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00:59Go get him, Bugs.
01:14Stay here, Henry.
01:15Keep away from me.
01:16I've been shooting in the wrong direction.
01:25Keep that gun away, Henry.
01:26Oh, sorry.
01:27If an eye can't get me a rabbit, I'm going to bag me a vice president of the Continental Insurance Company.
01:32I don't aim to go home empty-handed.
01:34But we just had to see you, Jim.
01:35You wouldn't answer our wire.
01:37What's all this fuss about a string full of emeralds?
01:40You can't eat them.
01:41They don't keep you warm.
01:42They're the frost emeralds.
01:44They've been stolen.
01:45We've insured them for $100,000.
01:47How long have they been gone?
01:48Since last night.
01:50Well, the way I figure it out, something ought to be done about it.
01:53That's why we're here.
01:54What do you say?
01:56Well, if I was head of the investigating department in the insurance company like you are, Davis, you know what I'd do?
02:01Do what?
02:02I'd get me a detective.
02:23May we come in?
02:24Not unless you go out again and knock.
02:28Our car broke down.
02:30Yes, at the crossroads.
02:31There's a telephone.
02:33Oh, yes, of course.
02:35Thanks.
02:36Well, what are you standing there for?
02:38Just watching you make lunch.
02:40Coffee sure smells good.
02:42I might give you some if you wasn't such a pair of liars.
02:47The road between here and the crossroads is awful muddy.
02:53We cut across the field.
02:54Yes, we were in a hurry.
02:58Sitting in my barn must have slowed you down.
03:02Now, don't waste your time trying to fool me.
03:04I got bacon and eggs to eat.
03:13Well, Mr. Hanvey, I guess you found us out, and we're going to tell you just why we're here.
03:16We've brought you one of the biggest cases you've ever had.
03:20Sit down.
03:21Thanks.
03:22My name's Don Terry.
03:23Oh, a great writer, Mr. Hanvey.
03:24Great.
03:25Great.
03:26One of America's greatest.
03:27You don't say.
03:28Well, let's do away with false modesty.
03:31Of course, at the moment, I'm forced to write a newspaper column on the care and feeding of fish.
03:36Just think of it.
03:37He has to write that sort of thing just to support himself.
03:39And that's why you have to take the Frost case.
03:42And who might you be?
03:43I'm Joan Frost.
03:44I'm going to marry that man.
03:46Darling.
03:47Sweetheart.
03:51Don's writing the greatest book this country's ever seen.
03:53Well, wait a minute, Joan.
03:54Let me tell him about it.
03:55Oh, but you always make such a mess of it.
03:57Well, it's my book, isn't it?
03:58Look, it's going to be in five volumes.
04:00I've got the first ten pages written already.
04:02Slow and sure.
04:03That's it, son.
04:04Do you hear that, Joan?
04:06Slow and sure.
04:07That's the kind of stuff I want in my book.
04:09You, Hanvey.
04:10This room.
04:11All of America.
04:13That bacon from Iowa.
04:16I've got it in me, Hanvey.
04:17I've got it in me.
04:19I sure have.
04:20And that bread from the wheat fields of Nebraska.
04:24The Chicago streets, dark at night.
04:27The Seattle waterfront.
04:28All those things are going to be in my book, Mr. Hanvey.
04:31That's why you've got to take the Frost case.
04:33Why are you so interested in them emeralds?
04:35Why?
04:36I stole them.
04:40Well, of all the nervy, thieving critters I ever saw...
04:42Hey, now, don't get us wrong, Mr. Hanvey.
04:44I had to do it, Mr. Hanvey.
04:45I couldn't let those two fellas make a sap out of me.
04:48Were those two men with you?
04:49No, they were against him.
04:50They bet me $100 I wasn't as good a cracksman as Raffles.
04:53Oh, and you bet that you were, huh?
04:55Well, I had a couple of drinks.
04:57Well, it was at my coming out party.
04:59Everybody had a couple of drinks.
05:00My honor, and a hundred bucks was at stake.
05:02Now, what was I going to do?
05:03I'd crack the safe.
05:04Now, just a minute.
05:06You mean to tell me you actually cracked the Frost safe?
05:08Well, Joan helped a little.
05:10She knew the combination.
05:11Well, that probably came in handy.
05:13I had the jewels, and I was on my way back to the club...
05:16...when all of a sudden, bingo.
05:17Bingo.
05:18That's when it all started.
05:19What do you mean, bingo?
05:21Well, it was morning, and I was in my bed,
05:23and I was all dressed, and the emeralds were gone.
05:25Well, that's one for your book.
05:27And you're going to fine them for us, Mr. Hanvey.
05:29I'll pay you a fee of $50.
05:31All right, if you're going to haggle, $60.
05:33No.
05:34$65.
05:35$75.
05:36The way you talk about money, miss, you'd think you was the government.
05:39Don't tell me what I think.
05:40What are you going to do?
05:42I aim to get me some preserves and finish my dinner.
05:44Don't take this case.
05:45I'm sunk.
05:46They'll put the police on it, and everything will come out.
05:48Those two fellas knew I'd planned to take the emeralds,
05:50and I'll go to jail.
