The Interrupted Journey (1949)
1h 20min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 3 April 1950 (Sweden)
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
Director: Daniel Birt
Writers: Michael Pertwee (original story), Michael Pertwee (screenplay)
Stars: Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden
1h 20min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 3 April 1950 (Sweden)
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
Director: Daniel Birt
Writers: Michael Pertwee (original story), Michael Pertwee (screenplay)
Stars: Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden
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00:08:10Feeling better?
00:08:12Much.
00:08:13But it's the last time I start a new life from Paddington Station.
00:08:16Or I with the married man. Next time it's a bachelor.
00:08:19You people with consciences at the end.
00:08:23What phony name did you book us in at the Plymouth Hotel?
00:08:26Kenny.
00:08:28It was my grandmother's maiden name.
00:08:30Let's hope she was broad-minded.
00:08:33What's the hotel like?
00:08:34It's pretty foul, I think, but it won't be for long.
00:08:36I only wish we could have started somewhere more exciting, but...
00:08:39If this new novel pans out, who knows?
00:08:44This line passes my house.
00:08:47Through Longley Tunnel, and there it is.
00:08:50Just a few steps across the field.
00:08:52Pity. You could have thrown the letter out of the window.
00:08:55Save yourself a tuppence, eh?
00:08:57It does give one a funny feeling.
00:08:59To think that only this morning...
00:09:01Oh, have a good laugh and forget about it.
00:09:04I'm tired.
00:09:09Susan, I can write, can't I?
00:09:12Of course.
00:09:14Why else do you think I made Jervis Puppet, Schuster?
00:09:18But you'll have to work, my lad.
00:09:20Much as I love you, I have no wish to starve for the sake of your art.
00:09:28Don't just dig in your heels and starve for the fun of it.
00:09:31We can't exist forever on hope and rejection slips.
00:09:34Come out of the clouds and face facts.
00:09:36There's only one fact to face.
00:09:38You think I'm no good as a writer, that's all.
00:09:40When will you grow up?
00:09:42We've been over this a hundred times. What does it matter what I think?
00:09:45You may be another Bernard Shaw, but until you can prove it,
00:09:48we've got bills to pay and a future to plan, and we must just eat.
00:09:51For the last time, my future does not include a job in your father's factory.
00:09:55So you turn down a settle thousand a year just because of your silly stubborn pride?
00:09:59I told you, I can't do things half-heartedly.
00:10:01We've got to live, both of us.
00:10:03Write in your spare time.
00:10:05Write all night if you want to, but...
00:10:07Chemical fertilizer and writing do not mix.
00:10:09I'm sorry.
00:10:10Oh!
00:10:15All right, then, for the last time.
00:10:17I married you because I love you.
00:10:19Because I wanted a home and your children.
00:10:21At this rate, we'll never have a child, and in a few months, we'll have lost our home as well.
00:10:24We had to wait all through the war years, and I've been waiting ever since,
00:10:27but I warn you, I can't take it much longer.
00:10:51And put away that duster, Mrs. McBride, for the villa's infield.
00:11:04For here's your request in celebration of ten years' married bliss with Percy.
00:11:08Bless you, the blushing McBrides.
00:11:10And the tune?
00:11:12There's no need to tell you that.
00:11:21Breakfast ready?
00:11:23I'll have to skip it, or I'll miss my train.
00:11:25Oh, don't do that. You can catch a later one.
00:11:27No, I have a lot to do.
00:11:29Look, Sid, I've never seen you take so many manuscripts before.
00:11:32I'm sure you haven't packed the telephone directory as well.
00:11:34Quite sure.
00:11:36Sorry I shouted.
00:11:39I'm becoming a nagging wife, I know.
00:11:42It's only that I worry about our set dreadfully.
00:11:46It's not your fault.
00:11:48I only wish there was something...
00:11:49Oh, darling, there's nothing we can't straighten out as long as we love each other.
00:11:58That clock stopped. It seems to stick at ten to ten.
00:12:02So does.
00:12:11When will you be back?
00:12:14Late-ish.
00:12:15At ten forty-five?
00:12:16Yes, yes, I expect so.
00:12:18Johnny.
00:12:26Johnny, darling.
00:12:28Remember, I love you.
00:12:39I love you.
00:13:09Have we passed Swindon yet?
00:13:26No, sir.
00:13:27Just coming up to Longley Tunnel.
00:14:56Hello.
00:15:16The clock stopped again?
00:15:18You're early.
00:15:19Whatever train did you come by?
00:15:20I wasn't expecting you for three-quarters of an hour.
00:15:22I didn't come by train.
00:15:24I caught a Green Line bus.
00:15:26Have you had anything to eat?
00:15:28Yes, thanks. I had a big meal in town.
00:15:31I kept you something, just in case.
00:15:34Oh, darling.
00:15:38Oh, Carol, I don't know what got into her.
00:15:40That must have been crazy.
00:15:44It's all right now, though.
00:15:45It's over.
00:15:47Finished.
00:15:57Part of your big meal.
00:15:59The tougher part.
00:16:05Carol, I'll do anything you want.
00:16:07Ring up your father and tell him I'll take the job.
00:16:10I'll even take a bath in fertilizer every day.
00:16:14I didn't think I could be so happy.
00:16:23Johnny!
00:16:24What is it?
00:16:25An accident on the railway.
00:16:27No.
00:16:30At least we better go.
00:16:33There may be people trapped.
00:16:34Come on.
00:16:35Don't.
00:16:36Oh, darling, we haven't a seat.
00:16:41It won't stop bleeding.
00:16:42I've tried to turn the cable.
00:16:43It won't stop bleeding.
00:16:44Let me see what happened.
00:16:52Jill.
00:16:53Jill.
00:16:54Better get out now.
00:16:55Jill.
00:16:56Where are you?
00:17:00Careful.
00:17:01Careful.
00:17:03Where are you, Johnny?
00:17:04No, it must have been someone at the rear of the train.
00:17:07Come on, mate.
00:17:09Right.
00:17:10Here you go.
00:17:11Johnny.
00:17:12Johnny.
00:17:13Johnny.
00:17:14Johnny.
00:17:15Johnny.
00:17:16Come on, come on.
00:17:17Better wait now.
00:17:18Johnny.
00:17:39It wasn't me.
00:17:40It was an accident.
00:17:45It was an accident.
