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Black Widow (1951)
62 min | Crime, Drama | 22 October 1951 (UK)
A woman and her lover plan the second death of her husband after their first attempt fails.
Director: Vernon Sewell
Writers: Allan MacKinnon (screenplay) (as Alan MacKinnon), Lester Powell (radio serial Return From Darkness)
Stars: Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne
62 min | Crime, Drama | 22 October 1951 (UK)
A woman and her lover plan the second death of her husband after their first attempt fails.
Director: Vernon Sewell
Writers: Allan MacKinnon (screenplay) (as Alan MacKinnon), Lester Powell (radio serial Return From Darkness)
Stars: Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne
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02:48What's the matter?
02:55Sheila, you'd better phone Dr. Wallace.
02:56Of course.
03:47Good morning, Sheila.
03:48Good morning, doctor.
03:49How is the patient?
03:50Well, he seems to be more or less all right.
03:51Except he's no idea who he is.
03:53He's lost his memory.
03:54Oh, he has, has he?
03:56Mm-hmm.
03:56Hmm, dearie, dearie me.
03:58I told him it would probably be all right, you know, trying to cheer him up.
04:01But, will it mean he'll have to see a specialist?
04:03A specialist? What am I for?
04:05Well, I thought, you know, a lost memory, maybe a psychiatrist.
04:08Sheila Kemp, a psychiatrist indeed.
04:10He'll be suggesting an astrologer next.
04:12Since when have I been calling in psychiatrists?
04:14I'm terribly sorry.
04:15And so you should be.
04:17Hm.
04:17Well, I'll wait up and see it now.
04:19Would you like me to take you up?
04:20No, thank you.
04:21The same with myself.
04:30Well, young fellow, I'm Dr. Wallace.
04:33How are you, doc?
04:33How are you is much more to the point.
04:36Sheila tells me that you've lost your memory.
04:38Yeah, I guess so.
04:38Kind of stupid, isn't it?
04:40Hmm, maybe it is and maybe it isn't.
04:41We don't know the reason yet.
04:44First thing, I want to have a look at your eyes.
04:46My eyes?
04:47What's wrong with them?
04:48Nothing that I know of.
04:49But if a doctor confined himself to looking at things there was something wrong with,
04:53he'd not get very far.
04:55Right, lad.
04:56Out of the bed.
04:57Come and sit in this chair here.
04:58Okay, doc.
05:02That's it.
05:05Now, then.
05:07I just want you to look at my right ear.
05:11That's it.
05:12Pay no attention to this wee light.
05:16Uh-huh.
05:17Now, look at the left ear.
05:25Now, that looks all right from here.
05:28Next thing is to have a look and see how that crack on the head is progressing.
05:46All right.
05:47Now, that looks all right from here.
05:49Mm-hmm.
05:51Healing nicely.
05:54Yes, the best thing for that from now on will be fresh air.
05:57We can dispense with the bandages.
05:59I guess this is how I lost my memory, huh?
06:01Hmm.
06:02Maybe so.
06:03But that's only the excuse.
06:04It's not the reason.
06:05What do you mean, doc?
06:07Outside the penny novelettes, people don't go losing their memories just through a crack in the head.
06:10No.
06:11No, it's usually cerebral senility, pardoning the arteries.
06:15I've got a good look at your eyes.
06:16It's certainly not that.
06:18So, the trouble seems to be psychological.
06:20You sound like a psychiatrist.
06:22When you call me that smile, I'm no psychiatrist, Malach.
06:26I'm sorry, doc.
06:27A psychiatrist is usually a medical man trying to forget his medical training.
06:30I am a doctor, and my field includes everything, from mental illness to malaria or mumps.
06:35And you have to get mumps, anyway.
06:37There must be something.
06:38Aye.
06:40Just so.
06:41Your trouble seems to be retrograde amnesia, pure and simple.
06:44I hope it's pure, doc, but it's certainly not simple.
06:48What do you mean?
06:49Well, mind you, this is not my final diagnosis.
06:52But it seems to me that when you got hit by whatever hit you, you were in a highly neurotic
06:56state.
06:57You understand?
