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Directed by Robert Stevens and starring Lilli Palmer, Donald Briggs, King Calder and young Eva Marie Saint (101 this year!).
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00:00Now, Autolite and its 96,000 dealers everywhere present Suspense.
00:30That's it, the Buzz O'Keefe strip, the one my husband draws.
00:57Everybody knows that I was the original model for the girl Juliet.
01:01You know, the one that's about to be murdered?
01:03But no one, that is no one except you and I and the murderer, of course, knows that tonight my death is planned too.
01:16You don't believe me?
01:18Do you think perhaps that living with a comic strip artist is giving me an overactive imagination?
01:24Mrs. Stetson, I'm here to find out the facts and to see that you're protected.
01:29That's a polite way of saying that you don't believe me.
01:32No, no, I wouldn't say that.
01:34Well, I don't wonder that if you had lived in the world of Buzz O'Keefe as I have, you wouldn't be surprised at anything.
01:41For nine years I've lived with this comic strip, one bloody tale, one gory episode after another,
01:49until I could scream at the sight of a drawing board or a newspaper.
01:54I'm sick of it!
01:55But I'm frightened too.
02:01Mark's murders are so messy.
02:03His fans love blood and pistol shots and poison and then spiked doors and charred bones.
02:12And acid.
02:15To them it's just something in a newspaper.
02:18But to me it's real.
02:19Look here, Mrs. Stetson, you'd better give me the facts about all this.
02:25It's pretty close to a level now, and if you really think your life is in danger...
02:30Oh, but it is.
02:31I'll tell you the whole story.
02:33I mentioned to you, didn't I, that I was the original model for Juliet?
02:37Well, my husband has begun to act as if I were Juliet.
02:44Juliet has to die because Mark's fans demand another gory murder.
02:48And I had to die because...
02:53Well, I think I'd better tell you first about John Slater.
02:56John and Mark are business associates in the Buzz O'Keefe strip.
03:00I well remember the night Buzz O'Keefe was born, nine years ago,
03:05on our first wedding anniversary.
03:07Well, darling.
03:24You having fun?
03:25Oh, darling.
03:27Well, we shouldn't have come here.
03:28It's much too expensive.
03:29So, by the way, before John comes back, I wanted to ask how you like him.
03:33Oh, I like him, and I think he's giving you some very good advice.
03:37It's a shame that anyone as talented as you should go on like this,
03:42never getting an opportunity to show what he could do.
03:45Now, now, now.
03:46You're much too lovely to be talking about business.
03:49Oh, I see.
03:49I should have stayed out a little longer.
03:52Julia, this is for you.
03:54One year married, one flower.
03:57Oh, thank you, John.
03:58Where is that waiter?
04:00I ordered fresh drinks half an hour ago.
04:01Never mind the drinks.
04:03We've got some very serious conversation to finish.
04:06Namely, how Mark Stetson can make a lot of money.
04:09Oh, just a little money.
04:10We don't have expensive taste.
04:12Well, we might as well make a lot of money when we're about it.
04:14Now, how about my newspaper idea?
04:18You know, comic strips make a pile of dough once they catch on.
04:20Oh, we tried that.
04:22But they don't seem to like Mark's sense of humor.
04:24Forget the humor.
04:25Let's get up a good blood chiller.
04:28About a detective, maybe.
04:30A guy who's always getting in a tough spot and getting out of them again.
04:33Crime.
04:34Bloody of the better.
04:36Oh, I say crime doesn't pay.
04:37Maybe it does in comic strips.
04:39I don't know if I could.
04:40Well, I see that he does, John, if I have to stand over him with a clock.
04:44Oh, what a girl.
04:45Now, let's see about our detective.
04:49Let's give him a good Irish name.
04:51Now, will it be O'Brien O'Keefe?
04:54Uh-uh.
04:54I'll take O'Keefe.
04:55I had a dentist once named O'Brien.
04:58Oh, what about calling him Buzz, huh?
05:01Kind of a busy-sounding name.
05:03Buzz O'Keefe, yeah.
05:05Yeah, Buzz O'Keefe is wonderful.
05:07Now we can have those drinks.
