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The radio drama series Escape broadcast an adaptation of "The Fugitive" on August 15, 1948.
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00:01Fed up with the everyday grind, tired out from the summer heat, you want to get away
00:09from it all?
00:10We offer you Escape.
00:17Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
00:25You are trapped in the dark streets of an old French town.
00:30With two remaining avenues of escape, the workshop of a fearsome knife maker, are the arms of
00:39a beautiful but deadly woman.
00:49Tonight, we escape to the south of France and to the manhunt of a master criminal, as
00:55Vincent Starrer told it in his unusual story, The Fugitive.
01:08I had been six months in the prison of Tarantelle at the top of the hill above the little village
01:12of Saint-Just.
01:14As you know, of course, Saint-Just is in the very south of France, buried in those dark
01:18forests that lead up to the great crags of the Pyrenees.
01:21I was enjoying this enforced hospitality after having been convicted as a thief, and quite
01:29rightly so.
01:30Oh, it is the fancy of some men to become bankers, of other soldiers.
01:34It had always suited my own fancy to be a thief.
01:37Oh, but no matter.
01:39Day after day went by, with nothing to do but to look out over the forests, watch the sunsets
01:44and the lights in the Château de Montau, and six months began to seem like a lifetime.
01:49So, in my customary logical fashion, I decided to escape.
01:55Monsieur Duplessis.
01:57You were addressing me, Monsieur Lemieux?
01:59Mon Dieu, who else?
02:00Do you think I expect to find you entertaining visitors behind this iron door?
02:05Who knows what a detective may think.
02:07I have never found enough mentality in one to be able to analyze it.
02:11You still have spirit, Duplessis.
02:14What a pity for it to be wasted in a prison cell.
02:17Well, I confess I would much rather be outside there with you than inside here with me.
02:23And I can almost wish that you were.
02:25Perhaps then I would not be so bored.
02:28Oh, my deepest sympathy, Lemieux.
02:30Have the wine cellars at the Château gone dry?
02:33Why does the seigneur no longer serve those luscious meals you have told me so much about?
02:37Oh, I have grown weary of it, my friend.
02:40I am a hunter of men by nature.
02:44Not a bon vivant.
02:46Sometimes, I wish, you might contrive some means of escaping.
02:51I should enjoy the sport of dragging you down again.
02:54In that case, Monsieur, the key...
02:55Oh, I dare say it would be rather easy the second time.
02:59I know just how your mind turns all your little fans...
03:02Oh, hell, the key, Monsieur.
03:03Then, too, I am a master of disguises.
03:07Should you pause by stream, the fisherman who handed you a drink would suddenly turn out to be Lemieux.
03:14You astonish me.
03:15You will perhaps register to name.
03:17Then the clerk would smile at you and you would see...
03:21Permit me, Lemieux.
03:24Ah, well.
03:25Why dream of the impossible, Duplessis?
03:29You have another four and a half years to serve in Tarantale.
03:33And I am dining at the Château de Montau in an hour.
03:37So...
03:38Lemieux, why not imagine I am contriving some way to escape?
03:41That should give you an appetite.
03:42Ah, Duplessis, your waiters deserve it, you.
03:45You speak of absurdities now.
03:47Perhaps you are right.
03:48Au revoir, Monsieur.
03:50Ah, but he was cunning, this Lemieux.
03:56Sleek and pretty like a weasel.
03:59But have you ever seen the teeth of a weasel slash the throat of a bird?
04:03I have.
04:04And I have seen Lemieux do somewhat similar things.
04:06Ah, oh, well, no matter.
04:08Half an hour after he had gone, when dusk was falling,
04:12I lifted two iron bars from the window of my cell,
04:15slid through and climbed down the wall.
04:17Oh, oh, but it was not so simple as it sounds, you know.
04:20I had been working on it for nearly two months,
04:24secretly and quietly.
04:27And now I was free.
04:37I slung furtively and fearfully through the underbrush,
04:40making my way rapidly toward the village of Saint-Just at the foot of the hill.
04:44Behind me, at any moment, a great gun would boom from the walls of Tarentelle,
04:47informing the world that one of the prisoners had made an escape.
04:50Ahead of me, faint flares of lightning warned of a storm to come,
04:54while my heart beat a pace with my footsteps.
04:57I thought to myself,
04:59how terrible indeed is this business of freedom?
05:02How much simpler it is to be in prison?
