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00:00Good evening, this is Orson Welles.
00:02A hurricane, according to the dictionary, is the highest term in scales of wind forces.
00:06I quote from Webster, Hurricane.
00:08Cyclones of diameter of from 50 to 100 miles,
00:11wherein the air moves with a velocity of from 80 to 130 miles an hour,
00:14around a central calm space,
00:16which with a whole system advances in a straight or curved track,
00:20especially prevalent in the tropical regions of the Pacific.
00:23A final definition describes a hurricane as a violent rush or commotion,
00:28bringing with it destruction or confusion.
00:31We'll try to leave out the confusion, and I promise you we're not doing the dictionary,
00:35but I think you ought to know as authoritatively as possible what you're in for.
00:40Tonight's story, which is about a hurricane, is called The Hurricane.
00:44And the aim is to show what a cyclone of a diameter from 50 to 100 miles
00:47can do to a South Sea island paradise
00:50and to the lives of the people who are still alive after it blows over.
00:55Where is it from here, Captain Nagle?
00:57600 miles, madame.
00:59Are we really in the South Seas now?
01:01Right in the heart of them.
01:02The South Sea island.
01:04The last hiding place of beauty and adventure.
01:06That's what all the travel folders say.
01:09Captain, what's that wretched barren spot way off there to the right?
01:13That's one of them.
01:15One of the South Sea islands.
01:17Nothing like that in the folders.
01:19There was a time when it was mentioned in all the folders.
01:22Oh, but it's just a silly looking sand waste.
01:25Is it a name?
01:26It's the island of Monokura.
01:2820 years ago, that was the most beautiful of all the islands
01:32that raised their little green heads above these waters.
01:35The most beautiful and enchanting bit of paradise in all the world.
01:40I always throw it a kiss when I pass it for old times' sake.
01:44Excuse me, madame.
01:45What happened to it, Captain?
01:47It's a very simple story, madame.
01:50That island made the mistake of being born in the heart of the hurricane belt.
01:58It begins quite a while back.
02:01I ran a boat between here and Tahiti in those days,
02:04before I got old and sober.
02:07And one beautiful morning like this,
02:09I sailed up to the beautiful island that used to be
02:12with sugar and calico and a few other things for the islanders,
02:17besides a new governor from Europe to enforce the law.
02:21Later, I wished I'd thrown him overboard.
02:24He was just about as beneficial as the hurricane.
02:27But maybe I misjudge him.
02:30It's his story anyway, and I guess his story is as good as mine.
02:35The Journal of Eugene Delage,
02:38Administrator of Monokura, August 5th, 1902.
02:42From Tahiti to here, nine days on the Katapua,
02:45a fair wind and a calm sea.
02:47And early this morning, we sighted Monokura.
02:49Look, Eugene, the island.
02:51Yes, there it is.
02:52I never believed there was such beauty in the world.
02:54It's paradise, Eugene. Our paradise.
02:57Let's hope the residence is a fit place to live in.
02:59I understand the last administrator is very incompetent.
03:01Certainly, sir, better.
03:03I'm telling you what we're getting into.
03:04I'll never want it changed, not any part of it.
03:06Very well, my dear. You admire and I'll remodel.
03:09Ladies are probably lazy and dirty and immoral.
03:13I've understood from other governors
03:14that these South Sea people are utterly lawless.
03:16Oh, that depends, Your Excellency.
03:17Oh, hello, Captain.
03:18Good morning, Madame Delage.
03:19I beg your pardon, Captain.
03:20It depends, Your Excellency, largely on how you treat these people.
03:24Take my mate Terangi, for instance.
03:26I'll match him against any sailor in the Pacific.
03:29How's the wind, Terangi? Holding?
03:32Holding, Captain. It has to hold if I say so.
03:36I'd as soon sail without canvas as I would without Terangi.
03:40Captain! Canoes coming! Coming aboard!
03:43What's that?
03:44Canoes. They're coming out to meet us.
03:46Chief Mahave and his family.
03:48Lower the ladders there!
03:51Yes, they're a fine lot, these islanders, if you'll just leave them alone.
03:55Really, Captain, you can hardly expect me to sympathize with such an opinion.
03:59Besides, I've been led to believe quite differently.
04:02Mahave! Come up and welcome!
04:05That's him coming up the ladder.
04:07The tall one with the white hair.
04:09And with him is his brother Kabe and his daughter Marama.
04:12What a lovely girl!
04:14Welcome! Welcome, Mahave!
04:17Great Chief, in the name of all my people,
04:21I welcome you to our island of Manukura.
04:25May we work together, our people and you,
04:28in friendship and understanding for the benefit of all.
04:32On behalf of the colonial government of my country,
04:35remembering always that duty comes before friendship,
04:38and obedience before understanding,
04:40I accept your welcome, Chief Mahave.
04:44Great Chief, my wife is dead.
04:47My daughter will speak now for the women of our island.
04:51Like these white flowers, Madam, may your life be happy among us.
04:55May beauty and love dwell with you always.
