Suspense-S1E7: Night At An Inn
25min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (1949–1954)
Three merchant sailors and their enigmatic leader hide out at a British inn. They've been followed from India after stealing the priceless ruby eye from a holy statue. The grimy sailors ambush and kill the men who've come to retrieve the gem, unaware of how badly the statue wants its eye back. It arrives at the inn and, one by one, makes the thieves pay for their offense.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, John Baragrey
25min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (1949–1954)
Three merchant sailors and their enigmatic leader hide out at a British inn. They've been followed from India after stealing the priceless ruby eye from a holy statue. The grimy sailors ambush and kill the men who've come to retrieve the gem, unaware of how badly the statue wants its eye back. It arrives at the inn and, one by one, makes the thieves pay for their offense.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, John Baragrey
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01:48Go ahead, girl. Answer the door. Maybe some poor wayfarer.
02:08Could you put us up for the night? Why, sir, the house is full up.
02:13My wife's in the car and she's quite ill. We've been driving for miles and miles over
02:18these blasted moors. Sorry, sir.
02:21But you can't be full up. Why, the house looks empty.
02:26That's right, sir. We're full up and closed. But we really don't need a bed. We will sit
02:32by the fire all night. Anything to take my wife out of this misty night.
02:38Twelve miles on, sir, you'll find a farmhouse. Sometimes they take folks in. Come back, sir.
02:44But you're a tavern. You're a public inn. We can tell from the looks of you you're practically
02:51empty. Sorry, sir, but a certain party has taken
02:55this pub over, entire and complete. As long as they comfort what they do with their own
03:02business. What I do is my order. Good night, sir.
03:08How much longer are you keeping us here, poor cop?
03:13He won't tell you. Never know a thing with a toff. He's a quiet one.
03:18How long did you rent this here pub for? Your turn, Albert.
03:21Will that be all for tonight then, sir? It's late, you know.
03:25You can leave out three meat pies and two bottles of claret.
03:28Yes, sir. And whiskey.
03:30They're all on the dresser. Good night, sir.
03:33You're the only one sleeping in now. I...
03:37You sleep alone in the garage, do you? I do.
03:41Well, I hope you sleep well tonight. And if you should hear anything irregular,
03:47don't feel you have a duty to get up and investigate.
03:51Oh, no, sir, I won't. Indeed, I won't.
04:03What's the idea, Toff? What are you up to, anyway?
04:06Never tell us, would you, Toff? Oh, he's a clever one, mates.
04:10And you and me. Why, who are we? Just three bloomin' idiots.
04:13Am I right, Toff? That's right, Sniggers.
04:17Three injured sailors lost on a blasted moon.
04:21I tell you this, Toff, we may be three bloody merchant seamen to you,
04:25but there's one thing I've learned. What's that, Sniggers?
04:30Yes, sir. I've been sailing from cape to cape
04:32on the northern rich corners of India, and there's one thing I've learned.
04:36I'm waiting. It's the clever ones, Toff.
04:40The clever ones that make some money. Ah, he's right.
04:44It's the clever ones that keeps everything to themselves.
04:48Their plans are clever enough, but they don't work. They don't work.
04:52Because they forget some one little thing that simple fools like us could see.
04:58Tell us, Toff. Tell us what your plans are.
05:02Aren't you the clever ones, though?
05:06I know what he's keeping us here for. So they can't find us.
05:10Ah, but I'm sick of it. How can they find us?
05:14They're nothing but three havens. Who's afraid of three havens, eh, Sniggers?
05:18We can't keep hidin' forever, and then runnin' and hidin' and runnin' forever.
05:22The old black world over. Remember that first night in Bombay?
05:26That was the Toff's mistake then. He was clever, all right. He was so clever
05:30he lets them follow us right onto the boat. That's where the old trouble starts.
05:34If them three havens hadn't followed us onto that boat, we might have had our little trophy sold by now.
05:38Am I right, Sniggers? Sold, and the money divided between us, like we always say.
05:46How much do you figure that ruby's worth? Any price. How much is any price?
05:50Any price we ask. That's how much the ruby'll bring.
05:54Oh, and here we sit on a misty moors.
05:58Course you can't ever let on with a temple ruby. Folks is superstitious.
