One Way Passage PRODUCED BY PROGRAM 21 WILLIAM ESTY COMPANY Thursday FOR: CAMEL CIGARETTES February 24, 1949 R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY (REVISED) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THE SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS PRESENT "ONE WAY PASSAGE" Starring JANE WYMAN LEW AYRES CHARLES BICKFORD STUDIO A NBC HOLLYWOOD 7:00 - 7:30 PM PST DIRECTOR - BILL LAWRENCE ADAPTER - HARRY KRONMAN SUPERVISOR - DON BERNARD CONDUCTOR - WILBUR HATCH CAST Joan .................Jane Wyman Dan ................. Lew Ayres Steve ............... Charles Bickford Englishman............Eric Snowden Woman.................Betty Lou Gerson Louise................Betty Lou Gerson Doctor................Griff Barnett Bartender.............Wally Maher Man ..................Eric Snowden 2nd Bartender.........Bob Beban 3rd Bartender.........Griff Barnett [page A] SMITH: (COLD) From Hollywood! BARCLAY: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres and Charles Bickford in Warner Bros. classic story "One Way Passage." 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Tonight it's one of the most deeply-moving and poignant stories ever brought to the screen--enacted by the Johnny Belinda cast--all of them Academy Award nominees! -- The Screen Guild Players are proud to present-- MUSIC: STINGS...AND HOLDS UNDER SMITH: "ONE WAY PASSAGE," starring Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres and Charles Bickford! [page 1] MUSIC: FULL INTO PLAY THEME .. AND DOWN, TO HOLD UNDER: SOUND: SHIP LOADING EFFECTS .. WINCHES, SHOUTS .. IN B.G. ROY: The Orient. China. The Port of Hong Kong....A great passenger ship is almost ready to sail. And up on deck - leaning casually against the rail - two men watch the busy scene below....Two men standing quietly together. They might be old friends. They might be - except that their wrists are joined by handcuffs. MUSIC: CUTS WITH: SOUND: STEAMER WHISTLE .. LONG WARNING BLAST DAN: Well..there's the warning whistle, Steve.... STEVE: That's right, Dan. We're on the last leg now. Honolulu - San Francisco - DAN: And then San Quentin.... STEVE: (SLIGHT PAUSE) It's been a long chase, Dan. DAN: (FAINT SMILE) But interesting? STEVE: Sort of. DAN: You know, you ought to be grateful to me, Steve. How many cops ever get a trip around the world? Marseilles, Algiers, Cairo....And how did you like Paris? See anything of the town? STEVE: Your trail wasn't half bad. DAN: What about that little girl in Madrid? STEVE: Cheeter? [2] DAN: Steve, forgive me if I correct you. Her name was Conchita...Didn't delay you much, did she? STEVE: No -- but it was nice to have her tryin'.. (SUDDENLY) And say, don't lean too hard against that rail; this section swings out. DAN: (GRINS) That would be fun -- a little dip before we sailed..You swim, Steve? STEVE: (WISELY) No -- but I play a swell game of tag. DAN: Ever play water polo? STEVE: Nope. DAN: (CHUCKLES) I used to be sensational. Have to teach you some time. STEVE: Don't try anything funny, Dan.... DAN: (SHRUGS) What would be the percentage -- with this jewelry hooking us together? Suppose you'd lost the key? STEVE: Not me. I've got it right here in my vest pocket. (ADD QUICKLY) The side away from you..No, you're pretty smart, Dan, but I'm just one step ahead of -- (SUDDEN SHOUT) Hey, look out! (SCREAMS, FADING) Dan -- ! ENGLISHMAN: (COMING IN, EXCITED) I saw it! I saw it all! The rail gave way! (OTHER VOICES GATHERING, EXCITED) WOMAN: Well, don't just stand there! Do something! [3] ENGLISHMAN: By jove, you're right. (SHOUTS) Help! Man overboard! Help! Help! MUSIC: INTO COVER...AND FADE OUT INTO....EXCITED VOICES...IN LOW B.G. JOAN: (CALLS) Louise...