Two for the Road
Suspense · November 9, 1958 · 29 min · 4,473 words
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Suspects. And the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. Some years ago, Ernest Hemingway's great short story, The Killers, was made into a movie. Anyone who sought will never forget the menace and brutality of the two gunmen in the opening sequence.
Two nastier heavies have rarely been seen together on the screen. that their type of tough guys should not be allowed to languish in limbo, we have brought them together again in a rather different kind of story, yet still a story of heavies.
Listen, listen then, as William Conrad and Charles McGraw star in Two for the Road. Where we not, Joe? You've been asleep. Yeah. Where we now? I don't know for sure. Some place in Arkansas, I think.
There's a big country in it. Yeah. Hey, you want me to try? No, I'm all right. You got some more sleep. I got enough. Sure you're all right. It will be a little groggy. Little stop in the next place for coffee, and you can take it from there.
OK. Hey, what time is it? Must be past midnight. Yeah, I keep wondering. Yeah, I wonder what. Ah, for doing the right thing, cutting out like this. What else good way to go? New York is dead, but Chicago in New York.
I think the coast will be any better. It's gotta be. There's plenty of action on our coast. I hope you're right. But all we got lined up is that job for Rocky. What about after?
We do the job good for Rocky, it take care of us. When we get there you think? Well, we come down half way in 24 hours. If we go right through, we oughta make it by.
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