05:52Well, jail's the most peaceable place I know of to write,
05:55this side of the cemetery.
05:57Yes, and my father and mother will see that Terry gets life.
05:59Well, you've just got to take this case.
06:01I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole.
06:03No, you neither.
06:04You're just ornery enough to live off of this girl's money.
06:07We didn't come down here for a sermon.
06:09No?
06:10You came down here thinking you could buy all this.
06:13Well, there ain't enough good common sense between you
06:15to hold yourselves down.
06:16Who do you think you are?
06:17You can't talk to us like that.
06:19Come on, scat.
06:20Get out of here.
06:21Scat.
06:26Stubborn old fool.
06:27We'd better go back to town and take our medicine.
06:30We can't.
06:38Hey, what is this?
06:39You don't think you were skipping town with those emeralds
06:41without us following?
06:42What emeralds?
06:43You leave him alone.
06:44I tell you, I haven't got them.
06:46Cut it out.
06:47You're keeping quiet.
06:48Get the idea?
06:49I tell you, I haven't got them.
06:50Cut it out with him.
06:51What do you think we came out here for?
06:53Hello, Romo.
06:55Did you come up for the shooting?
06:57Oh, hello, Hamby.
06:58Who's the hayseed?
06:59He's all right.
07:00Said he'd been doing a rap three years ago.
07:02Yeah, I thought I reformed you that time, Romo.
07:04You did?
07:05I ain't a pickpocket no more.
07:06High class jewelry, that's my line now.
07:08Yeah?
07:10Well, if you're looking for them frost jewels,
07:12they're not on these two raps.
07:14Can I take that for a guaranteed statement?
07:16Don't let him catch you.
07:17Maybe Grandpa's carrying them around himself.
07:19Say, you're fixing to get yourself massacred, young fella.
07:22We farmers around here don't hold no truck with gangsters.
07:26What was that?
07:30Why, that was just a...
07:32That just means that I put one over on you two fellas.
07:34What are you giving us?
07:35You saw me wave that straw at him, didn't you?
07:37Yeah.
07:38Well, so did my hound dog, Bud.
07:39He was watching me right through that window.
07:41Trained to the straw, Bud is.
07:43What's that mean?
07:44That signal sent Bud hightailing down the road to Twitchell's.
07:49There's Twitchell now, blowing his ram's horn.
07:52The place will be swarming with vigilantes and shotguns
07:54in three minutes.
07:56One time, they made it in two.
07:58Well, if Hamby says they ain't got the emeralds,
08:00I guess they ain't.
08:01Yeah, but what'll the boys say?
08:02Well, there ain't no point in staying.
08:04Them vigilantes will be mighty hungry when they do get here.
08:10Jesus.
08:13I don't know how to thank you.
08:14Hush.
08:17Come on.
08:18We're going to town.
08:19You mean you've changed your mind about us?
08:21You're everything I said you was.
08:23The only decent thing about you is the way you love each other.
08:25Maybe something will come of that.
08:27But I'll take the case.
08:28You mean you'll help us?
08:29I'd help a mangy cat if two gunmen like Romo and Smith
08:31was on its tail.
08:32You're in deep trouble now.
08:34Terry, telephone those fellas you met with
08:36to be at your place in town when we get there.
08:38You mean we're on our way?
08:39Bangle.
08:45Hmm.
08:47These calling cards nowadays are pretty in all get out.
08:50W.B. Elwood, member of the New York Stock.
08:53Say, it must cost quite a bit of money
08:54to buy a seat on that exchange.
08:55Hey, Mr. Elwood?
08:56Well, more than $100,000.
08:58Well, I hope it's comfortable.
09:01Importing and exporting.
09:03Say, you're some pumpkins too, Mr. Dunn.
09:05Oh, in a small way, perhaps.
09:07In a small way, nothing.
09:08Why, you are two mighty important gentlemen.
09:10I don't mind telling you, I'm mighty proud
09:12of meeting up with both of you.
09:14It's a real occasion.
09:15Well, we're glad to meet you, Mr. Hanley.
09:17You're important yourself in your own way, Mr. Hanley.
09:19Yes, but you men are crooks.
09:22What did you say?
09:23What's the meaning of this?
09:24Now, stop cackling.
09:25You're not even good honest crooks.
09:27Why, you take these two brainless harem scams.
09:29What?
09:30And send them after the Frost Jewels.
09:31And what happens?
09:32Such a mess of double-crossing, I never heard tell of.
09:35All right, easy.
09:36You're talking about.
09:37That's absurd.
09:41No.
09:42Now, Terry was jumped on his way from the club last night.
09:45Only one of you two who was in on that bet
09:47could have arranged that.
09:48And only the other one could have tipped off
09:50Romo and Smith today.
09:51Terry, I hold you responsible for this.
09:53Well, I can't help you.
09:54Why, you took this poor half-baked critter
09:56and used him.
09:57And that crazy girl too.
09:58You stop insulting us.
09:59The truth's insulting.
10:00I can't help it.
10:01But I'm not going to have these men send in every thug
10:03and dip and gunman in town after you.
10:05Now, one of you fess up, or I'll take you both to the police.
10:08Now, look here.
