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00:01:29Car 126
00:01:30Woman found dead
00:01:32In the Dollar Hotel
00:01:33See the night plague
00:01:34Calling car 126
00:01:36Car 126
00:01:37This way please
00:01:43Lieutenant you'll handle this quietly
00:01:47We have a reputation
00:01:48I wouldn't brag about it
00:01:49Keep these people out of here
00:01:53Take her down
00:02:03Spetsy!
00:02:19Spetsy!
00:02:20What's wrong Steve?
00:02:24What did you say you saw Arlene last?
00:02:26I saw her going into the Dollar Hotel
00:02:28Was she living there?
00:02:30I don't know why
00:02:32Take a look at that
00:02:33Hey
00:02:39You think it's her?
00:02:41I don't know
00:02:42But it could be
00:02:42You think Arlene would kill herself?
00:02:46She left me for Frankie French
00:02:48If she's the gal in the morgue
00:02:50Frankie French killed her
00:02:51And framed this Alice Ross stuff
00:02:52But it won't be so good
00:02:54If Frankie spills the word around
00:02:55That Steve Collins ain't a big enough man
00:02:56To bury his own wife
00:02:57We're going down to the morgue
00:02:59Find out who she is
00:03:00And supposing it's her
00:03:02We'll take her out of there
00:03:03Here get a load of that
00:03:15So what?
00:03:18Why don't you know a blonde
00:03:19That might fit that description?
00:03:22Arlene
00:03:22And in the morgue
00:03:25Good enough for her
00:03:27She walked out on you
00:03:28She didn't walk out on me
00:03:29Understand?
00:03:30Girls don't walk out on Frankie French
00:03:32Four bucks in a purse
00:03:36And I gave her three grand a week ago
00:03:37And how did she finish up in that room?
00:03:42Oh Collins might have killed her
00:03:43And planted the body there
00:03:44To look like suicide
00:03:46I get it
00:03:47And he'll claim the body
00:03:49And make a big show about the funeral
00:03:51Yeah
00:03:52Maybe that's what he thinks
00:03:54Oh it might have been anybody
00:03:56We'll get down there
00:03:59And get a look at her
00:04:00And if it's Arlene
00:04:02We'll take her out
00:04:03Come on
00:04:04Hello?
00:04:18Never mind let it go
00:04:19I've found him
00:04:20Oh Bill
00:04:24Huh?
00:04:25I've asked you not to use this for a bedroom
00:04:27Do you know it's five o'clock?
00:04:28Morning or evening?
00:04:29Get up and pay attention
00:04:30Yes
00:04:31I'm sending you over to the morgue
00:04:33Think you'll take me?
00:04:38Twenty-three blonde and beautiful
00:04:40I want you to identify that girl
00:04:42No use Chief
00:04:43I won't be able to identify her
00:04:45Why not?
00:04:45Very simple
00:04:46If I'd ever seen her
00:04:48She'd have seen me
00:04:49Then she wouldn't have committed suicide
00:04:50Now listen Crane
00:04:51All right, all right
00:04:52Who do you want her to be?
00:04:53We've got a client
00:04:54Mrs. Cortland
00:04:55Who thinks this girl
00:04:56May be her daughter
00:04:57Catherine
00:04:57Why doesn't she go over
00:04:58And take a peek at her?
00:04:59Well the Cortland's a money
00:05:00Society and all that
00:05:01In case this girl
00:05:02Isn't her daughter
00:05:03Mrs. Cortland doesn't want to be seen
00:05:04Looking in a morgue for her
00:05:05All right
00:05:06And Bill
00:05:09Remember if you go to sleep
00:05:11Over there
00:05:11They'll bury you
00:05:13Hello
00:05:18Who?
00:05:20Oh, you want Mr. Stiff
00:05:22Which one?
00:05:24Sure, we got a lot of them
00:05:25But they can't come to the phone
00:05:27I said so
00:05:29No, I ain't their father
00:05:31This is the county morgue
00:05:33I get twenty calls
00:05:36Like that a night
00:05:37Fellas kid some girl
00:05:39Then give him this number to call
00:05:41Hello, Bill
00:05:42Hello, Greening
00:05:43What are you doing around here?
00:05:45Have you got a girl here
00:05:46Named Alice Ross?
00:05:47Relative?
00:05:48Well, not exactly
00:05:49That's Bill Crane
00:05:50The private detective
00:05:51I'm Johnson of the store, Mr. Crane
00:05:53You think you can't identify her?
00:05:54Not till I've seen her
00:05:55Well, come on, fella
00:05:55Hey, wait a minute
00:05:57I gotta go in with you
00:05:58Why are the interests
00:05:59In this case, Bill?
00:06:00Just working
00:06:01Who for?
00:06:03The Census Bureau
00:06:04So you won't talk, huh?
00:06:10I don't know who she is
00:06:11Hey, you
00:06:12There's a fella out there
00:06:14Wants to see you, Byrds
00:06:15Me?
00:06:16No, the reporters
00:06:17There have been many people
00:06:22In the sea
00:06:22This Alice Ross
00:06:23No, just a few
00:06:24Of the regulars
00:06:25Regulars?
00:06:26Yeah, they're folks
00:06:27That have had somebody
00:06:28In the family disappear
00:06:29They keep coming down
00:06:30And looking every time
00:06:31We have an unidentified body
00:06:32Like this fella
00:06:34Out there in the office
00:06:36What fella?
00:06:38I don't know
00:06:38He don't look like
00:06:39The type to take him out
00:06:41He looks like
00:06:41The type that sends him in
00:06:43And he wants to see
00:06:44Alice Ross?
00:06:45Yeah
00:06:45Excuse me
00:06:46Where's the fella
00:06:52That wanted to see Alice Ross?
00:06:53He went out to bring
00:06:54Somebody in
00:06:54Who wants to see
00:06:55The body secretly
00:06:55Well, I'll be glad
00:06:57To see both of them
00:06:57Where's the fella
00:07:01You went after?
00:07:01He wants me
00:07:02To take a look at her
00:07:03And he's willing
00:07:03To give the papers
00:07:04A hot story
00:07:05If the gross dame
00:07:05Is who he thinks she is
00:07:06And if she isn't?
00:07:07Well, then he don't
00:07:08Want any publicity
00:07:09He don't want the baby
00:07:10He's worried about
00:07:11To know that he's worried
00:07:12See?
00:07:13I see
00:07:13Be sure that you do
00:07:15Hello, Spitsy
00:07:18Al
00:07:23That's funny
00:07:26Where do you suppose
00:07:26He went?
00:07:26What's the difference?
00:07:27Where's the girl?
00:07:29In here
00:07:29I don't like jokes
00:07:41She's gone
00:07:44Why's Al?
00:07:52He's dead
00:07:53Where's the girl?
00:07:54Look in the receiving room
00:07:56Nobody in here
00:07:58Somebody must have
00:08:00Swiped her
00:08:00Boy, what a story
00:08:02Come on
00:08:03This way, Lieutenant
00:08:14This way, Lieutenant
00:08:30Who found him?
00:08:43There were four of us
00:08:44Johnson, Bill Crane
00:08:45And Crane
00:08:46Is he here?
