Original subtitles

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I suppose you're wondering what I'm doing here.

Not much, actually. So far, I've spent most of my time trying to get out.

Passers-by are not being very helpful.

They seem to think I'm an errant actor from the theatre of the absurd.

Actually, I was answering a real estate advertisement.

Small, compact residence on thoroughfare, close to schools, shops,

freeways. Plenty of transportation.

Running water.

And that serves to remind me that tonight's play is called Ride the

Nightmare. And speaking of nightmares, here is our first commercial.

I've got a wife that's got a lot of money, and that makes sense.

Hello?

Who's calling, please?

Just a moment, please.

It's for you.

Well, who is it? I don't know.

Maybe it's one of my old girlfriends, huh?

I doubt it.

Oh, you don't think I have any, huh?

You know, one of these days you're going to learn to appreciate me.

Hello.

You've made a mistake. My name is Martin.

Look, I said you made a mistake.

My name is Martin.

What?

What is it?

Chris, what is it?

He said he was going to kill me.

What?

That doesn't make sense.

What did he say?

He was coming here and he was going to kill me.

Who?

Who was that? I don't know.

Well, Chris, that just doesn't make any sense.

Maybe we should call the police.

No.

That's probably just some kind of crank.

What he thinks is a funny kind of joke or something.

Well, it's a pretty weird kind of joke.

No, you just can't tell about people like that.

I'm gonna call the police.

Honey.

All right, if it'll make you feel better, I'll call her.

Give me a brandy, would you?

Would you, uh, give me the police station number?

Will you send a patrol car to my house right away?

I've been threatened.

phone said he was coming over here to kill me.

Just now.

Christopher Martin, 404 13th Street.

That's right.

Yes, thank you.

What did they say?

They'll come.

When? As soon as they can, Helen.

What if he was calling from John's instruction?

Sweetheart, take it easy. I'm sure it's just what you said. It's probably a

crime. Lock the kitchen door.

Let me lock it.

Get

the

lights. Pull the blinds.

Close the bedroom windows.

Do like I tell you.

Check the kitchen door. Yes.

Chris, shouldn't we leave? We could go to Bill's house. No, he might already be

outside.

I'm sorry.

What are we going to do?

You stay here.

I told you to stay in the...

You did all right for yourself. She's a winner.

I found you, didn't I, Phillips?

You're making a mistake.

Can't you see he's not the man you're after? Our name is Martin.

Martin, huh?

Phillips is the name I know him by.

You thought you could change your name and we wouldn't find you, huh?

That's right, baby.

We... For a while there, I thought you did get away.

Then I saw that picture of you in that magazine.

You know the one.

A picture of you and that bowling team that won the state championship.

And I thought to myself, here's a picture of my old friend, Chrissy Boy.

I just got to stop in and say hello.

You'd better get out of here.

My husband has called the police.

No.

You didn't do that, did you?

No.

You wouldn't do that, would you, Chrissy Boy?

Because if you called the police, they'd send you to jail.

And you don't want to go to jail, do you, Chrissy boy?

You did call him, didn't you, Chris?

You mean you didn't tell her, Chris? Oh, that wasn't nice.

You should have told her about your wicked past.

Shut up. Don't move.

Oh, you stuck me, didn't you, baby?

Well, we'll make up for that, won't we?

Yeah, that's right, lady. I'm going to kill him.

Just like I said I would.

Only... I'd just like to have heard him a little more first.

And I just thought of a...

Should I call the police?

Why ask me?

You think I enjoyed keeping it from you?

Why did you then?

Didn't you think you could trust me?

I was afraid to tell you.

And I never thought I'd have to.

I was sure they wouldn't find me.

And that bowling picture had to be taken.

That's funny.

The secret I've kept for almost 15 years ended in a second by a stick in the

bowling team.

It's so funny, it's hilarious.

Where are you going?

Call the police.

No!

I don't want you to be arrested.

You willing to consider doing something else?

What else can we do?

Helen, if that body wasn't found, nobody would ever know what happened.

Look, if we could take that body up in the hills and bury it.

Look, it's either that or prison. There's nothing in between.

I've lived a decent life ever since it happened. I've done everything I could

to make up for it.

Is everything we've had for seven years going to be thrown away just because of

him?

Nice I had nothing to do with it

You

hear

me I had nothing to do with the murder

It's Bill.

Chris, you can't... Don't worry, I'm not going to let him in.

Oh, hello, Bill.

We are out of ice cubes, Mr. Martin. And my mother sent me over to borrow some.