(NO ANSWER) Louise.... LOUISE: (SLIGHTLY OFF) Yes, Miss Joan -- ? JOAN: I've been calling. Where were you? (DOOR CLOSE) LOUISE: (COMING IN) I stepped out on deck. There's been an accident. JOAN: Yes, I know -- I heard the excitement. What happened, Louise? LOUISE: They say a man fell overboard. JOAN: (QUICKLY) When? How? Were they able to save him. Did they -- LOUISE: (STOPPING HER) Miss Joan -- please -- you mustn't let yourself get worked up. JOAN: Don't be silly! Who's getting worked up? LOUISE: But the doctor said -- JOAN: Oh, he's like all the rest! They've said too much to me already!.....(EXCITED) Louise, unpack my new silk dress. I'm going out on deck and -- (SUDDEN PAIN) -- and -- LOUISE: (FRIGHTENED) Miss Joan -- ! JOAN: (IN PAIN) My..my capsules..please.... [4] LOUISE: (QUICKLY) Here..Here....Now breathe deeply...... That's it..... JOAN: (FAINTLY) I -- just felt a little faint, that's all. LOUISE: (FIRM) That's plenty. (RECEIVER UP) I'm going to telephone for the ship's doctor!!! MUSIC: ACCENT CHORD...AND FADE OUT INTO DOCTOR: Fortunate you had those capsules handy, Ma'am. LOUISE: (QUIETLY) We always have them handy, Doctor. DOCTOR: (GRAVELY) Yes....of course.... JOAN: Doctor, I think it was silly to bother you. Just when they probably need you, too. DOCTOR: You think someone needed me more than you? JOAN: Well -- that man who fell overboard...If he couldn't swim. DOCTOR: He couldn't. JOAN: There you are! You see! DOCTOR: Matter of fact, he didn't need me at all...Seems he's travelling with another man -- very strong swimmer. Fellow went right in after him. They thrashed around bit -- and then the friend took over. Held them both up until they fished them out. JOAN: Oh..... DOCTOR: Now then young lady, you'll stay in bed and rest. JOAN: (SMILES) You're not very original. That's been said to me before. [5] DOCTOR: Not much result..You don't obey doctors' orders, do you? JOAN: I used to. I don't any more. DOCTOR: I presume they told you how serious it is? JOAN: More than that -- I've read all about it. DOCTOR: It's a strong thing to have to say to a girl who's -- well, to anyone, for that matter. But you understand that with exertion and excitement, it can happen almost any time? JOAN: Yes, doctor -- I understand. I'll send for you if I don't -- feel well. DOCTOR: You're going on to San Francisco? JOAN: San Francisco, and then New York. Then France -- then down through the Red Sea -- and then 'round the little world again. DOCTOR: (GRIMLY) That's a long trip. JOAN: Not nearly as long as lying in a sanitarium...They knew it was hopeless..and I knew it, too -- and I couldn't go on, just lying there, waiting for it to come to me. So I've been waltzing around the world, having what fun I could.....Is that such bad psychology, doctor? DOCTOR: Well, I can understand how you feel..but if you were my little girl you'd be staying in bed. JOAN: (SMILES) But since I'm not, I'm getting up. [6] DOCTOR: And then? JOAN: I'm putting on my new silk dress. DOCTOR: And then? JOAN: I'm going up to the bar for a drink -- MUSIC: (ACCENT CHORD..AND FADE OUT INTO:) SOUND: WHISTLE STEVE: Dan, I don't know how to say it to you..(A PAUSE) Dan --? DAN: Oh, I'm sorry, Steve -- I was looking out on deck.... That girl is pretty, isn't she? The one in the silk dress. STEVE: You must be nuts! DAN: I'd like to prove that to the Governor. He might change the rap to just life. STEVE: (QUIETLY) Why'd you pull me out, Dan? Why didn't you let me drown? DAN: You know, I've been wondering about that myself. STEVE: You managed to get the key out of my pocket -- you got the irons off..Thanks, Dan. If I can do anything for you.. DAN: You can, Steve. STEVE: (WARILY) What? DAN: These irons. Can't we cut the Siamese Twin Act now? We're out of the harbor -- I can't get away. [7] STEVE: (CONSIDERS IT) No... that's true...you can't...