06:58You were probably running away from something.
07:00The police haven't heard about me, or so I'm told.
07:03The police aren't the only thing to run away from.
07:05My guess is that you had such a load on your mind that your mind just wouldn't wear it.
07:09And so, when you got that clip on the head, your subconscious mind just took the opportunity of running away.
07:15All of which may not sound like the right jargon to a psychiatrist.
07:19Would you like me to call one in?
07:21Thank you, no.
07:22Good.
07:22That proves your mind's not affected, anyway.
07:25Is my head badly hurt, doc?
07:26I mean, apart from the loss of memory.
07:29No, as far as that goes, you'll be all right in a couple of days.
07:33Here.
07:34There's a way we might get at something.
07:36Last night, when you were a bit delirious, you seemed to be having some sort of a dream.
07:40Do you remember anything about it?
07:43Was that when I was calling for Christine?
07:46Uh-huh.
07:49Oh, I'm sorry, doc.
07:50I don't remember the dream at all.
07:52Would you mind if we tried to recapture that dream?
07:54Well, what would that involve?
07:56Just an injection and a few questions, that's all.
07:58If it's likely to help in restoring my memory, that's okay with me.
08:01Right, laddie. Back onto the bed.
08:03Okay, doc.
08:09Oh, hello, dear.
08:10Any words from Weathervitz?
08:11Yes, the letter's on your desk, dear.
08:13Where?
08:14From the pigeon house.
08:15Oh, thanks.
08:18Anyway, I saw Dr. Wallace's car outside.
08:20I suppose he's come to see that young chap.
08:22How is he?
08:23Have you seen him?
08:23Yes, I took him up some tea.
08:25He seems all right.
08:26He's lost his memory.
08:27Good Lord.
08:28Has he?
08:29What does the doctor say?
08:30I don't know yet.
08:31He's still up there.
08:34Well, I'm not saying that this will get us anywhere at all, but it might just help us to find
08:39out what this dream is of yours that you can't remember.
08:41Well, that might help us to find out even more.
08:47Are you ready?
08:48Sure.
08:50Right.
08:51I just want you to close your eyes and just relax completely.
09:20I have this dream of yours.
09:23Have you had it often?
09:27I wouldn't know.
09:29Come on.
09:31Try and tell me about it.
09:34There's a woman, isn't there?
09:36A woman called Christine.
09:40It's just when you're dozing off to sleep that it comes, isn't it?
09:44Or just when you're waking up.
09:48Come on.
09:50Try and tell me.
09:52I don't know what it is.
09:55I don't know what it is.
09:57The trees.
10:00They're all bare.
10:01There.
10:06I'm walking up there.
10:11I don't want to walk up.
10:14But I have to.
10:18There's a house at the top.
10:25I can't see it.
10:28But I know it's there.
10:32If I go on, I'll come to it.
10:37And then...
10:42there's Christie.
10:47she's waiting
10:50waiting for me
10:54at the top of the avenue
10:59she's in a house
11:01I think
11:05Christine
11:08Christine
11:11as soon as I see your house
11:15Christine
11:19that's when the dream
11:21ends
11:23I don't
11:29wake up
11:31I just
11:38I don't know
11:44that's all
11:45all right
11:49all right
11:50you have a nice
11:50quiet sleep
11:53you'll be all right
11:56there was only one road accident reported
11:58that night in this area
11:59and that were 40 miles away
12:01near York
12:02car overturned
12:03and caught fire
12:04he wasn't in that
12:05I can assure you
12:06for one thing he's not burdened
12:08for another
12:08he couldn't have walked four miles
12:10in that condition
12:11let alone 40
12:12hmm
12:13how is he now doctor?
12:15he's asleep just now
12:15I've just given him an injection
12:17he'll likely stay asleep
12:18for a wee while
12:18Kemp
12:19you'll have to keep him here
12:20for a few days
12:21unless you want to send him down to the hospital
12:23oh we don't want to do that
12:25oh don't we
12:26well I mean
12:27well it wouldn't be very kind
12:29would it doctor?
12:30what is it these yanks have
12:31that the others haven't got?