06:02Why, and no matter how big it is, if people knew we stole that ruby
06:06from a temple, right out of the bleedin' idol's eyes.
06:10That's right. They'd never touch it. Why?
06:14It's still a ruby, ain't it? Yes, but it's a temple ruby.
06:18From India. And that's what makes the difference.
06:22Do you hear steps? I heard something outside.
06:26Wasn't steps exactly. Wind. That's all wind.
06:30Wind, foggy night. What do you say, mates?
06:34Let's eat them meat pies and drink that claret and that whiskey.
06:38Now, will you look who's in a panic now.
06:42Now that you've seen them three, that makes a difference. So has Sniggers, but not me.
06:46Every time I hear a noise and every time I... Look at here, Bill.
06:50Lookin' and listenin'. Cause when they come, they come from behind.
06:54And they come without a sound.
06:58Like they did to poor old Jim in Malta.
07:02That's right. Like they did to George in Bombay.
07:06Before we started. Easy, easy, easy now, Bill.
07:10We're safe out here. I give them dark devils the slip.
07:14You give them the slip? Aye. Put a stick in the fire, Albert.
07:19Right in the place, Albert. I had the ruby, and I give them the slip.
07:23All three of them. How'd you ever do it? They were following me.
07:27Who told them you had the ruby? You didn't sell it.
07:31You didn't have to. They kind of know. They kind of know? Yes.
07:35They know if you've got it. They always know.
07:39That's the mystery we was trying to tell you about. There they are now.
07:43Following me down the streets of Ireland. I goes up to a policeman and I tells him.
07:47They're nothing but three Hindus, and they won't hurt me. Why don't you have the policeman arrest them?
07:51For what? For trying to get back the ruby we stole?
07:55Then I turns a corner, then I runs. I never sees a corner, but I turns it.
07:59Then I never turns a corner, but I runs.
08:03And you know the streets of Ireland. Well, after two hours, I sits and I wipes.
08:07I wipes, and what do you think?
08:11What? Now priests. What? Now. Now dark devils with gold spots on their faces.
08:15I give them the slip. Well done, Albert.
08:19That's why I didn't jump when you said you thought you heard something.
08:23Because I knew we were safe. Now go on, Bill, and play up.
08:27Play up? Whose turn is it anyhow? Mine. Albert, why didn't you tell us before?
08:31Sooner or later he's all mine. Because the toffee don't want me to say nothing.
08:35No. He's got his plans, and things must be done his way.
08:39Oh, you and me are stupid fools. And if it wasn't for me, we'd get in a slip,
08:43and oh, we might have had one of them crooked knives in him right now.
08:47But for me, I'll give him the slip.
08:51Albert, Bill, here's the idea. The priests have gone,
08:55our money's gone. So what have we left? Go on to London now
08:59and sell that ruby. Toffee won't come.
09:03We'll leave. They won't give us the ruby. We'll take it.
09:07How?
09:11One of them. There's three of us.
09:15We'll take it tonight, and be in London tomorrow.
09:19Simple enough, ain't it, Bill? Simple enough.
09:23Once we get the ruby. Don't worry about that.
09:27We'll find a way to get it from them.
09:41Come on, let's go.
09:45Come on, let's go.
09:49Come on.
10:01Come on.
10:05Well, goodbye, old man.
10:09We'll see that you get your fair share. But there's nothing to do here.
10:13No girls, no dancehalls. We must sell that ruby.
10:17I'm not a fool, Bill. No, of course not.
10:21And you've helped us a lot. Well, goodbye, old man.
10:25Say goodbye.
10:29Of course. Goodbye.
10:33And open the shutters again, Bill.
10:37I don't suppose you want the door open, too, do you?
10:41Whether the door is open or closed, Bill, it doesn't matter.
10:45Well, the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.
10:49Goodbye, coffee, old man.
10:53Come on.
10:57Help! Help!
11:01Help!
11:05I'm going to get you out of here.
11:36Now, here is the second act of A Night at an Inn.
12:00You're back again.
12:02Toffee.
12:03Why, so you are.
12:04How did they get here? How did they get here, Toffee?
12:06They walked, of course.
12:07But it's 80 miles from here to there.
12:09Did you know it was here, Toffee?
12:10Suspected them about now.
12:1280 miles.
12:13What are we to do, Toffee?
12:14Ask Albert.