00:17:48I didn't kill her.
00:17:51Darling, what is it?
00:17:57Are you all right, Johnny?
00:17:58Yeah.
00:18:01Yeah.
00:18:03Must have been dreaming.
00:18:05I'll say you were.
00:18:07You were shouting like a madman.
00:18:08Sorry.
00:18:13I didn't dream that crash, did I?
00:18:15No.
00:18:16I wish you had.
00:18:19Try to sleep again.
00:18:22It's nearly daylight.
00:18:36The stationery express at 40 miles an hour.
00:18:38Over 30 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage.
00:18:41Others are feared still trapped.
00:18:43The railway authorities have not yet discovered the identity of the person who pulled the communication cord,
00:18:48and it is possible that he or she is among those killed or severely injured.
00:18:52The driver of the goods...
00:18:55How much worse things seem when they happen on your own doorstep.
00:18:58I guess if it had been anywhere else, we'd be having a nice gruesome gossip about it all.
00:19:02It's such a lovely day, too.
00:19:04Well, over there, all that...
00:19:08I spoke to Daddy on the telephone while you were in the bath.
00:19:11About you taking the job.
00:19:12Oh, he was delighted.
00:19:13He knew he wasn't such an ass as he looks.
00:19:15He wants to see you on Monday.
00:19:16I don't.
00:19:17You haven't touched your breakfast.
00:19:20Oh, I'm in a state.
00:19:21It's only the postman.
00:19:26Don't bother, darling.
00:19:27I'll go and get them.
00:19:33What is it?
00:19:34Oh, it's a...
00:19:36It's a rejection slip for a short story.
00:19:38But you haven't opened it.
00:19:39I can smell them from the outside now.
00:20:34Is that the evening paper?
00:20:41Yes.
00:20:42Have they found out who stopped the train yet?
00:20:44I don't suppose they will.
00:21:01Very nice.
00:21:06Yes, you're a nice little fella.
00:21:09I don't think I've got one like you.
00:21:15Good afternoon.
00:21:16Oh, good afternoon.
00:21:19I was just admiring your formulas.
00:21:21So I saw.
00:21:22Do take another route.
00:21:23Oh, no, really.
00:21:25One's enough.
00:21:26Forgive me.
00:21:27Not at all.
00:21:28Were you looking for someone?
00:21:29Yes, a Mr. North.
00:21:30I'm his wife.
00:21:31Is there anything I can do?
00:21:32Well, my name's Clayton.
00:21:33I'm from British Railways Investigation Branch.
00:21:35Really?
00:21:36I thought you must be a market gardener.
00:21:38Oh, no, no, no.
00:21:39Just an amateur, I'm afraid.
00:21:40Is your husband at home, Mrs. North?
00:21:42Yes, what's he done?
00:21:43Stolen somebody's umbrella?
00:21:44Oh, good gracious, no.
00:21:45That's not in my line at all.
00:21:47Out there.
00:21:48Will you come in?
00:21:51I'll go and find my husband.
00:21:52Would you wait in here?
00:21:54I'll go.
00:22:03Johnny, I caught a funny old man pinching plants from the garden.
00:22:06He says he's from the Railways Investigation something or other.
00:22:09He wants to see you.
00:22:10What does he want?
00:22:11I don't know, darling, but you haven't stolen anything.
00:22:12I'll ask him that.
00:22:16When Uncle Harry knocked a woman's hat off in the train,
00:22:18a real policeman called about that.
00:22:20He's in there.
00:22:21Go make tea.
00:22:30Good afternoon.
00:22:31Mr. North?
00:22:33Clinton's the name.
00:22:35I'm from the British Railways Investigation Branch.
00:22:38Yes, my wife told me.
00:22:40We were wondering what you could be investigating.
00:22:42Oh, nothing to be alarmed about.
00:22:44Although your wife did seem to suspect the worst.
00:22:46Come and have a cup of tea.
00:22:47Oh, thanks.
00:22:50Charming place.
00:22:51I'd like a spot like this,
00:22:53but my wife won't leave Stretton.
00:22:55She loves trams.
00:22:57Sounds a silly thing to say, but it's true.
00:22:59What she'll do when they replace them with trolleybuses,
00:23:01goodness only knows.
00:23:03Perhaps she'll let you move.
00:23:04So she might.
00:23:05I hadn't thought of that.
00:23:06Thanks.
00:23:07I'm afraid this is all we can offer you in the way of cake.
00:23:10It looks delicious.
00:23:12Don't bank on that.
00:23:13My husband bought it in town yesterday,
00:23:14and he's not a good cake chewer.
00:23:16Now to get to business.
00:23:17It so happens I was on that train last night.
00:23:19Going to Penzance.
00:23:22You look surprised, Mr. North.
00:23:24Yes, I was one of the lucky ones.
00:23:26As I was on the spot,
00:23:27my chiefs want me to make a few inquiries.
00:23:30We were here when it happened and ran straight over.
00:23:32Were you here all evening?
00:23:34I was, but my husband had only just got in.
00:23:36Been out for a stroll?
00:23:39No, I'd spent a day in London.
00:23:41Very nice too, for a change.
00:23:44Did you return by rail?
00:23:46No, by Green Line.
00:23:49Lucky you weren't on that train, eh?
00:23:51I hardly would have been.
00:23:53It was an express.
00:23:54They don't stop at Longley.
00:23:55Of course not.
00:23:57Stupid of me.
00:23:58Had you been at home long?
00:24:00Not very.
00:24:01A quarter of an hour, perhaps.
00:24:02Darling, not as long.
00:24:03Actually, only a few minutes.
00:24:04I was just putting the clock right,
00:24:06and it struck ten as we heard the crash.
00:24:07Don't you remember?
00:24:08Yes, so it did.
00:24:12That's lucky.
00:24:13It isn't often people are able to remember so exactly.
00:24:17Had you... you have a drink, Mr. Clayton?
00:24:19No, thanks.
00:24:20The tea did me fine.
00:24:22You're quite close to the railway here, aren't you?
00:24:25Can you see it from the garden?
00:24:27Yes, I'll show you.
00:24:31Hmm, quite a pretty view.
00:24:34No one would think there was a railway line so near, would they?
00:24:38Just a few steps across the field.
00:24:40Oh, by the way, Mr. North,
00:24:42did you know a Mrs. Jervis Wilding?
