Campbell Playhouse - 22 - The Count of Monte Cristo
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00:00The Makers of Campbell's Soup presents the Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles producers.
00:27I am the Count of Monte Cristo, and the world is mine!
00:48Ladies and gentlemen, the Campbell Playhouse brings you those famous lines again.
00:52Revives tonight for you the world's favorite romance.
01:02This is Orson Welles, speaking to you only after a low bow to the memory of Henry Miller and James O'Neill,
01:09and all the rest of his bettors who've played the wonderful, mysterious gentleman from Corsica before him.
01:16Of the author, of Alexander Dumas, who wrote Monte Cristo, there is no reasonable explanation.
01:23Dumas was a rich man. We note with interest that he went bankrupt in the theater.
01:28He was a revolutionary. His grandfather was a marquis. His grandmother was a negress.
01:33He was born as Napoleon became emperor. He died in poverty as the Germans marched into France.
01:38He wrote the Count of Monte Cristo as a newspaper serial.
01:42And shortly after the last installment, a ball and a bullfight were organized for him in Seville.
01:48And finally, in Algiers, the customs man let his baggage through without examination.
01:53Such things don't and can't happen today.
01:56But then neither does Alexander Dumas himself, the wildest romance of a man,
02:01who could and did openly maintain at 70 numerous establishments and a literary factory as well,
02:07whose quantitative output is equal in the arts, only by the fabulous studio of Rubens.
02:13There's a good story about what Dumas Père told Dumas Fils.
02:17Father, said the inventor of Camille, I have just read your latest book.
02:22Have you, my son, said Dumas Père.
02:26What's it about? I'm not sure I have.
02:29It's no secret and no shame either that the Chateau Monte Cristo was haunted by many ghostwriters
02:34and that its owner signed his name to more books than anyone could ever write.
02:39It is not expected of Pharaoh that he build with his own hands his own pyramids.
02:45And the mere blueprint of one Dumas plot is an airtight alibi for a whole career.
02:51Of all these plots, out of question the most gloriously complex,
02:56as perfect as Watchworks and as big as Pittsburgh, among all others,
03:01one Dumas plot persists as the most ingenious tall story ever perpetrated by the mind of man.
03:08God's vengeance on radio scriptwriters and your indestructible delight in spite of us.
03:15Here then is our humble 57 minutes worth of the Count of Monte Cristo.
03:21Just before we begin tonight's story, I want to confer the freedom of the microphone upon Ernest Chappell.
03:31Thank you, Mr. Wells. Ladies and gentlemen, just the other day I sat down in the dining car of a train.
03:36I glanced around the tables near me to see what others were having for dinner.
03:40Perhaps you've done the same thing now and then because it sort of gives you an idea, doesn't it?
03:44Well, of 16 men and women whose plates I saw there in the diner, 10 were eating chicken.
03:49And I found my pencil writing on the order card, chicken.
03:53Right then and there I said to myself again, it must be this liking so many of us have for chicken
03:58that accounts for the great popularity of Campbell's chicken soup.
04:02Because this soup is chicken through and through from its golden surface to the very bottom of the plate.
04:08Its broth fairly glistens with chicken richness. Its fluffy rice is steeped in chicken flavor.
04:13And there are tender pieces of chicken meat in it to further tempt your spoon.
04:17That's why I promise you that just as sure as you like chicken, you like Campbell's chicken soup.
04:23If you haven't tried it, why don't you? Perhaps at dinner tomorrow night.
04:27And now...
04:30Go!
04:45His Excellency, the Count of Monte Cristo.
04:54Mercedes.
04:55Yes, sir?
04:56May I present the most popular man in Paris, the Count of Monte Cristo.
04:59The Baroness Montego.
05:00I am deeply honored.
05:02Count Monte Cristo.
05:04What is it, Mercedes? Are you ill?
05:06No, it's nothing, Ferdinand. Perhaps the heat of this room.
05:11Very kind of the Count to come here tonight.
05:13The heat is in your arm, Count Monte Cristo.
05:15I am honored, madame.
05:17Is it true, Count, what everyone is saying about you in Paris?
05:20What are they saying, madame?
05:22That you have seen so much, traveled so far, suffered so deeply.
05:28I have suffered deeply, madame.
05:31Now are you happy?
05:32No doubt, since no one hears me complain.
05:35Your present happiness, has it softened your heart?
05:39My present happiness does not equal my past misery.
05:43Are you not married?
05:44I am married. No, madame.
05:47You're alone, then?
05:48I am alone.
05:49You have no sister, no father?
05:50I have nothing.
05:51How can you exist, though, with no one to hold you to life?
05:55A long time ago, I loved a girl.
05:59I was on the point of marrying her, madame, when we were separated.
06:05I thought she loved me well enough to wait for me and even to remain faithful to my grave.
06:10When I returned, she was married.
06:13Perhaps my heart was weaker than that of most and I suffered more than they would have in my place.
06:18That is all, madame.
06:20Can you still preserve this love in your heart?
06:24It's true we can love only once.
06:28Did you ever see her again?
06:30Never.
06:31You've forgiven her for all she made you suffer.
06:34Yes, I have forgiven her.
06:38Do you still hate those that separated you?
06:41Do you still want to punish them?
06:44They will be punished, madame.
06:46But it is not I who will punish them.
06:49It is their own past.
07:11Rarely has European society been more intrigued than it was the winter of 1834
07:17when the mysterious Count de Monte Cristo appeared in the city of Paris.
07:22It is time now that the world should hear his story.
07:25Of the title of this man, nothing was known that winter save that he derived it
07:29from a small and uninhabited island off the coast of Corsica.
07:33The source of his fortune was equally obscure and it seemed inexhaustible.
07:39The paintings in his house in the Champs-Élysées were valued at 7 million francs.
07:44His collection of precious stones far exceeded in value that of any of the crowned heads of Europe.
07:50Yet it was not his wealth alone that made him remarkable.
07:54At a dinner party that winter a woman was heard to say that the Count de Monte Cristo
07:59had the look of a man who had been enclosed for a long time in a tomb.
08:06I heard her say it.
08:08The long years in solitary confinement sharpened the hearing.
08:12The look of a man, she said, who had been enclosed for a long time in a tomb.
08:19No man but I could know how truly the lady had spoken.
08:23If to live in darkness for 20 years, in darkness and silence, underground and alone,
08:32if this is to dwell in a tomb, then the Count de Monte Cristo had dwelt in a tomb.
