- 11 years ago
Drama / Thriller (1946) 64 minutes ~ Black & White
Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.
Director: Otto Brower
Writers: Scott Darling (original screenplay), Charles G. Booth (original screenplay)
Stars: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane
Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.
Director: Otto Brower
Writers: Scott Darling (original screenplay), Charles G. Booth (original screenplay)
Stars: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane
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00:02:11Come on, Johnny, I want you to meet the lieutenant.
00:02:13He's a good egg.
00:02:15What do you like to do? Dance? Harry James?
00:02:19Sure.
00:02:20Well, why don't you turn on the radio in one of your homes?
00:02:23Fix yourself some doughnuts and coffee and stuff.
00:02:26Hang it out in a joint like the one Carrie pulled you out of, it'll buy you nothing but trouble.
00:02:31Carrie, see that these two girls get home, will you?
00:02:32Yes, sir.
00:02:36Hiya, Sam.
00:02:37Hello, Oppenheimer.
00:02:38Hi.
00:02:39Harry James, the Herald's gift to the police department.
00:02:41This is Lieutenant Carson, Sergeant Oppenheimer.
00:02:43Hi, young fella. It's sure nice to meet you guys.
00:02:45You love him when you get to know him better.
00:02:47Johnny's fixing to clean up the department. I thought you ought to look him over.
00:02:50Oh, cut it out, Ames.
00:02:51The Herald's a good paper, Johnny. That's the best paper in town, Lieutenant.
00:02:54The Herald has ideals. Only the truth is fit to print.
00:02:57I wish I could say as much for that rag of yours, Ames.
00:02:59Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:03:00It's your first day on the police run, Johnny?
00:03:02Yeah. Gosh, I hope I don't pull any boners.
00:03:05You won't.
00:03:06Drop around and see me any time you feel like it.
00:03:08Maybe I'll come up with a scoop one of these days,
00:03:10just to keep Ames and the rest of those pelicans in line.
00:03:12Yeah, that'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:03:14Gee, I sure need one.
00:03:15Come on, Johnny. Meet the rest of the gang.
00:03:16Okay. I'll see you later.
00:03:17Bye.
00:03:20That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:03:22Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:03:23Won't do us any harm, either.
00:03:25I'm going down to Dutchman's for an examination.
00:03:27I'll go along with you.
00:03:38I'm going down to Dutchman's for an examination.
00:04:01You take all day. Come on, will ya?
00:04:02Hurry.
00:04:03Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:04:04Lieutenant.
00:04:05I have news for you, Sergeant.
00:04:07Walter Bard runs a private detective agency in the Ecuador building.
00:04:31I picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:04:33Looks like somebody's trying to give the department a business.
00:04:36Keep going up, ma'am.
00:04:46Gracious sakes, alive?
00:04:49It's Mr. Bard.
00:04:51Do you know anything about this?
00:04:53Not me.
00:04:54Not me.
00:04:55I just sell him flowers.
00:05:05Hey, Sam, what have you got?
00:05:08What do you think?
00:05:09Hey, Sam Carson's frisking a stiff on the sidewalk
00:05:12in front of the station.
00:05:13That's the name of the game, gin.
00:05:16Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:05:19Check this guy with ballistics as soon as you can,
00:05:21then have the car gone over for pickup.
00:05:22Hey, Sam, who's the...
00:05:23Hey, it's Waller Barton.
00:05:24Dumped right in front of the station.
00:05:26I couldn't get any closer.
00:05:27Boy, there's going to be a stink about this.
00:05:29He was mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:05:31He was mixed up in politics.
00:05:33He was mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:05:34He was mixed up in everything.
00:05:36He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:05:39What's the matter, Johnny?
00:05:40I never saw a dead man before.
00:05:45Come on, fellas.
00:05:46Give me Charlie to make a snack.
00:05:48Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:05:50Walter Bard, the private eye,
00:05:51was just found shot to death in his car
00:05:52right at the front door of the joint.
00:05:54Evidently a definite slap at the present administration.
00:05:57You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum war
00:05:59that's been going on.
00:06:00Yeah.
00:06:01Say that it's gangland's despairing reply
00:06:03to the vigilance of the police.
00:06:05Huh?
00:06:06Sure, play it up big.
00:06:07Lay it on thick.
00:06:08Everybody's going to be taking pot shots
00:06:09at the administration over this little deal,
00:06:11and the express is its only friend.
00:06:15Oppenheimer, go up to Bard's apartment.
00:06:17Bring back any letters or photographs
00:06:19that might look hot.
00:06:20Yes, sir.
00:06:21See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:06:23Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:06:25Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:06:27Okay, lieutenant.
00:06:28Harper, you chase up to Bard's office
00:06:29in the Ecuador building.
00:06:31Go through his desk and files.
00:06:32Check his appointment calendar.
00:06:33Yes, sir.
00:06:34Lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:06:36Bard used to hang out at Tony's
00:06:37on 2nd Street quite a lot.
00:06:39Good idea.
00:06:40Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony
00:06:42if Bard met anyone there tonight.
00:06:43Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs it.
00:06:45Right.
00:06:47Yes?
00:06:48Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, lieutenant.
00:06:50She's probably sleeping.
00:06:51Keep on trying.
00:06:52Okay.
00:06:59Hey, Dan.
00:07:00Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:07:02He covers the police for the son.
00:07:04Also has the policy corner on the side.
00:07:06Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:07:07Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:07:09I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast
00:07:11to the riffraff that infests this mortuary.
00:07:13When are you going to get rid of that
00:07:14Mawth Eton trophy you got on?
00:07:16Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather,
00:07:19Daniel Boone Wintergreen,
00:07:20a noted Indian fighter.
00:07:22Nothing would persuade me to part with it
00:07:24except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:07:26Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:07:28I'll lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:07:29On a hot day, that coat gets higher
00:07:31than the stockyards in the south wind.
00:07:41Come in, Doc.
00:07:42Well, here it is, Sam.
00:07:43The bullet went clean through him,
00:07:44smashed the fifth rib.
00:07:45Have your boys found it yet?
00:07:47In the front seat of Holstreet.
00:07:48Discharged from the gun that was in the car?
00:07:50Mm-hmm. His own.
00:07:52There were plenty of powder burns, Sam.
00:07:53Could have been suicide.
00:07:55Not a chance, Doc.
00:07:56The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:07:58The body was driven there in Bard's car and left there.
00:08:00Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:08:02You think someone's trying to discredit us
00:08:03in the administration?
00:08:05Could be.
00:08:08Holy mackerel.
00:08:14That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:08:16Well, this is very interesting.
00:08:19The daughter of Luther Bradley,
00:08:20the reformed candidate for mayor.
