Not Rated | 30min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery,TV Series | Episode aired 3 May 1960
A man disillusioned with life meets the woman of his dreams on a tropical island. When she suddenly disappears his life begins to spiral out of control, and in his desperation he begins to believe he is having encounters with the supernatural.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus
Stars: Lee Philips, Barbara Lord, Murray Matheson
A man disillusioned with life meets the woman of his dreams on a tropical island. When she suddenly disappears his life begins to spiral out of control, and in his desperation he begins to believe he is having encounters with the supernatural.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus
Stars: Lee Philips, Barbara Lord, Murray Matheson
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00:00It begins here, on this small and obscure tropical island.
00:06It's a strange story, and unforgettable.
00:10It's a love story like none other that has ever happened.
00:14We know only where it began.
00:16No one can know how or when, or where it will end.
00:31A few months ago, finding myself with an unexpected ten days off,
00:35and sort of feeling a need for a rest and a complete change of scene,
00:39I took a plane down to San Salvador.
00:42From there I short-hopped to the island village of San Torrentado,
00:46where a friend of mine had assured me I would find a small, comfortable hotel on a picturesque bay.
00:52Everything he'd said was true.
00:54It was absolutely beautiful, isolated and quiet.
00:58And the food and air were clean and refreshing, as nature had intended them.
01:03Don Newland?
01:06Beg your pardon?
01:07Don Newland?
01:08No, John Newland.
01:10Oh, I'm sorry.
01:12My name's Bentley. I live here.
01:15The other side of the island.
01:17Oh, sir.
01:21One of the guests at the hotel said that he recognized you.
01:24He said that you do a television program of your own back in the States,
01:28dealing with unexplainable things.
01:35Unexplainable?
01:37Well, many of them are unexplained.
01:40But no one can be sure whether any one of them is unexplainable.
01:45I mean, they don't fit our rules of logic,
01:48or fall within the scope of our scientific knowledge, yet.
01:53But they have happened.
01:55Apparently.
01:57That's it. This isn't logical.
02:00It doesn't make any sense at all.
02:04This thing, whatever it is,
02:08has been on my mind.
02:10Well, I guess on my conscience would be more to the point.
02:13It began when a man by the name of Wilson,
02:17Philip Wilson,
02:19came down here from San Francisco for a vacation.
02:23Wilson had all the things that are supposed to make a man happy.
02:27Money, success, health, good looks.
02:31But I've never seen a guy who was more disenchanted with the world.
02:42I'm sorry.
02:44I'm sorry.
02:46I'm sorry.
02:48I'm sorry.
02:55And now, madam, if you'll give me your undivided attention.
03:01Mr. Bentley, you disappoint me.
03:03Did you escape the economic pressures of a complex society,
03:06only to become a peddler of native artifacts to unwary travelers?
03:10Peddler? An artist reluctantly sells the fruits of his inspiration,
03:14and you call him peddler.
03:16How do you make all these?
03:18Are they any good?
03:20Not much of a judge.
03:22But I like this one.
03:24How much?
03:26How much do you like it?
03:28Bentley, you'll never be a star salesman.
03:30I don't want to.
03:32I've arranged things very carefully here.
03:34I lead the full life by not wanting anything I can't easily have,
03:37and I don't intend to let anything rock the boat.
03:40If it weren't for an occasional cigar and a few beers
03:42and a new pair of tennis shoes when these were out,
03:44I wouldn't even bother to make these.
03:46That's an interesting, if decadent, point of view.
03:51I like this little statue.
03:54About $20 worth?
03:57Twenty? Do you want to ruin me?
03:59Five bucks, not a penny more.
04:01All right.
04:03If you let me send you a good box of cigars when I get back to New York.
04:06Only if you take another one of these as advance payment.
04:09And remember, just one box.
04:12And I'll stop my life.
04:16Charming, don't you think?
04:21No.
04:23No, he's not very charming.
04:26But he is good looking.
04:28Bartender.