04:58What is your name, my child?
04:59My name is Marama.
05:00Thank you, Marama.
05:02I saw your island for the first time barely an hour ago, from afar.
05:06But already I feel that you and your people are known to me,
05:09and that there is love between us.
05:11Always I hope you will think of my husband and me not as strangers in your midst,
05:15but as friends.
05:17And here, Your Excellency, is our priest, Father Paul.
05:22Yes.
05:23Father Paul, this is Madame Delage.
05:26Yes, I heard what she said just now to Marama.
05:29That was a fine thing you did, Madame Delage.
05:31With one simple gracious speech,
05:33you have done much to erase all the pain and misunderstanding
05:36that has marred the relations between the people of this island
05:39and the alien law that governs them.
05:41That's very kind of you, Father.
05:43It's against my principles, Madame Delage, to agree with Father Paul,
05:47but I'm afraid this time I've got to admit he's right.
05:50Thank you, Captain.
05:51Well, Father Paul, as soon as it's possible,
05:53I want you to show me everything of your work.
05:56As administrator of this island, I shall be...
06:01What are you laughing at? Does that amuse you, Captain?
06:03It does rather.
06:05I'm sorry, Monsieur Delage.
06:07You see, Madame, your husband may administrate all he wants to,
06:11but do you know who really runs the people of this island?
06:14Who?
06:15Why, Father Paul.
06:16Isn't that so, Father?
06:18You marry them, you bring their children into the world,
06:21you baptize them, you bring them up,
06:23and in the end, you bury them.
06:26Oh!
06:32This boy has stolen a canoe.
06:34Stealing is against the law. There's a penalty for breaking the law.
06:36He's therefore sentenced to 30 days' punishment.
06:38Finished with those 30 days, he'll know better than to break the law again.
06:41My great chief.
06:42You heard the sentence, Chief Mabey.
06:44That's a harsh sentence, Your Excellency.
06:45My concern, Father Paul.
06:46But after all, Your Excellency...
06:48No use your pleading for this fellow, Father.
06:50I don't interfere with your work, which is legitimate.
06:52Please don't interfere with mine, which is justice.
06:54Chief Mabey, this man is sentenced to 30 days' hard labor on the coral reef.
06:57See the sentence is executed.
07:03March 17th.
07:07Over the length and breadth of the island this week,
07:10all thought of work is forgotten.
07:12Captain Nagle's mate Tarangi and Mabey's daughter, Marama, have to be married.
07:18A great feast has been spread in the clearing in front of the residences.
07:21There's laughter and music everywhere.
07:23Men and women both are decorated with great wreaths of white flowers,
07:27and there is dancing every night on March 19th.
07:30The incident occurred today, which has disturbed me profoundly.
07:34For my wife's sake, I've ignored it.
07:37I'm not sure, however, that I've acted wisely in doing so.
07:47Marama, Marama, wait!
07:49You must have followed me, you know that.
07:50If we are caught...
07:51Here, I've caught you.
07:52Tarangi!
07:53Oh, Tarangi!
07:55It's against the law for the British to be alone until their wedding day.
07:59But we've always been together, Marama.
08:01We always will be.
08:03It was meant to be so.
08:04It's written in the stars.
08:07If it is written in the stars, then it is so.
08:10And it is.
08:11You've no way of knowing.
08:13But I have.
08:15Deep inside me, I know.
08:18There is no law of God or man can keep us apart, Marama.
08:21You must not say such things, Tarangi.
08:23It frightens me.
08:24If it were wrong, then I should not say it.
08:26But it's right, and I believe it.
08:28And it shall be true.
08:30If the great water should separate us, I would swim to you, Marama.
08:34If walls are built around me, I shall climb them.
08:36And if chains hold me, I shall break them.
08:39But always, I will return to you, Marama.
08:41Believe that.
08:42Why did you say that, Tarangi?
08:44Do what?
08:45About the great water.
08:47It is as if you had some portent.
08:49I'm only making love to you, and yet you read a portent in it.
08:52Marama.
08:53Tarangi.
08:54Oh, stop.
08:56This is the hour Monsieur Delache comes for his walk along the beach.
08:59He might see us.
09:00Ah, what if he does?
09:01We'll be married tomorrow.
09:02He'd not be pleased.
09:03What does that matter?
09:04He's never pleased.
09:05All the same, I don't want him to see us.
09:07I'm afraid of him, Tarangi.
09:09He walks so stiff and straight and looks so stern, as if he always expected to catch us in some wrong.
09:16Oh, I'm glad I'm not going to be his wife.
09:19With a husband like that, Tarangi, a girl would never laugh and smile.
09:23But you're not marrying Monsieur Delache, Marama.
09:25You're marrying me.
09:27And with me, you can laugh and smile and make love.
09:32I stood still in the long grass by the edge of the beach and heard them.
09:36I heard every word they said about me until they moved away.
09:41After they had gone, I stood there quietly for a long time.
09:45Looking out over the lagoon.