00:08:22Boy, what the express will do with this.
00:08:24Send Brewer in.
00:08:26Must be someone of Bradley's.
00:08:27Somehow I don't think it is.
00:08:29Why?
00:08:30The famous Calvert Luck, my boy.
00:08:32Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley house
00:08:35on Carlisle.
00:08:36Ask for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:08:38Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:08:40We want to ask her a few questions.
00:08:41Okay.
00:08:42Handle her carefully.
00:08:43All we want is her cooperation.
00:08:45Stress that, Brewer.
00:08:47Yes?
00:08:48Mrs. Bard still doesn't answer.
00:08:50Keep trying.
00:08:52Express, I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:08:54Very important.
00:08:55It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:08:58Hello?
00:09:00Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:09:02Oh, hello, Doc.
00:09:03What's on your mind?
00:09:05Walter Bard?
00:09:06Sure I know him.
00:09:09Well, who shot him?
00:09:10I don't know.
00:09:11But his body was found in his own car
00:09:13right in front of the police station here.
00:09:15That's right, the police station.
00:09:17And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:18There was a notation in Bard's memorandum book
00:09:20that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley this evening.
00:09:23Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:09:25Are you sure?
00:09:29Oh, this is beautiful.
00:09:34Look, Doc, you stay there and keep your eyes open.
00:09:36I'll keep in touch with you.
00:09:37Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:39You can count on me.
00:09:41Goodbye.
00:09:43Take a little.
00:09:57This is Miss Bradley, Lieutenant.
00:09:58Lieutenant Carson.
00:09:59How do you do?
00:10:00Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night,
00:10:02Miss Bradley.
00:10:03Sit down, please.
00:10:04What's the matter with you?
00:10:06I'm not well.
00:10:08I'm not well.
00:10:09I'm a little tired.
00:10:10Bradley, sit down, please.
00:10:16What do you know about a man named Walter Bard?
00:10:19You knew him?
00:10:21Knew him?
00:10:23He was murdered this evening.
00:10:25Oh.
00:10:26In his own car, shot.
00:10:29I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:10:32You did know him?
00:10:34Yes, I knew him.
00:10:36Seen him recently?
00:10:39This evening.
00:10:40I had an appointment with him at his apartment.
00:10:42Were you a friend of his, Miss Bradley?
00:10:44No.
00:10:45Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:10:49I'm sorry, I can't.
00:10:50Private?
00:10:56That's not so good.
00:11:00Is your father still in Washington?
00:11:02Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:11:05This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father,
00:11:07Miss Bradley.
00:11:09Dead body on your doorstep could prove
00:11:11very embarrassing for the department, too,
00:11:12Lieutenant Carson.
00:11:14Maybe.
00:11:15Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:11:18Is that necessary?
00:11:19Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course,
00:11:21if you'd rather not.
00:11:23Very well.
00:11:25This way, please.
00:11:28Now the right hand.
00:11:33That's fine.
00:11:35You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:11:37Oh, thank you.
00:11:39My photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:11:42Sittings by appointment only.
00:11:44That's all there is to it.
00:11:51I'll be classified up, ma'am.
00:11:56It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:11:58You don't mind waiting?
00:11:59Of course not.
00:12:00Right in there.
00:12:03You're being swell about this.
00:12:06Yes?
00:12:13Max Calvert to see you, Lieutenant.
00:12:15Send him in.
00:12:16Thanks, Sam.
00:12:19I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:12:21I figured you'd be around.
00:12:22I don't wonder you're sore, Sam.
00:12:25Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:12:28The administration, too.
00:12:29The administration's your problem.
00:12:31Ah, now that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:12:34Don't forget, we got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:12:37I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:12:39I know, but a politician sometimes
00:12:41could do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:12:44I understand you got the Bradley girl down here.
00:12:48So you know all about that, huh?
00:12:49Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:12:53She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:12:55I'm not making any statements.
00:12:56And when I do, the express will get it,
00:12:58along with the other papers.
00:12:59You're not letting a pretty face affect your better judgment,
00:13:02are you, Sam?
00:13:03I'm not letting that tabloid of yours
00:13:04spill that girl's reputation so you can
00:13:05stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:13:07Well, the public has a right to know the facts.
00:13:09Express prints them.
00:13:10Yeah, anything for a nickel.
00:13:16Look, Sam, how long have you had this job?
00:13:19Long enough.
00:13:20When you first came into this department,
00:13:22I was still on the police run for the express.
00:13:25Now, I own it.
00:13:27While we're looking around, look at Mike Shea there.
00:13:30Now, Mike was your type of cop here.
00:13:32He never played ball.
00:13:34So what did it get him?
00:13:35A load of lead in the belly.
00:13:38You ought to be smart, Sam.
00:13:43Look, is Bradley anything to you?
00:13:47No.
00:13:48Well, Jordan's on his way out.
00:13:51How'd you like to be chief?
00:13:53I'd like it.
00:13:54You know that, Calvert.
00:13:56Could be arranged.
00:13:57How?
00:13:58Well, if this Bradley girl were booked,
00:14:00it might please some very important people very much.
00:14:03And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:14:05There isn't a particle of evidence against her.
00:14:08Well, no one would criticize you if you'd book her anyway.
00:14:11Not suspicion or a material witness, anything you like.
00:14:14Until after the election.
00:14:16Then let her go.
00:14:17She'd be all right.
00:14:20Do that, and you'd have a grand jury investigation
00:14:21right in your lap.
00:14:22Oh, Sam, now don't look at it that way.
00:14:25Why, a week after the election, the whole thing
00:14:27will be completely forgotten.
00:14:30Think it over.
00:14:34Don't forget, Sam, it always pays to cooperate.
00:14:38Always pays.
00:14:58Great guy, wasn't he, Lieutenant?
00:15:00He sure was.
00:15:01I guess he was just about the greatest
00:15:02cop the city ever had.
00:15:03Yeah, wanted to get him.
00:15:05Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:15:07See you later.
00:15:11What'd you find at Bard's apartment?
00:15:13Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two
00:15:15different shades of lipstick.
00:15:16Two glasses with prints on both.
00:15:20Prints on the gun, on one of the glasses,
00:15:23and Miss Bradley's fingerprints, all checked.
00:15:26Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:15:32Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:15:38Well, Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:15:46All right, Oppenheimer.
00:15:48Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints on a highball
00:15:50glass in Bard's apartment.
00:15:52Oh, yes, he poured a drink for me,
00:15:54but I set it down without tasting it.
00:15:56We also found your fingerprints on the gun
00:15:58with which Bard was shot.
00:16:02All right.