(A PAUSE) Dan, I'm gonna give you half a break. I'm not gonna put you in the brig -- DAN: (PLEASED) No? STEVE: (QUICKLY) But one move and you get it. I'd plug you without even thinking twice. DAN: (SLIGHT PAUSE) Okay... STEVE: It's fourteen days to San Francisco, Dan. Make the most of 'em. DAN: (QUIETLY, SLOWLY) Thanks...I will. MUSIC: (ACCENT CHORD..AND RESOLVE INTO SHIP'S ORCHESTRA.. 'AUF WIEDERSEHEN' IN LOW B.G.) BARTENDER: Mister, I've been tendin' bar for twenty years, but I never saw a cocktail like that. (GLASS CLINKS) DAN: I know it. That's why I always mix it myself..Let me see now, did I put in everything? Lemon, Pernod, sugar, Cointreau, bitters, bourbon...yes, I think that does it. Stir well and pour. Go ahead. SOUND: COCKTAIL BEING STIRRED BY SPOON BARTENDER: What d'you call it, Mister? DAN: Paradise. BARTENDER: Paradise, huh? I'd call it somethin' else if I had to mix 'em very often. (STIRRING STOPS) Well -- here goes ....(SHAKER CLINKS ON GLASS) [8] DAN: Bartender -- when anyone comes along who knows that every second of life is important -- make him one of these. BARTENDER: Yes, sir. JOAN: (QUIETLY) And you can start with me. DAN: (STARTLED) Huh? JOAN: (LIGHTLY) I know every second is important. DAN: (SMILING) Then allow me, Madam.. (SHAKER CLINKS ON GLASS) A few drops of Paradise. JOAN: Think of that! DAN: But just a few drops. JOAN: (LAUGHING) Just. DAN: (SIMPLY) My name is Dan. JOAN: Mine's Joan. DAN: Hello, Joan. JOAN: Hello, Dan. DAN: (GRAVELY) Well -- here's to a brief meeting. JOAN: Yes -- hail and farewell! DAN: No. That sounds a little too ruthless..Let's follow the music - 'Auf Wiedersehen'. JOAN: (SMILING) The French say 'au revoir'. DAN: (SMILING) We just say 'be seeing you'. JOAN: (LIGHTLY) When? Where? DAN: That's hard to say. I don't plan very far ahead. JOAN: (DISAPPOINTED) Oh.... [9] DAN: (GRINS) But if someone really wanted to, she might find me out on B-Deck later. JOAN: B-Deck. Any special time? DAN: Oh, I'd say when the sun is going down..goodbye, Joan. JOAN: (SMILES) Auf wiedersehen, Dan. MUSIC: (UP FULL...AND FADE OUT INTO:) SOUND: (SHIP'S ENGINES..IN VERY FAINT B.G. WHISTLE) JOAN: Well...here it is B-Deck, and the sun's going down. DAN: (GRINS) Did you think it wouldn't? Beautiful, Isn't it? . (SOBERLY) Beautiful... JOAN: Dan, what does it make you think about? DAN: Oh, I don't know..The Angelus.. JOAN: (LAUGHS) It's a silly game -- but will you play it with me? DAN: Sure. What is it? JOAN: It's a game where I can find out all about you. DAN: What do we do? JOAN: I say words or phrases -- you say whatever comes to your mind. DAN: (SMILING) Go ahead. JOAN: All right...Bubbling water. DAN: Laughter. JOAN: And laughter? [10] DAN: The little crinkles around your eyes. JOAN: (LAUGHING) Life? DAN: Death. JOAN: Good!..Freedom? DAN: Adventure. JOAN: Adventure? DAN: Excitement. JOAN: Will-o'-the-wisp?..(AS DAN PAUSES) Quickly! DAN: A sadness..a long search.... JOAN: Love? DAN: (QUIETLY) The end of the search....(A PAUSE, THEN SMILING) Know all about me now? JOAN: (SOFTLY) Yes...yes, I think I do.... STEVE: (SLIGHT PAUSE...OFF) Dan --? DAN: Huh?....Oh hello, Steve...(STEPS, COMING IN) Joan, you haven't met Steve, have you? Miss Ames -- Mr. Burke. JOAN: How do you do, Mr. Burke. DAN: Steve's an old friend of mine. We're sort of travelling together. STEVE: Yeah - we're together all the time. DAN: Practically inseparable. JOAN: How nice! (SMILES) But, Mr. Burke, may I borrow on occasion? STEVE: Sure -- as long as you don't lose him, Miss. [11] JOAN: Don't worry, I won't. STEVE: (SLIGHT PAUSE) Coming down to dinner, Dan? DAN: Well --- Steve ---- JOAN: Now, Mr. Burke -- you said I could borrow him on occasion-- STEVE: (WARILY) Yeah.... JOAN: (LAUGHS) Well ....dinner tonight is the first occasion! MUSIC: (ACCENT CHORD....FADE OUT INTO:) STEVE: (QUIETLY) Dan, I've been watching you the last few days. You and that girl. Aren't you getting in a little deep? (NO ANSWER) 'Course