04:31Will you get Mr. Wilson another one of whatever he was drinking, please?
04:59I didn't order that.
05:00The lady wanted to buy you a drink.
05:04I buy my own whiskey.
05:13Oh, that was pretty nasty.
05:15She was only trying to be friendly.
05:17I didn't ask for her friendliness.
05:19Or yours, as I tried to make clear to you a few days ago.
05:23I know what you're afraid of.
05:25But Mrs. Garan isn't looking for another husband.
05:27She's not even taking alimony from her last.
05:29Money is the least of the things a woman takes from a man.
05:33What makes you so bitter, friend?
05:36Two ex-wives.
05:38What makes you so nosy, friend?
05:40Just a lively curiosity.
05:42I enjoy watching the human race.
05:45Especially when I see someone with a lemming complex.
05:48You know those little animals that run like crazy until they destroy themselves in the sea?
05:52They're so busy concentrating on whatever's driving them.
05:55They can't see or think about anything else.
06:00Mr. Bentley.
06:01Yes?
06:06Tell the lady I'm sorry.
06:09Tell her yourself.
06:39I'm sorry.
07:09I'm sorry.
07:27Are you real?
07:29Yes.
07:30I don't believe it.
07:32Why?
07:33It must be the moonlight.
07:35Isn't it?
07:37Is it?
07:38Yes.
07:39If I reach my hand out to touch you, I'll touch nothing.
07:50You are real.
07:52You are, too.
07:55I feel so peculiar.
07:58I know.
07:59Like a dream.
08:00No, no. Not like a dream. Like...
08:03Like something I thought would never happen has happened.
08:09I've known you before, haven't I?
08:12No.
08:14I've dreamed it a hundred times.
08:17You.
08:18This place.
08:20This moment.
08:23It was here.
08:26It was now.
08:30And then...
08:32Afterwards...
08:36Something happened.
08:38Something terrible happened.
08:44What are you afraid of?
08:46I don't know exactly.
08:49Of what's going to happen.
08:53What happens is up to us.
08:56This is no dream.
08:58Believe me.
09:00This is impossible. You just touched me. Look at me.
09:03Yes.
09:04But it's too quick.
09:06Seconds.
09:08What does time have to do with us now?
09:11What do you feel?
09:12You know what I feel.
09:15But it can't happen this quickly.
09:17It has.
09:19I'm frightened.
09:21Don't be.
09:23I'm frightened.
09:25Don't be.
09:30Don't be.
09:51You know what's so impossible is that we both should have come here to this little hotel
09:55and this out-of-the-way place
09:58at exactly the same time.
10:01Santorin Taddeo.
10:03When I first saw it on a map, it was like something I remembered.
10:07Or a dream?
10:10I'd hate to tell you how long I stayed for this dream.
10:17Delia.
10:19I'd like so much to know all about you.
10:22When you were vaccinated.
10:24What's your mother's name? How old you are?
10:27Do you like to go swimming?
10:29What do you do when you're not dreaming?
10:31I work.
10:33And darn hard.
10:34Doing what?
10:36This.
10:39Well, that's very pretty.
10:42I designed it.
10:44May I see it?
10:52What's this?
10:53A prayer bell.
10:55They have them in Tibet.
10:57When you hear the little noise,
10:59one remembers to offer prayers and thanks to heaven.
11:02That's lovely.
11:08Where do you live?
11:11St. Louis.
11:14What's your father's name?
11:17Henry.
11:24Henry, I love your daughter very much.
11:28And I'm asking you for her hand.
11:30There's one thing I think you ought to know about me, Henry.
11:33Statistically, I'm a bum risk.
11:36I've been married before.
11:38Twice.
11:39But neither one of them worked.
11:42But neither one of them was Delia.
11:47What is it, Delia? What did I say?
11:51Only that you said it
11:54just the way you said it before.
11:58And before and before.
12:02Delia.
12:18Delia.
12:21Delia.
12:24Delia.
12:30Well, it's a little early in the morning for apologies.