08:41I alone can speak of these things for I alone know the true name of the Count de Monte Cristo.
08:48It is mine.
08:50It is Edmund Dantes.
09:00The story of Edmund Dantes begins in 1814, the year the Emperor Napoleon was a prisoner in Elba.
09:06It begins with a wedding.
09:11Edmund Dantes.
09:24In the name of the law! In the name of the law, I demand admittance!
09:28What's he saying?
09:30Quiet! Halt!
09:33Who here answers to the name of Edmund Dantes?
09:35Edmund Dantes, he's my son. What do you want of him?
09:38Edmund Dantes, in the name of the law, I arrest you.
09:40Arrest me? What have I done?
09:42I cannot inform you. You'll be duly acquainted with the reason for your arrest at your first examination.
09:47He does.
09:48Officer, officer, he's done nothing wrong. He's my son. He's a good boy.
09:52Edmund Dantes, you're under arrest. Follow me.
09:55Edmund!
09:56Guard, attention!
09:57Edmund!
09:58Guard, attention!
10:10What is your name?
10:11Are you the King's prosecutor, sir?
10:12Yes, yes.
10:13My name is Edmund Dantes.
10:15You have kindly given me all the information in your power.
10:18You have served under the usurper Napoleon?
10:20No, sir.
10:21Edmund Dantes, it is reported that your political opinions are extreme.
10:25My political opinions? Alas, I never had any opinions. I'm hardly twenty, sir. I wish to be married today.
10:30What do you make of this?
10:32It is a letter, Monsieur Dantes.
10:34Well, read it.
10:35The King's prosecutor is hereby informed by friends of the throne and religion
10:40that when Edmund Dantes, mate of the ship Ferro, arrived this morning from Smyrna, having touched at Naples and the Isle of Elba,
10:46he has been entrusted by the usurper Napoleon with a letter to the Bonapartist Committee in Paris.
10:51This letter will be found on his person, or at his father's, or in his cabin aboard the Ferro.
10:57Oh, sorry, sir, I don't understand it.
10:59Do you know the writing?
11:00No, sir.
11:01Well, whoever wrote it writes well.
11:03Have you any enemies?
11:05Not that I know of, sir.
11:06Now, answer me frankly. Not as a prisoner to a judge, but as one man to another.
11:11Is there any truth in this accusation?
11:13No, sir. I swear by my honour as a sailor, sir.
11:16Well, go on, go on.
11:17The day after we left Naples, when my captain lay dying, he gave me a package to be delivered on the Isle of Elba.
11:22What did you do with it?
11:23What should I have done? What every man would have done in my place.
11:25I sailed for the Isle of Elba, I delivered the packet, and was given in return a letter to be delivered to a man here in Marseilles.
11:29I did exactly what my captain told me to do, sir.
11:31I landed here yesterday, that's all, sir.
11:33I see.
11:34Well, it sounds like the truth.
11:36Now, you give up this letter you brought from Elba, and give me your word that you will appear at your call, and you may go back to your friend.
11:42I'm free then, sir.
11:43Yes, but first give me the letter.
11:45Here you are, sir.
11:46Very well.
11:47By the way, to whom were you to deliver this letter?
11:50To Francois Noirpierre.
11:51Francois Noirpierre?
11:52Yes, sir.
11:53Why?
11:54Do you know this man?
11:55A faithful servant of the king does not know conspirators.
11:58Have you shown this letter to anyone?
12:00To no one, sir.
12:01On my honor.
12:02No.
12:03No one knows that you are the bearer of a letter from the Isle of Elba addressed to Francois Noirpierre?
12:08Nobody, sir, except the one person who gave it to me.
12:11Why, sir?
12:12What's the matter, sir?
12:14You give me your word of honor that you are ignorant of the contents of this letter.
12:18My word of honor, sir, but what's the matter?
12:20You're ill, sir.
12:22Can I help you?
12:23No, stay where you are, Edmond Dantès.
12:25For me to give orders, not you.
12:27I am sorry.
12:29I am no longer able, as I had hoped, to restore you to liberty.
12:32Before doing so, there are formalities to be gone through.
12:35Sir.
12:36I will try to make them as short as possible.
12:38Now, the principal charge against you, as you know, is this letter.
12:42You see what I do with it.
12:45You see, I destroy it.
12:47Now I can find it at a place.
12:49It is a gift for your goodness itself.
12:51Now then, do you trust me?
12:53Order me, sir, and I will obey you.
12:54Listen.
12:55This is not an order, but advice that I give you.
12:57Yes, sir.
12:58I shall keep you until this evening, here, in the Palais de Jersey.
13:02Yes, sir.
13:03Should anyone else question you, do not breathe a word of this letter.
13:07I promise.
13:08You see, the letter is destroyed.
13:10You and I alone know of its existence.
13:12So if they question you about it, deny all knowledge of it.
13:16I will, sir.
13:17It was the only letter you had?
13:18Yes, sir.
13:19I swear it.
13:20I swear it.
13:21Good.
13:22Now then, not a word to anyone.
13:24Remember.
13:25Yes, sir.
13:26Your Honor.
13:27You will take this man to the guard room and hold him there.
13:29He is to see nobody.
13:30You understand?
13:31Nobody.
13:32Yes, sir.
13:33Follow this officer, Monsieur Dantez.
13:34Later, I will give him his orders.
13:37Your Honor!
13:38Move!
13:39You've come to fetch me?
13:40Yes.
13:41By the order of the King's prosecutor?
13:42I believe so.
13:43Come with us.
13:44Where are you taking me?
13:57The order of the king's prosecutor?
13:58I believe so.
13:59Come with us.
14:07Where are you taking me?
14:08You don't know.
14:09For the love of heaven, where are we going?
14:11You, a native of Marseilles, an assailant, and you don't know where you're going?
14:14I've no idea.
14:15Unless you're blind or have never been outside the harbor, you must know.
14:18Look around you.
14:19The prison.
14:20The Chateau Deep.
14:21Quite right, my friend, the Chateau Deep.
14:24Help, help, let me go.
14:25I'm innocent.
14:27I'm innocent.
14:37D'Arcy.
14:39D'Arcy.
14:40Haven't you slept?
14:41I do not know.
14:42Are you hungry?
14:43I do not know.
14:44What is it?
14:45I want to see the governor.
14:46The governor, do you hear me?
14:47I'm innocent.
