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Inner Sanctum Mystery, also known as Inner Sanctum, is a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952. It was created by producer Himan Brown and was based on the imprint given to the mystery novels of Simon & Schuster.
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00:28The End
00:30I was accidentally the other day, over at the city morgue, and Joe's been haunting me ever soon.
00:37I can't get over the smug way he deadpanned me, and then gave me the old cold shoulder routine.
00:45I don't want to cry, baby, but I dug down plenty time and again to keep Joe from going under.
00:51But no gratitude, no gratitude at all from Joe.
00:56Mister, I'm finished with Joe for kicks.
01:06Tonight's inter-sanctum mystery, Murder Takes a Honeymoon, was written by John Robert,
01:10and stars Everett Sloan in the role of George, with Ann Shepard as Mary.
01:18And now for tonight's free lesson in how to improve your scream.
01:25Ever get that folksy, woodsy feeling until you're in an absolute frenzy to get away from it all and go
01:32native?
01:35Well, our honeymooning couple tonight got the urge, until they found that living in the country was simply murder.
01:43To rhyme it, our twosomes found it positively gruesome.
01:50Stand by, and we'll demonstrate.
01:54We're on a milk train somewhere in the east, huffing through the rock and rubble of desolated whistle-stop country.
02:01The yellow train lights blink eerily.
02:04The hour is sometime between night and morning.
02:07One car holds just a young couple.
02:09They huddle closely, half asleep, as the train groans into another of its interminable stops.
02:16Now, Ravenwood, entering Ravenwood, let's stop Loewiston, Ravenwood!
02:23George, I heard him say Loewiston, please.
02:27No, Ravenwood, Loewiston is next.
02:30Oh, there must be a million of these one-horse towns.
02:35What's eating here, Mary?
02:38You look like you've just been declared an orphan.
02:41I feel like an orphan, George.
02:43It's cold, I'm hungry.
02:46So far from home.
02:48We're heading home, kid.
02:50At the next stop, there's a farm.
02:52More land than you can cover in a day, and it's all yours.
02:55Wedding gift from me to you.
02:58I'm sorry, but the country's not for me.
03:02I'm a big city girl.
03:03Oh, give it a try, huh?
03:05Come on, smile.
03:08George, I'm frightened.
03:11Of me?
03:12I don't know.
03:13You've suddenly changed.
03:15Buying a farm, packing up without warning, leaving New York.
03:20It's all in such a hurry.
03:22I'm an impulsive kid.
03:24That's how I married you, remember?
03:25I dated you blind, waltzed you around once, and boom.
03:28On an impulse, I hustled you to city hall.
03:31I bought the farm the same way.
03:32The way it happened, it's as if you were running away from something.
03:36Running to something, kid.
03:38I'm tired of the creeps and the phonies and the crumbs.
03:41I'm tired of stale beer, cheap movies, and crowds.
03:45Ah, okay, skip it.
03:47I'm thirsty.
03:49You want me to fetch you a drink?
03:50No, thanks.
03:51All right, I'll be back in a minute.
03:54Oh, George.
03:59George.
04:00Hey, watch it.
04:03George.
04:04Hey, you've got the jitters.
04:07There was a hand out there in the darkness.
04:10It's reaching toward me through the window.
04:13Ah, kid, your imagination's gone crazy.
04:16You're overtired.
04:17George, look.
04:18What's that?
04:19An envelope.
04:21Someone dropped it on my lap.
04:23Fell to the floor.
04:24Give it to me.
04:28What does it say?
04:30A crank note.
04:31Some country idiot's playing black hands.
04:34Let me read it.
04:36We don't like strangers in Lewiston.
04:39Especially New Yorkers.
04:41Better be smart and read the train schedule back.
04:45There's a return train schedule attached, George.
04:49Oh, you look as if you're already on that train back.
04:52You scare easy, huh?
04:54How did anyone know we were coming?
04:55Well, that's easy.
04:56The real estate man who sold me Rain Tree Farms
04:58no doubt stuck the item in the local papers.
05:01Ah, come on.
05:02And shrug it off as a crackpot practical joke.
05:05A joke?
