In this gripping episode of Mystery Theater, we delve into the Cardwell family's dark secrets and the eerie parallels to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Douglas Cardwell, a young man grappling with the sudden death of his father, Edmund, is confronted with the unsettling truth that his father's demise was not due to natural causes. As Douglas navigates the tension between his mother, Gertrude, and his uncle Stanley, he uncovers a sinister plot involving the sale of the family business, Branbury Glass, which threatens the livelihood of their entire town. With the help of his girlfriend, Phyllis, Douglas seeks to expose the truth and avenge his father's murder, guided by the spectral presence of Edmund himself.
As the story unfolds, Douglas and Phyllis devise a plan reminiscent of Hamlet's play-within-a-play to catch the conscience of the guilty parties. The suspense builds as they film a reenactment of the crime, hoping to provoke a confession from Uncle Stanley. The episode explores themes of betrayal, justice, and the supernatural, culminating in a dramatic confrontation that reveals the true nature of family loyalty and the lengths one will go to protect their legacy. Join us for a tale of mystery, intrigue, and the enduring power of the human spirit.
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And now, mystery theater. Beer's great drop. Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. To be or not to be, that is not the question in the tale we're about to unfold, but there will be parallels to Shakespeare's great drama, which even the people involved recognize. Murder most foul, a spirit doomed to walk the earth, a murderer who well Douglas, wake up. You'll hear. We are concerned with the Cardwell family. Douglas, the young man, Edmund, his father, and Gertrude, his mother. Douglas?
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Douglas, are you awake? Douglas, wake up. Mhmm. Douglas, wake up. Will you please wake up?
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What? What's oh, what is it, mother? Is something wrong? You'll have to get up later. Well,
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call doctor Peterson. Of course, you'll be here in a few minutes. He's he's arranging for the ambulance and all that. Ambulance? But
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are you sick or something, mother? I'm perfectly alright. It's your father.
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Pop, what's wrong with you? I've told your father. I've told him over and over again that if he kept on with this kind of life he's been leading, he'd have to pay the price sooner or later. Well, now he's paid for it. What do you mean? Douglas, your father is dead.
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Our mystery drama That Hamlet Was a Good Boy was written especially for the out of Field and Farrington and stars Will Mackenzie and Jennifer Harmon. A boy has lost his father. Well, not a boy really. Douglas Cardwell is a young man, out of college and already experimenting with adult life and its potentialities. But when a boy or a man, at no matter what age, loses his father, loss. The funeral is over, marking the death as utterly final. And Douglas and his mother are returning to the home now tenanted by two instead of three people, at least in the natural course of things, tenanted only by two.
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Oh, got the drapes back. Will you, Douglas? And open some windows. I I never could understand why a house has to be darkened and all that. What? The,
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the drapes?
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Oh, for heaven's sake, you've got to stop this mooning about. Your father's been dead for three days now and I haven't heard a half dozen words out of you. I was very fond of my father.
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I miss him. I'm sorry if you think I'm overdoing it, but I miss him. Please open the drapes.
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My father was a good man I'd better set you straight about your father.
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I'm already straight about him. I don't need to be set.
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He always showed you his best side. I know. He never let you see the side of him I had to live with. I've always known what was going on. Oh, have you indeed? Did you know that your father was a drunkard? Oh, come on, mother. He took a drink now and then, but my father was a good man. Your father was a ne'er do well. We live in the finest house in Branbury.
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The very finest. Right?
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A house which your father inherited from his father. He owned
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the which employs almost half the people in this town. Right?
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Managed? Mismanaged would be more accurate.
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Do you know that? But how can you call him a ne'er do well?
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I'll tell you how. He could have been a millionaire several times over just by scribbling his name at the bottom of an agreement. He could have, but would he do it? No. No. Not your father.
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He knew I wanted him to, and that's why he wouldn't. You're talking about his refusal to sell the glassworks, aren't you?
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Amalgamated Glass offered him 3,000,000. 3 million dollars and 5% of their stock.
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What kind of a businessman turns down an offer like that? They wanted to close the Branbury Glass plant. You know that. Half the people in this town would have been thrown out of work.
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Well, thank goodness my brother will have better sense.
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Uncle Stanley. What's he got to do with it?
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Your uncle Stanley will be taking over the management of Brambury Glass now, Douglas.
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Uncle Stanley will? Yes. Character is My father had planned to put me in charge when he retired. He didn't know, of course, he was going to die.
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Your father left his entire estate for me.
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That includes the factory, you know. And you intend to make uncle Stanley the manager.
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Well, tell this. I I don't want to hurt you, but, well, I I'm sorry to say that I see some of your father's unfortunate characteristics in you. You've just said, you've just finished saying.
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Branbury into a ghost town.
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Poor he call. Brambury's near enough a ghost town in any case. And the people who live in it are not children. Let them take care of themselves. They're not our responsibility.
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My father felt they were his.
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You see what I mean? You're just like him. Thank you. A dreamer. Oh, and his choice of friends.
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Good heavens, the people he called friends. There were several hundred people outside the church today just standing there. They couldn't get inside because there wasn't room, but they wanted to pay their respects. I don't think so badly.
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Douglas, while we're on the subject of friends and the choosing of them, where was that girlfriend of yours today? That little, that little blonde. What's her name? Phyllis Downs. You know her name. I didn't see her at the funeral today. She was outside with the others, I expect.
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She knew you'd only snub her if she tried to come inside.
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Yes. I was there, Doug. Outside. And you know, I was sort of glad I was out there instead of in the church. I was sitting right there watching the people. They loved your father. You could see it in their faces.
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You know, a crazy thing. I I had this strange feeling all day. Well, ever since he died, actually, but especially today that that pop was there. I just you know, he might as well have been sitting right there in the pew beside me. Is is that completely nutty?
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Who are we to say so? I never really believed in stuff like that. Well, I don't think there's any way to believe or So she's going to make all such things flatly, Doug. The fact is we don't know. That's true. You really miss him, don't you, Doug? I can't except for you.
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The world has come to an end. Well, at least there will always be me. Thank the Lord. They're going to sell the glassworks, I think. What? Mother says she's going to make uncle Stanley the manager now that Pop's gone. Uncle Stanley? But can she do that? She says my father left his entire estate to her.
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Wouldn't.
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Yeah. Do everything sure of herself. And they'll sell the plant?
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The buyers will close it down. That's the only reason anybody ever wanted to buy Branbury glass. They might as well close the town down too. That's about what it amounts to.
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He'd have given us his blessing, wouldn't he? Of course.
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I talked to him about us. But your mother won't. She'll do everything she can to keep us from marrying. What can she do? I'm a big boy. I wanna marry you and I intend to. She has nothing to say about it. Well, I'm not so sure of that.
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Control of the money as well as the factory. She can put some pressure on you.
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So it's settled. We sell.
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You're quite sure you'll be able to find a buyer? Oh, no problem there.
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I don't know how the price will hold up. That's the only thing. Why shouldn't it hold up? We're coming to them now. They're not coming to us. Oh, well, I still don't see The price, whatever, will still be good enough to make us very wealthy people. I'll get on the phone first thing in the morning. Here, uncle Stanley, unless I miss my day. What what is it?
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I thought I heard somebody on the porch. A little early for Doug to be coming home from a date, isn't he? Well, he hasn't been feeling himself. He there. It is Douglas.
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Oh, I, I didn't expect to find you here, Uncle Stanley.
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You're home early, Douglas. Did you, quarrel with your little friend? What's her name? No. Phyllis and I didn't quarrel.
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I'm going up to my room, mother. All right. I think would be something I believe you ought to know. I'll take it standing up if you don't mind.
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Your uncle Stanley and I have definitely decided that the best thing to do is to sell the factory.