00:16:03I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:16:05I went to see Bard on behalf of someone
00:16:07who was very close to me, someone whom
00:16:10he was trying to blackmail.
00:16:12He made a business of buying and selling
00:16:14information about people, especially about those
00:16:17who had built honest lives after making a bad start.
00:16:20Problem people.
00:16:22He was a man of integrity.
00:16:24He was a man of integrity.
00:16:26He was a man of integrity.
00:16:28He was a man of integrity.
00:16:30He was a man of integrity.
00:16:32He was a man of integrity.
00:16:34Problem people.
00:16:36He had come to me with certain information.
00:16:39He wanted $20,000 for it, but I'd
00:16:42been able to raise only $10,000.
00:16:53Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:17:02Won't you sit down?
00:17:03I'll fix you a drink.
00:17:04Oh, I really don't care for one.
00:17:06I have some very nice bourbon here.
00:17:26Cigarette?
00:17:27Oh, thank you.
00:17:29Well?
00:17:31I simply haven't been able to raise that much money,
00:17:33Mr. Bard.
00:17:34How much have you raised?
00:17:36$10,000.
00:17:37And I said $20,000.
00:17:39Well, that settles that.
00:17:41Oh, please, won't you give me a little more time?
00:17:43Look, Miss Bradley, you're stalling.
00:17:45You either haven't got the money,
00:17:46or you won't go to the one who has got it.
00:17:48Now, I'm holding a powerhouse.
00:17:50Newspaper clippings, letters, affidavits, photographs,
00:17:53enough dynamite to blow the lid a mile high.
00:17:56And I've got a cash customer who'll
00:17:57pay $20,000 in the morning.
00:18:00I suppose it'd be useless to appeal
00:18:02to your sense of decency.
00:18:03Oh, completely.
00:18:04You see, I haven't any, not since I put on long pants.
00:18:07And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:18:10I can believe that.
00:18:12But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:18:15Take it.
00:18:16You look shaky.
00:18:18Now, give me that envelope.
00:18:28You'll find them all there.
00:18:30Don't move.
00:18:31I'd rather enjoy putting an end to your activities.
00:18:39Mr. Bradley.
00:18:40Mr. Bradley.
00:18:41Mr. Bradley.
00:18:42Mr. Bradley.
00:18:43Mr. Bradley.
00:18:44Mr. Bradley.
00:18:46Stay where you are.
00:18:50He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:18:54Miss Bradley, do you expect me to believe
00:18:56that chisel let you take those papers away from him?
00:18:59But I've told you the exact truth.
00:19:02What happened to the gun?
00:19:03I threw it in his car when I left.
00:19:05What'd you do with the envelope?
00:19:06Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:19:08What was in it?
00:19:09I can't possibly tell you.
00:19:11It must have been hot if Bog wanted
00:19:12that kind of dough for it.
00:19:14Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:19:16What was it about?
00:19:17Your father?
00:19:19It's no use asking me.
00:19:20What was in it?
00:19:21Dirt Bart had dug up?
00:19:23Something Calvert could use?
00:19:26Let me help you.
00:19:27You couldn't make a deal with him.
00:19:29He said he'd take you home.
00:19:30It was raining.
00:19:31You go down to his car.
00:19:32He makes a pass at you.
00:19:33You grab his gun, let him have it,
00:19:34and scram with the envelope.
00:19:36The brakes on the car come loose,
00:19:37and the car starts rolling.
00:19:38Lieutenant, you...
00:19:41You sound as if you want to believe
00:19:43I killed Walter Bart.
00:19:45Your prints are on the gun.
00:19:47You have motive, plenty of it.
00:19:50What do you expect me to believe?
00:19:53I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:19:57What are you going to do with me?
00:19:59I ought to book you.
00:20:02You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:20:06I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.
00:20:09I've learned a great deal
00:20:10about the police department from Father.
00:20:12Max Calvert could do a lot to help you
00:20:14if you could learn to do things his way.
00:20:16Leave Calvert out of this.
00:20:17I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:20:20I'm glad.
00:20:21I've always liked policemen.
00:20:25I should book you.
00:20:27Otherwise, I can't hold you.
00:20:29If you don't mind waiting a little longer,
00:20:31we'll talk about it.
00:20:33Something may turn up.
00:20:36You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:20:39Put it any way you like.
00:20:42In here, please.
00:20:53You guys mind if I want a hand?
00:20:55Nope.
00:20:58Hello, Doc.
00:20:59Anything new on the Bart killing?
00:21:01Well, he was shot with his own gun
00:21:02that was found in the car.
00:21:03We know all about that.
00:21:05Yeah, but what you don't know
00:21:06is that Janet Bradley, Luther's daughter,
00:21:08is mixed up in the case.
00:21:09No.
00:21:10That's right.
00:21:11Carson has her downstairs now.
00:21:12She had a date with Bart in his apartment this evening.
00:21:15Regular little mine of information, aren't you, Doc?
00:21:18Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:21:20That's nice of you.
00:21:21But I'm still running the night shift around here,
00:21:23and I'll give out the information.
00:21:25The Express already has it.
00:21:26I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:21:28You boys might as well have it, too.
00:21:30Miss Bradley is involved.
00:21:31To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:21:33She was in Bart's apartment this evening,
00:21:34but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:21:36Well, that's good enough for the front page.
00:21:38I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you, fellas.
00:21:41Did you get that, Charlie?
00:21:42That was Carson himself.
00:21:43Yeah.
00:21:44Here's the latest dope on the Bart case.
00:21:46Miss Janet Bradley, Junior League, active in everything.
00:21:49Oh, yes, Mr. Jones.
00:21:50I'm sticking right on the job.
00:21:51I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:21:54Janet Bradley, daughter of the marital decadent,
00:21:56is being questioned with regard to the Bart murder.
00:21:58Yes.
00:21:59And you leave those two tickets for the Philharmonic.
00:22:01You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:22:03We won't forget.
00:22:04Dr. G.F. Yeager?
00:22:06Oh, don't you worry about that.
00:22:08Don't worry about it.
00:22:11Now, which one of you has taken my scissors?
00:22:14I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:22:19If you moochers insist on playing childish pranks with my scissors,
00:22:23I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:22:26Well, it's about time.
00:22:30Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:31I didn't know you were here.
00:22:32I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:34Long enough.
00:22:35Where have you been?
00:22:36Oh, all over.
00:22:37It's been a very busy night.
00:22:38Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:22:40Not yet.
00:22:41He's stalling, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:42I don't trust Carson.
00:22:43He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:22:45Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room
00:22:47that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:22:49I want her charged with murder,
00:22:50and I want it spread all over the front page of every paper
00:22:52in town.