05:07You really want me to believe that someone drove ten miles
05:10in the middle of the night to warn us off?
05:12Just to be funny?
05:17I'm laughing.
05:27Come on, Mary.
05:28Grab that other suitcase.
05:30Come on, step on it, kid.
05:32Watch your step.
05:33All right.
05:34Easy, does it.
05:36There we are.
05:38It's so deserted, George.
05:40Yeah, everybody's asleep.
05:42Well, what do we do?
05:43Come on, we'll camp under that station shed.
05:45It's nine miles out to Rain Tree Farms
05:47and we'll need somebody to drive us there.
05:49I may do that.
05:51Oh.
05:51Drive you out.
05:53Been waiting half the night for you.
05:56Who are you?
05:57Ben.
05:58Ben Myers.
06:00Busy is parked to the side of that shack.
06:03You said you've been waiting for me.
06:05I did.
06:07I'm your neighbor.
06:09The shack's just around the bend from Rain Tree Farms.
06:12I thought you and the lady would be glad not to spend the night in the weather.
06:15Ah, we're glad, all right.
06:17But how did you know we were coming?
06:20I read in the papers you bought the old place.
06:22But why tonight?
06:23Why not last night or tomorrow?
06:26How did you know I was coming tonight?
06:29I've been waiting last night.
06:31If you didn't come tonight, I'd watch for you tomorrow.
06:35The time ain't worth it leaking bucket.
06:38You coming?
06:39Yeah, sure.
06:41Come on, Mary.
06:45Here's a visit, son.
06:47Pray to light my pipe and we'll be going.
06:51Bring your face to the light, son.
06:54I've seen you before, ain't I?
06:58I don't think so.
07:00You never been around Rain Tree Farms?
07:02No, I've never seen the place.
07:05Funny you should buy it, Ben.
07:16Nobody's tried living in Rain Tree Farms now in two years.
07:20Why?
07:22Some say that it's haunted.
07:25Some say there's a black curse in the house.
07:28You keep asking questions, kid.
07:30He'll have you seeing ghosts coming out of the chimney.
07:32Why not ghosts, son, but corpses?
07:37Courts.
07:39The last couple that tried living in Rain Tree Corners lay dead in the parlor floor.
07:45I seen them with my own eyes.
07:49Dead.
07:51Nobody ever found out what killed them.
07:58Another mile to Rain Tree Farms, folks.
08:02Go on, kid.
08:03Grab yourself 40 winks.
08:05I can't.
08:06I'd dare and close my eyes.
08:09George, what was that?
08:11Stop the car.
08:12It was a bullet.
08:14Someone put a hot shot at me.
08:16Missed you by inches.
08:17Check.
08:17Almost a bullseye.
08:19Somebody's no slouch with a rifle.
08:22What's the angle on this, Myers?
08:24Can't say.
08:26Except that shooting comes naturally to these parts.
08:30This is hunting country.
08:32In the middle of the night, in the dark?
08:34Oh, night's light enough for shooting.
08:36Folks around here'd rather shoot than sleep.
08:39I'm not swallowing that.
08:40Somebody tried to kill me.
08:43That's a pretty big idea, son.
08:45Yeah, well, the idea's even bigger.
08:47I figure maybe someone waited along that road in ambush and you fingered me.
08:53Maybe that's why you waited around all hours at the depot.
08:56You were to drive me to my murder.
09:06Here they are, folks.
09:08Rain Tree Farms.
09:10The house is up that walk.
09:12All right.
09:13Hand me the luggage, Mary.
09:14Yes.
09:15Thanks for the lift.
09:17Your young man ain't thanking me.
09:21His head's busy turning with big ideas.
09:24Goodbye, son.
09:26I'll be coming around, Mappy.
09:28There's some more of your big ideas.
09:30Look, if I ever see you around here, I'll shoot you full of holes on sight.
09:34For Crespassin'.
09:46George.
09:47Yeah?
09:48About that shot on the road coming here, why would anyone want to murder you?
09:54You're a stranger.
09:55To keep me away from Rain Tree Farms, I guess.
09:57Why?
09:58If you own it.