14:48I'm innocent.
14:49I'm innocent.
14:57D'Arcy.
14:59Well, are you reasonable today?
15:01I want to see the governor.
15:02I've told you that's impossible.
15:03Why is it impossible?
15:04Not allowed.
15:05Why is it not allowed?
15:06I'm innocent.
15:07Take my advice, my friend.
15:08Don't brood over what is impossible.
15:10You'll go out of your head.
15:11Listen to me.
15:12I want to see the governor.
15:13If you don't let me see the governor someday, I'll hide behind the door, and when you come
15:16in, I'll dash out your brains with a stool.
15:19Put down that stool.
15:20Are you going to let me see the governor?
15:21Put it down.
15:22Put down that stool.
15:23Put it down.
15:24Well, do I see the governor?
15:25Yes, you'll see the governor at once.
15:26At once?
15:27Sooner than you think.
15:28How come?
15:29How come?
15:30Why?
15:31By the governor's order.
15:32Take the squisher to the floor below.
15:33The dungeon?
15:34That's where we put our madmen.
15:35The dungeon.
15:36Why?
15:37Can't jump?
15:38I tell you, I'm innocent.
15:39Why?
15:40Why?
15:41I'm innocent.
15:42I'm innocent.
15:43Why?
15:44In darkness and silence, underground and alone.
16:01Every day, twice a day, morning and evening, the jailer came to my cell and put down the
16:08vile food and went away without speaking to me.
16:13My hair and nails had grown long, and my skin was white as a leper's.
16:19I'd been proud the first month.
16:22Now I began to beg.
16:24I begged to be moved from this dungeon to another.
16:26I begged to be allowed to walk around.
16:28I begged for books.
16:30Nothing was granted.
16:32I spoke to the jailer when he brought me my food.
16:35He rarely answered me.
16:37I tried to speak when alone, but the sound of my own voice terrified me.
16:42After what must have been three or four years, the governor of the Chateau D'If was transferred.
16:47The new man did not trouble to learn my name.
16:50I was no longer Edmund Dantes.
16:54I was number 37.
16:57I took to praying, but not even in praying prosperity.
17:01In my prayers, I laid every action of my life before the Almighty.
17:05Still, I remained a prisoner.
17:10In a deep gloom, took possession of me an infurious rage and savage thoughts of revenge,
17:14and wildly I dashed myself against the walls of my prison.
17:17I tore at my own flesh with my nails, and then, then I began to think of dying.
17:24I swore I would starve myself to death.
17:27So every morning and every evening, I threw out through the small grated window all the food the jailer brought me.
17:33At first gaily, then thoughtfully, then with regret.
17:37I held the plate in my hand for an hour at a time, gazing at the morsel of bad meat,
17:43of painted fish, of black and moldy bread.
17:49One day I found I had not sufficient force to throw my supper out of the window.
17:54The next morning I could hardly see or hear.
17:58I knew I was dying.
18:00The day went by.
18:03I felt a stupor creeping over me, the gnawing pain at my stomach had ceased and my thirst had abated.
18:10When I closed my eyes, I saw myriads of lights dancing before them.
18:15I was on the edge of that mysterious country called death.
18:24Suddenly, a little after dark, I heard a hollow sound in the wall against which I was lying.
18:31I sat up and listened.
18:37It was a continuous scratching, as if made by a huge claw, some iron instrument scraping against the stones.
18:44Then all was silent.
18:47Soon it began again.
18:50More and more distinct.
18:53Perhaps it was only a workman repairing a neighboring dungeon, I soon found out.
18:57The scratching continued.
18:58With my urnware jug I knocked against the wall where the sound came.
19:06Someone had heard me.
19:14Each time I knocked, the knocks were repeated on the other side of the wall.
19:25As I stopped knocking, the other also stopped.
19:29After that there were no more sounds.
19:30The night passed in complete silence.
19:31I never closed my eyes.
19:33Three days passed.
19:35Three long days.
19:37And never a sound.
19:39At last, on the fourth evening, whoever it was was quite close to me now.
19:46I wanted desperately to help him, but I had nothing, no knife or sharp instrument.
19:49I smashed my urnware jug.
19:51That night I moved my bed from the wall and started to scrape the plaster with the feet of the broken jug.
19:55The fragments of plaster began to fall away.
19:58In three days I uncovered a large stone.
20:01The next day, about noon, the stone began to move.
20:03Oh, my God.
20:04My God.
20:06My God, don't fail me now.
20:08Who talks of God in this place?
20:12Speak again.
20:14In the name of heaven, speak.
20:18Who are you?
20:19A prisoner.
20:20Of what country?
20:21A Frenchman.
20:23Your name?
20:24Edmond Dantès.
20:26How long have you been here?
20:28Since the 28th day of February, 1815.
20:30You're crying.
20:31I'm innocent.
20:33And you?
20:35Who are you?
20:37I am number 27.
20:40How long have you been here?
20:42Since 1804.
20:46Twenty years.
20:49All that night we worked.
20:52Then, just before dawn, a portion of the floor in my cell gave way.
20:56And from the bottom of this passage, the depth of which was impossible to measure,
21:00appeared the head, then the shoulders, and lastly, the body of a man.
21:10To this man, I owe all that I possess, all that I know, all that I've become.
21:33In the prison he was known as the Mad Priest.
21:35I never learned his name.
21:37For eight years, we saw each other every day,
21:40using the tunnel he had dug through the solid rock,
21:43concealing the mouth of the passage with stone carefully fitted in place.
21:47By the sundial he had traced on the wall of his cell, we knew the hours of the guard's visit.
21:51The rest of the day, we were together.
21:53He'd been a great scholar in his day.
21:56And all that he knew, he taught me with infinite, loving patience.
22:01Day after day.
22:03Year after year.
22:07One morning, when I came down, I found him standing in the middle of the cell.
22:11Pale as death.
22:12Quick, Dantès, quick.
22:15Listen to what I have to say.
22:16What is it, Father? Tell me, I beseech you.
22:18I'm dying.
22:19Help me to my bed.
22:21Yes, Father.
22:22You see, half of my body is paralyzed already.
22:28Careful.
22:32Thank you, my son.
22:34Now listen to me.
22:35Yes, Father.
22:36All is over with me.
22:38This night, or tomorrow, I will be dead.
22:42Oh, but Father, you can't.
22:43I know the illness.
22:45There is no hope.
22:47And I shall never leave this place now.