10:09Look here, folks.
10:10Will you please go away?
10:11Can't you see we're busy?
10:13Nobody ordered a taxi.
10:14But Mr. Terry, I'm the guy picked you out of the gutter
10:16night before last.
10:18Oh, yeah, well, that's fine.
10:20Wait a minute.
10:21Let him be.
10:22What gutter are you talking about?
10:24The one Mr. Terry was sleeping in.
10:25I taxied him here, tossed him in bed,
10:27and then took a dollar for the fare.
10:28Is that all you took?
10:30Well, I did slip a 10-cent tip out of his pocket.
10:32Yeah, well, that's all right.
10:33Thank you very much.
10:34But that's not all.
10:35I picked up the cushion in my back seat this morning,
10:37and Mr. Terry, did you lose anything?
10:46Beads.
10:48What's the matter?
10:49Don't you want them?
10:50Oh, we want them.
10:51Don, we're safe.
10:53Well, Mr. Hanvey, I think apologies are in order.
10:56Now, maybe I did fly off the handle,
10:58but I think apologies should start with this man.
11:00I suggest that the bet that Terry won be given to him.
11:05Now, we mustn't let the Frost know anything about this.
11:09There you are.
11:12I've forgotten more for less.
11:14Thanks.
11:15Good night.
11:16Good night.
11:17You know, I'm powerful, sorry,
11:18for barking up the wrong tree the way I did.
11:20No hard feelings.
11:22Well, that's mighty handsome of you, gentlemen.
11:24Good night.
11:25Good night.
11:27I wouldn't trust either one of them as far as I could throw a barn.
11:30Well, why? They didn't have...
11:31Now, come on.
11:32You've got to get those jewels back in that safe immediately.
11:34Get your clothes on. Get out.
11:35Okay.
11:36Get on. Hurry up. We've got to get out of here.
11:46Terry has them this time.
11:48Tail them and...
11:49Okay, boss.
11:57No one's home.
11:58Good.
11:59I'll stay out here and see that no one gets in to pester you.
12:11There they are.
12:12I'll get into the house through the back.
12:13Keep the motor running.
12:19I'll get in through the back.
12:20Keep the motor running.
12:26I'll get in through the back.
12:57Here's Mr. Hanvey.
12:59How do you do, Mrs. Frost?
13:00What are you doing here, Jim?
13:01Why, Mr. Davis said you refused him flatly.
13:04Well, reconsidering, I thought I'd come down,
13:06look the ground over and take the case.
13:08Great.
13:09I'll report to the office that it's in your hands from now on.
13:11Sure.
13:12It'll be a week before I can go quail hunting.
13:14My goodness.
13:15Somebody lose a quail?
13:16Adelaide.
13:17Come right in, Miss Hanvey.
13:27What's the matter?
13:28Oh, there's city air.
13:29My throat's rung dry.
13:31My emeralds were taken out of the library right over here.
13:42Oh.
13:43Oh, I'm powerful.
13:45Sorry.
13:46I hope it wasn't you.
13:48Oh, no.
13:49It wasn't me.
13:50It wasn't me.
13:51It wasn't me.
13:52It wasn't me.
13:53It wasn't me.
13:54It wasn't you.
13:55Oh, no.
13:56A very old, only 2,000 years.
14:00Oh, that's good.
14:02Maybe a little glue.
14:04Oh, do come on.
14:11Now, the safe is in here.
14:20Joan.
14:21Hello.
14:22Good evening.
14:23Joan, what have I told you about sitting in the dark with him?
14:26Haven't I asked you not to see?
14:28Herbert, Herbert.
14:29This is my daughter, Mr. Hanvey.
14:31And this is, um, Joan.
14:33What do you call him?
14:35Darling.
14:36Mr. Darling.
14:37Oh, what's that?
14:38The name's Terry.
14:39Don Terry, Mr. Hanvey.
14:41Terry.
14:42Terry.
14:43I had a cousin by that name.
14:45He was awful lucky, too.
14:47How's your luck been, son?
14:49Awful.
14:50Um, Mr. Hanvey, uh, tell us, uh, tell us who is the thief
14:54and, uh, where are my emeralds?
14:56Adelaide, give him time.
14:58I don't need it.
14:59When I go into action, I'm greased lightning.
15:01Now, folks, this here mystery of the missing emeralds
15:04looks like it's going to be, uh, mighty simple.
15:07Fact of the matter is, uh, I've got a theory already.
15:10What sort of theory?
15:11Well, it's a sort of a kind of a, a clue.
15:15Where is it?
15:21Here.
15:23You know what that is?
15:24Yeah, it's a blot.
15:25It's a fingerprint.
15:26Oh, you're crazy.
15:27I've been told that before.
15:29You see that hangnail there?
15:30Yes.
15:31Well, that's all the evidence I need.
15:35Mrs. Frost, you're going to get your emeralds by breakfast.
15:38Oh, Mr. Hanvey, I wouldn't think of wearing them for breakfast.
15:42Well, suit yourself, ma'am.
15:44Come on, Davis.
15:45I've got to clear the decks for action.
15:48Who are you trying to kid, Jim?
