WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Box 13 with the star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday. 00:12.000 --> 00:25.000 Box 13, Care of Star Times. Your advertisement in the paper has intrigued me. Naturally, 00:25.000 --> 00:30.000 I wonder whether you are serious or insane. Either way, I think I should like to meet you 00:30.000 --> 00:36.000 and perhaps offer a proposition which may intrigue you. Incidentally, there is a hundred thousand 00:36.000 --> 00:42.000 dollars concerned. Does that get your interest? If it does, I shall expect you at dinner tomorrow night. 00:47.000 --> 00:53.000 I shall expect you at dinner tomorrow night at eight. It will be informal, so don't bother to dress. 00:53.000 --> 00:58.000 Yours for adventure, Charles Winthrop. There's a hundred thousand dollars interest, 00:58.000 --> 01:02.000 may I ask? Brother, that much money would put new life in a mummy. 01:02.000 --> 01:20.000 And now back to Box 13 and Dan Holliday's newest adventure, The Better Man. 01:20.000 --> 01:31.000 Charles Winthrop. Charles Winthrop. You know, Mr. Holliday, that name sounds awfully familiar. 01:31.000 --> 01:34.000 Well, it should, Susie. Mr. Winthrop is one of the richest men in the country. 01:34.000 --> 01:39.000 Oh, sure. I remember now. He's a regular crisis. A what? 01:39.000 --> 01:44.000 Don't you know, Mr. Holliday? Crisis was a rich king. Oh, don't you know, Susie? 01:44.000 --> 01:50.000 Creesus, not crisis, was a rich king. Oh, someday I'll pronounce something right. 01:50.000 --> 01:55.000 You do and you'll lose your job. Okay, Susie, it's dinner tonight with Charles Winthrop 01:55.000 --> 02:01.000 to see what's on that mind of his. 02:03.000 --> 02:10.000 Cigar, Mr. Holliday? No, thanks. More coffee, perhaps? I don't think so, thanks. 02:10.000 --> 02:16.000 Curious, Holliday? Very. All right, my boy, we'll take care of that shortly. 02:16.000 --> 02:22.000 Oh, excuse me. I want to tell my butler he needn't stay around. William, William, come here a moment, William. 02:22.000 --> 02:26.000 Whatever Mr. Charles Winthrop had on his mind, it was hugely funny to him. 02:26.000 --> 02:33.000 All through dinner he'd stop eating, slap his thigh and laugh. And I wasn't saying anything funny either. 02:33.000 --> 02:37.000 I watched him as he told the butler what he wanted. I got a kick out of him. 02:37.000 --> 02:42.000 Short, thin little man with wisps of gray hair that kept floating over his spectacles. 02:42.000 --> 02:47.000 And when he talked, he craned his neck forward like an inquisitive bird his with lies twinkling. 02:47.000 --> 02:51.000 Oh, he was enjoying a great joke and I wanted what it was. 02:51.000 --> 02:56.000 All right, Holliday, we'll be alone and we can chin a little. 02:57.000 --> 03:04.000 Think I'm crazy, huh? Mr. Winthrop, any man who can collect about 20 millions is crazy like a fox. 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 Oh, money isn't everything. No, some people die young. 03:08.000 --> 03:12.000 Touche. Now, let's get right to the point. 03:12.000 --> 03:19.000 As I understand it, you advertise for adventure to get plots for your fiction, right? Right. 03:19.000 --> 03:23.000 So I'd say you'd like my little proposition. Well, that all depends. 03:23.000 --> 03:32.000 Ah, surely. Well, some place in this city I have hidden a packet containing a hundred one thousand dollar bills. 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 Do you hear me? I'm afraid I do. 03:36.000 --> 03:41.000 No one knows where it is but me. But you can find out. 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 I know a lot of people who would like to find a hundred thousand. 03:43.000 --> 03:48.000 Oh, I know. That's why I thought of this wonderful thing. Wonderful, wonderful. 03:48.000 --> 03:52.000 What wonderful thing? Ever been to Tibet, Holliday? 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Not recently. 03:54.000 --> 04:00.000 China? India? Japan? Africa? Malaya? 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 What are you getting at? At me. 04:02.000 --> 04:08.000 I've been to all those places, Holliday. I went before they stank up the streets with gasoline, 04:08.000 --> 04:16.000 commercialized the pyramids, lighted up the tombs with floodlights and made the world just one long big bore. 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 And? Well, I'm tired of being bored. I want excitement. 04:20.000 --> 04:24.000 So you hid a hundred thousand dollars where you can find it. What's exciting about that? 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 You're going to hunt for it. 04:27.000 --> 04:28.000 I am, huh? 04:28.000 --> 04:35.000 So are three other persons whom you don't know, whom you've never seen. And these three other persons have never seen you. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 We'll be a cozy little crowd. 04:37.000 --> 04:43.000 Oh, think so. Never mind that for a minute. Now, I take it you've got a good income, huh? 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 Not like yours. But then I never eat caviar. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 But you're comfortably fixed, eh? 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 All right, yes. 04:50.000 --> 04:54.000 Oh, magnificent. That makes it perfect. I'll have a grand time. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Well, drop me a postcard. I'll keep in touch. 04:56.000 --> 05:04.000 No, wait, wait. If you find the money, I will match it with another hundred thousand and give it to any charity or cause you name. 05:04.000 --> 05:12.000 Cancer Research, Infantile Paralysis Fund or any of a dozen. Or split the entire amount any way you want. Now, how's that? 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 Sounds good. Now, what's the rest of this? 05:15.000 --> 05:22.000 At midnight tonight, after you leave, I will drop four letters in the mailbox. These four letters will be identical. 05:22.000 --> 05:28.000 Each will contain the first clue to the whereabouts of the money. The first clue will lead to the next and to the next. 05:28.000 --> 05:31.000 And so on until the money is found. Is that it? 05:31.000 --> 05:38.000 Exactly. Each of the four persons concerned will receive one of those letters at the same time. And the hunt will be on. 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 I take it you had one of these cozy little dinners featured the other three. 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 Yes, that's right. Each one agreed. 05:43.000 --> 05:45.000 Each one agreed to turn the money over to charity? 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Maybe I'm bringing back vaudeville. I'm killing you. 05:50.000 --> 05:54.000 No, no, no, no. No, this is what makes the plan so perfect. 05:54.000 --> 06:03.000 One of the persons is a man who would kill to get that much money. Oh, I chose him well. Oh, no, he'll not turn the money over to charity. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 I see. And the others in this little game? 06:05.000 --> 06:14.000 Well, I'm not so sure. But a hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. I've watched people grab and cut each other's throats for much less, Holliday. 06:14.000 --> 06:21.000 In other words, you'd send four people against each other to amuse yourself. No thanks, Winthrop. I'll take my hat and some clean fresh air. 06:21.000 --> 06:26.000 After all, Mr. Holliday, you advertised adventure wanted. 06:26.000 --> 06:32.000 That's right. And that's not an entry blank into a cutthroat game to amuse a cynical old man who's down to his last 20 million. So long. 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 Wait. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 What for? 06:34.000 --> 06:44.000 Now listen, those other three who are going after the money. Now, now, one is a man to whom the money would mean cheap nightclubs, gambling, and everything else his stupid mind thinks is life and living. 06:44.000 --> 06:47.000 The other two would keep the money, I'm sure. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 Unless you keep them from getting it. 06:48.000 --> 06:54.000 Oh, but I won't. I'll watch them play my game and let the one who wins take the stakes. But you, Holliday. 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 What makes you think a hundred thousand wouldn't tempt me? 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 Oh, I got my money by knowing people. 07:00.000 --> 07:01.000 So? 07:01.000 --> 07:05.000 You've got the chance to get $200,000 for a worthy cause if you play. 07:05.000 --> 07:06.000 And if I don't? 07:06.000 --> 07:12.000 The money will still go to one of the other three. And I'm inclined to think the killer will win. 07:12.000 --> 07:16.000 Unless he's playing against a smarter man. 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 Well? 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 What if someone gets killed? How will you feel? 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 No better, no worse than now. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 Did you ever stop to think it would be the same as murder? 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 What law could touch me, Holliday? I hid the money, I give out the clues. 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 If someone gets killed, the money is the murderer, not me. 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 I see. 07:35.000 --> 07:41.000 Of course. If you refuse, you can always think of how much good the money could have done. