WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.080 Roma wines present suspense. Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:19.080 --> 00:27.240 Salud! Your health, senora. Roma wines toast the world. The wine for your table is Roma wine 00:27.240 --> 00:34.720 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. This is the Man in Black here for 00:34.720 --> 00:40.320 the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California to introduce this weekly half hour of suspense. 00:40.320 --> 00:46.600 Tonight in Hollywood, Roma brings you the young American actor whose sensational rise to stardom 00:46.600 --> 00:54.400 has been unparalleled in recent seasons, Mr. Alan Ladd. The suspense play which stars Alan Ladd and 00:54.400 --> 01:02.120 which is produced and directed by William Spear is called The One Way Ride to Nowhere. So with 01:02.120 --> 01:07.600 this play and with the performance of Mr. Ladd as an adventurous young man named Tom Dwyer, 01:07.600 --> 01:26.680 Roma wines again hope to keep you in suspense. Right this way ladies and gentlemen, the thrill 01:26.680 --> 01:33.840 of a lifetime. It's safe and sensational and the price is only a dime. A dime ten cents for the 01:33.840 --> 01:39.360 fastest and the fanciest ride in Ocean City. It's not a roller coaster ladies and gentlemen, 01:39.360 --> 01:45.960 it's an experience. We give you the breathtaking dip over Moonlight Bay. We give you the tunnel 01:45.960 --> 01:51.280 of love and it's the longest and highest and the very finest scenic railway in the world. 01:51.280 --> 01:57.040 How many good looking? Two tickets. No listen Tom is this really necessary? What's the matter with 01:57.040 --> 02:01.160 you? Come on you're scared? Well I just don't like these things that's all I never have. Don't be 02:01.160 --> 02:05.120 silly it's no worse than riding to a stick-up in a prowl car. Yeah well I never liked that either. 02:05.120 --> 02:12.080 Go on go on get in. Oh no not in the last seat that is definitely up. Okay okay so we'll ride in 02:12.080 --> 02:16.400 the last seat the next time when you're over your stage fright. You'll ride in the last seat 02:16.400 --> 02:20.760 the next time for me this is strictly a one-shot proposition and don't expect anything different. 02:20.760 --> 02:32.280 Safety belt Mack everybody got their safety belt buckled? Okay folks you're on. 02:32.280 --> 02:52.480 Oh hey hey Tom are we still alive? Well can't you tell? All right folks who's gonna ride again? 02:52.480 --> 02:57.160 What do you say Benny? Wanna try it again? Are you crazy? Come on come on it'll do you good. 02:57.160 --> 03:02.240 Don't tell me. This thing is a menace to health and sanity. What did I tell you? Look there's 03:02.240 --> 03:07.920 a guy passed out back there. Come on snap out of it. Hey come on get up mister. Hey somebody 03:07.920 --> 03:12.400 give me a hand with this guy. Yeah yeah I'll help you. All right you get his legs I'll take 03:12.400 --> 03:17.280 his head. Oh I don't know why guys ride this thing if they're gonna pull a fade out. Oh 03:17.280 --> 03:22.640 this guy didn't pull any fade out. Yeah well he ain't exactly the life of the party. You're 03:22.640 --> 03:31.040 right there pal he's dead. He's what? He's dead. Holy gee. I better call a boss. All right folks 03:31.040 --> 03:35.200 you'll have to step outside the gates please. I'm sorry there's been a little accident here. 03:35.200 --> 03:40.320 Everybody out please go on everybody out. What's the matter Johnny? A guy passed out. Man that 03:40.320 --> 03:46.400 says he's dead. Oh every season it's something. Please folks outside the gate. Yeah go on. All 03:46.400 --> 03:51.440 right stand back there stand back everybody. What's the matter Terry? That guy just died 03:51.440 --> 03:55.920 honestly. Yeah how come? I don't know this man here looked him over. How do you know he's dead? You a 03:55.920 --> 04:02.160 doctor? No officer but it's uh not too hard to tell. Where is he? Back in her last seat. Come on 04:02.160 --> 04:05.440 keep the mob outside will you Terry? Sure. Come on break it up now will you? Break it up. 04:07.600 --> 04:12.640 This the guy? Yeah. Looks like it must