00:08:48Right behind you, Lieutenant
00:08:49What are you doing here?
00:08:51I came to see the Ross girl
00:08:52Who else was with you?
00:08:54Another man who wanted to see her
00:08:55Any of you know him?
00:08:58No
00:08:59Who's in charge here?
00:09:01Good evening, Inspector Layman
00:09:02Who is it, Strom?
00:09:05The morgue attendant
00:09:05Looks like he caught someone
00:09:07Trying to steal a girl's body
00:09:08So they killed him
00:09:09He's only partly right
00:09:10I don't think they meant to kill him
00:09:11What?
00:09:12Well, he was struck only once
00:09:13And that blow would have only stunned
00:09:14The average man
00:09:15Is that right, Doctor?
00:09:16That's right
00:09:16A previous factory
00:09:17Who is this?
00:09:18William Crane
00:09:19A private detective
00:09:20There were two of them
00:09:23One of them held Al's wrist
00:09:25While the other tried to tie him up
00:09:26But Al put up such a fight
00:09:27They had to hit him
00:09:28How do you know all this?
00:09:30Mr. Strom just told you
00:09:31That I'm a detective
00:09:32Who are you working for?
00:09:35Colonel Black
00:09:36I mean, who's your client?
00:09:37That would be unethical for me to say
00:09:39A client's identity is confidential
00:09:41What was Colonel Black's instructions
00:09:43When he sent you here?
00:09:44Perhaps he was sent here
00:09:45To remove the body
00:09:46So it couldn't be identified
00:09:47Say, he was down here alone with Al
00:09:49Oh, he was, huh?
00:09:51Sure, I killed the attendant
00:09:53And carried the girl out in my pocket
00:09:54Want to see?
00:09:56You could have had an accomplice
00:09:57Sure, nothing ventured
00:09:59Nothing accomplished
00:10:00I always say
00:10:01What do you always say?
00:10:02I don't want to interfere
00:10:03In your case, Strom
00:10:04But if I were you
00:10:05I'd have this man placed in custody
00:10:06Well, I
00:10:07Why don't you lock me up, Mr. Layman
00:10:09Then Mr. Strom
00:10:10Wouldn't have to take the rap
00:10:11Lieutenant, this fellow
00:10:14Would want to see the body
00:10:15What for?
00:10:16You think she can identify it?
00:10:18That isn't necessary
00:10:19We all know who he is
00:10:21The girl's body, Inspector
00:10:24Did you know this Alice Ross?
00:10:27No, not by that name
00:10:28But from her description
00:10:29She could be my cousin
00:10:30What was her name?
00:10:31Edna Brown
00:10:32Is your name Brown, too?
00:10:34Yes, A.M. Brown
00:10:35You ever see this man before?
00:10:36Don't admit a thing
00:10:37I'm a murder suspect
00:10:38And Mr. Layman
00:10:39Is looking for my accomplice
00:10:41Aren't you?
00:10:43Lock this man up
00:10:44Or put him out
00:10:44Get out of train
00:10:45Get out of here
00:10:46And be at that inquest
00:10:47At ten in the morning
00:10:48Good night, Chief
00:10:51Don't waste your time
00:10:56If you've been watching me
00:10:57I'll be there
00:11:26Creepy place, ain't it?
00:11:55Yeah, just once more
00:11:59Is all I need
00:11:59Want a cab?
00:12:02Is that it?
00:12:03Yeah
00:12:04You, uh, been here long?
00:12:09Oh, about four years
00:12:10I didn't think I'd do so good
00:12:11At first
00:12:11No, no, no
00:12:12I mean tonight
00:12:13Now, wait a minute
00:12:14You're not going to ask me
00:12:15If I saw any strange cars
00:12:16Around here, are you?
00:12:17Why, did somebody else
00:12:18Ask you that?
00:12:19Only about twelve cops
00:12:20What did you tell them?
00:12:22Well, I did see one
00:12:23Big sedan
00:12:24With two fellas in it
00:12:25Parked right over there
00:12:26You sure it wasn't a hearse?
00:12:29Say, don't I look like a guy
00:12:30That knows a hearse
00:12:31When I see one?
00:12:31You ought to
00:12:34Where to?
00:12:41Do you think it'll make it
00:12:41To the Darlow Hotel?
00:12:43Just get in and hold your hat
00:12:44Hey, we got a radio in this car
00:12:55Would you like to hear it?
00:12:57Huh?
00:12:58I say the radio
00:12:59Would you like to hear it?
00:13:01No, I want to think
00:13:02Hey, look out
00:13:23You just drive the cab
00:13:28That's it
00:13:36He was left-handed
00:13:38Did the heat bother you much today?
00:13:41Terrible
00:13:42That's cooler now
00:13:46You know, I always say
00:13:48It's not the heat
00:13:49It's the humidity
00:13:50Yeah, that's it
00:13:50It's not the heat
00:13:51Hey, what are you trying to do?
00:14:02I don't know nothing about him
00:14:03He's just a fair
00:14:04Shut up
00:14:04What did you tell the cops?
00:14:07Nothing
00:14:08You telling about me?
00:14:09Yeah, but none of us knew who you were
00:14:11You know me now?
00:14:13Certainly
00:14:13No, you don't
00:14:15You don't know me
00:14:17Maybe you're right
00:14:19You know I'm right
00:14:21On your way, Lucky
00:14:24Say, is that car anything like the one you saw in back of the morgue?
00:14:35After what he just said, you expect me to go on recognizing things?
00:14:38Even if you weren't scared, I doubt if you could remember anything
00:14:40Yeah, well, after what just happened, I could even forget you
00:14:44Hey, wait a minute
00:15:03There's a little matter at 3.30
00:15:05Wait for me
00:15:06I haven't got any insurance on that crate
00:15:09You make it two bucks
00:15:12It's a deal
00:15:14If my axe good enough for the gaiety, I'd tell you
00:15:19With or without?
00:15:22With
00:15:22Galesburg? Say, I got friends there
00:15:27I'll bet you have
00:15:28No bags, what's the rate?
00:15:30811, $3
00:15:31I wonder if you know the butlers in Galesburg
00:15:37I wonder
00:15:38Say, do you know Lou Herschel down there?
00:15:40Why, yes, do you?
00:15:42Never heard
00:15:42How'd you like to earn that?
00:15:51You want to follow his course
00:15:52Well, it's an idea, but just give me a look
00:15:54In 418
00:15:55That's the room where that lady hanged herself
00:15:58Uh-huh
00:15:58No, sir, I can't do that
00:16:01Yes, sir, come on
00:16:09Nothing's been touched
00:16:19That's where she was found hanging
00:16:22With no claws on
00:16:23Cops said they wet heel marks
00:16:34Where she beat against the door
00:16:35Wet heel marks?
00:16:37She taken a bath first before she did it
00:16:39Water's still in the tub
00:16:41She used one of them
00:16:44Does the lady have any callers?
00:16:49One
00:16:49Stand up there a minute
00:16:52What do you look like?
00:16:56A musician
00:16:56What does a musician look like?
00:16:59He has canned some kind of case for a horn
00:17:01Or maybe a tommy gun
00:17:02Say, it could have been that
00:17:04132, that's about 12 pounds more than she had weighed, I guess
00:17:09Let's see
00:17:10Say, what are you doing?