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I see. Best for whom? Best for everybody, boy. It'll make us all rich. What about the rest of the people in Branbury? We'll move out of here, Douglas. Somewhere in Florida, I think, would be nice. I'll fight it. I'll take it to court. Douglas. That's not what my father planned for the Granbury Glass Company and I don't intend to stand by. Douglas has quite enough of that kind of talk. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. There was a saint the way you go on about him. Close enough. Oh, Douglas. Don't be silly.
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If there ever was an unsaintly man, it was surely your father. He was a drunkard, a procrastinator, and a woman chaser. That's a lie.
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Douglas. Alright. Understand what I'm saying. I'll do everything I can to keep you from selling the plants. You'll come to agree with us, I'm sure, once you've taken time to think it over rationally. Oh, now think how Don't. Florida. We can I'm not going to Florida. I'm staying in Branbury. Maybe I can help pick up the pieces after they close the plant down. Anyway, Phyllis and I are going to be married
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You are not going to marry that that cheap little tramp.
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You presume too much on the fact that you're my mother. Don't. I'm going up to bed. You are not going to marry her. You have nothing to say about it,
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mother. Douglas. Douglas. Can you hear me? Don't don't be frightened, my son. There's nothing to be afraid of. Who?
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Who? Who? Who? Who's that? Now now don't
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don't let it upset you, my son. It's perfectly alright.
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Pop. Is that
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who is it? Yes. Yes. It's me, darling. Don't don't turn your light on just yet. I still have to materialize. There's no point in you watching a thing like that. It's Materializing is No, Doug. No. It's not a joke. It's just now wait. Wait just a minute. Okay. Okay, Doug. You can you can turn your lamp on now. Pop. Hello, son. You know, this materializing is kind of tricky for a beginner. Is it is it really you, Papa? Oh, yes. Yes. It's me. Alright. A ghost? Well, yes. Never real. Yes. You could say that. It's it's a word we don't particularly favor, but yes.
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All day,
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I had a feeling. I I had this crazy feeling. That's what I was with you. Right? You know, I was. I you know, that that was quite a funeral.
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You saw?
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The people outside, everything? Yeah. It was very moving. Very I never realized that all those people were so fond. Well well, I'm I'm not not here to talk about that. Why did you come back, pop?
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People don't usually, do they? No. Well, former people.
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See, the thing is, Doug, well, I've been made a class d spirit. A class d spirit? It's all very fair. All according to the regulations. See, a class d spirit has to walk the earth. That's the way it's always been. What is a class d spirit? Well, we're people of a former people whose murders have yet to be avenged. I know you. Mhmm. Did you ever see Shakespeare's Hamlet or you must have? Oh, yes. Of course. Now not that Hamlet. That Hamlet Oh. Boy. Not very bright, baby, but a good boy. His father got murdered and he couldn't rest a minute until the murder was avenged and his father could get out of class d. Fuck.
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You died of a heart attack. Doctor Peterson said so. He signed the certificate that way. Don't you believe it, son?
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Your uncle Stanley smothered me with a pillow.
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Murder most foul. Since the art of storytelling one, there have been tales of men and women murdered and unavenged. But who is to say with certainty that these lost souls walk only within the confines of fiction? The murder which goes unavenged is a murder which never comes to light. To shed some light on this one, I'll be back shortly after Peterson's two. Douglas Cardwell's father, dead now these three days, has just come to his son in the still of the night and spoken to him of murder. Although doctor Peterson signed a certificate saying that Edmund Cardwell's death was brought about by coronary arrest, Edmund himself claims that the cause was a pillow held over his face. And I think in law, Stanley.
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You can't mean that, pop. Uncle Stanley? There was never any trouble between you and uncle Stanley, was there? I mean, why should he wanna kill you? Well, I don't know myself exactly why he would wanna do such a thing, but since I know he did it, then it follows he had a motive, doesn't it? Yes.
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Yes. And I think I know what it was. You do? Well, then maybe you'd better tell me. Well, mother's putting uncle Stanley in charge at the plant. Oh, lord. Lord. I was afraid But you were just They're planning to sell out. They told me tonight just before I came up to bed. Well, there's all the motive you need.
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Son, listen. I, I have to tell you something about your mother and me. No need, pop.
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Do you think I wouldn't notice when you and mother started using separate bedrooms? Well, I What was I supposed to think that meant? But you were just a child then, Doug. Almost 12. Kids aren't stupid, pop. Oh, no.
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Apparently not. Well, I'm I'm sorry. Terrible thing to do. Shameful to do a thing like that to a boy. Well, then maybe it won't surprise you too much when I tell you I have reason to suspect your mother of being, well, an accomplice to my murder. Mother? Oh, come on, Tom. She's been after me for years to sell that factory. Well, it would have been a profitable thing to do if you didn't take into consideration the harm it would have done. Still, to say that she had a hand She she was at home that night. I came in late. We had a quarrel. I went on up to bed. Somebody had to let your uncle Stanley into the house.
Right? She must have she must have stayed down there waiting for him while he was upstairs holding that pillow over my face. I'm sorry, Doug. Sorry, but I don't see how he could have done it otherwise.
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It's a terrible thing to have to believe about your own mother. Terrible.
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I'm very sorry.
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But she has been saying some nasty things about you. Well, I'll tell you one thing she was right about.
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I was a procrastinator to well, to a certain degree. I've been meaning ever since the day you turned 21 to have my will changed in your favor, but somehow, well, I just put it off from day to day until
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well, it's just too late now. It's gonna be pretty hard on the town of Brandbray if they sell the plant. You know, whoever buys it will close it down. Well, now don't don't give up, son.
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I'm not in in very good shape for a fight, but we're not through yet all the same. What is it you want me to do? Well, I'm hanged if I know right this minute, son. We we should always think of something though, the two of us together. Well, right now, I'm just about tuckered out. Now let's think about it until tomorrow night, and I'll appear to you again the next midnight. Wherever you are at midnight, I'll be there.
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Okay. Why is it always midnight, Pop? I mean, why do ghosts always walk at midnight?
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Well, it's it's tradition. No. It's traditional, I guess. As far as I can tell. As far as I can tell, it's no easier at midnight than any other time.
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Douglas, you've hardly touched your breakfast, did it? That's right.
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They're fine, mother. I'm not hungry. That's all. Well, you have to eat. You can't go wash. Strange thing has happened, mother.
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Strange.
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I saw my father last night.
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You what?
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He came to me in my room. Have you lost your mind? I don't think so. Oh, you dreamed it. No, mother. I was awake. It was no dream. He he sat on the edge of the bed, and we talked almost the way we used to talk.
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Only not about the same kind of thing. Or heft. And what did you talk about in this dream that wasn't a dream? Murder.
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We talked about murder.
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About murder?
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He told me he'd been murdered. Uncle Stanley held a pillow over his face and smothered him.
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Oh, for heaven's sake, don't
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told me and I believed him. You believed him?
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You actually think your uncle Stanley would oh. Oh, my poor Douglas. It's it's I'm so sorry. It's just been too much for you, hasn't it? I didn't really Too much. Yes. But I am not out of my mind.
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I know what I saw, and I know what I heard. That isn't all of it either, I'm afraid. It's quite enough for me. He thinks you were involved. He thinks you helped uncle Stanley kill him of your business Alright, Douglas.
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I've heard all of this kind of talk I intend to listen to.
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I'll call doctor Peterson and see if he can recommend a good psychiatrist. You can call if you like, mother, but I'm not going to see a psychiatrist. I don't need one. Where are you going? Out. There are some people I wanna see. What people? If you want me to come right out with it, that is none of your business. Douglas. You can't bully me the way you've always bullied my father.
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My boy, I want you to know how deeply grieved death, and I want to offer my most heartfelt condolences.
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Thank you, mister Conrad. You'd been my father's lawyer for a good many years, hadn't you? His legal adviser and one of his closest friends.
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Twenty years or more, I'd say. Mister Conrad, did he,
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did he ever mention I I don't wanna sound greedy at a time like this, but was there ever any talk of changing the will in my favor? Oh, yes. Yes. Indeed. There was. Unfortunately, it was never done,
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but it had been his intention for some time.
