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Ruth Asquith is driving down the highway when she spots a Marine, Vincent Riley, hitching a ride to Camp Pendleton with a guitar slung over his back. She stops to pick him up and continues on. Vincent tries to make conversation, and Ruth finally says that she’s heading to Los Angeles, but won’t say why. The marine starts whistling and Ruth starts to whistle with him, and then asks what it is because it sounds familiar. Vincent explains that she couldn’t have heard it because he just wrote it, and he plans to become a songwriter when he gets out. However, he doesn’t know what he’s trying to get out of...
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Host: A most cordial welcome to this nocturnal arcade, featuring canvases that are sometimes a bit on the peculiar side, sometimes uncommon -- sometimes a few frescoes of the freakish. Tonight's first selection, a painting suggesting solitude, or at least solemnity, as viewed during the midnight hour. It tells a tale of two young people caught inexorably in a recurring nightmare with a finale on the jolting side. Our painting, with the somewhat familiar face, is called Midnight Never Ends, and this is the Night Gallery.