05:09Waiter?
05:10Yes, sir.
05:11Waiter?
05:11We'd like to order a very choice bottle of champagne.
05:15We're drinking a toast to Buzz O'Keefe.
05:17You don't know who he is now, but you will.
05:19You'll know him soon enough.
05:24Look at that.
05:25Oh, I always read Buzz O'Keefe.
05:28Something in the way they draw Buzz that reminds me of my eldest son.
05:33You know, the one in the station at Manila.
05:36Oh, I wouldn't even buy that if there weren't a lot of tea.
05:42Hey, look at old Buzz today.
05:44He and Doris are really in a jam.
05:46They're locked in a cellar and it's all filling up with mustard gas.
05:49What a guy.
05:52I wish I could do stuff like that.
05:53Hey, hey, get him busy, will you?
05:55Yeah, yeah, yeah, Buzz.
05:57Yeah, sure.
06:04That's the key.
06:07Very interesting.
06:09Cheap and sensational, of course.
06:11Very bad psychologically, but interesting.
06:16Very interesting.
06:19Well, that takes me through next week.
06:35Oh, that's good, darling.
06:36Then you could have a little relaxation.
06:38Tell you what.
06:39Let's go out to dinner tonight and maybe a show.
06:42Ah, no such luck.
06:44I've got to figure out what to do with Buzz.
06:46Right now, he's 50 stories up in the air,
06:48hanging by one slim rope with concrete head
06:51preparing to wield a villainous knife.
06:54For once, just for once.
06:56Couldn't we think of ourselves
06:57and not about Buzz O'Keefe and concrete head?
07:01I know it's hard on you, darling.
07:03Well, never mind.
07:04Oh, but I do, I do.
07:06There's no reason why you shouldn't get some fun out of life.
07:08Well, how can I with you working so hard?
07:11Francie, take my advice.
07:13Never marry an artist.
07:15Well, I'm hoping to be one myself someday, Mrs. Stetson.
07:17Well, in that case,
07:19when you get married,
07:20I shall warn your husband in advance.
07:23Yeah?
07:25Oh, John.
07:26Uh-huh.
07:26Oh, no, no.
07:28We can't go.
07:30Well, that is, I can't.
07:31But there's no reason why Julius couldn't.
07:33Oh, no, Mark.
07:34I don't want to go out without you.
07:35Maybe I can meet you later for dinner.
07:37Uh-uh.
07:37John, she says she'd be delighted to go.
07:40Uh-huh.
07:41You can call by in half an hour.
07:42Goodbye.
07:43Oh, Mark, I really don't want to go.
07:45Well, of course you do.
07:46Now you run along and get yourself ready.
07:48Francie and I have a lot of work to do.
07:50All right.
07:51But try and come, will you?
07:53Of course.
07:54Anything wrong, Mr. Stetson?
08:07Well, Francie, you know there are times
08:08when I'd like to go out, too.
08:10Have a little fun.
08:11I should think you would.
08:12Everybody feels that way.
08:14Maybe.
08:15But not everybody has a responsibility like mine.
08:19Some people can go out,
08:21amuse themselves,
08:21go to cocktail parties.
08:24and others have to stay home
08:26and work.
08:35That was a mistake, Mr. Henley.
08:38Because after that,
08:40I started to go out with John Slater.
08:42It was all Mark's idea.
08:44I don't know what drove him to do it.
08:47Supreme egotism or some kind of twisted jealousy or...
08:53But I was sick of Buzz O'Keefe
08:56and what he was doing to my life.
08:59And I guess I was sick of Mark, too.
09:03Mrs. Stetson, you feel all right?
09:05Yes, it's just that my hay fever gets very bad
09:09at this time of the year.
09:10I see.
09:11Tell me, uh,
09:13what, uh,
09:14what did Slater think about all this?
09:17Oh, I don't know.
09:19I don't think he thought at all.
09:21But he was only human,
09:22and he was attracted to me.
09:25Mm-hmm.
09:26And, uh,
09:28what, uh,
09:29what about you?
09:32I fell in love with him, Mr. Henley.
09:35But at first,
09:36I didn't mean any harm.