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 Why, you. 07:43.000 --> 07:48.000 I'll send out the letters at midnight, Holliday. Four of them. You'll get yours in the morning. 07:48.000 --> 07:57.000 So you have all night to make up your mind whether the money is squandered by a cheap, stupid fool or help some of humanity. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 I went home. I went to bed. 08:05.000 --> 08:09.000 I didn't sleep much. I had dreams. 08:09.000 --> 08:17.000 Dreams that featured the grinning, wheezing face of old man Winthrop, thousand dollar bills, sick kids in hospitals. 08:17.000 --> 08:22.000 They changed places with each other all night. Then in the morning... 08:24.000 --> 08:26.000 All right, all right, who is it? 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Special delivery, Mr. Holliday. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Okay, thanks. Shove it under the door. 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 Yes, sir. 08:33.000 --> 08:38.000 It was from Winthrop. At first I wanted to burn it, forget the whole thing. 08:38.000 --> 08:43.000 Because the thought of people running around a city fighting over that money made me, well, it made me a little sick. 08:43.000 --> 08:49.000 Then, well, I guess I was mad at Winthrop and his cynical attitude that the killers would always win. 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 I opened the letter and later in my office listened to Suzy read it. 08:52.000 --> 09:00.000 High swings the hunter, his dog's eye bright. Where science is king, the clue will be right. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 What's it mean, Mr. Holliday? 09:02.000 --> 09:08.000 I don't know. High swings the hunter, his dog's eye bright. 09:08.000 --> 09:13.000 Hunter, hunter, me? 09:13.000 --> 09:19.000 And his dog's eye bright. I never saw a dog with only one eye or a hunter with a dog's eye. 09:19.000 --> 09:24.000 His dog. And why where science is king? 09:24.000 --> 09:27.000 Gee, I never saw a puzzle like this one before. 09:27.000 --> 09:29.000 Old man Winthrop is certainly having his fun. 09:29.000 --> 09:34.000 I worked out a puzzle once about movie stars. The names were all jumbled, see? 09:34.000 --> 09:37.000 Suzy, Suzy, say that again. 09:37.000 --> 09:38.000 Say what? 09:38.000 --> 09:39.000 What kind of a puzzle did you work out? 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 One about movie stars, why? 09:41.000 --> 09:44.000 Stars, stars, stars. Suzy, you're wonderful. 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 Am I? 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 Absolutely magnificent, here. 09:47.000 --> 09:51.000 Mr. Holliday, you, you kissed me. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 All that and a raise too. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 But what did I say? 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 The dog stars, Suzy, the dog star. 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 What dog star? 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 Hand me that encyclopedia quickly. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 Gee, here. 10:02.000 --> 10:07.000 Now, now, dog star, dog star. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 Here, listen. 10:09.000 --> 10:16.000 The dog star or Sirius, brightest star in the sky, in constellation Canis Major, the great dog. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 Oh, but what about the hunter? 10:18.000 --> 10:24.000 Listen, Sirius may be seen below and to the left of the constellation Orion, the hunter. 10:24.000 --> 10:27.000 That's it, Suzy. High swings the hunter, his dog's eye bright. 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 Uh-huh, but what about the next line? 10:29.000 --> 10:32.000 Where science is king, the clue will be right. 10:32.000 --> 10:36.000 I don't know, but it's got to have something to do with Orion, the hunter. 10:36.000 --> 10:39.000 Uh, listen, Suzy, I'm going to find out a few things. 10:39.000 --> 10:43.000 I'll be at the star times for the next half hour. 10:43.000 --> 10:46.000 Okay, I'll say one thing for Winthrop. He made the game fun to play. 10:46.000 --> 10:50.000 That is, if keeping one step ahead of a killer was any fun. 10:50.000 --> 10:53.000 Anyway, at the star times, I talked to the science editor. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 Say, what the devil are you up to, Dan? 10:55.000 --> 10:57.000 Hey, look, Lou, give me some help, will you? 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 If I can, sure. What's your problem? 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 Uh, read this. 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 What is all this? 11:04.000 --> 11:08.000 Never mind now, I'll explain later. But Orion is the hunter. 