WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 The Strange Dr. Weird. 00:07.000 --> 00:12.000 Good evening. 00:12.000 --> 00:17.000 Come in, won't you? 00:17.000 --> 00:18.000 Well, what's the matter? 00:18.000 --> 00:20.000 You seem a bit nervous. 00:20.000 --> 00:24.000 Perhaps the cemetery outside this house has upset you. 00:24.000 --> 00:27.000 But there are some strange things going on. 00:27.000 --> 00:30.000 For instance, being lost in a wilderness. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.000 A wilderness where death is never more than a few inches away. 00:34.000 --> 00:37.000 As in the story I want to tell you tonight. 00:37.000 --> 00:39.000 A story I call... 00:39.000 --> 00:42.000 Dead Man's Paradise. 00:42.000 --> 00:57.000 My story begins in the wild and desolate swamplands near the mouth of the Mississippi River. 00:57.000 --> 01:02.000 In a small Cajun shack, all but hidden by the overhanging cypress trees, 01:02.000 --> 01:12.000 Andre Morrell speaks to his son Paul. 01:12.000 --> 01:15.000 Paul, the sun has been up for an hour already. 01:15.000 --> 01:17.000 You must see to our traps. 01:17.000 --> 01:19.000 But Father, you're ill. 01:19.000 --> 01:20.000 I don't like leaving you here alone. 01:20.000 --> 01:23.000 I'll be all right. 01:23.000 --> 01:26.000 Now, please, attend to the traps. 01:26.000 --> 01:27.000 Very well, Father. 01:27.000 --> 01:29.000 I'll be back just as soon as I... 01:29.000 --> 01:32.000 Take him out, Paul. 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 Who are you? What do you want? 01:34.000 --> 01:36.000 You'll find out soon enough, old man. 01:36.000 --> 01:38.000 Duke, get that rifle of theirs over the fireplace. 01:38.000 --> 01:39.000 Okay. 01:39.000 --> 01:42.000 You must be the two bank robbers the radio was warning everyone about. 01:42.000 --> 01:43.000 That's right, bright boy. 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 Now every cop in Louisiana is looking for us. 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 How far are we from New Orleans? 01:48.000 --> 01:49.000 Forty miles. 01:49.000 --> 01:50.000 Forty miles, huh? 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 Well, you're taking us there in your boat. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 But we lend our boat to Pierre Duvelle. 01:54.000 --> 01:57.000 Besides, no boat can get through swamps. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 What are we going to do? 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 We're sailing right through to New Orleans with no trouble at all. 02:01.000 --> 02:03.000 We'll have to make it on foot, that's all. 02:03.000 --> 02:05.000 These Cajuns know every inch of the swamps. 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 So bright boy here will guide us. 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 No, no, it's impossible. 02:09.000 --> 02:10.000 Well, you must. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 He will kill you if you do not do as he asks. 02:12.000 --> 02:13.000 That's right, kid. 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 Your old man's talking sense. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 But you don't know the swamps. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 We must travel by narrow Indian trails 02:18.000 --> 02:20.000 through bad stretches of quicksand 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 where a single misstep means death. 02:22.000 --> 02:23.000 It can't be that bad. 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 Why, on my road map, this region is listed as 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 Paradise Swamp. 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 Yes, but the old name, the name the Indians gave it, 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 was Dead Man's Paradise. 02:32.000 --> 02:35.000 Because no stranger, whoever entered it, came out alive. 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 There's the quicksand pools of it 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 waiting to trap strangers. 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 And there are the insects, the mosquitoes that drive men mad. 02:41.000 --> 02:45.000 There are the birds, who shriek sound like the screams of dying men. 02:45.000 --> 02:46.000 Hey, listen to that. 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 That's a lot of malarkey. 02:47.000 --> 02:50.000 Bright boy here is going to guide us, and that's that. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 But I can't leave my father here alone. 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 Can't you see he's ill? 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 I don't want to leave him alone any more than you do. 02:56.000 --> 02:57.000 He might talk. 02:57.000 --> 03:01.000 So I'm going to say to it that none of us have to worry about him any more. 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 What do you mean? 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 Just this. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 Father! 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 You... you've killed him. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Yeah, and that's what's going to happen to you 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 if you don't do exactly as I tell you. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Now let's get started. 03:15.000 --> 03:24.000 I want to be in New Orleans by tomorrow night. 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 We've been walking for seven hours now, eh? 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 How far do you think we've come? 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 Hey, Bright boy, how far we come since this morning? 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 Ten miles. 03:36.000 --> 03:37.000 Ten miles? 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 Hey, that ain't bad. 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 Hey, what's that? 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 That's just a bird, not a ghost. 03:41.000 --> 03:42.000 Pull yourself together, Duke. 03:42.000 --> 03:46.000 Nothing to be scared of, just trees, underbrush and swamp pools. 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 Yeah, yeah, I know, but every way you train, everything looks the same. 03:49.000 --> 03:51.000 If we didn't have that Cajun kid to guide us, 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 hey, look, the kid's trying to give us a slip. 