it really ain't no business of mine, but. DAN: (QUIETLY) Then shut up, Steve. Let's not talk about it. MUSIC: (PUNCTUATES...AND FADES OUT INTO:) DOCTOR: (GRAVELY) I couldn't help but notice, Miss Ames. Dancing every evening -- the bar at all hours -- shuffleboard and swimming every day. I realize all those things are pleasant, but ----- JOAN: Doctor, I want to ask you something. If you found what you'd been looking for all your life....if it was perfect - absolutely -- would you give it up? For anything? (A PAUSE) Neither will I. MUSIC: (PUNCTUATES...AND FADES OUT INTO:) SOUND: (SHIP'S ENGINES...IN VERY FAINT B.G.) DAN: (PANTING) Hey, Joan - slow down! I can hardly keep up with you! (SHE LAUGHS) How much higher are we going? JOAN: Right up to the top! Right into the wind! [12] DAN: Next thing, you'll want to climb the rigging! JOAN: Wouldn't that be wonderful? ...Dan, this should be a a sailing ship - with the mast creaking, and the spray flying, and you barking orders like Moby Dick! DAN: Joan, Moby Dick was the whale! JOAN: (LAUGHS) What's the difference?...(THEN SLOWING DOWN) Here we are... DAN: Top deck. Thank heaven we can't climb any further. JOAN: I can climb forever -- if I can hold your hand. DAN: (SOMBERLY) I guess that goes for me, too, Joan. All my life I've been reaching out for your hand. JOAN: (SOFTLY) Where are we, Dan? I've lost track completely.. DAN: We're three days out of Honolulu on a ship in the Pacific ....one very small world, surrounded by water.... JOAN: By water and stars. DAN: They say that if you make a wish on a star, it's sure to come true! JOAN: I wish, I wish --! DAN: What? JOAN: No -- to tell would spoil it. DAN: Then just let me ask. Will you be satisfied - us - here - just us - no questions asked --? JOAN: No questions, Dan - except what my eyes ask and your eyes answer. [13] DAN: Nothing said --? JOAN: Except what my heart says and your heart understands. Listen. You can hear it. It's saying 'Dan - Dan - Dan - Dan - I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you'. DAN: (ARMS ABOUT HER, SOFTLY, TRAGICALLY) Joan...Joan... MUSIC: (SWEEPS IN TRAGICALLY..AND FADES OUT INTO:) SOUND: WHISTLE STEVE: (TRYING TO BE CASUAL) Well -- we're right on schedule, Dan. We get into Honolulu tomorrow. DAN: (QUIETLY) Yes, Steve, I know. STEVE: Uh - Miss Ames been making any plans? DAN: (WRY) Lots of them....She's cabled ahead for a car. She wants to drive up in the mountains -- take a picnic lunch - you know. STEVE: Yeah....(A PAUSE) I'm sorry, Dan. I'll have to put you in the brig while we're in port. I hate to do it, but I know you, Dan. I know you'd blow my brains out if you thought you could make a break. But I'm reminding you again -- that goes both ways. DAN: Okay, Steve. Now we're both warned...(A PAUSE) Well, I'd better be getting along. I promised Joan I'd meet her for cocktails. (WRY) Got a toast to suggest? STEVE: Take it easy, Dan. No need to tell her anything now. You've got a lot more miles to go. [14] DAN: Sure.. Until the last one. STEVE: Well, you know what they say - 'While there's life, there's hope'. DAN: Yes -- you might have something there. SOUND: DOOR OPENS, CLOSES STEVE: (TO SELF, SLOWLY) Now what the devil did he mean by that? MUSIC: (ACCENT CHORD....AND RESOLVE INTO...HAWAIIAN GROUP... 