00:22:53Sooner the better.
00:22:54Oh, thank you.
00:22:55I'll save this for later.
00:22:57I'm going to give this murder the biggest coverage
00:22:59any local paper's had in years.
00:23:01I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:23:04Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:23:06Diagrams of Bard's apartment.
00:23:08Pictures of the murder car.
00:23:10I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance at the inquest.
00:23:13Every appearance in court.
00:23:15I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone.
00:23:18How she looks.
00:23:19With the inference that she's frightened,
00:23:20that she's hiding something, that her back's against the wall.
00:23:23Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert,
00:23:25is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:23:29What did you say?
00:23:31He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:23:33Who did it?
00:23:34I don't know.
00:23:35You cut him open?
00:23:36I didn't have to.
00:23:37I found traces of poison in his mouth.
00:23:39Well, have you told Carson?
00:23:41Not yet.
00:23:42Well, don't.
00:23:43The trouble is, I don't know if I should.
00:23:46Not yet.
00:23:47Well, don't.
00:23:48The trouble is, if Carson ever takes a good look at the body,
00:23:51he'll notice that there was practically no bleeding.
00:23:53And he'll know what that means.
00:23:55Then we've got to get rid of the body.
00:23:57Get it out of here, fast, tonight.
00:23:59Before the inquest, I can't.
00:24:01You can and you're going to.
00:24:03But, Mr. Calvert, you can't just pick up a body
00:24:05and drag it out of the morgue
00:24:06before the chief medical examiner has had a whack at it.
00:24:10Look, have you got any John Does in the icebox?
00:24:13One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:24:15Well, there's a floater that we fished out of the bay
00:24:17a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:18All right, now, you go down to the morgue
00:24:20and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Does slab.
00:24:23Then make out commitment papers for John Does.
00:24:25Cremation.
00:24:26And ship it out tonight.
00:24:27But it's sure to be found out sooner or later.
00:24:30If you have to, make the morgue attendant the fall guy.
00:24:32These squawks, you send them to me, you understand?
00:24:35Well, I'll do my best, Mr. Calvert.
00:24:37Your best is to get that body out of here, fast.
00:24:46Yes?
00:24:47Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:24:54Hello?
00:24:56Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:24:58Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:25:00You've been ringing for some time, haven't you?
00:25:02I'm sorry.
00:25:03I was sound asleep.
00:25:05I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:09What is it?
00:25:10I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:12That is impossible.
00:25:14He wasn't at...
00:25:15I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:18We don't know yet.
00:25:20I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:25:22I know it'll be difficult, but you may be able to help us.
00:25:26Of course, but I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:25:30We haven't been living together.
00:25:34Yes.
00:25:36As soon as I've dressed.
00:25:40As soon as I've dressed.
00:25:57Yes?
00:25:59Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:26:01It's Walter.
00:26:02Did the police say how it happened, Nora?
00:26:04Or where?
00:26:05No, Arthur.
00:26:07No.
00:26:08They've asked me to come down to the station now.
00:26:12Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:26:16I'll go with you.
00:26:18Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:21Don't worry, darling.
00:26:22Everything will be all right.
00:26:24Yes.
00:26:25Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:26:27In about 20 minutes.
00:26:29It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:32Here's the lab report on the lipstick on the cigarette stubs.
00:26:36Any calls?
00:26:37No, sir.
00:26:38One of them is Janet Bradley's.
00:26:40The other is a shade called Rochelle, used mostly by brunettes.
00:26:43Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:26:45Send her in.
00:26:46Will you come in, please?
00:26:48Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:26:50I understand, Lieutenant.
00:26:52This is Mr. Templeton, my attorney.
00:26:54Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:26:56I'm handling all of Mrs. Bard's business affairs.
00:26:58So I asked Mr. Templeton to come with me.
00:27:00Sit down, please.
00:27:05You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:27:08Bard was shot through the heart.
00:27:10We found his car parked in front of this building.
00:27:12His body in it.
00:27:13But that's fantastic.
00:27:14Who did it?
00:27:15We're not prepared to say as yet.
00:27:17Mrs. Bard, I think you told me that you and Bard
00:27:19hadn't lived together for quite some time.
00:27:21Not for over a year.
00:27:23Have you seen him recently?
00:27:25I saw him at a nightclub one evening several weeks ago.
00:27:27I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:27:29We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:27:31Well, I hope you will be.
00:27:33Nora and I are going to be married.
00:27:34We've been waiting for her divorce from Bard.
00:27:37Had the proceedings begun?
00:27:38No.
00:27:39The papers were ready, but they hadn't been served yet.
00:27:41Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:27:45Repeatedly.
00:27:46He was my husband, and even though he's dead...
00:27:48Nora.
00:27:49I'm going to say it all.
00:27:50He was mean and cruel.
00:27:51He liked to hurt people.
00:27:53He did it deliberately.
00:27:54I studied for two years.
00:27:57Mrs. Bard has had a very difficult time, Lieutenant.
00:27:59Yes, I know.
00:28:01Mrs. Bard, you were home all evening?
00:28:04Yes.
00:28:06I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:28:09You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time
00:28:11during the course of the evening.
00:28:12Mrs. Bard has already answered that question
00:28:13twice before, Carson.
00:28:15I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question
00:28:17a third time, Arthur.
00:28:19I was not in Walter's apartment.
00:28:21Were you?
00:28:23No.
00:28:26I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard
00:28:28to identify the remains.
00:28:30Naturally.
00:28:31Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:28:33Yes, sure.
00:28:34This way, please.
00:28:38Listen, pal.
00:28:39I didn't bust that mirror.
00:28:41Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:28:43Name?
00:28:44I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:28:46Never heard of you.
00:28:48You can't book me, copper.
00:28:50I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:28:52The annual smoker, see?
00:28:53I go on at 1 o'clock.
00:28:55What's your address?
00:28:57But what about the Elks?
00:28:59You ain't going to let the Elks down, are you?
00:29:02I'm an odd fellow.
00:29:04The address, Zachary.
00:29:05You can't do it to me, pal.
00:29:07It's my professional reputation.
00:29:08It was at the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:29:10Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:29:12He'll see the judge in the morning.
00:29:14But I got to go.
00:29:16I'll come back.
00:29:17Honest, I will.
00:29:18Take him away.
00:29:19But...
00:30:17I vote for Louis.
00:30:18He has the best beard.
00:30:19What's the best dish on the joint?
00:30:21The blonde behind the counter.
00:31:46Come on.
00:32:17Hey, that's all you need.
00:32:36Now get going.
00:32:46Woodbury Crematorium.
00:33:05This one burns, huh?