12:16If they can do things like this, there's no one can help us but you, Toffee.
12:19I always knew you was the clever one.
12:21We won't be fools no more.
12:22We'll obey you.
12:24You're strong enough and you're brave enough.
12:28Not many would steal a ruby eye from out an idol's head.
12:32And from such an idol as that was to look at her on such a night, too.
12:36You're brave enough, Bill.
12:38But you're all three of you fools.
12:41Jim would have none of my plans.
12:43And where's Jim?
12:44And George?
12:45What did they do to him?
12:46Don't, Toffee, don't.
12:47Your strength is no good to you.
12:49You need cleverness.
12:51Or they'll have you the way they had Jim and George.
12:55Those black priests will follow you around the world in circles,
12:58year after year, until they get the ruby eye.
13:02And if we die with it, they'll follow our grandchild.
13:07And this fool thinks he can escape from men like that
13:10by running around three streets in the town of Hull.
13:14Lord's truth, you haven't escaped them, because there he is.
13:17So I suppose.
13:18You suppose?
13:19I took this place especially to receive them.
13:22Well, you're a deep one.
13:24I saw something just then.
13:26And we'd better shut the shutters.
13:28Don't shut the shutters.
13:29But, Toffee, they can see us.
13:30One doesn't let the enemy do that.
13:32I don't see why we...
13:33Now, of course you don't.
13:34No revolvers now.
13:35Well, why not, Toffee?
13:36Don't want any noise at my party.
13:39We might have guests who haven't been invited,
13:42but knives are a different matter.
13:44I think they're coming now, Toffee.
13:45Not yet.
13:46Well, when will they come?
13:47When I'm quite ready to receive them.
13:49What will you do when they come?
13:51We'll do nothing.
13:52What?
13:53They'll creep up behind me.
13:56Then my three faithful friends, Sniggers and Bill and Albert,
14:00will do what they can.
14:02You can trust us, Toffee.
14:03If you're a little late or slow,
14:06you'll see reenacted the cheerful spectacle
14:09that accompanied the death of Jim in Malta.
14:11Don't, Toffee.
14:12Leave me there, all right?
14:14Now,
14:17I shall sit here,
14:19with my back to that door.
14:20Now, you three go out, one by one.
14:22Mine now, be sure you cross that open window,
14:26so they'll think you've gone to the other room.
14:28I get it, Toffee.
14:29Then, crunch low, creep back,
14:32so as to be hiding here when I need you.
14:36Night, Toffee.
14:40Night, Toffee.
14:43Good night, Toff.
14:46Turn out the lights.
14:47I think the firelight will prove more inviting.
14:49No revolvers now.
14:51The police in Yorkshire are proverbially inquisitive.
15:17We're ready.
15:47Toffee.
15:48Toffee.
15:49Toffee.
15:50Toffee.
15:51Toffee.
15:52Toffee.
15:53Toffee.
15:54Toffee.
15:55Toffee.
15:56Toffee.
15:57Toffee.
15:58Toffee.
15:59Toffee.
16:00Toffee.
16:01Toffee.
16:02Toffee.
16:03Toffee.
16:04Toffee.
16:05Toffee.
16:06Toffee.
16:07Toffee.
16:08Toffee.
16:09Toffee.
16:10Toffee.
16:11Toffee.
16:12Toffee.
16:13Toffee.
16:14Toffee.
16:15Toffee.
16:17Toffee.
16:19Toffee.
16:22Toffee.
16:37Toffee?
16:38We only got one.
16:39What will we do?
16:41Only one?
16:42Yes.
16:43Very well.
16:44at my Yorkshire residence.
16:46I shall be knighted, and you'll be ready to receive guests.
16:49Okay.
16:53Argh!
17:14Argh!
17:38We've got two, Toppy. What do we do now?
17:41Still enough.
17:42Yes.
17:43You get over to the window. Stage a fight with that heathen.
17:46I know, I know. He's dead.
17:48But you and Bill are going to resuscitate him.
17:50On his feet. Snickers, come.
17:52Keep low. Keep low.
17:56Out to the window. Quick now. Quick.
17:58Snickers, turn him over.
18:00Easy.
18:01All right?
18:08All right. Walk him.
18:13Okay.
18:18Argh!
18:20Cut.
18:43Snickers.
