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“A Shriek in the Night” (1933) is a suspenseful pre-Code mystery thriller directed by Albert Ray. The film follows two rival newspaper reporters investigating the mysterious death of a wealthy philanthropist in a high-rise apartment. As the investigation unfolds, they uncover a sinister web of secrets, lies, and murder.
🎬 Director: Albert Ray
🎭 Main Cast: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark
📅 Year: 1933
🌍 Language: English
🎞️ Color: Black & White
⏱️ Runtime: Approx. 66 minutes
✅ Public Domain: Yes
📽️ Source: Available on archive.org
This film is a prime example of early 1930s independent crime cinema and showcases Ginger Rogers in a non-musical role before her rise to stardom.
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Watch more classic mystery thrillers updated daily.
“A Shriek in the Night” (1933) is a suspenseful pre-Code mystery thriller directed by Albert Ray. The film follows two rival newspaper reporters investigating the mysterious death of a wealthy philanthropist in a high-rise apartment. As the investigation unfolds, they uncover a sinister web of secrets, lies, and murder.
🎬 Director: Albert Ray
🎭 Main Cast: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark
📅 Year: 1933
🌍 Language: English
🎞️ Color: Black & White
⏱️ Runtime: Approx. 66 minutes
✅ Public Domain: Yes
📽️ Source: Available on archive.org
This film is a prime example of early 1930s independent crime cinema and showcases Ginger Rogers in a non-musical role before her rise to stardom.
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#AShriekInTheNight #GingerRogers #ClassicMystery #1930sThriller #PublicDomainMovie #FilmVintage #PreCodeHollywood #FullMovieOnline #LyleTalbot #ClassicCinema
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00:05:02How long have you been working for Mr. Harker?
00:05:05Only three weeks.
00:05:08Not long enough to know much about his affairs, eh?
00:05:11No.
00:05:16Did he always have his secretaries live on the premises?
00:05:22I believe so.
00:05:24Anyone else live here?
00:05:26Any servants or housekeepers?
00:05:30You mean chaperones?
00:05:34There's only one maid, Augusta.
00:05:36She's a little bit dumb, but very respectable, I assure you.
00:05:39Would you like to meet her?
00:05:41Just a minute.
00:06:01Where is your bedroom?
00:06:03In there.
00:06:12What time did you go to bed?
00:06:14About 9.30.
00:06:16I went to my room earlier than that to read.
00:06:18I haven't got time for that.
00:06:20Do you sleep soundly?
00:06:22I suppose so.
00:06:24And you heard nothing?
00:06:25No disturbance until the shriek?
00:06:28Not a sound.
00:06:32All right.
00:06:33Let's see the maid.
00:06:35This way.
00:06:41What's the matter?
00:06:43Nothing.
00:06:45I'm just a little tired.
00:06:47Oh.
00:06:51Oh.
00:06:54Listen.
00:06:55Oh.
00:06:57That's in her room.
00:07:00Oh.
00:07:05Oh.
00:07:10Oh.
00:07:14Ah.
00:07:16Augusta.
00:07:17Are you all right?
00:07:18Yes.
00:07:19No.
00:07:20I am not.
00:07:21There's a man in my room.
00:07:23Where?
00:07:24Him.
00:07:25Oh, he's a police inspector.
00:07:27Mr. Harker's had an accident.
00:07:29No.
00:07:30Was anybody hurt?
00:07:33He's dead.
00:07:34He fell from the roof garden.
00:07:36Mr. Harker?
00:07:37Oh, the poor man.
00:07:40What was he doing hanging over the roof garden?
00:07:43That's what we want to know.
00:07:44Were you here all evening?
00:07:46Yes, I was.
00:07:48I meant to go off, but I was reading such an exciting mystery
00:07:52all about a green face that floats up to windows.
00:07:58Can you imagine that?
00:08:01I don't know how respectable she is, but you were right about the dumb part.
00:08:06Outside of green faces, did you see or hear anything?
00:08:10Oh, that's funny.
00:08:12I did.
00:08:13At least I think I did.
00:08:15I was asleep when I heard it, but I was dreaming such an exciting dream.
00:08:21I wouldn't let myself wake up for fear of missing the finish.
00:08:26You could have stayed for the second show.
00:08:30What?
00:08:31Nothing.
00:08:32Let it go.
00:08:33Well, as I was saying, I heard the noise,
00:08:36but I don't know whether it was a real noise or just a noise in the dream.
00:08:42You see, I can hear dreams as well as see them.
00:08:48Where's Wilfred?
00:08:50Wilfred?
00:08:51Yeah, my secretary.
00:08:52I want him to meet Augusta.
00:08:54They have so much in common.
00:08:57What was the noise you may not have heard?
00:09:00It was a sort of hiss.
00:09:05Like that.
00:09:07That settles it.
00:09:08You've got to meet Wilfred.
00:09:11Gee, you're not at all like Phil O'Van.
00:09:15Oh, that's all right.
00:09:16You're so much like the maids in the mystery novel
00:09:18that I'm almost convinced that Harker was murdered.
00:09:22Murdered?
00:09:27If you're through with me for the moment, I'd like to go get dressed.
00:09:30Sure, go ahead.
00:09:31But don't leave the apartment.
00:09:36Pleasant dreams.
00:09:41Good night.
00:10:12Hello.
00:10:13Inspector Russell speaking.
00:10:20Who lives in the penthouse across the hall?
00:10:22It's vacant, sir.
00:10:24Oh.
00:10:25Who lives in the apartment directly under this?
00:10:28Mr. and Mrs. Tom Covey.
