe he doesn't want to go for an airing.
00:03:51He doesn't.
00:03:52There's nothing a woman likes better than shoving a man around.
00:03:55You may not take you for an airing.
00:03:56I'm... I hope you have to go for an airing.
00:04:08You may not take me for an airing or a airing.
00:04:14You may not take me for an airing.
00:04:18Come on.
00:04:26Hey.
00:04:28Who are you?
00:04:30I'm Ellen Brown.
00:04:33It doesn't suit you at all. It's too plain.
00:04:36I'm sorry. I told my parents about it, but they're still back in Kansas City.
00:04:39Now, what can I do for you, young man?
00:04:42I can think of a lot of things.
00:04:44Oh?
00:04:45Well, shall we begin with a game of cards?
00:04:49Well, I could read the newspaper to you.
00:04:52I could write a letter for you.
00:04:54I know.
00:04:56I know. I'll sit right here and you can tell me all about that wonderful baby you're expecting.
00:05:00Hmm?
00:05:01The baby you're expecting.
00:05:04Does Ripley know about this?
00:05:06I beg your pardon?
00:05:08I'll skip it.
00:05:13Which is your bad leg?
00:05:14Well, neither one of them is working very well today.
00:05:18Oh, my head.
00:05:21Is your head bothering you?
00:05:22Terribly.
00:05:23Both of them.
00:05:25Would you like me to rub it for you?
00:05:28You couldn't think of anything nicer?
00:05:30Good.
00:05:31There.
00:05:32Now relax.
00:05:34Oh, close your eyes.
00:05:35Hmm.
00:05:37Now just think of something pleasant.
00:05:39Hmm.
00:05:41Pretty soon you'll be going home to your wife.
00:05:44Wouldn't that be wonderful?
00:05:45Hmm.
00:05:48Think what she looks like.
00:05:49How pretty she is.
00:05:51Hmm.
00:05:52Lovely.
00:05:53Hmm.
00:05:54Beautiful blue eyes.
00:05:56Short nose.
00:05:58Soft brown hair.
00:06:01Lovely kissable lips.
00:06:04Whoa.
00:06:04There's nothing wrong with your morale, young man.
00:06:07I recommend to the doctor that you be sent home to your wife immediately.
00:06:12Say, wait a minute.
00:06:14You're all dressed.
00:06:15Naturally.
00:06:16Well, look.
00:06:17Hello, Randy.
00:06:18What are you doing here?
00:06:19Enjoying myself eventually.
00:06:21His leg isn't even broken.
00:06:23No?
00:06:23No, it isn't.
00:06:23Hey, Doc, what kind of nurses do you have around here anyway?
00:06:26Hey, what goes on here, Ellen?
00:06:28Well, when I came in here, he was lying there all covered up and he let me make an absolute
00:06:31idiot of myself, rubbing his head.
00:06:34Both of them.
00:06:35Best cure in the world for a hangover.
00:06:37Ellen, this is George Jones, an old and untrustworthy friend of mine.
00:06:40Now, remember, I saw her first.
00:06:41George Jones.
00:06:43The name suits you perfectly, completely undistinguished.
00:06:45I wouldn't say that, honey.
00:06:48Someday you may wind up wearing it.
00:06:51Wait.
00:06:52Shall we go?
00:06:57She's cute.
00:07:00It was pretty depressing having a medical student for a roommate.
00:07:03Oh?
00:07:03He was always dissecting something, including me.
00:07:06You've got to know what's going on inside if you expect to understand the outside.
00:07:10Excuse me, sir, but you're wanted at the hospital.
00:07:12There's an emergency.
00:07:13Oh, Ran, I'm sorry.
00:07:15So am I.
00:07:16Well, back to the salt mines.
00:07:18See you folks later.
00:07:19Not if I can help it.
00:07:21I intend to keep you to myself for the rest of the afternoon.
00:07:24Oh?
00:07:24And for the next two weeks.
00:07:26When a lonely prospector strikes gold, he doesn't yell for his friends.
00:07:29He stakes a claim.
00:07:31Oh.
00:07:32How about some lunch?
00:07:32Yes, I'd love it.
00:07:33I don't like to make love on an empty stomach.
00:07:36No, neither do I.
00:07:37Especially to a perfect stranger.
00:07:39My Ellen, wherever did you get the idea that I was perfect?
00:07:43Oh, you.
00:07:44Would you like to switch boxes like we did when we were kids?
00:07:48Naturally.
00:07:49Oh, rather.
00:07:50Fried chicken, potato salad, tomatoes, cookies.
00:07:54Gay rations.
00:07:55Canned ham.
00:07:56Powdered milk.
00:07:57Chewing gum.
00:07:58And four cigarettes.
00:08:00Coffee.
00:08:01Oh.
00:08:02Honestly, is that the best you could do?
00:08:04That's the best I could do with no ration card.
00:08:05Oh.
00:08:06Now, if we were to combine forces, pool our resources, I think we might do very well together.
00:08:18There we go.
00:08:21Goodbye, George, and good luck.
00:08:22Thanks, Grant.
00:08:24Goodbye, darling.
00:08:30Take care of yourself.
00:08:34I'll be back, honey.
00:08:35Remember that, I'll be back.
00:08:36Of course.
00:08:37Of course.
00:08:38And I'll never let you go.
00:08:40Oh.
00:08:42Oh.
00:08:42Oh.
00:08:42Oh.
00:08:45Goodbye, Grant.
00:08:55Goodbye, Grant.
00:08:55Goodbye, the guy.
00:08:57Yeah, go ahead, a guy.
00:09:01I'm gonna marry him, Rad.
00:09:03I'm gonna marry him just as soon as he gets back.
00:09:07I figured as much.
00:09:10Are you sure he's right for you, Ella?
00:09:13Oh, I don't know.
00:09:15It isn't something you think about.
00:09:16It's just something you feel, you know.
00:09:19You can't do anything about it.
00:09:23I don't know what you mean, Ella.
00:09:25The guy with wings has it all over us fellas
00:09:28who walk around down here.
00:09:46I'm coming up now, dear.
00:09:48Do you want me to bring you anything?
00:09:49No.
00:09:57You all right?
00:10:00What's the matter?
00:10:00Get a doctor.
00:10:03No, no, not that. Get a doctor, another doctor, not Graham.
00:10:06But I have to, dear. He is your doctor.
00:10:07Don't argue with me. Don't call Graham.
00:10:09Come get another doctor.
00:10:45Come get another doctor.
00:10:46He didn't want the medicine, but I made him take it.
00:10:48Good girl.
00:10:58Still ticking?
00:11:00Sounds pretty good.
00:11:01You're feeling better than when Alan called.
00:11:04What time is it?
00:11:05Five after nine, dear.
00:11:08Took you a long time to get here, Rennie.
00:11:10Oh, I know it seems like it,
00:11:11but he came just as soon as I called him.
00:11:14How long did it take?
00:11:15About 20 minutes.
00:11:17Fortunately, Alan caught me as I was leaving on another call.
00:11:19Yes.
00:11:19Is there some alcohol in the bathroom?
00:11:20Yes, sir.
00:11:22Two minutes.
00:11:25I got that pain over 45 minutes ago.
00:11:27Why did you delay it?
00:11:28I didn't, dear.
00:11:30I lost a lot of time trying to get another doctor.
00:11:32But you needed him so badly I had to come.
00:11:34You know best.
00:11:36You always know best nowadays, don't you, Alan?
00:11:39No.
00:11:39No, it isn't that.
00:11:41I just knew that he'd come sooner than anyone else.
00:11:44He's our friend, George.
00:11:48The color's better already.
00:11:50Rennie, let's not kid each other.
00:11:52Although we both know where I stood,
00:11:53my own insurance company wouldn't put a nickel on me.
00:11:55Now, look here.
00:11:56All of us in that same boat.
00:11:58Automobile taking an unexpected turn,
00:12:00a brick falling from a high building,
00:12:02a heart condition like yours.
00:12:03They're all hazards,
00:12:04but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll ever happen.
00:12:07Think of all the chances you took during the war.
00:12:09You didn't worry about them.
00:12:11You came out feeling better when you went in.