10:00Why?
10:00It's a big letter, kid.
10:02George, you're concealing something.
10:05Who are you?
10:08George Stretch.
10:09Your husband.
10:10A stranger to me until ten days ago.
10:13Who are you, really?
10:15Oh, look, kid.
10:16You're letting some local crackpot give you the willies.
10:19Mary.
10:20A guy said something about for better or for worse just before I slipped a ring on your finger.
10:25Was it all a lot of idle talk?
10:28No, George.
10:30I meant it deep down.
10:33I'm sorry.
10:34That's more like it.
10:35What do you say we forget the spooked stuff and hit the sack, huh?
10:38Coming?
10:39Mm-hmm.
10:41Boy, this joint sure needs a loving touch.
10:44And a coat of paint.
10:46Well, now to find the key.
10:50Uh-uh.
10:51Wrong key.
10:52The real estate office mailed me five different keys.
10:57George.
10:58Now what?
10:59Somebody's inside.
11:00I see a moving light.
11:02Yeah.
11:03And footsteps coming to the door.
11:07What are you after, mister?
11:09Well, I...
11:10I was trying to get in.
11:13What's the shotgun for?
11:15Protection.
11:17You need it.
11:18Yeah.
11:20I've seen you somewhere before, haven't I?
11:23No, you haven't.
11:25I've never been...
11:26somewhere.
11:28Who are you?
11:29I'm George Stretch.
11:31This is my wife.
11:32We're the new owners.
11:33Who are you?
11:34Parker.
11:35Willis Parker.
11:37I mean, what are you doing here?
11:39Squatting.
11:40You broke in.
11:42No.
11:42I moved in.
11:45Just like that?
11:46Uh-huh.
11:47Banned in place.
11:49Loaded down with county tax warrants.
11:53I bought a tax warrant and I'm in.
11:55I don't get it.
11:57Squatting's right.
11:58Go see a lawyer.
12:00What?
12:00You mean you won't get out?
12:01That's right.
12:03On what ground?
12:04Look, fella.
12:05Right now I've got possession of the premises.
12:08That's a big chunk of the law around here.
12:11And I'm not going to stand out here in the dark arguing it out with you.
12:15Now, beat it, fella.
12:16And take your police with Anne the dame.
12:19You're trespassing.
12:20Now, this is a trick to turn me back.
12:21All right.
12:22Who are I going with you?
12:23Stop moving.
12:24The next one goes right in your bread basket, fella.
12:27And kick, go on.
12:30Mary.
12:30Yes, George.
12:31Head for the deep shadows and then drop to your knees and flatten out quick.
12:34I'm sick and tired of being shot at.
12:36George.
12:37Put that gun away.
12:38Down, I said.
12:38I'm not heading back with my tail between my legs.
12:43Bullseye for me.
12:45Who was it that said this was a shooting country?
12:56He's dead.
12:57Oh, gee.
12:59I just meant to nick him.
13:00You killed him in cold blood.
13:02In self-defense.
13:02He was planning to tail us down the road and blow us to kingdom come.
13:05George, you're making that up.
13:07Just as an afterthought.
13:08Am I, kid?
13:10Who do you suppose took that shot at us driving up here?
13:13And that couple found mysteriously dead.
13:15The couple old Myers mentioned.
13:17Who do you suppose killed them?
13:18I want the whole truth.
13:19Why were you marked for murder?
13:21I said why was a big letter.
13:25Got a ditch pocket somewhere.
13:27Ditch him?
13:28Hide him to protect ourselves.
13:29Then forget that it ever happened and go about our business.
13:31You're not going to the police?
13:33No, I'm going about my business, I said.
13:38George, what are you afraid of?
13:41You got me confused with the answer, ma'am.
13:42I've got to know or I'll lose my mind.
13:45Both Ben Myers and Parker thought they recognized you.
13:48You have been here before.
13:50Never, I swear.
13:51Never.
13:51They had me confused with somebody else.
13:56I'll play along my way for a while.
13:59My way is the only way, Mary.
14:02Any other way is no good.
14:05I'll get that kerosene lamp and follow along.