00:10:30Well, give them a ring and find out if they heard any disturbance up here tonight.
00:10:34And call me back.
00:10:36Yes, sir.
00:10:41Good night.
00:11:12Hello, Jim.
00:11:14Say, listen, Jim, I...
00:11:16Uh, yeah.
00:11:18No, no, I...
00:11:42Oh, Eddie.
00:11:43Hello, Ted.
00:11:44What's the latest?
00:11:45Oh, nothing much.
00:11:46Gang's still waiting upstairs.
00:11:48Why don't you go up?
00:11:49I'm stuck down here with Chief Gomez.
00:11:51Oh.
00:11:53Say, uh, Eddie, you, uh...
00:11:55You wouldn't like to make a fin, would you?
00:11:57A fin?
00:11:59Ha, ha, ha.
00:12:00Is this another one of your jokes?
00:12:02No, on the level.
00:12:03One of those upstairs bet me a ten spot
00:12:05that there was nothing up here.
00:12:08According to my tag, you do.
00:12:10Oh, wait till they see that.
00:12:12I'll give you five bucks for helping me win it.
00:12:15Too easy.
00:12:17I'll say it is.
00:12:25I'll take your part, gentlemen.
00:12:27I'll take your part.
00:12:29I'll take your part.
00:12:31I'll take your part.
00:12:33I'll take your part.
00:12:35I'll take your part, gentlemen.
00:12:38Wait a minute.
00:12:40Who do you think you are?
00:12:42You must be a new man.
00:12:43Old enough to know a wise guy like you.
00:12:48Sorry, Lieutenant.
00:12:49Go right in.
00:12:50Don't make that mistake again, my good man.
00:12:52No, sir.
00:12:53Say, what's he on about?
00:12:55I'll take my hat.
00:13:06How is it?
00:13:08Smells all right.
00:13:10How'd you get in here?
00:13:12Power of the press.
00:13:16Well, suppose you just press right out again.
00:13:19I thought you might need my help.
00:13:22Not while I have Wilfred.
00:13:24Beat it.
00:13:25All right.
00:13:26You will be sorry.
00:13:35Well?
00:13:36No marks of violence.
00:13:38But it looked like he clutched at something as he went down.
00:13:41Three of his nails were broken off.
00:13:44Three of his nails, eh?
00:13:48I wonder how that happened.
00:13:51Did you find any evidence of suicide?
00:13:53Any notes?
00:13:54Nope.
00:13:55No.
00:13:56No.
00:13:57No.
00:13:58No.
00:13:59No.
00:14:00No.
00:14:01No.
00:14:02No.
00:14:03No.
00:14:04Nope.
00:14:05Murder?
00:14:06Nope.
00:14:07Nobody heard a sound.
00:14:08Then it must have been an accident.
00:14:11Yes, I guess it was.
00:14:19Central 5-800.
00:14:22Morning News.
00:14:24City Editor, please.
00:14:27Mr. Perkins.
00:14:28Pat Morgan.
00:14:30I don't know enough yet, but...
00:14:32You can give it a spread.
00:14:33One of those question things.
00:14:35Was Harker murdered?
00:14:37All right.
00:14:38Give me your rewrite, man.
00:14:42Hello.
00:14:43Pat Morgan on the Harker case.
00:14:45Who?
00:14:46Stop asking questions and take this down,
00:14:48or they get stopped any minute.
00:14:49Okay.
00:14:50Go on.
00:14:51You can give it a heading of questions.
00:14:53Was Harker philanthropist or crook?
00:14:57Who was the mysterious bee,
00:14:59B-double-E,
00:15:01who telephoned Harker's apartment
00:15:03two hours before his death and said,
00:15:05I've got to see you?
00:15:08Why was Martini,
00:15:10big underworld boss,
00:15:12a frequent and secret visitor
00:15:14at Harker's apartment?
00:15:16Got it.
00:15:17Go on.
00:15:18What was the meaning of the serpent card
00:15:20sent to Harker 12 hours before his death?
00:15:23I have it, but I'm afraid I can't get it to you tonight.
00:15:26Describe it.
00:15:28Picture of coiled serpent in corner of card.
00:15:31Phonetic spelling of hiss coming from its mouth.
00:15:35Letters clipped from newspaper and pasted on card.
00:15:38Read.
00:15:39You will hear it.
00:15:42Another question.
00:15:43Was the hissing sound the maid heard
00:15:45the materialization of the threat of the card?
00:15:49And last,
00:15:50was Harker's death accident,
00:15:53suicide,
00:15:54or murder?
00:15:56That all?
00:15:57Okay.
00:15:58Thanks.
00:16:26I thought I told you to get out of here.
00:16:31I'm going.
00:16:43Hey.
00:16:44Hey, get a load of this, will you?
00:16:57Why didn't you send in the dope on that Harker death?
00:17:01But I did, Mr. Perkins.
00:17:02I gave it to a rewrite man.
00:17:04You gave it to the Express.
00:17:06I plant you in a spot three weeks before a murder happens,
00:17:09and when it breaks,
00:17:11we're carrying a spread of the European death situation.
00:17:17You're fired.
00:17:19You're fired.
00:17:20You're fired.
00:17:21You're fired.
00:17:22You're fired.
00:17:23You're fired.
00:17:24You're fired.
00:17:35Hello.
00:17:37Close out Pat Morgan.
00:17:55I found it under the rug, ma'am.
00:18:15Oh, so that's what it was.
00:18:19Oh, what a dirty trick.
00:18:21I'll slash your throat.
00:18:24What a low double-crosser.
00:18:29I'll get even with him if it takes my last brain cell.
