Suspense-S4E19:The Red Signal
25min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (1949–1954)
A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition turns out to be true because of insanity, murder, and secret loves.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, John Baragrey
25min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (1949–1954)
A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition turns out to be true because of insanity, murder, and secret loves.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, John Baragrey
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00:00And now, Autolight presents, Suspense.
00:30Are you ready to start the seance now, Mrs. Cattermore?
00:57Yes, Mrs. Everly.
00:58You can tell them to come in.
01:01Yes.
01:05Everybody in here for the seance.
01:07It's going to be so interesting.
01:09Come along, Dervis.
01:15Now, what's the matter?
01:18Nothing.
01:20Mrs. Everly, might I have a word with you outside, please?
01:22Yes, Sir Allington.
01:33You're looking very stern, Sir Allington.
01:35I feel stern.
01:36In fact, I'm furious.
01:37Furious.
01:38Oh, for heaven's sake, why?
01:39Why?
01:40What on earth possessed you to invite that medium here, that fake medium, tonight?
01:43I don't know.
01:44I thought it might be rather fun.
01:45Fun?
01:46You've very little sense of the fitness of things, Mrs. Everly.
01:48Have I?
01:49It's a very tactless thing to do and dangerous.
01:51It was.
01:52Oh, perfectly well.
01:53This party was arranged so that I might have somebody under observation without their being aware of it.
01:57Well, yes, of course I know that, Doctor.
01:59I agreed to help, didn't I?
02:01Then surely you must understand that a person whose mind is unhinged is under severe strain.
02:06Who knows what impulses may be released by that medium tonight?
02:11Well, she's not a real medium.
02:15We'd better go in now.
02:31Now, we must all hold hands for the sake of it.
02:44Who's there?
02:46Who is it?
02:50Someone is clamoring to get through.
02:53Oh, it's you at last, Shimakari.
02:57Have you anything to tell us?
03:03I have.
03:05Message for Lady.
03:07Message of warning.
03:09Do not despair.
03:11You must avoid Dark Mountain Forest.
03:14If you want to reach Sunlick Peak, go round the back.
03:19I'm not going on any mountain climbs.
03:21It must be for you, Clare.
03:23What do you mean by Dark Mountain Forest?
03:25Shadows.
03:27Shadows.
03:30Messages for Lady with scar.
03:34Oh.
03:35Who's sending the messages?
03:37Someone who loves you.
03:42Message from another trying to get through.
03:47Clare, is your husband here?
03:53Yes, I'm here.
03:55Jack Trent, this is to warn you.
03:59Very important.
04:02Stay away from your house.
04:05Take advice.
04:08No.
04:10Do not go home.
04:13Jack Trent.
04:15You have very good friend here.
04:18That must be me, Jack.
04:20Friend.
04:22Be careful.
04:24It is dangerous.
04:28Is there anyone else here who shouldn't go home?
04:31Yes.
04:33One other.
04:36Your uncle.
04:38I'm listening.
04:40Stay away from your house, uncle.
04:44All three men.
04:46Be careful.
04:49But one in particular.
04:53One.
05:05One.
05:07Two.
05:09Three.
05:11Four.
05:13Five.
05:15Six.
05:17Seven.
05:19Eight.
05:21Nine.
05:23Ten.
05:25Eleven.
05:27Twelve.
05:29Thirteen.
05:31Fourteen.
05:33Is there anyone else here who shouldn't go home?
05:35Most certainly.
05:37What is his nationality?
05:39He lived in the 10th century.
05:42I'm dead beat.
05:45That's enough.
05:51They are all very quiet.
05:55There is a strange feeling in this room tonight.
05:59What kind of feeling, Mrs. Cathermore?
06:02One that I don't like, Mrs. Trent.
06:05What exactly do you mean by that, madam?
06:08Well, unlike you mental specialists,
06:11we who deal in psychic phenomena
06:14touch only on the intangibles.
06:16I suppose you would insist that I was melodramatic
06:19if I said there was death in the air tonight.