00:24:45I know a man of that name.
00:24:46He's the editor of a magazine I've sold stories to.
00:24:49Stories, eh?
00:24:50Mrs. Wilding was killed in the accident, you know.
00:24:53And as you lived so near, I thought it worthwhile to pay a visit.
00:24:56I don't understand.
00:24:58Why should you come to me?
00:24:59Your name and address were found in her pocket diary.
00:25:02Mentioned several times, in fact.
00:25:07Was it?
00:25:09I can't think why.
00:25:11Except that she did secretarial work for her husband
00:25:13and might have noted my appointments.
00:25:16Could she have been coming to see you and your wife?
00:25:18That train did not stop at Longley.
00:25:20There I go again. Forgive me.
00:25:22Was her husband on the train?
00:25:24He might have been.
00:25:25But as no one survived in that carriage,
00:25:27he's probably still among the wreckage.
00:25:29Nobody survived?
00:25:30Not a soul.
00:25:31And the trouble is that someone pulled the cord from there.
00:25:34Then you'll never know why, I suppose.
00:25:37Unless the person left the train before the crash.
00:25:39Well, is that likely?
00:25:41It's possible.
00:25:42But there, I mustn't trouble you any more.
00:25:44Sorry to have been a nuisance.
00:25:46Not at all. I wish I could have helped you more.
00:25:48Thanks for the premulas.
00:25:50I shall send them to my wife this afternoon.
00:25:52I have a colleague going up that way.
00:25:53Good.
00:25:55Please don't bother to see me out.
00:25:57Is there trouble, Mr. Clayton?
00:25:59Well, goodbye, Mrs. North.
00:26:01Goodbye, Mr. Clayton.
00:26:06I wonder what was on his mind.
00:26:08Nothing.
00:26:09Don't be too sure, Johnny. He's not such a fool as he looks.
00:26:12That wouldn't be possible.
00:26:13Pour me another one, will you?
00:26:16Did you know the Wildings well?
00:26:18Not particularly.
00:26:20He drank like a fish.
00:26:22Talk as if he was dead.
00:26:23He must be, otherwise they'd have...
00:26:25They'd have what?
00:26:28Well, Clayton would know. They must have tried to contact him.
00:26:31Where's the evening paper?
00:26:32It's upstairs.
00:26:33Did he mention her name?
00:26:35I don't know. I didn't look.
00:26:37Then you had no idea she was on that train.
00:26:39Why should I?
00:26:41Hi, darling. I only asked.
00:26:43Oh, I'm sorry.
00:26:45We're out of beer. I'll drop down to the pub and get some.
00:26:49Don't be too long. I haven't seen you all day.
00:27:14Mrs. J. Wilding.
00:27:45That's what I don't know yet.
00:27:47I mean, why do people pull the communication cord?
00:27:50I don't know. They've only given the first list.
00:27:55Same again, please.
00:27:56Got a cold coming on, Mr. North?
00:27:58No.
00:28:03Gin and orange, George.
00:28:04Ah, got back all right, Mr. Saunders.
00:28:06Yes, got out at Brimley Hall and took a bus.
00:28:09Still digging them out, it seems.
00:28:11Would you mind if I had a look?
00:28:12Oh, don't.
00:28:13Nothing much new, though.
00:28:15Thank you, sir.
00:28:20Ah, same again, Mr. Clayton?
00:28:22Yes, please.
00:28:40Thank you, sir.
00:28:41Thank you, sir.
00:28:51Um, there'll be no more people left in there, I suppose?
00:28:54Doubt it. They got another couple out this afternoon, but that's the last, I reckon.
00:28:58Well, I wonder...
00:28:59You see, I'm looking for a friend of mine who was on that train.
00:29:01A big man...
00:29:02No good asking me, Governor.
00:29:04They've taken all the bodies to the village hall.
00:29:06Thank you. I'll try there.
00:29:08Watch it, Gov.
00:29:09If he was still trapped, he couldn't be alive, could he?
00:29:12Not in this luck.
00:29:14But if he's further up the train...
00:29:15No, he wasn't. He was in there.
00:29:17Was you in the crash yourself?
00:29:19No, I wasn't.
00:29:37Shh.
00:30:07Shhh.
00:30:38Who's there?
00:30:46Who are you?
00:31:08Hello.
00:31:09What are you up to?
00:31:11I was walking up the path and I heard you call out.
00:31:13You were standing by the pond and I saw you.
00:31:15I'm afraid you're imagining things.
00:31:17Who's there?
00:31:18John, is that you?
00:31:19Yes.
00:31:20Well, what are...
00:31:21Oh, good evening, Mr. Clayton.
00:31:23Yes, it's me again, Mrs. North.
00:31:25Could I trouble you a moment, sir?
00:31:32Oh, good evening, Mr. Clayton.
00:31:34Oh, good evening, Mr. Clayton.
00:31:35Oh, good evening.
00:31:44I can't offer you a drink.
00:31:45I'd have waited a perfectly good bottle of beer by chucking it at whoever was skulking in my garden.
00:31:50I shouldn't worry.
00:31:51You'll probably find it at the bottom of one of your saplings in the morning.
00:31:54Meaning that I imagined what I saw?
00:31:56Well, you have a fairly vivid imagination, haven't you?
00:31:58Oh?
00:31:59Writing stories and such like.
00:32:00Suppose you sit down and tell us why you cared.
00:32:02Oh, that's better.
00:32:04Thanks.
00:32:06Thanks.
00:32:08No, where was I?
00:32:09In the garden.
00:32:10Coming to have a chat.
00:32:12You know, Mrs. North, your husband is sure I'm after something.
00:32:16Aren't you?
00:32:17Yes.
00:32:19I want to know where Mrs. Wilding was going and with whom.
00:32:22Have you asked her husband?
00:32:24No, he's either dead or drunk somewhere.
00:32:27He's liable to disappear for days, as you would know.
00:32:30I wouldn't.
00:32:31Ours was a purely business relationship.
00:32:36And your relationship with Mrs. Wilding?
00:32:39I don't understand.
00:32:40My husband isn't as dense as he pretends.
00:32:42He thinks you were on that train with Mrs. Wilding.
00:32:45As my husband says he wasn't.
00:32:46Suppose you try and produce some evidence and stop playing cat and mouse.
00:32:50You know, Mrs. North, I've rarely liked anyone as much as you.