15:50I've got to put on a show for these slickers.
15:52But I know what I'm talking about.
15:54Now, you'll be on hand the first thing in the morning
15:56to open up that safe.
15:57They'll be there.
15:58What have you got in mind?
15:59Keep going.
16:00I've got to empty this room.
16:05Won't you stay away?
16:07Why do I have to have you and burglars and...
16:10I beg your pardon.
16:11You've got to leave.
16:12You've got to leave.
16:14Why do I have to have you and burglars and...
16:16I beg your pardon.
16:17What do you want?
16:19Well, there was one question I missed asking.
16:21What is it?
16:22Well, how was your hair fixed the night of the party?
16:24What difference does it make?
16:26You've been tearing the blotters, breaking my vows, and now...
16:29Well, I've had enough of all this.
16:31I'm going.
16:32You come too, Joan.
16:33I want to have a talk with you.
16:34Better go take care of your mall, young lady.
16:41Well, is there anything else?
16:43Yes.
16:44If you could point out to me how the guests were spread out the night of the party,
16:46it would be a big help.
16:47Why, certainly.
16:48They were all in the drawing room.
16:50Right over here.
16:56Well, this is where they were.
16:58By the way, didn't you say something about your throat being dry when you came in?
17:01Oh, don't be bothered.
17:02Well, that's all right.
17:03I'll have Ellis fix up something for us.
17:13All right.
17:44I didn't do it.
17:45Honest, I didn't.
17:46There was...
17:47The lights went out, and there was a voice, and then a shot.
17:49Don't talk now.
17:51Don't talk yet.
17:53Wait a minute, Mr. Hamby.
17:54You said you believed me.
17:56Don't call the police.
17:57I didn't, Joan.
17:58I didn't tell you.
17:59Let me go.
18:00Let me go, Mr. Hamby.
18:0114 East 8th Street.
18:02Hit me and get going.
18:04Oh!
18:05That's it.
18:06Oh, no.
18:07Don't, don't, don't.
18:08Don't let him get away.
18:09That's impossible.
18:10He's gone away.
18:11Oh, my.
18:12Police.
18:13This is H.L. Frost.
18:14The butler's been shot.
18:15Oh, dear.
18:16I need smelling salts.
18:17Yeah, we need smelling salts.
18:18Yeah, tell them the pink kind.
18:19Abbott.
18:20How about a little butter?
18:21Have you got enough for breakfast?
18:22Give me Inspector Garrett in a hurry.
18:23But...
18:24But he couldn't.
18:25He...
18:26He...
18:27He...
18:28He...
18:29He...
18:30He...
18:31He...
18:32He...
18:33He...
18:34He...
18:35He...
18:36He...
18:37He...
18:38He...
18:39He couldn't.
18:40He's too dependable.
18:41He knew I was giving him dinner tomorrow night.
18:46Oh!
18:47If that's the cook.
18:49If it is.
18:50Call headquarters.
18:51It's called.
18:52Did you get him?
18:53Did you shoot him?
18:54Ah, I missed him.
18:58Am I all here?
18:59Yes.
19:00Then they missed me.
19:01Rush!
19:02I saw him running out the back alley.
19:04But he went out the front, down the street.
19:06Hold your horses.
19:07Can you show me?
19:08Sure.
19:09How did he get out the back, missus?
19:10My buffalo will show you.
19:12There he is.
19:13Ah!
19:14Ah!
19:15Oh.
19:16Oh.
19:17Oh.
19:18Mother, please.
19:19There, there, there.
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20:00Help, please.
20:01It's a thief.
20:04What's the matter?
20:05It's a thief.
20:06Where?
20:07Us?
20:08You, stop that.
20:10Get away from there, you bad man.
20:13Damn you.
20:15Shame on you.
20:18Get away from that, you bad man.
20:22If I can give it back, as good as I please.
20:26Hey, cut it out, you folks, up there.
20:35What's the matter?
20:36What happened?
20:37Oh, don't bother with him.
20:38Come on, let's retreat.
20:39Let's go.
21:04What happened, Hanvey?
21:05Where are the police?
21:06Come on, talk, man.
21:07Can't you speak?
21:08No, I'm deflated.
21:11Go ahead.
21:13You talk first.
21:14Well, I don't know what happened, except, well,
21:16I opened the safe, and somebody stuck a gun in my back
21:18and took the necklace.
21:19Then I heard Ellis say, who's there?
21:21There was a shot, and well, I grabbed her,
21:23but there was nothing.
21:25Tell me, does Joan believe I did it?
21:27She upped and run away.
21:28Ran away?
21:29Where'd she go?
21:30I don't know, and I don't care.
21:32She's decoying the police away from you.
21:34Well, I'm not going to have her involved in this.
21:36I'll give myself up.
21:37That will settle your hash.
21:39You're so hog-tied with circumstantial evidence now,
21:41it'll take an electric chair to untangle you.
21:44Well, I can't stay here.
21:46Why not?
21:47Pete, the fellow that owns this place, is an old friend of mine.
21:50Been buying my hay for 30 years.
21:52Running now.
21:54This is a perfect spot for you.
21:56It's quiet.
21:57No one will bother you.