09:47Why do these people feel about me as they do?
09:50I've tried to be just and honest and fair.
09:53I've been as friendly with them as my position and my responsibility will permit.
09:58I've done my work here well.
09:59I've upheld the law to the letter.
10:01That's what I was sent here to do.
10:04And I've done it.
10:06What more could I do?
10:16The End
10:22By the authority committed to me,
10:25I now pronounce you, Marama, and you, Tarangi,
10:28united in the bonds of matrimony through the Saint Christ our Lord.
10:32Amen.
10:42Listen to that, Delache.
10:44That's music.
10:46Oh, come on out and watch them dancing.
10:48Forget that stiff-necked government of yours for a night.
10:51You'll permit me to remind you, Captain Nagle,
10:53as a representative of that stiff-necked government.
10:55Eugene.
10:57I've seen quite enough of these marriage festivities,
10:59and I say that you had too, Captain.
11:00Me?
11:01Me? Well, I've only just begun.
11:04Well, good night.
11:06I didn't mean to offend you, Delache.
11:09Sorry you both won't join me.
11:11Good night, madame.
11:12Good night, Captain.
11:15I'm afraid that sometimes a captain is overly fond of his cognac.
11:20I'm sure he didn't mean to offend you, Eugene.
11:22It was nice of you to join the wedding party,
11:24even for that little while.
11:25It made them happy.
11:27It wasn't so hard, was it?
11:28I don't know that my government will approve,
11:30but there's no harm done, I guess.
11:31No, no harm done, Eugene.
11:33And a great deal of good.
11:35If you'd only try and understand these people, Eugene,
11:37they're not like us.
11:39Why don't you let me help you to see them?
11:41Not through the eyes of your bureaus and your official report.
11:43How else should I see them?
11:44Through my eyes, as you did for a little while this afternoon,
11:47during that marriage.
11:48So you were pleased with me this afternoon.
11:50I felt nearer to you then, Eugene,
11:52than I've been for many months.
11:55Thank you, my dear.
11:57I think that's the one thing I couldn't bear,
12:00whatever happens,
12:02that we should ever drift apart,
12:05either in our minds or in our hearts.
12:14May 26th.
12:16Captain Nagel left today for Tahiti.
12:18All night they were loading.
12:20When they sailed, the catapult carried the biggest shipment
12:22in the history of the island.
12:23Over a hundred tons of copra.
12:26I think I may be permitted a not unreasonable pride
12:28in the reports I sent in with him.
12:30Colonial government.
12:43Good sailing, Terangi.
12:55Twelve days from the island to Tahiti.
12:57Well, you can go ashore if you like.
12:59We won't be unloaded till morning.
13:01We'll start for home at the tide.
13:03Thank you, Captain Nagel.
13:04I want to get a present for Marama here in Tahiti
13:06to make her happy.
13:07Well, you go along then.
13:08I'll meet you at six at the bar.
13:10We'll come aboard together.
13:11Yes, Captain. Thank you, Captain.
13:12Thank you, Captain.
13:20Hello, Terangi.
13:22When did Carapua get in?
13:24This afternoon.
13:25Captain Nagel here yet?
13:26Not yet.
13:27Terangi.
13:28Yes, Joe?
13:29See that man coming towards the bar?
13:31He's been here all afternoon.
13:33He's drunk, looking for trouble.
13:34Well, I'm not making any trouble.
13:35You know how white men are when they're drunk.
13:37Get away from that bar, you!
13:39Where are you going, Terangi?
13:40I don't drink with natives.
13:42Get away from that bar!
13:44What did I tell you, Terangi?
13:45I'm not doing anything wrong.
13:46Oh, you're not, eh?
13:48Well, get up.
13:49Get up when a white man tells you, do you hear me?
13:52That'll teach you to obey your superiors, you!
14:01But, Your Honor, six months...
14:02Captain Nagel, you heard the verdict of the court.
14:05A native hit a white man and hit him too hard.
14:07Not hard enough, sir.
14:09The man was molesting him.
14:11The sentence is unjust, Your Honor, and you knew it!
14:13The court has passed sentence, Captain Nagel.
14:15Six months.
14:16The sentence is standing.
14:17But I sail in the morning.
14:19Is there nothing you can do?
14:21There is nothing I can do.
14:22You mean there's nothing you will do?
14:24That's right.
14:25Good day, Captain Nagel.
14:32Captain Nagel, Captain Nagel.
14:34I've done all I can, Terangi.
14:39Six months isn't long.
14:41The time will pass quickly.
14:44We will see Marama, Captain.
14:46We will tell her how it is with me.
14:48Yes, Terangi.
14:50And you will see that she is taken care of, please.
14:52Of course we will, Terangi.
14:54And, Captain, tell her...
14:56Tell her not to be sad.
14:58And tell her not to worry.
15:01Tell her I'll come back to her soon.
15:09But, Eugene, it sounds so unjust.
15:11Politics and red tape, that's all it is.
15:14It's an offense to good government.