05:05Well, as you may have perceived already, I am something of a philosopher.
05:09Well, no matter.
05:10It was then that I suddenly saw a light gleaming ahead of me,
05:14and I began to hear a strange sound.
05:18I could make out the shape of a small open hut a few paces ahead of me.
05:23The light was thrown out by the glowing coals in a forge.
05:26And the sound was made by an old man beating out a piece of metal on an angel.
05:32He was small, wrinkled, and bald except for two white tufts of hair that grew in front of his ears.
05:38As I drew near, quietly, I could see that he was making a knife,
05:43and that other knives hung on the walls of the hut.
05:45And I had no weapon.
05:47And I began to wonder if, by some means, I might steal one from him.
05:54Come in, my son.
05:56Huh?
05:56It may start raining in a moment.
05:58Well, uh, merci, monsieur.
06:02I'm a stranger hereabouts.
06:03I lost my way in the wood.
06:05No need.
06:06I understand.
06:07You, uh, you are a maker of knives?
06:09Oui, monsieur.
06:10You would like to have one, perhaps.
06:11Well, old man, the fact of the matter is that being a law-abiding citizen,
06:16I really have little need of a knife.
06:18However, both are pretty, and the forest is very dark.
06:23But I am at the moment without funds, so...
06:25There is no charge, my son.
06:27Here, look at this one.
06:29Ah, it is a beautiful knife.
06:32Try the edge.
06:33It is quite sharp.
06:35Oh, mon dieu, you are right.
06:37This weapon would suit a king himself, or a prince of thieves.
06:41You are a philosopher, my son.
06:43Or a thief.
06:45But what?
06:47There are words engraved on the blade.
06:49On one side, reason, and on the other, irony.
06:54Reason and irony.
06:56You are something of a philosopher yourself, old maker of knives.
06:59I use different words and different blades,
07:02but the quality is always the same.
07:05It fits well in my hand.
07:06Then take it.
07:07It is yours.
07:08Ah, with such a blade, a man could fight his way through hell itself.
07:13I should like to see the look on the face of monsieur...
07:16Ah, wait.
07:17You are not by any chance Lemieux.
07:20Ah-ha.
07:22The great gun in the wall of Tarantel.
07:24Some prisoner has escaped.
07:27No, my son.
07:28I am not Lemieux.
07:30Why do you ask?
07:32I thought for a moment...
07:33But no.
07:34No, of course not.
07:36Well, I must be your fault, old knife maker.
07:38I have a long way to go and it is starting to rain.
07:40My deepest gratitude for your generosity.
07:43Oh, we shall meet again, my son.
07:46Tell me then, after you have tried the blade.
07:49Of course.
07:52Adieu, monsieur.
07:53Au revoir.
08:01I was not afraid anymore.
08:04The rain smashed and splattered in the trees and the dark shadows became old friends.
08:08I ran through the night, laughing and sometimes singing, slashing with my knife at the leaves on the branches.
08:14Reason and irony, slash.
08:17Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
08:19I forgot the prison behind me.
08:21Forgot everything except my goal.
08:23A tiny cottage standing at the very outskirts of Saint-Just.
08:28Marie Simard would be waiting there where I had left her.
08:32Soft, warm, beautiful Marie, of whom I had dreamed every night in that cursed cell.
08:39We would go into the village together, then to the inn of Paul Gittespard.
08:43And with the bag of jewels I had left with him, escape up to the Spanish frontier.
08:47To freedom.
08:57Marie.
08:58Marie.
08:59Who is he?
09:00It is I, ma petite du Plessis.
09:01Yes, come on the bonheur.
09:03Open the door quickly, please.
09:07But you.
09:08How have you?
09:08Take inside first.
09:10Ha-ha, that is better.
09:11The shutters are all closed, good.
09:14Come now, tell me how glad you are to see me.
09:16Oh, I am glad, but surprised.
09:20How are you here?
09:22They, they have not released you?
09:24Not intentionally, my dear.
09:26I reviewed my own case and decided,
09:29Du Plessis, you are really a very fine fellow and by no means belong here.
09:33So, I released myself.
09:35You have escaped them?
09:36Not completely, or at any rate, not yet.
10:06What?
10:08Here in this chair while I run down to the old woman's and bring wine and a little cake.
10:12No, no, Marie, there is not time.
10:13It will only take a moment.
10:15We can go to Pulse afterwards.
10:18Surely you know you are safe here with me.