00:17:16That hook ought to hold a person your way
00:17:17If it didn't kick around too much
00:17:19Huh?
00:17:26That's what I thought
00:17:28Did the cops take her clothes?
00:17:34No, sir, they didn't take nothing
00:17:36Did she ever get her clothes clean?
00:17:43I don't know, mister
00:17:43She's a pretty classy dresser
00:17:45Well, not in these
00:17:46They don't look like they've ever been worn
00:17:49Mister, I gotta get back to my job
00:17:51Stick around
00:17:52This is getting interesting
00:17:53They're all brand new
00:17:59She must have had something on
00:18:00When she brought these in
00:18:01Where are her shoes?
00:18:03I don't know, mister
00:18:04Did the cops take them?
00:18:06I don't know
00:18:07Maybe she was an Indian
00:18:09Sure went through a lot of trouble
00:18:12To prevent anybody identifying her
00:18:14Mister
00:18:15Please, mister
00:18:17I gotta get back to my job
00:18:19Oh, alright
00:18:19Okay, you go ahead
00:18:20I got a couple of things here
00:18:21That I want to look at
00:18:22So you go right ahead
00:18:23Mister, I can't leave you here alone
00:18:25I see what you mean
00:18:27Bye-bye
00:18:28What's the matter?
00:18:52I-I believe someone's in there
00:18:54Oh, get out of the way
00:18:56Oh, get out of the way
00:18:56Can you open this door?
00:19:24It's locked on the other side.
00:19:43Who is it?
00:19:44Police, open the door.
00:19:46Just a minute.
00:19:55What would anyone want in that room?
00:19:57What would anyone want in any room in this joint?
00:20:20I'll give you two seconds, open that door and break it in.
00:20:24Sorry to bother you, lady, but there's a sneak thief on the floor.
00:20:27And I thought he might have got in this room.
00:20:29Do you mind if I take a look around?
00:20:31Yes. Yes, I do mind.
00:20:32I've had cops use that excuse to paw around my things before.
00:20:35So if you don't mind, go right back to your station and get a warrant right away.
00:20:38I'm sorry to trouble you, lady, but I'm just doing my duty.
00:20:54Okay.
00:20:57Twenty-seven-sixty, twenty-seven-eighty, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, three thousand. Not bad.
00:21:04Who are you?
00:21:06I represent the Atlas Matrimonial Bureau.
00:21:08We're always on the lookout for attractive widows with large inheritances.
00:21:11Now with, uh, three thousand dollars and, um...
00:21:15Yes, I think we'll be able to take care of you nicely.
00:21:17You give me that money or I'll call that policeman back.
00:21:19Uh-uh. Then you'd have to tell them where you got it.
00:21:21Take it easy, lady. Here's your money. I'm no sneak thief like that nasty man said.
00:21:31Then what are you doing in here?
00:21:33Well, you see, I'm...
00:21:37Oh, they caught you in that room and you came...
00:21:39I'm afraid I'm gonna have to stay here until they clear out.
00:21:42Look, suppose we agree that you don't ask any questions, and I'll ask none.
00:21:49Fair enough.
00:21:50Ah, an old friend.
00:21:53A little drink would make everything just dandy.
00:21:56You, uh, live here alone?
00:21:58Yes.
00:22:00Not married?
00:22:01Well, I was married. My husband ran out on me.
00:22:05He was a sap.
00:22:09Did you, uh, know this Alice Ross?
00:22:11No, I never saw her. But I heard her sometimes.
00:22:15Doing what?
00:22:16Oh, just moving around, you know.
00:22:19Incidentally, I've been sort of frightened since that happened.
00:22:22I won't let anybody hurt you, precious.
00:22:24Well, they're gone now.
00:22:25Oh, that's all right. There's no hurry. Just so I'm out of here by ten o'clock in the morning.
00:22:38You're sure ten o'clock's going to be early enough?
00:22:40Better make it 9.30. I'm due there at ten.
00:22:48Morning, Inspector.
00:22:49Morning, Strom.
00:22:50Witnesses all here?
00:22:51Yes, sir.
00:22:52Why aren't you inside? It's ten o'clock.
00:22:54Well, we were waiting for you, sir.
00:22:56Crane is not here yet.
00:22:58But he'll be popping in.
00:22:59Popping in?
00:23:00The witnesses pop in to inquest, Strom?
00:23:03I distinctly advise you to hold Crane last night.
00:23:06It's your responsibility.
00:23:08I'll get him.
00:23:13That's right, not the Inspector's Bridge workout.
00:23:15Yes, sir.
00:23:16The conor's ready to start the inquest, sir.
00:23:17Oh, he's ready to start, huh?
00:23:19No, no.
00:23:20Did you find Crane?
00:23:21He wasn't there.
00:23:22Well, look, someplace else.
00:23:23But find him.
00:23:24Yes, sir.
00:23:25Crane.
00:23:50Hello.
00:23:51Good morning, sir.
00:23:52Ten o'clock, please.
00:23:55Where am I?
00:23:56You're in room 420 of the Darla Hotel, sir.
00:24:02When your wife checked out last night, she left a ten o'clock call for you.
00:24:06My wife?
00:24:08Uh-huh.
00:24:10All right.
00:24:19Oh.
00:24:20Oh.
00:24:34Buck Crane scores again.
00:24:45Now, Mrs. Horne, please control yourself.
00:24:47We'll make things just as easy as we can.
00:24:49You've all been very kind to me.
00:24:52Mrs. Horne, did your husband ever mention an Alice Ross?
00:24:56He never discussed his business at home.
00:24:58Where have you been?
00:24:59I'll give you three guesses.
00:25:01Did your husband have any enemies?
00:25:02No.
00:25:03Everyone loved Al.
00:25:04I don't think he had an enemy in the world.
00:25:09I'm sorry for having intruded upon your grief.
00:25:12Pardon me.
00:25:14Now, just a minute.
00:25:16Was your husband right or left-handed?
00:25:19Why?
00:25:21Right-handed.
00:25:23That'll be all.
00:25:25Call A.N. Brown.
00:25:27A.N. Brown?
00:25:28Mr. Brown hasn't appeared yet.
00:25:29This is highly irregular.
00:25:30I signed a subpoena.
00:25:31Well, he wasn't a material witness anyway,
00:25:33so there was no occasion to hold him in connection with the death of Mr. Horne.
00:25:38But Mr. Crane is ready to testify.
00:25:40Mr. Crane, will you step forward, please?
00:25:42Raise your right hand.
00:25:44You solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
00:25:47I do.
00:25:52Name?
00:25:54William Crane.
00:25:55Your address?
00:25:562258 Webster Street.
00:25:58Mr. Crane,
00:25:59it has been testified that you were alone with Mr. Horne shortly before his death.
00:26:03That's right.
00:26:04How long were you alone with him?
00:26:06Four or five minutes.
00:26:07Then you were the last person to see him alive.
00:26:10No.
00:26:11No?
00:26:12Who was then?
00:26:13The person or persons who killed him.
00:26:15There was a man who killed him!
00:26:17You told me that he killed him!
00:26:18I didn't remember him!