00:18:32And he knew it.
00:18:33It cost me my job.
00:18:34I'll get even with him.
00:18:35And how I'll get even.
00:18:36I'll kill him.
00:18:37I'll kill him.
00:18:38Is it somebody you don't like, ma'am?
00:18:41No.
00:18:52Help!
00:18:53Help!
00:18:54Help!
00:18:55Help!
00:18:56Help!
00:18:57Help!
00:18:58Lordy!
00:18:59Help!
00:19:00Help!
00:19:01Lordy!
00:19:02Lordy!
00:19:03Help!
00:19:04What's the matter?
00:19:05What's the matter?
00:19:06There's a lady dead.
00:19:07Who?
00:19:08Miss Compton.
00:19:09Tan Blackley and I.
00:19:10Yes.
00:19:11Oh.
00:19:16Oh.
00:19:22I'll see you in the office.
00:19:27Was she strangled?
00:19:30It looks like it.
00:19:33You want to see something interesting?
00:19:35Come here.
00:19:41Does that suggest anything to you?
00:19:46No.
00:19:47Does that suggest anything to you?
00:19:54Harker could have fallen from here instead of from the roof garden, couldn't he?
00:19:57He not only could, but we believe that he did.
00:20:00That broken pole suggests that someone clutched at the curtain in an effort to save himself.
00:20:05Now, Harker's nails were badly broken.
00:20:08And there are deep scratches in the paneling there.
00:20:17And now we'll talk about you.
00:20:21You don't mind, do you?
00:20:23Of course not.
00:20:25What do you want to know?
00:20:27Do you know a reporter by the name of Ted Rand?
00:20:31Yes.
00:20:32Now, I can see that you don't.
00:20:35Well, he got a lot of first-hand information in his paper this morning,
00:20:39and I can't figure out where he got it unless it was from you.
00:20:47May I see it?
00:20:57Well?
00:20:59Did he get it from you?
00:21:04All right.
00:21:05Now let's have a little talk.
00:21:10And then I'll decide whether or not I'm going to lock you up for withholding information from the police.
00:21:17All right.
00:21:25Yeah, Wilford is on his way down now with a picture of Colby.
00:21:28He's been missing since last night.
00:21:30Broadcast a description of him.
00:21:32And tell Brown I want all the hotels checked, the steamboats, the railroad stations.
00:21:37Send out a general alarm.
00:21:39And when you get him, book him for murder.
00:21:42All right.
00:21:48All right, what's your name?
00:21:51Morgan.
00:21:52Pat Morgan.
00:21:53I'm a reporter on the morning news.
00:21:56That is, I was a reporter on the morning news until Ted Rand pinched my story last night.
00:22:03What did they do, fire you?
00:22:07Oh.
00:22:09What was the idea of posing as Harker?
00:22:12Oh.
00:22:15What was the idea of posing as Harker's secretary?
00:22:18What are you after?
00:22:19Harker.
00:22:21My editor got wind of some connection between Harker and Joe Martini.
00:22:26He couldn't figure what the town's favorite saint was doing in business with the racketeer.
00:22:31Were they in business?
00:22:33I don't know.
00:22:34I know Martini was up here several times.
00:22:37Always late at night.
00:22:38And always when Harker thought I was asleep.
00:22:41But as far as getting anything definite on him, I didn't have any luck.
00:22:47How about the Covey woman?
00:22:49Her name was Bea, by the way.
00:22:51It was?
00:22:53Well, that looks like...
00:22:56The world's oldest story.
00:22:58That's why we're after the husband.
00:23:00But what I want to know is about that last phone call of hers.
00:23:04How did you know about it?
00:23:06I listened in on the extension.
00:23:09Oh.
00:23:10What did you hear?
00:23:12A woman's voice.
00:23:13And she said,
00:23:14This is Bea.
00:23:15I've got to see you.
00:23:17And Harker said,
00:23:18All right.
00:23:19And hung up.
00:23:22Talkative cuss, wasn't he?
00:23:29Has Martini got an apartment here?
00:23:32804.
00:23:39How did you get a hold of the serpent card?
00:23:41Do you think there's anything in it?
00:23:47I'm asking the questions.
00:23:50How did you get hold of it?
00:23:52I snitched it out of his pocket.
00:23:55He's been kind of busy, hasn't he?
00:23:59Did you see him when he got it?
00:24:02No.
00:24:03I haven't.
00:24:05Did you see him when he got it?
00:24:08How did he act?
00:24:10Puzzled.
00:24:11He tossed it in the wastebasket and fished it out.
00:24:15Studied it for a few minutes and put it in his pocket.
00:24:19Where is the card now?
00:24:21I'll get it.
00:24:34Did you find another one?
00:24:36Yeah.
00:24:37Where?
00:24:38In Mrs. Colby's apartment?
00:24:40In the wastebasket.
00:24:44What does it mean?
00:24:46Oh, it's either a threat or some fake advertisement.
00:24:49I'm checking now to see if anyone else in the house got one.
00:24:53Well, is there anything else you want to tell me?
00:24:56No, but...
00:24:58I've got to go.
00:25:00Is there anything else you want to tell me?
00:25:02No, but maybe if I stayed on for a few more days...
00:25:05and went through his papers, I might run across something.
00:25:08And as his secretary, I should help settle his affairs.
00:25:12Don't you think it's a good idea?
00:25:14I think it's a good penthouse.
00:25:16You know, I ought to lock you up.
00:25:18If we'd have this information last night about the Colby woman and her husband...
00:25:21we'd have Colby now.