15:16Passion is a dangerous thing, Captain.
15:18I wouldn't criticize the government because a native breaks the law.
15:21But, Delage, even the jury was sick about it.
15:23I could see it.
15:24The magistrate, as I take it, is a just man, as I try to be.
15:27You'll see that no unfair punishment...
15:29Unfair punishment?
15:30If I may remind you, Nagel,
15:32I don't choose to listen to criticism of my fellow administrators.
15:36It's not easy to wield authority.
15:38The man who allows sentiment to warp his judgment
15:41fails in his duty.
15:43Something you perhaps can't understand.
15:45Perhaps not.
15:46Sometimes I think perhaps I've been too lenient here.
15:48I wouldn't worry about that, Delage.
15:50Thank you for that assurance, Captain.
15:51Eugene...
15:52Gentlemen, gentlemen, it isn't worth quarreling about.
15:54Six months isn't forever.
15:55Why, first thing you know, Captain,
15:57you'll be bringing Terangi back in time
15:59to see me bring his child into the world.
16:01Child?
16:02Yes, Eugene.
16:03I didn't know.
16:05But that doesn't affect the case.
16:07Eugene!
16:08Germaine, there are things that concern me alone.
16:10I must ask you in the future
16:11to leave the administration of this island to me.
16:13Trust you won't make it necessary for me to speak to you again.
16:17Sorry.
16:18Now, gentlemen, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do.
16:20I wish to expect you at the residency.
16:22Dinner.
16:31Terangi.
16:32Yes, Your Honor.
16:33For assaulting a white man,
16:34you were condemned by the High Court of the island of Tahiti
16:37to six months' imprisonment.
16:39You tried to escape.
16:40For that offense, your sentence was doubled.
16:43Four times you have attempted to escape.
16:45Four times you have been recaptured.
16:47And now, again, you appear before this court.
16:50And again, this court must sentence you according to the law.
16:54You know the law.
16:56You know the punishment.
16:57Double your previous sentence.
16:59Sixteen years.
17:03Captain Daniel.
17:05Yes, Delage.
17:06You had this information two months ago
17:08when you were here on your last voyage.
17:09Why wasn't I told?
17:10What information, Delage?
17:11You know very well what I mean.
17:12Eugene, what is it?
17:13Only what might have been expected, madame.
17:16Terangi escaped again two months ago.
17:20This time he got away.
17:22A guard was killed by accident.
17:24Accident.
17:25I happen to know the facts, Delage.
17:27And I have them here,
17:28and it's better than the warden of the prison official facts.
17:30You thought I wouldn't find out, didn't you?
17:32You thought you could shield a murderer.
17:33Oh, I'm sure that's not true, Eugene.
17:35She's right, Delage.
17:36That boy wouldn't commit a deliberate murder.
17:38But we all know how the captain feels about Terangi's misfortune.
17:41Misfortune.
17:42He brought it all on himself, father, by his stubborn defiance.
17:45Now, by escaping, he's made a laughingstock of the police,
17:48the law, above all, me.
17:53Oh, Eugene.
17:54He must be retaken.
17:55The government's prestige will suffer if he goes unpunished now.
17:59I think it suffers more when a boy can get 16 years for striking a man who molests him.
18:05I know very well what you think.
18:07What you all think.
18:09Cease to be of any interest to me.
18:11The authorities believe he will attempt to make his way to the silent.
18:15They warn me to watch your ship, Captain Nagle.
18:17My ship was searched before I sailed,
18:20from Kruk to Kielsen.
18:22And anyway, don't you know that Terangi wouldn't implicate me by stowing away?
18:26Where would he hide on a boat the size of a catapult?
18:29Your crew would hide him.
18:31I only ask you to remember your duty, Captain,
18:34as I attempt to remember mine.
18:36Eugene, judged by God's law, Terangi has done no harm.
18:40Isn't that true, father?
18:42I may be a sentimental old man, madame, and a very bad priest,
18:47but I believe God would judge somewhat differently from the colonial government.
18:56Orson Welles' Campbell Playhouse
19:08You are listening to Orson Welles
19:10in the Campbell Playhouse presentation of the hurricane
19:13with Mary Astor.
19:15This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
19:19And now Orson Welles resumes our Campbell Playhouse presentation of the hurricane
19:24with Mary Astor.
19:28General of Eugene de Lars, Governor of the island of Manukura,
19:321902-1909,
19:36August 5th, 99.
19:39Today is the seventh anniversary of our arrival, Manukura.
19:43Little celebrated.
19:46Still no news of Terangi.
19:48Over the island there hangs a strange gloom.
19:52Grows the mumps.
19:59What's that kind of funny noise?
20:01I don't know, Eugene. It sounds very gay.
20:03It's months since they've played like that.
20:05Why? Why?
20:07Yes, for months this island has been like the place of the dead.
20:10Yes, for months this island has been like the place of the dead.
20:14Now suddenly, at a time like this,
20:17there's no festival this time of the year.
20:20I'm going to find out.