14:08I'm giving Parker's squatter's rights to the first big ditch I find.
14:19You'll stay put now.
14:22Oh, come on, kid.
14:23Dry your eyes.
14:24You've got to take the brakes as they come and play along, for better or for worse.
14:27For better or worse.
14:29Murder and burial.
14:31How far can we get together now?
14:34As far as the house, anyhow.
14:36Well, that's as far as I want to get.
14:40And I don't care how stiff the price is.
14:43You get it, Mary?
14:44I don't care.
14:54All right, now set the lamp on that table, Mary.
14:56And stop staring at me as if I were some kind of a man-eating monster.
14:59You're getting on my nerves.
15:00I'm sorry, George.
15:02All right, that's better.
15:03Look around you.
15:06What do you see?
15:08The room is a wreck.
15:10Check and double check.
15:11The paneling's ripped out.
15:12The floorboards are up.
15:13Someone started taking the fireplace apart brick by brick.
15:17My property by doesn't look so good, huh?
15:19George.
15:20What?
15:20What does it mean?
15:22Randalls always have a field day with an abandoned property.
15:25No, it means something else.
15:27Check, kid.
15:29Parker holed up here looking for something.
15:32And you're looking for something, too.
15:35You're catching on, kid.
15:36That's why we're in this forsaken country.
15:39That's why you were marked for murder.
15:42What are you looking for, George?
15:45A couple of things.
15:48One of them's a stiff.
15:50A fresh-faced kid who called himself Johnny Morrow came out here about two years ago.
15:56He was never seen again.
15:58Alive.
15:59And you know why, Mary?
16:01Why?
16:03Because he's still here.
16:05My kid brother never left this house.
16:08Alive or dead.
16:14Whoever bricked up this fireplace bricked it up the keep.
16:18George.
16:19If you find your brother, what then?
16:23Then I go right for item number two.
16:25The jackpot.
16:27The jackpot?
16:28Do-re-mi cash.
16:30Money piled as high as the Empire State.
16:33We parlayed the corpse into a fortune.
16:37That does it.
16:39The hole's big enough to drive a truck through.
16:42Bring that lamp over.
16:45Closer.
16:46Closer, you dummy.
16:47Yes, George.
16:50See what I see?
16:56Walled in as if he was part of the building layout.
17:00Meet your brother-in-law, Mary.
17:04All right.
17:05Help me drag him out.
17:07Yes, George.
17:10Set him down.
17:11Over here.
17:13When he was a kid, he always came running to me when he got into a jam.
17:17It was a year's difference, but we were lookalikes.
17:20That's why the old man and Parker thought they'd seen you before.
17:24Check.
17:24They'd seen Johnny.
17:26Who killed your brother?
17:27His partner.
17:29A hoodlum named Wiley.
17:31Johnny and Wiley had pulled a payroll stick up.
17:32A $50,000 job.
17:34Wiley tried to double-cross Johnny.
17:37Johnny holed up here with the payroll money.
17:39Wiley trailed Johnny out here, tortured him for weeks, and then killed him.
17:44Why?
17:45Why did Wiley torture Johnny?
17:48To find out where Johnny had stashed the money.
17:50But Johnny never told him.
17:53Johnny knew his goose was cooked anyway.
17:55How did you find out these things?
17:57Johnny smuggled a letter out, addressed to me through old Ben Myers.
18:00The letter said nothing, but said a lot.
18:03Small talk.
18:04Everyday brother stuff.
18:05Wrapped around two key words.
18:07The words were, search me.
18:10As kids, we used to play treasure hunt with maps we made up and sewed in the lining of our
18:14clothes.
18:15A dollar gets you a thousand that Johnny has a map sewn in his clothes.
18:20Now you don't have to ask why anymore, kid.
18:23But...
18:23But what?
18:24Who was Parker?
18:26The man we found here?
18:28A crook who hung around with Wiley.
18:31And all the time that's at last.
18:33Why didn't you come here sooner?
18:35I was busy looking for Wiley for two years across the country and back again in South America, Mexico.
18:40Wiley was always one jump ahead of me.
18:43I caught up with him a month ago in Tampico.