11:08.000 --> 11:11.000 Oh, I see. Well, what do you want to know? 11:11.000 --> 11:14.000 What about Orion? Does it swing high? 11:14.000 --> 11:19.000 Sure, it rises roughly in the east, swings upward in an arc, and then sets. 11:19.000 --> 11:20.000 When is it at its highest? 11:20.000 --> 11:23.000 Oh, I should say around midnight. 11:23.000 --> 11:26.000 Midnight, midnight. Okay, now what about that? 11:26.000 --> 11:29.000 Where is science's king line? Make anything out of that? 11:29.000 --> 11:34.000 Well, I should say science is king at an astronomical observatory. 11:34.000 --> 11:37.000 At least that would tie in with the rest of this, Dogrel. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 Lou, Lou, you're wonderful. 11:39.000 --> 11:43.000 Oh, by the way, Lou, there's an observatory in town, isn't there? 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 Sure, the Winthrop Observatory. 11:45.000 --> 11:46.000 The Winthrop? 11:46.000 --> 11:47.000 Mm-hmm. 11:47.000 --> 11:51.000 Somebody managed to squeeze a few shekels out of the old boy to build a thing. 11:51.000 --> 11:54.000 He insisted it carry his name. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 So, so it all fits. 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 Okay, Lou, tonight I'm going to be a stargazer. 11:59.000 --> 12:07.000 It was hard to wait through the rest of the day, but I made it. 12:07.000 --> 12:12.000 From that night, I drove up the long winding road that led to the Winthrop Observatory. 12:12.000 --> 12:16.000 Again, the old man picked his spot nicely. 12:16.000 --> 12:21.000 It was dark and a creeping, damp fog settled down in curling waves. 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 There wasn't a light within ten miles. 12:23.000 --> 12:26.000 Then I broke out of the fog and the mountain leveled off. 12:26.000 --> 12:30.000 In the sky, the stars were big and bright. 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 Then I came to the end of the road. 12:32.000 --> 12:37.000 From here on, it was shoe leather instead of horsepower. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 I looked up in the sky. 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 Swinging up in front of me was Orion. 12:43.000 --> 12:47.000 Below and to the left of him, a white star shimmied in the night sky. 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 Sirius, the dog star. 12:50.000 --> 12:54.000 I looked at my watch, the luminous hands were almost straight up. 12:54.000 --> 12:59.000 Okay, midnight, Orion, Sirius. 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 Then what? 13:01.000 --> 13:03.000 Ha ha! 13:03.000 --> 13:04.000 Who's that? 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 Well, well, well, Mr. Holliday. 13:07.000 --> 13:08.000 Winthrop. 13:08.000 --> 13:09.000 Yes, yes indeed. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 You didn't think I missed the fun, did you? 13:11.000 --> 13:14.000 Well, come on, Holliday, straight ahead. 13:14.000 --> 13:17.000 Stay on the park. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 Good evening, Holliday. 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 And what now, little rich man? 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 So you figured it out, eh? 13:24.000 --> 13:25.000 Why else would I be here? 13:25.000 --> 13:26.000 Very clever. 13:26.000 --> 13:30.000 All right, here's an envelope. 13:30.000 --> 13:31.000 What do I do with it? 13:31.000 --> 13:34.000 Oh, there's another clue in it, the second. 13:34.000 --> 13:37.000 Ah, how long does this go on? 13:37.000 --> 13:40.000 I'm having such a wonderful time, I'd like it to go on forever. 13:40.000 --> 13:42.000 But I'll play the game fairly. 13:42.000 --> 13:44.000 One more after this and that's all. 13:44.000 --> 13:46.000 I see. 13:46.000 --> 13:49.000 You're really making this great for yourself, aren't you? 13:49.000 --> 13:50.000 You'll be at each stop, I suppose. 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 Oh, yes. 13:52.000 --> 13:55.000 And I wonder how many clues I'll have to give out. 13:55.000 --> 13:56.000 What do you mean? 13:56.000 --> 13:59.000 Well, only you and one other person showed up here tonight. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 What? One other? 14:01.000 --> 14:05.000 Yes. And guess who it was. 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 Do I have to guess? 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 No, I'll tell you. 14:08.000 --> 14:13.000 The only person beside yourself was the gentleman who would play rough, very rough. 14:13.000 --> 14:18.000 I'm afraid, Holliday, that from now on, you'd better watch yourself. 14:32.000 --> 14:38.000 And now back to The Better Man, another Box 13 adventure with Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday. 14:38.000 --> 14:43.000 It was like playing tag with a ghost or fighting a mist. 14:43.000 --> 14:50.000 I don't know why I kept at it, except by this time I would have crawled across the Sahara desert in a Novaco to get that money from Winthrop. 