have been heart failure. It doesn't look to me like heart 04:12.640 --> 04:18.720 failure. Say who are you? Dwyer's a name Tom Dwyer. Yeah well. Hey I've never seen this dead guy. 04:19.440 --> 04:24.400 He never bought a ticket for me. That's right he never had a ticket. You mean he rode for free? How 04:24.400 --> 04:30.320 could he? He rode for free all right. Say how come you know so much about this? Me? Oh I'm just kind 04:30.320 --> 04:36.960 of nosy. Hey you. Yeah? Do you remember seeing this man get on the car? How do I know to get on to get 04:36.960 --> 04:40.640 off? I just work here. Don't you remember that my friend and I were going to get in that last seat 04:40.640 --> 04:46.720 and then we didn't? Hey that's right. Hey who's this? Ben Duffy's a friend of mine. Yeah? Yeah. Now 04:46.720 --> 04:51.280 listen my friend and I were the last ones to get in that car. We were going to take the last seat 04:51.280 --> 04:56.880 and then we didn't. Then the car pulled out and when it pulled out that last seat was empty. Hey 04:56.880 --> 05:02.720 that's right. That last seat was empty. This dead guy never even got on the car. Now you're getting 05:02.720 --> 05:07.840 someplace. All right Dick Tracy I'm listening. A rolly coaster car starts out from this platform 05:07.840 --> 05:12.640 all hunky dory and rips around the tracks about 90 miles an hour and when it gets back here there's 05:12.640 --> 05:17.600 a dead guy on it that wasn't on it when it started. How do you think he got on there? Dropped out of 05:17.600 --> 05:22.880 the sky? Well figure it out for yourself pal. If he wasn't in the car when it started then some place 05:22.880 --> 05:29.040 along the line he was dumped on it and guys who have been dumped are generally guys who have been 05:29.040 --> 05:45.280 murdered. Murder is a rude and terrible customer always but seldom indeed has this unwelcome 05:45.280 --> 05:51.120 guest intruded more incongruously than on this particular evening when he chose to be the extra 05:51.120 --> 05:58.560 passenger on a roller coaster ride. Alan Ladd is our star of suspense in Robert L. Richard's story 05:58.560 --> 06:12.320 the one-way ride to nowhere. 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A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 08:06.880 --> 08:10.560 Hey Tom where you been? We're all supposed to be waiting in here for the chief of police. 08:10.560 --> 08:15.680 I'm making a phone call that's all. Anybody I know? Jefferson Hotel. You know him? Huh? Hey what's 08:15.680 --> 08:21.040 this all about? Oh about four hundred thousand dollars and a lot of people's lives. Uh-oh here 08:21.040 --> 08:26.000 comes the chief now. All right quiet everybody. Chief Haynes wants to say something to you. 08:27.120 --> 08:32.720 A man died under peculiar circumstances on the Ocean City roller coaster tonight 08:33.680 --> 08:38.240 and all of you here were either on the car in which the body was found or in the immediate 08:38.240 --> 08:45.440 vicinity like on the platform. Now cause of death has not yet been determined but all of you might 08:45.440 --> 08:50.080 be needed as witnesses so we want to know where to get a hold of you. Have all these people been 08:50.080 --> 08:54.560 identified and left locations where they can be reached? Yes sir. Well then that's all you can go now. 08:56.400 --> 09:02.640 Oh uh chief Haynes. Well I'd like to ask a couple of questions. Are these the two fellows you told 09:02.640 --> 09:07.040 me about Johnson? Yes sir. You're a pretty inquisitive young fellow aren't you? Well that's 09:07.040 --> 09:12.720 my business. By the way chief Haynes haven't we met somewhere before? Not that I know of. 09:12.720 --> 09:17.200 What did you want to ask about? Well for one thing you said just now the cause of death have not yet 09:17.200 --> 09:21.200 been determined. That's right the man was blue in the face and apathetic but there were no marks of 09:21.200 --> 09:25.200 violence on the body. The coroner's working on it now. Maybe the coroner should look at the man's neck. 09:25.920 --> 09:31.200 At what? At his neck. Listen you're no doctor and neither am I. The coroner of this city knows his 09:31.200 --> 