'AUF WIEDERSEHEN') (GLASSES CLINK) (CROWD AD LIBS) JOAN: (SMILING) A few drops of Paradise...Is it still so precious, Dan ? DAN: More precious - now. JOAN: And tomorrow - Honolulu! Have you ever been there? DAN: Once. Just calling - like this - on a ship. JOAN: There's a spell to the Islands...And high up, where we're going, you can look down and see the ocean on both sides. The colors keep changing - and then suddenly a cloud will roll right over, like a blanket....It makes you feel as though you'd left the earth and were riding on a cloud. Higher and higher, and then - (SUDDEN PAIN) - then -- DAN: (SLIGHT PAUSE) Yes? JOAN: (FIGHTING PAIN) Dan... DAN: (QUICKLY) What is it, Joan? [15] JOAN: (CONTROLLED) Nothing...Excuse me a moment... just a moment .... I'll be back.... SOUND: STEPS...DOOR OPENS, CLOSES..MUSIC OUT, AS SHIP'S ENGINES ARE HEARD JOAN: (TO SELF, DESPERATELY) Not yet..Oh, please - not now! It - it couldn't happen now!.... DOCTOR: (SLIGHTLY OFF) Miss Ames --?? .... (COMING IN) Miss Ames, are you all right? JOAN: (CONTROLLED) Yes...Yes, Doctor, I'm all right... DOCTOR: (TROUBLED) I saw you standing here - I thought, perhaps.. (DOESN'T SAY IT) JOAN: (PAIN IS GOING) Oh, no -- I just came out for some air, that's all. DOCTOR: (QUIETLY) Well, just remember I'm here -- in case you need me. (FADING) Goodnight, Miss Ames... JOAN: Goodnight, Doctor. (DOOR OPENS...DOOR CLOSES) DAN: (OFF) Joan --? (COMING IN) Joan, what's the matter? Why did you rush off like that? JOAN: I don't know, Dan...Maybe because I've never been so happy in my life..The music - and you - and - well, I guess it was all too much for me. DAN: (GENTLY) Hail and farewell - remember? JOAN: No - not farewell! It isn't farewell, is it, Dan? (NO ANSWER) Is it?...(NO ANSWER) Dan -- what is it you want to say to me? Let me help you... DAN: If you only could! [16] JOAN: I couldn't lose you now - ever! You know that, don't you?... (NO ANSWER) Don't you? DAN: Yes...I do... JOAN: Then why were you talking about farewell?... (NO ANSWER) What is it, Dan? DAN: Well -- you've made the present so perfect..and any future is uncertain, isn't it? JOAN: Not ours! DAN: I - I'm grateful, that's all. That's what I was trying to say. JOAN: Dan -- you do belong to me? You really do belong to me? DAN: Yes...the best of me is yours... JOAN: And tomorrow... tomorrow will belong just to the two of us, won't it? (NO ANSWER) Won't it, Dan? DAN: (PAUSE, THEN QUIETLY) Yes... Joan, every minute I can give you. MUSIC: IN FULL......FOR CURTAIN (APPLAUSE) (BREAK FOR COMMERCIAL) [17] SECOND COMMERCIAL SMITH: (LEAD IN) And now a brief intermission and time for a smoke! Are you enjoying a mild cigarette? BARCLAY: How mild can a cigarette be? SMITH: Smoke Camels and see. BARCLAY: Yes, see how Camel's choice tobaccos, properly aged and expertly blended, give the double enjoyment of rich, full flavor and cool, cool mildness. SMITH: In a recent, coast-to-coast smoking test, hundreds of men and women smoked Camels, and only Camels, for thirty days...an average of one to two packs a day. Noted throat specialists examined these smokers' throats every week...made two thousand, four hundred and seventy careful examinations in all. And these doctors reported not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking Camels! BARCLAY: See how mild a cigarette can be! Try Camels. If, at any time, you're not convinced that Camels are the mildest cigarette you've ever smoked, return the package with the unused cigarettes to the makers of Camels, and you'll receive its full purchase price, plus postage! SMITH: Camel Cigarettes now present Act II of "One Way Passage", starring Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, and Charles Bickford. [18] SOUND: WHISTLE ROY: Honolulu...The ship has tied up at the pier...Most of the passengers have already left, full of gay plans for their one day ashore...Most of the passengers. Not all. MUSIC: CUTS- WITH SOUND: PHONE RINGS...PAUSE...RINGS AGAIN STEVE: That's the third time she's rung in ten minutes, Dan. Don't you want to talk to her? DAN: (QUIETLY) I don't think so, Steve. STEVE: (SHRUGS) Well...Time to tuck you in the brig, Sonny Boy. Stick out your wrist. SOUND: HANDCUFFS CLANK DAN: (WRYLY) Do we need the irons? STEVE: I'll take 'am off again tonight - when we're ten miles out to sea. DAN: You still don't trust me... STEVE: No .... Come on now - let's