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I see.
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Would be costly enough health. We always thought there was plenty of time. The thing is my mother, with the help of my uncle Stanley,
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they're, they're talking about selling the glassworks.
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Oh, dear. Your father wouldn't have wanted that. Neither do I. Is there any way we can stop them? I suppose, you could delay it by taking it to court. It would be costly and I I don't believe you'd stand much chance of winning.
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You advise against it then?
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I believe I would have to advise against it. Yes. Yes. He was a ghost.
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You can believe it or not, but I swear he was there sitting on the bed right beside me. You actually
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saw a ghost?
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Well, you know, he didn't seem like a ghost. He was just my father. Oh, he was a ghost. Alright. At first, I I could sort of half see through him. Oh, that's spooky alright. Didn't bother me too much really. And he got himself solidified after a while. Into a fish pot is hard for a beginner, he said. Oh, the poor dear.
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And murder too. You said your father mentioned Hamlet?
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A class d spirit, pop says, has to walk the earth until he's avenged.
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Hamlet's father was class d. In Hamlet, he got killed and his girlfriend went off her rocker and jumped into a fish pond or something.
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I don't find that too attractive. Oh, I I don't think he meant us to follow Shakespeare's script altogether. Would you like some dessert? Oh, there's no hurry. Well, the only thing is I guess that would be home by midnight. Why? He promised he'd show up again at midnight tonight. We're gonna see if we can figure out what to do. Well, does it have to be there in your room? Well, he did say wherever I was.
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Why? Well, couldn't we go to my apartment? If he's going to show up wherever you are, why not my apartment?
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I guess that would be alright. If you're sure, you won't be afraid. Of that, sweet old man?
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Don't be
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silly. Still there. Oh, alright.
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Oh, answer it, Stanley. Answer it, will you?
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Hello?
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Oh, Stanley. Where in the world have you been? I've been trying this whole live long evening to reach you. I had a very busy day, Gertrude, a very tiring day, and I don't want to be yelled at. Oh, alright. Alright. But where were you? I was having dinner with a prospect. A prospect? You mean you've had this whole day to work on it and you still haven't settled anything? I think I made a deal Two minutes to twelve. To your approval, of course.
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Consolidated bottling is willing I willing I don't wanna hear about it this way. Not on the phone. I want you to come over here right
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away. Gertrude, I'm tired and I'm not feeling well. I've had a hard day at once. Stanley.
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What time is it now, Doug? Two minutes to twelve if my watch is right. You're not frightened, are you, Phyllis? Of course not. Well, maybe a little nervous. You needn't be. He's really just the same. Except
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Phyllis What time is it now?
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Twenty seconds later. He may be late, you know. Punctuality was never one of my father's virtues. But surely now that he's Doug.
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Doug.
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Yes, pop. I'm here. Well, you're not
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you don't seem to be
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alone. Oh, it's alright, Pop. You remember Phyllis. Phyllis Downes? Oh, yes.
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Yes. Of course. Just a minute. Now, there. It would Anything new? You know the materializing seems to get easier as you go along. Well, fellas.
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Fellas, how nice to see you again. It's good to see you too, mister Cardwell. Only,
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well, give me a minute to get used to it. I I expected this unnerving. It's nothing to be afraid of, though. Oh, I'm not afraid. Of course you're not. Well, Doug, anything new? Well, Uncle Stanley was supposed to be out taking bids for the plant today. Well, you won't have any trouble. Plenty of people eager to buy a brand new glass. Doug, you told your mother I suppose I'll Last night, didn't you? Yes. Shouldn't I have? Well, it doesn't really matter.
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Have you thought of anything?
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No. No. I'm sorry to say I haven't. Now I I don't wanna get you into a bad situation down here, and yet, if I'm to be reclassified, I have to be avenged. Well, Doug, I just don't know. Well, I suppose I'll do whatever I have to. There must be some better way than the way Hamlet did it. No. No. No. All I said was that Hamlet was a good boy. I didn't ask you to do any of the things as a old trooper. I don't want you to make the kind of mess he made of things. Certainly, I don't want you to go wrong. I just thought of something.
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In Hamlet, they did a play. Remember? Yeah. A bunch of strolling players came along, and Hamlet made up a scene for them to act out to catch the conscience of the king. Right. Why couldn't we do that?
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A whole troop of actors?
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I have a home movie camera. Got it as a present last Christmas, and it's absolutely marvelous. But Phyllis It takes pictures indoors with just ordinary room lighting, and I've got was just live Yes. But we'd still need actors. No. We wouldn't. Don't you see? You could play yourself,
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and Doug could play Uncle Stanley, and we'd reenact the crime. Oh, I I I don't know about that, Phyllis. I I only tried acting once in my high school senior class play and well, to tell you the truth, I was terrified.
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All you'd have to do is just lie there on the bed, mister Cardwell, while uncle Stanley held the pillow over your face. You wouldn't have to act. Well, Didn't work very well in Hamlet. Well, it sure caught the
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If we can scare uncle Stanley badly enough, who knows what might happen? Well, you know, I don't think you can take pictures of spirits. I mean, I don't think spirits show up on film. Oh, mister Cardwell, please.
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That's just superstitious nonsense.
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Probably. Like seeing a ghost. Well, we can try. Goodness knows I have nothing better to suggest.
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Perhaps it has been said that nature imitates art, which I suppose could be made to read reality imitates fiction. But is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, a wise choice of models? As I recall, there was nobody left except the ghost of the murdered king. Perhaps, however, reality need not slavishly follow the pattern of fiction. Perhaps in the case at hand, some of the misery will be edited out. We'll see like Spector directly with act three. The late Edmund Cardwell has been designated a class d spirit, which means that he must walk the earth until his murder is avenged. He has appeared as a rather lifelike specter to his son, Douglas, and now also to Phyllis Downs, who is engaged to marry Douglas.
The three of them, in trying to determine how best this vengeance may Lewis, I'm afraid had hit upon a device used by Hamlet in Shakespeare's drama. The play's the thing they've decided, wherein they'll catch the conscience of uncle Stanley. At this moment, they're examining the bedroom of Phyllis's apartment, which she has proposed as the setting for their filmed drama.
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No. No, Phyllis. I'm afraid it just won't do it. Isn't the least like my own bedroom where the where the crime was committed? Well, then we'll have to make the film in your room. With mother in the house? I don't care what she No, my mother. We can wait until she's gone to bed. After all, it's going to be a silent film. And if my mother wakes up? If she wakes up, your father simply disappears. He can do that. We hide the camera before we let her in, and she finds the two of us alone in your father's room. That's all there'll be to find. You know what she's going to think. So I don't care what she thinks. Do you?
Are you afraid of her, Doug? Of course he is, my dear.
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Everybody is afraid of Gertrude.
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Somewhere else. Well, it's about time. Stanley, what took you so long?
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Gertrude, can we just get this over with? I've had a stomachache all day and I don't think I've ever been this tired before in my whole life. I don't want to talk in this house, Stanley. But but I came all the way over here because I'll explain it to you later
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somewhere else. I'm afraid of being overheard if we talk here. Overheard?
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Is Doug home? No. He isn't. He's out with that that girl. Well, then who's going to overhear us?
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Are you the Douglas Sovereign, if you must know?
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Edmund?
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He's still in this house, Stanley.
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I can feel it. He's still here. Gertrude, Edmund's dead. We buried him a few days ago. He's here all the same. He's come back, Stanley. Oh, if I didn't feel so lousy, that would almost be funny. You of all people.
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Maybe you won't think it's so funny when I tell you that Douglas saw him last night and talked to him. I don't believe it. Douglas says he did. He also says that Edmund is accusing you of smothering him with a pill
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Doug said that? He did. But but but how would he No.
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He wouldn't unless Edmund told him.