09:36.240 business. Okay Haynes okay I just thought I might save him a little time. Well you're wasting my time. 09:36.240 --> 09:40.000 If you think I'm going to give you an inside track so that you can go to this poor man's family with 09:40.000 --> 09:44.640 some sales talk that you can help him get some kind of illegal action. Oh he's got a family has he? 09:44.640 --> 09:50.080 Yeah he's got a family. Now get out of here. And his name is Richard Elliston Brighton and he's 09:50.080 --> 09:54.720 professor of psychology. He comes from Chicago right? So you went through his pockets before 09:54.720 --> 09:59.280 my men got there. How did I say that? Listen to me young fellow you know entirely too much about this 09:59.280 --> 10:04.320 case for your own good. You're from Chicago too aren't you? That's right. What are you doing here? 10:04.320 --> 10:10.160 On a vacation visiting my friend here. Well you better take it. Oh hello doctor. What about it? 10:10.160 --> 10:17.680 Uh murder. He was strangled. Strangled? Mm-hmm. We got a good look at him. We found a thin red 10:17.680 --> 10:23.280 mark around his neck. He was strangled with something like uh picture wire. Now isn't that 10:23.280 --> 10:28.000 a funny way for a middle-aged professor to be knocked off? Yeah funny way for anybody to be 10:28.000 --> 10:33.600 knocked off. And isn't that a funny thing for a professor of psychology with uh with a family 10:33.600 --> 10:39.040 and all to be way out here all alone so far from home hanging around an amusement park? No funnier 10:39.040 --> 10:43.920 than what you're doing hanging around here. And that's quite a coincidence by the way Mr. Tom Dwyer 10:43.920 --> 10:48.720 of Chicago. Chicago's a big place Chief Haines. Lots of people live there. Uh say chief what I 10:48.720 --> 10:53.200 think of it here is the stuff we took out of his pockets and nothing much wallet and a few things 10:53.200 --> 10:58.960 and oh drop something there. I got it. Hand that over Dwyer. Well well well a souvenir postcard. 10:58.960 --> 11:06.080 What? Sheila Kennedy. Ocean City. Hey she's quite a cutie too. I said hand it over. It's material 11:06.080 --> 11:11.200 evidence. Sure sure sure here you are. One of the local tent show girls I take it. Know anything 11:11.200 --> 11:16.480 about her chief? Now listen Dwyer. I got enough on you already to hold you on suspicion. Take my 11:16.480 --> 11:20.640 advice and keep your nose out of this. Come on Tom this isn't doing you any good. Yeah that's right 11:20.640 --> 11:37.120 Ben and anyway we got a date with a lady. They're lovely. They're luscious. They're delightful and 11:37.120 --> 11:43.200 they're daring. The most gorgeous girls. Hey Bud can we go in now? Yeah what did she say? What's that? 11:43.200 --> 11:47.840 I said can we go in now? Oh yeah okay fellas down there the second door. I told her about you and 11:47.840 --> 11:54.640 she says it's okay. Thanks. Make it snappy she goes out in a couple of minutes. Hey lovely. Room of 11:54.640 --> 11:59.680 her own. Sheila must be all right. Hey I thought you said this was business. It is. Wait out here 11:59.680 --> 12:10.720 will you Ben? Oh so when it's dames I wait outside. I said this was business. Well I don't know you. 12:10.720 --> 12:16.080 Well maybe we've both been missing something. How did you know I came from Chicago? You'd never 12:16.080 --> 12:19.920 have gotten in if you hadn't pulled that. It was a good guess wasn't it? Well I don't know you and I 12:19.920 --> 12:24.400 don't want to know you so beat it. Now look Sheila I didn't come here to cause you any trouble. My 12:24.400 --> 12:28.880 name's Tom Dwyer and I. Are you going to leave or do I call a bouncer? Sheila a man was murdered in 12:28.880 --> 12:34.560 the amusement park tonight. Murder? Well hadn't you heard? Everybody has but I didn't know it was. 12:34.560 --> 12:40.560 He was from Chicago too and Sheila he he had your picture in his pocket. My picture? That's right. 