00:26:19He can't look me in the face!
00:26:25I beg you, what was the question?
00:26:27That will be all, Mr. Crane.
00:26:29Oh, thank you.
00:26:30I hope I've helped.
00:26:35Call the next witness.
00:26:37Dr. Wallace?
00:26:38All right.
00:26:39But don't leave the building!
00:26:47Raise your right hand.
00:26:49You solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
00:26:52Your name?
00:26:53Dr. Frank Wallace.
00:26:55Your address?
00:26:561532 Milton Street.
00:27:17Hello, French.
00:27:19What did you do with the body?
00:27:21Guess again.
00:27:24All right.
00:27:25My top price is five grand.
00:27:27What makes that body worth $5,000 to you?
00:27:30Well, I'll tell you.
00:27:32I believe it's the body of Arlene Vincent and it's worth just that much to me to find out if I'm right.
00:27:37Couldn't be that Collins is in on this too, could it?
00:27:40Arlene wasn't the girl to kill herself.
00:27:42And she didn't have $4,000 but $3,000.
00:27:46I think you'll be a little safer doing business with me than with Collins.
00:27:51Don't know a thing.
00:27:52Oh, you cheap dick, I'll give you five seconds.
00:27:55Where's Collins got that body?
00:27:56Strong's the old pal.
00:27:57Strong's the old pal.
00:27:59Hello, Strong.
00:28:00Think it over.
00:28:01I'll be seeing you.
00:28:02Strong's the old pal.
00:28:07Hello, Strong.
00:28:09Think it over.
00:28:12I'll be seeing you.
00:28:15Have you mixed up with Frankie French in this?
00:28:17What was the verdict?
00:28:19The jury left it open or I'd be pinching you by now.
00:28:23What about-
00:28:24Now look, take it easy and I'll give you all the clues I can get.
00:28:29What about...
00:28:29Now look, take it easy and I'll give you all the clues I get.
00:28:33All right.
00:28:34But I'll be sticking close to you.
00:28:45Bill!
00:28:46Hiya, murder.
00:28:47Doc, am I glad to see you.
00:28:49Look, if you're going to kiss me, let's get out of the lobby.
00:28:52Are you on this?
00:28:53Yeah.
00:28:53I thought the old man wasn't going to let us work together anymore.
00:28:56He isn't.
00:28:56I'm just taking over while you're in jail.
00:28:58It's a perfect crime.
00:28:59I'll never serve a day.
00:29:00Hey, yeah.
00:29:01Have you seen this?
00:29:08If the papers keep that up, your friend Strong's going to have to pinch somebody.
00:29:11Not me.
00:29:12I made a deal with him.
00:29:13I give him clues and he lets me alone.
00:29:16Simple?
00:29:17You're simple to trust that, my girl.
00:29:19You trust me?
00:29:23How do you like that?
00:29:25Don't lose your faith in policemen, Bill.
00:29:26Well, maybe they just turned up the rug to dance.
00:29:29Yeah.
00:29:30Well, for that, I won't tell that smart guy Strong where the body is.
00:29:33Don't you wish you knew where it was?
00:29:35I do know.
00:29:36It's in an undertaking parlor.
00:29:37Yeah?
00:29:38Which one?
00:29:39That, my boy, is what you're going to find out.
00:29:41Suppose I just put an ad in a paper or something.
00:29:43No, you go to all the supply houses until you find one who knows a red-headed, left-handed
00:29:47undertaker.
00:29:48Are you on a level?
00:29:49Certainly.
00:29:50You read the papers.
00:29:51The red hairs were in Al's left hand.
00:29:53Don't you get it?
00:29:54You're probably putting that left-handed business in just to complicate it.
00:29:57Look.
00:29:59Now, you try to get away.
00:30:01What are we doing?
00:30:01Holding hands or something?
00:30:03Come on.
00:30:03Try to get away.
00:30:04Come on.
00:30:08I'll slug you.
00:30:09You see?
00:30:09You got your right hand free.
00:30:10Now, if I were left-handed...
00:30:12Yeah.
00:30:14What's that got to do with an undertaker?
00:30:16Oh, Doc.
00:30:17Look.
00:30:17If you were looking for an accomplice to rob a morgue, you'd pick a fellow who knew his
00:30:22way around a morgue, wouldn't you?
00:30:23Yeah.
00:30:24Well, who would you get?
00:30:26An undertaker.
00:30:30The missing witness.
00:30:32Oh, hello, Mr. Cortland.
00:30:33This is Mr. Crane.
00:30:35Cortland?
00:30:36Yes, I use the name Brown to avoid publicity, Mr. Crane.
00:30:39Oh.
00:30:39Yeah, this is our sponsor.
00:30:41I mean, client.
00:30:42You boys are a little hard on the furniture when you reconstruct a crime, aren't you?
00:30:45Well, it's not ours.
00:30:46It's rented.
00:30:47Fix a place for Mr. Cortland to sit down, Doc.
00:30:49Well, don't bother about me.
00:30:52Have you found out anything about my sister?
00:30:54Alice Ross, I mean.
00:30:55What makes you think Miss Ross is your sister, Mr. Cortland?
00:30:58Well, I don't.
00:30:59Mother does.
00:31:00She got this.
00:31:08Who's Chance?
00:31:21It's me.
00:31:22My name's Chauncey.
00:31:23Silly, isn't it?
00:31:24I was just going to say that.
00:31:25Quiet.
00:31:26Please sit now, Mr. Cortland.
00:31:28And, uh, did your mother and sister ever quarrel about money or anything?
00:31:38Oh, yes.
00:31:38They quarreled most of the time, but not about money.
00:31:41Kit had $1,500 a month of her own.
00:31:43She hasn't touched it since she drew $6,000 three months ago when she left home.
00:31:47Have you seen it since?
00:31:48Once, about two months ago.
00:31:49I happened to bump into her in a place called The Roost.
00:31:52They had a hot band there, and Catherine was a little swing crazy.
00:31:56And the last bird that called on Alice Ross was a musician.
00:32:01Did, uh, you said your mother, uh, believes this Alice Ross girl is your sister Catherine,
00:32:06but you don't.
00:32:06Why?
00:32:07Well, I saw Alice Ross' clothes last night.
00:32:11Catherine never wore stuff like that.
00:32:13I see.
00:32:13I don't want to discourage you, Mr. Cortland, but I wouldn't rely too much on those clothes.
00:32:17I, uh, I don't think they've ever been worn.
00:32:19Hey, Bill.
00:32:20Don't reach for anything.
00:32:26What are you doing here, Collins?
00:32:29Come on, Crane.
00:32:30You and I are going someplace where we can sort private.
00:32:33What'll I do with them?
00:32:34Put them in the bathroom.
00:32:36Get in there.
00:32:37Doc!
00:32:45I ought to ram this down your throat.
00:32:47You boys get mad awful easy.
00:32:48Not me, it's Doc.
00:32:50He doesn't like Spitzy.
00:32:51Wait outside.
00:32:54Oh, uh, Spitzy.
00:32:56If I'm not out in ten minutes, better call the cops.
00:33:00Ah, get him.
00:33:06What do you want, Collins?
00:33:09They're okay.