10:20Safe while Lemieux is out there someplace.
10:23Lemieux?
10:23The others, the soldiers and the guards, they are fools, but not Lemieux.
10:27He is cunning.
10:28I am beginning to fancy that I see him behind every face I meet.
10:31But sure you do not even.
10:33Oh, my chéri, of one thing I am certain, that you are not Lemieux.
10:37Oh, come, I must touch you.
10:39It has been such a long time.
10:40I also, perhaps I should go borrow a dry coat for you.
10:44No, no, no, no.
10:45The rain has stopped.
10:46They shall be dry by the time we reach.
10:48The little ring I gave you.
10:50The one with the heart.
10:51You are not wearing it.
10:52I, uh, put it away.
10:54I did not wish to wear it until you were with me again.
10:58Which I am from this moment on, ma petite.
11:00So...
11:01No, please.
11:02It is no time to waste.
11:03We must leave now in hurry.
11:05We go to Paul des Spars this moment, now.
11:12But a few paces brought us into the streets of the village of Saint-Just.
11:16We moved quickly and I kept the collar of my coat turned high on my face.
11:21Soon we were making our way among the handful of patrons who still lingered at the tables of the inn.
11:26Talking in the light of candles held in empty bottles.
11:29I kept my hand on the knife beneath my coat.
11:32But no one glanced up as we crossed to the far side of the room.
11:35There he is.
11:36At the little table in front of the office.
11:38Oui, ma jolly, so he is.
11:39And not change deeply.
11:41Paul!
11:41Marie!
11:42What a surprise!
11:43I had no idea that you might...
11:46Duplessis.
11:47Bonne nuit, mon ami.
11:48Duplessis?
11:49What in the...
11:50There is no time, Paul.
11:51Take him in the office.
11:52Oh, but of course.
11:53I have things which must be done.
11:55I shall be back very shortly, Paul.
11:58Oui, oui, I understand.
12:00Come, Duplessis.
12:01Hurry, Marie.
12:01I shall hurry, mon coeur.
12:03Never fear.
12:06Ah, there it is.
12:07Locked.
12:08Well, mon ami, this is quite a surprise.
12:11I take it you are on an unofficial leave of absence.
12:15Completely so, Paul.
12:16I have a pass which is good only so long as Lemieux does not catch up with me.
12:20Lemieux?
12:21Oh, he is a clever one, all right.
12:23Ah, indeed he is.
12:24Almost as clever as Duplessis.
12:26Oh.
12:27Ah, but no matter.
12:28You have kept the little bag of jewels safe for me?
12:30Oh, um, quite safe.
12:31Très bien.
12:32They will serve me well in Spain.
12:34I hope to be across the frontier in an hour.
12:36Uh, so, uh, so soon, but we have so many things to talk about.
12:40Oh, there's little chance for talk, Paul, when a man is running for his life.
12:43The jewels are here close at hand.
12:45Uh, nearby, nearby.
12:46Well, get them now, Paul.
12:47Well, the fact of the matter is, they are, um, at my house on the other side of town.
12:51Oh, a feast.
12:52It will, it will take only a moment and I can send someone to.
12:55Wait, wait.
12:56Voices outside the door.
12:57Well, I hear nothing, nothing at all.
12:59You are only imagining that.
13:00Paul, you signaled someone before we came in here.
13:02Ah, no, no, no, no, mon ami.
13:03No, no, you're mistaken.
13:04I saw you nod to a man out there at one of the tables.
13:06No, no, no, you must believe me.
13:07I did not.
13:08Stay away from that door.
13:09Ah, I called you, my friend.
13:11The crowd will break down that door in a moment.
13:13You had better give up.
13:14Oh, you are a fool, du Plessis.
13:17And an hour from now, you will be back in Parenthal, where you belong.
13:20I doubt it this far.
13:21They have not yet found the back door.
13:23But either way, you will not know about it.
13:25Nice.
13:26Not a du Plessis.
13:27Oh, no, mon ami.
13:28Stay away from that door.
13:29No, you cannot.
13:31Murderous beast.
13:32I, I will stop you.
13:34Oh, Dieu.
13:35Gold pieces thrown at my head.
13:38Now, where is the sport in killing a man whose only weapon is a bank of money?
13:43I am a philosopher.
13:45Bonne nuit, monsieur le gold piece.
13:53I ran down the dark streets from the back of the inn, turned corners, dodged away from
13:58the shadows.