22:50Before I die, there is something I want to give you.
22:54Here, look.
22:58It's just a burned piece of parchment.
23:02But, my child, it is my treasure.
23:06From this day forth, it belongs to you.
23:10Your... your treasure?
23:12Oh, yes.
23:13I know what is passing through your mind at this moment.
23:17Even now, you, like... like all the others.
23:21But be assured, my child, I'm not mad.
23:25This treasure exists.
23:28Have you ever heard of the great Sparda treasure?
23:33The Sparda treasure? I've heard sailors talk of it.
23:35For ten years, I worked for the House of Sparda.
23:40That paper that you have in your hand
23:43is what is left of the will of Cardinal Sparda,
23:47murdered by Rodrigo Borgia.
23:50Now, take the paper,
23:54and put the two pieces together,
23:58On the 25th day of April, 1498,
24:00being invited to dine by His Holiness Alexander VI,
24:02and fearing for my life, I declare to my nephew,
24:05Guido Sparda, my sole heir,
24:08that I have buried in a place he knows,
24:11in a cave of the island of Monte Cristo,
24:14all that I possess of ingots, gold, monies, jewels, and diamonds,
24:19which treasure may amount to nearly ten millions of Roman crowns,
24:23which you will find in the farthest angle of the island cave,
24:26and this treasure, I bequeathed entirely to him as my sole heir,
24:31said, Her Sparda, ten million crowns.
24:35Yes, one hundred million francs of our money.
24:40Think of the good a man could do in the world
24:43with one hundred million francs.
24:46Yes.
24:48The treasure is yours, my son.
24:51I bequeath it to you.
24:53Wherever you are freed,
24:55you have only to go to the island of Monte Cristo,
25:00and it will be there for you.
25:01But I have no right to it, sir.
25:03You are my son, Dante.
25:06You are the child that God sent to console me in my captivity.
25:24Two days later, in fearful agony, he died.
25:29I closed his eyes and laid him out to rest as well as I could,
25:32and that night the governor of the prison came down to look at the boy.
25:35I watched him from my hiding place in the cell.
25:40Is he dead?
25:41He's dead, all right, Your Honor.
25:43Good.
25:44He was a priest.
25:45Get him a new assessment sign.
25:47What time shall we bury him, sir?
25:49The usual time, before dawn.
25:51And report to me when it's done.
25:53Very good, sir.
25:54When the cell was empty again, I went in.
25:56On the bed at full length and faintly lighted by the light of a single candle
25:59was visible a sack of coarse cloth,
26:01and in it was stretched a long and stiffened form.
26:05Quickly I unleashed the sack,
26:07drew out the cords of the priest,
26:09and carried it through the tunnel to my cell.
26:11I laid it on my bed, turned the head to the wall,
26:13and covered it with a sheet.
26:15For the last time I kissed the ice-cold brow.
26:18Then I went back to the dead man's cell,
26:20could hear steps in the passage and voices as the guards came back with a stretcher.
26:24Quickly I got into the sack in place of the corpse.
26:26I laced the sack around my body.
26:28I lay stiff, hoping that they would not hear the beating of my heart.
26:31Here we go.
26:33You take the head.
26:34I'll take the feet.
26:35That ain't heavy enough for an old man.
26:37Let's say every ear has half a pound of bones.
26:40All right.
26:41Up he goes.
26:43Here we go.
26:45Funny thing,
26:47you're feeling through the sack,
26:49him dead 12 hours and you're still warm.
26:52Here, hold it while I open this door.
26:55Lord, it's cold up here.
26:57This will cool him off.
26:59Have you got the weight?
27:00There it is.
27:01Tie it on, around his feet.
27:03Yeah, that's right.
27:04Tight.
27:05See if you can do it any tighter.
27:07That's all right.
27:08That'll sink him.
27:10All right, now.
27:12You ready?
27:13One.
27:15Two.
27:16Wait.
27:17Wait a minute.
27:18Get near the edge.
27:20The last one was mashed in a rock and we got the blame for it.
27:23All right.
27:24Come on, come on.
27:25Breathe me.
27:26Let's go.
27:27One.
27:29Two.
27:31Three.
27:45Four.
27:46Five.
27:47Six.
27:48Seven.
27:49Eight.
27:50Nine.
27:5110.
27:5211.
27:5312.
27:5413.
27:5514.
27:5615.
27:5716.
27:5817.
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28:1333.
28:14This is Ernest Chappell, ladies and gentlemen, welcoming you back to the Campbell Playhouse.
28:27In a moment, we shall resume our presentation of the Count of Monte Cristo.
28:32Lately, I've been speaking of the increasing numbers of good home cooks who, after years
28:36of making their own soup, have put by their kettles and are now letting Campbell's make
28:41soup for them.
28:43Tonight, I'd like you to hear from a woman who is herself one of these good home cooks.
28:47She's Mrs. Barbara Roth of 2134 24th Street, Astoria, Long Island, who has come to our
28:54studio to tell you personally what she told us in a recent letter.
28:57Will you read it now, Mrs. Roth?
29:00Ever since I can remember, we've had soup at our main meal every day.
29:04Mother and I would cook soup each Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, a two-day supply
29:10each time.
29:11It was a big job and a long cooking procedure, but Mother has always insisted we need soup
29:17every day.
29:18About six months ago, we tried our first can of Campbell's soup.
29:23Well, the decision was unanimous in favor of Campbell's.
29:26Since that time, we've enjoyed not only the good taste of Campbell's soup, but also the
29:33easy way of preparing them.
29:34So I just don't wonder at all that people are giving up soup making at home.
29:39We've tried nearly every soup that Campbell's makes and found each one such a treat, we
29:44thought you were entitled to know about it.
29:46Well, thank you, Mrs. Roth.
29:47Indeed, we do appreciate knowing about it.
29:50Certainly we at Campbell's are devoting time and care and all our skills to the making
29:54of soups worthy of a place at your table.
29:57And that's why I want to say to every other good home cook listening tonight, we'd like
30:01to make soup for you, too.
30:03If you haven't done so already, will you give us a trial?
30:06Try Campbell's chicken soup, for instance, for its deep, rich chicken flavor.
30:11Or try Campbell's vegetable soup, the soup that's practically a meal in itself.
30:15If you do this and let the fine flavor of these Campbell's soups speak for itself to
30:19you and your family, I'm almost certain you'll say, well, soup is one thing I no longer need
30:26make in my home.