21:58No one will even ever find you.
22:00Yoo-hoo.
22:01Joan.
22:02Darling.
22:04How'd you find me?
22:05I found Mr. Hanvey here.
22:06Suffering cats.
22:07The police are following you.
22:08Come on, we gotta get out of here.
22:11Come here.
22:12Get in there.
22:13I'll let you.
22:14Here.
22:15Drive past that stable and keep going for a dollar's worth.
22:18Hey, what's the idea?
22:19Hurry.
22:20Hey, Hanvey.
22:43Pete.
22:44Open up.
22:46Get in there.
22:49You ain't told me where you're going.
22:51Don't know myself yet.
22:52I was hiding in your stable.
22:54It was spoiled by a couple of cooing doves.
22:57If you don't know what to do, don't blame us.
22:59Oh, but I do, though.
23:01When I sort out the owner of this timepiece,
23:03I'll have the murderer.
23:06What's eating you?
23:07Why, this is my watch.
23:11When do you realize that?
23:13I don't know.
23:14I don't know.
23:17When do you recollect having it last?
23:19Well, I was looking at it when those two fellas
23:22jumped at me at your farm.
23:24Dang that Romo.
23:25A watch just naturally sticks to his fingers.
23:28Praise be, that's our man.
23:31He followed you clear to the Frost home.
23:34What's the matter, Pete?
23:36Joe!
23:47You're leaving the police right back to him.
23:49I am not.
23:50You pike.
23:51You're giving that cab driver $1.
23:53I slipped him a 20, and he's heading for Yonkers
23:55wide open with the police after him.
23:57Still buying your way along.
23:59Any objections?
24:00It gets me places.
24:01It'll get you a darn good spanking.
24:03I only could find someplace to hide you.
24:06Pete.
24:10Right.
24:12Maybe I can do both at the same time.
24:16Oh!
24:22Good night, Pete.
24:23Good night, Jim.
24:24Come on.
24:25Get up.
24:46Please, will you call back some other time?
24:50I understand, ma'am.
24:51But if you could give me just a minute.
24:55Wait here.
24:57Are we going to stay here?
24:59And take the kind of abuse he's been giving us?
25:01Or leave?
25:02Why don't we take a chance and fight it out our own way?
25:05Lance.
25:06All right.
25:28Oh, Pete!
25:29Come on, get your duds off.
25:45The lady here ain't got no heart for housekeeping just now.
25:47Well, what do you expect us to do?
25:49She could use a hired girl.
25:50Well, go and get her one.
25:52I have.
25:53You.
25:54So start readying up the dishes.
25:55You expect Joan to wash and wipe dishes?
25:58No, just wash.
26:00You'll wipe.
26:02Petty revenge, that's what it is.
26:04He's just trying to take advantage of us because of the fix we're in.
26:06Well, I won't stand for it.
26:08No matter what's happened, I'm still Joan Frost.
26:12It's all right now.
26:13The baby's asleep.
26:14These are the two.
26:16Here, Miss Joan.
26:18Think of your coming way down here just to help me.
26:22Well, wait a minute.
26:23There must be some misunderstanding.
26:25Oh, no.
26:26I understand.
26:28You're Mr. Terry.
26:29You two are going to be married.
26:31Only the other night, he said, that boy loves Miss Joan.
26:36Just like I love you.
26:38They're going to make a go of it.
26:41Tom, you could see things clear.
26:45Tom?
26:47Oh, I forgot.
26:49You always called him Ellis, didn't you?
26:52Oh, I never thought.
26:54I never thought of Ellis even having a first name.
26:57You're Mrs. Ellis?
26:59Oh, don't you know, I'm suspected of...
27:01Oh, you didn't do it.
27:03Mr. Hanvey told me.
27:05And I'm sure he's right.
27:07You can stay here.
27:08You're safe.
27:09Yeah, she's right.
27:11They'd never think of looking for you in the home of the man you was accused of shooting.
27:14Oh, stop it!
27:17I guess I'd better tidy up.
27:20Oh, no.
27:22Oh, but I want to.
27:31Maybe you'll miss him, too.
27:35That is, if he was a good butler.
27:39He was a swell butler.
27:42Mrs. Ellis says the police have come and gone,
27:44so you can rest here easy, First Bell.
27:45Why?
27:46Can't we take the watch that you found down at headquarters?
27:48Definitely proves Romo was at the Frost.
27:50Only to us.
27:51That was your watch.
27:53Do it.
27:55You're not going to do it, are you?
27:57No, I won't.
27:58No, I won't.
27:59I'm not going to do it.
28:00I'm not going to do it.
28:01You're not going to?
28:02I'm not going to do it.
28:03You're not going to?
28:04No, I'm not.
28:05I'm not going to do it.
28:06You're not going to do it?
28:07No, I'm not.
28:08I'm not going to do it.
28:09I'm not going to do it.
28:10That was your watch and to the police that clues a home and pigeon comes right back to you
28:14I've got to do something. I'll take care of Romo and find out who he's working for. I'm the detective
28:21You're supposed to be a writer ain't you?