12:40.560 --> 12:46.240 So so what? There must be 50,000 old goats from one end of this country to the other with my picture 12:46.240 --> 12:52.320 in their pockets. They sell them at the show. How do you know how old he was? I don't. I was only. 12:52.320 --> 12:55.520 Professor Brighton didn't come around in the last two or three days to talk to you about 12:56.160 --> 13:00.560 about anything did he Sheila? No I don't even know what you're talking about. You got no right to 13:00.560 --> 13:05.040 question me. You know what I think Sheila? I don't know and I don't care. I think you're in a tough 13:05.040 --> 13:12.400 spot and you'd like to be out of it. Only you uh don't know quite how. Well what if I am? 13:13.280 --> 13:17.440 Well maybe I can help you. Nobody can help me. This is murder Sheila. That's not so good. 13:18.240 --> 13:23.680 What's your angle in all this? I wouldn't kid you. I'm a private detective. I make my living in things 13:23.680 --> 13:29.440 like this. Aside from that and as a general rule I I just don't like murder. Listen mister 13:29.440 --> 13:35.200 what'd you say your name was? Dwyer. I'm proud of you. All right. I don't know why but you seem like 13:35.200 --> 13:40.880 a nice guy. I am. Well you know me better. Might have been nice at that. Keep out of this. It's for 13:40.880 --> 13:45.760 your own good. You'll get nothing but grief. What kind of grief? The worst kind there is. 13:45.760 --> 13:50.960 You saw what happened to the professor. Poor guy. Get out of the amusement park. Get out of Ocean City 13:50.960 --> 13:55.680 and stay out. Thanks Sheila. Maybe you're right. I know I'm right. But I'm in kind of deep already. 13:55.680 --> 14:02.240 Is there anything particular I should look out for? Come on Sheila you're on. Okay. 14:02.800 --> 14:07.120 Listen Tom just remember that roller coaster isn't the only one-way ride to nowhere around here. 14:09.440 --> 14:10.960 One-way ride to nowhere. 14:10.960 --> 14:18.560 There. 14:22.560 --> 14:25.520 Yeah what did she mean by that? Maybe. 14:28.720 --> 14:33.280 One-way ride to nowhere. That's what the professor got all right for free but how? 14:33.280 --> 14:37.200 He was dumped on. I still say how. Well that little problem doesn't bother me but. 14:37.200 --> 14:44.000 She's the one and only the bulletproof automobile that took three men on a one-way ride to nowhere. 14:44.000 --> 14:49.520 One-way ride to nowhere. Come on. Hey I think it's around there to the right. 14:50.240 --> 14:55.760 Yeah. Bulletproof automobile. Where? That can't show next to the roller coaster. Take it easy now. 14:56.320 --> 15:00.960 Okay but. Then you worry me sometimes. Did you know this thing was here? Well it wasn't here last week. 15:00.960 --> 15:04.880 How am I supposed to know what you want? If you'd tell a guy something once in a while it wouldn't. 15:04.880 --> 15:10.480 Boy you never heard of Dwyer's McGuire either. No. Skip it. Guy's going into his routine again. 15:11.040 --> 15:17.360 Ladies and gentlemen step right up. Inside you will see the actual bulletproof automobile 15:17.360 --> 15:23.440 in which the famous Jarvis gang sped from the scene of the four hundred thousand dollar 15:23.440 --> 15:30.240 Springfield mail robbery. The most daring hold up in modern times. Now this is the very limousine 15:30.240 --> 15:36.480 in which they were pursued for 50 miles. Three of them died. The fourth became a raving maniac 15:36.480 --> 15:41.760 on that last fatal one-way ride to nowhere. Step right in ladies and gentlemen. 15:43.360 --> 15:46.880 Benny. Benny now I know I'm right. Is this what you came down here for? 15:46.880 --> 15:50.960 Not exactly but there's been some funny talk lately about this mail robbery job in some funny 15:50.960 --> 15:55.280 place. I still don't get it. There were four guys in on that. Three of them dead and the others in 15:55.280 --> 15:58.720 the bug house. That kind of closes the books don't it? I'll give you a little tip Benny. 15:58.720 --> 16:03.680 They never found the money. And the insurance company's got a standing offer of a 10% reward. 16:04.720 --> 16:09.280 40,000 bucks. Step right over gents the original bulletproof automobile. 16:09.280 --> 16:15.680 Okay maybe we'll at that. How much? Two bits. Okay. Yeah yeah. Step right inside gentlemen. 