00:12:14Now, the only thing you have to do is lie here in bed
00:12:16and let us help you get well.
00:12:17Isn't that right, Alan?
00:12:18Yes.
00:12:19That's what I keep telling him.
00:12:20You're lucky in many ways, George.
00:12:23You have a wonderful wife.
00:12:24She's developed into a fine nurse.
00:12:26I don't think I'll be tying up
00:12:27their exclusive services much longer.
00:12:30You've got to cut out this way of thinking.
00:12:32Yeah, I know, I know.
00:12:34Would you mind, Alan?
00:12:35I'd like to talk to George alone.
00:12:37No, of course not.
00:12:41I'll be across the hall if you need me.
00:12:45Those were pretty morbid things
00:12:47you were saying in front of Ellen.
00:12:51Is she complaining?
00:12:52Certainly not.
00:12:53But you've got to think of her, too.
00:12:55She's looking a little worn.
00:12:57Now, when you get these ideas,
00:12:58try using a little mental therapy.
00:13:00Next, you'll be telling me I ought to see a psychiatrist.
00:13:03I'd be a very good idea.
00:13:04You doctors are all alike.
00:13:06You can't cure a patient.
00:13:07You tell him it's all in his mind.
00:13:09I'm trying to help you, George.
00:13:10You know that.
00:13:14I'll drop in again this afternoon.
00:13:16Maybe we can talk this thing out.
00:13:18Yeah, maybe we can.
00:13:27Ellen?
00:13:28Yes?
00:13:29Come downstairs.
00:13:30I'll talk to you.
00:13:37Ellen, did anything particular happen to upset George this morning?
00:13:42No.
00:13:43Not that I know of.
00:13:45Why?
00:13:45Do you think he's worse?
00:13:47Frankly, I don't like his mental state.
00:13:52Well, I think maybe it's just the hot weather.
00:13:56What breath is there?
00:13:57He's been a very active man.
00:13:59It's natural for him to be depressed, but...
00:14:00Yes.
00:14:01When a man's at a low air mentally and physically,
00:14:03he's prone to all sorts of imaginary fears.
00:14:07Yes, I know.
00:14:09I'd feel better if he were in the hospital for a while.
00:14:13No.
00:14:14No, I don't think so.
00:14:15Well, you want what's best for George, don't you?
00:14:17Well, of course.
00:14:18That's just it.
00:14:20I think it would upset him terribly.
00:14:22You see, he doesn't seem to want anyone else around him except me.
00:14:26Well, this morning, he didn't even want me to call you.
00:14:28Oh, it isn't that he's disloyal, Ren, or has lost confidence,
00:14:32but lately, he seems to have taken his sudden dislikes to people.
00:14:36I see.
00:14:38Look, Ellen.
00:14:39Yes?
00:14:40You and George aren't just patients.
00:14:41You're friends.
00:14:42George is up there brooding, and I don't like it.
00:14:45Could develop into something serious.
00:14:47If you won't send him to the hospital, I want you to have someone here to help you.
00:14:51I'm sure you know what's best, Ren, but honestly, I don't know how George will take it.
00:14:56Well, he doesn't even seem to want his aunt around anymore.
00:14:58Ellen, I don't think it's wise for you to try to handle this alone any longer.
00:15:02You're stressed to the breaking point already.
00:15:04I'll take it up with George this afternoon.
00:15:07All right.
00:15:09I'd better get back upstairs.
00:15:10No, Ellen.
00:15:10Let him relax for a while.
00:15:12Oh.
00:15:13All right.
00:15:14Give the medicine a chance to work.
00:15:15Yeah.
00:15:17I want you to relax too.
00:15:24Remember now, you can call me anytime you need me, even if you just think you need me.
00:15:28Oh, thanks.
00:15:28I don't know what I'd do sometimes if I didn't remember that.
00:15:34Goodbye.
00:15:34Goodbye.
00:15:35You're doing fine.
00:15:36Thanks.
00:15:36Goodbye.
00:15:47Stand where you are.
00:15:49Don't move.
00:15:51Oh, you frightened me.
00:15:52Did I?
00:15:53Yeah.
00:15:55Hey, what are you all dressed up for?
00:15:57And where did you get that beautiful new tricycle?
00:16:01It's my tricycle?
00:16:02It's a horse.
00:16:03Oh?
00:16:04It's a palomino.
00:16:05My grandpa gave it to me.
00:16:06Oh, he did?
00:16:07Well, it's beautiful, Billy.
00:16:09I'm not Billy.
00:16:11I'm Hoppy.
00:16:12Hoppy?
00:16:13Now, who's Hoppy?
00:16:15Don't you know who Hoppy is?
00:16:16No.
00:16:17I'm afraid I don't.
00:16:17Don't you have television?
00:16:19What?
00:16:19Don't you have television?
00:16:21No.
00:16:22Want to see mine?
00:16:23Sure.
00:16:25Look inside.
00:16:26Well, look at that.
00:16:27See?
00:16:28Hoppy's there too.
00:16:29Just like in a real television.
00:16:31Why, of course, I know him.
00:16:32That's Hopalong Cassidy.
00:16:33Uh-huh.
00:16:35Well, save many people today, Hoppy?
00:16:38Oh, six or a hundred.
00:16:40Don't try any tricks now.
00:16:41Oh, I wouldn't think of it.
00:16:43Do you have any cookies?
00:16:44No, I haven't.
00:16:46See, the grocery man hasn't come yet, but I will have later.
00:16:49You know what I do with the bad men?
00:16:51No, what do you do?
00:16:53I dynamited them into little pieces, shot them, put them in jail.
00:16:57Oh, I don't think the real Hoppy would treat even bad men that way.
00:17:02Well, really what I did was mess them, cut them up, throw them in jail.
00:17:08Well, that sounds like a lot more work.
00:17:10And more dangerous, too.
00:17:12Hey, I'll take care of you, didn't I?
00:17:14Yeah, you sure did.
00:17:15Can I come in?
00:17:16Oh, well, honey, I'm sorry.
00:17:18I'm afraid not.
00:17:18My husband isn't feeling very well today.
00:17:20See?
00:17:20I won't make any noise.
00:17:22If I was eating cookies, I couldn't even talk.
00:17:25Uh, no, you couldn't.
00:17:26Well, I'll tell you what you do.
00:17:28After the grocery man comes, that'll be around 12 o'clock, see?
00:17:30You come to the back door very quietly, and I'll have some cookies for you.
00:17:34Okay?
00:17:34Okay.
00:17:35I'll ride my horse up now and see that no bad people make any noise.
00:17:39Because I'm your friend, aren't I?
00:17:42That's right, Hoppy.
00:17:43You're my friend.
00:17:45I'm an engine.
00:17:46I'm an engine.
00:17:47I'm gonna beat that car on the crossing.
00:18:02I'm an engine.
00:18:03I'm an engine.
00:18:08I'm an engine.
00:18:11I'm an engine.
00:18:12I'm an engine.
00:18:14Well, George, you weren't out of bed just now, were you?
00:18:18No.
00:18:21Oh, it must be the heat.
00:18:23I could have sworn I saw somebody, right?
00:18:24What took you so long?
00:18:25What, dear?
00:18:26What took you so long?
00:18:28Sorry, dear.
00:18:29I was talking to Billy.
00:18:30I should say, Hoppy.
00:18:32Let me change your coat.
00:18:34You know, he's the little boy I told you about who just moved into the neighborhood.
00:18:37The one with the glasses, you know.
00:18:39Oh, he's an awful sweet little kid.
00:18:41What were you talking to Ranny Graham about?
00:18:43That's what I'm interested in.
00:18:44We were talking about you, dear.
00:18:46He thinks you worry too much about yourself.
00:18:50If I didn't, I don't know who would.
00:18:59George, ever since you got out of bed yesterday to see if you could walk, I've had it on my
00:19:03mind.
00:19:04I want you to promise me not to get out of bed again while I'm out of the room.
00:19:08All right, Ellen.
00:19:11Did you call the druggist about getting the heart prescription filled?
00:19:14Yes, dear.
00:19:15He said he'd send it up later in the day.
00:19:17But there's enough there if we need it before.
00:19:20Did you tell him I'd spilled it?
00:19:21No, I didn't.