00:33:10I want to find that girl in the morgue.
00:33:13What makes you think I know where she is?
00:33:14I read the papers.
00:33:16Do you think I took her?
00:33:17I ain't saying who took her.
00:33:19You just let me have her and I'll let you fix the price.
00:33:22What do you say to ten grand?
00:33:24I'd say take it.
00:33:25What do you want her for?
00:33:28I want to bury her.
00:33:30You want to pay ten thousand just to bury that girl.
00:33:33Why?
00:33:35She's my wife.
00:33:36Well, I don't have the body, but if I find her, I'll gladly remember your offer.
00:33:41Listen, you mail-order detective.
00:33:43You know where she is and I want her.
00:33:44I'll give it to the morgue.
00:33:46You know, I mean it.
00:33:50You think he does?
00:33:52Uh, put it with the collection, Doc.
00:33:54And thanks very much, Mr. Corlin.
00:33:56That was all right.
00:33:57Oh, I didn't do anything.
00:33:58Say, if you fellas feel like I do, I'll buy a drink.
00:34:00Oh, no, thanks.
00:34:01We never drink anything when we're working.
00:34:03Is there anything I can do to help?
00:34:04There may be.
00:34:05Later on, you're a pretty handy fellow to have around.
00:34:07Doc has it.
00:34:09Oh, thank you.
00:34:10You know where to find me?
00:34:13Oh, yes, yes.
00:34:14Goodbye.
00:34:15So long.
00:34:17Come on, on your way and find that undertaker.
00:34:19What are you going to be doing?
00:34:20I'll have to rest.
00:34:21I'm going dancing tonight.
00:34:22Dancing?
00:34:22Where?
00:34:23Wherever the band is playing that used to be at the roost.
00:34:26I'll have to call up the musicians' union and find out.
00:34:31Hello?
00:34:32Just a moment.
00:34:34It's the manager.
00:34:34He wants to know if you heard a shot.
00:34:36Tell him yes.
00:34:37He says yes.
00:34:40He says yes.
00:34:43He says yes I can.
00:34:45He takes it.
00:34:58He says yes.
00:34:58He says yes.
00:34:59He says.
00:34:59He says yes.
00:35:01He says yes.
00:35:03He says yes.
00:35:03He says he says yes.
00:35:04I'll have to rest years later but still I'm going to be there.
00:35:06Hey, you ought to put some ashes there.
00:35:25Don't break his leg.
00:35:27Table for one, sir?
00:35:28No, just looking for somebody.
00:35:30One of our hostesses?
00:35:31Later, later.
00:35:33Yes, sir.
00:35:36What a place.
00:35:44What's the matter with it?
00:35:47Nothing.
00:35:48You buying?
00:35:49As usual.
00:35:56Gentlemen?
00:35:57A couple of whiskey and soda.
00:35:59Yes, sir.
00:35:59Make mine the same.
00:36:01Well, did you find your musician?
00:36:03There's a lot of them over there.
00:36:06Well, which one's yours?
00:36:09I don't know.
00:36:10Maybe I'd better bring that bellboy from the Darlow Hotel over here.
00:36:13What about the Undertaker?
00:36:15Oh, got him right under my thumb.
00:36:19You stick with me and someday you'll be the second greatest detective in the world.
00:36:23Yeah, but the joke's on you.
00:36:25He's not an Undertaker.
00:36:26He's an Undertaker's assistant.
00:36:27We'll make him fit.
00:36:28Where is he?
00:36:29He's Nightman at the Hasland Funeral Parlor.
00:36:32His name is Thomas Connell.
00:36:33Now, what are we waiting for?
00:36:35Four whiskeys.
00:36:39What a surprise.
00:36:41What are you talking about?
00:36:42A girl in a great dress.
00:36:44She's one of our hostesses.
00:36:50Would you get a dance with her?
00:36:51No, I wouldn't, but he would.
00:36:54Yeah, get her, would you?
00:36:55Okay.
00:36:56Who is she?
00:36:58She was in the room next to Alice Ross in the Darlow Hotel.
00:37:01Yeah?
00:37:02I wonder what she's doing working in a place like this.
00:37:05Well, the poor girl's got to eat, you know.
00:37:07She had $3,000 in her purse last night.
00:37:09Oh, maybe she's swing crazy.
00:37:13Say, Catherine Corton was swing crazy.
00:37:16And she had $6,000 on her when she disappeared.
00:37:19I know.
00:37:20Frankie French says Arlene Vincent lived in that hotel
00:37:22and he just gave her $3,000.
00:37:24Oh, both of those girls are blondes.
00:37:26This girl's a brunette.
00:37:27Did you ever hear of hair dye?
00:37:30Because if she fits in someplace.
00:37:32She'll be over in a minute, though.
00:37:33Thanks, bud.
00:37:35So that's the girl that slugs you with a bottle.
00:37:37Well, it'd be a pleasure to be slugged by a dame like that.
00:37:41I'll give you a chance.
00:37:43Look, you go dance with her.
00:37:45Tell her a cop.
00:37:46Ask the doorman about her.
00:37:47See?
00:37:48You scared her out and I thought I went home.
00:37:51Why can't I take her home?
00:37:52You didn't do so well with her.
00:37:53Go on, dance with her.
00:37:56Well, I can take it.
00:38:02It's me you're looking for.
00:38:03Do you dance?
00:38:04Do you?
00:38:05Oh, do I dance?
00:38:06Maybe I wiggle like a worm doing a big apple.
00:38:21You a hostess, too?
00:38:23Yeah.
00:38:24Do you want to dance?
00:38:26What can I lose?
00:38:27Not a thing.
00:38:28Contest, huh?
00:38:37Boy.
00:38:41You a truck, baby?
00:38:42That fella can play.
00:38:55Playin' a gang of horns.
00:38:57But you should hear him when he's really right.
00:39:04Put a cop's hat in it.
00:39:05Look, uh, the doorman, uh, gave me a message for you.
00:39:26For me?
00:39:27Yeah.
00:39:28What was the message?
00:39:33Well, he told me to tell you there's a fella by the name of Lieutenant Strom out there waitin' for you.
00:39:37Lieutenant Strom?
00:39:38Yeah, cop.
00:39:42Pardon me.
00:39:44What's the matter?
00:39:45Would you pardon me?
00:39:46I, I just got a charley horse.
00:39:48Hello, Mr.
00:40:08Go ahead.
00:40:08I won't listen.
00:40:09Well, this, uh, hostess racket must be pretty good.
00:40:15What do you want?
00:40:17I don't want a drink.
00:40:19Sit down, sit down.
00:40:21I, uh, just...
00:40:22If you came up here to ask me a lot of questions, I don't know anything.
00:40:25That letter you sent to your mother has her quite worried.
00:40:28Don't you think you'd better let me take you home, Miss Cortland?
00:40:31Oh, that's why you've been following me.
00:40:33You, you think I'm someone else.
00:40:35Well, I know this hostess gag is not on the level.
00:40:37What makes you think so?
00:40:38That $3,000 you had?
00:40:41Well, that doesn't belong to me.
00:40:42I'm keeping that for someone.
00:40:43I see.
00:40:43Well, have it your own way.
00:40:45Just one more thing, please.