16:16.240 --> 16:20.160 Now the car that you see before you. You don't have much business do you? 16:20.640 --> 16:24.320 And what are you a couple of public accountants? No offense it just seems too bad. It's a small 16:24.320 --> 16:28.880 exhibit. You're telling me. These hicks down here they don't appreciate nothing. 16:28.880 --> 16:33.120 It must be pretty hard judging what the public will go for. Yeah I thought this 16:33.120 --> 16:37.600 motor automobile would be a sensation. Something modern you know. My brother found it in a junkyard 16:37.600 --> 16:42.480 in Indiana. Cops must have sold it at auction or something. Look would you really like to get rid 16:42.480 --> 16:48.480 of this heap? Like to. Don't worry I already have. Yeah? Listen brother the minute I found out that 16:48.480 --> 16:52.880 I had to take you I went out and found me a sucker but quick. Well how did you find him? 16:52.880 --> 17:00.880 Well I didn't exactly find him. He come by you see. He's making some sort of a collection for some 17:00.880 --> 17:07.600 cops museum. Capone's bulletproof car. Dillinger's artillery. You know I got my price though. 17:09.600 --> 17:15.920 Oh no isn't that too bad Benny? Oh yeah sure it is. What's too bad about it? Well I'll tell you the 17:15.920 --> 17:20.800 truth. We're making sort of a collection ourselves for a big New York exhibitor. Sure. I thought 17:20.800 --> 17:24.880 maybe we could do a little business. Oh I'm sorry mister. Just close the deal tonight if you'd only 17:24.880 --> 17:30.160 come around just a couple hours sooner. Well do you suppose this man you sold the car to would be 17:30.160 --> 17:36.800 interested in selling at the right price? I don't know. It'd cost you plenty though. Confidentially 17:36.800 --> 17:42.720 he paid me a thousand bucks cash. Where could we find this guy? Well he should be here any minute. 17:42.720 --> 17:47.280 He's gonna pick up the papers and things. Hey you want to come out and back and wait from there? 17:47.280 --> 17:52.640 I was just gonna knock off anyway. Well thanks. You know I had a hunch maybe I should have held on. 17:52.640 --> 18:00.080 How's a guy supposed to know in this crazy business? Well hey yeah. Wow quite a cozy little 18:00.080 --> 18:03.360 place you got here. That's all right. Sit down make yourself at home. 18:06.880 --> 18:12.560 Hey hey what's that? Huh? Oh them rolly coasters. The tunnel goes right under the floor here. 18:12.560 --> 18:17.840 It's enough to drive you nuts. Yeah I can imagine. That door over there must open up right where the 18:17.840 --> 18:22.640 tunnel comes out huh? Yeah I guess it does at that. I never looked. It's all nailed up. Hey there used 18:22.640 --> 18:26.800 to be another wing on this building in the old days wasn't there? That was the door to it. It might 18:26.800 --> 18:32.160 have been. Yeah I guess it was. Say does this mister uh. The guy I sold the car to? McGuire. 18:32.160 --> 18:37.360 McGuire. Oh does he have a sort of a business manager with him or anybody like that? Well he's 18:37.360 --> 18:41.760 had a couple of guys with him once in a while. He really didn't pay no attention. I suppose he's 18:41.760 --> 18:46.240 been hanging around here fairly steady the last few days huh? In and out you know. He ought to 18:46.240 --> 18:51.600 be here any minute. Oh here he is now. What's the matter? Dad I don't. Hello Mr. McGuire we was just 18:51.600 --> 18:57.200 talking about you. Yeah? Who what? Well me and these two gentlemen they want to see you but. 18:57.200 --> 19:02.320 Is this the guy that came to see you Sheila? I don't know. Sure I am Sheila come on tell him. 19:02.320 --> 19:08.720 Well I guess that's him. Okay you can run along to the hotel honey. Head listen please don't. Who 19:08.720 --> 19:14.720 like I tell you? Harry you stay here with me. Okay I got all your papers and things Mr. McGuire. 19:14.720 --> 19:19.280 Everything's here in this amf. Thanks. Now what you two fellas want to see me about? Just a little 19:19.280 --> 19:24.400 business proposition. My name is Tom Dwyer and this is Ben Duffy. Hiya Mr. McGuire. Here's McGuire. 19:24.400 --> 19:29.280 Pleased to meet you. You can beat it now for ever. We'll take care of everything. Okay well uh. 19:29.280 --> 19:37.200 Salam. Salam. Watch the door Harry. Now what's your proposition? Well I understand you bought 19:37.200 --> 19:44.160 McGuire's car. That's right. You interested in used cars? Some used car. How interested? 