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 Oh, he is, is he? 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Well, listen, teaching... 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 Hey, see, hit him. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 Yeah, I could hardly miss him at this distance. 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 Come on. 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 Should have kept a closer watch on him. 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 Might have known he'd try something like this. 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 Well, here he is. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 His head's all covered with blood. 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 He's dead, all right. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 Yeah, we never knew what hit him. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 Yeah, but Ace, what are we gonna do now without the kid to guide us? 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 We'll just have to go on the rest of the way by ourselves. 04:16.000 --> 04:19.000 But how we find our way, every way you turn, is nothing but swamp. 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 We can't go on without a guide. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Get hold of yourself, you fool. 04:22.000 --> 04:23.000 If you lose your head, you're done for. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 Yeah, but Ace, what chance we got? 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 Shut up, will you? 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 Listen to what I have to say. 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 Now, by keeping our eyes on the sun and doing the little figuring, 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 we can keep going in the right direction. 04:33.000 --> 04:36.000 As for the quicksand, well, we'll just have to watch our step. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 Just keep saying one thing to yourself. 04:38.000 --> 04:42.000 New Orleans is only 30 miles away, and we're gonna make it. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 Uh, Doctor, may I comment upon the versimilitude 04:50.000 --> 04:54.000 demonstrated by the introductory sections of your dramatic effort? 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Explain yourself, young man. 04:56.000 --> 04:59.000 Your story, its design is excellent. 04:59.000 --> 05:02.000 Such fine style and expert handling of details. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 And you know, Doctor, it's those very same qualities 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 that make Adam Hat so outstanding, too. 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 That's because the designs for Adam Hats 05:10.000 --> 05:13.000 are created by experts in their field. 05:13.000 --> 05:17.000 The smart styles and carefully handled detail you see in every Adam 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 is the product of years of experience. 05:20.000 --> 05:24.000 And just as each listener will find a different shade of meaning in a story, 05:24.000 --> 05:28.000 so will every man find the shade of color he prefers 05:28.000 --> 05:31.000 in the large selection of Adam Hats. 05:31.000 --> 05:36.000 Gentlemen, there's only one logical conclusion to this story about Adam Hats. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Buy one for yourself. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 And Adam Hat has character. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Now, back to Doctor Weird's story. 05:49.000 --> 05:54.000 And now I'll continue my story, Dead Man's Paradise. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 Five hours have passed. 05:56.000 --> 05:59.000 Five hours of nightmare for Ace and Duke. 05:59.000 --> 06:03.000 The shadowy cypress trees and underbrush seem to become thicker 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 every mile they pushed on. 06:06.000 --> 06:10.000 And they were constantly forced to detour around swamp pools and lakes, 06:10.000 --> 06:15.000 ever mindful of the treacherous quicksands they must avoid. 06:15.000 --> 06:19.000 How far you think we've come, Ace, since we left that cage, kid? 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 About four or five miles, I guess. 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 Look, the sun's gone down. It'll be dark before long. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 What do we do now? 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 We'll stop pretty soon and wait for dawn. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 The morning will push on. 06:30.000 --> 06:34.000 The rest of you will ever get out of these swamps alive. 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 Did you hear that? 06:35.000 --> 06:36.000 Yeah, that sounded like... 06:36.000 --> 06:41.000 You have committed murder, and you must pay. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 Ace, that's the voice of that cage, kid. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 No, no, it can't be. I knocked him off. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 It's the voice of his ghost. That's what it is. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 Don't be a fool. 06:48.000 --> 06:54.000 The ones who have died in the swamps, say you too must die. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 You see, I told you to come back to get us. 06:56.000 --> 07:01.000 Both of you will die in the quicksands. 07:01.000 --> 07:07.000 Only 20 feet ahead of you is the pool of quicksands. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 You hear that? It's quicksands. 07:09.000 --> 07:10.000 Don't be a fool, I tell you. 07:10.000 --> 07:13.000 You really think there's quicksands ahead here, Bournice? 07:13.000 --> 07:17.000 Just a trick to get us to walk in another direction where the quicksands really is. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 Yes, I guess you're right. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 Why, sure I am. Now keep going, straight ahead. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 Okay. 07:22.000 --> 07:25.000 We've still got an hour or so until it gets too dark to travel. 07:25.000 --> 07:26.000 We've got to make the most of it. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 Yeah, but just the same way you think. 07:28.000 --> 07:29.000 Hey! Hey! 07:29.000 --> 07:30.000 What's wrong? 