30:30Now we resume our Campbell Playhouse presentation of The Counts of Monte Cristo, starring Orson
30:34Welles.
30:50In the late summer and fall of the year 1834, merchant vessels flying their trade between
30:56the south of France and the coast of western Italy arrived in port with a strange story.
31:02Some miles north of the Isle of Corsica, there was a small island known as the Island
31:08of Monte Cristo.
31:10Naked and barren, it offered no shelter for ships, no possible place for human habitation.
31:17Even the savage Barbary pirates who infested those waters were known to avoid its rock-bound,
31:22treacherous shores.
31:23From this island, a thin column of smoke was now seen rising day after day as from a fire.
31:30And a large ship was seen standing out to sea, flying no flag.
31:34On one or two occasions, when curious merchantmen attempted to approach the island, they were
31:39greeted with a cannon shot across their bows.
31:43Then one night the ship vanished.
31:46After that, there was no more smoke, and the Island of Monte Cristo remained barren and
31:53deserted as before.
32:17September 1834.
32:20There arrived in Marseille a man of about 38 or 40, of a pallor that was almost livid.
32:25He gave the impression of a man who had been enclosed for a long time in a tomb.
32:31Soon after landing, he inquired for an old man by the name of Dantes, and hearing that
32:36he had been dead for the past 14 years, he inquired for a tailor of the city called Cadarousse.
32:42My name is Cadarousse, monsieur.
32:44There are a few questions I'd like to ask you.
32:47Yes?
32:48What makes you think I can answer them and that I want to?
32:50This.
32:51Oh, thousand francs.
32:53Yes.
32:54What are you doing?
32:55I'm tearing this thousand franc note in two, my friend.
32:57One half is yours now.
32:58What's it do?
32:59The other half will be yours when you've answered my questions.
33:02Monsieur Cadarousse, in the year 1814 or 15, did you know a young sailor by the name of
33:07Dantes?
33:08Sailor?
33:09Dantes?
33:10Yes.
33:11Why do you ask?
33:12Is he alive?
33:13No.
33:14He died in prison.
33:15Died, eh?
33:16What did he die of?
33:17Strong men usually die of in prison.
33:21He died of sorrow and a broken heart.
33:23Oh, dear.
33:24And here's the strange thing.
33:25To the very end, Dantes swore he was utterly ignorant of the cause of his imprisonment.
33:29Oh, he was, poor fellow.
33:31Why do you say that?
33:32For no reason.
33:33Go on.
33:34I was with him when he died.
33:36And with his last breath, he begged me when I came to Marseilles to clear his name, and
33:40he gave me the names of the people who were his friends.
33:43There are three, he said, besides my father and the girl I was betrothed to.
33:49One of them is you, Cadarousse.
33:50He said that?
33:51The second man is a man called Danglas.
33:53Danglas?
33:54The third is a certain Fernand Mondiego.
33:56Mondiego?
33:57Yes.
33:58You know these men?
33:59Know them?
34:00Listen.
34:01I could tell you something about those two.
34:04Not that it would do much good now that he's dead.
34:06Who?
34:07That young fellow you were talking about.
34:08The sailor, Edmond Dantes.
34:09What do you mean?
34:10It wouldn't do him much good.
34:12That's what I say.
34:14Do you know who sent Dantes to prison?
34:16No.
34:17Well, I do.
34:19Two men who were jealous of him.
34:21One for love and one for ambition.
34:23And you know who they were?
34:25I'll tell you.
34:26Mondiego and Danglas.
34:28I thought they were his friends.
34:29Yes, so he thought.
34:30What did they do?
34:31They denounced him to the police as a traitor.
34:34And was he a traitor?
34:35No more than you or I.
34:37But they knew he had a letter on him from the Emperor Napoleon in exile.
34:40Something his dying captain had given him and it looked bad.
34:43Which of the two denounced him?
34:44Both.
34:45Danglas was the sharp one.
34:47He wrote the letter and Mondiego put the letter in the post.
34:50What?
34:51When was this letter written?
34:52In a cafe.
34:53The night before his wedding.
34:54How do you know?
34:55Were you there?
34:56I was at the next table.
34:57They thought I was too drunk to hear them.
34:58But I heard them.
35:00They sent the letter to the magistrate, De Villefort.
35:02De Villefort.
35:04If you knew all this when they arrested him,
35:07why didn't you speak?
35:08I was afraid, monsieur.
35:09I was afraid of what they'd do to me, those two.
35:12Danglas was the sharp one, but Mondiego was quick with his knife.
35:15Oh, often at the time I've repented it.
35:17Well, now you've told the truth at last.
35:20But Edmond Dantes is dead.
35:22He has not forgiven me.
35:24He never knew what you'd done.
35:26He knows it now.
35:28They say the dead know everything.
35:30Yes.
35:31I'm in Catarus.
35:32Another thousand francs if you tell me the truth.
35:34You say those two gave him up because they were jealous of him.
35:38That's right.
35:39Why?
35:40Why was this Danglas jealous of him?
35:42They were shipmates.
35:43Shipmates?
35:44How did you know that?
35:45You told me just now.
35:47Why was he jealous of Dantes?
35:48Danglas?
35:49Because he wanted his job.
35:51Yes.
35:52And they were mates together on the same ship.
35:54And the old captain died and the owners made young Dantes captain.
35:57Danglas never forgave him.
35:58And the other one, this Mondiego.
36:00What did he have against Dantes?
36:02A girl.
36:04A girl?
36:05Yes.
36:06A girl Dantes was engaged to marry.
36:08She was Mondiego's cousin and he wanted her too.
36:11And, well, when he got his chance to get young Dantes out of the way, he took it.
36:17I see.
36:19Now tell me.
36:21What happened to those two?
36:23Danglas and Mondiego?
36:26Do you know them still?
36:27Where in heaven's name have you been, my friend?
36:29There isn't a man in France who doesn't know them.
36:32Now, as a millionaire, has a banking house of his own.
36:34Baron Danglas, he calls himself now.
36:37And Mondiego's a baron too and a cabinet minister.
36:39And an officer of the Legion of Honor with a house in Paris a block wide.
36:43They've done pretty well for themselves, they have.
36:46And you'd think they'd remember their old friends, wouldn't you?
36:49But not they.
36:50They send the butler out with a ten-franc note.
36:52That's what they do.
36:53Now then, tell me.
36:55How about this girl Edmund Dantes was betrothed to?