00:33:06Yep.
00:33:07Give him an easy ride.
00:33:08It's his last one.
00:33:36The stiff's gone.
00:33:38Are you sure you ever had one?
00:33:39Gosh, Bill, I put him in there myself.
00:33:42Let me use your phone.
00:33:44Yeah, Doc.
00:33:46The body must have walked right out of the ambulance.
00:33:48Well, go back over your route.
00:33:49Keep your eyes open and your trap shut.
00:33:51If you can't find the body, report to me as soon as you get here.
00:33:55Well...
00:34:02Hello.
00:34:05What?
00:34:08Oh, so somebody else wants Bard's body, huh?
00:34:13Ah, that crew must be double-crossing you.
00:34:15They must know how that body was taken out of the ambulance.
00:34:18Well, I don't believe it.
00:34:20You make them cough up the truth.
00:34:22I want to know who else wants that body.
00:34:25Listen, Yeager, this is a pretty serious matter,
00:34:27both for the administration and for the police department
00:34:29and, incidentally, for you.
00:34:31But I did everything I could, Mr. Calvert.
00:34:33Everything you asked me to?
00:34:35You find that body and get rid of it.
00:34:43Yes?
00:34:45Sam, a John Doe that was being transported to the Woodbury crematorium
00:34:48has disappeared from the ambulance.
00:34:50What do you mean, disappeared?
00:34:52Well, the boys say that they loaded it into the ambulance
00:34:54and when they got there, it was gone.
00:34:56Well, what am I supposed to do, pull your rabbits out of my hat?
00:34:58The doors must have fallen open.
00:35:00Tell Riley to send a patrol car over the route the ambulance took.
00:35:03I've already told the crew to retrace their route.
00:35:06Well, find that body before the papers find it for you.
00:35:20Holy smoke!
00:35:26Hello? Hello, this is Johnny Williams.
00:35:28Let me speak to Mr. Jones, quick.
00:35:32I'll call you right back.
00:35:34You're new around here, ain't you?
00:35:36What's your name? Williams, the Herald.
00:35:38I'm pretty busy.
00:35:39Sure you're busy.
00:35:40You bricklayers is always busy.
00:35:42Unless it's a bouquet you're wanting on the cuff until Saturday night.
00:35:45And then it's, Flossie, my darling.
00:35:48Flossie, be a pal.
00:35:50And give us a kiss, Flossie.
00:35:52But I'm on to your banana oil.
00:35:54Look, Flossie, I gotta phone my paper.
00:35:56There's been a murder.
00:35:57Sure there's been a murder.
00:35:59Didn't he get himself killed with one of me carnations in his buttonhole?
00:36:02And owe me a dollar six bits.
00:36:05Seven of them he died owing me.
00:36:07Oh, that's a shame, Flossie.
00:36:08But you'll get your money back.
00:36:10And when I ask the cops for me due, what do I get?
00:36:13Bird seed.
00:36:15I'll tell you what you do, Flossie.
00:36:16You go down to the desk.
00:36:17When all I want is me dollar six bits out of the money he died in his pants with.
00:36:22I've been to the desk, and what do I get?
00:36:25Bird seed, sure.
00:36:26But this time you tell the lieutenant that I sent you.
00:36:28Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:36:29Tell him to give you your dollar six bits, and the Herald will pay it.
00:36:32Tell him I personally guarantee it.
00:36:38Hello, give me Mr. Jones.
00:36:40Wait.
00:36:41Bird seed.
00:36:44Hello, Mr. Jones?
00:36:45Williams.
00:36:48I got a Lulu on that Walter Bard killing.
00:36:50An exclusive.
00:36:51Yeah.
00:36:52In the press room clothes closet.
00:36:55Hey, wait a minute.
00:36:58I'll call you back, Mr. Jones.
00:37:03Now, where are my scissors?
00:37:05I never seem to be able to find them.
00:37:09Last time I found them in my overcoat pocket.
00:37:14Here they are, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:17I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:20I wish people would leave my scissors alone.
00:37:24This time, I'll nail them down.
00:37:36Milk!
00:37:38How many, you guys?
00:37:39That's Mr. Rosinski. Get a bottle for me, will you?
00:37:42Yeah.
00:37:44Make it one for Wintergreen.
00:37:49Hey, is Wintergreen up there?
00:37:51Yeah, he's here.
00:37:53Tell him I want to buy his buffalo coat. I'll be right up.
00:37:56Hey, no dice. He doesn't want to sell.
00:37:59I never heard of such impertinence.
00:38:01As if I didn't have the right to dispose of my own property.
00:38:05Look, Mr. Wintergreen, you can't sell that overcoat.
00:38:08I hoped you'd bring a chastening in for me.
00:38:10Why, it'd be an insult to your grandfather, and to the grand old name of Boone.
00:38:13It'd be unpatriotic.
00:38:14I'm dreadfully disappointed in you, Williams.
00:38:16Why, that overcoat's made history. It's practically a national monument.
00:38:19You can't have a big lug like Rosinski delivering milk in it.
00:38:22Why don't you get wise to what you've got?
00:38:24Why, that overcoat ought to be in the Smithsonian Institute.
00:38:26They'd pay real dough for it.
00:38:28Smithsonian?
00:38:29Uh-huh.
00:38:31But do you really think...
00:38:33No, Williams.
00:38:34No, my mind is made up.
00:38:37No, Williams.
00:38:38No, my mind is made up.
00:38:43Oh! Oh! Oh!
00:38:46Let me out of here! Let me out of here!
00:38:48Let me out of here! Let me out of here!
00:38:50Let me out of here!
00:38:51Give me Mr. Jones, quick!
00:38:57Sure, Mr. Jones, that's what I said.
00:38:59Walter Bard's body in a press room clothes closet.
00:39:02Hey, there's somebody in there.
00:39:03I know it sounds crazy, Mr. Jones, and I'm not drunk. It's true.
00:39:07There's a guy in there, I tell you. Listen to him holler his head off.
00:39:10Yeah, and I'm the only one that knows except Wintergreen, and I got him spiked.
00:39:13Absolutely, Mr. Jones.
00:39:22Oh, my. Oh, my.
00:39:27Yes?
00:39:28Mr. Haggerty, city editor of the Herald, Lieutenant.
00:39:30Right.
00:39:31Hello, Haggerty.
00:39:35What did you say?
00:39:37In the press room?
00:39:39Here?
00:39:40What?
00:39:42As soon as I've nailed the guy that sold you that one,
00:39:44I'll be over personally to tell you what kind of a joint I'm running around here.