20:21What are you going to do?
20:22I'm going to find out what it is.
20:29Maybe. Maybe.
20:31Silence!
20:33What's going on here? What's happening?
20:35The people are celebrating your excellence.
20:37Celebrating? Celebrating what?
20:39Happiness excellence.
20:40What are they happy about? Well?
20:42Terangi, your excellence.
20:43What did you say, Mahevi?
20:45He's coming home, Delage.
20:47Terangi is coming home.
20:49How dare you?
20:51How dare you stand there and defy me and you, Mahevi?
20:55Where did you hear this?
20:57Who brought the news?
20:58I can tell you that, Delage.
21:00Where, Captain Nagel?
21:01The drums have brought the news.
21:04Six hundred miles from Tahiti.
21:06The birds have brought it.
21:08You hear the wind blowing?
21:10Well, it came on the wind.
21:12Nagel, you're drunk.
21:13Well, maybe I am, your excellency,
21:15but what have you got to say to all this?
21:18How about it?
21:19Has your colonial government any law against dancing and singing
21:23when the heart is happy?
21:28Eh? Have they?
21:30Well, Mahevi,
21:32Administrator of this island,
21:34I demand to know what information you're holding back.
21:36Is Terangi here? Have you seen him?
21:38You don't have to see him, your excellency.
21:41He's the soul and symbol of all these people.
21:44No cage can hold them.
21:46They're the last of the world's afflicted race of humans
21:49who believe in freedom.
21:51Look at them dance.
21:52There's the island's answer to your law.
22:06It's August 11th.
22:07No word of Terangi, no sign of him,
22:09yet I'm sure these people are right that he's near.
22:12Shall instruct Captain Nagel to take me to Katapua
22:14for an extended search over the islands.
22:16Motutanga, Motuatea, even the Far Islands.
22:19Must you make this trip, Eugene?
22:20Yes.
22:21Why?
22:22It's only my regular tour of the island.
22:23I shan't be gone a month.
22:24Why are you so concerned?
22:25It's only...
22:26I don't see how you can go on his ship
22:27after the way you talked to Captain Nagel.
22:29I don't hold grudges.
22:30You know that.
22:31Nagel ought to know it, too, after all these years.
22:33I know why you're going, Eugene.
22:34You hope to find Terangi.
22:35Well...
22:36Don't go.
22:37You should know me well enough not to ask that.
22:40Once, one night in this room,
22:41six months after we came here, I asked you something.
22:44You asked me to see these people through your eyes,
22:45not the eyes of the law.
22:46What's happened?
22:47An accident.
22:48No accident, Germaine.
22:49The logical outcome of my own weakness in listening to you.
22:51Eugene, you don't...
22:52I made a mistake once, Germaine.
22:54I don't intend to make it again,
22:56no matter what the cost.
22:58What is it you want, Eugene?
22:59That boy's life?
23:01You, the priest, Captain Nagel.
23:04You all think I'm motivated by revenge.
23:08As if I could be that small.
23:09I know you're not.
23:10They know you're not.
23:11Believe me, Eugene, we all understand.
23:13That's why we pity you.
23:14That's why I beg you now to give up this passion of yours
23:17before it destroys us all.
23:19Give him his chance, Eugene.
23:20Him and Marama, they love each other
23:22as we once loved each other.
23:25Germaine.
23:27All the others are against me.
23:30Not you, Germaine.
23:34Not you.
23:42August 12th.
23:43The search for Tarangi has begun.
23:45The catapult is well out of the lagoon now and in full sail.
23:49While back we passed Father Paul,
23:51the native boy, Mako,
23:52making their weekly fishing trip in that little yawl.
23:56Strange, enviable man, Father Paul.
24:01What a simple life he leads.
24:03He can display a wonder.
24:05And in them he finds such peace.
24:09I envy him that peace.
24:16Shall I steer a while, Father Paul?
24:18You must be getting tired.
24:19Not yet, Mako.
24:21Soon it will be time for supper, then you may take the tiller.
24:26What are you staring at, Mako?
24:28Look, Father.
24:29Do you see nothing?
24:31What is it, a log?
24:32A canoe.
24:33And a man clinging to it.
24:34You've sharper eyes than mine, lad.
24:37There, he's moving again.
24:39Are you sure?
24:40Yes, Father.
24:41Maybe it's...
24:42Maybe it's him, Father.
24:44Maybe it's Tarangi.
24:54How long were you in the water, Tarangi, hanging to the canoe?
24:57Two days.
24:59It's good to be alive, Father.
25:00Yes, my son.
25:02After that experience,
25:04600 miles alone,
25:06doesn't seem possible.
25:09Well, you've done it.
25:12Now you're faced with another problem.
25:14What are you going to do?
25:16Now I'm going to see my wife and the child I've never seen.
25:19And my mother.
25:20And then what?
25:22Oh, you know everything, Father, that I killed a guard.
25:25I didn't mean to, but he was killed by me just the same.
25:28I can't ask you to help me.
