Episode 37

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10th Sep 2025

Suspense || Nothing Up My Sleeve || The Pit and the Pendulum || 1943

Suspense || Nothing Up My Sleeve // 1943-01-12 The Pit and the Pendulum || January 5, 1943; January 12, 1943

01:50 -- "Nothing Up My Sleeve". A suspenseful tale of robbery and missing money in a locked room. + Dorothy Dale is determined to find the $88,000 stolen from a bank where her fiancé Jerry Winton works to free him from the suspicion upon him. She knows that it is her employees nephew, Mr Rolse, an intelligent lawyer who set up the whole bank robbery but without finding the hot money she cannot prove a thing.

32:00 -- "The Pit and The Pendulum" by Edgar Allen Poe has been adapted for Suspense by John Dickson Carr. " I was sick, sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum…” The French Officer was a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition condemned to death and in his cell a pit to which was to be his hell and alone with only the torment of his own mind awaiting the torture of the inquisition.


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