00:19:22Do you feel well enough for the paper?
00:19:25Yeah.
00:19:28Editorial page?
00:19:28No, just the front page.
00:19:30It's all right, thank you.
00:19:36You look tired, Ellen.
00:19:38Oh, I'm not.
00:19:40It's just that it's so hot today.
00:19:46What are you thinking about, Ellen?
00:19:50Well, you know, I was just thinking that everything in our lives, every breath, every thought has been for ourselves.
00:19:59I don't think people can do that and be happy.
00:20:02Do you?
00:20:03You're getting a little confused, darling.
00:20:05It was me that Rennie Graham told to change my way of thinking.
00:20:08Oh, no, no.
00:20:09I mean, it was my fault, too.
00:20:11I...
00:20:12I just wasn't strong enough to help you.
00:20:16But we could change all that now.
00:20:19Ellen...
00:20:19Couldn't make all the difference in the world, George.
00:20:21Come here, Ellen.
00:20:22Yes.
00:20:24What's the first thing you do?
00:20:27When?
00:20:29When I'm out of this bed again, away from the house.
00:20:35Just be so grateful that you're well.
00:20:38I think I'd try to do something for somebody.
00:20:42I mean you.
00:20:44For your own self.
00:20:46Oh.
00:20:47I'd like children.
00:20:49Yeah.
00:20:50Yes.
00:20:51And then I'd like a garden.
00:20:53A real garden.
00:20:54Like the woman next door has.
00:20:56And I'd find out about flowers and things, and...
00:20:59I'd compare notes with every other woman on the block.
00:21:02So you'd have a garden and children.
00:21:04Yes.
00:21:06Oh, isn't it good to plan again?
00:21:09Kind of gives you something to hold on to, doesn't it?
00:21:12Oh, my.
00:21:12It takes a long time for things to sink in, doesn't it?
00:21:15But you always said that, George.
00:21:17You always said make a plan for everything and then stick to it.
00:21:20All right.
00:21:22All right.
00:21:23Our plan now is for you to get well.
00:21:26And then after...
00:21:26You must think I'm very stupid.
00:21:29Stupid?
00:21:30Don't you think I know you're in love with him?
00:21:33In love with whom?
00:21:34Graham.
00:21:37Well, that's the silliest thing I ever heard of you.
00:21:40You're not as subtle as you think you are, Ellen.
00:21:43It's quite obvious.
00:21:44First I thought it was just an infatuation, but now I realize it's more serious.
00:21:48Serious to the point where my life is more in danger from your heart than mine.
00:21:52George, what are you talking about?
00:21:53I almost feel sorry for you, Ellen.
00:21:56He overrated you, Ellen, just as he underrated me.
00:21:59You haven't the courage or the intelligence he thinks you have.
00:22:02Please don't talk like...
00:22:03Do you suppose I don't know he told you to rake over these old coals this morning?
00:22:06No, dear, he didn't.
00:22:07He convinced me I was a failure by making me impossible promises.
00:22:11I know something about my own sickness.
00:22:13I know what happens to a man when you take away your self-respect.
00:22:17I know what happens when you constantly upset me.
00:22:19George, this is wrong.
00:22:20I know it is.
00:22:20Please don't upset yourself anymore.
00:22:22Please.
00:22:22Ellen, that's what he told you to do, isn't it?
00:22:26No.
00:22:26Did he also tell you to delay getting help to me like you did this morning?
00:22:29How could you do that, Ellen?
00:22:31How could you take a man of second-rate intelligence like that?
00:22:33George, you will do anything you say.
00:22:35I'll get another doctor right away.
00:22:35You didn't know what you were letting yourself in for, did you, Ellen?
00:22:38Please don't talk anymore.
00:22:56You couldn't have some questions.
00:22:58You didn't know what you said about Dr. Grayson.
00:22:59I don't want to hear his name.
00:23:01No.
00:23:05No.
00:23:05Yes.
00:23:05No.
00:23:19Leave it half way up, Ellen.
00:23:32Leave it half way up, Ellen.
00:23:35I was so hurt I could hardly keep from crying.
00:23:38But again, I reminded myself that George was terribly ill and he didn't mean it.
00:24:06Let's go.
00:24:54I knew I had to keep doing something, anything, anything to keep me from hearing George's words.
00:25:00He didn't mean them.
00:25:02He couldn't mean them.
00:25:03It was his illness, the heat.
00:25:06And when I took his lunch up to him, I'd be pleasant and cheerful as if nothing had happened.
00:25:16Hey.
00:25:17Oh, hi, Hoppy.
00:25:19Shh.
00:25:20What's the matter?
00:25:21Oh, you don't have to whisper now. He's awake.
00:25:24I was just fixing his lunch.
00:25:27Did you come for your cooking?
00:25:28Bobby's just left to beg, but I've already had my lunch.
00:25:31If you're not begging, I want to give them to you.
00:25:33There you are. Take a trip.
00:25:35Thanks.
00:25:36Say, are you catching a cold in this weather?
00:25:40You sound just like my mom.
00:25:42No, I'm not.
00:25:43Oh.
00:25:43I'll give you something, too.
00:25:45A present for me?
00:25:47Uh-huh.
00:25:47Oh, Hoppy, how nice of it.
00:25:50I wonder what this would be.
00:25:55Oh, that's very nice.
00:25:58Are you sure you don't want to keep it yourself?
00:26:00We've got a big television at home. A real one. This is just a pretend one.
00:26:04Well, I know it is, but it's very nice, and I want to thank you very much for giving it
00:26:08to me.
00:26:11Mommy says television's good for when you're sick.
00:26:15Daddy says it makes him sick.
00:26:17Oh.
00:26:18Mommy lets me look at television, so I stay in bed.
00:26:21Well, I think that's a very good idea. I'll have to tell my husband about that.
00:26:25Can I see him? I can play with him if he can't go outside.
00:26:28Oh, well, that's very nice of you, but I don't think he's well enough to see people, dear.
00:26:32I won't make any noise. I'll just eat my cookies and look.
00:26:37Well, perhaps in a week or two when he's feeling better, huh?
00:26:41Okay. My horse is sick. I've got to go see my horse.
00:26:43Okay.
00:26:53Can I take some cookies for my horse?
00:26:55Oh, by all means. Take as many as you like.
00:26:58I'll go see my horse now.
00:26:59All right.
00:27:01Say, honey, are you sure you don't want to take that television set with you?
00:27:05The man can use it, but tell him not to break it, because I've got to use it later.
00:27:08Well, all right. I'll tell him.
00:27:10And thank you again, Hoppy.
00:27:11Bye.
00:27:12Bye.
00:27:16I always felt better after talking with Hoppy.
00:27:19I wondered how he'd look without his glasses.
00:27:23It's a nice thing that kids do.
00:27:27Don't break it, because I have to use it again.
00:27:34George wanted his lunch. That was a good sign.
00:27:55You hungry?
00:27:57Yes. As a matter of fact, I am.
00:27:59I'm feeling much better.
00:28:04Hoppy sent your present.
00:28:06Television set.
00:28:08And he says not to break it, because he has to use it later.
00:28:10You two are getting to be great pals, aren't you?
00:28:13Oh, yes. But a darling little kid. He's so eager to please.
00:28:16Oh, honey, not now.
00:28:19All right. But at least you're going to have clean hands and face before you eat.
00:28:25Helen, has the postman come yet?
00:28:30Oh, no. He's very late today.
00:28:37I guess it must be the heat.
00:28:40Give him this letter when he comes, please.
00:28:43Dear, I thought you were arresting.
00:28:45What's arresting away?
00:28:47A relief to get that written.
00:28:50New insurance law affects the Emerson estate. I've got to check on.
00:28:53All right, here. All right.
00:28:55I'll meet him at the gate.
00:28:56Give it to him.
00:28:57Give it to him.
00:28:58How's that?
00:28:59Yeah.
00:29:02Here.
00:29:08There you are.
00:29:09Looks good.
00:29:10Yeah, just good.
00:29:13Oh, Ellen.
00:29:15Let her.
00:29:16Oh, sorry.
00:29:19And if you finish before I get back, don't try to put that tray on the floor.
00:29:22Remember what happened the last time?