13:59Far off, like the sound of hunting dogs, I could hear the voice of the mob.
14:02I knew not where to find Marie, nor of any man now who might be trusted.
14:07I ran blindly.
14:09One direction was as good as another.
14:11And the things of reality became clouded with those of imagination, so I could no longer
14:15tell them apart.
14:17Such is the great fear of the hunted, which knows only to run, to run from one unknown
14:22to another unknown, but always to run and run and run.
14:28I had come to an unfamiliar part of the town, into an open square with a building facing
14:33me.
14:34People moved past slowly, but they paid no attention, and I knew they were not part of
14:38the mob which followed.
14:40Then I saw that all of them were going through the door into the great building.
14:46The cathedral, voila, what a place to hide for a moment.
14:50I joined them and was carried along in the crowd.
14:57I found myself near the front with people all around me.
15:01I kept my head down and crouched there, trying to stop trembling.
15:07You are out of breath, my friend.
15:09You seem frightened.
15:10Silence.
15:11Do you wish to disturb the service?
15:13Never fear.
15:14It will continue regardless.
15:16Duplessis.
15:18One moment, monsieur, and I shall cut your throat.
15:20Come now, put away the knife.
15:22I am your friend.
15:24I have always admired you.
15:26Who are you?
15:27Merle.
15:28I keep a little shop in the village.
15:30Perfume, spices, flavorings, all things calculated to make life more agriable.
15:36You are le mieux in disguise.
15:38Ridiculous, monsieur.
15:39Le mieux is at the Chateau de Monteau.
15:41I passed him on his way there.
15:42He thinks the mob will do his work for him.
15:45Put away the knife.
15:46You have nothing to fear from me.
15:48That may be, but I feel much better while I hold it in my hand.
15:51Cautious, Duplessis?
15:53Hardly like the great adventurer I always admired.
15:57Adventurer, hein?
15:58Oh, the very prince of thieves, the king of poets and teacher of philosophers.
16:02Well, I am quite a fellow, all right?
16:04Indeed you are.
16:05A man who should be standing up, not hiding his face, swaggering and laughing.
16:11Merle, mon ami, you are really a fellow of discernment.
16:14Indeed you are.
16:15Monsieur, is there the knife you are holding in your hand?
16:17Oui, mon père.
16:18The knives are not permitted in here.
16:19But it is a very good knife.
16:20It has words written on the blade.
16:22No matter.
16:23Knives are not permitted, monsieur.
16:24Look.
16:25It is Duplessis.
16:26They have seen you now, my friend.
16:28You must run.
16:29But never fear.
16:30We shall meet again, I think, very soon.
16:45I escaped from them again and found myself finally on the outskirts of the far side of town.
16:51I knew not where to go next.
16:53I looked up and my eyes fell upon the lighted windows of the Chateau de Monteau.
17:00Standing alone above the countryside at the very top of a point of rock,
17:04a sudden thought occurred to me.
17:07Prasen and audacious.
17:10What better sanctuary than the very Chateau de Monteau himself waited for word of my capture?
17:17I smiled to myself in the darkness and then began to climb swiftly up the face of the rock.
17:28I stood at last on a tiny parapet close against the massive stone walls of the Chateau,
17:34high above the countryside.
17:38Behind me were lighted windows and the sound of voices, but out there on the parapet there was only the
17:46night and the stillness,
17:47stars and a ghostly moon riding like a silver galleon in the black billows of the sky.
17:56Its pale light fell on the tumbled forest below me,
18:00on the tiny little village of Saint-Just,
18:03and touched faintly in the distance the far-off crags of the Pirenais beyond the Spanish frontier.
18:19I do not know how long I stood there, looking down upon the world.
18:23Perhaps I was a little mad by then, of that I'm not quite sure.
18:27Suddenly, I saw someone coming toward me on the parapet.
18:32They had not yet seen me.
18:35Bonne nuit, mademoiselle.
18:36What? Who is he?
18:38It is I, Marie Duplessis.
18:41What are you doing here?
18:43A very good question.
18:44As a matter of fact, I think I shall use it myself.
18:47What are you doing here?
18:49I came here to find Lemieux after I lost you, of course.
18:54And you found him, I trust?
18:56Oh, we were crazy inside, in the banquet hall with the others.
18:59I thought that if he should find you, then I would be there to help.
19:05How thoughtful of you, majeurelie.
19:09But to help whom?