00:25:23But what's the use of expecting a reporter to tell a cop anything?
00:25:26But I'm not a reporter anymore.
00:25:28And I might run across something.
00:25:30Don't you think it's a good idea?
00:25:32I think you're trying to flirt with me.
00:25:34If I didn't have four kids...
00:25:36and a wife that can lick her weight in wildcats...
00:25:38I might like it better.
00:25:42Go on. Stay here.
00:25:44But don't get the idea that you're smarter than the police.
00:25:47And don't hold back anything that you find.
00:25:52Hello?
00:25:53I think we have Colby for you.
00:25:55What do you mean, think? Would he admit it?
00:25:57He isn't admitting anything.
00:25:59He's down at the morgue on a slab.
00:26:01What? I'll be right down.
00:26:03What is it? Where are you going?
00:26:05Have you found Colby? Oh, let me go with you.
00:26:08But...
00:26:10But I'm not a reporter anymore.
00:26:12And you can tell me everything in perfect confidence.
00:26:14All right, all right.
00:26:16Mark! Hey!
00:26:18Hey! Hey, Pat!
00:26:21Hey, follow that car, will you?
00:26:26Hurry up!
00:26:32Well, I made it.
00:26:46Hey! Hey!
00:26:56Hey! Hey!
00:26:59Whoo-hoo!
00:27:10Well, I...
00:27:17Uh-oh.
00:27:20What you all got me down here for?
00:27:22I ain't going in that place.
00:27:24Oh, yes, you are.
00:27:26Yes, I ain't. Can't get me in that place.
00:27:28I done seen one dead body today, and that's enough.
00:27:31It's too much, yes, sir.
00:27:33Well, I want you to look at my hand.
00:27:35Days? Yeah.
00:27:37Nothing doing.
00:27:40Uh, who is the man?
00:27:42Colby.
00:27:43Mr. Colby Days?
00:27:45Well, I didn't like that man alive.
00:27:47So what makes you think I'm going to like him days?
00:27:50Why didn't you like him alive?
00:27:52He didn't talk enough.
00:27:54Sure thing he ain't doing no talking now.
00:27:56All he did is sit around, look at the walls, staring.
00:28:00That's what.
00:28:02And it ain't good when a man don't talk.
00:28:04Well, it won't be good for you if you don't get out of that car now.
00:28:07It ain't going to be good for me if I does, so I'm staying.
00:28:10You want me to lock you up?
00:28:12Where?
00:28:13In the city jail.
00:28:14They's alive in jail, ain't they?
00:28:16All right, sir. Lock me up with the living.
00:28:25What's the trouble?
00:28:26She won't budge.
00:28:28I ain't anxious to start no trouble, sir.
00:28:30But I just naturally don't like dead people.
00:28:35You the janitor?
00:28:37Yes, sir.
00:28:38You knew Colby by sight, didn't you?
00:28:40Oh, yes, sir.
00:28:41All right, that's enough identification.
00:28:43You can go.
00:28:44That-a-way?
00:28:45Right.
00:28:46Yes, sir.
00:28:47Here you go.
00:28:53Okay.
00:28:59Hey!
00:29:00Hey, Eddie, open up, will ya?
00:29:03Eddie, I'm in here.
00:29:05Don't be afraid, honey.
00:29:07There's something going on.
00:29:09Say something.
00:29:10Why are you sitting over there?
00:29:12They ripped my ass up!
00:29:14How?
00:29:15Hey, Annie, open up, will you?
00:29:20Hey, listen, stick around here a minute, will you? I may be going right back.
00:29:33Hello, Annie.
00:29:34Hello.
00:29:35How's the boy?
00:29:36Hiya, Sam.
00:29:38What detained you?
00:29:40I, uh, had some business to attend to.
00:29:43What you mean is you wasted an hour hanging around the police station.
00:29:47You picked me up. I told you they were headed for the morgue.
00:29:50Is it the depressing atmosphere of this place, or do I imagine that you're angry with me?
00:29:55I, angry with you?
00:29:57What have I to be angry with you about?
00:30:00You only pinched my story and made me lose my job.
00:30:04But what does that matter?
00:30:06You lost your job?
00:30:08Yes, I lost my job. I suppose you think that's very funny.
00:30:10It's probably the funniest thing you ever heard of.
00:30:13You probably laughed yourself sick over it.
00:30:15Oh, no, darling.
00:30:17Hey, it's all right to cry in this joint, but Nick's on the love-making.
00:30:21Oh, you go to the devil, will you?
00:30:24Come on, darling, let's get out of this place.
00:30:26If he hasn't any romance in his soul, let's go to a speakeasy.
00:30:29What's romantic about a speakeasy?
00:30:31I'm going to propose to you again.
00:30:33And no cracks from you.
00:30:35The only funny crack I can think of would have to come from her.
00:30:38Yeah? What's that?
00:30:39If she said yes.
00:30:41Funny man.
00:30:43You know, darling, Eddie's wife got him the job here in the morgue.
00:30:46She thought he'd take the hint and die.
00:30:49Come on, honey.
00:31:02Well, do we go straight to the marriage bureau or do I have to do some more talking?
00:31:06You have to do plenty of talking.
00:31:07Okay, we'll go to Joe's.
00:31:09I'll even take you in a cab.
00:31:16375 West 58th.
00:31:31Couldn't you sit a little closer?
00:31:33Not without being arrested.
00:31:34And speaking of arrests,
00:31:36did you know that the Harker case was all over?
00:31:39All over?
00:31:41Yep, all washed up.
00:31:43What do you mean? What happened to the apartment?
00:31:45Plenty.