00:32:54You're delightful, too, but you don't fool me for a moment.
00:32:56I shouldn't like to try.
00:32:59Well, this is the situation.
00:33:01Mrs. Wilding left home last night shortly after 8 o'clock.
00:33:05I know that because she was followed by a private detective.
00:33:08Have you spoken to this detective?
00:33:09No, he was killed.
00:33:11But his notebook has spoken to me.
00:33:14At least, some of it has.
00:33:16He got rather badly knocked about.
00:33:20Mrs. Wilding left home with a man shortly after 8 o'clock last night.
00:33:24The two of them went to Paddington.
00:33:26They visited the buffet.
00:33:28Curiously enough, we have confirmation of that.
00:33:31A cake.
00:33:33A tough-looking rock cake was found in her handbag.
00:33:36They then caught the train.
00:33:38They had a carriage themselves.
00:33:40Well, as much to themselves as possible.
00:33:42So they pulled down the blinds.
00:33:43Who was the man, Mr. Clayton?
00:33:45Ah, that's the point.
00:33:46We've no description.
00:33:48The notebook only refers to him in the letters JN.
00:33:53Which are my initials.
00:33:54Yes, Mr. North.
00:33:56Can I see that notebook, please?
00:33:59I won't damage it.
00:34:09You say this is JN.
00:34:11Surely it could just as easily be JW.
00:34:14Hmm.
00:34:15Very ingenious.
00:34:17So what?
00:34:18JW stands for Jervis Wilding.
00:34:20Find him and you'll know where he and his wife are off to.
00:34:22But who would engage a detective to follow a husband and wife?
00:34:26That's for you to discover.
00:34:27At least it might take your mind off the ridiculous idea that my husband was on that train.
00:34:31Now, if you'll excuse me, I have my dinner to cook.
00:34:33Certainly.
00:34:34Good night, Mrs. North.
00:34:38If you don't mind my saying so, that's a woman and a million.
00:34:46Anything to say to me before I go?
00:34:49Only that you're wasting your time.
00:34:51Don't you be so sure.
00:34:53If whoever pulled that cord did it for any flippant reason,
00:34:56I'll see that his name stinks from one end of the country to the other.
00:35:02Good night.
00:35:04I'm staying at the pub if you should want me.
00:35:18Here's some food for you.
00:35:19You'll look as if you need it.
00:35:21No, thanks.
00:35:23Come on now, you've had nothing to eat since last night.
00:35:26I had something at the pub.
00:35:29Another rock cake?
00:35:31Yes.
00:35:42Carol, Carol.
00:35:43No, no more lies.
00:35:44Not to me.
00:35:45Lie to anyone else but not to me, please.
00:35:47Carol, wait, I must talk to you.
00:35:48It's no good, John, I know.
00:35:49Yes, but I've got to talk to you.
00:35:53All right.
00:35:54Talk.
00:35:56After this I can't expect you to trust me or believe in anything I say.
00:36:01But I've got to tell you that it wasn't moral cowardice that kept me quiet.
00:36:05It was you.
00:36:07I came home last night loving you as I hadn't done for years.
00:36:11It was as if,
00:36:13as if I'd seen you for the first time all over again.
00:36:18I suddenly realized how much I loved you.
00:36:21And only you.
00:36:22I wanted to start afresh, try to find everything we seemed to have lost.
00:36:32When that awful thing happened,
00:36:36I knew I'd never be the same.
00:36:37Those people would be on my conscience till I died.
00:36:41But I did cling desperately to the hope that I'd still keep you.
00:36:48And now even that won't be safe.
00:36:50I've lost you as surely as I've lost my peace of mind.
00:36:56Suppose you tell me why you were on that train.
00:37:02I was going away with Susan Welding.
00:37:06For good?
00:37:08Yeah.
00:37:10Why?
00:37:11Oh, I don't know, I must have been crazy.
00:37:14Or in love?
00:37:15No, I was flattered because,
00:37:17she seemed to like my writing.
00:37:19And she attracted me physically too, I suppose.
00:37:22Let's skip that part of it, shall we?
00:37:23I didn't love her, Carol.
00:37:24I knew that from the moment we started.
00:37:25So did she.
00:37:26She even told me to go back if I wanted to.
00:37:29How nice of her.
00:37:31So you stopped the train and left.
00:37:33No, not at once, that was later.
00:37:35She was asleep and I went into the corridor.
00:37:38I saw the detective and then Welding and that finished me.
00:37:42Did you write her a letter?
00:37:44No.
00:37:45And she was still asleep when I jumped.
00:37:49Poor thing.
00:37:51She wasn't as lucky as I was.
00:37:55So really, it was panic that made you do it,
00:37:57rather than any love for me.
00:37:59No, I promise you.
00:38:00I decided before that,
00:38:01but seeing them gave me the joke that I needed.
00:38:05What does it matter anyway?
00:38:09I don't know.
00:38:11I don't know.
00:38:12It doesn't matter anyway.
00:38:16What am I to do?
00:38:19That's up to you.
00:38:23Carol!
00:38:27About us.
00:38:29Is it finished?
00:38:31I don't know.
00:38:33I just don't know.
00:38:34I can't think anymore tonight.
00:38:35Carol!
00:38:36It doesn't help us,
00:38:37but I've got to tell Cleeton right away.
00:38:39I think you should.
00:38:40Of course I needn't tell him everything.
00:38:42With the detective and Welding both dead,
00:38:44they'd never know the details.
00:38:46I could say that I was tight and took the train,
00:38:49thinking it stopped at Longley,
00:38:50and then pulled the cord when I realized it didn't.
00:38:52It sounds a lovely story.
00:38:53Well, it would pass.
00:38:55But I've lied enough already.
00:38:57If you can stand it, I want to tell the truth.
00:39:00Then do.
00:39:01You realize that'll be the most awful, sordid publicity.
00:39:04My name will stink.
00:39:05Cleeton was right.
00:39:06Well, that doesn't matter but you.
00:39:10I look a fool, that's all.
00:39:12It's very little worse than being one.
00:39:15Darling, don't.
00:39:34Carol,
00:39:35I'm trying to think of you for once.
00:39:37If you want to go away, you could tonight,
00:39:39before I tell him.
00:39:40I'll decide when I want to leave you, thanks.
00:39:42But when the papers get hold of the story, they'll give...