12:33and who's going to nurse him?
12:34he won't take very much nursing
12:36will he?
12:36no no no
12:36just rest and fresh air
12:38there's not very much wrong with him just now
12:40but
12:41he never can tell with these head injuries
12:43I want to keep my eye on them
12:44I'll be around again the same time tomorrow
12:46don't worry Sheila
12:47I know my own way out
12:48goodbye everybody
12:49goodbye
12:49goodbye
12:51hello
12:52I thought the doctor said you weren't supposed to get up till later on today
12:54so I could get up later
12:55but he didn't say how much later
12:57so here I am
12:57you sure you feel alright?
12:58I feel fine
12:59why shouldn't I?
13:00for the past three days I've done nothing but eat and sleep
13:02so now you feel like a little mild exercise
13:04why not?
13:05alright
13:05let's go for a walk
13:06I'll show you around the place
13:08fine
13:09he wants to go
13:15you must have a lot of fun living here Sheila
13:17I do
13:18yeah I think I could too
13:20plenty of space
13:21nothing to worry about
13:22you can do just as you please
13:24there is a certain amount of work to be done
13:26sure and sure there is
13:27hard work never worried me
13:28how do you know?
13:30you beginning to remember?
13:31no but I'm beginning to wonder
13:32wonder what?
13:33what kind of friends I have
13:34here I've been missing from home for three full days
13:37nobody's reported it to the place
13:39looks like I can't matter very much to anyone
13:43come on let's walk sir
13:45sure
13:50that'll do
14:00all right take her back
14:07hello how are you feeling?
14:09fine thanks
14:10Sheila been showing you around?
14:11yeah she certainly has
14:12nice place you have here Mr. Kent
14:14nice horse flesh too
14:15aye not bad some of them
14:16I noticed the big yelling in the paddock back there
14:19it doesn't look too good to me
14:20here it's that's Rufus
14:21why what do you think is wrong with him?
14:23I don't know
14:23I guess I'd say curb
14:26you're right
14:26but you'd have to know quite a bit about horses to spot that
14:29would I?
14:30you know it's funny
14:30I think maybe I do know something about horses
14:32maybe he was brought up on a ranch
14:34could be
14:34well let's go back to the stables
14:36and find out what you do know
14:37sure let's do that
14:43oh there you are
14:43you think I've handled horses before?
14:45I know you have
14:46could you do with the job?
14:47huh?
14:48well I'm not looking for a new groom
14:49but I could do with someone to help me run the place
14:51take some of the paperwork off me
14:52what he really means is
14:54he's given more time for drawing and painting
14:55but it's a grand idea
14:56now why shouldn't I draw and paint?
14:58oh no reason at all
14:59you're jolly good
15:00do you know daddy did all those heads in the living room?
15:02no kidding
15:02they're pretty good
15:04if you took on this job
15:05it would give him time to do dozens more
15:07how about
15:08oh
15:09I'm very grateful to both of you
15:10for what you've done already
15:11but
15:12well you know how it is Mr. Kemp
15:14until I know who I am or what I am
15:16I understand
15:16well don't make up your mind right away
15:17but if you want the job
15:18it's yours
15:19well thanks a lot
15:20come on see you then
15:25more tea daddy
15:26oh thanks dear
15:27would you like another cake?
15:28no thank you
15:29you've been fading me too well as it is
15:31well would you like a little exercise now
15:33let's take a walk in the park
15:34why is it something special?
15:35that's very lovely
15:36we could take Falcon with us
15:38of course
15:38I'll go and get your coat
15:39I don't need to go
15:40yes you do it's quite a cold wind
15:42you'll put your father's in
15:47how's it coming?
15:48not bad look
15:49oh
15:50looks a little sinister
15:51isn't it
15:51I wouldn't say that
15:52I don't like the chin line though
15:54still perhaps I'd better stick to horses
16:03you're not falling for that chap are you?
16:05daddy I hardly know him
16:07you can't kid me
16:08you watch your step
16:10he might be a married man with six kids
16:12oh daddy don't be silly
16:19I found this raincoat
16:20can I take it?
