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00:23Good evening.
00:25Tonight, I'm going to tell you another
00:28strange and unusual story of the unexplainable which lies behind the veil. All through his
00:38history, man has constantly striven to push back the frontiers of knowledge, to discover
00:45what lies behind the veil which separates knowledge from ignorance. In my own lifetime,
00:52I've seen things come to pass that would be unbelievable to my parents and my grandparents.
00:59Travel through the air, the ability to speak to a friend halfway around the world. Well,
01:07if these wonders have occurred in so short a time, just think of what our children and
01:12grandchildren will be able to know and understand. Happenings that to us defy explanation will
01:20be commonplace and ordinary to them. But whether we understand it or not, the event that we
01:27depict in tonight's story was very real. It started with a cry for help, a plea to Almighty
01:37God and following that to a mortal, to a man referred to by the peasants of a tiny Italian
01:45village as Il Dattore.
01:56We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children.
02:13We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children.
02:20We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children.
02:27We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children.
02:39We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children. We pray, our children.
02:43Has she eaten up?
02:44No, she won't take her food. Nothing. Nothing.
02:52Tony!
02:59Tony!
03:01Tony!
03:03Papa!
03:05Tony!
03:08Go to the doctor!
03:10Call the doctor!
03:12Call the doctor!
03:13What is it, Mama?
03:15It's Francesca. She's worse.
03:17But the truck is broken down and it is two miles to the doctor.
03:20You want your sister to die?
03:21Do you not have two good legs?
03:23Do with a far one bistro!
03:39There.
03:41Take two tonight when you go to bed and two in the morning when you get up.
03:45Understand?
03:46Wait three days and if you don't feel better, come and see me.
03:51Ah, that's my son.
03:54He is here. Yes, Signor Angelo is here, doctor.
03:59Signor Angelo.
04:02How's my Maria?
04:03Oh, fine, fine.
04:06Woo!
04:09Here, let me help you.
04:14Angelo, my son, my son.
04:18Welcome home.
04:19And how glad I am to be here, Father.
04:20Good morning lady.
04:21Was your train late?
04:22No.
04:22Giuseppe had trouble with the car.
04:24Listen, the second time this week he's broken down, doctor.
04:27It's too old.
04:28Giuseppe, take those things upstairs.
04:30Don't stand here in the draft, doctor.
04:32Take him inside by the fire.
04:33I go get something to warm him up.
04:36Oh, my son, it is good to see you home again.
04:40You're looking well.
04:41But it is a long time, over a year.
04:43I know.
04:44And I had a terrible job getting away from the hospital.
04:47Even now.
04:48So?
04:48Too many patients already?
04:50Oh, it's not so much that, Father.
04:52They are short-handed.
04:53They lost two surgeons last month and...
04:55Well, you know how it is.
04:57Ah, who should know better than I?
05:00How about you?
05:01Oh.
05:03Go along from day to day.
05:04Nothing much happening.
05:05Same as usual.
05:06No, I mean your health.
05:08You look tired.
05:11No one gets any younger.
05:13Do you still permit them to bother you as much as ever?
05:15Bother me?
05:16Oh, I know these peasants.
05:18Every time they stub a toe, they yell for the doctor.
05:20Like children.
05:21Only worse, in my opinion.
05:23There's some excuse for children.
05:24Ah, they are like children.
05:26They frighten so easily.
05:28But the trouble is one never knows how serious it may be.
05:32A stomachache can be unripe apples or an appendix.
05:37A little temperature, a simple cold,
05:39or maybe the beginning of a serious fever.
05:43But a doctor is rewarded by...
05:45I know the arguments.
05:47But seriously, father, you look far too tired for my liking.
05:51You are absolutely right, Signor Angelo.
05:53Some days he's running from morning until night, and it's no good my talking to him.
05:57Maybe you can make him see some sense.
06:00Or better still, maybe you can stay here and be the doctor.
06:05Well, I don't know about that.
06:08If I'm going to the Venturelli's, I'd better hurry.
06:10You see?
06:12Always running, always running.
06:15You have to go out?
06:16Oh, it is not very far.
06:18But on a night like this, can't I go for you?