00:39:44What of it?
00:39:45I'm your wife, aren't I?
00:39:47I don't find it quite as easy to run away as you do.
00:39:50Anyway, you could come back to me.
00:39:53I don't deserve you.
00:39:55Well, you've got me, haven't you?
00:39:56So stop trying to push me out.
00:40:02Oh, darling.
00:40:03Darling.
00:40:08Johnny,
00:40:09you didn't love her.
00:40:11No.
00:40:13I love you.
00:40:14I always have.
00:40:15It just got lost somehow, like me.
00:40:18Carol, I need you so.
00:40:31Ah, you got the note?
00:40:32Yes, thank you.
00:40:33They dropped it in this evening.
00:40:38Hello?
00:40:40Yeah?
00:40:41Who?
00:40:42Yeah, just come in.
00:40:43Hold on a minute.
00:40:48Hello?
00:40:50Yes, Mr North, Clayton speaking.
00:40:52Ah.
00:40:54Well, why not drop down right away?
00:40:57I think you're very wise.
00:40:58I'll expect you.
00:41:00Found out who done it?
00:41:02Yes, I think so.
00:41:04Bring in a couple of bottles, will you?
00:41:05I'm expecting a visitor.
00:41:06Very good.
00:41:07It has just been announced from British Railways
00:41:09that the accident at Longley
00:41:11was due to a failure of signals
00:41:13at the eastern end of Longley Tunnel
00:41:15owing to a sudden earth subsidence
00:41:17caused by the excessive rain of the past few days.
00:41:20Despite widespread publicity,
00:41:22the pulling of the communication cord
00:41:23was not in any way responsible for the accident
00:41:26and the public need feel no alarm
00:41:28about halting a train in case of emergency.
00:41:31The signals half a mile further down the line
00:41:33were, as it happened, against the express
00:41:35which would thus have had to stop.
00:41:37Therefore, with the failure of the signals near the tunnel,
00:41:40an accident would certainly have occurred
00:41:42even had the communication cord not been pulled.
00:41:45Carol, if that's true, it means that it wasn't my fault.
00:41:48I know. What about Clayton?
00:41:50Clayton?
00:41:52I'd forgotten about him.
00:41:54What do we do now?
00:41:56Well, here we are.
00:41:57You heard the news?
00:41:59It looks as though you've been wasting your time, doesn't it?
00:42:02I'd better to load off that man's conscience.
00:42:05Shall I open one?
00:42:06No, thanks.
00:42:07I may not need them now.
00:42:08What, your friend not coming?
00:42:10I doubt it.
00:42:11If he listens to the news.
00:42:14Oh, I nearly forgot.
00:42:15Your missus phoned up.
00:42:16She said she got the note and the primula
00:42:18but somehow went and lost it.
00:42:20Would you ask the lady for another?
00:42:22What a hope.
00:42:25Good evening, Mrs. Norris.
00:42:26Good evening.
00:42:28I'm sorry we were so long, Clayton,
00:42:29but we stayed to listen to the news.
00:42:32And you still want to have that talk?
00:42:34Why not?
00:42:36Well, I'm learning things.
00:42:38I've learned a lot of things tonight, too.
00:42:40Having told my wife the whole story,
00:42:41I had no excuse for hiding the facts from you.
00:42:43Wait a minute.
00:42:44Sit down, both of you.
00:42:49I received a note this evening
00:42:51telling me that Wilding had been identified
00:42:53as one of the killed.
00:42:55That set me thinking.
00:42:57This notebook, for instance.
00:43:01This N could have been a W after all.
00:43:04And so long as there's a chance
00:43:05that Wilding pulled that cord,
00:43:07I'm not inclined to add any further lives
00:43:09to the wreckage.
00:43:12Thanks, Clayton.
00:43:13Not at all, sir.
00:43:14Thank you for coming in.
00:43:15That made all the difference.
00:43:18Mrs. North,
00:43:19I'm rather nervous about asking this,
00:43:21but could I pop round in the morning
00:43:23and take another route from that primula?
00:43:26You see, my missus...
00:43:27Come round and dig up the whole garden.
00:43:35What a very, very handsome couple.
00:43:38Muddy complexions.
00:43:40You speak for yourself.
00:43:50Oh, incidentally,
00:43:51any sign of that bottle of beer
00:43:52I slung at old Clayton last night?
00:43:54Darling,
00:43:56you imagine the whole thing.
00:43:58I most certainly do.
00:44:00You imagine the whole thing.
00:44:02I most certainly do not.
00:44:04Well, of course you did.
00:44:05What would he be doing by the lily pond?
00:44:08Pinching lilies, of course.
00:44:10Then he must have pinched your beer bottles.
00:44:12I never thought of that.
00:44:14Anyway, well,
00:44:16next to you I love old Clayton
00:44:17more than anyone in the world.
00:44:19Oh, you do?
00:44:20That's very nice.
00:44:22By the way,
00:44:23there's no need to go kissing him again
00:44:24when he comes this morning.
00:44:26If you love him so much, you can do it.
00:44:31No.
00:44:48Johnny.
00:45:01Good morning, Mr. Clayton.
00:45:03Hello, Clayton.
00:45:04You brought a spade with you this time?
00:45:06No.
00:45:08Mr. North,
00:45:09I apologize if I appear to go back
00:45:11on anything I may have said last night.
00:45:14But would you mind telling me
00:45:15were you on that train with Mrs. Wilding?
00:45:19Oh, you know I was.
00:45:21And how was she when you left her?
00:45:24Asleep.
00:45:25I must warn you, sir,
00:45:26I'm a patient.
00:45:27Asleep?
00:45:28I must warn you, sir,
00:45:29I'm a police officer
00:45:31investigating the circumstances
00:45:32in which Mrs. Wilding was shot through the heart
00:45:34before the railway accident occurred.
00:45:43Admit it now,
00:45:44this statement is a pack of lies.
00:45:46It's the truth.
00:45:47But no one will believe it.
00:45:49You've lied too much already.
00:45:50It's the truth, I tell you!
00:45:51Tomorrow the coroner
00:45:52will bring in a verdict of murder
00:45:54unless you tell us what really happened.
00:45:57An accident, perhaps.
00:45:58I've told you all I know.
00:46:00You said she was asleep.
00:46:02And yet she died before the crash.