Oh, sure. Honey, would you get Bill some ice cubes? Hey, Helen.

Hello, Bill. Hope I didn't wake you up, huh? Oh, no.

Go ahead. You know, we never go to bed before midnight.

Oh, good, Chris. Good.

You have a little party over there, huh? Sure.

Some party.

My aunt decided to pass me.

Well,

how long is she going to be here?

Too long.

I don't know when she was coming at all. I'd have grabbed the first place. Where

are you?

Can't you get him, honey?

Ah, hear me help her. No, Bill, that's all right. That's all right, I'll do it.

It's only fair.

There she is. Oh, I sure appreciate this, Helen.

Ooh, colder than my old aunt's heart.

Oh, Helen, I hope I didn't disturb you, hmm?

Yeah. All right. Anytime, Bill, anytime.

Thanks a million. Thank you, Helen.

You're welcome, Bill.

Yeah, my aunt thanks you, my mother thanks you, and I thank you. And you are

welcome, Bill. Thank you. Good night. Good night.

wait until they go to bed.

Helen, I want to tell you something.

It isn't necessary.

Yes, it is.

I know that you think I never told you about it because I was afraid of going

to prison.

That's not true.

I was afraid for you.

You were so young when we married.

So I wasn't prepared for anything like that.

That was seven years ago, Chris.

I know.

It's just that I didn't know how to tell you.

As time went by, I began to think that maybe I wouldn't have to.

I was only 19 when it happened.

I was working for a bank.

Picking up deposits from all the big stores in the area. This was

Albuquerque. I was living with my father. My mother died when I was born.

You know all that.

He and I didn't get along, so... More to stay out of his way than anything else.

I started hanging around some of the bars.

That's where I met Fred.

Later on, I met Steve.

Adam. Those are the other two who escaped prison with him.

We hung around together.

We planned a robbery.

We picked one of the bank's depositors.

Nice old guy who ran a jewelry store.

I was supposed to knock on the back door like I always did when I made a

collection. They'd go inside, get the money, and I'd wait out in the car as a

lookout. I was supposed to warn them if something happened.

Something happened, all right.

Now the old guy got to an alarm system.

Next thing I know, I heard a police car coming.

And I ran out on him.

At the time, I... I didn't know that they'd kill the old man. I just...

I just ran out on him because I didn't have the guts.

I drove away as fast as I could, and when the car ran out of gas, I

hitchhiked out of the state, came to Los Angeles, changed my name, met you.

That's it.

I'll call the police.

If you think you can put him someplace where they won't find him.

I had the thought of never seeing you again and being taken away from you.

I won't let them take you away. I won't.

It's all right, Sue.

It's all right.

Marry him, Chris.

Put him out of our lives.

Honey, why don't you go back to bed?

What about those other two men?

What about them?

What if they should come here?

They want it by the law. They won't.

Wasn't the other one wanted by the law?

He was drunk, Helen. Out of his mind.

I've been awake all night.

I've been trying to visualize going on as your wife.

I can't, Chris.

All the meaning seems to be gone out of it.

It's not the same.

It's just not the same.

The same people, Helen.

Are we?

I don't even know who I am. Am I Helen Martin? Am I Helen Phillips?

Or am I married at all?

I just don't know anything, Chris.

Least of all, a man I've been married to for seven years.

Stay away from here, I mean it.

Honey, I'm going to take the bus to the plant.

You can have a car.

long time, Chris.

You look good. I can't say I like that.

What do you want?

A little charity, that's all.

Brief money.

I know you won't object now that you've killed Fred.

I wasn't sure you had till now.

Don't worry. I'm not mourning.

He was a bungler. He's too emotional. Like Steve there.

If I wasn't along, you'd have put a bullet through your head by now for

running out on us.

How much?

Well, we'd like 50 or 100,000 dollars.

But we know you haven't got that much.

I got to have some traveling money, so we'll settle for five.

I haven't even got five.

All right, four.

Lucky we don't leave you in a ditch somewhere.

Bank's open in one hour.

You get that money and meet us at 11 o'clock. You know where Latigo Canyon

is?

Yeah. I'll bring the money there.

Where? You'll find us.

You could bring the police, of course.

But I don't think you will.

Not you.

Indignation, Christopher?

Maybe we better make it six.

Six. Oh, shut up. I haven't got that much.

You bring what you got, then.

Better not be less than four.

All right.

Well, that's splendid. That's really splendid.

Keep in mind, if you fail, you'll be receiving a visit from either us or the

police, either one of which won't be very pleasant. I said all right.