12:34Come in.
12:41Would you like a drink?
12:46I didn't know she shared this place with anybody.
12:49What?
12:50Well, she didn't say anything, but I just assumed it.
12:52Who is she?
12:56Delia.
12:57Now, where is she?
12:58What in the world are you talking about?
13:05She could have gone anywhere. There wasn't time.
13:09I'm sorry to say this, but I think you're in the wrong cottage.
13:11No, I just brought her here just a few seconds ago.
13:13Now, where is she?
13:14My friend, if you want to get drunk, that's your business.
13:17But leave me out of it.
13:22Goodbye, Mr. Wellesley.
13:45There are just three cottages.
13:46A, B, and C. Only three.
13:47All right, we'll look at B next.
13:48But why should I wish to lie to you?
13:50We have so few guests in the hotel this time of year.
13:52You search every room in the hotel with your own eyes.
13:54Open the door.
14:00Are you satisfied, senor?
14:05No, I'm not satisfied.
14:07You're not going to disturb Mrs. Garrett again.
14:09I'm going to keep on disturbing everybody in this place until I find her.
14:12But, senor Wilson, perhaps tomorrow morning.
14:14This is where I brought her.
14:19A thousand pardons, senora.
14:22I tried to stop him.
14:24Are you going to tell me what happened to her?
14:26Is this sort of nonsense part of the regular service of the hotel?
14:29Are you going to tell me where she is?
14:31Please, senor Wilson, believe me.
14:33There is no such young lady in the hotel.
14:35Look, I've had this cottage for a week.
14:37No one else has been here tonight or any other time.
14:40I never saw your Delia or whatever her name is.
14:43I never saw her.
14:47Well, I know someone who did.
14:50Oh, you better be so.
15:04The bar is closed.
15:05Tell him.
15:06Senor?
15:07Tell him who was here with me tonight.
15:08You just try to tell him she wasn't here tonight.
15:10I do not understand.
15:12You had dinner on the veranda, yes.
15:14And the food and the wine were just so, yes.
15:16But you were alone, senor.
15:20What?
15:21You said it was for two, and I served dinner for two.
15:24But I only charged for one.
15:25You were alone, senor.
15:27I only charged for one, senor Maduro.
15:30I only charged for one.
15:36Let me send a check you did not see.
15:41I suppose you don't remember to see today.
15:43Oh, but of course.
15:44It was left by the table.
15:45And who was wearing it?
15:46I cannot say.
15:47It was left on the table.
15:48It is all I know.
15:49Tell the truth.
15:50Senor!
15:51Senor!
15:52What have you done with that?
15:53Senor Wilson, please.
15:54If you've done anything to her, I'll kill you.
15:55I swear it.
15:56I'll kill you.
16:00He went to see the United States Consul.
16:03He made such a fuss that they investigated.
16:06They checked all the steamship companies.
16:09The freight lines.
16:10They checked every ship of every kind that was in these waters at that moment.
16:14With the scheduled and unscheduled airlines.
16:17The passport department in the States.
16:20But they found nothing.
16:22After all, they only knew her first name, Delia.
16:26And that she was supposed to live in St. Louis.
16:29Is that the end of the story?
16:33I only wish that it were.
16:37Well, after a few days, Wilson went to St. Louis.
16:40And began searching for some trace of the girl.
16:43He checked all the jewelry manufacturers, all the designers.
16:46Everything he and the detective agency had hired to think of.
16:50But no one had ever heard of such a girl.
16:54He tried to find out who made or sold bracelets like the one he had.
16:59But he didn't get anywhere.
17:01After months of searching, he came back here.
17:07What for?
17:09To wait for her, he said.
17:11He was sure she'd come back.
17:14That was eight years ago.
17:18He gave up everything back in the States.
17:20And just stayed on here week after week, month after month, waiting.
17:26And he began to drink.
17:28He hardly ever spoke to anyone.
17:35And every night he went back to the place where he had insisted a thousand times he'd found her.