00:40:46Who is that musician you're running around with?
00:40:48I don't know any musician.
00:40:54That's very uncomplimentary.
00:40:55I thought he played very well.
00:40:57What is all this?
00:40:58I, I just wanted to see you.
00:41:00I've got a job.
00:41:00What do you want?
00:41:01Maybe she thought that dick waiting for her wanted to see you, too.
00:41:04Who is this?
00:41:05I'm a private detective.
00:41:06Well, what do you want here?
00:41:07I just wanted to ask you a few questions about Catherine Cortland.
00:41:11I don't know any Catherine Cortland.
00:41:12I suppose you don't know Alice Ross, either.
00:41:14I never heard of her.
00:41:15Now, listen.
00:41:16I know all about you and Alice Ross.
00:41:18The elevator boy at the Darlow Hotel identified you as a musician who was the last person to see her.
00:41:24Now, do you want to talk or do you want a lot of trouble?
00:41:26What do you want to know about her?
00:41:29That's better.
00:41:30Who was she?
00:41:32Well, she was just Alice Ross.
00:41:35I met her in New York and when I came back here, she joined me.
00:41:38All right.
00:41:39Go ahead.
00:41:40We wanted Mrs. Taylor to give me a divorce.
00:41:42Is that Mrs. Taylor?
00:41:43Yes.
00:41:45If she had, Alice would be alive now.
00:41:47What do you mean she'd be alive now?
00:41:48Just that.
00:41:50She killed her.
00:41:51Sam.
00:41:52You did.
00:41:52You drove her to her.
00:41:53You're watching and spying.
00:41:54She was always like that.
00:41:55Always watching and following us.
00:41:57Every place we went, every place I worked, she'd get jobs.
00:41:59Anything just so every time we'd look up, we'd see that spying face.
00:42:02If you want to know any more about Alice Ross, ask her.
00:42:07Sam, where are you going?
00:42:08I don't know.
00:42:10Don't make it too tough for me to find you.
00:42:15Hey, Bill.
00:42:16What do you think?
00:42:17I think we're going to the Haslam funeral parlor.
00:42:19Oh, no, no.
00:42:20Wait a minute.
00:42:20This is important.
00:42:21Look, right after you and the girl left, the waiter brings that hot trumpet a note and
00:42:24what do you think he does?
00:42:25He leaves.
00:42:26What do you think I do?
00:42:27You follow him.
00:42:28Right.
00:42:28But where do you think he goes?
00:42:29He goes to his apartment in the Superior Hotel on Water Street.
00:42:32Now, come on.
00:42:41Mr. Connell.
00:42:44Mr. Connell.
00:42:46Put the lights on, Doc.
00:42:49I'll look in the back room.
00:42:52Hey.
00:42:53Somebody beat his tune.
00:42:54Potter burns right behind the ear.
00:43:00Must have been somebody who knew him pretty well to get that close.
00:43:02How long has he been dead?
00:43:03Oh, an hour or two.
00:43:09What are you looking for now?
00:43:10Ought to be a burial record around here somewhere.
00:43:13You're not going to find Alice Ross in there.
00:43:16There it is.
00:43:16I just want to see the last entry.
00:43:17I just want to see the last entry.
00:43:24Agnes Christie.
00:43:2854, 54, Foreign World Avenue.
00:43:30Take a run out there, Doc, and see if a woman by that name ever lived at that address.
00:43:33If it's phony, go out the Edgemoor Cemetery and find her grave.
00:43:36What do you want me to do to the grave?
00:43:37Put some lilies on it.
00:43:41Call in the caps?
00:43:42Now, I wouldn't want to wake Mr. Strom up at this time of night.
00:43:45Let him read it tomorrow in the paper.
00:43:47You're going to fool along with Mr. Strom until he puts you away for keeps.
00:43:50I wonder what he'd say if we told him we just happened on another murder.
00:43:54Hello, give me the city desk, please.
00:43:56Go ahead, on your way.
00:43:58What are you going to be doing?
00:43:59I think we're going to crack this pretty soon, and I've got to get a lot of sleep so I'll be fresh for the finish.
00:44:04Hello, city desk?
00:44:05This is your phantom reporter.
00:44:08Send a man out to the Hasland Funeral Park.
00:44:10Not has been, Hasland.
00:44:12And a good, good morning, my young friend.
00:44:21How did you sleep?
00:44:22I didn't.
00:44:23Look, there isn't any 5454 Farnwell Avenue.
00:44:27It ends at the 5100 block.
00:44:28That's what I thought.
00:44:29Well, I found the grave all right.
00:44:30Has Strom been over?
00:44:31No.
00:44:32Well, he will be.
00:44:33He's probably busy with the undertaker.
00:44:35Have you seen this?
00:44:39They found fingerprints on the back door of the morgue.
00:44:42Maybe they can find out now who done it.
00:44:43But you don't get it.
00:44:44They're mine.
00:44:45I left them there when I was examining the lock.
00:44:47Well, every murderer slips up somewhere.
00:44:49My friend, the colonel, will fix it up.
00:44:50That's what you think.
00:44:52Read the rest of it.
00:44:52The dirty, two-timing, double-crossing snake.
00:44:58How do you like this?
00:45:00Colonel Black, manager of the detective agency, which formally employed Crane, informed police
00:45:05that Crane was not sent to the morgue agency business.
00:45:09Denied all responsibility for Crane's axe.
00:45:11But I don't have to take that.
00:45:13Now, listen, relax.
00:45:14The Cortland's are paying plenty to keep out of this.
00:45:17Now, the colonel can tell the police the identity of a client is confidential.
00:45:20But there's going to be a grand jury investigation of the morgue.
00:45:22And if the colonel pulled a line like that to the grand jury, he'd be in contempt.
00:45:26Wouldn't that be too bad?
00:45:28Ask who it is.
00:45:32Who's there?
00:45:34Come in.
00:45:34Good morning.
00:45:36How are you?
00:45:37We've got some news for you.
00:45:38Fine.
00:45:39We found the grave of Alice Ross.
00:45:40We're going to open it tonight and see if...
00:45:42Let's say I'm tickled to death.
00:45:43You don't have to do that.
00:45:44What do you mean we don't have to?
00:45:45I came to tell you, Mother's had another letter from Crane.
00:45:48She realized her first letter might have sounded tragic and wrote another.
00:45:51And now that we know she's alive, we're withdrawing from the case.
00:45:54That's swell.
00:45:55That gets me out of that graveyard department.
00:45:57It may be swell for you, fellas, but what about me?
00:45:58I'm in this thing up to my neck.
00:46:00If I stand still for five minutes, Spitsy and Collins start shooting at me.
00:46:03Frankie French is going to kill me on sight.
00:46:05Layman and Strom are on my heels like a couple of bloodhounds.
00:46:08And the district attorney says I'm practically in the death house right now.
00:46:11Listen, brother.
00:46:12Client or no client, we dig at nightfall.
00:46:14I'm terribly sorry.
00:46:15If there was anything I could do...
00:46:17If you want to do something, get me Alice Ross or Arlene Vincent.
00:46:21I know Arlene Vincent.
00:46:23She calls herself Kay Renshaw now.