00:31:47Did you see Harker's maid, Augusta, last night?
00:31:50I don't think so.
00:31:52You don't think so?
00:31:54Well, believe me, darling, you'd remember it.
00:31:56You call me darling.
00:31:58I didn't mean to.
00:32:00Well, she's something to feast the eyes on.
00:32:02Or was.
00:32:04She was found murdered this morning.
00:32:06In Harker's apartment?
00:32:08No, the janitor's.
00:32:10Say, are you kidding me?
00:32:12I?
00:32:14Listen, I'm the one who shouldn't trust you, not you me.
00:32:17I'm sorry, darling. Go on.
00:32:19Well, they found a marriage license in the apartment.
00:32:23Whose?
00:32:25The janitor's.
00:32:27It seems she was married to the janitor, but worked for Harker.
00:32:31Oh, one of those.
00:32:32Say, look here. You worked for Harker, too.
00:32:35Only on a double cross.
00:32:37He only made a couple of passes at me.
00:32:40He made what?
00:32:42Why, I'll kill him.
00:32:44Oh, he's already dead.
00:32:46The janitor killed him.
00:32:48He killed him and his wife, and then committed suicide.
00:32:52They dragged his body out of the East River this morning.
00:32:55That's what they had down at the morgue.
00:32:57The janitor's body?
00:32:59And the maid's, too.
00:33:00Say, listen, has any of the mob got this story yet?
00:33:03I don't think so.
00:33:05Hey, driver. Driver, drive up to that drugstore, will you?
00:33:08Do you mind if I phone it in?
00:33:10No.
00:33:11I'll only be a minute.
00:33:13All right, but hurry.
00:33:14I'll hurry.
00:33:25Driver, drive on.
00:33:27You don't want to wait?
00:33:28I don't want to wait.
00:33:43Driver, drive back to the drugstore.
00:33:46I figured you might want to go back.
00:33:48That's why I made that right turn back there.
00:33:50You know too much.
00:33:52I've been driving a cab for ten years.
00:33:55I've seen about all there is to it.
00:33:57Here you are, miss.
00:33:59And there's your man.
00:34:01Man?
00:34:02Don't be vulgar.
00:34:11Where'd you go?
00:34:14Listen, Ted.
00:34:15What's the matter?
00:34:16That story I told you about the maid and the janitor.
00:34:18Well, what about it?
00:34:20Isn't the truth. I made it up.
00:34:22Huh?
00:34:23I wanted to get even for last night, so I made it up.
00:34:25There's no word of truth in it.
00:34:27Holy smokes.
00:34:35Haven't you got a nickel?
00:34:37No.
00:34:39I just, I know you mind so much.
00:34:41Mind?
00:34:42I phoned that story into your paper.
00:34:44My paper?
00:34:45Yeah, I wanted to make up for last night.
00:34:47Haven't you got a nickel?
00:34:49No.
00:34:50I told your editor what happened last night.
00:34:51And I held a scoop up, if he'd give you your job back.
00:34:53He said yes, so I gave him the story.
00:34:55Haven't you got a nickel?
00:34:57No.
00:35:05Terry.
00:35:06What?
00:35:07Come in here.
00:35:09I found something just like in a mystery.
00:35:11Come on, come on.
00:35:15What are you doing?
00:35:17Oh, Mr. Harker's lawyer said I was to pack up Mr. Harker's things.
00:35:19And clear out the apartment.
00:35:21But look at those drawers.
00:35:23Mr. Harker's?
00:35:25Or the wooden ones?
00:35:27Oh, Terry, aren't you the one?
00:35:29The wooden one.
00:35:31Do you see any difference in them?
00:35:35Did they come out of the same chest?
00:35:37They did.
00:35:39And so I investigated.
00:35:41And look what I found.
00:35:44I pressed and pressed all around here.
00:35:46And I found nothing.
00:35:47I looked all around here.
00:35:49And finally, sure enough, there it was.
00:35:51A little place behind there.
00:35:57Empty.
00:35:59But it wasn't.
00:36:01There was a letter there.
00:36:03And it reads like a threat.
00:36:18And he signs himself for juice.
00:36:21What?
00:36:23Oh, that means the electric chair.
00:36:35Come on, let's go.
00:36:37Let's go.
00:36:39Come on, let's go.
00:36:41Come on, let's go.
00:36:43Come on, let's go.
00:36:45Central 5800.
00:36:48Morning news.
00:36:50Give me the files, please.
00:36:58Hello?
00:37:00Hello, Willie?
00:37:02This is Pat Morgan.
00:37:04Would you do me a favor?
00:37:06Why, yes.
00:37:08Look in the files and see when and where
00:37:10a man by the name of Danny Fagan was executed.
00:37:12That's all I have is the name.
00:37:14What?
00:37:16The chair, yes.
00:37:18And call me back at Drake 6048.
00:37:20Thanks.
00:37:22And Willie, see if it says anything
00:37:24about his relatives.
00:37:26Particularly a brother.
00:37:28Or anyone who visited him
00:37:30on the day of his execution.
00:37:32That's right.
00:37:34Thanks.
00:37:41Augusta, will you make yourself scarce?
00:37:43Scarce?
00:37:45Scarce.
00:37:47In other words, scram.
00:37:49What are you going to do, ma'am?
00:37:51If I wanted you to know,
00:37:53do you think I'd ask you to leave the room?
00:37:55Oh, I never thought of that.
00:38:03Will you send the janitor
00:38:05up here right away, please?
00:38:07Thanks.
00:38:12Mr. Martini's apartment, please.
00:38:30Now, Mr. Martini doesn't answer.