have your hand. DAN: (SMILING) Sure, Steve. Sure, I -- (SWINGS SUDDENLY) Here! SOUND: SHARP BLOW... STEVE GROANS SOFTLY...FALLS DAN: (LOW, FAST) Sorry, Steve - it's my last chance for a break. By the time you wake up, I'll be lost again- and I guarantee you won't find me this time. (SOFTLY) So long, Steve. Pleasant dreams. SOUND: TWO QUICK STEPS...DOOR OPENS..CLOSES..FEW MORE STEPS.. TO CUT WITH: [19] JOAN: (OFF) Dan--! ... MUSIC: HITS FAINTLY...HOLDS UNDER: DAN: (TRAPPED) Joan!....Joan, I - JOAN: (COMING IN) Oh, I've been so worried, Dan! I waited out on the pier - and then I tried to phone you, and when you didn't answer, I thought....Dan, what is it? Is anything wrong? DAN: (CONTROLLED) No...not a thing, Joan... JOAN: (EAGERLY) The car is waiting by the pier - and I've got a lunch packed and -- (SUDDEN WORRY) We are going to have our picnic, aren't we? Up in the hills? DAN: (HELPLESSLY) Well - sure -- JOAN: (HAPPILY) Then come on -- we're wasting time! Come on, darling - let's go catch a cloud! MUSIC: UP SHARPLY... AND FADE OUT INTO: JOAN: (SOFTLY) One whole day...one whole day up above the world...Isn't it beautiful up here, Dan? DAN: Beautiful - and a little unreal...Like everything else about us. JOAN: Unreal? Why? DAN: Well - the way we met...on a little world out in the ocean...Growing to - growing so close - and still knowing so little about each other.... JOAN: I don't want to know any more than I know now --- do you? [20] DAN: No, but -- what kind of people we are - what we've done -- what we intend to do... JOAN: Well - about the past - that doesn't matter. I don't think I was born until we met...And about the future.. well - if I ever lose you, I'll die... And in between the past and the future - we have this. (SOFTLY) It won't ever end - will it, Dan? We'll go on and on until -- (STOPS SHORT, WITH) SOUND: SHIP'S WHISTLE...LONG WARNING BLAST..IN DISTANCE DAN: (A PAUSE, THEN GENTLY) Joan, darling.. JOAN: Don't say it. I know. DAN: That was the second warning. You'll have to hurry! JOAN: I'll have to hurry? What about you? DAN: (QUIETLY) I'm not sailing, Joan...You're going back alone. JOAN: But, Dan. DAN: Please - don't ask me why! Just go! JOAN: (FIRMLY) No! If you're not sailing, neither am I! DAN: Joan - darling - there's no time to lose! .... I've left this - everything to say - until the last moment - and now it's too late.....Please - don't ask me - please! We'll meet again -- I'll write to you - JOAN: From where? Where are you going, Dan? DAN: Somewhere - I don't know - when I know I'll - [21] JOAN: I'm coming with you. DAN: You would - I know you would - but you can't! Please, darling - go now - you must! JOAN: (PITEOUSLY) Why? Why, Dan? Are you afraid? DAN: Afraid? JOAN: Someone's told you: They've told you about me! DAN: Told me what? JOAN: Don't lie! You know! You know about me - and you don't want me any more!..(BROKENLY) Please, Dan - let me go with you! Please - (SUDDEN PAIN) please - I - I -- DAN: (PUZZLED) Joan...(PAUSE, THEN SHARP ALARM) Joan! MUSIC: (SHARP CHORD...AND FADE OUT INTO) SOUND: (SHIP'S ENGINES...IN FAINT B.G..WHISTLE) STEVE: (QUIETLY) We're almost out of the harbor, Dan..Five days to San Francisco. DAN: Okay, Steve. No use rubbing it in. STEVE: Sorry. I wasn't trying to..You know something? I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe own eyes when I saw you coming back with the girl. DAN: I had to get her back. She was sick...(A PAUSE) It's her heart. It could go out almost any time. STEVE: That's tough.....Who told you? [22] DAN: Louise. Her maid. She said she'd let me know when the doctor left...