36:58The girl?
36:59Mercedes?
37:00Yes.
37:02Is that the name?
37:04What happened to her?
37:05Oh, that's a sad story.
37:08When Dantes was arrested, she was nearly mad with grief.
37:11Pitiful it was.
37:12Six months went by and there was no news of him.
37:14And every day there was her mother telling her that he was dead
37:17and telling her to marry Mondiego.
37:19She used to come to see old Dantes.
37:21Edmund is dead, he said to her.
37:23If he weren't, he would have returned to us.
37:26Then the old man died and left her quite alone.
37:29Still she waited and still no word from him.
37:32Then, in the end, after a year, she married Mondiego.
37:36Now she is one of the greatest ladies in Paris.
37:39A year?
37:40She waited a year?
37:42What did you say?
37:43Nothing.
37:44Nothing.
37:46You say Edmund Dantes' father died?
37:48Yes.
37:49Soon after his son disappeared.
37:51What did he die of?
37:52Well, if you want to know what I think,
37:54he died of starvation.
37:56Starvation?
37:57He had another name for it.
37:59But I know better.
38:01He locked himself up in his room and died of starvation.
38:23Later that day the stranger appeared at the town hall
38:25asked to see the prison records for the year 1815.
38:27He obtained permission to go through the case
38:29of a certain Edmund Dantes.
38:32Imprisoned that year and subsequently reported as dead.
38:35He read the examination and record and noted with surprise
38:38that the name of Francois Noitier,
38:40to whom the fatal letter had been addressed,
38:43never once appeared in it.
38:46There was a notation in the margin which read as follows.
38:48Edmund Dantes, an inveterate criminal,
38:49be kept in complete solitary confinement
38:51and to be strictly watched and guarded.
38:54Signed Francois Noitier de Villafoy.
38:58Below in another hand was written,
39:00Prisoner killed while attempting to escape.
39:04That night the stranger left Marseilles going north.
39:24One.
39:26Two.
39:28Three.
39:30Mondiego d'Angla de Villafoy.
39:34Mondiego d'Angla de Villafoy.
39:40Ali.
39:41Yes, Master.
39:42Here are 100,000 francs.
39:43Spare no expense.
39:44Find out everything there is to know about those three.
39:47Every move they've made, every word they've said,
39:50every line they've written.
39:51Yes, Master.
39:52Find out about their homes, their wives, their children, friends.
39:55Yes, Master.
39:56Find out where they got their power,
39:57how they made their money,
39:58whom they robbed, whom they cheated,
40:00whom they murdered.
40:01Yes, Master.
40:09One day in November,
40:10Baron d'Angla, head of the banking house of that name,
40:12received a visit from a new client.
40:15I have the honor of addressing the Count of Monte Cristo.
40:17You have, Baron d'Angla.
40:19Have you been in Paris long, sir?
40:20Since this morning.
40:21I have a letter here, sir,
40:22from the firm of Thompson & French in Rome.
40:24A letter of credit in your name.
40:25Good.
40:26Then I take it beginning today,
40:27my checks will be duly honored by your house.
40:29In this letter, there is one thing not quite clear.
40:31Indeed.
40:32According to this letter,
40:33the Count of Monte Cristo is to have unlimited credit on our house.
40:36And what is there in that simple fact that requires explanation?
40:39Merely that term, unlimited.
40:41Are you suggesting that Thompson & French
40:43are not looked upon as solvent bankers?
40:45Oh, no, no, no.
40:46It was not their sovereignty I spoke of,
40:48but the word unlimited in financial affairs
40:50is so extremely vague, sir.
40:52To me, Baron, the word means exactly what it says.
40:55It means without limitation.
40:57Well, I assure you, sir, that up to the amount of a million...
41:00I beg your pardon.
41:01I assure you, should you at any time be hard-pressed,
41:04were you even to require a million francs...
41:07One million?
41:09Why, Baron,
41:11I always carry one or two million
41:13in some corner of my pocket.
41:16Expect me to call on you for ten or fifteen million
41:18on my first draft.
41:19Well, I admit I hardly mean...
41:20If you would prefer not to handle this account, Baron d'Angla,
41:22I have letters similar to yours addressed to
41:24Barings of London and Baron de Rothschild of the city.
41:27You need have no scruples in declining...
41:29I assure you, I never entertain...
41:30No, no, no.
41:31Oh, you merely wish to be convinced
41:33that your stockholders ran no risk.
41:35Nothing more.
41:36Very sound, Baron d'Angla.
41:38I understand they include some of the greatest names in France.
41:43Am I right?
41:45The Count de Montiego?
41:47The Baron de Villefort?
41:48It is not generally known that...
41:49Oh, of course, of course, of course.
41:52Now, we understand one another.
41:53I should like to draw tomorrow the sum of, shall we say,
41:55six million francs.
41:56Half gold, half notes.
41:58Six million francs?
42:00As you say...
42:01If I should require more, I'll let you know.
42:03Oh, by the way,
42:05buy me tomorrow ten thousand shares of Austrian Commonwealth.
42:08Oh, you have some information, sir, about this stock?
42:11You will find, sir, that I never gamble
42:13except in certainties.
42:18One, two, three.
42:39D'Angla, Villefort, Montiego.
42:44Ali.
42:45Yes, master.
42:46What have you found out about these men?
42:47D'Angla.
42:48D'Angla, banker.
42:49Three times bankrupt.
42:51Convicted of using charity funds.
42:53Recently suspected of plunging heavily with the funds borrowed from his own bank.
42:57Two, de Villefort.
42:58De Villefort, formerly King's agent in Marseille,
43:01where acted as Bonaparte's spire under the name of Francois Norty.
43:04Francois Norty.
43:06Known to accept bribes.
43:08At present, prosecutor general of King's Court.
43:10Said to speculate with funds borrowed from D'Angla bank.
43:13Three, Montiego.
43:15Montiego, dismissed from naval service for theft.
43:18Tried for murder 1816.
43:20Deserted French army 1824.
43:22Believed involved heavy losses.
43:24D'Angla bank.
43:25D'Angla, Villefort, Montiego.
43:31One, two, three.
43:42Gentlemen.
43:43You're late, Villefort.
43:44Thank you, D'Angla.
43:45You sent for me in court.
43:46I hope it's something good this time.
43:47We need it.
43:48Just arrived.
43:49A private message for the Count of Monte Cristo from the throne of Thompson and French from Rome.