00:39:48One of those tosspot reporters phoned Haggerty
00:39:50and said that Bard's body is hanging in the press room clothes closet.
00:39:56Say, you don't think he was talking about the John Doe that Yeager lost?
00:40:01There's only one way to find out.
00:40:08That's what I said, you dope.
00:40:09All wrapped up in somebody's overcoat in the press room closet.
00:40:11My overcoat, please. Credit where credit is due.
00:40:14Hey, look, you guys. A perfect fit.
00:40:16Hey, what goes on?
00:40:17I found Bard.
00:40:18All wrapped up in Wintergreen's overcoat in the clothes closet.
00:40:20Now, Herald's printing it, so relax, fellas, and save paper.
00:40:23Yes, sir.
00:40:26Give me a rewrite, sweetheart. Hurry up.
00:40:28Haggerty was right. It is Bard.
00:40:31Say, this guy didn't bleed much.
00:40:34Yeager say anything about that?
00:40:35Not to me.
00:40:38Have him taken back, Sergeant.
00:40:43Mr. Jones again.
00:40:47Lieutenant Carson, examine the body now.
00:40:48Yeah.
00:40:51Thirty years, Lieutenant, I've been putting him on ice.
00:40:54Nobody ever done this to me before.
00:40:56Where was he?
00:40:57In here.
00:40:58Pull it out.
00:41:02That's the John Doe he fished out of the bay.
00:41:04The one Doc Yeager committed tonight for cremation.
00:41:07How'd it get in there?
00:41:08I don't know, Lieutenant.
00:41:09I put him on number seven myself. There's been a switch.
00:41:11Here's Doc Yeager now.
00:41:12What's this all about, Sam?
00:41:14It looks as if someone went outside as that John Doe you lost.
00:41:17Only it wasn't John Doe, it was Walter Bard.
00:41:19John Doe is here in Bard's place.
00:41:21Boy, this is absurd, Sam.
00:41:23A lot of things are tonight.
00:41:24You signed a commitment paper, didn't you?
00:41:26Yes, for John Doe.
00:41:27Well, Bard's body must have been picked up by mistake.
00:41:29That's the only way it could have happened.
00:41:31Well, so long as it turned out all right.
00:41:33Well, Mallory, get that John Doe out of here.
00:41:35Put Bard back in the right place.
00:41:36And see that he stays there until the chief medical examiner is through with him.
00:41:39Yes, sir.
00:41:48Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:41:51Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:41:53Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:41:54Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:41:56Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:41:57This is Ames of the Express.
00:41:59The Express?
00:42:02Oh, I haven't the slightest idea
00:42:04what connection Miss Bradley has with the case.
00:42:06Oh, shh.
00:42:08In fact, I didn't know she was even acquainted with my husband.
00:42:14You're welcome.
00:42:15What was it, Mallory?
00:42:16A report on the Express.
00:42:17The police have found out, Janet,
00:42:18Bradley was in Walter's apartment tonight.
00:42:25Arthur, we've got to go to the police station and tell them the truth.
00:42:29No, we've got to sit tight.
00:42:30If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur.
00:42:32There'd always be that doubt.
00:42:34It'd grow and keep on growing.
00:42:36In the end, it'd break us apart.
00:42:38We'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives.
00:42:41At this moment, Arthur, there's a voice inside me saying,
00:42:45I'm not sure of him.
00:42:48Do you really mean that, Nora?
00:42:50Yes, I do.
00:42:51And maybe there's a voice inside you saying,
00:42:53I'm not sure of her.
00:42:55Don't you see how right I am, Arthur?
00:42:57We couldn't live together like that.
00:43:01You ought to be the lawyer, Nora.
00:43:03We'll go down to Carson's office right now.
00:43:05Darling.
00:43:12Hello.
00:43:14Yes.
00:43:15I'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy.
00:43:19Sure, I know I got Yeager.
00:43:20I want someone else.
00:43:21Bard.
00:43:22For a very particular reason.
00:43:24Or how about Doc Hastings?
00:43:26As soon as you can get him down here.
00:43:31I'll see Mrs. Bard now.
00:43:38We've come to make certain alterations in our statement, Lieutenant.
00:43:42What's happened?
00:43:44We told you we wanted Bard's appointment this evening.
00:43:47Well, we were.
00:43:48Nora was here.
00:43:49I was there later.
00:43:51Go on.
00:43:53I didn't tell Arthur I was going.
00:43:55But I went to ask Walter once more to give me a divorce.
00:44:00There's no use being angry with me, Nora.
00:44:02Take off your things and stay a while.
00:44:04Have a drink?
00:44:06It's a rainy evening.
00:44:07That's finished, Walter.
00:44:08I'm in love with Arthur Templeton.
00:44:10We want to get married.
00:44:11So you can make it legitimate, huh?
00:44:12You've no right to say that.
00:44:14You've absolutely no grounds for divorce.
00:44:16Perhaps.
00:44:17But I'm not going to turn you loose so Templeton can put you on his income tax.
00:44:21Besides, this arrangement suits me fine.
00:44:23So long as I'm married, no woman can make a sucker out of me.
00:44:26But Walter...
00:44:28Don't worry.
00:44:29Go into the bedroom.
00:44:31I'll talk with you as soon as I'm through with this party.
00:44:42Well, Walter.
00:44:44Well, well.
00:44:45Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:44:47Did you listen?
00:44:48I heard a little.
00:44:49Walter seemed to have some papers that Miss Bradley wanted to buy.
00:44:52But he was holding out for more money.
00:44:54And then?
00:44:55Then there was some sort of scuffle.
00:44:57I don't know what happened.
00:44:58Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.
00:45:00I got the impression she was covering Walter with a gun.
00:45:03Then a door slammed.
00:45:05Yes?
00:45:06I waited a few minutes, then I went in.
00:45:08Walter had just taken a drink.
00:45:10He took a step toward me.
00:45:13I'll never forget the way he looked.
00:45:15The muscles of his face were all drawn up as if they were knotted.
00:45:19Then he fell into a chair.
00:45:20When I got to him, he was dead.
00:45:22I was terrified.
00:45:23I rushed out of the place.
00:45:25Why didn't you call the police?
00:45:27I was afraid to.
00:45:32Did you take a drink with Bart?
00:45:33No.
00:45:35I didn't.
00:45:36Do you remember if Bart's gun was still in the holster?
00:45:39I'm sure it wasn't.
00:45:41But I do remember seeing it there when I first went in.
00:45:44Then who shot Bart?
00:45:45I shot Bart.
00:45:50I went to see Bart for the same reason Nora did.
00:45:52I thought perhaps I could get him to change his mind about the divorce.
00:45:55I just pulled up to the curb opposite his apartment house.