06:20No, it is for the poor old grandmother, but nothing can be done for her.
06:24Well, in that case, can't you miss just once?
06:26Listen to that wind, there's a storm blowing up.
06:28The poor soul counts on seeing me every evening if I miss just once.
06:32She would have a bad night.
06:33She's not too many letters.
06:35Well, here's to the future.
06:37And here's to that long rest that I'm going to see to it that you have.
06:40Ah, and how are you going to manage that?
06:42Come back here and take my place?
06:44And bury myself here in this...
06:55I'm sorry, Father. I... I didn't mean that.
06:58Oh, you're quite right, my son.
07:00This is no place for a rising young surgeon.
07:03Well, in the big hospitals, there's much more opportunity.
07:06Up-to-date equipment and... you know.
07:09Yes, we have none of that here.
07:11But there is one thing here that is just the same.
07:13What is that?
07:14The patients.
07:16Whether it is in a big city hospital or a peasant's cottage,
07:19the patients are just the same.
07:21All a little helpless, a little frightened.
07:25Well, I must go.
07:27I wish you didn't have to leave.
07:29Tell you the truth, I wish I didn't do.
07:31Giuseppe!
07:32Yes, Doctor?
07:34Time to get started.
07:35I'm ready, Doctor.
07:36Ah, well, I think I have everything here.
07:40Though the good God knows that all the equipment
07:42in the finest hospitals in the world could not help that poor old woman now.
07:47All I can do is to give her a little friendship, a little comfort.
07:52Angelo, it is amazing what power those things have.
07:56Sometimes I think they do more good than all my pills.
08:00I've brought you a present.
08:01Huh?
08:02A new bag.
08:03A fitted one with everything in it.
08:04A fitted bag.
08:07But I warn you, you're not going to need it for long.
08:09How is that?
08:10Because you're going to retire.
08:12And you're going to come and live with me in the city.
08:14Retire?
08:16Leave these people?
08:18But, Angelo, they are my children.
08:21I could not do that.
08:22Why, no, no.
08:25I could never do that.
08:30Now you get back before the storm gets any worse.
08:34Don't let them keep you talking.
08:37I'll be back before you know it.
08:52Oh!
08:55What a night!
08:59How do you think the doctor looks, Signor Angelo?
09:02He's aging far too quickly for my liking, Maria.
09:05I'm worried about him.
09:07He is tired and he gets more tired every day.
09:11But now that you are here, it's going to be easier for him.
09:14I'm not going to stay, Maria.
09:16You've got to help me.
09:17I want him to come and live with me in the city.
09:19You're the only person that can help me persuade him.
09:22Take him away from here?
09:24You can't do that.
09:26Why not?
09:27They wouldn't let you.
09:29Who wouldn't?
09:30The people here, they can't do without him.
09:33Is there so much sickness here then?
09:34Oh, it isn't only sickness.
09:37It's everything.
09:39Anything that happens, it's ask the doctor.
09:42And he never refuses.
09:45Oh, mamma mia, who can it be?
09:48I'm coming!
09:49I'm coming!
09:51Are you trying to knock the door down?
09:59Tony Bianchi, what do you want?
10:01The doctor, he must come at once.
10:03The doctor is not here.
10:05But he must come!
10:07But how can he come if he's not here, stupido?
10:09What's the matter, Tony?
10:11Buenos Aires, señor Angelo.
10:12It is little Francesca.
10:14She is very sick.
10:16And mamma has seen that she will die.
10:19But...
10:19All right, I'll come, Tony.
10:21There's a bag with a suitcase.
10:22It's a black one.
10:22Will you get it for me?
10:23Yeah!
10:24But it is the doctor.
10:26Mama said...
10:26I am a doctor too, Tony.
10:36But...
10:41She is very sick.
10:43Where is that Tony?
10:45I should have gone myself.
10:48Why doesn't he come?
10:49The doctor will come.
10:51He always does.
10:51Coraggio, coraggio.
11:00Dottore!
11:02Dottore!
11:06Santa Maria!
11:08Madre di Dio, salvate la mia papilla!
11:26That's the cracker across the field!
11:29How much further is it?
11:30How much further is it?
11:32That's not too much!
11:43Here, let me help you with your coat.