14:50.000 --> 14:53.000 When I left him at the observatory, I went to my apartment. 14:53.000 --> 14:56.000 There I opened the envelope. 14:56.000 --> 14:59.000 Oh, this one was better than the first. 14:59.000 --> 15:05.000 It said, he's king, yet a slave, and free, yet a captive. 15:05.000 --> 15:09.000 And we, who are weaker, are yet stronger. 15:09.000 --> 15:16.000 Those whom he ruled are close to his might, yet fear him not by day or by night. 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 This made a lot of sense. 15:18.000 --> 15:23.000 It was after three in the morning when I finally gave up on it and went to sleep. 15:26.000 --> 15:29.000 I don't know, Mr. Holliday. It just doesn't make sense. 15:29.000 --> 15:32.000 Come on, Susie, think. Say anything. 15:32.000 --> 15:35.000 Anything what? He's king, yet a captive. 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 How can he be king and yet be a captive? 15:37.000 --> 15:40.000 That's the point. If we figure that out, we've got the rest. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 I never was good at riddles. I... 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 Come in. 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 You Dan Holliday? 15:47.000 --> 15:48.000 Yeah, that's right. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 I want to talk to you. 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 Who are you? 15:51.000 --> 15:54.000 Makes no difference. Can you get rid of the dame? 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 I'm not a dame. I'm a secretary. 15:56.000 --> 15:57.000 Hello, will you? 15:57.000 --> 15:58.000 Hey, wait a minute, bud. 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 Didn't you get in the wrong room? 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 Sit down, Holliday. I'm not tired. 16:02.000 --> 16:05.000 Okay, stand then. Get rid of the dame. 16:05.000 --> 16:09.000 Susie, run down to the start times and pick up the mail, will you, please? 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 All right, Mr. Holliday. 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 But tell him I'm not a dame. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 Okay. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Maybe you know why I come here, huh? 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 I can make a good guess. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 Well, that's swell. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 Now we don't have to beat each other's brains out. 16:23.000 --> 16:26.000 I didn't know we were booked for it. 16:26.000 --> 16:29.000 You could use 50 grand for the job. 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 You could use 50 grand, couldn't you? 16:31.000 --> 16:32.000 Keep talking. 16:32.000 --> 16:33.000 All right, look. 16:33.000 --> 16:37.000 What's the sense in both of us running around in this rat race? 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 You're the rat? 16:38.000 --> 16:39.000 Don't talk like that, Holliday. 16:39.000 --> 16:40.000 Why don't you get to the point? 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 Okay. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 You and me got the only clues. 16:44.000 --> 16:49.000 We team up. We'll reach 50 grand of the good. 16:49.000 --> 16:52.000 Which means you can't figure out this second clue from Winthrop. 16:52.000 --> 16:53.000 Maybe. 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 If you had it figured, you wouldn't be here now. 16:55.000 --> 16:56.000 So that makes sense. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 Mm-hmm, that's right. 16:58.000 --> 16:59.000 What do you say? 16:59.000 --> 17:02.000 What if I won't make it a duet? 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 What makes you think you'll get to that money? 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 Nothing, right now. 17:06.000 --> 17:07.000 I asked a question. 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 What do you say? 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 The answer is no. 17:11.000 --> 17:12.000 That final? 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 You can close the books, lover boy. 17:14.000 --> 17:15.000 All right. 17:15.000 --> 17:16.000 Oh, wait a minute. 17:16.000 --> 17:17.000 Yeah. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 How do you know who I was and where to find me? 17:19.000 --> 17:22.000 I didn't know you or where to find you. 17:22.000 --> 17:23.000 You figure it, Holliday. 17:23.000 --> 17:24.000 You got the brains. 17:24.000 --> 17:25.000 But get this. 17:25.000 --> 17:28.000 I'll be right on your trail from now on out. 