00:29:23No.
00:29:26Hey, you really wrote a letter, didn't you?
00:29:52I wanted to stop a minute and chat with neighbors, but I knew George wouldn't like it.
00:30:01He didn't believe in neighbors.
00:30:04And then I saw the postman.
00:30:15Well, that's what I was going to do.
00:30:16Yoo-hoo!
00:30:17When do you think this heat's going to break?
00:30:20Good morning, Mr. Clarkson.
00:30:22Good morning, Mrs. Jones.
00:30:24Certainly it's hot, isn't it?
00:30:25Sure is, especially with this mailbag.
00:30:28Looks heavy, all right.
00:30:29If I'm all in now, I wonder what I'm going to be like this afternoon.
00:30:32I guess I'll live.
00:30:34Everything's so high, I've got to keep my nose to the grindstone.
00:30:38Got a pension plan, did I tell you about it?
00:30:40Yes, you did.
00:30:41Well, you've got to follow it to a T.
00:30:43Every penny counts.
00:30:44You know, my wife doesn't understand that.
00:30:46She says I'm an old penny pincher.
00:30:48No.
00:30:49But I told her that...
00:30:50Mr. Carsten, would you take this letter for me, please?
00:30:53Thanks.
00:30:54I swear, I'd bring in more mail than I take out.
00:30:57Well, I'm sorry, I'd run up to the mailbox with it myself,
00:30:59but I don't like to leave the house so long with my husband being ill and all, you know.
00:31:02No, never figures how it slows me up, lugging everybody's mail around this awful heat.
00:31:06I'm sorry.
00:31:07My feet are throbbing.
00:31:08Your feet ever...
00:31:10Yeah, I know just what you mean.
00:31:12You know, I ought to be way out in Pine Avenue and Merritt Street, Benoom.
00:31:15The way I'm going, I won't be out there till one o'clock.
00:31:17With everybody giving me mail to take back.
00:31:20Is that mail for me?
00:31:22Huh?
00:31:22That mail, is it mine?
00:31:24Oh, yeah.
00:31:25Excuse me.
00:31:26It's all right.
00:31:26It's that retirement plan that keeps me going.
00:31:29Yeah, I bet it is.
00:31:29Well, thanks again, Mr. Gatton.
00:31:30Well, you're welcome.
00:31:32Well, glad to see your husband's well enough to be up, Mrs. Jones.
00:31:36Goodbye.
00:31:37I wish I could lie down for a while.
00:31:54Oh, George, you were out of bed.
00:31:56And you promised me you wouldn't...
00:31:57You know, I can't get into bed in my condition.
00:31:59Dear, the postman said he saw you at the window.
00:32:02Really?
00:32:04Really?
00:32:04Well, no, he didn't actually say he saw you.
00:32:07But...
00:32:07The postman's got a touch or she's out of the stroke.
00:32:12Yeah.
00:32:12Me too, I guess.
00:32:16Oh, hot wind.
00:32:18Certainly doesn't help much.
00:32:19You finished?
00:32:20Yes.
00:32:21Very nice.
00:32:23I'm glad you got that letter off.
00:32:26Come over here, Ellen.
00:32:27Sit down.
00:32:35Would you like your Aunt Clara to come up and visit for a little while today?
00:32:38It's pretty hot for the old girl.
00:32:39Oh, she'd love it if you asked for her.
00:32:42You know, the apple of her eye, you know.
00:32:43I always was.
00:32:45You know, Aunt Clara gave me a toy when I was a kid.
00:32:49A toy I was crazy about.
00:32:51My mother used to tell her she gave me too much, but I can still remember that toy.
00:32:55It was a bottle with a small, absolutely perfect sailing ship built inside of it.
00:33:02You know, I was...
00:33:03I was so crazy about that toy, I wouldn't let anybody touch it.
00:33:06Oh?
00:33:07Not even my mother.
00:33:09One day I was making a garden.
00:33:13Making a garden in the backyard.
00:33:16Neighbor boy came running out of my house with my ship in his hand.
00:33:20And somehow I got it away from him without breaking it.
00:33:25I don't know what I said to him, but he looked awfully scared and white.
00:33:30And suddenly I was frightened too, thinking he might have broken it, the ship.
00:33:33I mean, I picked up the little rake I'd been playing with and began hitting him with it.
00:33:38And when his face had been so white, it was all blood.
00:33:41I think I might have killed him if Mother hadn't come out.
00:33:45She took him into the house and the bathroom washed his face.
00:33:47They were both so excited that I felt safe.
00:33:51I had my little ship again.
00:33:54When the neighbor boy stopped crying, Mother turned to me and she said,
00:33:57Give it to him.
00:33:59She sounded so strange and quiet, I knew I had to.
00:34:03He held out his hand.
00:34:04I could see he hadn't learned anything, so I handed him the ship.
00:34:08But just as he was about to take it, I let it drop on the tile floor and I stepped
00:34:12on it.
00:34:13He'd never have known what it was, but somehow or other it was mine.
00:34:18Mine more than it had ever been before.
00:34:20I remembered every little perfect thing about that ship.
00:34:23But to them it was just a mess of broken glass and matchsticks on the bathroom floor.
00:34:30But to them, you know who that neighbor boy looked like.
00:34:38You're very much like Graham.
00:34:42Your doctor Graham was going to find himself in exactly the same position as that little boy.
00:34:47But we're not going to have him here again.
00:34:50But that doesn't change the fact that you're wrong about him.
00:34:52He's been wonderful to you, so thoughtful and given you so much time.
00:34:56Maybe that's because he's a bachelor.
00:34:58No home life.
00:35:01He's been a good friend to us.
00:35:03Well, and time's limited, so you must listen carefully.
00:35:07Randy Graham may have you all right.
00:35:10But he'll be disappointed with what he gets.
00:35:17George, please.
00:35:21George, I can't let you talk this way anymore.
00:35:28I'll fill this up.
00:36:12I'll be downstairs if you want me.
00:36:14You'd better wait, Ellen.
00:36:15I've written a district attorney asking him to make a complete investigation
00:36:19if anything happens to me today before he can get help to me.
00:36:24Why do you torture yourself like this?
00:36:25Why do you imagine things that don't exist?
00:36:28A letter exists.
00:36:29It proves you're trying to kill me.
00:36:32But I'm not.
00:36:33I'm not.
00:36:36If I can't help you, George, then I'm going to get someone else in who can.
00:36:39It's not me that needs help now, Ellen.
00:36:40You gave that letter to the postman yourself just a while ago.
00:36:43Yes, yes, yes.
00:36:44I gave him the letter, the one that you wrote about insurance policies.
00:36:48I knew you wouldn't recognize a district attorney's name if you saw it.
00:36:51Nobody ever does.
00:36:52Isn't that strange?
00:36:53Everybody knows there's a district attorney, but nobody ever knows his name.
00:36:58We are going to get someone else in, another doctor.
00:37:01Because this is all in your mind.
00:37:03My mind is fine.
00:37:05Just to reassure you on that point, let me tell you that letter was about insurance.
00:37:10I told the district attorney how much insurance we had on each other's lives.
00:37:13And if either one of us died, the other would do very nicely for the rest of his life.
00:37:17Or her life very comfortably, indeed.
00:37:20Oh.
00:37:21I also told them how you and Dr. Graham, how you were working together to aggravate my condition
00:37:27so it wouldn't look like murder.
00:37:31George!
00:37:31I also told them how you were gradually giving me overdoses of the heart medicine.
00:37:37But that isn't true.
00:37:39Anyone would know that isn't true.
00:37:41Would they?
00:37:43Why is that bottle almost empty, huh?
00:37:46We only got it the other day.
00:37:48Well, you...
00:37:49You told me that you spilled it on the tray.
00:37:51You told me that yourself, George.
00:37:52You didn't tell the druggist that.
00:37:54Oh, Mr. Phillips will make an excellent witness against you, Ellen.
00:37:58He'll be the first if anything happens to me.
00:38:00And let me tell you, there'll be others.
00:38:02The letter takes care of everything.
00:38:04The druggist, the medicine, the doctor.
00:38:06He's in it, too.
00:38:06Oh, you've implicated your old friend Graham, you know.