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Now do you understand why I want to get out of this place?
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The lights are still on in the living room.
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Stay in the shadow of these bushes, Phos. What time does your mother usually go to bed? Earlier than this is a rule. It's almost one Yes. It's Father's going to materialize in his room after we get there. Is that the plan? Or before.
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He thought it'd be easier than Wait a minute. The light just went out. We'll still have to give her some time. Honey, she didn't turn on her bedroom light first. She usually Somebody's coming out the front door. I think it's yes. It's mother. There's somebody with her. Uncle Stanley, it looks like. Built like him at least. He's fat. Pretty portly. Yes. Feeling. Round to the garage, it looks like.
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Beautiful. If they drive away somewhere in the car, it'll be a cinch to get inside.
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Mother doesn't like to drive at night. But uncle Stanley sometimes parks his car back by the garage. Come over here behind the bushes so the lights won't catch you as they back out. It's going to work, Doug. I have a feeling.
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We're going to do it and it's going to work.
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Your uncle Stanley. Pop. Right here, Doug. They went out somewhere. She and Stanley. Yes. We thought them go.
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Okay. To turn the light on? Sure.
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Alright. Let's get started. Well, now what do I have to do? Just lie down on the bed and close your eyes. Mhmm. Doug, you wrap a blanket or something around your middle so you'll look thick like your uncle Stanley. Now we'll have a run through first. One should do that. Who ever heard of anybody reenacting his own murder?
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A man shouldn't be asked to die more than once.
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Oh, he was the whole
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Oh, Stanley, you know I hate saloons.
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Come on, Gertrude. There's nothing else open this time of night. Now would you like to hear what I did today or wouldn't you? Oh, alright. Yes. Of course, I want to hear. Well, it's not quite as good as we'd hoped. Everyone knows Edmund's dead, you see, and they know he was the holdout. They know you and I are ready to sell. So? So the price has gone down. I might have known. You bungled it. Gertrude, these people are not stupid. I had a million better. Glass is a small plant. It's a nuisance to the big companies. That's all. The best offer I got was from Consolidated Bottling.
One million dollars and 3% of their common stock. Take it or leave it. Now I happen to know that amalgamated one's offer. I said take it or leave it. Oh,
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alright. Alright. A million's better than nothing. Considerably.
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So can I go home and get some sleep? Well, what still has to be done? Consolidated as a board meeting scheduled for 10:30 tomorrow morning. Good too. I For that, if the deal gets past the board, it'll go to the legal department and they'll drop the papers. With luck, I might have something for you to sign tomorrow night.
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Alright. I guess that wraps it up. Pretty good too, I think. That last take was very effective. Actually gave me the shippers. No. It gave me worse than that. I just hope it does some good. That's all. It will. It has to. We best shop till Ken. Yes. I don't much wanna see my mother. Just now. Now I'll have them develop and print this film tomorrow morning. Will you see if you can arrange for us to show it to them tomorrow night, doc? I'll try to get them together.
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I think it'd be just as well not to tell them why. I don't believe they'd be very interested right now in watching home movies. They'll be interested
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alright once they see that first shot. Hello?
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This is Doug, fellas. I just had a talk with Does he know? From the drugstore now. Is it all set up for us to show the film tonight? Uncle Stanley is going to be at the house tonight at 08:00. He hopes to have the papers for mother to sign by then. It looks like tonight or never. You didn't say anything to your mother about the film. No. We'll just show up with it at the house and make them watch it. It's the only way I can think of. Does
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does he know? My father?
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I'm not sure. I suspect he's pretty much in touch with what's going on, though. I'm right here with you, son. Right here?
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In the phone booth? The film. Pop Ask her if I showed up alright on the film, Doug. Phyllis,
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Pop's here with me in the phone booth. He wants to know if he showed up alright on the film.
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Perfectly. Just as well as you did. Funny.
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Somewhere I got the idea you couldn't take pictures of class d spirits.
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Doug,
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ask him if he's going to be there tonight when we show the film. Pop, she wants to know. I know. I know. I heard. I'll be there in spirit at least. I'm not sure that I'm up to facing your mother in the flesh.
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You're ten minutes late, Stanley. Yeah. I know. Oh, come on in. Did you bring the papers?
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They're all ready for your signature. I may go down to Florida myself when this is all over or some place at least for a few weeks.
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I need the rest. Well, there won't be anything to hold either of us in Brambraith. Let me have the papers.
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I got them right here in my attache case. They had the whole legal department working on this thing.
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Somebody outside.
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I didn't hear any. Oh. Hello, mother. Uncle Stanley? Yeah. You've both met Phyllis, haven't you? We've met. Yes. We have something to show you, mother.
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Both of you. I'm afraid it'll have to wait, Douglas. We're very busy right now. Oh, not too busy for this, I hope. It's a short piece of film. It doesn't run more than a few minutes. Run? What is it you've got, Douglas? A screen.
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And this is a projector. Won't take us a second to set it up. Gertrude, why don't you just sign these papers and let me get out of here? I I don't. I feel well enough to watch any whole movies tonight. Oh, you'll be interested in this, Uncle Stanley.
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You especially. This wall will do. Is it alright if I take this picture down? No. It is not, young lady.
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And we don't have time for any of this nonsense. I want you Sure. Take it down, Phyllis. Here. Let me help you. Douglas.
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Oh, you'll find this fascinating, mother. I guarantee it.
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Okay. All set here. You can turn the lights out, Doug.
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Douglas. I don't want us oh, Lord.
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Tell us that's your father.
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How did you get There's more, mother. Wait until you've seen it all. It's me.
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Somehow they got had pictures of it. You'll notice
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that's a pillow uncle Stanley has in his hands, mother. Where did you get this this filthy thing? Shut it off. I I don't want it. I can't oh.
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Shut that dreadful thing off. You haven't seen the best part. There. You see? The pillow I I my father's face. I told you. Okay. Shut it off, Phyllis.
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Stanley.
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Here. Here. Let me get to him, mother. There's no pulse. I'm afraid You killed him. You killed my brother. Oh,
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Doug. A heart attack, I imagine. Oh, Stanley, speak to me. I I won't have this. You understand? Speak to me. It's no good, mother.
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They're true. Can you hear me? It's Papers out of Stanley
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Douglas, it's your father. Yes.
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Is he going to Willie?
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Oh, no. No. No. No. Emma, go away. Go away. You're dead. Edward.
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And just about out of class d. There's one thing though, Gertrude. Go away. I will, Gertrude. But first, take those papers out of Stanley's attache case. Now you know the papers I mean. There. I'll tear them up.
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I will not. The factory is mine now and I have every right to sell it. True. Be over to him. Yes. Haunt you for the rest of your life because I will If you were alive, you'd never get away with this. Yes. But as you say, Gertrude,
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I'm dead. Tear them up, Gertrude. Thank you. Now you're to put Doug in charge of Branbury glass. In fact, I think it would be a good thing if you deeded the factory over to him. Yes. Yes. I think that would be better. Now you listen here. You you may keep the house if you like. The liquid assets, I think, ought to be divided equally between the two of you. You see, Doug's Yes. That he and Phyllis are planning to be married. I will do it according to your will. Now I just made a new will, Gertrude. Weren't you listening? Or, of course, I could stay and haunt you.
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Alright. Now go away. Oh, poor Stanley.
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Yes. Yes. I I am sorry about that in a way. At least though he won't be in class d. He died a natural death. I'll be going now, Doug. I Remind you. Long life and happiness.
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We we won't be seeing you again? No.
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Not as long as your mother keeps her promise. It's better that way really. Remember me though. I hope you'll remember me.
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I won't forget him. Phyllis and I will be around to remind you if you ever should.
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And goes thorns avenged and free at last to take his final rest. The mother? Well, the ghost of Hamlet's father said to Hamlet, taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, to prick and sting her. I'll return in the flesh, of course, in a few minutes. Was never sold, and Doug Cardwell, since taking over its management, has made a very good thing of it. Branbury is still a thriving little town with no more than the usual concern over unemployment. Doug and Phyllis live in the old house now, and Doug's mother wears a lovely other adventure.