00:46:25And she's going to be at a party in Jack Martin's penthouse tonight.
00:46:29Would you like to go?
00:46:29Sure.
00:46:30Fine.
00:46:30I'll give you the address and meet you there at 9.
00:46:32Me too.
00:46:33Wait.
00:46:38Well, that's all I've been doing is waiting.
00:46:40The bill's up to $87 and I don't run any charge accounts.
00:46:42Any more of your impertinence, my good man, and we'll take our business elsewhere.
00:46:46But that's what I've been trying to get you to do.
00:46:53So this is a penthouse.
00:46:54Now you'll see how the other half lives.
00:46:56Society, Stefan.
00:46:57That's right.
00:46:58These are very nice people and are no roughhousing.
00:47:00Good evening, gentlemen.
00:47:04Maybe it's a gag.
00:47:06We're to meet Mr. Cortland here.
00:47:08Come in, gentlemen, please.
00:47:10Mr. Cortland's phone.
00:47:11He'll be here later.
00:47:13He asks that you carry on until he arrives.
00:47:15Carry on?
00:47:16I wonder if he's running as fast as he can.
00:47:26You see what I mean, sir?
00:47:28Just carry on.
00:47:30Oh, Mr. Crane knows all about that high-class stuff.
00:47:32Now, wait a minute, lady.
00:47:35I'd better get some more ice.
00:47:36Oh, but I won't hurt you.
00:47:38Now, lady, please.
00:47:39Wait a minute.
00:47:40Hey!
00:47:42Oh, look at the big, handsome men.
00:47:48Do you like Tangy?
00:47:50If you're Tangy, the answer is yes.
00:47:51Oh, boy.
00:47:53Oh, well, look what Tangy's got.
00:47:57Oh, men.
00:47:58This one's mine.
00:48:05Honey, you grabbed yourself the grand prize.
00:48:06That's Dolly.
00:48:07Dolly, meet Doc.
00:48:09Oh, I took the door, doctor.
00:48:11Well, you're going to need one if you don't let go of him.
00:48:13Now, wait a minute, girls.
00:48:14Don't fight.
00:48:15Back home, they call me Sultan Williams.
00:48:17That's for me.
00:48:19Am I happy?
00:48:20Keep your mind on your work.
00:48:22Well, aren't you even going to introduce him to us?
00:48:24Sure, girls.
00:48:25This is told, Doc, and Henson.
00:48:26Don't forget that you saw me first.
00:48:29I'll try to remember.
00:48:34Not tonight, dearie.
00:48:42Champagne, sir?
00:48:56And that's supposed to intrigue you, and you're supposed to follow her out there.
00:49:06And then when the fellow who owns the place catches you, he throws you off the roof.
00:49:09I won't do that because I'm too young to die.
00:49:11I like you better anyway.
00:49:12And who is the fellow that owns this jerk?
00:49:13Oh, you crushed the party, too.
00:49:15Exactly.
00:49:16But you are rich, aren't you?
00:49:18Not yet.
00:49:19Oh, you're tight, never are.
00:49:23Oh, hello, Popsie.
00:49:25Here you are.
00:49:27Looking for Tangie?
00:49:28All over the whole house.
00:49:31See what you mean.
00:49:33Silver spray on a velvet blotter.
00:49:54What?
00:49:55The moonlight on the lake.
00:49:58The moon's all right if you like it.
00:50:00Don't make me romantic, though.
00:50:01No, it wouldn't.
00:50:05Just what do you mean by that?
00:50:06Oh, nothing, nothing.
00:50:07Would you like to dance?
00:50:09Not now.
00:50:11Well, how about a swim?
00:50:13In the fountain?
00:50:14Oh, in the lake.
00:50:16You got a yacht?
00:50:17Not exactly, but I could probably get one.
00:50:20I got one.
00:50:24Would you like a drink?
00:50:26Sure, why not?
00:50:31Uh, pardon me.
00:50:33You look like a pretty nice fellow.
00:50:34I thought I'd tell you.
00:50:36I wouldn't spend too much time with Miss Renshaw.
00:50:38Did you say Renshaw?
00:50:40Mm-hmm.
00:50:41She's your host's personal guest.
00:50:43Well, I appreciate that very much.
00:50:45Thank you, sir.
00:50:46You don't get it.
00:50:55Well, the man...
00:50:56Now, look.
00:50:58I'm going to tell her to you just once more.
00:51:00Having a good time?
00:51:01What's it to you?
00:51:02Oh, no offense.
00:51:03Just want to be sure you're enjoying yourself.
00:51:05You see, I'm giving the body.
00:51:06Stick around.
00:51:07It's going to be a good one.
00:51:11Doc, please.
00:51:12Now?
00:51:13She'll forgive you.
00:51:13Come on.
00:51:16Get a cigarette.
00:51:19I found Kay Renshaw, and we're going to kidnap her.
00:51:22Don't you think you ought to wait for Cortland?
00:51:24Maybe she isn't, Arlene Vincent.
00:51:25We'll find it out later.
00:51:27You get downstairs and get the cab ready right in front of the door.
00:51:29Then phone me.
00:51:30When she comes down, ease her into the taxi.
00:51:34Great stuff, mastermind.
00:51:35I hope we don't get over 50 years for it.
00:51:37I'm expecting a phone call in a few minutes.
00:51:44The name is Crane.
00:51:45Will you remember?
00:51:46I'll be on the terrace.
00:51:47Very good, sir.
00:51:50Oh, uh, lady, I'm about to answer.
00:51:53Oh, thank you.
00:51:56Look, I got...
00:51:57Marky, main 8-7-1-6-4.
00:52:11Be seeing you later, babe.
00:52:14What kept you?
00:52:16The bartender had to open a new...
00:52:17Oh.
00:52:22You getting any glow out of that?
00:52:24You think I'm cold?
00:52:25No, just a trifle reserved.
00:52:28Haven't I seen you somewhere?
00:52:30No.
00:52:31People don't forget me.
00:52:33I can forget anybody.
00:52:35Anybody.
00:52:43Now forget me.
00:52:44Hold my grasp.
00:52:46Telephone for you, sir.
00:52:51Hello.
00:52:53Who?
00:52:53French?
00:52:54Oh, yes.
00:52:54Put them on.
00:52:55What do you mean, put them on?
00:52:57Hello, Frankie?
00:52:58Hey, what are you trying to do?
00:52:59Give me the double talk?
00:53:00This is Doc.
00:53:01Do you remember?
00:53:03Look, I'm trying to tell you
00:53:05that this cab driver don't want to play.
00:53:07Oh, I think this is going to be all right.
00:53:09Why don't you come over?
00:53:10Why don't I come over?
00:53:10You crazy or something?
00:53:12Listen.
00:53:13I called you up to tell you
00:53:14that the cab driver won't give.
00:53:16What'll I do now?
00:53:17I'll leave that up to you.
00:53:19You'll be right over, huh?
00:53:19In 10 minutes?
00:53:20Excuse me.
00:53:22On your toes.
00:53:23Here she comes.
00:53:24On my toes.
00:53:27Here she comes.
00:53:27What kind of business is this?
00:53:39Any other thing, will you?
00:53:43When Mr. Cortland comes,
00:53:44tell him we went to the graveyard.