19:13Argh!
19:30Very good night's work, my friend.
19:32Well done, Toppy. You are a dink.
19:34Ah, you dink. What a terrible odd one.
19:37How much is it worth, Toppy?
19:39Everything they have in the shop.
19:41Don't we all want to be very grateful to Toppy?
19:43Well, I just have a knack of foreseeing things.
19:48I should think you did.
19:50I don't suppose there's anything happens that old Toppy don't foresee.
19:53Does it, Toppy?
19:54No, I don't think it does, Bill. I don't really think it does.
19:58Turn on the lights.
20:01What do I do with him?
20:02Bury him in the garden.
20:04Then what?
20:05Then we go up to London and upset the rubies.
20:08Well, I don't think we've come through this night's work very well.
20:11Well, the first thing we ought to do is give a little supper in honour of old Toppy.
20:15Well, I hope we've earned our bit of supper.
20:18Here's to Toppy, who guessed everything right.
20:21Aye, good old Toppy.
20:23Here's to Toppy, who saved our lives.
20:25Here, here, eat.
20:26Foresees everything.
20:28Speech, Top. Speech.
20:31Well, gentlemen, I suppose in this world there are two kinds of men.
20:39There's the kind that can see.
20:45So what would that be?
20:46That wind in the shutter slamming.
20:48It's wind. It's blowing both ways at once.
20:51Look. Look at that.
20:53Of course it's the wind. Fog's lifting. Must be lifting.
20:56Must be the wind.
20:58Fog looks as thick as ever to me.
21:00Sniggers, go outside and fasten that shutter back.
21:05Go outside.
21:17Well, gentlemen, as I was saying,
21:20in this world there are two kinds of men.
21:24Those who can see and those who can foresee.
21:27Now, the advantage of being able to foresee...
21:30Stop it! Stop it!
21:32I've been thinking about my share in that ruby.
21:35I don't want it, Toppy. I don't want it.
21:37Nonsense, Sniggers. Nonsense.
21:39You should have it, Toppy. You should have it yourself.
21:41Only say, Sniggers, there's no share in this here ruby.
21:44Say it, Toppy. Say it.
21:45What a ten-informer, Sniggers.
21:47Toppy, take back my share, Toppy. Take it back.
21:50What do you mean? What are you driving at?
21:54I... I... I saw something.
21:57I saw something that I didn't like.
21:59What didn't you like?
22:00Toppy, take back my share. Please take it, Toppy.
22:03What have you seen?
22:04The idol. I've seen the beastly idol.
22:07You couldn't have.
22:08I couldn't. Take back my...
22:10He's lying. He's groping.
22:12He wants that ruby I bagged.
22:14Then give it back, Toppy.
22:15Please, Toppy. Please give it back to him.
22:17You're crazy.
22:18I dare you, Toppy.
22:20Put that ruby in the window and you'll see.
22:23That's what he wants. That's what he's groping for.
22:27That's what he must have.
22:30That's what he must have.
23:01What is it?
23:03It's... It's... It's that obscene idol.
23:07Come from India.
23:09It's taking its eye.
23:11What's that?
23:12Say it.
23:16Mr. William Jones.
23:21Evil.
23:23Evil.
23:25Evil.
23:27Evil.
23:29Evil demon.
23:32Albert.
23:34Albert, what is it?
23:54Toppy, what's happened?
23:56I've seen it. I've seen it.
23:58I've seen it.
23:59What was it, Snickers?
24:00What is it? What is it?
24:03Mr. Albert Thomas.
24:08Evil semen.
24:11Must I go, Toppy?
24:13No, no.
24:14Must I go?
24:15Toppy.
24:16Toppy.
24:18Toppy.
24:21Albert.
24:25Mr. Jacob Snickers Smith.
24:32Evil semen.
24:40I can't go, Toppy. I can't go. I can't go.
24:55Albert.
25:08Mr. Arnold Everett Scott Fortescue.
25:16Late Esquire.
25:20Too late, the Topsy.
25:26This I did not foresee.
25:50Thank you, Boris Karloff, for a fine performance.
25:58Musical effects this evening were by Hank Silburn.
26:01And now this is Rex Marshall speaking for Autolite,
26:04inviting you to join us next week for suspense and reminding you that
26:08you're always right with Autolite.