(WRY) I'll look cute, won't I --- (CLANKS HANDCUFFS) - going up there with these irons on? STEVE: Too bad, but I can't take any more chances, Dan. DAN: Oh, I'm not blaming you. (KNOCK ON DOOR, OFF) STEVE: (SOTTO) Put your hands below the table! (KNOCK ON DOOR, OFF) Yes? (DOOR OPENS, SLIGHTLY OFF) DAN: Oh - Louise. Come in.. (DOOR CLOSES, SLIGHTLY OFF) How's she doing? LOUISE: (COMING IN) She's much better, Mr. Dan. The doctor said she could see you.....Will you come up now? DAN: Sure...(PUTTING IT UP TO HIM) Steve....? STEVE: (DISTURBED) Now, Dan, I don't know... DAN: Look, my breaking days are over. Whatever my word is worth -- will you take it? STEVE: (A PAUSE, THEN) All right..I guess we're far enough out...(GRUFFLY) Put your hand up here. I'll get you unlocked. LOUISE: (PUZZLED) Unlocked? DAN: He means these....(HANDCUFFS CLANK) Louise, have you ever seen a pair of handcuffs? LOUISE: Handcuffs---! [23] DAN: (GRINS) Yes...I escaped from San Quentin - and Mr. Burke is escorting me back. LOUISE: San Quentin? What for? DAN: (PAUSE) Murder....I'm going back to die. MUSIC: SHARP CHORD...AND FADE OUT INTO SOUND: COCKTAIL BEING STIRRED IN SHAKER BARTENDER: Have your cocktails in a minute, folks! (GRINS) This Paradise is kinda tough to make. DAN: (GRINS) That's what a lot of people find out. BARTENDER: (CHUCKLING) Yes, sir. (SHAKER CLINKS ON TWO GLASSES) There you are... MAN: (OFF, CALLS) Bartender.... BARTENDER: (FADING) Coming up, sir... DAN: (OFFERING DRINK) Joan--? JOAN: Thank you darling...(SMILES) Can you imagine that silly doctor - telling me I couldn't come to the bar? DAN: (SMILING) Did he say positively? JOAN: He said positively and absolutely. (SUDDENLY SERIOUS) But I couldn't miss this, Dan. It's our last chance. We'll be at the pier in fifteen minutes. DAN: (TENDERLY) Then I'll give you a toast...To Paradise. JOAN: (SOFTLY) To everything these last few days have been. (THEY TOUCH GLASSES...DRINK) [24] DAN: (A PAUSE) We ought to do this in the grand old manner - toss off our drinks and smash our glasses on the bar. JOAN: Break our glasses? DAN: You know -- the old, romantic tradition. You break your glasses and cross the stems. JOAN: Oh, no! You only do that when something's finished. And we aren't finished - are we, Dan? DAN: No - of course not. JOAN: I'll be seeing you -- we'll be together? DAN: Sure we will - after a while. I've got some business to take care of -- JOAN: (EAGERLY) Where, Dan? Could I go along? DAN: No, I'm afraid not.... JOAN: (DISAPPOINTED) But, Dan - you said -- DAN: (QUICKLY) And I meant it too! Ever been to - Mexico City? JOAN: No, but I've heard it's very -- DAN: That's it then. Mexico City - the Palace Bar - New Year's Eve - you and I! JOAN: But, Dan -- DAN: Agreed? (MUSIC SNEAKS IN FAINTLY..'AUF WIEDERSEHEN') JOAN: (SOFTLY) Agreed.....(SLOWLY) Mexico City...the Palace Bar..New Year's Eve..you and I......Forever, darling. Until -- STEVE: (QUIETLY) Dan.... DAN: (QUIETLY) Yes, Steve.... [25] STEVE: We're almost in... DAN: Be right with you..(SIMPLY) Goodbye, Joan.... JOAN: Goodbye, Dan... DAN: Auf Wiedersehen... JOAN: Auf Wiedersehen... DAN: (SLIGHT PAUSE, THEN ABRUPTLY) All right, Steve... SOUND: (FOOTSTEPS, FADING..DOOR OPENS, CLOSES...OFF) BARTENDER: (SLIGHT PAUSE..COMING IN)) Miss, will there be anything else? I don't like to rush you, but I'm supposed to close up when we're -- (STOPS SHORT, PUZZLED) Miss --?.....Is anything wrong, Miss? Are you -- SOUND: (JOAN FALLS...CHAIR TOPPLES OVER) BARTENDER: (SHOUTS) Hey!..Somebody lend me a hand, will you?..Hurry - I think the lady's fainted! MUSIC: (UP FULL..AND FADE OUT INTO:) SOUND: (GAY CELEBRATING CROWD..NEW YEAR'S EVE..BAR EFFECTS) 2ND BART: (GROWLING) New Year's Eve -- it's a pain in the neck! 3RD BART: (THE SAME) Yeah, especially when you have to tend bar. 2ND BART: New York, Chicago, even down here in Mexico City - it's always the same. A lot of crazy nuts tryin' to drink themselves into -- (TWO GLASSES CRASH) Say, watch your elbow on them glasses! 3RD BART: What glasses? [26] 2ND BART: Them two! Can't you see they're broken? 