09:38I just got used to meeting John,
09:41seeing him,
09:43places.
09:49Now, uh,
09:50don't rush us.
09:51We want to take plenty of time
09:53to enjoy these drinks.
09:54Owen, uh,
09:55you might tell him to go
09:57just a little easy on the garlic.
09:58Yes.
09:58You know, last week
09:59there was just a little bit too much.
10:00Yes, Reverend,
10:01and...
10:01Right, right here.
10:07Cheers, my darling.
10:09Cheers.
10:09Here's two outs.
10:12You shouldn't have said that.
10:14That wasn't said
10:15with a great deal of conviction.
10:16Well, maybe it isn't,
10:17but I'm trying, John.
10:19I'm trying very hard.
10:20To do what?
10:22Hold on to Mark.
10:23Julia, there's nothing there.
10:26He's not a man.
10:28He's a drawing pencil
10:30with a brain behind it.
10:32Maybe not so much of a brain either.
10:34Darling, think of the many ideas
10:35we've given him,
10:35you and I.
10:36Maybe we have, but...
10:37He's welcome to them.
10:42He's welcome to anything he wants
10:43except me.
10:44Well, haven't I met you
10:50charming people
10:50somewhere before?
10:53Looks pretty much the same,
10:55doesn't it?
10:56Only there were three places then.
10:58Now there are only two.
11:00Here, I'll finish this for you.
11:02You never were much of a drinker.
11:03I'll say that for you.
11:05Drinking is one vice
11:06you've escaped.
11:08Oh, I'd better shove off
11:09a little later than I thought.
11:11That's very true, John, old boy.
11:13It's very true.
11:14It's much later than you think.
11:17Well, goodbye.
11:21I'm sorry, Mark.
11:22I didn't...
11:22You didn't mean for me
11:24to come walking in, did you?
11:25No, of course not.
11:27But I couldn't help but knowing
11:28I've been watching you
11:30all this time.
11:31And why did you let it happen?
11:33Why did you throw us together?
11:35Oh, so it's my fault.
11:36Yes, yes, it is in a way.
11:37Oh, you know what it's been
11:39these last few years, Mark.
11:40You haven't paid any attention
11:42to me or to anybody else
11:44except Buzz O'Keefe.
11:45So not for Buzz
11:46is to blame for it all.
11:47Let's go home.
11:48I suppose you'd like me
11:48to get rid of him.
11:49Let's go home, Mark.
11:51John was talking about
11:52that sale to McLean's,
11:53wasn't he?
11:54What?
11:55You mean you don't know
11:55that McLean features
11:56have made us an author
11:57for Buzz O'Keefe?
11:58No, he didn't tell me.
12:00Well, I have.
12:01And he will.
12:03And that's a lot of money.
12:04John wants me to take it,
12:06but I don't.
12:07Because Buzz O'Keefe
12:08belongs to me.
12:10He's mine.
12:11I don't care about that, Mark.
12:12All I know is
12:13that I've been terribly unhappy
12:15and I don't think
12:16there's a chance for us anymore.
12:19Let's give up now.
12:20Before it,
12:21before we begin
12:22to hate each other.
12:24Why, I couldn't think
12:25of letting you go, Julia.
12:27You see,
12:28I may want to kill you.
12:31You've been drinking, Mark.
12:33I don't think
12:34you understood me.
12:36I said I can't think
12:37of letting you go
12:38because I may want to kill you.
12:42Shall we have a service now, sir?
12:44Why not?
12:45Excuse me.
12:49Downing.
12:50Yes, sir.
12:51Do you read Buzz O'Keefe?
12:53Why, yes, sir.
12:54I do every morning.
12:55Well, my wife and I
12:57are great Buzz O'Keefe fans, too.
12:59What do you say
13:00we take a look
13:01at today's strip?
13:02Eh?
13:03Yes.
13:03Well,
13:04it looks like
13:05that Von Sewell
13:06is getting some ideas
13:07with that acid, eh?
13:08What do you think?
13:09Eh, well, I think, eh,
13:11well, I guess everybody knows
13:13Juliet's going to get bumped off.
13:14Oh, really?