00:45:57Door opened.
00:45:58Nora came running out.
00:46:00She looked frightened.
00:46:01Before I could get her out of the car, I heard a knock on the door.
00:46:03Nora came running out.
00:46:04She looked frightened.
00:46:05Before I could get around to calling after her, she had jumped into her car and started off.
00:46:09I noticed that the car in front of the apartment was Bart's.
00:46:12I'd asked her never to go to Bart's apartment again.
00:46:15The more I thought about Nora being there, the less I liked it.
00:46:34The notion that Bart's callousness had driven Nora to killing him took hold of me.
00:46:38That would be murder.
00:46:43It looked like poison to me.
00:46:46All I could think of was that Nora might be traced to the apartment.
00:46:49There was only one thing to do.
00:46:51Find Nora.
00:46:53Find Nora.
00:46:55Find Nora.
00:46:57Find Nora.
00:46:59Find Nora.
00:47:00Find Nora.
00:47:01Find Nora.
00:47:02There was only one thing to do.
00:47:03Get the body out of the place.
00:47:05I knew the risk I was running, but I had to do it.
00:47:24Someone was coming up.
00:47:26I didn't dare go back and wait.
00:47:29I'd have to carry him down.
00:47:30It was taking a big chance, but it was late and luck was with me.
00:47:34No one saw me.
00:48:01Then I saw the gun.
00:48:03If I could fake a suicide,
00:48:05Nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun.
00:48:07It would swing suspicion away from her.
00:48:10I held the gun close to him to muffle the shot.
00:48:14It occurred to me then, if Bart's body was found as far as possible from his apartment house,
00:48:18I'd be able to find him.
00:48:20I'd be able to find him.
00:48:22I'd be able to find him.
00:48:24I'd be able to find him.
00:48:26I'd be able to find him.
00:48:27And if Bart's body was found as far as possible from his apartment house,
00:48:31Nora's danger would be still less.
00:48:33I released the brake,
00:48:37and started the car rolling down the hill away from the apartment house.
00:48:44And that's our story.
00:48:46Nora's and mine.
00:48:49Templeton, do you believe Mrs. Bart's story?
00:48:51Yes, I do.
00:48:53And you believe his?
00:48:54Of course I do.
00:48:56You really came down here to convince each other that you were each telling the truth, didn't you?
00:49:00Partly.
00:49:01We had to speak for Johnny Bradley too, Lieutenant.
00:49:04I'll need a detailed statement from both of you later.
00:49:07Certainly, Lieutenant.
00:49:08You can wait in the outer office.
00:49:15I'm sorry, Flossie, but you'll have to see Lieutenant Carson.
00:49:19See the lieutenant, he says.
00:49:21A dollar six bits.
00:49:22That stiff dino in me.
00:49:24And he tells me to see the lieutenant.
00:49:27Listen.
00:49:29I will see the lieutenant,
00:49:31and the chief, and the mayor, and the governor if I have to.
00:49:34I'll have me dollar six bits if I have to see the president himself.
00:49:40Sure, Flossie, sure.
00:49:42You're right.
00:49:44I don't blame you a bit.
00:49:46Okay, Malloy.
00:49:48Urgency.
00:49:50What have you got?
00:49:52I've got a letter for you.
00:49:54What is it?
00:49:56It's a letter from the mayor.
00:49:58From the mayor?
00:50:00Yes, from the mayor.
00:50:02From the mayor?
00:50:04Yes, from the mayor.
00:50:06From the mayor?
00:50:08Yes, from the mayor.
00:50:10From the mayor?
00:50:12Yes, from the mayor.
00:50:14From the mayor?
00:50:16Yes, from the mayor.
00:50:18From the mayor?
00:50:20Yes.
00:50:23Smoke?
00:50:25No, thanks.
00:50:27We've turned up some new evidence.
00:50:30Does it help me?
00:50:32No.
00:50:34Oh.
00:50:36What is it?
00:50:38Bard didn't die of a gunshot.
00:50:40He was poisoned.
00:50:42Really?
00:50:44Someone slipped the stuff in his whiskey decanter.
00:50:46Oh, wait a minute.
00:50:49You don't think I put the poison in his decanter?
00:50:52Why didn't you drink your highball?
00:50:54Well, I didn't want it.
00:50:56How do you think that will sound in court?
00:51:01Any way you want it to sound, I suppose.
00:51:05Are you going to book me?
00:51:07If you could give me just one solid reason why I shouldn't.
00:51:12I'm sorry for you, Lieutenant Carson.
00:51:15I'm in a bad spot, but so are you.
00:51:18You have to decide whether I'm guilty because I really am.
00:51:22Or because I'm Luther Bradley's daughter.
00:51:25If you book me now, you'll never be sure whether you did it because you really believe I killed Walter Bard.
00:51:30Or because Max Calvert told you to.
00:51:34That's one of the things I'm trying to get straight in my mind.
00:51:38If Calvert wasn't turning on the heat.
00:51:41Then another reason.
00:51:43It would have been easy.
00:51:45I'd have booked you, but fast.
00:51:47What other reason?
00:51:50It wouldn't make sense.
00:51:52It wouldn't make sense to you or to anyone else.
00:51:54In my kind of job, your reasons have got to make sense.
00:51:59I suppose so.
00:52:01And that means?
00:52:03I'll have to book you the way things stand.
00:52:22I'm sorry.
00:52:53Yes, sir.
00:52:55Say, is that nutty woman that sells flowers still in the building?
00:52:58In the building? She's practically in my lap.
00:53:01But don't worry, Lieutenant. I'll get rid of her.
00:53:03Don't get rid of her. I want to see her. Send her in.
00:53:06Then see if you can locate Oppenheimer.
00:53:08Okay, Lieutenant.
00:53:10All right, Flossie. The Lieutenant will see you now.
00:53:14Maybe now I'll get me daughter six bits.
00:53:18Sit down, darling.
00:53:19None of that. All I want is the money that Stiff owes me.
00:53:23You mean Bard?
00:53:25He must have died with some assets in his pants, Lieutenant.
00:53:28Don't worry about that. You'll get your dollar six bits.
00:53:31Tell me, did you sell this to Bard?
00:53:34Sure I did.
00:53:35When?
00:53:36Six o'clock this evening, just as he was coming out of Simi's bail bond office.
00:53:39Didn't he pay you for it?
00:53:41He did not. He never pays you.
00:53:44You've always got to chase him, up to the present moment.
00:53:46That slicker owes me a dollar six bits.
00:53:49Did you see him after that?
00:53:51I went to his apartment to collect, but I didn't see him.