16:21it's yours
16:21you came in it
16:22I did?
16:23anything in the pockets?
16:24we couldn't find anything
16:26hey
16:27what's this?
16:29a movie store
16:33Rialto Cinema
16:34happy
16:36what is that?
16:37a small town in Essex
16:38does that convey anything?
16:44no
16:44I'm afraid not
16:47I wonder what I was doing there
16:48seeing a picture I suppose
16:50yeah
16:51I guess so
16:53come on let's take that walk
16:54well so long
16:55bye
16:56bye
17:01bye
17:11bye
17:12bye
17:12bye
17:29What's this nonsense villain telling me?
17:30What's the matter?
17:31I don't tell him about the gentleman going away.
17:34It's sheer criminal limity.
17:36Where's your father?
17:37He's over there.
17:38Daddy!
17:41I'll go.
17:42There you go.
17:44Morning, Doc.
17:45What's the trouble?
17:45Why on earth have you let that fellow go away by himself?
17:48Well, he wanted to.
17:49He thinks he lived at Zeppin, and naturally he's anxious to find out.
17:52Of course he's anxious to find out.
17:53But that's no excuse for letting a sick man wander off by himself.
17:56But he's not sick now, Doctor.
17:57His head's healed.
17:58He's sick in his mind.
17:59It's one thing to wonder about here, where nobody knows him.
18:02But it's quite another to let him go off on his own, where he might be heaven knows what.
18:06What do you mean, Doc?
18:07I mean that if that thing does turn out to be his home, and he goes crashing back into things
18:11there suddenly,
18:12his mind might receive any sort of a shock.
18:14Oh, I don't say he shouldn't go back there at all, but at least somebody might have gone with him.
18:19Somebody he knows and trusts.
18:20Who could look after him in case anything went wrong.
18:22I see what you mean.
18:23But it's too late now.
18:24He's caught the night train for London.
18:26I know he hasn't.
18:27Why, yourself or Sheila didn't catch it with him in...
18:28Oh.
18:29Doctor, would it help any if I went after him?
18:31Do you know where he'll be?
18:32No, I don't.
18:33But Epping isn't a very big place, and there can't be many hotels.
18:36I could take that sketch, the one that Daddy did.
18:38That might help me find him.
18:39Well, it's certainly a chance.
18:42And at all events, it's better than doing nothing.
18:44I think you ought to go, Sheila.
18:45Yes.
18:46And the sooner the better.
18:47May I, Daddy?
18:48All right, dear.
18:49You go.
18:50And now I'm late for my round.
19:02Have my car so long, Lupe?
19:03There you are, sir.
19:07Harold, have a commander's car sent round, Lupe.
19:11Dinner all right, Mr. Smith?
19:13Fine, thanks.
19:13I've asked them to send my coffee in here.
19:16Yes, it's brighter than the dining room.
19:17You don't sound as though you came from this part of the country.
19:20No.
19:20I come from Lancashire.
19:22I've only been here three months.
19:23I see.
19:24There have been some changes in staff there.
19:26Oh, yes.
19:27Two-thirds of the staff are new.
19:28You see, this hotel was a family concern.
19:30And when it was taken over, where most of the old staff went.
19:32Yeah, of course.
19:34I was wondering.
19:36I thought maybe somebody might recognize me.
19:38Oh, you've been here before then.
19:40I'm not exactly a stranger around here, but...
19:42If the staff were all new, well, that would explain it, wouldn't it?
19:45Yes.
19:55Lord, me, do you know where that is?
19:58Oh, yes.
19:59That's the drive up to Tor House.
20:01A big house out on the Cambridge Road, about three miles from here.
20:04You don't happen to know Lawrence, do you?
20:07Oh, dear.
20:07Now, let me think.
20:08I have heard the name.
20:10Sheridan, could it be?
20:11Something like that.
20:14Sheridan.
20:19Sherwin.
20:20Could it be Mark Sherwin?
20:22Oh, I suppose it could be, sir.
20:24He's a Canadian gentleman, I believe.
20:26Canadian?
20:27Of course.
20:28How do I get there?