00:38:10Nothing's going to happen to you.
00:38:13I don't know whether you're doing this to frighten me or not, but I'm going downstairs and get that letter
00:38:16back from that postman.
00:38:17You're not going anyplace anymore, Ellen.
00:38:20I guess I'm going to kill you.
00:38:23I decided that definitely this morning.
00:38:31You couldn't mean this, George.
00:38:33You couldn't.
00:38:35George, you know I wouldn't hurt anybody.
00:38:37Anybody, much less you.
00:38:41George, think it's me.
00:38:42It's Ellen.
00:38:43It's Ellen.
00:38:43But you didn't want to be rid of me.
00:38:45It was in your mind.
00:38:46That's why you feel so guilty, isn't it?
00:38:48No.
00:38:49The letter will take care of Graham.
00:38:51I'll take care of you myself.
00:38:52I'll make it look like self-defense.
00:38:56Please don't.
00:38:58There are just too many things against you, Ellen.
00:39:00You used to say that you were lonesome until you met me.
00:39:05George.
00:39:07George, you love me.
00:39:09I love you, George.
00:39:10And since I've been sick, since he's been coming to the house, you've hated the sight of me.
00:39:14No, I haven't.
00:39:28Oh.
00:39:29No.
00:39:40It was one of those awful dreams.
00:39:43The kind I used to have when George was overseas.
00:39:50That man lying there was George.
00:39:53My husband.
00:39:55He was dead.
00:39:57He died trying to kill me.
00:40:00He died trying to kill me.
00:40:17Hello?
00:40:18Hello?
00:40:20Yes?
00:40:21Uh, Mrs. Jones?
00:40:23Yes.
00:40:23Who is it?
00:40:24Mr. Phillips, down at the drugstore.
00:40:26What is it that you want, Mr. Phillips?
00:40:28Why, it's about that heart medicine you want refilled.
00:40:32Yes.
00:40:33You can't refill it without another prescription.
00:40:37I see.
00:40:38We'll just let it go.
00:40:40Let it go?
00:40:42That is, until I talk with Dr. Graham.
00:40:44Oh.
00:40:45By the way, Mrs. Jones, according to my records, you got that prescription filled just the other day.
00:40:50But my husband knocked that bottle over on the tray and spilled it.
00:40:52Oh, you didn't tell me that when you called before.
00:40:56But that's what happened.
00:40:57I promise you, that's what happened, Mr. Phillips.
00:40:59All right, all right, Mrs. Jones.
00:41:01You don't have to promise anything.
00:41:03I didn't tell you before because I didn't think it was necessary.
00:41:06Well, it wasn't.
00:41:07Look here, Mrs. Jones, I didn't...
00:41:09George said that Mr. Phillips would be a witness against me.
00:41:12I just thought it was such a...
00:41:13A witness?
00:41:14...got that prescription filled.
00:41:16I warned you, that's all.
00:41:20I'll see that you get another prescription.
00:41:22Yes, you just get in touch with Dr. Graham.
00:41:25Oh, why didn't I tell him about George?
00:41:35That letter.
00:41:37I had to get that letter back.
00:41:40I couldn't tell anyone about George until I got that letter back.
00:41:44I could feel the woman next door watching me.
00:41:48Maybe she'd be a witness against me, too.
00:41:51She could tell them how I ran out of the house
00:41:54and then back in again.
00:41:56How strangely I was acting.
00:42:00It wouldn't matter what she thought
00:42:01if I could only get that letter back.
00:42:04I tried to think,
00:42:06which way did he go?
00:42:08Oh.
00:42:27What's that for, Tex?
00:42:29Who knows?
00:42:30The heap needs everything we can put in it.
00:42:32Yeah, but what'll it do?
00:42:34Who cares?
00:42:35Pardon me.
00:42:37Can you tell me,
00:42:37did the postman go by here yet?
00:42:39The postman?
00:42:40Yeah.
00:42:40Yeah, oh, the oddball proudest way through here a little while ago.
00:42:43Oh, which way did he go?
00:42:44Do you know?
00:42:45Uh, that-a-way.
00:42:47Oh, thanks.
00:42:48Yeah, that way towards Merritt Street.
00:42:50You know.
00:42:50Yeah, I know.
00:42:57Oh, I'm sorry.
00:43:07That's right.
00:43:08You know, every time I go home at night,
00:43:10I always tell my wife, Laura,
00:43:11if it wasn't for that pension plan of view,
00:43:14I'd just never get up.
00:43:15I'd just drop my tracks one of these days
00:43:17and that'd settle it.
00:43:18I'd just never get up anymore,
00:43:19and that's all.
00:43:20You know how it is when you have-
00:43:21Hello, Mr. Carson.
00:43:22See you later, Joe.
00:43:23Yeah, see you later, Mr. Stone.
00:43:25Well, Mrs. Jones,
00:43:26what are you doing out this way?
00:43:28I was visiting a friend.
00:43:30Oh, that's nice.
00:43:31I wish I had more time for visiting.
00:43:33But by the time I get home at night,
00:43:35I can just hardly make it up the stairs.
00:43:37I tell my wife that-
00:43:38Mr. Carson, remember that letter I gave you this morning?
00:43:41Yeah, I suppose so.
00:43:42I pick up funny letters.
00:43:43Why, what about it?
00:43:44Well, I know it seems silly,
00:43:45but I made it by mistake.
00:43:47It wasn't even finished.
00:43:48No.
00:43:48Yeah.
00:43:48Now, what did you do that for?
00:43:50Well, I don't know.
00:43:51I guess I was just hoping-
00:43:52Well, finish it up and mail the rest of it tomorrow.
00:43:54They'll get into the installment.
00:43:55Now, you wouldn't want me to do that.
00:43:57May I have the letter, please?
00:44:01First, I pick them up and carry them around for miles,
00:44:03and then they want them back again.
00:44:04Well, I'm sorry, but you can understand
00:44:06why I wouldn't want it to go out unfinished.
00:44:08Yeah, I guess so.
00:44:09With all these delays count,
00:44:10keep me on my feet longer than I ought to be.
00:44:12Well, it won't be much trouble, will it?
00:44:13Yeah, here it is.
00:44:16Now, look, you shouldn't have given me this letter
00:44:18in the first place.
00:44:19Why?
00:44:19Giving me this letter is just like putting it in the mailbox.
00:44:23Now, you wouldn't expect to get this back
00:44:24from the mailbox, would you?
00:44:26No, but surely you can make this impression.
00:44:28After all, I...
00:44:32Isn't this fellow the district attorney?
00:44:35Yes.
00:44:37Yes, my husband read about some graft in the newspaper,
00:44:40and he wrote to the district attorney about it.
00:44:42Oh, your husband wrote the letter.
00:44:44Yes.
00:44:44Thought you said you wrote it.
00:44:46Well, what's the difference?
00:44:47He's my husband.
00:44:48Oh, it makes all the difference in the world, Mrs. Jones.
00:44:51But why?
00:44:51It's one of our strictest rules.
00:44:53We can't return a letter to anyone
00:44:54except the person who wrote it.
00:44:56But, Mr. Carsten, my husband's sick.
00:44:58You know that.
00:44:59And he sent me to get the letter back.
00:45:00Yes, I know that.
00:45:01Oh, don't be so obstinate.
00:45:03You know it's all right.
00:45:04He's sick.
00:45:04Give it to me.
00:45:05Obstinate.
00:45:06Now, how do you like that?
00:45:07After standing here patiently
00:45:08and all this heat trying to reason with you,
00:45:11you're the one that's being obstinate.
00:45:12You don't seem to realize it's against the rules.
00:45:14Well, what do you care if it is against the rules?
00:45:16I have to care, but you don't.
00:45:18You're not the one who'd get fired.
00:45:20Oh.
00:45:22I'm sorry.
00:45:23I'm very sorry, Mr. Carsten.
00:45:25I forgot what it means to you.
00:45:26Your responsibility and all.
00:45:28It must be this terrible heat.
00:45:31Please.
00:45:32I know how anxious my husband is to get that letter back.
00:45:35It was my fault.
00:45:36You see, I mailed it by mistake.
00:45:38He's awfully upset with me.
00:45:39He's very angry with me, Mr. Carsten.
00:45:41Couldn't you please help me?
00:45:42Couldn't I please have the letter back?
00:45:45Well, tell what it'll do.
00:45:47Yes.
00:45:48I'm all through the route until this afternoon's delivery.
00:45:50And since it's so important, like you say.
00:45:52Oh, it is.
00:45:53Well, if you'll give me a lift back to town in your car,
00:45:56so as I won't lose any more time.
00:45:57I will.
00:45:57I'll go over to your house with you right now
00:45:59and give the letter to Mr. Jones personally.
00:46:02No, no, you can't.
00:46:03But, Mrs. Jones, this way I'll be sticking to the rules
00:46:06and your husband will get his letter back.
00:46:07But my husband didn't sleep last night.
00:46:09And he fell asleep just before I left,
00:46:11and I wouldn't want to wake you.
00:46:12I'm trying to do the right thing by everybody concerned.
00:46:15But it seems to me you don't want to cooperate,
00:46:17and I'm not going to risk losing my job for anybody.
00:46:18I'm trying to understand.
00:46:20Now, I can't talk about it any longer.
00:46:22Can't waste any more time.
00:46:23Do you want me to take the letter to your husband personally,
00:46:25or don't you?
00:46:27No.
00:46:27All right, then I'll take it to the post office,
00:46:29like I'm supposed to.
00:46:30You can go down there and get it from the superintendent.
00:46:34Superintendent?
00:46:34Yeah, he's got more authority than I have.
00:46:37Maybe he'll give it to you.
00:46:37I see.
00:46:38But you better not waste any more time.
00:46:40Once I bring the mail in, they send it out right quick.
00:46:42Oh.
00:46:43Once it leaves the post office for delivery,
00:46:45nobody can stop her.
00:46:46The post office downtown?
00:46:47Yeah.
00:46:47Yeah, thanks.
00:46:48Oh, Mr. Carson, how do I get there?
00:46:50The shortest way up.
00:46:51Right on down the boulevard is shortest.
00:46:53You can't miss it.
00:46:53Thanks.
00:46:54How much time do I have to take?
00:46:55Oh, about 2.30, maybe a little before.
00:47:34Ellen.
00:47:36Ellen.
00:47:38Ellen.
00:48:28I'm sorry.
00:48:30Have you seen Mrs. Jones this morning?
00:48:32Yes, she went out about half an hour ago.
00:48:35Went out? Yes.
00:48:37What about George, Mr. Jones?
00:48:39She hasn't left him alone, has she?
00:48:41Well, her husband's sick, you know.
00:48:43So I've heard.
00:48:45Of course, I never really met them.
00:48:47Though I haven't lived here long.
00:48:51I'm Mr. Jones's aunt.
00:48:53I made him some jellied comps.
00:48:54May I pack it in ice?
00:48:56It's melting.
00:48:57I never dreamt I wouldn't get in.
00:49:00I can tell you where the key is.
00:49:02The key?
00:49:03Perhaps you'll think it's nosy,
00:49:04but I happened to see her when she locked the door.
00:49:07Well, isn't that good of you?
00:49:09The sunk door?
00:49:10Yes, it's right over there.
00:49:12Above the door.
00:49:14I don't know how you stand in the sun without a hat on.
00:49:16It might dry up like a sea.
00:49:22The top of the green shutter.
00:49:24The far side of the door.
00:49:27I've found this.
00:49:28If there's anything I can do for you, just call me.
00:49:31He's very kind.
00:49:32No...
00:49:33It's a white, but it's him leaving the wall.
00:49:33It's between a blue and a white white white and a white white and a white white.
00:49:37It's easy to see her, but it's a white white white.
00:49:38But it's a blue and a white white white white.
00:49:47Yeah...
00:49:57Good morning.
00:50:00I'm leaving.
00:50:01Come on.
00:50:12Aunt Clara.
00:50:13Ellen, how long have you been?
00:50:16Have you been upstairs?
00:50:18Well, I was just going up.
00:50:19Why are you so out of bed?
00:50:22Why, I've been running and...
00:50:24Running at all this heat just to have more sense.
00:50:26Why?
00:50:27How did you get in, Aunt Clara?
00:50:28I found the key on the ledge.
00:50:30Oh, there. Look at that. It stripped right down my dress.
00:50:33Now it's ruined.
00:50:34I was worried half to death.
00:50:35I thought something had happened.
00:50:37Happened? I've never known you to go off like this.
00:50:39How's George?
00:50:41He's all right. Well, I even rang the bell.
00:50:43Just a jab.
00:50:46Oh, people take too much medicine nowadays, if you ask me.
00:50:50When I was a girl, we had homeopathic doctors.
00:50:53I wonder what ever happened to them.
00:50:54Anyway, they gave you very little medicine,
00:50:56and all of it tasted good, even with tonics.
00:50:58And no barbisels at all.
00:51:00Ellen, I've never seen you look so tired and worn out.
00:51:02Why don't you ask that doctor to give you something?
00:51:04Oh, I'm all right.
00:51:05Looks a little young to me to be a good doctor.
00:51:07But after all, if you and George like him so much,
00:51:10confidence is half the baffle.
00:51:11Oh, you look awful peaking.
00:51:13Ellen, you're not letting yourself go, are you, dear?
00:51:16Oh, I know I look terrible.
00:51:18When George fell asleep, I...
00:51:21I had some errands to do.
00:51:22Oh, my God.
00:51:24I'll get you some.
00:51:27I just thought I'd go and take care of them
00:51:29without bothering to change.
00:51:32You know how it is.
00:51:33You sure you're all right?
00:51:34Yes.
00:51:34Why don't you go upstairs and lie down for a bit, dear.
00:51:36Take a little snooze.
00:51:37It'll do you good.
00:51:39I'm not tired.
00:51:40Really, I'm not.
00:51:41Well, after all...
00:51:43Oh, Clara, I have so much to do today.
00:51:45Oh, sit down, Ellen.
00:51:47Lean back, relax.
00:51:50You'll be on your back before you know it,
00:51:52if you don't watch out.
00:51:53After all, all I want to do is to help.
00:51:56From now on, I'm going to have more time, too.
00:51:58Oh, Ellen, I forgot to tell you.
00:52:00I resigned.
00:52:02Resigned?
00:52:03From the Helpers Guild after 15 years.
00:52:05I'm not helping anymore.
00:52:09I'll, um...
00:52:09I'll leave the kitchen door open,
00:52:11and then we can talk while I'm cleaning up out there, all right?
00:52:13Oh, you might as well.
00:52:14You're so fidgety.
00:52:15Oh, Ellen, while you're on your feet,
00:52:17will you bring me a dance floor?
00:52:19For 15 years, I was in that guild.
00:52:22And for the past five, I was treasurer.
00:52:24And for the last three,
00:52:25they were promising me the presidency.
00:52:28So what happens?
00:52:29Last Tuesday, they let Cola Comstock,
00:52:31you know, Zachary's brother's wife.
00:52:32Well, I was furious.
00:52:33Zachary said I was hasty.
00:52:34But after 15 years, you know,
00:52:36I've never known a small woman yet
00:52:38who wasn't always boasting
00:52:39about her little hands and tiny feet
00:52:41and trying to run everything.
00:52:42That's the best I can do.
00:52:43You think I was right?
00:52:4515 years after all.
00:52:46Zachary was upset.
00:52:48He says I need lots of outside activity much.
00:52:50And I agree.
00:52:51That's all right.
00:52:52She hasn't got any questions
00:52:53in her body.
00:52:54I thought if she didn't stop,
00:52:55I'd scream.
00:52:58He's playing a big game because of me.
00:53:00I always tell him he plays too much at his age.
00:53:03That's just one of the worries
00:53:04of being married to an older man.
00:53:06Oh, Ellen, why don't you have some
00:53:07of that jellied consomme.
00:53:08At least it was jellied when I left home.
00:53:10Pride is pasty and it's full of vitamins.
00:53:12I'd like someone to enjoy.
00:53:14After all, it ruined my dress.
00:53:16Oh, I think I'll run up and pass in on George.
00:53:18If he's asleep, you can tell him later
00:53:20that I peaked it.
00:53:25Hey, Clara!