06:23I might not, Mrs. Cathermore.
06:26Oh, I consider that a concession from Harley Street.
06:30Deals in the studies of the mind.
06:33I bet they're cluttered up with all sorts of psychic delusions.
06:36Eh, Sir Arlington?
06:38Yes, I may.
06:40Let me help you, Clare.
06:43I believe all this has been too much for you.
06:45Don't be silly. I'm quite all right.
06:48Can I get you something, Clare? A drink?
06:50No, please. I'm quite all right.
06:52Mrs. Cathermore, when I asked you to come this evening,
06:55I believe you said you'd like some supper.
06:57Indeed I would. I'm just famished.
06:59Well, let's come in the dining room.
07:03Well, it wasn't a bad performance by the old faker, was it?
07:07Are you quite sure that it was a fake?
07:10Sure. It's a simple act of ventriloquism.
07:13But those warnings are premonitions.
07:16Some dialogue to give you the thrills you pay for.
07:20I'm not so sure.
07:22You can't deny that there are such things as those impediments.
07:26You speak as though you've had an actual experience.
07:29As a matter of fact, I have.
07:31Sometimes you get a warning.
07:33It's like a red signal, meaning danger.
07:38No, really. It's happened to me several times.
07:42As a matter of fact, it saved my life once during a war.
07:45No wonder you were so impressed by what Mrs. Cathermore said.
07:48Well, it wasn't so much what she said,
07:50but I had that same feeling as I came into this room tonight.
07:53The red signal.
07:55How strange.
07:57I wonder if you can get the signal when it's meant for someone else.
08:01Madam Bumbo-Jumbo-Swilling-Guinness,
08:04how about our having a little alcoholic refreshment?
08:07Darling, that's the most sensible thing you've said all night.
08:10Come along, Dermot.
08:24I'm so glad you came. There's something I want to say to you.
08:27What is it, Clare?
08:29I want you to go away for a time.
08:31To go away? But why?
08:33You're Jack's good friend, aren't you?
08:35Yes.
08:36That's part of the trouble.
08:38I've let myself grow fond of you. Too fond.
08:41Clare.
08:42No, you must go away.
08:44I'm not very happy with Jack.
08:46I'm not happy with Jack.
08:48I'm not happy with Jack.
08:50No, you must go away.
08:52I'm not very happy with Jack, but I can never leave him ever.
08:55Not if you know that I'm in love with you.
08:57You've got to forget about me.
08:59I can't. I've always loved you, ever since we first met.
09:02I know, but now it's too late.
09:04Why should it be?
09:06Because I cannot...
09:08Oh, Clare.
09:10Jack asked me to tell you that it's time you were going.
09:13The fog's getting worse.
09:15He said he dropped Mrs. Catamore after he'd taken you home.
09:18Yes.
09:20The fog is bad. I'd better go.
09:23Dermot, good night.
09:25Good night.
09:30Thank you for telling me the truth.
09:32You've been very tactful.
09:40Uncle?
09:42What did she mean, thank you for telling me the truth?
09:45Are you in your professional capacity tonight?
09:47Maybe.
09:48At whose request?
09:50Dermot, drive home with me, will you? I've got to talk to you.
09:53You sound very serious, Uncle.
09:55I am. Deadly serious.
10:16Oh, sorry to have kept you up, Milton.
10:18Decant a bottle of the 98 Colburn, will you?
10:21Yes, sir.
10:22What'll you have, Dermot?
10:24Oh, I think I'll stick to scotch, thanks.
10:26Well, I've sent you that.
10:28I won't keep you long.
10:31Is it my fancy, or...
10:34is there a certain tenderness between you and Mrs. Trent?
10:39Look, Clare and Jack are my good friends.
10:42That is hardly an answer.
10:44You may think my views on divorce old-fashioned,
10:46but I must remind you that you are my nearest relative and my heir.
10:50There's no question of divorce.
10:52There better not be, and for a reason that I understand, far better than you.
10:56You guessed right.
10:57I was there tonight in my professional capacity.