25:30Yet you know what it will mean to me if you would.
25:33I know.
25:35Father, you're not going to tell...
25:37Give me one day, Father, that's all I ask.
25:39Give me one day with Marama before you tell anyone.
25:43I first saw you, Tarangi, an hour after you were born.
25:47I watched you grow to manhood.
25:50All the events of your life have been an open book to me.
25:55How can I be your judge?
25:57Then you're not going to tell, Father?
26:00No, I'm not going to tell.
26:03Tarangi, the administrator is making a tour of the island, searching for you.
26:07He's expected back soon.
26:09You must be gone with your wife and child before he returns.
26:12Oh, Father.
26:13Father, how can I ever thank you?
26:16You don't owe me any thanks, Tarangi.
26:19This is just between me and somebody else.
26:24What?
26:26Oh, Marama.
26:29I had forgotten I would wake and find you beside me.
26:33And if I just reached out my hand, I would find yours.
26:37It's so good.
26:39Tarangi, you must get up.
26:41My father, Mehevi, is here.
26:43He's outside waiting for us.
26:45Mehevi.
26:47Greetings, Tarangi, Father, my son.
26:51I've waited as long as I dared before I came to you.
26:54You must be gone before the administrator returns.
26:56But where to?
26:58To the Forbidden Island, to Whenua'ino.
27:01Whenua'ino? But that is taboo.
27:03That is why no one will look for you.
27:05Once there, you and Marama will be safe for the rest of your lives.
27:09Yes, Father.
27:10Tonight, Mako and Marama will sail my canoe across.
27:14Yes, Father.
27:15And after, you will go together tonight to the Forbidden Island, to Whenua'ino.
27:24Whenua'ino
27:43August 19th.
27:45The catapult docked today.
27:48Our search was fruitless.
27:52And with the news I bear, there was no pleasure in coming home.
27:57The strange disquiet on the island.
28:02I feel it all about me.
28:06There's no movement among the natives.
28:09They only stand about and keep watching me.
28:14I have a curious feeling that something is going on here on this island, behind my back.
28:20Jemaine met me at the dock.
28:22Even her greeting was strange.
28:25And at dinner at the residency tonight, Father Paul did not appear.
28:29I've never known him to miss one of these dinners of yours before.
28:33It's strange he's not being here tonight.
28:35Why do you suppose he didn't come?
28:37Oh, he's in the village with Mama Rua, I expect.
28:40She's nearing the end, you know.
28:42She's going to die.
28:43Who?
28:44Tarangi's mother.
28:45She keeps hanging on, though.
28:47She has a feeling she's going to see her son once more before she dies.
28:52What makes her feel that, Captain?
28:54Just delirium, I suppose.
28:55I'm asking the Captain, my dear.
28:57Oh, your wife's right, Tillage.
28:59It's the fever, probably, and some sort of superstition.
29:03You know how these natives are.
29:05Yes, I know.
29:07You can never tell what's going on in their minds.
29:11In the seven years I've been here, I've learned to rely on instincts.
29:16Maybe there's something going on in this island.
29:19As I came up through the village, I don't know.
29:25Natives behaved queerly.
29:28Some of them smiled at me.
29:31Never do that.
29:33Kept watching me and smiling.
29:35Smiling behind my back.
29:40If Tarangi was on the island, none of you would tell me, would you?
29:44Would you?
29:45That, uh, that wind's been rising all evening.
29:48The worst I've heard in a long time.
29:50Like devils running around.
29:51Yes, looks like we're in for a real blow this time.
29:54Well, I'd better be getting down to my ship.
29:56I've never been on the island in a storm.
29:58Do they get very bad, Captain?
29:59Well, I've heard tales of them.
30:02The great wind, the natives call them.
30:05A wind that blows the islands out of the sea.
30:09But I think Mamakoro's pretty well anchored.
30:12Well, good night, Madame Tillage.
30:13Good night, Captain.
30:14Good night, Tillage.
30:16Good night, Captain.
30:21Germaine.
30:24Germaine, did you hear anything?
30:27Just the wind, Eugene, that's all.
30:29I thought I heard voices.
30:32I'm right.
30:35There is something afoot.
30:37Outside there.
30:40Something queer going on behind my back.
31:05No sleep tonight.
31:09The shutters rattle.
31:12The wind whines with a maddening insistence.
31:18The moonlight streaming through the window makes fantastic patterns on the wall.
31:26Behind all that sound, there's something...
31:29something secret going on.
31:33I can't sleep.
31:36I can't bear to be indoors.
31:39Perhaps if I go out into the air.
31:42Onto the open beach.
31:53Hey, who's there?
31:55What are you doing in my canoe, boy?
31:58Speak up!
32:00Speak up!
32:02What?
32:04Marco?
32:06What are you up to here on the beach this time of night?
32:09Stealing the chief's canoe, eh?
32:11Well, answer me!
32:13What are you storing tins of water into them? That's food!
32:17Answer me!
32:19I'm going fishing, Your Excellency.