20:29You get an ambulance outside here, it goes right past it.
20:32The conductor will tell you where to get on.
20:33Fine.
20:34Cancel my coffee, do you mind?
20:36Very well.
20:36Thanks a lot.
21:10The End
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22:41The End
22:48Christine
22:49What's the matter, darling?
22:51Christine!
22:52Oh!
22:54It's all right, honey. I'm not a ghost.
22:57Mom, you're real.
22:59I don't understand.
23:01Of course I'm real.
23:03I know who's in there in that coffin, but it's sadly not me.
23:07Come on, honey.
23:27But it was your body they found in the car.
23:30They said so.
23:31They found your luggage and the number plates, and that's how they knew it was you.
23:36That's how they thought it was me.
23:37But then what happened?
23:38Half an hour back I couldn't have told you.
23:40But now I remember it all, everything.
23:42Some guy stopped my car and knocked me off.
23:45He must have pinched it and got killed, I guess.
23:47I lost my memory.
23:49Some people took care of me, but now it's come back, and here I am.
23:53These people, they brought you back?
23:55No, nobody knows I'm here, apart from you and the servants.
23:59Where are the servants, anyway?
24:00Oh, I sent them away.
24:02I meant to close up the house.
24:03That's why the furniture's like this.
24:06I just couldn't stand being here without you.
24:13Oh, Mark, this room's horrible.
24:16It's bad in there.
24:17Let's go somewhere else.
24:19Sure, thanks.
24:31Oh, you're awake.
24:33You're an early bird, aren't you?
24:35Well, when you haven't had any servants, somebody has to make the tea.
24:37Well, this is wonderful.
24:38Where's yours?
24:39Oh, I had mine an hour ago.
24:41Since then, I've made five phone calls.
24:42No, six.
24:42Six.
24:43What happened was named, too?
24:44Well, I called the police and I told them what had happened.
24:46They said they'd call up Yorkshire and explain that the identification was right.
24:50Oh, and then I called the hotel to say that you wouldn't be back.
24:52Good.
24:52How did they take it?
24:53They weren't worried.
24:54They didn't include payment advice.
24:55Yeah, that's right.
24:55On account of I didn't have any baggage.
24:57Who else did you call?
24:58Oh, I called the vicar to say that he wouldn't be buried today.
25:02And also the undertaker to come and take him over here, you know.
25:04Yeah.
25:05House will be a little more chill without that.
25:07Yes.
25:07Oh, and then I called Paul.
25:08Of course, he wanted to come right round and see you.
25:10I persuaded him not to.
25:11He could wake him tonight.
25:12But why?
25:13I'd like to see Paul again.
25:14Well, yes, but I talked to the doctor and he said that after a shock like this that he'd
25:17asleep, he'd take over my pills and he'd come round this afternoon and see you.
25:20Honey, I've just had ten solid hours of sleep.
25:23I don't want any more.
25:24I know, darling, but under the circumstances, I think you ought to.
25:26So please, Mark, for my sake, will you?
25:29Oh, well.
25:31I ought to ride to the camps.
25:33You know, people who took care of me in Yorkshire.
25:35Well, you don't have to do that today.
25:37I'll be wondering what's happened to me.
25:39And besides, I owe them money.
25:40Well, do they know you're here?
25:41Do they know I came to Wapping?
25:43Oh, well, I'd send them a telegram and the letter follows.
25:46What's the address?
25:47Camp Training Establishment, Cornford.
25:48Any Christian name?
25:50Yes, sheep.
25:53No, just put camp.
25:55Oh, so there was a girl.
25:56Well, I'm not surprised.
25:58You're quite an attractive man, you know.
25:59So I hope she didn't take you too seriously.
26:01I don't suppose she would in a week.
26:03Now, darling, I have an awful lot to do, so please be a good boy and take the pills.
26:07I'll leave you in peace till the doctor comes.
26:28I'll leave you in peace till the doctor comes.
26:30I'll leave you in peace.
26:31Yes.
26:32Telegram?
26:32Yes, this is 224.
26:35Telegram to Kemp.
26:37K-E-M-P.
26:39Yes.