00:38:42Janitor, miss.
00:38:44Yes, come in.
00:38:48What's your name?
00:38:50Peterson.
00:38:52Well, look,
00:38:54do you have a passkey
00:38:56to Wally apartment?
00:38:58Yes, ma'am.
00:39:00I don't have a passkey.
00:39:02I don't have a passkey.
00:39:04I don't have a passkey.
00:39:06I don't have a passkey.
00:39:08I don't have a passkey.
00:39:09Do you have a passkey to Wally apartment?
00:39:11Yes, ma'am.
00:39:13For $10,
00:39:15would you let me in an apartment
00:39:17for five minutes
00:39:19while you stand guard outside?
00:39:21What apartment?
00:39:23Joe Martini.
00:39:25Oh, I...
00:39:27I couldn't think of it, miss.
00:39:29Not for $20.
00:39:31Not even if it helped solve
00:39:33the mystery of Mr. Harker's death?
00:39:35Mr. Harker's death?
00:39:37Why, that's solved.
00:39:39But he did it.
00:39:41Maybe.
00:39:43But I don't think so.
00:39:45Come on, nobody will find it out.
00:39:47I just phoned Martini's apartment
00:39:49and there was no answer.
00:39:51Now, all you've got to do
00:39:53is stand guard out in the hall
00:39:55and if Martini comes out of the elevator,
00:39:57you whistle, or better still,
00:39:59you could hammer on something.
00:40:01Oh, I...
00:40:03I don't like it, miss.
00:40:05I'd be sure to lose my job.
00:40:07If I get caught,
00:40:09but, uh...
00:40:11I... I don't like it.
00:40:18Here you are, miss.
00:40:21Now, you stand by this radiator
00:40:23and if you hear him coming, you hammer on it.
00:40:25All right, miss, but...
00:40:27I don't like it.
00:40:29It'll be all right.
00:40:39It'll be all right.
00:41:09It'll be all right.
00:41:39It'll be all right.
00:41:40It'll be all right.
00:42:08Good afternoon, Mr. Martini.
00:42:10Hello.
00:42:29Miss Terry.
00:42:31Department A.
00:42:33Just a moment.
00:42:40Hello.
00:42:54Hello.
00:42:56Oh, so it's you.
00:42:58Well, I've called every speakeasy in town. Where are you?
00:43:01I'm at home.
00:43:03What's on your beautiful little mind?
00:43:05Little mind?
00:43:07Plenty.
00:43:09Listen, I've just found something.
00:43:12Did you ever hear of a man by the name of Denny Fagan?
00:43:18What was that? Did you drop something?
00:43:20No.
00:43:22Don't say any more. I'll be right up.
00:43:24Here you are.
00:43:46Blue steel revolver.
00:43:49Black blackjack.
00:43:52Pink toothbrush.
00:43:54What in the world?
00:43:55I'm spending the night.
00:43:56Here?
00:43:57Certainly.
00:43:58You know, I didn't like that sound over the telephone.
00:44:00Somebody was listening in.
00:44:02What's this about Denny Fagan?
00:44:03Do you remember the case?
00:44:04Certainly. He was sent to the chair for killing Julius Brinkman.
00:44:06Well, look at this.
00:44:10What?
00:44:11We found this in Harker's things.
00:44:17Anything else?
00:44:18Plenty.
00:44:19Guess whose mob he was in.
00:44:21I couldn't imagine.
00:44:22Not Mr. Joseph's martinis.
00:44:23Yes, Mr. Joseph's martinis.
00:44:25I just got the dope on it from the office.
00:44:27There may be something in it, and then again, no.
00:44:30Listen, if Covey killed his wife, and then Harker, and the case is closed,
00:44:34who's interested enough in this apartment to listen in over the phone?
00:44:38Surely Covey wasn't listening in from the morgue.
00:44:40Let's hope not.
00:44:48Help! Help!
00:44:49That's it, that's it!
00:44:50Can you hear me, Sam?
00:44:51Oh, Miss Perry, where are you?
00:44:53I'm here. Stop shrieking.
00:44:55It's only a fuse.
00:44:56I'll call the janitor.
00:44:58Oh, there's a man in the room! I just touched him!
00:45:01He's a friend of mine. Keep your hands off him.
00:45:03Certainly.
00:45:04Hello?
00:45:05This is Miss Perry. Will you send the janitor up right away?
00:45:08The lights have gone out.
00:45:11There's the ice.
00:45:12Thanks, Augusta.
00:45:13Want a lemon?
00:45:14Yes, Augusta.
00:45:15Lemon.
00:45:19You know, come to think of it,
00:45:20this Fagan kid was supposed to be mixed up in my...
00:45:26That got it, miss.
00:45:32I'm sorry.
00:45:33I'm sorry.
00:45:34I'm sorry.
00:45:35I'm sorry.
00:45:36I'm sorry.
00:45:37I'm sorry.
00:45:38I'm sorry.
00:45:40Oh, uh...
00:45:42I'll see if any of the globes are burnt about.
00:45:44All right, thanks.
00:45:51What's the matter with you?
00:45:53Still looking for the lemon.
00:45:59I'll find it.
00:46:03Some people would think I'm a swell guy.
00:46:05Oh, you're great.
00:46:07Yeah?
00:46:09Well, that's your idea.
00:46:11You're only showing off for my benefit.
00:46:13I can use a gun.
00:46:15You'd probably shoot me and become a widow
00:46:17before you tasted the joys of being married to me.
00:46:19Good heavens, what a man.
00:46:21Certainly.
00:46:23Why don't you shut up and go to bed?