28:23Sure, there's my book. You're gonna forget all those highfalutin ideas about that five-volume book
28:29You're gonna write yourself an honest-to-goodness
28:31Newspaper story it's got to be good enough to catch the murder of that woman's husband and good enough to save your own life
28:37You understand? Oh
28:38You're gonna write this to the globe
28:41now listen
28:44They let me in when I told him how important it was what's important who are you how did you get in here?
28:50It's very important that I know if your final edition comes out exactly at 930
28:54Exactly at 930 on the dot for the last 20 years. Who are you?
28:59I'm the man that's bringing you Don Terry's column on the care and feeding of fish
29:03I
29:07Ain't nothing there about fish
29:11It's about the murder get that guy back
29:14Hold the final edition can't it's on its way then follow up with an extra as quick as you can
29:18Why what's he got? What did Richard Harding Davis have when he covered the sinking of the main?
29:23He's got a great story here. Great writing great journalism great guns
29:33Oh
30:03You're no more Smith no more and this is for Smith
30:13Watch that guy just like this. What do you need to watch him a tuxedo? Oh, you mean through the window?
30:26Mr. Dunn, what's the idea this note? There's no come to my office immediately
30:31I got the tip you were spotted at the frost last night and it signed the boss. I don't write notes
30:36I don't sign myself the boss
30:39You know that then I must be a pony someone must have spotted us
30:46Hey that buggy driver's talking to that hick dick handy, it's handy of all that sap layouts
30:52He framed this note. So we come dashing down to you so he could follow us. Well, we're gonna stay right here
30:58Oh, no, you're not
31:00He knows too much already
31:02Come on down here
31:04Let him follow you
31:06We'll take care of him
31:08Get on your clothes. We're going away and killing me
31:13Why mr. Dunn I
31:15Said you were some pumpkins. I didn't want to see him. He found us behind a frost house. He's got us all disclosed
31:22I'm willing to trade you a 30-hour start on the police for a signed confession and mrs. Frost fancy necklace. Now, what do you say?
31:30You can fool these two stooges handy. Not me
31:33You can't hang anything on us with this watch. You're kind of poaching on my preserves. Ain't you? Mr. Dunn?
31:38I'm supposed to be the sleuth. Yes, and no one knows what you just found out. No, not yet
31:44They don't they're not going to get a chance to
31:48Don't let me keep you boys. Come on. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute
31:53well
31:54Five minutes you give us your way into this handy. You're going out our way
32:00Exactly 930 the final edition of the globe is going to be out
32:05300,000 people will be reading it then reading what all about you
32:09About you to kill an Ellis. What are you giving us about you being accused of putting them up to it now?
32:15You can shoot me. But what are you gonna do about the other 300,000? It's a stall
32:25What are you gonna do mr. Dunn I'm going to headquarters see Garrett establish my alibi
32:30I spent a very pleasant evening at the club last night
32:33Well, how about us we ain't got no alibi
32:36Mr. Handy put you on the spot. Let him get you off
32:39Whoa there. We was talking over a train. Hey, what's got into him?
32:44I was fixing you guys to start on the police for them emeralds
32:47We ain't got no emeralds and we didn't kill nobody. No not last night
32:51You got us into a lot of undesirable publicity
32:53You can tell that to the police, but you can't pull the wool over the eyes of James Wilford Hanvey
32:58That's just who we can't tell it to because we were up there last night trying to hijack Terry
33:03Honey, we didn't get near him
33:05Do you expect me to believe that you're innocent? Huh? Cleanest a shite on a line
33:14It's mr. Handy, did you get wrong on Smith? No, they got me you murderer
33:22Get that gun
33:24I
33:25Get away from that phone. Here you are. Oh, I thought you had me didn't you get back squatter?
33:31I'll penalize you six feet on of a clipping. Why didn't you keep that gun?
33:34I don't need no firearms to handle them to what are they doing here? Nothing. Now, don't be afraid
33:39I'm not afraid they can't do anything more to me. Listen lady. You don't understand. It wasn't them mrs
33:44Ellis they didn't kill your husband and he's gonna prove it providing that gun don't go off
33:49Now listen you don't you start telling us our decorum?