18:46You caught up with him?
18:48Well, what did you do?
18:50I gave him a dose of what he gave Johnny.
18:53And then I killed him.
19:02You'd have lost that dollar bet, kid.
19:05Same trick we had as kids.
19:07Yeah, a map inside his coat lining.
19:10You can read it?
19:11Sure, like the ABC.
19:12That dough is buried in a can five steps from the back door to the barn.
19:16Ah, the dough is practically in my hand.
19:18George, you'll have to give the money back.
19:21Back?
19:22Then give myself up with it, huh?
19:24Yes, if you can find the courage.
19:26And tell Johnny he died like a chump for nothing.
19:28And tell myself I was just a sentimental sap, dogging it after Wiley right into Tampico.
19:33And maybe get down on my knees in front of that ditch out there.
19:36And apologize to Parker if I haven't put a slug in him.
19:39George, you're out of your mind.
19:40Out of my mind if I listen to you.
19:43I'll lend a hand.
19:44Grab Parker's shotgun and watch for intruders while I dig that can up.
19:48And then I'll bury Johnny right on the same spot.
19:51Yeah, I'll bury Johnny right where he stashed those 50 G's for his big brother to come and get.
20:03Ah, that blink is the jackpot.
20:06Like music, eh, Mary?
20:09Listen to it.
20:10Now, look.
20:13You see the money, Mary?
20:15Green as grass.
20:16Just as I dreamed of it for two years.
20:19Just as Johnny and I dreamed of it as kids.
20:21Green money.
20:22Green as grass.
20:24And nothing under a hundred.
20:26Did you ever see a bank loan with nothing under a hundred before, Mary?
20:29Did you?
20:30No, George.
20:32Just seems I can recollect.
20:34I neither, son.
20:36What?
20:37I've seen small change.
20:40Five dollar bill once.
20:44I ain't ever seen a hundred before.
20:46What are you doing here, Ben?
20:48I'm rejoicing with you, son.
20:51I've been waiting and watching a long time for one of you to find that money.
20:54But I knew it was hit somewhere around here.
20:58And I'm an old man.
21:00Very much time for me to enjoy my share.
21:03How much is your share?
21:05I was calculating on a quarter, maybe.
21:09And I saw you put Parker away.
21:12Right now I'm calculating on, say, half.
21:18And what are you calculating on doing with half?
21:22I don't know.
21:23For sure.
21:25Treat myself to something good.
21:28Maybe buy myself some more land.
21:32What do you say, son?
21:34You made yourself a deal, Pop.
21:36I'm going to give you all the land you need.
21:39You're aiming to kill me.
21:40George, no.
21:41I got to, Mary.
21:43I'm not killing you, old man.
21:44When you came visiting just now, you committed suicide.
21:47Get up against that tree and turn around.
21:49Maybe if I go back to calculating the quarter.
21:51I said you committed suicide.
21:54I'll bury you with a hundred dollar bill in your hand so you can treat yourself to something
21:58good where you're going.
22:00Ready?
22:00I said you was a winner, son.
22:04Guess I'm a loser.
22:06So long, sucker.
22:07Oh, oh, oh, oh.
22:09Oh, Mary.
22:11You fool.
22:13You shot me.
22:15You had to do it, George.
22:17George, I had to save you from this health.
22:20You silly fool.
22:23I was going to make you a queen.
22:28No, George.
22:30It wouldn't have been that way.
22:32After Ben, you would have had to kill me.
22:36You see, no power on earth would make me go your way.
22:40And no power on earth would make you go mine.
22:45You saved my life, Mom.
22:48How can an old idiot ever thank you?
22:52By going to the police.
22:56My husband has a confession to make.
23:06Oh, poor Mary.
23:08It got so she couldn't see the trees for the bodies.
23:11You know, until tonight, I thought only Santa Claus came through the fireplace.
23:15Well, I guess everybody's doubling up everywhere nowadays.
23:19Like George.
23:21Mary's bullets left him doubled up.
23:27Still, that was a good choice of location.
23:29The fireplace for a corpse.
23:32Sort of, uh, how to keep from growing coal.
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