19:10But you, of course.
19:12Oh, how can you doubt me?
19:14Oh, very easily.
19:16This night, in fact, I believe I could doubt the universe itself.
19:20Oh, no, sherry.
19:21You only say such things when you are fancying yourself a philosopher.
19:25Or a fool, which is much the same thing.
19:28But here, look at you.
19:31Another new dress.
19:33The old woman is very good to you, Marie.
19:37I am quite grateful to her.
19:40And did she also give you the ring, my dear?
19:43The ring?
19:44Oui, the ring you are wearing.
19:46The ring which I saw so many times on her hand that would grasp the bars of my cell.
19:51The hand of Lemieux.
19:52Not in the place.
19:53I swear to you, it is nothing.
19:54I found it.
19:56Found it?
19:56Perhaps in the same place where you lost mine.
19:58No.
19:59No, put away the knife.
20:00It is all a mistake.
20:01It was you who brought them up to the inn.
20:03And Paul knew you had gone to do it.
20:05No, it was someone else.
20:06Please, do not kill me.
20:09Let me go.
20:10Go where?
20:11Back inside to warn Lemieux that I am here?
20:14No.
20:15I shall go down the path here, see?
20:18Oh, you cannot kill me.
20:20You loved me once.
20:21Do not remember.
20:22Please, let me go.
20:24Go then.
20:25Go quickly before I change my mind.
20:27I am going.
20:28I will not harm you.
20:29Oh, to detest a woman thoroughly, it is necessary first to have love for her.
20:37Well, I really am quite a fellow after all.
20:40A true philosopher.
20:42Indeed you are, mon ami.
20:43Huh?
20:44It is one of the things for which I have always admired you.
20:47Oh, it is you, Monsieur Merle, the seller of perfumes.
20:52Oh, must you always carry that vicious knife in your hand?
20:55It is a good knife.
20:56An old man gave it to me, and there are words on the blade.
21:01See, on one side, reason.
21:03On the other, irony.
21:05Well, we shall have little need for either once we are across the frontier in Spain.
21:10Tell me, Monsieur, why do you wish to help me?
21:13Because I like you.
21:15Because you are de Plessis, whom I admire as something great, as great as that moon that
21:20shines over us, as great as...
21:22What is it?
21:22Something glinted on your hand when you held it up there.
21:25Let me see it.
21:25Oh, it was nothing.
21:26It was only a trick of the moonlight.
21:27Let me see your hand.
21:28But I tell you that...
21:31Lutu, the little ring with the heart that I gave to her a long time ago.
21:35Oh, it is nothing, my friend.
21:35I...
21:36I...
21:36I found her.
21:37Has she found Lemieux's?
21:39They have gone too long without knowing for certain if this is really a good knife.
21:43Oh, you...
21:44You cannot mean that.
21:46Oh, no, no.
21:47I am your friend, you Plessis.
21:48I am going to take you to...
21:55Take me where, monsieur?
21:58Now we shall see whether you can fly without wings.
22:02Allo, well...
22:04C'est là .
22:06Ah.
22:07There.
22:09Ah, down and down and down.
22:14By heaven.
22:15It is like a scene from a play.
22:18This parapet, a stage, the moon for a spotlight, and a body pirouetting through space.
22:25True enough, my son.
22:26But you should not have killed him.
22:29Huh?
22:29The weapon was made for stronger opponents.
22:33Well, old maker of knives, you said we should probably meet again.
22:40He is gone out of sight.
22:42And there are only the stars and the night and the moon.
22:48What now, du Plessis?
22:50I do not know.
22:52Spain, perhaps?
22:54Lemieux would follow.
22:55And there would be another Marie, another Paul, and another male, waiting in Spain to tell him where you were.
23:03Have I escaped from prison to find this?
23:06Is everything false?
23:08Is there no man left in the world who is true?
23:12I am only a knife maker.
23:15Well, it is a good knife.
23:16It worked very well.
23:18You have not yet tried it against Lemieux?
23:23No.
23:23You are right.
23:26He is inside there, in the banquet hall.
23:29It will not be an easy thing, my son.
23:31But I know not how to warn you.
23:35You must find it out for yourself.
23:39Warning?
23:40When has du Plessis ever had need of warning?
23:44Merci, monsieur le knife maker, for your excellent intentions.
23:48And I shall find out for myself.
23:51Now.
23:57The stone corridors of the chateau were empty.