3RD BART: Hey, they are....and the stems are crossed.....That's funny..... 2ND BART: Funny? 3RD BART: Yeah - funny. My elbows wasn't anywhere near 'em. MUSIC: (IN FULL....FOR CURTAIN) (APPLAUSE) [27] THIRD COMMERCIAL SMITH: Our stars - Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres and Charles Bickford will return to the microphone in just a moment. BARCLAY: The man who has written some of America's greatest hit tunes tells about the cigarette that made a hit with him. Here's what Cole Porter said: W. CRAIG: "Camels have been a hit with me for years. They've got the flavor and they're mild." SMITH: Camels are mild! In a recent smoking test, hundreds of people smoked only Camels for thirty days. Each week, noted throat specialists examined the throats of these smokers and they reported not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking Camels! BARCLAY: Test Camel mildness yourself. If, at any time you're not convinced that Camels are the mildest cigarette you've ever smoked, return the package with the unused cigarettes to the makers of Camels and you'll receive its full purchase price, plus postage. SMITH: Yes, try Camels. And when buying Camels, remember.... Camels by the carton are the best buy! MUSIC: TAG [28] SMITH: In just a moment, we'll hear a very exciting announcement. But first, a final word of thanks to our stars for their magnificent performances. Jane, Lew and Charles - you've given us a memorable half hour tonight. AYRES: Well, Verne, in inviting us here, the Screen Guild Players have given us an opportunity to support one of Hollywood's finest activities - the Motion Picture Relief Fund and its County House and Hospital, which all gain so much from this radio program. That's a privilege, isn't it, Charles? BICKFORD: It certainly is, Lew - and for more reasons than one. Each week the makers of Camel Cigarettes do a great work, too. They send free smokes to Service hospitals all over the country. WYMAN: That's right, Charlie. And this week, among other hospitals, free Camels are being sent to: Veterans' Hospital, Perry Point, Maryland...U.S. Naval Hospital, Houston, Texas...and U.S. Marine Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. That makes a total of more than one hundred and eighty- seven million cigarettes that the Camel people have sent to servicemen, servicewomen and veterans! Happy smoking, fellows, your cigarettes are on the way to you now, with the compliments of Camels! MUSIC: SHOW THEME [29] BARCLAY: And now- the exciting news you've been waiting for! MUSIC: FANFARE SMITH: Next Thursday night, March 3, The Screen Guild Players will present Red Book Magazine's selection of the best picture of the year - With the greatest cast that has ever been assembled for a radio play! The picture -- BARCLAY: (ECHO) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Command Decision!" SMITH: The stars --- BARCLAY: (ECHO) Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, John Hodiak, Edward Arnold and Richard Quine! SMITH: Seven great stars playing the roles they created on the screen! It's the radio event of the year! Next Thursday night! Be sure and listen! [30] SMITH: The Screen Guild players are directed by Bill Lawrence. The adaptations are by Harry Kronman. Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres and Charles Bickford can all currently be seen in their academy-nominee roles in Warner Brother's "Johnny Belinda". SMITH: For fun and hilarity, don't miss Camel Cigarettes other great show over these same stations. Tomorrow night -- the Jimmy Durante Show...with Alan Young. And remember Thursday night is Screen Guild Night - the greatest stars and the greatest stories, brought to you by Camel Cigarettes! This is Verne Smith speaking. ANNCR: THIS IS NBC.........THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY