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If the Dead Could Talk

Suspense · January 20, 1949 · 29 min · 4,452 words

The transcript of “If the Dead Could Talk”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast January 20, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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And now, auto-light, and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present... Suspense! Tonight, auto-light brings you Mr. Dana Andrews in... If the dead could talk. A suspense play, produced and directed by Anton M. Leader. Friends, you know what happens when you take a fish out of water?

Sure it dies. Well, by Cornelius the same thing happens when your car's battery runs out of water. It lies right down and quits. No water, no life. So what did the auto-light people do? They made the auto-light stay full battery with an extra large liquid reserve.

Gave it more room for more water. Result, the auto-light stay full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use? Think of it, auto-light stay full batteries need water only three times a year in normal car use.

Just like that, auto-light practically eliminates one of your major battery bothers. So friends, be right with auto light. Switch to an auto light. Stay full battery tomorrow. And now, auto light presents Dana Andrews in a tale well calculated to keep you in.

Suspents! They'll never know how it happened. No one will ever know. I knew I was going to have to kill him almost from the first. That's how I am. That's what my blood is. I couldn't change it even if I tried.

We were on a circus train, the three of us in the trapeze act, going from Tulsa to San Louis. Frann had asked me to come and sit with her, but she had something to tell me.

When I went over she was staring out the window into the night, and the dim train lights made her features kind of soft and blurred. And I stood watching her getting all choked up like I always did, wanting to freeze this picture of her in my brain with all the other pictures.

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