11:44Be careful, Maria.
11:45The doctor's hands is hurt.
11:47Now what have you done with yourselves?
11:49He's cold at with boiling water.
11:50Let me see.
11:51It is nothing.
11:53That is bad.
11:54Fix it easily.
12:09Let me do this for you.
12:16You're so careless.
12:18You won't be able to use this hand for a while.
12:20Giuseppe, go get the doctor's slippers.
12:24Come and sit down, doctor.
12:26Where's Angelo? Upstairs?
12:28No.
12:28He went out.
12:30Only Bianchi came for you.
12:32Francesca, the little girl.
12:33She's sick.
12:34And Angelo went?
12:35Yes.
12:36Did Tony say what was wrong with the child?
12:38No.
12:39He just say that she's very sick.
12:41But you know how they are.
12:43They are always very sick.
12:44Shall I put the car away, doctor?
12:46No, Giuseppe.
12:48Maybe I better go myself and see.
12:50What?
12:51You go out again on a night like this and with that hand scalded?
12:56Did Tony come in the truck?
12:58No, I don't think so.
13:00You mean they walked in a storm like this?
13:03They are both young.
13:05Now you stay right there, no nonsense.
13:07I hope he'll be all right.
13:09Of course he'll be all right.
13:11He's a doctor, isn't he?
13:12I know, but...
13:13You worry too much.
13:15Now you stay right there and rest and I'll go finish the dinner.
13:18Giuseppe, take the car and go down the road.
13:20You may be able to pick them up before they get there.
13:23Yes, doctor.
13:23In any case, wait and bring Angelo back.
13:26Va bene.
13:53Oh, he'll never come.
13:56Il dottore.
13:58Il dottore.
13:59Il dottore.
14:00Il dottore.
14:01Il dottore.
14:04Il dottore.
14:05Il dottore.
14:06Il dottore.
14:06Il dottore.
14:07Il dottore.
14:07Il dottore.
14:07Il dottore.
14:07Il dottore.
14:08Il dottore.
14:08Il dottore.
14:08Il dottore.
14:09Il dottore.
14:09Il dottore.
14:11Il dottore.
14:12Il dottore.
14:13Il dottore.
14:26But we need a doctor.
14:27I am a doctor, Senor Bianchi.
14:29I can do everything that is needed.
14:31Now, where is the child?
14:32In there?
14:33No.
14:34Doctore.
14:36Doctore, no.
14:37No la toque, doctore.
14:39No la toque.
14:48My baby.
14:49My baby.
14:50Just a minute.
14:50Let me look at her.
14:51No, no.
14:52You must not touch her.
14:53I'm not going to harm her.
15:22I'm not going to harm her.
15:28The child is very sick.
15:30I'll have to be quick if I'm to save her.
15:41I'll have to boil these.
15:42Put some water on the fire.
15:44You heard me.
15:45I have to boil these instruments.
15:47What are you going to do with them?
15:48I'm going to operate on the little girl.
15:50No.
15:51No, Senor Angelo.
15:52You will not touch.
15:54We will wait for the doctor.
15:55Don't you understand how sick your child is?
15:57You will not touch her.
15:59Do as I say.
16:00Put that water on the fire.
16:04Of all the stubborn fools.
16:06We will wait.
16:14Giuseppe, what are you doing here?
16:14Where's my father?
16:15He's sending me with a car to take you back.
16:17Go back and get him.
16:18Tell him these fools won't let me operate and it's a matter of life and death.
16:21Now hurry.
16:28Now will you put that water on?
16:30We wait for the doctor.
16:32There won't be time then.
16:35This way they'll be ready for him.
17:16Since you're too stubborn to let me help you,
17:18pray.
17:20Pray that my father gets here in time.
17:41My baby's going to die.
17:44My baby's going to die.
17:46Oh no.
17:47Oh no, Giuseppe.
17:49No, no.
17:50No, no.
17:50No, no.
17:51No, no.
17:51No, no.
17:51No, no.
17:53Signor Angelo.
17:54Get out.
17:55I say you must not touch her.
17:57I can't wait any longer.
17:58You must not touch her.
18:00Stop, you fool.
18:01Your child is dying.