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 If you change your mind about that split, 17:30.000 --> 17:33.000 put an ad in the agony column of the papers. 17:33.000 --> 17:34.000 I'll see it. 17:34.000 --> 17:35.000 So long. 17:45.000 --> 17:49.000 Well, well, well, that flat-eyed character knew me. 17:49.000 --> 17:52.000 But Winthrop said none of us would know each other. 17:52.000 --> 17:55.000 So I looked up Winthrop's number in the phone book, 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 dialed it, and... 17:57.000 --> 17:58.000 Hello? 17:58.000 --> 17:59.000 Winthrop? 17:59.000 --> 18:00.000 Yes. 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 Oh, is this Holliday? 18:02.000 --> 18:06.000 Look, I just had company. 18:06.000 --> 18:07.000 No. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 Yes, thanks for sending him, Winthrop. 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 How did you know I did? 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 Don't give me that house, but he knew who I was. 18:13.000 --> 18:14.000 That's right. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 I had to put a little zip into the game Holliday. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 He's such a charming fellow, isn't he? 18:19.000 --> 18:22.000 Okay, you've had your belly laugh, but that's it. 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 Oh, you're not quitting. 18:23.000 --> 18:26.000 I don't like to be thrown to the lions. 18:26.000 --> 18:27.000 What did you say? 18:27.000 --> 18:28.000 I said I... 18:28.000 --> 18:29.000 I... 18:29.000 --> 18:32.000 Well, go on. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 He's king. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 You had a captive. 18:36.000 --> 18:39.000 King of the beasts. 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 The lion. 18:40.000 --> 18:41.000 Wonderful. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 Now all you have to do is follow it up. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 Nothing doing. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 You're so close, Holliday. 18:46.000 --> 18:49.000 And all you have to do is be careful. 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 I'm beginning to like you less and less. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 I'm not a likeable person. 18:53.000 --> 18:56.000 However, whether you go on or not is your affair. 18:56.000 --> 19:00.000 But I should be very disappointed in you if you didn't. 19:00.000 --> 19:01.000 Hello? 19:01.000 --> 19:02.000 Hello? 19:02.000 --> 19:23.000 Well, I had the choice, and I was itching to get even with Winthrop. 19:23.000 --> 19:28.000 Somehow I was beginning to suspect he had no intention of letting go of $100,000. 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 And that made up my mind for me. 19:31.000 --> 19:36.000 I figured out the rest of his little note, and the only place I could see a lion free, 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 yet captive, was at a zoo. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 So it was to the zoo I went. 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 The park was crowded. 19:44.000 --> 19:47.000 Kids, grownups, all milling around. 19:47.000 --> 19:52.000 Then I came to the lion pits, those semi-natural habitats without bars. 19:52.000 --> 19:57.000 I drifted close with the rest of the cloud, leaned over the iron railing that ran along 19:57.000 --> 20:02.000 the edge of the moat, and then... 20:02.000 --> 20:05.000 Hang on, give me your hand, quick. 20:05.000 --> 20:06.000 Hold me up, will you? 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 Hang on. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 Hey, mister, what was you trying to do? 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 I didn't try it. 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 Thanks for helping. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 Brother, they almost had real fresh meat. 20:16.000 --> 20:17.000 What'd you do, lean over too far? 20:17.000 --> 20:18.000 Yeah, much too far. 20:18.000 --> 20:19.000 And I had help. 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 Lucky you thought to grab that rail. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 It was a good thought. 20:23.000 --> 20:24.000 Thanks again. 20:24.000 --> 20:25.000 That's okay, mister. 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 Boy, oh boy, that was better than a fried butt. 20:28.000 --> 20:29.000 Well, well, well. 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 Did you have a little trouble, Holliday? 20:32.000 --> 20:33.000 Winthrop. 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 Ah, pretty close, wasn't it? 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 Did someone shove you? 