00:46:04Murdered.
00:46:05Why not suicide?
00:46:06She could have...
00:46:07People don't shoot themselves in the back.
00:46:08Well, then somebody else did it.
00:46:09Who?
00:46:10Her husband.
00:46:11He must have done it.
00:46:12He's dead.
00:46:13These are his papers.
00:46:14Well, then he did it before the crash.
00:46:15After hiring a detective to follow her.
00:46:18That's not the act of a murderer.
00:46:20Face the facts.
00:46:21Who else but you had the vestige of a motive?
00:46:23I had no motive.
00:46:24I was running away with her, wasn't I?
00:46:26And from her later.
00:46:27When I realized my mistake...
00:46:28Or because she was dead.
00:46:30She was alive, I tell you!
00:46:31She was dead.
00:46:32Oh, all right.
00:46:33If you're so sure,
00:46:34why don't you arrest me now?
00:46:35I shan't keep you waiting long.
00:46:38I should forget that statement,
00:46:40if I were you,
00:46:41and make another.
00:46:42You met her, as you said.
00:46:45On the train,
00:46:46you lost your nerve
00:46:47and wanted to forget the whole affair.
00:46:49You told her.
00:46:50She produced a gun.
00:46:51There was a struggle.
00:46:52The gun went off.
00:46:53So in a panic,
00:46:54you pulled the communication cord
00:46:55and ran off home.
00:46:56I did not kill her!
00:46:57Not with premeditation, I'm sure.
00:46:59I did not kill her!
00:47:00Who did then?
00:47:01I don't know.
00:47:02I don't know.
00:47:03All right, have it your own way.
00:47:04Sergeant!
00:47:06Mr. North will sign the statement now.
00:47:18I shouldn't contemplate any journeys,
00:47:20if I were you.
00:47:22Stay in your house, or thereabouts.
00:47:24He'll be waiting for you.
00:47:25See that he is.
00:47:26Yes.
00:47:30Right, sir.
00:47:31You may go.
00:47:55Hello.
00:48:17Have they...
00:48:19Is it finished?
00:48:20No, it hasn't begun.
00:48:25I made a statement which no one believes,
00:48:27and they've kindly promised to arrest me
00:48:29as soon as possible.
00:48:32Oh, I can't begin to take it in.
00:48:36I'll wake up soon.
00:48:39How could it have happened?
00:48:41How could it?
00:48:44Oh, don't look so scared, my darling.
00:48:46I'm not.
00:48:47I'm just so puzzled,
00:48:48I feel as if my brain will burst.
00:48:50It's worse for you, I know,
00:48:51but there's a simple explanation.
00:48:53Innocent people don't get hanged.
00:48:56We know that I didn't do it, that's the point.
00:48:59The police aren't sure either,
00:49:00otherwise they'd have pulled me in today.
00:49:03They haven't found the gun.
00:49:05They're looking for it in the field,
00:49:07but they won't find it there.
00:49:09If Wilding shot her before he was killed,
00:49:11then it's still lying in the wreckage,
00:49:13and they'll dig it out,
00:49:14and there'll be fingerprints.
00:49:16They can't arrest me on guesswork
00:49:18and circumstantial evidence.
00:49:19That's why they tried to get me to admit
00:49:21that I did it accidentally.
00:49:25Just keep calm, that's all.
00:49:29Keep calm and wait.
00:49:33I can't.
00:49:35So long as you're there and have faith in me.
00:49:43You do believe me, don't you?
00:49:45You don't think that I...
00:49:52Carol, Carol, look at me, Carol.
00:50:03It's a laugh anyway.
00:50:06Now I know it's a nightmare.
00:50:11You shouldn't talk in your sleep.
00:50:18Carol.
00:50:20Carol, think.
00:50:21This is murder.
00:50:23Don't touch me.
00:50:24Don't touch me, please.
00:50:44Good evening, ma'am.
00:50:46Forgive the intrusion,
00:50:47but I have instructions to search the garden.
00:51:00Does this little tap enter the lily pond?
00:51:04It's just a matter of routine.
00:51:09Rusty.
00:51:10No goldfish in this pond, I hope.
00:51:14No?
00:51:16Good.
00:51:32Is this yours, ma'am?
00:51:34Oh, thanks.
00:51:36It's been lost for weeks.
00:51:38Funny thing, you know,
00:51:39how things get lost in gardens and then turn up again.
00:51:42I found a typing in mine
00:51:43that my old granddad had dropped 40 years before.
00:51:50Was he pleased?
00:51:51No, ma'am, he was dead.
00:51:52Constable Cowley, where are you?
00:51:54Oh, that's me.
00:51:55Excuse me, ma'am.
00:51:56Are you calling me?
00:51:57There's an old wire here.
00:51:59Board it in.
00:52:00Well, open it up.
00:52:02Found anything of your side?
00:52:03No.
00:52:06I'll come and give you a hand in a minute.
00:52:08It'll eat the two of us.
00:52:09It's a bit stiff.
00:52:13Come on.
00:52:20They found a revolver in the lily pond.
00:52:22What?
00:52:23Well, that's impossible.
00:52:24No, it's true.
00:52:25I saw it myself.
00:52:26They don't know that I've seen it,
00:52:27so you have about two minutes before they come.
00:52:29It was actually in our pond.
00:52:30Just beside the beer bottle.
00:52:33So that's what...
00:52:36Why did you warn me?
00:52:38To give you a chance to change your story.
00:52:41Well, thanks anyway.
00:52:44Was the inspector there?
00:52:45No.
00:52:48Then they'll have telephoned the police station.
00:52:58Go downstairs and act as if you'd never told me.
00:53:01What are you going to do?
00:53:02Just leave me alone.
00:53:04John, you don't...
00:53:05Now, leave me alone, please.
00:53:07Don't worry.
00:53:08They haven't hanged me yet.
00:53:16And Carol...
00:53:19Thanks again for the warning.
00:53:39Everything okay, officer?
00:53:40All quiet, sir.
00:53:59Good evening, madam.
00:54:00May we come in?
00:54:02I very much regret this,
00:54:03but I hold a warrant for your husband's arrest.
00:54:05May I see him?
00:54:06He's upstairs.
00:54:08I'll fetch him.
00:54:09I'll come along, too, if you don't mind.
00:54:17He's in here.
00:54:25Mr. North!