00:46:25Well, I can't very well go to bed with you hanging around here.
00:46:28I'm leaving.
00:46:29And if anything should happen,
00:46:31you stay in here and keep the door locked.
00:46:33Even if I hear you yelling,
00:46:34Pat, Pat, come save me.
00:46:36Certainly.
00:46:37Hey, oh, go to the devil, will you?
00:46:40Don't drink all the scotch.
00:46:42That's it.
00:47:07Come on.
00:47:37Come on.
00:48:08Come on.
00:48:34Come on, stick them up and keep them up.
00:48:37Now then, maybe you'll tell me what you're doing in here.
00:48:47Martini.
00:48:48Yeah, old dry martini himself.
00:49:08Hey, wait a minute.
00:49:10I'll go with you.
00:49:11You stay here.
00:49:12Don't be silly.
00:49:27There's a deep cut in the head,
00:49:29but I'm not satisfied.
00:49:30I want an autopsy.
00:49:34All right.
00:49:37All right, Martini, talk.
00:49:40Now you talk.
00:49:42What was one of your men doing in my place?
00:49:44Finding enough evidence to send you up for life.
00:49:46Yeah, did he have a search warrant?
00:49:48I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
00:49:50Weston was probably trying to serve it on you when you killed him.
00:49:53Yeah, you'll have to come stronger than that.
00:49:55I wasn't even in the apartment when he died.
00:49:58How do you know when he died?
00:49:59I heard him yell.
00:50:01They heard him yell too.
00:50:02I was with them when it happened.
00:50:04So you can't pin this on me.
00:50:07Maybe not, but I can pin about six gang killings on you,
00:50:10and that ought to be enough.
00:50:12Take him down and lock him up.
00:50:13Who, me?
00:50:15No, Wilford.
00:50:16I want him locked up.
00:50:17All right, Brown.
00:50:18Take a couple of men with you.
00:50:19Yes, sir.
00:50:20Shall I iron him?
00:50:22You bet.
00:50:23And keep your eye on him every minute.
00:50:25This is going to cost you your job, Russell.
00:50:29You shouldn't threaten a police officer.
00:50:31It isn't polite.
00:50:32Get going.
00:50:38Go up to the penthouse.
00:50:39I want to have a little talk with you.
00:50:42You stay here until I come back.
00:50:49May I make a suggestion and...
00:50:51No, Wilford.
00:50:52Make it to the doctor.
00:50:53I'm tired.
00:50:54I'm tired.
00:51:06I wouldn't stay here another night for all the tea in China.
00:51:12You're smarter than somebody else I know.
00:51:15I want you to get out of here in the morning.
00:51:18You're not only in danger, you're just plain dumb.
00:51:29When you found this letter, why didn't you bring it?
00:51:31I was going to.
00:51:33You were going to.
00:51:35But first, you thought you'd get away with it.
00:51:37I didn't think I'd get away with it.
00:51:39I didn't think I'd get away with it.
00:51:41I didn't think I'd get away with it.
00:51:43But first, you thought you'd be smart.
00:51:45You had to go messing around in Martini's apartment.
00:51:48He didn't see me.
00:51:50He saw you all right.
00:51:51He thought you got the paper that my man got.
00:51:53He was here tonight to get it back.
00:51:56And in being here, he saved his own life.
00:51:59What makes you think that?
00:52:02Brains and a valentine.
00:52:06I can't figure out yet how the mistake was made.
00:52:09But my man got what was intended for Martini.
00:52:15We found Dini's apartment.
00:52:18Then I was right.
00:52:20Colby didn't kill them.
00:52:22Maybe.
00:52:34Mail.
00:52:58Good heavens, Augusta.
00:53:00You look like you're going to a funeral.
00:53:02I am, ma'am.
00:53:03Mr. Harper's.
00:53:05Oh.
00:53:06I'm going to bury a Mr. and Mrs. Cully today, too.
00:53:09And if I hurry, maybe I can catch them both.
00:53:13Well, have fun.
00:53:15Why, Miss Terry.
00:53:17How you do say such dreadful things.
00:54:36Who is it?
00:54:42Who is it?
00:54:49Where do you want this?
00:54:55What's the matter, miss?
00:54:56Did I startle you?
00:54:59Oh, I'm... I'm sorry.
00:55:02But you told me to bring up the trunks.
00:55:05Oh, I know.
00:55:07I forgot about them.
00:55:09You can put them anywhere. It doesn't matter.
00:55:18I wonder could you come down and pick out yours.
00:55:21I got Mr. Harker's out.
00:55:23But I don't know yours.
00:55:27All right.
00:55:31But couldn't...
00:55:32Couldn't we go down in the elevator?
00:55:35Yes, ma'am.
00:55:53You can't get my trunk up here any too quick to suit me.
00:55:57I just got a warning that I was going to be killed.
00:56:00You, miss?
00:56:02Oh, who would want to kill you?
00:56:05I wish I knew.
00:56:19Do you live down here?
00:56:22Over there.
00:56:25Why, but it's dark.
00:56:27I'm the janitor.
00:56:29Where's the trunk room?
00:56:32This way.
00:56:50Aren't there any lights in here?
00:56:53I'll go in and turn them on.
00:57:02All right.
00:57:32All right.
00:58:03Why don't you answer your bell?
00:58:07I was just about to light the incinerator.
00:58:11Well, that can wait.
00:58:12These gentlemen want you to go with them now.
00:58:14We want to examine some of the apartments.
00:58:18All right.
00:58:19All right.
00:58:20All right.
00:58:21All right.
00:58:22All right.