His father has never had occasion to return. Our cast included Will McKenzie, Jennifer Harmon, Grace Matthews, Joe Silver, and Leon The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time,
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pleasant dreams.
And now, mystery theater. Beer's great drop. Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. To be or not to be, that is not the question in the tale we're about to unfold, but there will be parallels to Shakespeare's great drama, which even the people involved recognize. Murder most foul, a spirit doomed to walk the earth, a murderer who well Douglas, wake up. You'll hear. We are concerned with the Cardwell family. Douglas, the young man, Edmund, his father, and Gertrude, his mother. Douglas?
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Douglas, are you awake? Douglas, wake up. Mhmm. Douglas, wake up. Will you please wake up?
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What? What's oh, what is it, mother? Is something wrong? You'll have to get up later. Well,
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call doctor Peterson. Of course, you'll be here in a few minutes. He's he's arranging for the ambulance and all that. Ambulance? But
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are you sick or something, mother? I'm perfectly alright. It's your father.
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Pop, what's wrong with you? I've told your father. I've told him over and over again that if he kept on with this kind of life he's been leading, he'd have to pay the price sooner or later. Well, now he's paid for it. What do you mean? Douglas, your father is dead.
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Our mystery drama That Hamlet Was a Good Boy was written especially for the out of Field and Farrington and stars Will Mackenzie and Jennifer Harmon. A boy has lost his father. Well, not a boy really. Douglas Cardwell is a young man, out of college and already experimenting with adult life and its potentialities. But when a boy or a man, at no matter what age, loses his father, loss. The funeral is over, marking the death as utterly final. And Douglas and his mother are returning to the home now tenanted by two instead of three people, at least in the natural course of things, tenanted only by two.
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Oh, got the drapes back. Will you, Douglas? And open some windows. I I never could understand why a house has to be darkened and all that. What? The,
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the drapes?
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Oh, for heaven's sake, you've got to stop this mooning about. Your father's been dead for three days now and I haven't heard a half dozen words out of you. I was very fond of my father.
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I miss him. I'm sorry if you think I'm overdoing it, but I miss him. Please open the drapes.
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My father was a good man I'd better set you straight about your father.
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I'm already straight about him. I don't need to be set.
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He always showed you his best side. I know. He never let you see the side of him I had to live with. I've always known what was going on. Oh, have you indeed? Did you know that your father was a drunkard? Oh, come on, mother. He took a drink now and then, but my father was a good man. Your father was a ne'er do well. We live in the finest house in Branbury.
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The very finest. Right?
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A house which your father inherited from his father. He owned
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the which employs almost half the people in this town. Right?
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Managed? Mismanaged would be more accurate.
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Do you know that? But how can you call him a ne'er do well?
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I'll tell you how. He could have been a millionaire several times over just by scribbling his name at the bottom of an agreement. He could have, but would he do it? No. No. Not your father.
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He knew I wanted him to, and that's why he wouldn't. You're talking about his refusal to sell the glassworks, aren't you?
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Amalgamated Glass offered him 3,000,000. 3 million dollars and 5% of their stock.
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What kind of a businessman turns down an offer like that? They wanted to close the Branbury Glass plant. You know that. Half the people in this town would have been thrown out of work.
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Well, thank goodness my brother will have better sense.
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Uncle Stanley. What's he got to do with it?
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Your uncle Stanley will be taking over the management of Brambury Glass now, Douglas.
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Uncle Stanley will? Yes. Character is My father had planned to put me in charge when he retired. He didn't know, of course, he was going to die.
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Your father left his entire estate for me.
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That includes the factory, you know. And you intend to make uncle Stanley the manager.
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Well, tell this. I I don't want to hurt you, but, well, I I'm sorry to say that I see some of your father's unfortunate characteristics in you. You've just said, you've just finished saying.
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Branbury into a ghost town.
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Poor he call. Brambury's near enough a ghost town in any case. And the people who live in it are not children. Let them take care of themselves. They're not our responsibility.
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My father felt they were his.
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You see what I mean? You're just like him. Thank you. A dreamer. Oh, and his choice of friends.
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Good heavens, the people he called friends. There were several hundred people outside the church today just standing there. They couldn't get inside because there wasn't room, but they wanted to pay their respects. I don't think so badly.
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Douglas, while we're on the subject of friends and the choosing of them, where was that girlfriend of yours today? That little, that little blonde. What's her name? Phyllis Downs. You know her name. I didn't see her at the funeral today. She was outside with the others, I expect.
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She knew you'd only snub her if she tried to come inside.
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Yes. I was there, Doug. Outside. And you know, I was sort of glad I was out there instead of in the church. I was sitting right there watching the people. They loved your father. You could see it in their faces.
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You know, a crazy thing. I I had this strange feeling all day. Well, ever since he died, actually, but especially today that that pop was there. I just you know, he might as well have been sitting right there in the pew beside me. Is is that completely nutty?
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Who are we to say so? I never really believed in stuff like that. Well, I don't think there's any way to believe or So she's going to make all such things flatly, Doug. The fact is we don't know. That's true. You really miss him, don't you, Doug? I can't except for you.
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The world has come to an end. Well, at least there will always be me. Thank the Lord. They're going to sell the glassworks, I think. What? Mother says she's going to make uncle Stanley the manager now that Pop's gone. Uncle Stanley? But can she do that? She says my father left his entire estate to her.
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Wouldn't.
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Yeah. Do everything sure of herself. And they'll sell the plant?
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The buyers will close it down. That's the only reason anybody ever wanted to buy Branbury glass. They might as well close the town down too. That's about what it amounts to.
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He'd have given us his blessing, wouldn't he? Of course.
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I talked to him about us. But your mother won't. She'll do everything she can to keep us from marrying. What can she do? I'm a big boy. I wanna marry you and I intend to. She has nothing to say about it. Well, I'm not so sure of that.
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Control of the money as well as the factory. She can put some pressure on you.
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So it's settled. We sell.
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You're quite sure you'll be able to find a buyer? Oh, no problem there.
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I don't know how the price will hold up. That's the only thing. Why shouldn't it hold up? We're coming to them now. They're not coming to us. Oh, well, I still don't see The price, whatever, will still be good enough to make us very wealthy people. I'll get on the phone first thing in the morning. Here, uncle Stanley, unless I miss my day. What what is it?
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I thought I heard somebody on the porch. A little early for Doug to be coming home from a date, isn't he? Well, he hasn't been feeling himself. He there. It is Douglas.
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Oh, I, I didn't expect to find you here, Uncle Stanley.
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You're home early, Douglas. Did you, quarrel with your little friend? What's her name? No. Phyllis and I didn't quarrel.
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I'm going up to my room, mother. All right. I think would be something I believe you ought to know. I'll take it standing up if you don't mind.
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Your uncle Stanley and I have definitely decided that the best thing to do is to sell the factory.
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I see. Best for whom? Best for everybody, boy. It'll make us all rich. What about the rest of the people in Branbury? We'll move out of here, Douglas. Somewhere in Florida, I think, would be nice. I'll fight it. I'll take it to court. Douglas. That's not what my father planned for the Granbury Glass Company and I don't intend to stand by. Douglas has quite enough of that kind of talk. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. There was a saint the way you go on about him. Close enough. Oh, Douglas. Don't be silly.
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If there ever was an unsaintly man, it was surely your father. He was a drunkard, a procrastinator, and a woman chaser. That's a lie.
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Douglas. Alright. Understand what I'm saying. I'll do everything I can to keep you from selling the plants. You'll come to agree with us, I'm sure, once you've taken time to think it over rationally. Oh, now think how Don't. Florida. We can I'm not going to Florida. I'm staying in Branbury. Maybe I can help pick up the pieces after they close the plant down. Anyway, Phyllis and I are going to be married
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You are not going to marry that that cheap little tramp.