26:40Training Establishment, Cornford, Yorkshire.
26:44Yes.
26:46Yes, the message reads...
26:54Sir, please say, Hey, I'll leave you in peace.
26:56How much?
27:00Yes.
27:01Yes.
27:02Yes.
27:03Yes.
27:06Yes.
27:07Yes.
27:10Yes.
27:12Yes.
27:14Yes.
27:14Let's go.
28:08Let's go.
28:39Let's go.
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33:18Let's go.
33:40Let's go.
33:42I'd only be assured when the only people who know is alive.
33:52Here, Miss. I don't know him from Adam.
33:54I'm not quite sure. He loved him. He stayed the night.
33:57We only had three stay here last night.
33:59Miss, that was Mr Mullins of Steddles, Mr Thompson of Crabbers,
34:02and Mr Harvey of Imperial Chemicals.
34:04You see, we get mostly commercial, gentlemen, here, Miss.
34:07Why don't you try to give it all to Queen's?
34:09Thank you. I will.
36:27I told you Paul was coming along tonight to celebrate your return to life.
36:30Yeah, of course.
36:31So will you hurry up, darling, come downstairs, help me open some dims.
36:33Right, give me ten minutes.
36:45Hello there.
36:45Sorry I've been so long.
36:47I thought I'd better have a shave while I was about it.
36:49Oh, that's all right.
36:50I'm managing fun by myself.
36:52Oh, would you like to bring some champagne up?
36:53Sure.
36:55Sure.
38:01I see Forrester's have delivered that quick line.
38:03Oh, yes, it arrived last week.
38:06Useful stuff, quick line.
38:08So many things you can do with it.
38:10Everything from bagging birds to burying bodies.
38:15Will that be enough?
38:16What did you say?
38:17I said, will that be enough champagne or shall I bring up another bottle?
38:21Oh, yes, another bottle.
38:22Wait.
38:37You nearly ready, Christine?
38:40Five minutes.
38:41Okay.
38:45I'll go down in case Paul's early.
38:47Hold it off to me, too.
38:49Sure, I'll do that.
39:09Give it a little, please.
39:12Hello.
39:12Well, exchange.
39:29Oh, come in.
39:38Oh, this is wonderful, Mark.
39:40I didn't expect to see you again.
39:41You ought to know.
39:42I always walk away from crashes.
39:45I guess that old saying is right, you know.
39:47Some guys are born to be hanged.
39:51Put your hat down there.
39:52Christine will be down in a minute.
39:55She tells me you've had rather a bad time of it.
39:57Yeah.
39:58I met up with one of your strong arm men.
40:01But.
40:04Hello, Paul.
40:06Well, why aren't we drinking?
40:10Christine tells me you were a great help when the bad news came through, Paul.
40:13Well, I did what I could.
40:14I'm only glad I happened to be in England at the time.
40:16When are you going out east again?
40:18Oh, I'm not.
40:18They've suspended that service.
40:19I'll probably go on one of the shorter routes near her home.
40:21Good.
40:21Well, you may be seeing quite a lot of you, huh?
40:23Well, that certainly helps, huh?
40:26India gets you down after a bit.
40:28I'll bet it does.
40:30It's certainly no place to take a woman.
40:33What?
40:33I said it's certainly no place to take a woman.
40:37I don't quite get what you mean.
40:40You know, it's funny somehow to think of you two falling in love.
40:43What are you talking about, Mark?
40:44You and Paul.
40:45What?
40:45What on earth makes you think we're in love?
40:47Again, you and Paul.
40:48Oh, you hide it much better than he does, but it's still pretty obvious just the same.
40:52How long did you plan on being in mourning for me before you got married again, honey?
40:56Mark, you're crazy and very insulting.
40:58Insulting maybe, but crazy never.
41:00Hurry up, Paul.
41:01Drink up and have another drink.
41:02No, thank you.
41:04Christine?
41:05No, thank you.
41:07No, neither will I.
41:09Come on, let's open up the real stuff.
41:13You know, Paul, I think I saved you from something through turning up again.
41:18Christine's not really your type.
41:19Oh, I've known you both long enough to be pretty sure about that.