32:20You're lying!
32:23This has something to do with Terangi.
32:24No, Your Excellency, I swear to you...
32:26Look at you!
32:27When I mention his name, your eyes tell me that I've been trying to find out...
32:32Terangi is on this island, isn't he?
32:34Huh? Answer me!
32:36Answer me!
32:39I tell you there's no use keeping silent.
32:42I should take you to Father Paul.
32:44He'll make you tell the truth.
32:47Father Paul! I didn't tell! I didn't tell!
33:00See, Father Paul, this boy is guilty.
33:03That canoe was for Terangi. Terangi is here.
33:07Nagle deceived me. Smuggled him in right under my eyes.
33:09That's not true, Deloge. Captain Nagle knows nothing about it.
33:11Huh?
33:13But you know about it.
33:14I picked Terangi up at sea, not ten miles from here, last night.
33:17You? Of all men. My own priest.
33:22I am Terangi's priest, too.
33:24Could I, preaching the gospel of infinite love and the remission of sin by repentance...
33:29betray his trust in me?
33:31The laws of the state are one, the laws of God another.
33:34Where is he now?
33:35I don't know.
33:36I see.
33:39Well, good night, Father.
33:51Captain Nagle?
33:53Well, Deloge?
33:54I dare say it'll please you to know that so far I can't find a trace of him.
33:59Captain Nagle, I want your boat again.
34:02But Deloge...
34:03How soon will you be ready to sail?
34:04This is Hurricane Wells. The barometer indicates we're squarely on the track.
34:07Of what?
34:08Of whatever's coming.
34:09I'll not waste any more time. In the name of the government, I demand your boat.
34:14Well?
34:16Men can't argue with the government.
34:19But I'll be ready whenever you are, Deloge.
34:23On board the catapult, waiting the arrival of Captain Nagle.
34:27Giving last orders to his crew.
34:31Through my porthole I can see the great waves breaking white on the reefs.
34:37Something grim and terrible in the aspect of the sea.
34:42Through my porthole I can see the great waves breaking white on the reefs.
34:47Something grim and terrible in the aspect of the sea.
34:52All my thoughts are of Jemaine.
34:56I've never left like this before.
35:00It troubles me.
35:12Tarangi!
35:14Tarangi, why did you come back? I thought you got away.
35:16No, it's too late. Didn't you see them?
35:17See what, Tarangi?
35:18The birds. The sky was black with them. They've all gone away from the island.
35:21What do you mean?
35:22Don't you understand? The great wind.
35:24The birds have gone because the great wind is coming.
35:26The great wind?
35:27The hurricane.
35:28That's why I came back to warn you and my people.
35:31Run. Seek shelter.
35:33Or as it will go, this house too, the whole island.
35:36You must find shelter.
35:38I will.
35:50Wind. The great wind.
35:52Everyone to the church.
35:54Church. Church. Church.
36:04Father. Father Paul.
36:05Tarangi.
36:06The water is up. The church will go.
36:07All of you must take refuge in the trees. In the trees.
36:10My children, I only know that God sees us.
36:14That my place is here in my church.
36:16But those who want to take refuge in the trees must leave now at Tarangi before it's too late.
36:22Madame Delage, you must come with me.
36:24Hold on to me. Hold tight. We'll get through somehow.
36:27Tarangi.
36:28May God bless and save you all.
36:36Come, Madame Delage.
37:06No.
37:19No.
37:36August 5th. 8 a.m.
37:40The hurricane has passed.
37:43Sudden silence.
37:46The sea lying calm and still in the sunlight.
37:53As we draw near the island, as far as the eye can see,
37:58there's nothing but desolation and despair.
38:02As far as the eye can see, there's nothing but desolation and death.
38:08End of the church, not one stone standing.
38:13Of survivors, not a trace.
38:33Here, Madame Delage. Drink this water.
38:36Are you all right?
38:37Yes, Tarangi.
38:38And you and Tita and Marama?
38:40We are all together, Madame.
38:42Before long, they will find us.
38:44But who? Surely there's no one left.
38:46I saw Captain Nagel's spooner pass way off before we were washed on shore.
38:51Eugene.
38:52They will find us before long.
38:54Then they will take you again, Tarangi.
38:56No, Marama, no.
38:58Tarangi, it isn't far to your island, your refuge.
39:00You've got a canoe. Why don't you go?
39:02We cannot leave you, Madame Delage. Not until they come.
39:04You must leave at once in the canoe.
39:06Once you're out of sight, you're safe.
39:09Tarangi, I beg you, please go at once.
39:12We shall do as you say, Madame.
39:31Jermaine.
39:32Eugene, Eugene.
39:34Jermaine.
39:36You're safe.
39:38Oh, my dear, my dear.
39:40And you, Captain Nagel, you too.
39:42It is a miracle, Madame.
39:44And the poor father isn't here to hear me say it.
39:47Jermaine.
39:48Yes?
39:49Were you the only one?
39:51Yes, Eugene.
39:53Were there no others?