13:16Is that what all the
13:17Buzz O'Keefe fans
13:19are saying?
13:19Well, sure.
13:20We were talking about it
13:21in the kitchen
13:21just a little while ago.
13:22Were you now?
13:23Yeah.
13:24Well, what do they think?
13:25That Juliet ought to be
13:27bumped off, as you say?
13:29Well, sure.
13:30she deserves it,
13:31a dame like that.
13:32She deserves it.
13:35You see?
13:37That's the verdict.
13:39And that's the way
13:40it'll have to be.
13:41And now, here is
13:57the second act of
13:58the comic strip murder.
14:02That's how it is,
14:03Mr. Henry.
14:04My husband,
14:06my own husband,
14:07plans to kill me
14:08as calmly
14:09as if he were planning
14:11to kill Juliet
14:12at the comic strip.
14:14And tomorrow morning,
14:15all those fools
14:15are going to buy
14:16a newspaper
14:16and read about
14:18the murder of Juliet
14:18in the comic strip.
14:20And I don't want them
14:21to turn the page
14:21and read about
14:22my death, too.
14:23Mrs. Stetson,
14:25why haven't you
14:26taken any steps
14:27to protect yourself?
14:28You're still here,
14:29living in the same apartment
14:30with your husband?
14:31Because I know
14:31that I am perfectly safe
14:33until tonight.
14:34I shan't die
14:35until Juliet dies.
14:37And Juliet is still alive.
14:39See?
14:41And even if I were
14:42to go somewhere else
14:43tonight,
14:44I don't want to live
14:45the rest of my life
14:46in fear.
14:47Listen to what happened
14:48a few days ago
14:49when I came
14:50to our apartment.
15:01in the back, darling?
15:08Yes.
15:09Where have you been?
15:10Just out.
15:12With John?
15:14No.
15:15Here, come in and look.
15:17Something I want
15:18to show you.
15:22Oh, the background.
15:23It's Juliet's new apartment.
15:25Notice anything about it?
15:27Looks rather like
15:27our apartment.
15:28Well, of course,
15:29I've drawn it
15:29exactly like our apartment.
15:30and the terrace, too.
15:31I don't think I like
15:32the idea of our apartment
15:33in the papers.
15:34Well, that'll be silly, darling.
15:35Why should I overwork
15:36my imagination
15:36when there's a perfectly
15:37good model to copy?
15:39Look, here's the terrace
15:40and here's our fish pond.
15:42Looks rather larger
15:43than ours.
15:43Oh, no.
15:44Did you ever measure
15:44our fish pond?
15:45No.
15:45I did.
15:46It's five and a half feet long,
15:47two feet wide
15:48and 18 inches deep.
15:49Really?
15:50Yes.
15:50You know, it struck me.
15:52Looks rather like a coffin,
15:54don't you think so?
15:55No.
15:56Looks just like
15:57a fish pond to me.
15:58Where's your imagination, darling?
15:59Well, I haven't any.
16:01You're the artist.
16:02You'll be glad to hear
16:03I've been hard at work
16:04getting a few days ahead.
16:05Oh, that's good.
16:06Yes, I thought
16:07you'd be pleased,
16:08you and John.
16:10Oh, I have several days
16:12of thrill, dear.
16:13A real treat
16:14for my idiotic public.
16:16Juliet's murder
16:17is finally accomplished.
16:20Oh?
16:21Yes.
16:23By a very ingenious method.
16:25Now, it seemed to me
16:26that the most awful thing
16:27that anybody could do
16:28to a woman like Juliet
16:29would be
16:29disfigurement.
16:31Something to change her
16:33from a beauty
16:33into something horrible.
16:35So you remember the acid?
16:37Well, in the script,
16:38we discovered
16:38that it wasn't Von Soole
16:39after all
16:40who sent the acid-filled
16:41wine bottles to Juliet.
16:43It was her husband.
16:44I didn't know
16:45Juliet had a husband.
16:46She didn't.
16:47I've had him appear
16:48suddenly from abroad.
16:49that looks a little
16:50like me,
16:51don't you think so?
16:52No, I think
16:53you're much better looking.