Eleven o'clock, Christopher.

Ellen?

Ellen?

You have just witnessed the first half of our play.

We now come to that part of the program which one viewer says...

reminds him of a bologna sandwich, a station break between two slices of

Hitchcock.

Good evening, and welcome to the Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Again.

You have come back a trifle early, but no matter.

We have an excellent little time killer which will keep you from getting

restless. And now, if you will be good enough to give me a hand, I shall get

out of here.

Good morning, Mr. Martin.

Oh, well, Mrs. Anthony. I saw you standing there, and I wondered if your

wife had run across that canopy dish. She said she was going to look in the

cupboard for it. She thought she put it there after the garden club meeting last

week. I wouldn't fuss about it ordinarily, but I'm giving a little

dinner party Friday night, and I especially want that dish for canopies.

It's priceless, really. My husband bought it in London five, no, six months

ago. It's handmade, and, well, will it be all right if I stop by the house

then?

I'm sorry, Mrs. Anthony. I didn't hear what you said. I said, do you think your

wife would mind if I dropped by the house and helped her look for the dish?

Oh, well, uh... She's not at home right now.

Oh. Are you feeling ill, Mr. Martin?

Oh, no. It's just, uh... It's awful hot in here, isn't it?

Well, when will she be back?

Well, I don't know. She's going to Santa Barbara. Oh, well, I would like that

dish on Friday night. Or before, if possible. You see, it's absolutely...

Mrs. Anthony.

Look, when I finish at the plant, I'll go home. I'll pick up that dish. I'll

bring it over to your place tonight.

Thank you. I'd appreciate it.

Excuse me, ma'am.

I'm in a terrible hurry. Would you mind very much if I got in front of you?

I've been waiting here longer than you have, young man, and I'm in just as much

of a hurry as you are.

Please.

I'd like it in small bills, please.

Tens and twenties.

Yes, sir.

And could you make it as fast as possible?

Hey, where are you going?

Oh, one moment, sir.

It's blocked. Ray.

Won't you sit down, Mr. Martin?

Look, I'm in an awful hurry, Mr.

Campbell. Please.

What is it?

This withdrawal, Mr. Martin.

It would leave your savings account with less than $100. I know that.

Well, this note you signed.

Note? Yes. It states that a $4,000 loan was extended to you last October.

Just a minute.

I'm conditioned at a similar amount in your savings account service collateral,

so if you withdraw $4,000... Mr. Campbell, listen, I've been doing

business with this bank for nine years now.

During that time, I've never failed to meet an obligation.

My credit rating is without question.

I think we can make the deal. I need this money now. My mother's in financial

trouble. She needs it now. She requires it immediately, and you'll get the money

back as soon as possible.

Mr. Martin, please understand, that is not as if as I personally... Look, I got

a good job.

I paid my bills. I met every obligation to this bank.

I need that money now.

Very well, Mr. Martin.

I see no pressing reason why we can't allow this. It's irregular, but in view

of your past credit rating, I think we can put it through.

Where is she?

I didn't think it was a good idea to stop at the main road. Where is she,

Adam?

Now, where is she?

Adam? Steve is taking splendid care of her.

Where?

It's all there.

I'll see.

All right, dude.

Tell me where she is, Adam. I say help me, I'll kill you. No, you won't. You

haven't got the stomach for it.

Tell me where she is, or I'll blow your stinking head off.

Don't. Don't.

It's a shack not far from here.

Is she hurt?

She better not be.

Behind the wheel.

Climb!

Quite the little hero, aren't we?

There's only two bullets.

It'll be the rest of them.

What do you think? Are we waltzed out of that pen?

It's all there is left.

You plan on turning us over to the police?

You of course realize what's going to happen if you do.

You go to the pen for the rest of your life.

What do you think they're going to do with you, little man?

Don't worry about me.

I plan on living a long, long time. I wouldn't bet on it.

beyond that bend away.

What now, little hero?

Well, you're going to call him out.

Anything you say, little hero.

You walk up that road about 15 feet and call him. And you better make it good.

Be careful. There's only two bullets.

It only takes one.

Go on.

Steve!

I've got you, little hero!

You've got to, sweetheart. Try it.

Keep your head down.

The only thing we can do is try and climb out of here.

Give me a hand. Give me a hand.

Chris!

Chris!

I'm terribly sorry.

That was a nasty tumble.

However, we did manage to get me out of there.

Perhaps you can amuse yourself by sitting in the darkness and imagining

what our next commercial will be like.

Sorry, regulations, you know.