00:53:26Clara!
00:53:26What is it, Ellen?
00:53:28There's something I must tell you.
00:53:30Well, what is it, dear?
00:53:30What's the matter?
00:53:32I...
00:53:33Are you having trouble?
00:53:34Yes.
00:53:37I didn't want to tell you, but now I think that I must.
00:53:39Don't.
00:53:40Take my advice and don't.
00:53:41You'll only be sorry later that you did.
00:53:44I thought it was funny your being out like that
00:53:46and not going up to see George when you came in.
00:53:49But you don't understand.
00:53:51I...
00:53:51I understand.
00:53:52I'll just say goodbye to...
00:53:54No, please don't.
00:53:57I didn't...
00:53:58I didn't want to tell you this, but...
00:54:00George said that the last time you came to see him,
00:54:03you upset him terribly.
00:54:04And he said to tell you that if you came again today
00:54:06to tell him that he just couldn't see you.
00:54:08Upset him?
00:54:09You must remember he's ill.
00:54:11Upset him!
00:54:12Well, I have a good mind to tell him something.
00:54:13No, please!
00:54:14Oh, I wouldn't think of humiliating myself.
00:54:17He knew I was here all the time.
00:54:19Well, he's ruled mean and selfish before he was sick,
00:54:22and he's ruled mean and selfish since he's been sick.
00:54:24I'm sorry I had to tell you this.
00:54:26Well, I thought when I first met you,
00:54:27you'd do something for him, change him somehow.
00:54:29But I must say he hasn't changed at all.
00:54:31He's worse, if anything.
00:54:32And Ellen!
00:54:33You can tell George, for me,
00:54:35that a man wrapped up in himself
00:54:37makes a very small package.
00:54:43I wondered how much time I had.
00:54:47She was right, I must look awful.
00:54:50I had to fix myself up before I could go to the post office.
00:54:54I had to go in there.
00:54:55I was terrified, but I knew I had to.
00:55:24I was terrified, but I knew I had to.
00:55:26I must not let myself think about it.
00:55:29I must not think about anything, anything,
00:55:31until I get that letter back.
00:55:33That letter that said I killed him.
00:55:38Maybe it was a dream.
00:55:42No, it wasn't.
00:55:44I must fix my face.
00:55:46I must look presentable.
00:55:49Like any other housewife making a simple request for a letter.
00:55:53A letter that was mailed by mistake.
00:56:05The gun.
00:56:07It was still in George's hands.
00:56:10Somehow I knew I shouldn't leave it there.
00:56:23Oh!
00:56:27Bag bag! Bag bag!
00:56:35Come down with you, hey!
00:56:37I'll take care of him for you.
00:56:39It's all right, Hoppy.
00:56:40It was the radio.
00:56:43I just turned it off.
00:56:44Need any help?
00:56:45No!
00:56:46No!
00:56:47Everything's all right!
00:56:48I see it.
00:56:50Bag bag!
00:56:51Bag bag!
00:56:53Ha!
00:56:54Got you!
00:56:57I prayed that no one else had heard that shot.
00:57:34I thought perhaps if I didn't answer, he'd think no one was home and he'd go away.
00:57:39But he didn't.
00:57:40He just rang the bell again and then stood there.
00:57:48Then I knew I had to get rid of him.
00:57:56Yes?
00:57:56Good afternoon.
00:57:57I'm Mr. Russell.
00:57:58Yes?
00:57:59I'd like to see Mr. Jones.
00:58:00He's expecting me.
00:58:03Expecting?
00:58:03Yes.
00:58:04He telephoned me the other day.
00:58:07Well, there must be some mistake.
00:58:09My husband is not well.
00:58:11He isn't able to leave his bed.
00:58:12He told me he was ill but he did telephone to be here this afternoon.
00:58:15Well, nevertheless, he isn't well enough to see anyone.
00:58:18But it's a business matter, Mrs. Jones.
00:58:20I'm sorry.
00:58:21But the doctors forbid him to see anyone.
00:58:24He warned me that I'd get some resistance from you.
00:58:27He did?
00:58:28He explained that you were over-solicitous about his health but that I wasn't to take you seriously.
00:58:32Oh.
00:58:33Your husband only wants me to authenticate some legal papers.
00:58:36I'm a notary.
00:58:37Won't take but a few minutes.
00:58:38I'm sorry.
00:58:39I've already told you he isn't well enough.
00:58:41He's had a relapse.
00:58:42The doctor just left here a few minutes ago.
00:58:44And he said he wasn't able to see anyone today.
00:58:46Not anyone.
00:58:48Well, I'm sorry to have bothered you, Mrs. Jones.
00:58:51Oh, that's all right.
00:58:52I'll leave my card.
00:58:54Perhaps you'll call me.
00:58:55Yes.
00:58:55Yes, I'll call you.
00:58:57Good afternoon.
00:58:59Good-bye.
00:59:09Could he be another witness?
00:59:11I couldn't think what I'd said to him.
00:59:16Oh, I'd have to be more careful.
00:59:19Oh, I'd have to be more careful.
00:59:34Suddenly I remembered what happened the last time.
00:59:36I had to be sure no one could get into the house.
00:59:49I'm the man.
00:59:50I'm the man.
00:59:51I'm the man.
00:59:51I'm the man.
00:59:52I'm the man.
00:59:52I'm the man.
00:59:56I'm the man.
00:59:58Billy.
00:59:59Billy.
00:59:59Where are you going?
01:00:00Are you all right?
01:00:02Sure.
01:00:02Can I go in?
01:00:04No, you can't.
01:00:05I'm sorry.
01:00:06I'm late then.
01:00:07For heaven's sake, be more careful.
01:00:08Willie, don't you ever do a thing like that again.
01:00:10Do you hear me?
01:00:11Okay.
01:00:12My horse ate up all the cookies.
01:00:14Well, I'll give you some more later on.
01:00:16After that?
01:00:16Yes, after now.
01:00:18Now, you stay right there in that driveway until I get out.
01:00:20Do you understand?
01:00:21Okay.
01:00:34All I remember about the drive downtown was...
01:00:37I kept thinking.
01:00:39This time I must control myself.
01:00:42I must keep calm.
01:00:52We caught it in plenty of time, Mrs. Jones.
01:00:55It was brought in just a little while ago.
01:00:56It wasn't even processed yet.
01:00:57Then I can have it now?
01:00:58Of course.
01:01:01Have it now.
01:01:02I'm glad we caught it in time for you.
01:01:05My husband will be so pleased to have it back.
01:01:07I'll give you one of our regular forms here.
01:01:10A form?
01:01:11Yes.
01:01:11One of these.
01:01:12Oh.
01:01:15You mean I can't take the letter?
01:01:16Just take the letter with me now?
01:01:17Just take the form home to Mr. Jones.
01:01:20Have him fill it out.
01:01:21And when you bring it back, I'll have the letter right here.
01:01:23And I'll give it to you.
01:01:25But...
01:01:26But why is that necessary?
01:01:27Oh.
01:01:28Just regulations.
01:01:29Oh.
01:01:30Among other things, it'll give me a chance to compare Mr. Jones' handwriting
01:01:33with the writing on the envelope.
01:01:34Well, I can assure you it's my husband's handwriting.
01:01:36Yes, I'm sure.
01:01:37Yes.
01:01:38But I must have one of those forms for my records.
01:01:41Oh.
01:01:43But, uh...
01:01:44But my husband's been very ill.
01:01:47And everything bothers him so.
01:01:49And if I don't have this letter for him when I go home, he'll be awfully upset.
01:01:53Why should he?
01:01:54Well, you see, uh...
01:01:56I'm afraid that...
01:01:57He said a lot of very strong things, and...
01:02:00He regrets them now.
01:02:02You can explain to him that it won't be delivered.
01:02:05It'll be held right here until the form comes back in.
01:02:07Yeah, but it's so hard to reason with a person who... who's ill.
01:02:11Well, you know how it is.
01:02:12They...
01:02:13They, uh...
01:02:14Exaggerate the importance of everything.
01:02:16And...
01:02:17What with this heart condition, I wouldn't want to take a chance.
01:02:21Really, I...
01:02:21I must have the letter for him when I go home now.