18:03One minute, two minutes, she'll be dead.
18:04Do you want to death?
18:05Do you want to kill her?
18:19Thank God you've come.
18:21Now will you go?
18:27I'll have to be quick.
18:29It's diphtheria.
18:58Father, you look all in.
19:00You better go back with Giuseppe.
19:02I'll clean up here.
19:03It'll take some time.
19:06She's going to be all right.
19:33You'll have to see to it that the child has absolute quiet.
19:36You understand?
19:39Has Giuseppe come back with the car yet?
19:40No, Signor Angelo.
19:42Are you not going to wait for the car?
19:44No, it's probably broken down again.
19:47I'll be back in a few hours to see how the child is.
19:51My father's too tired to come.
19:53He's completely worn out.
19:55I'll have to come alone.
19:58You understand?
20:06Signor Angelo.
20:10Yes?
20:11Many thanks.
20:13Doctor.
20:16Doctor.
20:44What's the matter this time, Giuseppe?
20:46It's the car again, Mr. Angelo. I can't stop it.
20:49Where's my father?
20:50At the house.
21:01Here you are at last.
21:03I saved dinner for you. I hope it hasn't spoiled.
21:07How's Francesca?
21:08She's fine.
21:09Is father all right?
21:10Yes, he's inside. But where's Giuseppe?
21:18Are you all right, father?
21:20Father?
21:26Oh, it is you, Angelo.
21:28Are you all right?
21:30Yes, I'm all right.
21:33Thank goodness. I was worried about you getting through that storm.
21:36Well, we worried about you too, didn't we, Maria?
21:41What happened to your hand?
21:43He scolded it at the Venturelli's.
21:45Oh, it is nothing.
21:46How is it with the little Francesca?
21:49Oh, she'll be all right.
21:50I'm going back to see her later on.
21:52What is the matter with these peasants?
21:54A child choking to death for lack of a simple tracheotomy,
21:57and they wouldn't let me touch her.
21:59Thank goodness you showed up when you did.
22:02Another minute, I've had to knock out that crazy Bianchi
22:04to save his own child's life.
22:07And when I saw the car was broken down,
22:09and you had to come back through that storm, I...
22:12What's the matter?
22:13Didn't he just have to bring you back?
22:15No.
22:16He never returned to the Bianchi's after he took you home.
22:19I passed him a mile up the road.
22:21Why? What's wrong?
22:23The doctor hasn't been out.
22:26He's not been out.
22:28You were with me, Father.
22:30What's the joke?
22:32What is this?
22:34I have been asleep here all the time.
22:36Ask Maria.
22:43But we all saw you.
22:46Mr. Angelo, their car.
22:49I couldn't get the doctor as you told me.
22:52I hope everything was all right.
22:55A man may well doubt what he sees with his own eyes,
22:59but when reliable witnesses give confirmation,
23:03it's difficult to disbelieve.
23:05The elder Dr. Maccabienti, however,
23:08didn't doubt this strange occurrence.
23:10He believed in the truth of the statement
23:13that he had made to his son.
23:14In the treatment of a patient,
23:16faith is often more important than medicine.
23:19It was enough for the good doctor
23:21that whatever the reason,
23:23one of his people had been saved.
23:25He didn't question.
23:26He accepted.
23:28Dr. Angelo did not as yet have this understanding.
23:32It puzzled and annoyed him
23:34to be unable to arrive at a scientific explanation.
23:38Well, he never did.
23:40But his acceptance by the peasants
23:42as the young doctor
23:43did bring him around to his father's way of thinking.
23:47The glamour of big city medicine
23:50gradually lost its power,
23:51and he stayed with his father
23:53to help what soon became their people.
23:56Actual happenings as this one,
23:58on which tonight's story is based,
24:01occur much too frequently to be passed off lightly.
24:05Time and again in my research,
24:06I've encountered reports of cases of this kind,
24:09which have been thoroughly documented
24:11by reliable authorities.
24:13The explanation?
24:16There is none.
24:17At least not one yet known to us.
24:26Please join me again
24:28for another journey
24:29into the world of the unexplainable
24:31that lies behind the veil.
24:35Good night.
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25:14THE END