19:44.160 --> 19:49.680 Enough to make an offer. Your uh your friend here in on the deal? No he just came along for the ride. 19:49.680 --> 19:56.400 Well I got a partner. Where do we find him? We don't. He'd have to come here and we'd have to 19:56.400 --> 20:01.920 send somebody after him. Somebody like uh like your friend. Okay. Now listen Tom I don't. What's 20:01.920 --> 20:07.680 his name and how does my uh my friend find it? Name is Johnson. George Johnson. He's at 2854 Drexel 20:07.680 --> 20:12.480 Boulevard. Just tell him I sent you. Uh Tom I don't think I ought to leave. Take it easy. 20:13.120 --> 20:18.640 While you're out I I wish you'd do something for me first. What? Take up my mail. It won't be out of 20:18.640 --> 20:23.760 your way. Your mail? Yeah that's right. Do that first. I'm expecting a very important special 20:23.760 --> 20:29.200 delivery and I want you to stop by the Jefferson Hotel where I'm staying and ask for a bellhop 20:29.200 --> 20:35.600 named uh Ted Martin. He takes care of all my stuff. The Jefferson? That's right and be sure to see Ted 20:35.600 --> 20:39.040 Martin. He's the only one who can help you so ask the clerk for him and hurry back then. 20:39.600 --> 20:41.280 Ted Martin and Jefferson. Well okay. 20:44.160 --> 20:50.320 You want me to go Ed? No you stay here. Now that he's out of the way what do you know? 20:50.320 --> 20:56.400 Enough. You're a pretty bright boy aren't you? You gonna talk? Why not? I know for instance why you 20:56.400 --> 21:02.480 bought that car. I think you know too much. Let me handle this. Keep talking bright boy. After that 21:02.480 --> 21:07.760 Springfield mail job nobody ever found the money. 400,000 bucks is a lot of letters and you think 21:07.760 --> 21:12.000 it's still somewhere in that car. Did you figure it out all by yourself or did you get a tip when 21:12.000 --> 21:18.640 you were in the federal pen along with Duke Jarvis? You know any more cute answers bright boy? Sure 21:19.440 --> 21:24.160 I come from Chicago. I know that around there you got a nickname and they call you 21:24.160 --> 21:29.920 wires. I told you too much. On account you got a reputation for being very handy disposing of 21:29.920 --> 21:34.320 troublesome guys with the length of picture wire twisted around the neck. Any idea what you've 21:34.320 --> 21:39.040 just talked yourself in for bright boy? I know what I'll talk you in for if you don't play ball. 21:39.040 --> 21:44.800 What do you think of that? I think we're wasting time. Listen McGuire I not only know how you 21:44.800 --> 21:49.920 killed Professor Brighton I know why. Sure you do bright boy sure you do. You think I'm kidding 21:49.920 --> 21:54.720 huh? Professor Brighton was a psychiatrist. They used to call him into the federal pen to examine 21:54.720 --> 21:59.600 guys who were wacky. They called him in to examine Duke Jarvis. Duke was the last of the Jarvis gang 21:59.600 --> 22:04.400 the rest were all killed in the hold up. He was wacky all right. So wacky they let stuff about the 22:04.400 --> 22:09.440 money being still hidden in the car. So when the professor heard about the car showing up he thought 22:09.440 --> 22:14.640 he could pick up a piece of change. Poor guy only you caught up with him first huh? You got it all 22:14.640 --> 22:21.440 figured out haven't you? Yeah all but one thing I don't think you're smart enough to pull this all 22:21.440 --> 22:26.480 by yourself. I think you do have a partner. I tell you we're wasting time. No we're not. 22:27.120 --> 22:30.800 Now listen Bright Boy who are you working for? What difference does that make? 22:30.800 --> 22:37.520 Plenty. Don't you think I want to know who else is in on this? What do you say Bright Boy? There's 22:37.520 --> 22:43.520 nobody I'm working alone. Cover him Harry. Okay. You'd better talk Bright Boy. There's nothing to say. 22:43.520 --> 22:50.080 Who else knows about this? Nobody. This ain't gonna do your face any good Bright Boy. Talk. Got him. 23:02.480 --> 23:06.560 Watch him Harry. I think he's coming out of it again. Yeah this ain't getting us no price. 