01:02:24I...
01:02:24I must.
01:02:27Mrs. Jones, I think I can take a chance.
01:02:32I'll let you fill out the form for your husband.
01:02:34Oh, that's very nice.
01:02:35On one condition.
01:02:36Yes.
01:02:36I, of course, must make sure the contents of the letter.
01:02:40What do you mean?
01:02:41It'll be strictly confidential, but, of course, the letter must be opened and read.
01:02:46Open the letter?
01:02:47Yes, to make sure that it is the letter to the district attorney, as you say.
01:02:50No, no, you can't.
01:02:51I beg your pardon?
01:02:52I won't have anyone prying into my husband's mail!
01:02:54Prying?
01:02:55I won't let that letter back, do you understand?
01:02:57Unopened!
01:02:58Mrs. Jones, I was about to tell you, if you'd let me finish, that I would call your husband for
01:03:03you.
01:03:04To explain the situation reasonably and ask his permission for you to open the letter, not me.
01:03:11I'm sorry.
01:03:13I'm very sorry.
01:03:14I didn't mean to say that.
01:03:17But you don't seem to understand.
01:03:19No, I don't understand, Mrs. Jones.
01:03:22And I have no alternative but to send the letter on through the distributing room.
01:03:27Good day.
01:03:35Well, he's going to answer because I'll make this duties.
01:03:48Well, I don't miss you.
01:03:48But when you decided to swear the letter on the left腿 at all street.
01:03:48Yes, I'm not.
01:03:49And I knew my mother that pleases every year through the letter.
01:03:50I know how to read it and write for letter to letter error.
01:03:50It's not that letter on its instructions.
01:03:50I'm sorry, I don't know my mother putting normal names...
01:03:51I guess my father always saw ingenandin render.
01:03:52There's too old nes!
01:03:54What am I seeing!
01:04:14Mrs. Jones.
01:04:18Mrs. Jones.
01:04:20I don't want to intrude, but I couldn't help noticing you all day long.
01:04:25I've had the feeling that something was wrong, and I'd so like to be able to help you.
01:04:32Oh, I know we haven't been too neighborly, but trouble something else again.
01:04:36Can I help you? Is there something I can do for you?
01:04:41Of course, I know you're anxious to get up to your husband,
01:04:44so you run out and see if he's comfortable and settled,
01:04:46and then you come over, or call me.
01:04:49I'll be waiting for you.
01:04:54She was kind.
01:04:56She might have been my friend.
01:04:58She might have helped me.
01:05:18I'll be waiting for you.
01:05:19Then I remembered Rand.
01:05:20He said he was going to stop in again to see George.
01:05:23I couldn't let him do that.
01:05:25He mustn't come here again.
01:05:28Ever.
01:05:38Dr. Graham's office.
01:05:40Hello, this is Mrs. Jones. Is Dr. Graham there?
01:05:42Oh, he isn't here, Mrs. Jones.
01:05:44Can you locate him, please? It's urgent.
01:05:46If it's an emergency, I could trace him through his house calls.
01:05:49Please do.
01:05:50It's very important that Dr. Graham doesn't come here today.
01:06:03I hope you understand.
01:06:04Of course. I'll do my best.
01:06:06Bye.
01:06:07Bye.
01:06:16Doctor, I just called your office and I just told you, nurse, that I...
01:06:20Well, George felt he wanted to consult another doctor.
01:06:23And I did, too.
01:06:24And he just left.
01:06:25And I really think it would be better if you didn't see him again today.
01:06:29Oh.
01:06:32What doctor did you call?
01:06:35Oh, uh...
01:06:37Um...
01:06:37I'm sorry, I've forgotten his name.
01:06:40I called the lady in the store for her doctor and she gave me his telephone number.
01:06:44And George liked him very much.
01:06:47I see.
01:06:48Yes.
01:06:49Is he a heart specialist?
01:06:51Uh, yes, yes.
01:06:53That is, I think so.
01:06:54Why?
01:06:55Mm-hmm.
01:06:58What was his diagnosis?
01:07:01I don't know.
01:07:03Really, George is feeling much better.
01:07:05I'll call you tomorrow.
01:07:05Now, wait a minute.
01:07:06What's happened, really?
01:07:08Well, you see, after...
01:07:13No, no, please don't, please.
01:07:15Don't go up there.
01:07:15It's better for everybody if you just don't go up there.
01:07:17Yep.
01:07:23Ellen.
01:07:26Is...
01:07:27Is he dead?
01:07:30Yes.
01:07:31Yes.
01:07:33He had a gun.
01:07:34He tried to kill me, but...
01:07:36Before I could shoot, he...
01:07:39He...
01:07:40Take it easy, Ellen.
01:07:41Take it easy.
01:09:00And so I took the gun out of his hand, and I hit it.
01:09:03I had to.
01:09:04It looked as though he died protecting himself from me.
01:09:07All right, Helen, but why didn't you want me here?
01:09:10I don't know how to tell you.
01:09:14That letter said that we planned his death together.
01:09:17That you told me to aggravate his condition,
01:09:20to give him overdoses of his heart medicine.
01:09:22And if they come here and find you here,
01:09:24they'll think it's true, just like George said.
01:09:26Helen, his mind was going.
01:09:27I tried to tell you this morning.
01:09:29He wasn't responsible.
01:09:30They won't believe me.
01:09:31How could they?
01:09:33I did everything wrong.
01:09:35Everything, just like he said I would.
01:09:37The druggist, and then the postman,
01:09:38and then the superintendent,
01:09:39and I even lied to his aunt.
01:09:41They'll all think I was guilty, all of them.
01:09:43You're not guilty, Helen.
01:09:44Remember that.
01:09:44Oh, I know.
01:09:47The police will be here any minute now.
01:09:48You better go.
01:09:48You better go right now.
01:09:53Helen, where are you going?
01:09:56I don't know.
01:09:57Well, there's no sense in running away now.
01:09:59Go at the door.
01:10:03Helen, go at the door.
01:10:18Hello, Ms. Jones.
01:10:19I got a letter for you this afternoon.
01:10:22I didn't put it in the slot, because, well, I guess
01:10:26I should feel kind of funny coming here like this,
01:10:29after what happened between you and me this noon.
01:10:32But it's all right.
01:10:33I understand.
01:10:35Here's the letter you gave me to mail this morning.
01:10:40What?
01:10:41I'm surprised.
01:10:41I didn't realize at first a thick letter like that
01:10:44and only one stamp.
01:10:46Those public officials, like the district attorney,
01:10:48won't accept postage due mail, you know.
01:10:52Insufficient postage.
01:10:53Yeah, all right.
01:10:54And just won't pay the postage in these cases,
01:10:56and we have to return to the senders.
01:10:58How do you like that?
01:11:00Not enough postage, and we have to deliver them twice.
01:11:02Yes.
01:11:03Crazy business.
01:11:05You know, some folks might think I'm stingy.
01:11:07I know these extra stamps cost only just a few cents, but...
01:11:10Yes, I understand.
01:11:11If I multiply you by everybody else...
01:11:13Yes, I understand.
01:11:15Thanks again for the letter, Mr. Carson.
01:11:17Oh, that's all right.
01:11:18Goodbye.
01:11:18And thanks again, Mr. Carson Ringgill.
01:11:20Oh, you're welcome.
01:11:28Oh, it's so funny.
01:11:31It's so funny.
01:11:32Go ahead.
01:11:33It'll do you good.
01:11:40You know, I...
01:11:42I...
01:11:43I tried so...
01:11:45So hard to get...
01:11:49All right, Ellen.
01:11:50You've got it, darling.
01:11:55Sit down, Ellen.
01:12:00Oh, it's so funny.
01:12:06Woo-hoo.
01:12:08Ah...
01:12:14Ah...
01:12:15Ah...
01:12:28Ah...
01:12:37And then I knew what people meant when they said their heart was broken.
01:12:42All that was left of George and me in our marriage
01:12:46was that little pile of ashes.
01:12:50I knew that somewhere, somehow, I'd have to begin to live again.
01:12:55But right then, all I could do was pray to lose that one day.
01:13:00But one terrifying day.
01:13:30THE END
01:13:33THE END
01:13:34THE END
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