00:54:28Open the door, please, Mr. North!
00:54:29Where is he?
00:54:30He's in there.
00:54:31I left him in there.
00:54:33Where is he?
00:54:35Hey, look at this.
00:55:03Sergeant Sanger!
00:55:05Sergeant Sanger!
00:55:08You were calling, sir?
00:55:09Yes, I was.
00:55:10Are your men still watching the house?
00:55:11Oh, yes, sir.
00:55:12Why?
00:55:13North escaped at least ten minutes ago.
00:55:14But he was inside with his wife.
00:55:16And your job was to keep him there.
00:55:17Call your men off.
00:55:18Report back to the station.
00:55:19Get them out on the search.
00:55:22Very silly, Mrs. North.
00:55:24He doesn't stand a chance.
00:55:26Not on Earthly.
00:55:28So you warned him about the gun, Mrs. North?
00:55:31What gun, Inspector?
00:55:32The one in your lily pond.
00:55:34This is the first I've heard of it.
00:55:37Well, you won't get very far.
00:55:39I may want to see you later, Mrs. North.
00:55:41I shall be here.
00:55:42See that you are.
00:55:43Good night.
00:55:50Of course she warned him.
00:55:51But wouldn't you have done the same?
00:55:53This is the sort of thing which makes the police look utter fools.
00:55:56It certainly is.
00:56:01Oh.
00:56:15Carol, steady.
00:56:17Draw the curtains.
00:56:24Johnny, I thought you'd...
00:56:25So do they, I hope.
00:56:27Are they gone?
00:56:28Yes.
00:56:29Good.
00:56:30Once they relax round here, I'll have a chance to get away.
00:56:33Why not stay and face it?
00:56:35And hang for something I didn't do?
00:56:37No, thank you.
00:56:38But if you didn't do it, you'd have nothing to be afraid of.
00:56:40Wouldn't I?
00:56:41Look at the evidence.
00:56:42What hope would I have with a jury?
00:56:43But even you have made up your mind that I did it.
00:56:46I haven't said that, Johnny.
00:56:47You don't have to.
00:56:48It's written all over you.
00:56:50Now, don't worry.
00:56:51I'm not going to plead my case.
00:56:53But will you stretch a point and do one thing more for me?
00:56:56Of course. What?
00:56:57Raise all the money you can and post it right away to J. Kenny, Danvers Hotel, Plymouth.
00:57:02Kenny?
00:57:03Yes, I've booked rooms in that name for myself.
00:57:05I see.
00:57:07Well, as they're expecting me, I can pick it up without suspicion.
00:57:10If I have to leave the country, I'll need all the money I can get.
00:57:13Leave the country?
00:57:15Oh, Johnny, what's the use?
00:57:17If you run away, it'll only make things worse for you, and they'll get you just the same.
00:57:21Maybe.
00:57:23But there's a chance I may find something that'll lead me to the gentleman responsible for this.
00:57:27I don't understand.
00:57:29Oh, how could you?
00:57:30But look at it this way.
00:57:32If I didn't do it, then there's someone who has made sure that the police should think that I did.
00:57:37Agreed?
00:57:38Well, now, it's one chance at a million, but I'll have to take it.
00:57:41While the police are looking for me, I shall be looking for him.
00:57:44But who?
00:57:45Who are you talking about?
00:57:47Someone who was on that train with us.
00:57:48The man who killed Susan.
00:57:50The man who came into our garden and threw the gun into the pond.
00:57:53The man who wants me to hang for what he did.
00:58:19Yes?
00:58:20Good evening.
00:58:21I'm a friend of Mr. Joe's Wildings, and...
00:58:23Mr. Wilding is dead.
00:58:25Yes, I know, but there are one or two questions that I'd like to ask...
00:58:28Perhaps you'd better speak to Mrs. Wilding.
00:58:31Yes?
00:58:32Good evening.
00:58:33I'm a friend of Mr. Joe's Wildings, and...
00:58:35Mr. Wilding is dead.
00:58:37Yes, I know, but there are one or two questions that I'd like to ask...
00:58:40Perhaps you'd better speak to Mrs. Wilding.
00:58:51I understand that you are a friend of my son's.
00:58:54Yes, and I...
00:58:56You know that he is dead?
00:58:58No, Mrs. Wilding.
00:59:00He's thought to be dead.
00:59:02But I think he's very much alive.
00:59:04He died in the railway accident at Longley.
00:59:08That's what he wants you to think.
00:59:09But it wasn't so.
00:59:11He's alive, I promise you.
00:59:12I know he is.
00:59:13I know he's dead because I identified his body myself.
00:59:59There's no need to keep ringing.
01:00:00I heard you the first time.
01:00:02And if it's accommodation you're after,
01:00:03I couldn't possibly take anyone else tonight.
01:00:08I have a room booked here.
01:00:10You...
01:00:11Booked, you say?
01:00:12Yes, a couple of days ago, for my wife and myself.
01:00:15Unfortunately, one of my wife's relatives fell ill,
01:00:17and that's why I came late and had to come on alone.
01:00:21What name, please?
01:00:23I don't know.
01:00:24I came late and had to come on alone.
01:00:26What name, please?
01:00:28Kenny.
01:00:29John Kenny.
01:00:32But Mr. Kenny arrived here this afternoon.
01:00:36He told me his wife had died.
01:00:40Just a moment, Mrs...
01:00:42Miss Marchmont.
01:00:44I'm the director of this establishment.
01:00:46There's something very fishy here,
01:00:47and I intend to telephone the police immediately.
01:00:50No, wait, please, don't do that.
01:00:52You see,
01:00:53I'm a police officer.
01:00:55How do I know you're that?
01:00:58I can promise you half the force of Plymouth will be here shortly,
01:01:01if he's the man that we're looking for.
01:01:03Then he didn't expect cups of tea.
01:01:05Is he upstairs now?
01:01:07Yes.
01:01:09He hasn't left his room since he arrived.
01:01:14Is there a vacant room next door to his?
01:01:16Yes.
01:01:18Number 40.
01:01:20Then give me the key, please.
01:01:21I'm going up there now.
01:01:22And don't you do anything yourself until I tell you to.
01:01:25Very well, but please do your arrest in as discreet as possible.
01:01:28I have a number of elderly residents,
01:01:30and they have enough to put up with as it is.
01:01:40What has he done?