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You presume too much on the fact that you're my mother. Don't. I'm going up to bed. You are not going to marry her. You have nothing to say about it,
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mother. Douglas. Douglas. Can you hear me? Don't don't be frightened, my son. There's nothing to be afraid of. Who?
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Who? Who? Who? Who's that? Now now don't
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don't let it upset you, my son. It's perfectly alright.
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Pop. Is that
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who is it? Yes. Yes. It's me, darling. Don't don't turn your light on just yet. I still have to materialize. There's no point in you watching a thing like that. It's Materializing is No, Doug. No. It's not a joke. It's just now wait. Wait just a minute. Okay. Okay, Doug. You can you can turn your lamp on now. Pop. Hello, son. You know, this materializing is kind of tricky for a beginner. Is it is it really you, Papa? Oh, yes. Yes. It's me. Alright. A ghost? Well, yes. Never real. Yes. You could say that. It's it's a word we don't particularly favor, but yes.
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All day,
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I had a feeling. I I had this crazy feeling. That's what I was with you. Right? You know, I was. I you know, that that was quite a funeral.
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You saw?
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The people outside, everything? Yeah. It was very moving. Very I never realized that all those people were so fond. Well well, I'm I'm not not here to talk about that. Why did you come back, pop?
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People don't usually, do they? No. Well, former people.
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See, the thing is, Doug, well, I've been made a class d spirit. A class d spirit? It's all very fair. All according to the regulations. See, a class d spirit has to walk the earth. That's the way it's always been. What is a class d spirit? Well, we're people of a former people whose murders have yet to be avenged. I know you. Mhmm. Did you ever see Shakespeare's Hamlet or you must have? Oh, yes. Of course. Now not that Hamlet. That Hamlet Oh. Boy. Not very bright, baby, but a good boy. His father got murdered and he couldn't rest a minute until the murder was avenged and his father could get out of class d. Fuck.
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You died of a heart attack. Doctor Peterson said so. He signed the certificate that way. Don't you believe it, son?
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Your uncle Stanley smothered me with a pillow.
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Murder most foul. Since the art of storytelling one, there have been tales of men and women murdered and unavenged. But who is to say with certainty that these lost souls walk only within the confines of fiction? The murder which goes unavenged is a murder which never comes to light. To shed some light on this one, I'll be back shortly after Peterson's two. Douglas Cardwell's father, dead now these three days, has just come to his son in the still of the night and spoken to him of murder. Although doctor Peterson signed a certificate saying that Edmund Cardwell's death was brought about by coronary arrest, Edmund himself claims that the cause was a pillow held over his face. And I think in law, Stanley.
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You can't mean that, pop. Uncle Stanley? There was never any trouble between you and uncle Stanley, was there? I mean, why should he wanna kill you? Well, I don't know myself exactly why he would wanna do such a thing, but since I know he did it, then it follows he had a motive, doesn't it? Yes.
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Yes. And I think I know what it was. You do? Well, then maybe you'd better tell me. Well, mother's putting uncle Stanley in charge at the plant. Oh, lord. Lord. I was afraid But you were just They're planning to sell out. They told me tonight just before I came up to bed. Well, there's all the motive you need.
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Son, listen. I, I have to tell you something about your mother and me. No need, pop.
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Do you think I wouldn't notice when you and mother started using separate bedrooms? Well, I What was I supposed to think that meant? But you were just a child then, Doug. Almost 12. Kids aren't stupid, pop. Oh, no.
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Apparently not. Well, I'm I'm sorry. Terrible thing to do. Shameful to do a thing like that to a boy. Well, then maybe it won't surprise you too much when I tell you I have reason to suspect your mother of being, well, an accomplice to my murder. Mother? Oh, come on, Tom. She's been after me for years to sell that factory. Well, it would have been a profitable thing to do if you didn't take into consideration the harm it would have done. Still, to say that she had a hand She she was at home that night. I came in late. We had a quarrel. I went on up to bed. Somebody had to let your uncle Stanley into the house.
Right? She must have she must have stayed down there waiting for him while he was upstairs holding that pillow over my face. I'm sorry, Doug. Sorry, but I don't see how he could have done it otherwise.
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It's a terrible thing to have to believe about your own mother. Terrible.
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I'm very sorry.
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But she has been saying some nasty things about you. Well, I'll tell you one thing she was right about.
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I was a procrastinator to well, to a certain degree. I've been meaning ever since the day you turned 21 to have my will changed in your favor, but somehow, well, I just put it off from day to day until
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well, it's just too late now. It's gonna be pretty hard on the town of Brandbray if they sell the plant. You know, whoever buys it will close it down. Well, now don't don't give up, son.
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I'm not in in very good shape for a fight, but we're not through yet all the same. What is it you want me to do? Well, I'm hanged if I know right this minute, son. We we should always think of something though, the two of us together. Well, right now, I'm just about tuckered out. Now let's think about it until tomorrow night, and I'll appear to you again the next midnight. Wherever you are at midnight, I'll be there.
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Okay. Why is it always midnight, Pop? I mean, why do ghosts always walk at midnight?
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Well, it's it's tradition. No. It's traditional, I guess. As far as I can tell. As far as I can tell, it's no easier at midnight than any other time.
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Douglas, you've hardly touched your breakfast, did it? That's right.
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They're fine, mother. I'm not hungry. That's all. Well, you have to eat. You can't go wash. Strange thing has happened, mother.
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Strange.
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I saw my father last night.
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You what?
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He came to me in my room. Have you lost your mind? I don't think so. Oh, you dreamed it. No, mother. I was awake. It was no dream. He he sat on the edge of the bed, and we talked almost the way we used to talk.
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Only not about the same kind of thing. Or heft. And what did you talk about in this dream that wasn't a dream? Murder.
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We talked about murder.
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About murder?
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He told me he'd been murdered. Uncle Stanley held a pillow over his face and smothered him.
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Oh, for heaven's sake, don't
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told me and I believed him. You believed him?
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You actually think your uncle Stanley would oh. Oh, my poor Douglas. It's it's I'm so sorry. It's just been too much for you, hasn't it? I didn't really Too much. Yes. But I am not out of my mind.
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I know what I saw, and I know what I heard. That isn't all of it either, I'm afraid. It's quite enough for me. He thinks you were involved. He thinks you helped uncle Stanley kill him of your business Alright, Douglas.
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I've heard all of this kind of talk I intend to listen to.
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I'll call doctor Peterson and see if he can recommend a good psychiatrist. You can call if you like, mother, but I'm not going to see a psychiatrist. I don't need one. Where are you going? Out. There are some people I wanna see. What people? If you want me to come right out with it, that is none of your business. Douglas. You can't bully me the way you've always bullied my father.
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My boy, I want you to know how deeply grieved death, and I want to offer my most heartfelt condolences.
[00:20:32] Unknown:
Thank you, mister Conrad. You'd been my father's lawyer for a good many years, hadn't you? His legal adviser and one of his closest friends.
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Twenty years or more, I'd say. Mister Conrad, did he,
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did he ever mention I I don't wanna sound greedy at a time like this, but was there ever any talk of changing the will in my favor? Oh, yes. Yes. Indeed. There was. Unfortunately, it was never done,
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but it had been his intention for some time.
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I see.
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Would be costly enough health. We always thought there was plenty of time. The thing is my mother, with the help of my uncle Stanley,
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they're, they're talking about selling the glassworks.
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Oh, dear. Your father wouldn't have wanted that. Neither do I. Is there any way we can stop them? I suppose, you could delay it by taking it to court. It would be costly and I I don't believe you'd stand much chance of winning.
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You advise against it then?
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I believe I would have to advise against it. Yes. Yes. He was a ghost.
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You can believe it or not, but I swear he was there sitting on the bed right beside me. You actually
[00:21:44] Unknown:
saw a ghost?