33:52We're the ones that are still doing a pushing around around. Hey, this is my house
33:55You can't stay here and quarrel among yourselves. You're all in the same fix
33:59With a little more leeway. We got a half a chance of getting out of this
34:05Did you find something
34:07Boy to me asked for leeway spread out
34:09Now I was snooping through that closet up the frost and I run across quite a stack of papers
34:14These two was on top someone had shoved him on the floor
34:18Maybe it was that lady Moira. Maybe it was they had slid off in the last 24 hours
34:24Cause the paper on top of the pile now don't carry a bit of dust none whatsoever
34:28Lay off the buildup some guy hid in the closet. All right, who was now that'll take quite a bit of calculating
34:34You got a ruler miss Ellis. Yes
34:37He was standing on this paper for quite a while fidgeting
34:41An amateur he was cause no professional would burgle with leather heels. Oh
34:46Terry you'd better take down some of these items
34:52Ten and a half shoe
34:54indicating a height of five foot eleven
34:57Souls worn on the outside meaning a quite heavy man. I
35:03should say a man about
35:05210 pounds for that height
35:09215 maybe wait a minute. Give me that paper
35:13No professional
35:15good condition
35:17five feet eleven
35:19heavy
35:22Why you
35:23What for a double-crosser? What's up? That's a cock I could description of Jim and me
35:27That's what you were in that house alone. You had as good a chance as any
35:31You've got him and get yourself out of this and I'll throw you back to the chickens
35:34No, don't get buckety with me. Oh, you men are insane. Thank you. Mr. Ham. They could harm my husband
35:40Now if you fellas don't stop having me you're gonna have to get out of this thing alone
35:43Well, I still say it looks suspicious. I don't blame us. Only thing is you haven't spotted anybody else. Oh, but I have though
35:50I've got a fairly good notion who went into that closet took those emeralds and killed. Mr. Ellis
35:56There's only one way to trap him. Well, come on
35:58We're listening bait the $30,000 the insurance company's offering for that necklace
36:03Oh, he wouldn't dare try to get that money now. There's a murder charge
36:06Yeah, but that's hanging on you as long as the police suspect Dom Terry the real criminal can operate without showing his hand
36:13Now if you was in jail in jail
36:17The real criminal couldn't take him for that 30,000 without tipping to the police that they had jugged the wrong man
36:25What do you want me to do mr.
36:26Hamby
36:27Force that scoundrel like to show his hand
36:29Are you are going to write to that globe that you're giving yourself up at the Central Street Police Station tomorrow at midnight?
36:35You mean you really want him to go through with it?
36:37Well, it'll force that man in the open and we'll have him by the time you arrested suppose you don't well
36:42Then we'll have to find some other way of saving him from the chair
36:46It's our last chance June. It's too big a chance. Mr.
36:49Hamby once I wanted everything money could buy he wanted to write a crazy book now
36:54We just want each other you do what you ask. Oh, we might even lose that
36:58You might well, how about it, son?
37:04We can't miss John we just can't miss
37:09All right, Terry
37:12Come on son start writing
37:14Hurry up. Come on. You'll find him. You got a pencil start writing. I'll leave him alone. All right
37:31John's got himself a first-class sensation
37:33The police are going to get the murder
37:35Henry's gone to sleep in a haystack and we're going to pay the bill
37:38Give hand be a break. The old bird generally comes through. Yeah, we're through bars. The frost account is concerned. We're out
37:46$100,000
37:49Yeah, Andy put him on
37:56Now look here handy
37:57We hired you to find those jewels and we've been spending all our time trying to find you. We've got what what's that?
38:05What I'm gonna get your emeralds
38:07Now sometime before midnight the thief is going to get in touch with you
38:10I want you to tell him that I'm handling the case for the company. Yeah, but handy look
38:16Andy
38:18Andy
38:22He wants $30,000 then you better give it to him I told you he generally comes through
38:28All right
38:30Thank you
38:35Yes, sir, I could tell the cashier to get $30,000 cash yes goes to that address
38:56Wait wait
39:01Yes, mr. Handy here it's for you mr. Handy
39:14Is it the word you've been waiting for no, it's the insurance money
39:18Say you ain't so dumb promoting yourself $30,000
39:22If we was to quit right now and divvy up it'll be $10,000 for you $10,000 for me and
39:3214,900 for you and the same for me
39:39Abby got a proposition for you
39:41$200 clear don't let temptation blind you this here is salvation money. Don't don't that feel it'll shrink
40:00You've turned your back on me
40:03I'm not going to turn my back on you
40:05I'm not going to turn my back on you
40:08You've turned this into a Roman holiday
40:13Besides I wanted to give the boy a chance to save himself
40:16Yeah, I'm letting him accuse everybody but the Statue of Liberty now
40:19They'd all be down here tonight to protect their interest if Terry doesn't show up. That's the end of your gold
40:27He's still got more than an hour and a half it's not even 1030
40:32We an hour and a half left
40:34We'll hear from that man and be sure of it. He's not sure of it. He said it was only a chance
40:39I know darling, but I won't let you take it. Don't you can't you see?