41:23Of course, having an affair with her might be fun, but once she got you firmly fixed in wedlock, she'd
41:28give you a hell of a life.
41:29How much longer are you going on talking like this, Mark?
41:31I find it very obnoxious.
41:33It must be extremely embarrassing for Paul.
41:35Yeah, I guess it may be at that.
41:38I'm sorry, Paul.
41:39It's just that, well, you know, the etiquette books don't teach you how to behave when you're having a drink
41:44with your wife and her lover.
41:45Look, if you want another sounding...
41:47Sure, you put some music on, will you, and relieve the tension.
41:53I can scarcely believe my ears when she said we had to go, and only a month's wages, too.
41:58After eight years, eight years, I've been with the family.
42:01Yes, it's terrible for you, but I'm afraid there's no vacancy for a housekeeper here now.
42:04You see, I'm very experienced in hotel work.
42:07By before, I went to Tor House, you know.
42:08Excuse me, just a minute.
42:10Good evening, good evening, in the town.
42:12I've wondered if he might be here.
42:14That's him.
42:16Why, that's Mr. Smith to the night.
42:18Then he is here.
42:19No, not now, but he looked in last night, and then he went out after dinner, and he didn't come
42:23back.
42:24A lady phoned up this morning to say he was staying with friends.
42:27Did she say who she was?
42:28No, she didn't.
42:29I see.
42:30You've no idea where he was going to when he left here, have you?
42:32Yes, I have.
42:33He was going to Tor House.
42:34Is that near here?
42:35I mean, can I get there easily?
42:37Oh, very easily.
42:37You take the number eight bus outside here going that way, and it'll put you right down at the gates.
42:41Thank you very much.
42:44Baking your pardon, madam, if I may make a suggestion.
42:46I don't think you should go to Tor House tonight.
42:48Oh, why not?
42:49The master's just died, and they buried him today.
42:52I see.
42:52Then, of course, I won't intrude.
42:54Thank you very much for telling me.
42:55Thank you, madam.
42:56Why, that is the poor gentleman itself.
42:59Poor Mr. Sherwin was buried today.
43:01But that's impossible.
43:02Oh, pardon me, madam, but I was at the funeral.
43:04Beautiful service it was.
43:06I mean, it's impossible that that should be Mr.
43:08What did you say his name was?
43:09Sherwin?
43:09Mr. Mark Sherwin, and it is him.
43:11I should know, madam, I was his housekeeper for eight years.
43:14But how did Mr. Sherwin die?
43:16Killed in a car accident in Yorkshire a week ago.
43:21I see.
43:23Thank you very much.
43:25Feeling less embarrassed, Paul?
43:27Well, I...
43:27Good.
43:28Then let's talk business.
43:29How much do you want?
43:31I don't understand you.
43:33You want to marry Christine, and she wants to marry you.
43:35But if I know Christine, she's not going to let me divorce her
43:38unless I make a pretty satisfactory financial settlement first.
43:41So I'm asking, how much do you want?
43:43Are you offering me my freedom, plus a second?
43:46I am.
43:47Why?
43:48Because all things considered, I'd rather live than die.
43:50Just what does that mean?
43:51It means that I know Paul came here tonight to kill me.
43:54But frankly, I'd rather he didn't.
43:56Oh, that's ridiculous.
43:58Yeah?
43:59Why did the paroday go through with that funeral?
44:01Oh, so you know about that.
44:03Sure.
44:03I was there.
44:05I thought you gave a very moving performance, Christine.
44:08And even though you think we intended to murder you,
44:10you're still willing to give me money?
44:12I am.
44:13I don't believe you.
44:14Why should you?
44:15I'll be perfectly honest with you, honey.
44:17It's because you outsmarted me.
44:20Oh, this isn't the way I plan things at all.
44:22When I discovered that you'd pinched my gun
44:24and cut the telephone wires,
44:25I realized I was in a spot.
44:27So I'm prepared to do a deal.
44:30You get your freedom and 5,000 pounds.
44:32I keep my life.
44:33How's about it, sweetheart?
44:34Do you think that's a very generous offer?