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Well, you know, he didn't seem like a ghost. He was just my father. Oh, he was a ghost. Alright. At first, I I could sort of half see through him. Oh, that's spooky alright. Didn't bother me too much really. And he got himself solidified after a while. Into a fish pot is hard for a beginner, he said. Oh, the poor dear.
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And murder too. You said your father mentioned Hamlet?
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A class d spirit, pop says, has to walk the earth until he's avenged.
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Hamlet's father was class d. In Hamlet, he got killed and his girlfriend went off her rocker and jumped into a fish pond or something.
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I don't find that too attractive. Oh, I I don't think he meant us to follow Shakespeare's script altogether. Would you like some dessert? Oh, there's no hurry. Well, the only thing is I guess that would be home by midnight. Why? He promised he'd show up again at midnight tonight. We're gonna see if we can figure out what to do. Well, does it have to be there in your room? Well, he did say wherever I was.
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Why? Well, couldn't we go to my apartment? If he's going to show up wherever you are, why not my apartment?
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I guess that would be alright. If you're sure, you won't be afraid. Of that, sweet old man?
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Don't be
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silly. Still there. Oh, alright.
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Oh, answer it, Stanley. Answer it, will you?
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Hello?
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Oh, Stanley. Where in the world have you been? I've been trying this whole live long evening to reach you. I had a very busy day, Gertrude, a very tiring day, and I don't want to be yelled at. Oh, alright. Alright. But where were you? I was having dinner with a prospect. A prospect? You mean you've had this whole day to work on it and you still haven't settled anything? I think I made a deal Two minutes to twelve. To your approval, of course.
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Consolidated bottling is willing I willing I don't wanna hear about it this way. Not on the phone. I want you to come over here right
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away. Gertrude, I'm tired and I'm not feeling well. I've had a hard day at once. Stanley.
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What time is it now, Doug? Two minutes to twelve if my watch is right. You're not frightened, are you, Phyllis? Of course not. Well, maybe a little nervous. You needn't be. He's really just the same. Except
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Phyllis What time is it now?
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Twenty seconds later. He may be late, you know. Punctuality was never one of my father's virtues. But surely now that he's Doug.
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Doug.
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Yes, pop. I'm here. Well, you're not
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you don't seem to be
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alone. Oh, it's alright, Pop. You remember Phyllis. Phyllis Downes? Oh, yes.
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Yes. Of course. Just a minute. Now, there. It would Anything new? You know the materializing seems to get easier as you go along. Well, fellas.
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Fellas, how nice to see you again. It's good to see you too, mister Cardwell. Only,
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well, give me a minute to get used to it. I I expected this unnerving. It's nothing to be afraid of, though. Oh, I'm not afraid. Of course you're not. Well, Doug, anything new? Well, Uncle Stanley was supposed to be out taking bids for the plant today. Well, you won't have any trouble. Plenty of people eager to buy a brand new glass. Doug, you told your mother I suppose I'll Last night, didn't you? Yes. Shouldn't I have? Well, it doesn't really matter.
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Have you thought of anything?
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No. No. I'm sorry to say I haven't. Now I I don't wanna get you into a bad situation down here, and yet, if I'm to be reclassified, I have to be avenged. Well, Doug, I just don't know. Well, I suppose I'll do whatever I have to. There must be some better way than the way Hamlet did it. No. No. No. All I said was that Hamlet was a good boy. I didn't ask you to do any of the things as a old trooper. I don't want you to make the kind of mess he made of things. Certainly, I don't want you to go wrong. I just thought of something.
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In Hamlet, they did a play. Remember? Yeah. A bunch of strolling players came along, and Hamlet made up a scene for them to act out to catch the conscience of the king. Right. Why couldn't we do that?
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A whole troop of actors?
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I have a home movie camera. Got it as a present last Christmas, and it's absolutely marvelous. But Phyllis It takes pictures indoors with just ordinary room lighting, and I've got was just live Yes. But we'd still need actors. No. We wouldn't. Don't you see? You could play yourself,
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and Doug could play Uncle Stanley, and we'd reenact the crime. Oh, I I I don't know about that, Phyllis. I I only tried acting once in my high school senior class play and well, to tell you the truth, I was terrified.
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All you'd have to do is just lie there on the bed, mister Cardwell, while uncle Stanley held the pillow over your face. You wouldn't have to act. Well, Didn't work very well in Hamlet. Well, it sure caught the
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If we can scare uncle Stanley badly enough, who knows what might happen? Well, you know, I don't think you can take pictures of spirits. I mean, I don't think spirits show up on film. Oh, mister Cardwell, please.
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That's just superstitious nonsense.
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Probably. Like seeing a ghost. Well, we can try. Goodness knows I have nothing better to suggest.
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Perhaps it has been said that nature imitates art, which I suppose could be made to read reality imitates fiction. But is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, a wise choice of models? As I recall, there was nobody left except the ghost of the murdered king. Perhaps, however, reality need not slavishly follow the pattern of fiction. Perhaps in the case at hand, some of the misery will be edited out. We'll see like Spector directly with act three. The late Edmund Cardwell has been designated a class d spirit, which means that he must walk the earth until his murder is avenged. He has appeared as a rather lifelike specter to his son, Douglas, and now also to Phyllis Downs, who is engaged to marry Douglas.
The three of them, in trying to determine how best this vengeance may Lewis, I'm afraid had hit upon a device used by Hamlet in Shakespeare's drama. The play's the thing they've decided, wherein they'll catch the conscience of uncle Stanley. At this moment, they're examining the bedroom of Phyllis's apartment, which she has proposed as the setting for their filmed drama.
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No. No, Phyllis. I'm afraid it just won't do it. Isn't the least like my own bedroom where the where the crime was committed? Well, then we'll have to make the film in your room. With mother in the house? I don't care what she No, my mother. We can wait until she's gone to bed. After all, it's going to be a silent film. And if my mother wakes up? If she wakes up, your father simply disappears. He can do that. We hide the camera before we let her in, and she finds the two of us alone in your father's room. That's all there'll be to find. You know what she's going to think. So I don't care what she thinks. Do you?
Are you afraid of her, Doug? Of course he is, my dear.
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Everybody is afraid of Gertrude.
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Somewhere else. Well, it's about time. Stanley, what took you so long?
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Gertrude, can we just get this over with? I've had a stomachache all day and I don't think I've ever been this tired before in my whole life. I don't want to talk in this house, Stanley. But but I came all the way over here because I'll explain it to you later
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somewhere else. I'm afraid of being overheard if we talk here. Overheard?
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Is Doug home? No. He isn't. He's out with that that girl. Well, then who's going to overhear us?
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Are you the Douglas Sovereign, if you must know?
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Edmund?
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He's still in this house, Stanley.
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I can feel it. He's still here. Gertrude, Edmund's dead. We buried him a few days ago. He's here all the same. He's come back, Stanley. Oh, if I didn't feel so lousy, that would almost be funny. You of all people.
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Maybe you won't think it's so funny when I tell you that Douglas saw him last night and talked to him. I don't believe it. Douglas says he did. He also says that Edmund is accusing you of smothering him with a pill
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Doug said that? He did. But but but how would he No.
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He wouldn't unless Edmund told him.
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Now do you understand why I want to get out of this place?
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The lights are still on in the living room.
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Stay in the shadow of these bushes, Phos. What time does your mother usually go to bed? Earlier than this is a rule. It's almost one Yes. It's Father's going to materialize in his room after we get there. Is that the plan? Or before.
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He thought it'd be easier than Wait a minute. The light just went out. We'll still have to give her some time. Honey, she didn't turn on her bedroom light first. She usually Somebody's coming out the front door. I think it's yes. It's mother. There's somebody with her. Uncle Stanley, it looks like. Built like him at least. He's fat. Pretty portly. Yes. Feeling. Round to the garage, it looks like.