00:58:23All right.
00:58:24All right.
00:58:25All right.
00:58:26All right.
00:58:27All right.
00:58:28All right.
00:58:29All right.
00:58:30All right.
00:58:31Yes, sir.
00:59:02Start in on this one.
00:59:04Yes, sir.
00:59:11If you don't need me any longer, I'd like to get back to my work.
00:59:15All right.
00:59:16But leave us your passport.
00:59:18Yes, sir.
00:59:21All right.
00:59:22All right.
00:59:23All right.
00:59:24All right.
00:59:25All right.
00:59:26All right.
00:59:27All right.
00:59:28All right.
00:59:29All right.
00:59:30All right.
00:59:38May I make a suggestion?
00:59:40No.
00:59:41But you...
00:59:42I'm busy.
00:59:43Some other time, Wilfrid.
01:00:30What do you want?
01:00:53I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm going to get you out of here, all right?
01:01:20All right.
01:01:21Come on, let's go.
01:01:38Help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, he's killing him, there.
01:01:50Beth, Beth, here honey, you're all right, here.
01:01:54He tried to get away.
01:02:09Hi.
01:02:22Oh, doctor, how is Miss Morgan?
01:02:25Oh, she'll be all right.
01:02:26Just keep her quiet a couple of days.
01:02:29Beth!
01:02:30Try and keep her quiet.
01:02:41May I come in?
01:02:42Certainly, hurry up.
01:02:45Has he confessed?
01:02:46Yep.
01:02:50Ah!
01:02:53One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
01:02:57Well, tell me about it.
01:02:58Did he kill them all?
01:02:59Yeah, with the exception of Colby.
01:03:01How?
01:03:02With gas.
01:03:03They've just held an autopsy on all the bodies.
01:03:05I know, Augusta was nearly broken-hearted because they called off all the funerals.
01:03:09Why did he kill them?
01:03:11Revenge.
01:03:12You were right, as usual.
01:03:13He was Danny Fagan's brother.
01:03:15Fagan was a cab driver, just a kid, and according to him, honest.
01:03:18Fagan was sharing an apartment with one of Martini's men.
01:03:20They used Fagan's cab to take Brinkman on his last ride.
01:03:23They even planted a gun on the kid.
01:03:25And he was the only one of the mob that didn't have an air-tight alibi.
01:03:28Oh, gee, you look cute in that bandage.
01:03:30Please, get on with the murders.
01:03:32Well, that's all.
01:03:33Danny Fagan was sent to the chair.
01:03:34That's all?
01:03:35Isn't that enough?
01:03:37I'm just a young kid, too.
01:03:39You're not going to feel sad about it, are you?
01:03:41I would if his brother hadn't tried to stuff me in a furnace.
01:03:44Where did Harker come in?
01:03:46Harker engineered the Brinkman killing.
01:03:48Brinkman was in Harker's way, so he ordered him snuffed out.
01:03:51Martini's mob found it convenient to let Fagan take the rap.
01:03:54Do you mind if I hold your hand?
01:03:56Please, darling, hold my hand.
01:04:02But why did he kill B. Colby?
01:04:04She wasn't mixed up in it.
01:04:05No, but by killing Harker and her in her apartment,
01:04:08it drew suspicion on the husband.
01:04:10He even sent Colby a letter telling him to watch her.
01:04:12But when Colby found out what was going on, he didn't kill them.
01:04:15He just jumped in the river.
01:04:18My, but you take that slightly.
01:04:20What if I'd been killed?
01:04:22Oh, baby, I'd have written you a swell obituary.
01:04:25I'll bet you would have at that.
01:04:27In some speakeasy.
01:04:29Don't be silly, gal. You know I don't go to speakeasies.
01:04:33I got an idea.
01:04:34How about the last drink of Harker's scotch?
01:04:36I've already ordered it.
01:04:38But you might go see if Augusta's drinking it.
01:04:40All right.
01:04:51Is this...
01:04:52Is this Miss Patricia Morgan?
01:04:55This is she.
01:04:56Ah, this is Perkins.
01:04:58Not dear, Mr. Perkins.
01:05:00Cut that.
01:05:01Do you want to come back?
01:05:05What do you mean, how much?
01:05:07How much more.
01:05:09We'll discuss that when I see you.
01:05:11No, you won't, because you aren't going to see her.
01:05:14What?
01:05:15Who is this?
01:05:16Miss Morgan's future husband.
01:05:18Who says so?
01:05:19I do.
01:05:20The woman's place is in the home.
01:05:22Hey, listen.
01:05:24What home?
01:05:25I have an apartment.
01:05:27I'll bet the rent isn't paid.
01:05:29Now, don't be mercenary.
01:05:31Will you listen to me?
01:05:33I'll bet you haven't the price of a marriage license.
01:05:36I want to talk to you.
01:05:38Cut that.
01:05:39Yes, sir.
01:05:41Will you lend me three bucks?
01:05:43Why, of course, Mr. Rand.
01:05:45I'll get it right away.
01:05:47Certainly, I've got three bucks.
01:05:50Sure.
01:05:53See here, Morgan.
01:05:54Haven't you any gratitude in your system?
01:05:57Do you realize what I've done for you for the last three years?
01:06:03I've kept you on the payroll of this paper.
01:06:07I've given you more opportunities than any sob sister in the business.
01:06:11Now, let's get together, honestly, Morgan.
01:06:14There ain't any use of a pact like this.
01:06:17You know, we've always been able to iron out these little things.
01:06:21Morgan?
01:06:22I say, Morgan.
01:06:24Why don't you answer me?
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