01:01:44Murder.
01:01:52Murder.
01:02:22Murder.
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01:05:22Sorry.
01:05:42Hello?
01:05:44Hello?
01:05:47Hello?
01:05:48Hello.
01:05:49Give your trunk, all, please.
01:05:506-4. As quickly as possible, please. Thank you.
01:05:58Hello, yes, Longley 6-4. Hello? Hello, Carol? It's John here.
01:06:04I can't hear! John! Johnny! What? I can't hear you!
01:06:11Hello! Speak up, darling, I can't hear you!
01:06:14Is that better? Speak up, darling, I can't hear you!
01:06:17Carol, can you hear? I can't hear you!
01:06:20Speak up, darling, I can't hear you! Exchange! Exchange!
01:06:26Darling, I can't hear you! Johnny! Can you change this line, please? They can't hear me.
01:06:30Yes, please, quickly, it's important. Johnny! Hello!
01:06:34I can't hear the lines very bad! Hello!
01:06:38Oh, good evening, sir. I'm sorry to bother you, but I can't open this bottle.
01:06:43The cork, it's very stub...
01:06:46Well, well, well.
01:06:52I never expected to find you here.
01:06:56Quite a surprise. A very pleasant one for me.
01:07:00I'd hardly hoped to find you so easily.
01:07:04Don't do that, sonny. It's not so easy as all that.
01:07:09Sit down. Come on, sit down over here.
01:07:13Sit down.
01:07:25What made you come here, then, if you didn't expect to find me here?
01:07:33Oh, to hide out, I suppose. Yes, I should have thought of that.
01:07:43Poor old Norf. Everything's gone west, hasn't it?
01:07:50This is the final touch. All I have to do is to blow your brains out.
01:07:56There we are. Suicide of hunted train murderer.
01:08:02Very convenient, if it would work. But it won't.
01:08:07It'll work, all right. Everything's gone the way I wanted it
01:08:11since the time you decided to run away with my wife.
01:08:19I knew all about the Plymouth trip, Mr. Kenny.
01:08:22Meant to kill you both down here and make you look like suicide.
01:08:26When you stopped the train and jumped, I had to alter things a little.
01:08:31I shot her in the back as she was leaning out the window looking for you.
01:08:35Then I started after you myself.
01:08:38Meant to kill you, too, and leave the gun beside you.
01:08:46I only just got clear before the crash.
01:08:50That made me change my plans again.
01:08:53Saw it all clearly, then.
01:08:56They'd find poor murdered Susie in the wreckage
01:09:00and ten to one, they'd pin it all on you.
01:09:04With a little quiet aid from me, of course.
01:09:08Nice touch dropping that gun in your pond, wasn't it?
01:09:12Brilliant.
01:09:14I thought so.
01:09:16Oh, I killed myself, too, of course.
01:09:20Popped back to the accident, did a bit of rescue work.
01:09:24Put my papers on a gent who'd suffered rather badly in the crash.
01:09:29He didn't seem to mind.
01:09:32Didn't mind at all.
01:09:43Drunk, but not as drunk as that.
01:09:48What's next on the agenda?
01:09:51You.
01:09:53Yes, you can kill me, but it won't help you.
01:09:55I was on to the police when you came in just now.
01:09:58They'll be here at any moment.
01:10:00Oh, yes.
01:10:02Schoolboy stuff.
01:10:12You didn't know I was here?
01:10:14Oh, no.
01:10:15What do you think they said downstairs when I registered as Kinney?
01:10:30Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:10:36Are you all caught along, then?
01:10:39Go ahead, caller, you're through now.
01:10:42Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:11:00Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
01:11:07no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
01:11:14no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
01:11:21no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
01:11:28All right, Johnny boy. You asked for it. Now you're going to get it. Right between the eyes.
01:11:58Excuse me.
01:12:27Excuse me.
01:12:55What on earth's the matter? Have you seen a ghost or something?
01:13:00I don't know. I...
01:13:04Susan, how long have I been away?
01:13:09A few minutes, I suppose. I don't know. I was dozing. What is the matter? Are you ill?
01:13:13No, nothing. I don't know. I just imagined I wanted to pull the cord and run home across the fields.
01:13:19That wasn't imagination. That was wishful thinking.
01:13:22I went into the corridor and then...
01:13:23And then what?
01:13:24I don't know. Something terrible.
01:13:28Is this Longley Tunnel?
01:13:30Yes, it must be.
01:13:31Then pull that cord.
01:13:32Why?
01:13:33Because I'm not going to run away with a man who'll spend the rest of his life regretting it.
01:13:37I'll be all right in a minute.
01:13:40I'm sorry, Susan. I don't know what happened to me.
01:13:42I do. And I know what's happened to me, too.
01:13:48Why did you do that?
01:13:49Because it's worth a five pound fine never to see you again.
01:13:51Susan, are you mad?
01:13:52It's the sanest thing either of us have ever done.
01:13:54Here, get ready to go.
01:13:57Well, what are you waiting for? This is what you want, isn't it?
01:14:11I don't know what to say.
01:14:13But it would never have worked, would it?
01:14:15Never.
01:14:16Go back to a Johnny boy and be a good little husband for the rest of your days.
01:14:20What will you do?
01:14:21Laugh my way to Exeter. Catch the first train back.
01:14:24Jervis?
01:14:25I can handle Jervis. He never wakes till lunchtime.
01:14:29I'm sorry, Susan.
01:14:31Don't apologize. It was a wonderful trip.
01:14:34You'd better get moving.
01:14:36Don't break your neck falling.
01:14:51Hello.
01:15:20Clock stopped again?
01:15:22You're early.
01:15:23Whatever train did you come by? I wasn't expecting you for three quarters of an hour.
01:15:26I didn't come by train. I caught a Green Line bus.
01:15:31Have you had anything to eat?
01:15:32Yes, thanks. I had a big meal in town.
01:15:35I kept you something just in case.
01:15:42I don't know what got into me.
01:15:44I must have been crazy.
01:15:48It's all right now, then. It's over. It's finished.
01:16:11No!
01:16:35What is it, my darling?
01:16:42It's the end of a nightmare, that's all.
01:17:02There's more film drama tomorrow night starring Tyrone Power as a man on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
01:17:08Nightmare Alley is at 2.30.
01:17:10Coming next tonight, all the latest from the corridors of the powerhouse.