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Beautiful. If they drive away somewhere in the car, it'll be a cinch to get inside.
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Mother doesn't like to drive at night. But uncle Stanley sometimes parks his car back by the garage. Come over here behind the bushes so the lights won't catch you as they back out. It's going to work, Doug. I have a feeling.
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We're going to do it and it's going to work.
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Your uncle Stanley. Pop. Right here, Doug. They went out somewhere. She and Stanley. Yes. We thought them go.
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Okay. To turn the light on? Sure.
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Alright. Let's get started. Well, now what do I have to do? Just lie down on the bed and close your eyes. Mhmm. Doug, you wrap a blanket or something around your middle so you'll look thick like your uncle Stanley. Now we'll have a run through first. One should do that. Who ever heard of anybody reenacting his own murder?
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A man shouldn't be asked to die more than once.
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Oh, he was the whole
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Oh, Stanley, you know I hate saloons.
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Come on, Gertrude. There's nothing else open this time of night. Now would you like to hear what I did today or wouldn't you? Oh, alright. Yes. Of course, I want to hear. Well, it's not quite as good as we'd hoped. Everyone knows Edmund's dead, you see, and they know he was the holdout. They know you and I are ready to sell. So? So the price has gone down. I might have known. You bungled it. Gertrude, these people are not stupid. I had a million better. Glass is a small plant. It's a nuisance to the big companies. That's all. The best offer I got was from Consolidated Bottling.
One million dollars and 3% of their common stock. Take it or leave it. Now I happen to know that amalgamated one's offer. I said take it or leave it. Oh,
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alright. Alright. A million's better than nothing. Considerably.
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So can I go home and get some sleep? Well, what still has to be done? Consolidated as a board meeting scheduled for 10:30 tomorrow morning. Good too. I For that, if the deal gets past the board, it'll go to the legal department and they'll drop the papers. With luck, I might have something for you to sign tomorrow night.
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Alright. I guess that wraps it up. Pretty good too, I think. That last take was very effective. Actually gave me the shippers. No. It gave me worse than that. I just hope it does some good. That's all. It will. It has to. We best shop till Ken. Yes. I don't much wanna see my mother. Just now. Now I'll have them develop and print this film tomorrow morning. Will you see if you can arrange for us to show it to them tomorrow night, doc? I'll try to get them together.
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I think it'd be just as well not to tell them why. I don't believe they'd be very interested right now in watching home movies. They'll be interested
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alright once they see that first shot. Hello?
[00:35:09] Unknown:
This is Doug, fellas. I just had a talk with Does he know? From the drugstore now. Is it all set up for us to show the film tonight? Uncle Stanley is going to be at the house tonight at 08:00. He hopes to have the papers for mother to sign by then. It looks like tonight or never. You didn't say anything to your mother about the film. No. We'll just show up with it at the house and make them watch it. It's the only way I can think of. Does
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does he know? My father?
[00:35:36] Unknown:
I'm not sure. I suspect he's pretty much in touch with what's going on, though. I'm right here with you, son. Right here?
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In the phone booth? The film. Pop Ask her if I showed up alright on the film, Doug. Phyllis,
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Pop's here with me in the phone booth. He wants to know if he showed up alright on the film.
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Perfectly. Just as well as you did. Funny.
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Somewhere I got the idea you couldn't take pictures of class d spirits.
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Doug,
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ask him if he's going to be there tonight when we show the film. Pop, she wants to know. I know. I know. I heard. I'll be there in spirit at least. I'm not sure that I'm up to facing your mother in the flesh.
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You're ten minutes late, Stanley. Yeah. I know. Oh, come on in. Did you bring the papers?
[00:36:33] Unknown:
They're all ready for your signature. I may go down to Florida myself when this is all over or some place at least for a few weeks.
[00:36:40] Unknown:
I need the rest. Well, there won't be anything to hold either of us in Brambraith. Let me have the papers.
[00:36:45] Unknown:
I got them right here in my attache case. They had the whole legal department working on this thing.
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Somebody outside.
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I didn't hear any. Oh. Hello, mother. Uncle Stanley? Yeah. You've both met Phyllis, haven't you? We've met. Yes. We have something to show you, mother.
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Both of you. I'm afraid it'll have to wait, Douglas. We're very busy right now. Oh, not too busy for this, I hope. It's a short piece of film. It doesn't run more than a few minutes. Run? What is it you've got, Douglas? A screen.
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And this is a projector. Won't take us a second to set it up. Gertrude, why don't you just sign these papers and let me get out of here? I I don't. I feel well enough to watch any whole movies tonight. Oh, you'll be interested in this, Uncle Stanley.
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You especially. This wall will do. Is it alright if I take this picture down? No. It is not, young lady.
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And we don't have time for any of this nonsense. I want you Sure. Take it down, Phyllis. Here. Let me help you. Douglas.
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Oh, you'll find this fascinating, mother. I guarantee it.
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Okay. All set here. You can turn the lights out, Doug.
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Douglas. I don't want us oh, Lord.
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Tell us that's your father.
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How did you get There's more, mother. Wait until you've seen it all. It's me.
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Somehow they got had pictures of it. You'll notice
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that's a pillow uncle Stanley has in his hands, mother. Where did you get this this filthy thing? Shut it off. I I don't want it. I can't oh.
[00:38:20] Unknown:
Shut that dreadful thing off. You haven't seen the best part. There. You see? The pillow I I my father's face. I told you. Okay. Shut it off, Phyllis.
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Stanley.
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Here. Here. Let me get to him, mother. There's no pulse. I'm afraid You killed him. You killed my brother. Oh,
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Doug. A heart attack, I imagine. Oh, Stanley, speak to me. I I won't have this. You understand? Speak to me. It's no good, mother.
[00:38:57] Unknown:
They're true. Can you hear me? It's Papers out of Stanley
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Douglas, it's your father. Yes.
[00:39:06] Unknown:
Is he going to Willie?
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Oh, no. No. No. No. Emma, go away. Go away. You're dead. Edward.
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And just about out of class d. There's one thing though, Gertrude. Go away. I will, Gertrude. But first, take those papers out of Stanley's attache case. Now you know the papers I mean. There. I'll tear them up.
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I will not. The factory is mine now and I have every right to sell it. True. Be over to him. Yes. Haunt you for the rest of your life because I will If you were alive, you'd never get away with this. Yes. But as you say, Gertrude,
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I'm dead. Tear them up, Gertrude. Thank you. Now you're to put Doug in charge of Branbury glass. In fact, I think it would be a good thing if you deeded the factory over to him. Yes. Yes. I think that would be better. Now you listen here. You you may keep the house if you like. The liquid assets, I think, ought to be divided equally between the two of you. You see, Doug's Yes. That he and Phyllis are planning to be married. I will do it according to your will. Now I just made a new will, Gertrude. Weren't you listening? Or, of course, I could stay and haunt you.
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Alright. Now go away. Oh, poor Stanley.
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Yes. Yes. I I am sorry about that in a way. At least though he won't be in class d. He died a natural death. I'll be going now, Doug. I Remind you. Long life and happiness.
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We we won't be seeing you again? No.
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Not as long as your mother keeps her promise. It's better that way really. Remember me though. I hope you'll remember me.
[00:40:58] Unknown:
I won't forget him. Phyllis and I will be around to remind you if you ever should.
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And goes thorns avenged and free at last to take his final rest. The mother? Well, the ghost of Hamlet's father said to Hamlet, taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, to prick and sting her. I'll return in the flesh, of course, in a few minutes. Was never sold, and Doug Cardwell, since taking over its management, has made a very good thing of it. Branbury is still a thriving little town with no more than the usual concern over unemployment. Doug and Phyllis live in the old house now, and Doug's mother wears a lovely other adventure.
His father has never had occasion to return. Our cast included Will McKenzie, Jennifer Harmon, Grace Matthews, Joe Silver, and Leon The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time,
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pleasant dreams.
