On a Country Road

Originally Aired: November 16, 1950 Suspense #403, "On a Country Road," stars Cary Grant as David, who makes a fateful decision to take a shortcut with his wife Dorothy during a violent storm. As they drive through the desolate woods of Long Island, radio bulletins warn that Nellie Galler, a dangerous escaped mental patient who has already murdered multiple people with a meat cleaver, is loose in the area. The authorities urge motorists to stay off lonely roads and avoid picking up hitchhikers, but David dismisses Dorothy's growing fear and presses on through the isolated countryside. When their car runs out of gas on a deserted road near Center Moriches, the very area where Galler just committed her latest murders, Dorothy's terror intensifies. Strapped in darkness with only the storm raging around them, the couple must decide whether to stay in the vulnerable car or venture into the woods for help. As tension mounts between David's determination and Dorothy's panic, they face the horrifying possibility that the killer may be lurking nearby in the darkness.