17:42I guess he described her to me a hundred times.
17:45What she looked like, what she wore, what they said to each other.
17:49The whole thing.
17:52He didn't seem to ever think about anything else.
17:55And he kept drinking to try to blot out his thoughts.
17:58One evening, just about a week ago, after this had been going on for almost eight years.
18:04I couldn't stand to see it happening any longer.
18:06And in my infinite wisdom, I decided to do something about it.
18:13I only meant to try to jolt him back to reality.
18:17Ever consider what you're doing to your liver with that stuff?
18:20You know what you're trying to do, don't you?
18:23You're trying to kill yourself.
18:25In a nasty, messy, unattractive way, by degrees.
18:30Well, of course, you want to be the local screwball.
18:34Do you know the natives even have a name for you?
18:38Senor Whiskey.
18:40Well, they don't mean it unpleasantly.
18:43They pity you, too.
18:45Senor Whiskey.
18:47The man that drinks all day and walks the woods all night looking for nothing.
18:52Well, if you want to kill yourself, at least do it in a nice, clean way, and quickly.
18:59Oh, I know it takes a little courage.
19:02But I'm sure if you dig deep enough, you can find some.
19:29The next morning, the police found his body about two miles down the coast.
19:46The sailboat he'd been using had capsized about two miles out beyond the breakers.
19:53When they found him, this was clutched in his hand.
20:02The police listed it as accidental death.
20:07But what was he doing at three o'clock in the morning in a sailboat?
20:13I sent him out there.
20:17And then the next evening, as I was walking Wilson's route,
20:24as a sort of penance, thinking about what a fine specimen of humanity I am,
20:29that I can tell other people what to do with their lives.
20:44Hello.
20:46Delia?
20:48Yes.
20:50It is Delia?
20:52Delia Houston.
20:53From St. Louis?
20:56What does the hotel do? Give out a biography on each of its guests?
21:04Do you like it? I designed it.
21:07That's what I do. I design jewelry.
21:12Well, that's fascinating. That's quite a story, Mr. Bentley.
21:19Now you'd like me to explain.
21:23Can you?
21:25Well, I can make a guess.
21:28You felt terribly guilty about causing Wilson's death.
21:32Yeah.
21:34But in the first place, the police called it accidental death.
21:39And whether or not you contributed to that accident
21:43is a responsibility that you'll certainly have to settle with yourself.
21:46But as applies to the other thing,
21:50apparently your guilt,
21:53combined with the fact that you were so constantly exposed to Wilson's reliving his hallucination,
22:00caused you to visualize the same girl at the same time, at the same place, under the same conditions.
22:10Is that your explanation?
22:13Well, it's an explanation. There can be dozens of others.
22:17But to call it a psychic phenomenon...
22:25Delia?
22:28I'd like you to meet someone.
22:30This is Delia Houston's Mr. John Newland.
22:32How do you do? How do you do?
22:34Have you just arrived?
22:36Yes. Yes, just this morning.
22:38Well, perhaps I'll see you at dinner.
22:41I'd look forward to that.
22:42You'll be a welcome addition.
22:51When she was younger, about eight years ago,
22:55she told me she kept having a dream, over and over again,
22:59that she was here.
23:01You can check everything I told you.
23:04Yes, I will.
23:15A recurring dream about being here.
23:18Now, recurring dreams about romance are rather common to young girls, wouldn't you say?
23:24But if Delia did appear to Philip Wilson,
23:29this would certainly seem to indicate that she did.
23:33Students of psychic phenomena would call it teleportation.
23:38That's how they would explain it.
23:40The transportation of the being from one place to another,
23:44in time and in space.
23:47In this case, into the future as well.
23:52But why did it happen?
23:56Well, maybe Philip Wilson and Delia are meant to meet that way, someday.
24:03And perhaps they will, sometime, somewhere.
24:07You know, there are millions of people who do believe that we live other lives,
24:13before and after this one.
24:17In a moment, a word about next week.
24:52THE END