44:37If you stay dead, I get much more than 5,000.
44:39True.
44:40But you also are on the risk of having that pretty neck of yours stretched.
44:43Oh, I know.
44:44I realized that you were lying on the quick line.
44:46But murder has a funny way of coming out.
44:49Maybe you're not scared.
44:52But I'll bet Paul doesn't want to take that 8 o'clock walk in the morning.
44:55It isn't a pleasant death, Paul.
44:57Hanging.
45:01Well, is it a deal?
45:08It's a deal, Christine.
45:11Do you swear you'll abide by that?
45:13I do.
45:14It's a deal.
45:15Good.
45:17I think we'll have a drink on that.
45:19I need one.
45:20I'd like a brandy, Mark.
45:22I'll have to go get some.
45:24I'll be right back.
45:34Thank you for that.
45:35Quick, go after him.
45:37Why?
45:37Oh, you fool.
45:38You don't believe that.
45:39The first thing he'll do is go to the police.
45:41What for?
45:41What have you done?
45:42Are you mad?
45:43We've faked a funeral.
45:44We've planned a murder.
45:45We're for it.
45:45We've got to go through with it.
45:47No.
45:48If you haven't got the guts, I have to go to the gun.
45:53All right.
46:23We've got to go through with it.
46:50We've got to go through with it.
47:00Good evening.
47:01I'd like to see Mr. Mark Sherwin, please.
47:03He said he was buried today.
47:04I don't think so.
47:06Well, in any case, this isn't his house.
47:07Oh, isn't it?
47:08No, I'm...
47:09Don't you think we'll be having a party if we had death in the house?
47:11It's about half a mile up the road.
47:13Tall house.
47:13You can't miss it.
47:14All right.
47:14Thank you very much.
47:17That was a shot.
47:19No, it wasn't.
47:19He is here.
47:19I know he is.
47:20And you're Christine's.
47:23Sheila.
47:24Why don't you kill Paul?
47:25It's either him or me.
47:26It turned out to be him.
47:27Get out.
47:28I want to talk to Miss Candy.
47:29I said you will not.
47:30If you know what's good for you, you'll do what I say.
47:33Mom, what's been happening?
47:34Funny, I can't explain right now, but I want you to do something for me.
47:37Of course.
47:37Will you go down to the main road?
47:39Turn left until you come to the telephone box.
47:41It's about 50 yards down.
47:42Call the police.
47:43Tell them there's been some shooting here and I want them up here.
47:45Fast.
47:46I mean fast.
47:47Wait.
47:48Where are you staying?
47:49The Clifford Hotel.
47:50Good.
47:51I'll call help later.
47:52Will you wait up for me?
47:53I will.
47:54Swallow.
48:07Murderer.
48:07Shut up and listen to me.
48:08We've got some street talking to do.
48:10If there's any talking to do, you'll have to do it.
48:12Because you killed Paul and I'll swear I saw you kill him.
48:14That wouldn't do you any good.
48:16I killed Paul in self-defense.
48:18It was his gun and it has his fingerprints on it as well as mine.
48:21It's you that's in the spot, not me.
48:23I don't think so.
48:24Then how are you going to laugh off that funeral?
48:26Just for that you could get seven years.
48:28Seven years, Christine.
48:30That's a long time.
48:31You're going to be quite no woman by the time you come on.
48:33Seven long years with no pretty dresses, no nylons, no perfume and no bath salts.
48:38Just coarse-burned sackcloth and hard work.
48:40I'm not going anywhere.
48:45You don't know much about firearms, do you, honey?
48:47Enough.
48:48The safety catches still aren't.
48:56Who's that?
48:57Lisa, I guess.
48:58Sheila was going to call them.
48:59Mark, you can't mean it.
49:02Mark, you're not serious.
49:03It wasn't mine, I thought it was Paul.
49:04I didn't know what was happening.
49:06Mark, listen to me.
49:07I'm your wife.
49:08You can't do it, Mark.
49:27Good evening, Sergeant.
49:29You're just too late.
49:31Thank God.
49:33Come on in.
49:34I'm your wife.
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