23:06.560 --> 23:11.360 Suppose his pal comes back. He'll never come back but the time he finds out there ain't no such guy 23:11.360 --> 23:19.920 as George Johnson. Take a look Harry. It's me. It's Chief Haynes Ed. Okay open up. Hey I thought I 23:19.920 --> 23:25.600 told you. How did he get here? He walked in. He knows plenty. How much? It worked. We've been 23:25.600 --> 23:30.880 trying to sweat out of him who he's working for. Haynes. I know where I've seen you before. 23:31.920 --> 23:38.720 Your picture. You were a guard at the federal pen when Jarvis McGuire were there. That's how you 23:38.720 --> 23:44.560 heard about the money. When McGuire came down here he had to play ball because you were chief of 23:44.560 --> 23:50.720 police here. He's got the gold McGuire. Yeah I know. So we give him the business and dump him out of the 23:50.720 --> 23:55.280 side store there into the roller coaster like we did the prep. Are you crazy? You can't get away 23:55.280 --> 23:59.680 with two jobs like that same night. So what do we do? Anything. Dump him in the bay. Make it look 23:59.680 --> 24:05.280 like an accident. Anything. Hey there's an idea. Don't try to get fancy about it this time. But you 24:05.280 --> 24:10.000 just gave me quite an idea Haynes. Quite a good idea. 24:18.160 --> 24:24.000 The fastest and the fanciest roller coaster. Keep that hat down over his face and hold him up straight. 24:24.000 --> 24:29.280 Yeah I got him. What seat do we want? What's the difference? Car's almost empty anyway. Get him in. 24:29.280 --> 24:34.320 Take the middle one. All right. I'll tell your safety vows. Keep that belt loose. Okay everybody 24:34.320 --> 24:36.320 you're off. There we go. 24:43.760 --> 24:46.960 Going into the tunnel now. Tie his hands and feet while we're in the dock. 24:46.960 --> 24:49.840 Yeah I'm doing it now. Got the search weights on him? They're on him. 24:52.640 --> 24:57.680 We're out now. Watch him. Hey what was that? What's the difference? Hang on. We're starting up. 24:57.680 --> 25:03.440 We're coming to the top. You know what to do Harry. Yeah. When you hit the bottom of the dip over the bay. 25:03.440 --> 25:08.000 Okay. I'll yell and we both heave together. He'll go down into that bay and sink like a... 25:08.000 --> 25:11.120 Okay McGuire. Put up your hands both of you. Put them up. 25:11.120 --> 25:17.600 Okay McGuire. Put up your hands both of you. Put them up. 25:26.480 --> 25:31.600 Ben. Ben you made it. Tommy you okay? Yeah sure. What do you think you're doing here? 25:31.600 --> 25:36.880 The federal pinch McGuire. I'm Ted Martin, Department of Justice. Staying at the Jefferson Hotel. 25:36.880 --> 25:41.760 Get it McGuire? Hey Tom you ought to get to a dock. No no I gotta get down to the police. Hey Ted. 25:42.720 --> 25:46.160 Ted listen never mind about these guys. Get Haynes, Chief of Police. We've got a couple of men down 25:46.160 --> 25:50.400 there already Tom. When you phoned I figured you might get mixed up with him. We've had our eye on 25:50.400 --> 25:56.640 the Chief for quite a while. Well I'll see you later. So long. Thanks Ted. Hey you were taking an 25:56.640 --> 26:01.360 awful chance Tom playing so cagey. I had to be sure first. I bet Dame hadn't stuck around and 26:01.360 --> 26:07.120 tipped us off. We just about made it when the car went through the tunnel. That Sheila Dame huh? Uh 26:07.120 --> 26:14.080 huh. Say Ben I uh I think I got a date with a lady. Oh so what do I do? Well I'll tell you. 26:14.080 --> 26:31.680 Here's a dime advance out of your twenty thousand dollar reward. Go take a ride on the roller coaster. 26:36.160 --> 26:42.240 And so closes the one-way ride to nowhere starring Alan Ladd. Tonight's tale of 26:42.240 --> 26:51.280 The Fiend. In just a moment we'll hear again from Mr. Ladd. First though may I pass along this 26:51.280 --> 26:57.520 thought. Spotted about the globe wherever wine grapes grow there are a few wineries whose products 26:57.520 --> 27:05.520 are made for world enjoyment. Among such wineries right here in California are those of Roma. 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