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 You guess, Winthrop. 20:39.000 --> 20:42.000 Yeah, what some people will do for money. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 Winthrop, you're not very big. 20:44.000 --> 20:47.000 A nice, easy shove and you'd be where I almost went. 20:47.000 --> 20:48.000 Oh, but you won't, Holliday. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 You won't because you're not the type that kills. 20:50.000 --> 20:54.000 Now, your anxious friend is different from you. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 I don't know what keeps me from seeing how tightly your head's on your neck. 20:57.000 --> 21:00.000 Oh, you don't like me. 21:00.000 --> 21:03.000 All right, Holliday, you've reached the end of the trail. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Be at my home at eight tonight. 21:11.000 --> 21:15.000 It was eight o'clock when I walked up the steps in front of the Winthrop home. 21:15.000 --> 21:20.000 There were little chills chasing each other on bicycles up and down my spine. 21:20.000 --> 21:24.000 But I rang the bell. 21:24.000 --> 21:25.000 Oh, good evening, Holliday. 21:25.000 --> 21:28.000 Come in. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 What have you got lined up for tonight? 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 Come this way. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 Aha, in here. 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 There, sit down, Holliday. 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 Thanks. 21:39.000 --> 21:43.000 I suppose you'd call all this quite fantastic, wouldn't you? 21:43.000 --> 21:44.000 You're insane. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 Oh, well, aren't we all? 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 I'm just able to indulge my whims. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 Most people aren't. 21:50.000 --> 21:51.000 I suppose you want the money, huh? 21:51.000 --> 21:52.000 You're not kidding anybody, Winthrop. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 There isn't a penny hidden anywhere. 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 Oh, yes, there is. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 But the game is not quite over. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 What do you mean? 21:58.000 --> 22:02.000 You may come in now. 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 I believe you two know each other. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 Yeah, sure. 22:06.000 --> 22:09.000 Thanks for almost making me Daniel in the lions, Dan. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 I think nothing of it. 22:11.000 --> 22:12.000 What is this, Winthrop? 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 A patience, Holliday. 22:14.000 --> 22:15.000 I have a proposition. 22:15.000 --> 22:18.000 The best part of the game. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 It is $100,000 in cash. 22:20.000 --> 22:23.000 Now, you two can decide what to do about it. 22:23.000 --> 22:28.000 You can divide it equally, or may the better man take it all. 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 I looked at Winthrop. 22:29.000 --> 22:30.000 He was grinning. 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 I looked at the other man. 22:31.000 --> 22:33.000 He wasn't grinning. 22:33.000 --> 22:36.000 He was eyeing that package of money. 22:36.000 --> 22:40.000 Then he looked at me, and it was easy to see what was on his mind. 22:40.000 --> 22:43.000 And Winthrop saw it too, because he leaned forward. 22:43.000 --> 22:47.000 $100,000 is much better than $50,000, isn't it? 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Yeah, it is. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 As you see, I am armed. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 You two are not. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 Suppose we decide to split. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 That decision will have to be unanimous with both of you. 22:56.000 --> 22:57.000 I ain't splitting it. 22:57.000 --> 22:58.000 Good! 22:58.000 --> 23:01.000 I thought I'd chosen well in you. 23:01.000 --> 23:02.000 Well, Holliday? 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 What if I just decide to leave? 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 You won't, because I won't let you. 23:06.000 --> 23:07.000 I want my fun, Holliday. 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 Don't spoil it. 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 He looked at me with his little black eyes, 23:10.000 --> 23:11.000 and he kept that gun pointed out at me too. 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 I can shoot you now, and your friend here will be a witness that you attacked me. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 A $100,000 witness. 23:17.000 --> 23:18.000 Well? 23:18.000 --> 23:19.000 Let's get it over with. 23:19.000 --> 23:20.000 Exactly. 23:20.000 --> 23:25.000 There are no windows in this room, no servants in the house, and only one door. 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 The money's on the desk. 23:27.000 --> 23:31.000 It will be merely a fight over money if the police come into it. 23:31.000 --> 23:34.000 When you've had your little argument, 23:34.000 --> 23:40.000 the one who's left can knock on this door, and I'll come and unlock it. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 Good hunting, gentlemen. 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 This is it. 23:47.000 --> 23:52.000 The man left with me got up off his chair, walked slowly toward me. 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 I thought maybe I could reason with him. 23:55.000 --> 23:58.000 But what argument can you use on a killer? 23:58.000 --> 23:59.000 Then... 23:59.000 --> 24:01.880 The 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 Holliday. 24:22.000 --> 24:23.000 Surprise, Winthrop. 24:23.000 --> 24:24.000 Right. 24:24.000 --> 24:27.000 Congratulations, Holliday. 24:27.000 --> 24:30.000 Brains and brawn. Rare combination. 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 All right, there's the money. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 Take it, and I'll match it with another $100,000. 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 You'll match it with a half a million. 24:36.000 --> 24:37.000 What? 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 You heard me. 24:38.000 --> 24:42.000 Your pal there is out right now, but in a minute he'll come too. 24:42.000 --> 24:46.000 And I'll leave him alone with you with that money still on the desk. 24:46.000 --> 24:47.000 But you can't. 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 Get away from it, Winthrop. 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 Listen, Holliday. 24:50.000 --> 24:54.000 You're not a killer. You wouldn't leave me alone with him. 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 No? Watch. 24:56.000 --> 25:01.000 And I'll take your gun with me and lock the door behind me after he wakes up. 25:01.000 --> 25:02.000 Wait. 25:02.000 --> 25:03.000 And I could be a witness. 25:03.000 --> 25:07.000 A $100,000 witness that he killed you in self-defense. 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 You wouldn't. You're not that kind. 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 You want to play dog, eat dog, now play it. 25:11.000 --> 25:14.000 All right, all right. 25:14.000 --> 25:16.000 What do you want? 25:16.000 --> 25:18.000 Sit down at your desk, make out a check for a half a million. 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 We'll decide where it goes later. 25:20.000 --> 25:23.000 And we'll both go to the bank tomorrow and cash it. 25:23.000 --> 25:25.000 Something funny? 25:25.000 --> 25:29.000 It's just that I could refuse to have it honored at the bank. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 Yes. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 Yes, you could. 25:33.000 --> 25:35.000 But you won't. 25:35.000 --> 25:37.000 All right, Holliday. 25:37.000 --> 25:40.000 You've almost restored my faith in people. 25:40.000 --> 25:53.000 Give me that pen. 25:53.000 --> 25:58.000 A half million dollars to charity and medical research. 25:58.000 --> 26:02.000 Look, he gets his picture in the paper. 26:02.000 --> 26:03.000 Uh-huh. 26:03.000 --> 26:04.000 But you did all the work. 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 I'll tell you something. 26:06.000 --> 26:10.000 What, Mr. Holliday? 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 I got even with a man who called you a dame. 26:12.000 --> 26:14.000 Satisfied now? 26:14.000 --> 26:16.000 Well, I don't know. 26:16.000 --> 26:18.000 He was kind of cute at that. 26:18.000 --> 26:20.000 Oh, no. 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 Good night, Susie. 26:22.000 --> 26:28.000 Next week, same time, through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures, 26:28.000 --> 26:32.000 Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holliday in Box 13. 26:32.000 --> 26:37.000 Box 13 is directed by Richard Sandville with an original story by Russell Hughes. 26:37.000 --> 26:41.000 Original music is composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. 26:41.000 --> 26:44.000 The part of Susie is played by Sylvia Picker. 26:44.000 --> 26:47.000 Production is supervised by Vern Carstensen. 26:47.000 --> 26:50.000 This is a Mayfair production from Hollywood. 26:50.000 --> 27:02.000 Watch for Alan Ladd and his latest Paramount Picture.