11:00There's certain information I had to give to Mrs. Trent tonight.
11:03You mean the information or the diagnosis?
11:05Exactly.
11:06There is strong suspicion of insanity.
11:08Close observation was necessary to confirm this diagnosis.
11:12I'm going to recommend a commitment.
11:14I can't believe it.
11:16The extraordinary sanity of the insane is very complex,
11:20but in this case, the evidence is conclusive.
11:23The patient must be placed under restraint.
11:25Restraint? But why?
11:27Dear Dermot, cases are only placed under restraint
11:29when their being at large may be a menace to the community.
11:32What sort of menace?
11:34In all probability, some sort of homicidal mania.
11:39Poor Claire.
11:42So she knew.
11:44That's why she said I must go away.
11:47Then she has more sense than I gave her credit for.
11:50We must all pity her.
11:52I don't believe it.
11:53Doctors can make mistakes. I don't believe it.
11:55I don't propose to...
11:56Even if it's true, I don't care.
11:57I love Claire, and if she'll come with me, I'll take her away.
12:00Understand, my boy, if you do this, I shall have to reconsider my will.
12:03I don't care what you do with your money.
12:05I shall look after Claire.
12:06If you say another word against her, I'll...
12:11Thank you, Nelson.
12:15You can go to bed now.
12:17Thank you, sir.
12:18Good night, sir.
12:21Uncle, I'm sorry I spoke the way I did.
12:24From your point of view, you're right, of course.
12:27But I've been in love with Claire for a long time.
12:30And if Jack can't take care of her, I will.
12:33I think that's all we have to say to each other.
12:35Good night.
14:06Mr. Dermot West?
14:07What do you want him for?
14:08I'm Police Inspector Vero of Scotland Yard.
14:11He's wanted for murder.
14:13Murder?
14:14Yes.
14:15Murder.
14:16Murder.
14:17Murder.
14:18Murder.
14:19Murder.
14:20Murder.
14:21Murder.
14:22Murder.
14:23Murder.
14:24Murder.
14:25Murder.
14:26Murder.
14:27Murder.
14:28Murder.
14:29Murder.
14:30Murder.
14:31Murder.
14:32Murder.
14:33Murder.
14:34He's wanted for murder.
14:44And now, the second act of The Red Signal,
14:49starring Tom Helmore and Beatrice Strait.
14:56Wanted for murder?
14:58Yes.
14:59About an hour ago, he shot his uncle, Sir Ellington West,
15:02of Harley Street.
15:05Are you Mr. Dermot West's man?
15:09That's right.
15:10He's valid.
15:11Clark's the name.
15:12Nobby Clark.
15:13I see.
15:14Nobby, eh?
15:15Is your master at home?
15:17No, sir.
15:18You don't mind if we come in?
15:20All right, sir.
15:21Benson, you'd better stay right there by the door.
15:24I'll have a look around.
15:29Well, now, Mr. Nobby Clark,
15:31what time do you expect your master back?
15:34Oh, he should be home any time now, sir.
15:36He's out at a party.
15:37Yes, we know all about that.
15:41Oh, this is one of these one-room deluxe flats, eh?
15:48You don't sleep here, do you?
15:50No, sir.
15:51And what are you doing here so late?
15:53Do you always wait up for his nibs?
15:55Well, only when he goes out to parties, sir.
15:57He, uh, sometimes he needs a bit of help getting into bed.
16:02You mean he drinks?
16:03Oh, no, sir, no.
16:04He just likes a few spots when he's out on a razzle-dazzle.
16:09Uh, pardon my curiosity, Inspector,
16:11but I can't quite take this murder in.
16:15Could there be some kind of an error?
16:17Oh, no, my lad, there's no error.
16:20Sir Ellington's servant, Milson,
16:22overurged your master threaten him
16:24and an argument over the old boy's will.
16:27Right after that, Milson heard the shot.
16:30He rushed downstairs and found the old boy slumped across the bar,
16:34shot right through the heart.
16:36So it was this Milson's yarn what clinched it, eh?
