HOSTS: Alan J. Sanders and Walt Murray of The Wilder Ride Podcast


Locked in the Townsend Library, Thornhill examines the room for clues on his abduction. He picks up a mailing tube from a desk near the room’s large window. 

There’s a mailing label. It says:

MR. LESTER TOWNSEND 169
BAYWOOD, GLEN COVE, N.Y.
20 3690 5821 X C

He puts the mailing tube down on the desk and looks out the window. Licht is talking to a tall, thin man who is holding a croquet mallet. Whatever Licht says to the man has the two of them scurrying out of the back yard. 

Phillip Vandamn opens the library door and steps inside. He closes the door behind him.

“Good evening,” says Vandamn. 

Thornhill says nothing, but regards him curiously. Vandamn returns the gaze, and the two men slowly circle the desk. 

Vandamn closes the curtain across the window, plunging the room into darkness. He turns on a table lamp. 

“Not what I expected,” says Vandamn. “A little taller.”

In This Episode:

  • Cary Grant    as Roger O. Thornhill
  • James Mason     as Phillip Vandamn
  • Martin Landau     as Leonard
  • Robert Ellenstein    as Licht
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