00:53:54He must have been out to dinner, so I stuck around.
00:53:56Did you see anyone else when you were up there?
00:53:58Nobody but Doc Yeager.
00:54:00Do I get my money or don't I?
00:54:02Yeager? He was up there?
00:54:04Bard was out to the both of us.
00:54:06What time was this?
00:54:08Oh, I don't know. Past eight maybe.
00:54:10I knocked on Bard's door and he didn't answer.
00:54:13So I stuck around in the corridor.
00:54:14It was raining out and I was wet to my pelt.
00:54:16Then Doc Yeager came out.
00:54:18Did Yeager see you?
00:54:20No, he never seen me, but he was there. You ask him.
00:54:22Tell me about Yeager. What happened?
00:54:24I was drying myself with the radiator on the stairway landing.
00:54:27I was down half a flight, so he didn't see me.
00:54:37Never seen a man so scared.
00:54:39The way he kept looking around.
00:54:41He could hardly find the keyhole.
00:54:43His hand was shaking so.
00:54:47I don't know how many keys he tried
00:54:49before he got the one that fit it.
00:54:50He shut the door behind him so quiet
00:54:52I could hardly hear it.
00:54:54He couldn't have been in there more than a minute
00:54:58and he still acted like he was invisible.
00:55:00The door kept opening and closing,
00:55:02the light in the room.
00:55:04He was getting closer and closer.
00:55:06He looked for a house,
00:55:09a house where no one would live.
00:55:12He looked for a room where he could play.
00:55:15He looked around and he always looked for a room
00:55:18and he still acted like he was scared of his own shadow.
00:55:30He never seen me, but he was there.
00:55:32You ask him.
00:55:37Doc, come into my office again, will you?
00:55:39OK.
00:55:40And now do I get my financial reimbursement?
00:55:44There you are.
00:55:45You can always tell a gentleman by the way
00:55:47he treats a lady.
00:55:49Just a minute.
00:55:50I want you to wait in here.
00:56:07Come in, Doc.
00:56:11You don't look well, Doc.
00:56:12Sit down.
00:56:13Oh, I'm all right.
00:56:14Tired, that's all.
00:56:16Too much night work, I guess.
00:56:18I'm not as young as I was.
00:56:21What's up, Sam?
00:56:22Bard's death is a lucky break for you, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:25I don't get you.
00:56:26This malpractice case, the grand jury's got on you.
00:56:29Bard did some investigating for the Medical
00:56:31Association, didn't he?
00:56:32Oh, he's got nothing on me.
00:56:34I wonder what happened to the evidence he dug up.
00:56:37It isn't in either his apartment or his office.
00:56:39Because there never was any.
00:56:40I heard different.
00:56:42Funny how it disappeared, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:45Oh, you're not insinuating that I...
00:56:47That you got a hold of it?
00:56:49Yes, I am, Doc.
00:56:51That's ridiculous.
00:56:52I haven't been out of the building
00:56:53since the body was found.
00:56:55Maybe you were out before it was found.
00:56:57I was not.
00:56:59You weren't in Bard's apartment earlier this evening?
00:57:01Certainly not.
00:57:02Along about 830?
00:57:04No.
00:57:05Suppose I told you you were seen going into Bard's apartment
00:57:07with one of your keys.
00:57:09You stayed there a few minutes, then left,
00:57:10locking the door after you.
00:57:11Whoever said that's a liar.
00:57:13Who's calling me a liar?
00:57:15It's yourself that's the liar.
00:57:17I seen you, a-sneaking into the poor,
00:57:19murdered boy's apartment and sneaking out again
00:57:22with the mark of can all over your face.
00:57:24And that's how the poison got in Bard's whiskey.
00:57:28Help!
00:57:29Help!
00:57:29Help!
00:57:30Help!
00:57:31Police!
00:57:32Police!
00:57:34Help!
00:57:43I'm gonna have it.
00:58:13There he is!
00:58:14Stop him!
00:58:17Grab him and get him!
00:58:31Take him away.
00:58:32God, come on.
00:58:33Thanks.
00:58:33Come on.
00:58:34Come on.
00:58:35Come on.
00:58:36Come on.
00:58:37Come on.
00:58:38Come on.
00:58:38Come on.
00:58:39Come on.
00:58:40Come on.
00:58:41Come on.
00:58:42Come on.
00:58:43Thanks.
00:58:44Who are you?
00:58:45I'm Zachary.
00:58:45Hey, that's the guy broke jail.
00:58:46Yeah, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:58:48I won my fight by a knockout, so now I'm back.
00:58:51You got back just in time.
00:58:53Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh?
00:58:55Not exactly.
00:58:56You're still under arrest.
00:58:57Well, if that ain't gratitude.
00:58:59Don't worry, Zachary.
00:59:00I'll be in your corner when the case comes up.
00:59:01Thanks, pal.
00:59:04You can count on both of us.
00:59:06I think Yeager's confession will be sufficient.
00:59:08Much obliged, Lieutenant.
00:59:10There's still a misdemeanor charge
00:59:11against you, Mr. Templeton,
00:59:13but I don't think it will interfere
00:59:14with your wedding plans.
00:59:15You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant.
00:59:17Fine.
00:59:18I'll be there to kiss the bride.
00:59:20Good luck to both of you.
00:59:26Now, why couldn't something like that happen to me?
00:59:29Oh, nobody loves a copper.
00:59:31Why don't you ask her?
00:59:33Ask her?
00:59:34Ask who?
00:59:37What?
00:59:38Yeah, ask her out to breakfast with you.
00:59:39She ought to be pretty hungry by now.
00:59:40You're nuts.
00:59:41It's been done.
00:59:43After the going over I gave her?
00:59:45I still say it's been done.
00:59:50Maybe you got something there.
00:59:55You're free to go now.
00:59:57We have the confession of a Dr. Yeager.
00:59:59Oh.
01:00:00I'm glad you didn't touch that drink.
01:00:02So am I.
01:00:04I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert
01:00:06and informing him that his stooge murdered Waller Bard,
01:00:10which of course ruins his front page on Janet Bradley.
01:00:13And that's about all,
01:00:15unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard,
01:00:18between ourselves, of course.
01:00:20I feel I can tell you now.
01:00:23I didn't trust you before.
01:00:24You didn't seem to be yourself, but now you do.
01:00:28Thanks.
01:00:28It's quite a story.
01:00:30Suppose I tell you about it some evening, soon.
01:00:35Suppose you do.
01:00:40Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones.
01:00:43He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet,
01:00:45the case might never have been solved.
01:00:47Hey, fellas, look at this.
01:00:50I'll call you back.
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