16:55Only in your eyes, darling.
16:58Now, here's the beginning
16:59of the actual murder
17:00that will take about
17:01three days of strips.
17:03The husband is planning
17:04to stab Juliet.
17:06I mean Juliet,
17:08with a hypodermic needle.
17:09Now, I don't know
17:10exactly what's in the hypodermic,
17:11but we can assume
17:12that it's something
17:12to quiet it down
17:13so that he can proceed
17:15with the rest of his plan.
17:16Then what is this plan?
17:18this figment
17:19will utilize
17:20the fish pond,
17:21you see.
17:22Acid poured
17:23into the fish pond.
17:24Very hard on the fish.
17:27Oh, where's Buzz?
17:28Oh, Buzz,
17:28he's been trapped
17:29by the hyena woman
17:30down at the bottom
17:30of an old well,
17:31so I don't think
17:32you'll ever be able
17:32to save Juliet.
17:34Now, this isn't finished,
17:35but I think it's going
17:36to be a real masterpiece.
17:38Here the husband
17:39tenderly kisses
17:41Juliet on the forehead
17:43before putting on
17:44his white gloves.
17:46You see?
17:47And then he gently
17:50lowers her
17:51into the acid-filled fish pond,
17:54and she can't move
17:55a finger to stop him.
17:56Mr. Stetson?
17:57Yes?
17:57The boy from the newspaper
17:58is here.
17:59He'd like to have
17:59as much as he can,
18:00at least a strip
18:01for tomorrow morning.
18:02Right.
18:02Thank you very much.
18:04Now,
18:05this last panel here
18:07is really the best.
18:09In this strip,
18:11we see the husband
18:12calmly lighting
18:14a cigarette,
18:15a faint smile
18:16on his lips
18:17as he watches
18:18what is happening
18:19in the fish pond.
18:21Of course,
18:21we can't actually
18:22show that.
18:22There's a limit
18:23to even what my
18:24bloodthirsty public
18:25will take,
18:26but we can't imagine
18:27it, can't we?
18:28We can imagine
18:30what's happening
18:30in the fish pond.
18:32We can imagine
18:34it's not going
18:41to be Bonsu
18:41after all.
18:43It's the husband.
18:44It's Juliet's husband.
18:46He's the one
18:47she'd better
18:47be careful about.
18:49You know,
18:49it was kind of like
18:50that when my
18:51youngest son
18:52came back
18:52from the Navy
18:53and he found
18:54his wife.
18:56That's Juliet.
18:57She's sure
18:58in a spot.
18:59She's going to
19:00get hers
19:00pretty soon now.
19:02That serves
19:03her right.
19:04Maybe I should
19:07have done
19:07something like
19:08that to Rita.
19:10Said I reckon
19:11I'd get away
19:11with it.
19:13Yeah.
19:14Maybe I would.
19:17Really frightful,
19:18this sort of thing.
19:19Cheap,
19:20disgusting,
19:21morbid,
19:22trashy,
19:22I think.
19:24But after all,
19:26who am I to talk?
19:27I keep reading it,
19:29don't I?
19:29everything is ready,
19:35Mr. Henley.
19:36There's a large
19:37tin of acid
19:38on the terrace
19:39behind the plants.
19:40Here, I'll show you.
19:41Not now,
19:41Mrs. Stetson.
19:43Your husband
19:43will do back
19:44any minute.
19:44Oh, Mr. Henley,
19:45I'm so terrified.
19:46Then,
19:47maybe you'd better
19:48go to a hotel
19:49for tonight, huh?
19:50No.
19:51No,
19:51I want you to see
19:52that everything
19:53I told you is true,
19:54that he plans
19:55to kill me
19:55in this floor,
19:56just for...
19:57Hello?
20:06Oh, it's for you,
20:07Mr. Henley.
20:07Oh, thanks.
20:08Yes?
20:10Uh-huh.
20:11Uh-huh.
20:13Right.
20:14Your husband's
20:15on his way up.
20:16Now, don't be afraid,
20:17I'll be right here.
20:22Oh, Julia.
20:23I stopped off
20:24to do a little shopping
20:25that's why I'm late.