43:52They've never been wrong yet.
43:53Does he know we intercept his messages, D'Angla?
43:55Who cares?
43:56What does it say?
43:57Read it, man.
43:58A secret treaty has been signed tonight.
43:59Anglo-Italian shares due sharp rise.
44:01Buy all available shares.
44:03Thompson and French.
44:04Well?
44:05We are going to buy.
44:06D'Angla, I'm worried.
44:07Everything we've touched has gone wrong lately.
44:08Those Belgian bonds we bought, we lost half a million on.
44:10Whose fault is that?
44:11On whose information were they bought?
44:12Can I help it, D'Angla?
44:14Our situation is desperate.
44:15We've got to plunge.
44:16We have no choice.
44:17If it were not for the Count of Monte Cristo's deposit, we'd have been bankrupt three weeks ago.
44:21Yes.
44:22You understand that.
44:23Bankrupt.
44:24That money should be called for today or tomorrow or the next day.
44:26This bank is ruined.
44:27D'Angla, I don't see what that has to do with us.
44:29You don't.
44:30You don't, eh?
44:31Well, if I go, you go.
44:33All of you.
44:34Make no mistake about that.
44:35Oh, gentlemen.
44:36What do you propose to do about this, D'Angla?
44:37I propose to buy every share of Anglo-Italian that comes into this market.
44:41With what?
44:42With what?
44:43You forget, gentlemen, that the Count of Monte Cristo has 16 million francs on deposit in this bank.
44:47Oh, yes.
44:48I see.
44:49Well, what about this message of his?
44:50Does the Count of Monte Cristo get to see it?
44:53This message, gentlemen, was lost in transmission.
45:05Buy 300 shares of Anglo-Italian.
45:08104.
45:09Sell 200 Anglo-Italian.
45:12105.
45:13110.
45:14Sell 500 Anglo-Italian.
45:17110.
45:18150.
45:19150.
45:20150.
45:21135.
45:22Sell 100 Anglo-Italian.
45:23Buy 300 shares of Anglo-Italian.
45:25130.
45:26135.
45:27Sell 100 Anglo-Italian.
45:28Buy 1,000 shares of 150.
45:30175.
45:31200.
45:32210.
45:33250.
45:34Anglo-Italian.
45:35I'll buy anything offered.
45:37Anglo-Italian.
45:38I'll buy anything offered.
45:40Anglo-Italian.
45:41I'll buy anything offered.
45:53Rarely has Paris been more intrigued than it was that winter by the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo.
45:59His wealth seemed inexhaustible.
46:03And it was said that for his carriage wheels alone, he had paid one million francs.
46:08It was at the end of December that a great ball was given by the Baron d'Angla.
46:18Count of Monte Cristo.
46:19Countess de Montiego.
46:21We have missed you.
46:23In so short a time, madame.
46:26A strange thought occurs to me.
46:28Yes, madame?
46:29It seems to me that you've been gone longer than I can say.
46:33It's an odd idea, count, but I cannot shake it off.
46:36You must think back, madame.
46:38Perhaps some half-forgotten moment in your past.
46:41My past is not forgotten.
46:43No?
46:45Then it is lost.
46:47What's lost?
46:49What have you lost?
46:51Who are you?
46:53You must forgive me, countess.
46:55I have an appointment with your husband.
46:57Tell me who you are.
46:58Madame.
47:00I am the Count of Monte Cristo.
47:03And the world is mine.
47:13Congratulations, d'Angla.
47:14I got your message.
47:15Good day's work.
47:16Tell me, how much did we buy of Anglo-Italian?
47:1962,000 shares.
47:2062,000.
47:21Yes.
47:22How much profit does that show?
47:23So far, Montiego, three million.
47:24Three million?
47:25Three million, yes.
47:26And it's only a beginning.
47:27Who is selling?
47:28That, I don't know.
47:30I couldn't find out.
47:31Madame d'Angla.
47:32Yes.
47:33The Count of Monte Cristo would like a word with you.
47:35Tell him, tell him I can't see him.
47:36Good evening, gentlemen.
47:38A charming party.
47:40I hope I do not intrude.
47:43D'Angla.
47:45De Villafoy.
47:47Montiego.
47:48How fortunate.
47:49Gentlemen, I'm here to say goodbye to all three of you.
47:51Goodbye.
47:52I have decided to leave Paris for a while, perhaps forever.
47:55Before I go, there are certain things I've left to do.
47:58Madame d'Angla, I'm in need of money.
48:00My credit on your books as of tonight is 16 million francs,
48:03plus about 4 million to cover certain stocks I sold short today.
48:07Here's a check for 10 million francs made out of cash.
48:10My carriage will be at your bank at 9 o'clock.
48:12I'll take half in gold and half in notes.
48:14But surely...
48:15I beg your pardon.
48:16Surely, sir, such a very large sum.
48:18You could conveniently wait for this money for 24 hours, or at the most, 48.
48:22I have told you, Baron d'Angla, I am leaving Paris in the morning.
48:25Oh, by the way, Baron,
48:27you will be interested to learn that less than an hour ago,
48:29Anglo-Italian went into liquidation.
48:31Liquidation?
48:33At this moment, that stock is worth less than the paper on which it is printed.
48:36The message. The message from Thompson and French.
48:38That message was sent on my instruction three days ago.
48:41You see, gentlemen, I own Thompson and French.
48:45But isn't it true about the treaty?
48:46As far as I know, Montiego, there was not any question of a treaty.
48:50It means that you three gentlemen are ruined.
48:53It means that you, d'Angla,
48:56have robbed the poor and the helpless for the last time.
49:00I'll prosecute you with it.
49:01I'll issue a warrant for your arrest.
49:03I don't think you will, Baron de Villefort.
49:06In the first place, that message was addressed to me.
49:08In the second place, since noon today,
49:10there has been in the hands of the Minister of Justice
49:11a complete record of the career of Francois Noirtier,
49:15also known as Baron de Villefort,
49:16a spy, thief, forger, informer.
49:19Who are you?
49:20Who am I, Montiego?
49:23Still you don't know?
49:26I know you very well, Fernand Montiego.
49:31And tomorrow all Paris will know you for what you are,
49:34deserter, traitor, murderer.
49:36Who are you?
49:37What have we done to you?
49:38What have you done to me?
49:41You condemned me to a slow, horrible death.
49:44You killed my father.
49:47You deprived me of love, of freedom, of happiness.