40:45Look
40:49What is it it's for him handy
41:05This is it
41:10Where are you going? We're gonna give you our own personal convoy
41:15You ignoramuses can't you read it says I gotta act alone that $30,000 can take you a long way
41:22How do we know you're not walking out on us for the first time in your lives you two are gonna trust someone
41:27Keep that apartment son. I won't cave in on you. Yes, sir. Thanks for the hospitality. Miss Ellis
41:35Come on that dog can take us a long way too. Hey, you can't follow him
41:40He's right. How do you know sucker? All you see them do is walk out that door
41:43But you're confusing yourself with delusions if you ain't coming. I'm gonna follow that smart guy myself. Oh, no, you don't
41:49I'm gonna see that he don't get hyped by you and nobody else
42:05You
42:20Would you be interested in knowing my name's can be not particularly no, I'm H Edward of Portland. Thank you
42:34Oh
42:38Yes, this is Henry
42:40Sure, I'll repeat after you
42:42I'm to come to number 13 mark place apartment one
42:47I'm to make sure no one's following me
42:50If I'm followed you'll kill me
42:53That sounds reasonable
43:04You
43:06You
43:08You
43:33What's up headquarters just heard that Romo and Smith are in this vicinity we're throwing the net around four square blocks
43:38Come on, let's get going
43:42Andy call the cops from that phone booth Smith yet. Demented. Let's get out of here
44:08You
44:23Well here I be in case anyone cares where's the money
44:31Show me
44:34Hand it over now. Hold on mister. You'll get the emeralds throw that money through here
44:46What about my part of the bargain you've broken it two men followed you down here I had the police take care of them
44:54The emeralds are somewhere here in the room. You can find them for yourself
45:03You
45:05You
45:07You
45:32This is the house he wanted it get a bottom we gotta keep going he knifed us
45:36I'm gonna get that hater before the cops get me
46:06You
46:36Oh
46:59Let's get out of here, will you I'm getting handy
47:07Thank you, mrs. Ellis, we're grateful for everything and for teaching me to it's a boiling a I'll be helping you bake your wedding cake
47:16Goodbye, you too. Good luck. Thank you
47:21Well on to the guillotine
47:25There's a far far better thing I do than we've ever done before
47:29Gee I'm scared. Oh, darling
47:37Read in the paper about you going to the police station tonight Buehler me is here to haul you
47:43Thanks citizen Pete, thanks for bringing the tumbrel ain't no trouble glad to do it. Come on
47:49Thanks citizen Pete, thanks for bringing the tumbrel ain't no trouble glad to do it
48:20I
48:23Have a statement for the press
48:26Accused of the murder of one Thomas Ellis and the theft of the frost necklace we accused Romo and Smith
48:31Where are they picking him up downtown Terry's the one to answer these questions if you dare show up
48:36He will he will you know, if this fiesta is a failure
48:49I
49:04Told you
49:08Have you been with that scoundrel
49:10I'm gonna stick with him for the rest of my life. Where's Jim? How you feeling boy?
49:16Hold it save it exclusive for the globe from now on you can write what you want including your own ticket pick any job on
49:21The globe it's yours. Where's Jim handy? Forget handy. You can speak for yourself
49:27In that smoke screen you wrote for the newspaper. You didn't give one fact one bit of evidence that stood up
49:34Please just a moment
49:36The only thing we do know is that you were seen standing over the body with the gun now, what have you got to say?
49:44Nothing until I see Jim handy
49:47Take him away. Oh now. Wait a minute. Wait. That's all I don't know. I don't party. Never mind handy
49:53Keep that cigar away from me. I'll explode like a gas balloon. Where have you been? What's the matter with you? I'm plumb peaking
50:02Did you get the emeralds yes, but I nearly died of doing it
50:06If it hadn't been for two no-good scoundrels that would rather see me shot than suffocated. I wouldn't be here now
50:10Yeah, what are you talking about?
50:12Romo and Smith like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. It was I
50:17Certainly had to talk fast, but you still haven't shown us the emeralds Jim handy
50:21You promised us you'd know I promised that when I got them emeralds. I'd have me the murderer and here they are
50:28And that's the least of it
50:30Ellis is dead and the man who killed him knew those emeralds was going to be put back
50:35That man got into the house
50:36He waited in that closet until Terry was alone at the safe that man killed in us to make his getaway
50:42That man is in this room right now
50:44Who is he? I'm gonna give him a chance to tell that himself. They say confession is good for the soul
50:51everybody reach
50:53We had a folly it to a police station handy, but we're gonna get what we're after. Okay the lights
50:58Let me go Romo stop it
51:02You don't know we're all but that's the right man
51:08Davis why this man's made so many mistakes. Yes, and they all led to you
51:12Oh, and I took you to the door that night. You didn't leave the house
51:15You snuck into that closet, you know, as you was gonna be put back and this how you come in
51:20You know, I'm gonna get you out of here. I'm gonna get you out of here
51:23I'm gonna get you out of here. I'm gonna get you out of here
51:25You know jewels is gonna be put back and this how you come to get yourself caught them bills was treated with swamp fire
51:31That's the solution of phosphorus and there's only two people in the whole wide world that touched them you and me search him
51:39When it comes to the art of frisking I could save you a lot of time. All right, go ahead. Pardon me boys
51:44You get that
51:46You get that and you get this what that must be my money. You're right. That's our man. Take him away
51:55Congratulations Jim, mr. Lambert, that really isn't your money
51:59You were going to pay that for the return of the jewels and as mrs
52:03Ellis has lost more than any of us. I think she ought to have part of it
52:07That's an idea Jim and a very good one
52:10You know, all you people are a lot nicer than I thought when I first met up with you. Oh, mr
52:14Handy, I've definitely made up our mind that I'm going to announce the engagement of my daughter Joan to that darling boy
52:21And I'm going to give us a tremendous party tomorrow and I want you to be the guest of honor
52:26I'm sorry, ma'am, but I can't make it. I got to start chasing something real or losing that old cutting-tail rabbit. Well, goodbye everybody
52:34Well, good luck to you, too. Thanks, mr. Henry
52:38Mr. Henry
52:39You drop this. Oh, that does look like mine. You're gonna have it son. Oh, thanks. Will you autograph it for me?
52:47There's my teeth marks
52:51You
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