20:28Flowers?
20:29Oh, this is just a sample.
20:30Remember that little man
20:31down at the end of the block?
20:32I practically brought him out.
20:34I thought we should
20:34have flowers here tonight.
20:36Lots of flowers.
20:37This is a very special night.
20:39Why is it special?
20:41Surprise.
20:42Come and arrange
20:43the flowers, darling.
20:49But there's something
20:50we have to do first.
20:53Now, Julia,
20:54this isn't anything new.
20:55we've been over it all
20:55before.
20:56You should be past
20:56being frightened by now.
20:58Give me a run.
20:58No, no.
20:59Julia, you know
21:00it has to be done.
21:00It has to be done.
21:01No, no.
21:01No, you're trying
21:02to kill me.
21:03No.
21:04Give me that gun.
21:05Give me that gun.
21:07Julia, what's the matter
21:08with you?
21:08You lost your mind?
21:09You crazy.
21:09who are you?
21:13Detective Hanley.
21:15I'm sorry,
21:15Mr. Stetson.
21:16I didn't know
21:16there was a gun about it.
21:19Mrs. Stetson,
21:20I arrest you
21:21for the attempted
21:22murder of your husband.
21:26What did you say?
21:27I arrest you
21:28for the attempted
21:29murder of your husband.
21:30No!
21:33I wouldn't do that,
21:34Mrs. Stetson.
21:37Tell me.
21:39Do you know
21:40what's in that?
21:41I hate fever injections.
21:43I always give them
21:44to Julia
21:44about this time of year.
21:45I think if we had
21:46it analyzed,
21:47we'd find that
21:47there's some sort
21:48of opium.
21:49Something your wife
21:50put in there
21:51in place of the medicine.
21:52That's exactly
21:53what was happening
21:54to Julia
21:55in the Buzzle Key Strip.
21:56Right.
21:57And if you look
21:58behind those plants
21:59out on the terrace,
21:59I think you'll find
22:00a similar touch.
22:02The five-gallon
22:03tin of acid.
22:04Well, why would Julia
22:05do a thing like that?
22:05Your wife had plenty
22:06of reasons,
22:07Mr. Stetson.
22:08She knew that you'd
22:09never give her a divorce
22:10to marry Slater.
22:11And you wouldn't
22:12consent to the proposed
22:13sale of the Buzzle Key Strip.
22:14out of which
22:15they could have
22:15made a lot of money.
22:17So she arranged
22:18things very cleverly
22:19to make it appear
22:20that you had planned
22:21to commit this
22:21crazy murder.
22:22That's ridiculous.
22:24And the plot
22:24for that whole sequence
22:25about the murder
22:26of Juliet.
22:28Julia gave me
22:29that story.
22:30Right.
22:31And the best part
22:32of all was
22:33telling the story
22:33to me.
22:35If I had believed it,
22:36and if you had
22:37succeeded in killing him,
22:39it would have been
22:40a clear case of
22:40self-defense
22:41with me as a witness.
22:44What's that?
22:45Must be the surprise party.
22:47What surprise party?
22:49It's 12 o'clock,
22:50your wedding anniversary.
22:51Had you forgotten?
22:54Oh.
22:56Was that what you,
22:57what you found out
22:58on the telephone?
22:59My man downstairs
23:00told me that the guests
23:01were arriving,
23:02but your husband
23:03had them detained
23:04until midnight.
23:05A man who's going
23:06to murder his wife
23:07doesn't arrange
23:09a surprise party for
23:10to take place
23:10at the same hour
23:11as the murder.
23:12Very clever.
23:13Very clever.
23:16You know, Mark,
23:17Mr. Henley
23:18is a kind of
23:19elderly buzzer keep,
23:20huh?
23:21Only he made a mistake.
23:23Instead of,
23:23instead of saving Juliet,
23:25he saved the husband.
23:27Well,
23:29that's the end
23:30of this secret, huh?
23:31I think we'd better
23:33go out the back way.
23:35Yes.
23:36Yes, I agree.
23:37Happy anniversary.
23:45Happy anniversary.
23:45C'est parti.
24:15On the radio.
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