16:40Tight as a drum, now, be me lad.
16:42Well, lots of people make idle threats.
16:45Uh, how'd you like a nice glass of ale, Inspector?
16:48I've got some Bass's No. 1 in the fridge.
16:50Hey, that'd be a bit of all right, eh?
16:52Bass's No. 1?
16:54That would set real warm on a cold, foggy night like tonight, eh?
16:57Up to it, me lad.
17:00Uh, mind if I smoke?
17:02Help yourself, Inspector.
17:04Oh, sire.
17:22I will grant you that this young chap put on the act of leading,
17:26but he must have come back because not five minutes later,
17:29Milson heard the shot.
17:31What do you make of that?
17:33Looks like the murder weapon been fired recently.
17:35But didn't that mean he...
17:45All right, Mr. Dermot West, come on out.
17:58There he goes!
18:08I think I got him in the shoulder.
18:22Did you see him?
18:35All right, try this way.
18:36You come with me.
18:59Hello, Jack.
19:00Dermot, what's happened to you?
19:01The police are at my flat.
19:02I gave them the slip, but they winged me.
19:04It's nothing much.
19:05Well, here, sit down.
19:06I'll fix it for you.
19:07Where's Claire?
19:08She's in the bedroom.
19:09Why?
19:10Is she all right?
19:11Of course she's all right.
19:12Why shouldn't she be?
19:14Well, don't you know what happened?
19:16I do, as a matter of fact.
19:17The police have just been here,
19:18obviously making a tour of everybody at the party.
19:21Here, sit down.
19:24Hold this, will you?
19:25Jack, I'm desperately worried about Claire.
19:28You didn't let her out of your sight, did you?
19:30After the party.
19:32This may hurt.
19:34Of course I let her out of my sight.
19:36I was taking Mrs. Catamore home.
19:37Why?
19:38Look, my uncle told me about her tonight,
19:42before he was shot.
19:43It looked pretty bad for her.
19:45We've got to protect her.
19:46What do you mean?
19:47Well, the police found a gun planted in my flat.
19:51Wasn't it your gun?
19:52I haven't even got one.
19:54There's only one thing to do.
19:58Go to the police and tell them everything.
20:00I would, but there was something else at my flat.
20:04What?
20:06This.
20:13Claire's lipstick.
20:14That's what I was afraid of.
20:16Do you think she dropped it?
20:17What are we going to do?
20:18We've got to protect her somehow.
20:20Call the police and tell them it was your gun.
20:22Yes, I already thought of that.
20:27Hello?
20:28Damn it.
20:29I didn't drop the lipstick.
20:30I've never been to your flat in my life.
20:32Jack.
20:33You picked it up at the party.
20:35You did it.
20:36No.
20:37Yes, you did.
20:38I saw you.
20:39Phil.
20:40Don't you know about him?
20:41Zorrington promised me he'd tell you.
20:44So it's you who is a sick one.
20:47And it was you who shot him.
20:49Yes, I killed him.
20:51Because he and Claire were trying to put me away.
20:53I waited outside his house while you and he were talking.
20:56Then after you left, I went inside and killed him.
21:00Then I drove to your flat.
21:01And since you were walking, I had plenty of time to get there and plant the gun.
21:08Claire.
21:09You love him, don't you?
21:10That's why you and Alex wanted to put me away.
21:12But I've never been untrue to you, Jack.
21:14And you love her, don't you?
21:15Suppose I did.
21:16I've never tried to take her away from you.
21:17Then you never will.
21:21Do you remember what that medium said?
21:24I'm going to make it come true.
21:32It's too bad.
21:33I didn't get your...
21:36...red signal.
21:42Why didn't you tell me about Jack as soon as you knew?
21:44Because I loved you and I knew we could never be married.
21:47Yes.
21:48I see what my uncle meant about there being no divorce.
21:51Yes.
21:52They'd never free me from a husband...
21:54...who was out of his mind.
21:56I'm sorry.
21:58They'd never free me from a husband...
22:00...who was out of his mind.
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