49:51What is your name?
49:52I have but to pronounce it, Montiego,
49:54to strike you to my feet.
49:58Look at me, Fernand Montiego.
50:02I am the specter of a wretch you buried
50:05in the dungeons of a chateau deif.
50:07You get it now, do you not?
50:09Or rather, you remember it?
50:12For notwithstanding all my sorrows and my tortures,
50:15I show you now a face which the happiness of revenge
50:18makes young again.
50:22A face you must often have seen in your dreams
50:24since your marriage, Fernand Montiego,
50:28with Mercedes, my betrothed.
50:31You are?
50:32Yes.
50:34I am Edmond Dantes.
50:42Countess Montiego.
50:43Yes, Tom?
50:44Your husband has been detained.
50:48There are matters of urgency which will not permit him
50:50to leave this house.
50:51May I see you to your carriage?
50:53Yes, Tom.
50:58I asked you a question.
51:01I wonder if you'll answer it.
51:03I'll answer it.
51:04I'll answer it.
51:05I'll answer it.
51:06I'll answer it.
51:07I'll answer it.
51:08I'll answer it.
51:09I'll answer it.
51:11I wonder if your answer was the truth.
51:13Madame?
51:14The girl who made you suffer,
51:16I asked if you had forgiven her.
51:19Yes.
51:21Yes, I've forgiven her.
51:23And those who separated you,
51:26do you still wish to punish them?
51:28Madame, they have been punished.
51:32But my answer is still the same.
51:35It is not I who punished them.
51:38It was their own past.
52:02This concludes our Campbell Playhouse presentation
52:05of The Accounts of Monte Cristo starring Orson Welles.
52:08In just a moment, Orson Welles will return to the microphone.
52:11Just now, I'd like another word with you
52:13on something good to eat.
52:15You know, I really believe your very first spoonful
52:17of Campbell's chicken soup will be a revelation
52:20in how fine, how deep in chicken flavor
52:23a chicken soup can be.
52:25I'm prompted to say this because I know so well
52:27from having visited Campbell's kitchen
52:30what good things are in this chicken soup
52:32and how carefully it's made.
52:34To begin with, unlike most chicken soup made at home,
52:37Campbell's use not some, but all the choice meat
52:40of selected plump chicken.
52:42But apart from this one advantage,
52:44they follow closely the old home way
52:46of making chicken soup.
52:48They simmer the broth long and slowly
52:50till every golden drop is rich with chicken flavor.
52:53And then they measure in light, fluffy rice
52:55and add tempting pieces of tender chicken meat
52:58to complete your enjoyment.
53:00Now doesn't that sound like a chicken soup you'd enjoy?
53:03I really believe it is.
53:05And so I say just as sure as you like chicken,
53:09you like Campbell's chicken soup.
53:11Have it tomorrow, won't you?
53:13And now here is Orson Welles
53:15with news of next week's story.
53:17♪♪♪
53:30Ladies and gentlemen, here it is.
53:33The native quarter known as the Casbah.
53:38As you look at it here, it's just a few lines on the map.
53:43But the reality is something stranger
53:45than anything you could have dreamed.
53:48It's only a step from the modern city to the Casbah.
53:52But when you take that step, you enter another world,
53:55a melting pot from all the sins of the earth,
53:58a crawling anthill, a jungle of houses,
54:01a labyrinth of narrow passages and winding alleys
54:04rotten with vermin and decay and the filth of centuries.
54:09No one knows what mysteries are hidden behind those walls.
54:13No one knows what crimes and hopes
54:17are buried in those secret courtyards.
54:2140,000 inhabitants from all over the world,
54:24Chinese, gypsies and Czechos, Slavs far from home,
54:28and Maltese, Negroes from every corner of Africa, Sicilians,
54:33and Spaniards, hot-blooded and quick to hate,
54:38and women, women of every age and of every shape,
54:43women caught in the net of the Casbah,
54:46a Casbah which rises like a fortress from the sea,
54:49eerie, colorful, sordid, and dangerous.
54:55There isn't just one Casbah.
54:58There are hundreds, thousands.
55:03And in that labyrinth, Pepe el Moco is at home
55:08and he's safe as long as he stays there.
55:12And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the introduction
55:14to next week's broadcast.
55:17This is what Detective Flamain tells the detective from Paris
55:22about Pepe el Moco, one of the greatest criminals
55:24the world has ever known,
55:26who found himself one of the most successful hideouts
55:29a criminal ever unearthed.
55:32The Casbah.
55:33That ought to do for the Oriental music.
55:35And now, ladies and gentlemen,
55:37the Casbah is the scene of next week's broadcast.
55:40The title, which we have neglected to mention,
55:43is the name of one of the weirdest, wildest places
55:46on the globe and one of the best romantic adventure stories
55:48ever put on the screen.
55:51Algiers.
55:53You remember it from the French picture
55:55and from Walter Wenger's wonderful American picture.
55:58Our guest next week, the lovely Paulette Goddard.
56:03Please join us.
56:04Until then, until next Sunday night,
56:07until the Casbah and Pepe el Moco,
56:10at the same time, my sponsors, the makers of Campbell Soups
56:13and all of us on the Campbell Playhouse,
56:15remain as always obediently yours.
56:44In tonight's Campbell Playhouse production
56:48at the Count of Monte Cristo,
56:50Orton Wells played the part of Edmund Dante,
56:52the Count of Monte Cristo.
56:54The part of Cadrus was played by Ray Collins.
56:56Everett Sloan was the Abifaria.
56:59Frank Reddick was Vufo and George Coloris was Dangla.
57:03The part of Mondiego was played by Edgar Barrier
57:06and that of a jailer by Richard Wilson.
57:09Agnes Moorhead played Mercedes.
57:12The music for the Campbell Playhouse
57:13is arranged and directed by Bernard Herman.
57:19The makers of Campbell Soups join Orton Wells
57:21in inviting you to be with us at the Campbell Playhouse again
57:24next Sunday evening
57:26when we bring you our adaptation
57:27of that colorful and successful motion picture story
57:30Algiers with Orton Wells and Paulette Goddard.
57:34Remember, Campbell Playhouse next Sunday evening.
57:38Meanwhile, if you have enjoyed tonight's presentation,
57:41won't you tell your grocer so tomorrow
57:43when you order Campbell's Chicken Soup?
57:45This is Ernest Chappell saying thank you and good night.
57:51This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
58:08.