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 I stepped into some quicksands. Help me out. I'm sinking fast. 07:33.000 --> 07:34.000 Duke, try crawling out. 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 I can't. I keep sinking deeper. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 Hey, help me out. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 If I only had a rope or something, where do I look around? 07:39.000 --> 07:40.000 No, no, don't leave me. 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 Look, how can I help you? 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 It's sucking me down. It's already in for my chest. 07:43.000 --> 07:44.000 Give me a hand and pull me out, will you? 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 I can't do that. You would pull me in with you. 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 Do something. 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 There's nothing I can do without a rope. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 There must be. Don't leave me down like this. Help me, will you? 07:51.000 --> 07:54.000 There's only one thing I can do for you, Duke. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 And this is it. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 Duke, he's dead. 08:02.000 --> 08:07.000 Yes, he's paid for his crimes. 08:08.000 --> 08:11.000 Now it is your turn. 08:11.000 --> 08:15.000 No, no, you may have gotten, Duke, but you won't get me. 08:15.000 --> 08:25.000 You won't get me. 08:26.000 --> 08:31.000 With an effort, Ace pulled himself together, determined not to suffer Duke's fate. 08:31.000 --> 08:35.000 Taking a bearing from the twilight rays of the sun, Ace continued on his way, 08:35.000 --> 08:39.000 cautiously scanning the ground before him. 08:39.000 --> 08:44.000 Time and time again, the voice of the Cajun boy came echoing through the swamp, 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 mocking Ace's efforts to escape, 08:47.000 --> 08:51.000 telling him of the quicksand that lay waiting on every side. 08:54.000 --> 08:58.000 There is no escape for you. 08:58.000 --> 09:03.000 Just ahead of you lies quicksand, 09:03.000 --> 09:07.000 and you are going to die in it. 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 Shut up! Shut up, you hear? 09:09.000 --> 09:12.000 Death is waiting for you 09:12.000 --> 09:15.000 in the quicksand ahead. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 Maybe this will keep you quiet. 09:20.000 --> 09:25.000 You should have saved one bullet for yourself. 09:25.000 --> 09:29.000 Be quiet. Be quiet, you hear? You're dead. You can't talk. 09:29.000 --> 09:33.000 You seem confused now. 09:33.000 --> 09:37.000 Is the quicksand ahead of you? 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 To the left? 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 To the right? 09:41.000 --> 09:46.000 If I were you, I'd turn to the left. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 Trying to outsmart me, aren't you? 09:48.000 --> 09:52.000 Well, you can't. I'm going straight ahead. 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 You're making a mistake. 09:56.000 --> 10:00.000 There is quicksand just ahead. 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 If it was, you wouldn't be telling me. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 I know better than to... 10:04.000 --> 10:08.000 I'm caught! It is quicksand! I'm sinking! 10:08.000 --> 10:11.000 Yes, it's quicksand. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 And in a minute you'll sink beneath the surface. 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 Then your crimes will be paid for. 10:15.000 --> 10:19.000 You're not dead. You're alive. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 I didn't kill it. 10:21.000 --> 10:24.000 No, that bullet you fired at me only creased my scalp, 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 knocked me unconscious. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 I recovered in time to trail you. 10:28.000 --> 10:29.000 Get my revenge. 10:29.000 --> 10:31.000 Don't stand there. Get me out of here. 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 I'll confess to anything. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 Only get me out of here. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 Why should I help you? 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 You killed my father. 10:39.000 --> 10:43.000 No! This is the same pool of quicksand the duke died in. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 And now you're going to join him. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 No! No! 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 You've been wandering around in circles for hours. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 But I knew you'd end up here. 10:50.000 --> 10:53.000 No, no. Don't let me die. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 The quicksand is up to your neck now. 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 In a minute it will reach your mouth. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 And then it'll be all over. 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 Save me! I don't want to die. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 No, my father didn't want to die either. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 But you killed him. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 Help me. You must help me. 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 Nobody can help you now. 11:11.000 --> 11:14.000 Help me, please, God. 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 I'm sorry I didn't have a chance to tell you 11:21.000 --> 11:27.000 that this is the only quicksand hole in all the swamp 11:27.000 --> 11:36.000 between here and New Orleans. 11:42.000 --> 11:46.000 Your grace had only known there was just one pool of quicksand. 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 He might have reached New Orleans. 11:48.000 --> 11:52.000 But you see, he let his imagination run wild 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 and vision death on all sides. 11:55.000 --> 12:00.000 No wonder he traveled in circles and ended up dead. 12:00.000 --> 12:03.000 I know another case where... 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 Oh, you have to go now? Too bad. 12:06.000 --> 12:09.000 But perhaps you'll drop in on me again soon. 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 I'm always home. 12:11.000 --> 12:16.000 Just look for the house on the other side of the cemetery. 12:16.000 --> 12:25.000 The house of Dr. Weir.