24:00Though as I drew nearer, I could hear the sound of voices in the great banquet hall.
24:06I made my way quietly to a low balcony overlooking the room.
24:11And soon was peering through the drawn curtains that screened off the table below.
24:16Lemieux was there.
24:17And Paul.
24:18And the singer of the chateau.
24:21Marie had come back somehow.
24:23And there were others, too.
24:25Lemieux was talking.
24:26And the people from the town are beating the bushes of the forest.
24:29Duplessis will be captured sooner or later.
24:31That I can assure you.
24:32I know the fellow.
24:33Know how his mind works.
24:34That's why I do not even bother to chase him.
24:36He will trap himself.
24:37Most certainly you are right, monsieur Lemieux.
24:40And the sooner the better.
24:41More wine, my chérie.
24:43Merci, cher Paul.
24:46I dare say you will rest a bit easier, monsieur le seigneur.
24:49Uh, once the fellow is taken.
24:51Why do you say that?
24:52Look at those paintings on the walls, Mappetite.
24:54There on the balcony behind the curtain is a Rembrandt worth at least a million francs.
24:59Quite a temptation for the very Prince of Thieves if he did not have something more important on his mind.
25:06I thought for one moment they were going to draw back the curtains to reveal me standing there above them.
25:12But then they talked of other things and the danger passed.
25:16I looked down upon them, couched like weasels around the table, tearing at their food with sharp little teeth.
25:22Half-macked from the fear of being hunted, I began to fancy that they were all animals and their wine
25:27was the blood of birds.
25:29While I stood there watching, Merle came in quietly and sat down with him.
25:35Merle, whom I had killed and thrown from the parapet.
25:39I realized then what the old maker of knives had tried to tell me.
25:43I had not killed Merle, but only thought I had done so.
25:45For how can a man kill his own vanity?
25:48And Paul would always be here, of course, ready to buy and sell with his bags of gold.
25:52And Marie, too, luring me with a voice filled with a warm softness of pleasure.
25:56And Lemieux, incarnation of fate, the hunter of men, one of Lemieux.
26:02As I stared through the curtains, I knew suddenly that I could never kill Lemieux,
26:07that he would take me sooner or later.
26:10For in my half-crazed mind, every face now looked the same.
26:12And every one was the face of Lemieux.
26:18I turned to look at the tall painting, the Rembrandt that hung on the wall behind me.
26:23It was the portrait of a cavalier, proud and hotly, frozen in a pose of nobility,
26:28with one hand resting on his sword.
26:30Should I, an even better man, a prince of thieves and of philosophers,
26:34permit myself to be run to earth at last by a pack of dogs?
26:38Would it not be far better to give myself up at my old choice,
26:42show them at the same time their littleness, and rob them of their victory?
26:47Ha! Voila! I had decided.
26:52With the point of my knife, I cut the painting from its frame and threw it to one side.
26:57I looked at my blade, so useless now.
26:59On one side, reason.
27:01On the other, irony.
27:04And then drove it into the wood at the top of the frame.
27:08It quivered there a moment, and then was still.
27:12Carefully, I lighted the two tall candles on either side,
27:15then stepped up and stood in the frame with my back against the wall.
27:19I smiled a moment to myself,
27:22and then reached out my hand and took hold of the cord
27:25to draw aside the curtains.
27:37Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald.
27:40Tonight, we have brought you The Fugitive by Vincent Starrant,
27:44adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield,
27:46with editorial supervision by John Dunkel.
27:48Featured in tonight's cast was Louis Van Rooten,
27:51with Ben Wright, Gloria Blondel, Barry Kroger,
27:54Wilms Herbert, and John Daner.
27:56Special music by Ivan Dittmar.
28:01Next week,
28:03you are trapped aboard an ill-fated ocean liner,
28:07captained by a dying man,
28:10while a mysterious passenger,
28:13haunting you,
28:15menacing you,
28:16seems intent on
28:18sending you to destruction.
28:29Next week,
28:30we escape with James Gould Cousins' gripping story,
28:34S.S. San Pedro.
28:35Good night, then, until this same time next week,
28:38when once again we offer you,
28:40Escape!
28:41Presidentate!
28:46Let's meet your guests,
28:46in China.
28:48I will see you next week,
28:49by we'll see you next week!
28:55A really nice day,
28:55and I'll receive you later in six weeks.
28:59After-
28:59Get your news with Mr.
28:59You
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