39:54No others. They were all washed away. I'm all alone.
39:58I was tied to a tree. It drifted here.
40:00All the others were lost.
40:02All the others.
40:03Take me back to the boat.
40:04Jermaine, you say you drifted in on a tree.
40:07It must have launched over the beach.
40:09Where is it?
40:10On the other side of the island.
40:11Take me back to the boat, Eugene.
40:12I have to report everything. I have to have a look at that tree.
40:14Eugene, don't leave me. I'm afraid.
40:15Madame Delage, look. Footprints on the sand.
40:17Footprints?
40:18A man, a woman, and a child.
40:19Where?
40:20There are footprints across the island, down to the water.
40:22Eugene, please don't go. Don't leave me.
40:23Madame Delage, we're only going to the top of the hill, my dear.
40:25It's a few yards.
40:26Please, please, come back. There's nothing to see.
40:28One moment. One moment to me.
40:29Was it Terangis?
40:30Yes, and Maram and the child.
40:32You'll see them from that hill. He can't help it.
40:34Eugene, please come back.
40:36There's something offshore.
40:39The water. Something...
40:41Something dark.
40:43It's moving. It's a canoe.
40:48There are...
40:50There are three figures in it.
40:51Oh, it's nothing. I saw it.
40:53Eugene, it's nothing. It's only a floating log.
40:57Eugene.
40:59Now that you've seen...
41:02Eugene, you can tell now, can't you?
41:05That it's only a floating log.
41:10Yes, Germaine.
41:13Let's go back to the ship.
41:16It's nothing.
41:19It's only a floating log.
41:23It's only a floating log.
41:54Here again, Orson Welles.
41:56Well, ladies and gentlemen,
41:58it's now two and a half minutes since the hurricane blew itself out,
42:02and I'm happy to report that peace has been restored in studio number one.
42:07I also want you to know that at the height of the big wind,
42:11the wind that blows the islands out of the sea,
42:14no one was braver or calmer than our guest of the evening,
42:18whom we are so glad to welcome back to Campbell Playhouse, Miss Mary Astor.
42:21Thank you, Orson Welles, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
42:23However, there's good reason for her calm, ladies and gentlemen.
42:27This is not Miss Astor's first hurricane.
42:30No, indeed.
42:31The part of Madame Delage which she played with us tonight
42:35is the part she created in the picture Hurricane.
42:37And of that hurricane,
42:39the hurricane that director John Ford
42:41stirred up on Mr. Samuel Goldwyn's back lot some two years ago,
42:45stories are told that will never be forgotten.
42:47I wonder if, Mary, you perhaps could bring yourself
42:50to tell us a few of the terrifying details.
42:52Well, that hurricane, Orson, lasted not three minutes, but three months.
42:55Ten hours a day of wind and driving rain and flying sand.
42:58Miss Astor, please go on.
43:00Well, what would you like to hear?
43:02About the time I was submerged for 90 seconds in eight feet of water
43:05or the time I fell 30 feet out of a tree?
43:07A tree sounds great. Tell us about that.
43:09Well, if you remember just now in our story,
43:11Tarangi lashed me to the branch of a great tree.
43:13The tree was carried out to sea, and I survived.
43:15The tree was carried out to sea, and I survived.
43:17Correct.
43:18Well, in the picture, that branch was about 30 feet off the ground.
43:21When the waves hit the tree,
43:23that branch broke suddenly and started, with me on it,
43:25head down towards the concrete floor 30 feet below.
43:28What happened then?
43:29I just went sailing down. It was a fine sight.
43:31Most convincing, everybody says.
43:32Yes, but...
43:33The cameras went right on grinding.
43:35Director Jack Ford chewed up two handkerchiefs,
43:37and everybody was delighted.
43:38But what happened to you, Mary?
43:40Oh, me? Well, luckily, studio trees are partially made of wires,
43:43and those wires kept me from falling completely.
43:45After a while, some of the crew came over
43:47and cut me free with pliers and things.
43:49But nobody worried very much,
43:50because by that time there were five or six people
43:52drowning in the tidal wave in front of the church.
43:54Thank you very much, Miss Mary Astor.
43:56Thank you very much.
43:57Ladies and gentlemen,
43:58after that, I think you will all agree with me
44:00that we are very, very lucky
44:02to have Miss Astor with us here tonight.
44:04And I assure you, I'm very, very glad to be here.
44:06Good night, Arthur.
44:07Good night, Mary.
44:08And please, visit us very soon again.
44:14In tonight's Campbell Playhouse production of Hurricane,
44:17Orson Welles played the part of Eugene Delage.
44:20Jermaine Delage was played by Mary Astor.
44:23Father Paul was played by Ray Collins.
44:25Everett Sloan was Captain Nagle.
44:28Edgar Barrier, Tarangi, and B. Benaderyt, Murama.
44:32The part of Mako was played by Eric Burtis.
44:35Music for the Campbell Playhouse is arranged,
44:37conducted, and in part composed by Bernard Herrmann.