00:53:45I'll remember what you said.
00:53:56Cab lady?
00:54:08Where to?
00:54:09Once over lightly around the park.
00:54:10Yes, sir.
00:54:14What happened to him?
00:54:15Oh, Gus, you mean?
00:54:17Don't have to worry about him anymore.
00:54:18He's working for us now.
00:54:20I bought the cab.
00:54:21For how much?
00:54:22200 bucks.
00:54:23I don't know, but it hasn't even got a spare tire.
00:54:27I know, but ain't it a dandy?
00:54:29All right, funny men.
00:54:30What happens now?
00:54:31Steve Collins and Frankie French both want to see you.
00:54:34Now, we're going to take you to whichever one you say
00:54:36so that they start shooting at each other for a change
00:54:38instead of at us.
00:54:40Yeah, if you get much funnier, I'll have hysterics.
00:54:42I'm going to give one of them a look at you,
00:54:44so I'll make up your mind.
00:54:45Yeah, you see?
00:54:45We'll be a little gentleman.
00:54:46We're giving you a choice.
00:54:48If you don't let me out of here,
00:54:49you'll be dead, little gentleman.
00:54:50Oh, threats, huh?
00:54:51All right, we'll take you to Frankie French.
00:54:53No, not to French.
00:54:54All right, Collins, then.
00:54:56Tell her what plays, Gus.
00:54:57Right, boss.
00:54:59We'll stop at Collins and you take her in.
00:55:01Then I'll pick up the tools and you know where to meet me.
00:55:04I could suggest someplace.
00:55:17What did Collins say?
00:55:29Well, he said she isn't his wife.
00:55:31She wasn't.
00:55:32What did you do with her?
00:55:33Well, she seemed satisfied to stay there,
00:55:34so I left her.
00:55:36Everything depends on what's in the grave.
00:55:37Now, let's get the tools.
00:55:38Right over here.
00:55:41Quiet, quiet.
00:55:45You got a horn on that Frigidaire?
00:55:46I got a horn.
00:55:47It costs 12 bucks.
00:55:49No, no, not now.
00:55:51Look.
00:55:52Keep a lookout for watchmen and policemen.
00:55:54If you see any, blow that horn,
00:55:55drive around the corner and pick us up.
00:55:57You got that?
00:55:57Okay.
00:55:58All right, come on, Doc.
00:55:59Come on.
00:56:16We better get out of here.
00:56:27What's your hurry?
00:56:30All right, boys.
00:56:31Get on down there.
00:56:32Come on.
00:56:36Hey, Lieutenant.
00:56:37Look what I found snooping around.
00:56:40Mr. Crane.
00:56:41Well, this is indeed a pleasure.
00:56:44It's a pleasure to see you fellas doing some work.
00:56:47Apparently, when you took the page out of the Undertaker's ledger,
00:56:50you overlooked the fact that there are such things as burial permits.
00:56:54So I suppose you came here tonight to correct that little mistake by removing the body.
00:56:58Go on.
00:56:59Keep on working, boys,
00:57:00because Crane is going to be with us for a long time.
00:57:03Here, fellas.
00:57:03We'd like to help all we can.
00:57:05And I want to hear Colonel Black say that you're not working for him,
00:57:10and I'll give him a sock right on the snoop.
00:57:13Well, Lieutenant.
00:57:16It's empty.
00:57:20Here, Crane.
00:57:23Come on, boys.
00:57:35The jalopy doesn't look so bad from here.
00:57:43Yeah, we can get to it.
00:57:45The cops don't see it.
00:57:46We're a cinch.
00:57:55We're going right past it.
00:57:56Let's go.
00:57:56Yeah.
00:58:05Come on, boys.
00:58:06Get in the car.
00:58:07Get in.
00:58:11You told them to do it.
00:58:13Let's take another look at that grave.
00:58:19What on earth is happening?
00:58:20Oh.
00:58:22Don't ever do that.
00:58:24The butler gave me a message.
00:58:25I got out here and climbed the wall just as the shooting started.
00:58:28Who were they?
00:58:29Caps.
00:58:29They opened the grave and found it empty.
00:58:30There it is, right there.
00:58:32What, do you suppose the body was ever in there?
00:58:33I wish I knew.
00:58:36Well, what are you going to do now, mastermind?
00:58:38How about you thinking of something for a change?
00:58:40All I can think of is how we're going to get out of here.
00:58:491917.
00:58:52Doc, see if there's one of those shovels still down at the grave, will you?
00:59:01After all that time, that lock ought to be a little rusty.
00:59:04Break that lock off.
00:59:10There she is.
00:59:27Are you sure that's a great sauna, Mark?
00:59:29Positive.
00:59:30May I look?
00:59:30Certainly.
00:59:31Do you know her?
00:59:37Who do you suppose she really was?
00:59:40When we find that out, we'll know who murdered her.
00:59:43And it shouldn't take very long now.
00:59:48Have you reported this to the police?
00:59:49I am the police.
00:59:51Only use your phone.
00:59:51Who are you calling?
01:00:04Collins.
01:00:06Hello, Collins.
01:00:07This is Crane.
01:00:08We found Miss Ross' body and we have it here at the morgue.
01:00:11I ain't interested.
01:00:14But aren't you going to thank me for bringing your wife back to you?
01:00:18Hey, that's a big joke.
01:00:19That's not my wife.
01:00:20And perhaps you better come down and take a look at Miss Ross.
01:00:23Maybe she's your wife.
01:00:24I ain't interested.
01:00:25We can't accept this body.
01:00:30It's been embalmed.
01:00:31We have to have it identified.
01:00:32You want to call the coroner?
01:00:33This time of night?
01:00:34Suit yourself.
01:00:35Well, leave it here.
01:00:37But have it identified before morning.
01:00:39Don't worry.
01:00:40We will.
01:00:40What did Colin say?
01:00:47Practically nothing.
01:00:48Hello, French?
01:00:49This is Crane.
01:00:50We have Miss Ross' body at the morgue.
01:00:53Right.
01:00:55Be right over.
01:00:57Well, where's Taylor?
01:00:59He's, uh...
01:01:00He'll be right up.
01:01:01Huh?
01:01:01Oh.
01:01:02How about the others?
01:01:03French will be here right away.
01:01:05Collins says he ain't interested.
01:01:07He also said that blonde is not his wife.
01:01:09He took her?
01:01:10Who wouldn't?
01:01:12Hello, Taylor.
01:01:14We, uh, think we have the body of Alice Ross here.
01:01:16Will you take a look?
01:01:32It's her.
01:01:34That's all, Taylor.
01:01:35Thanks.
01:01:35Who is he?
01:01:44A hot trumpet.
01:01:46That's the fellow that Alice Ross killed herself for.
01:01:48But you said she was murdered.
01:01:49Yeah.
01:01:50And you're letting him go?
01:01:51We have a rough shadow on him all the time.
01:01:53What's a rough shadow?
01:01:54One that lets himself be seen by the party he's shadowing.
01:01:58Why?
01:01:58What's the reason for that?
01:01:59It's tough on the nerves.
01:02:04Hello, French.
01:02:05We have the girl that disappeared from here.
01:02:08Perhaps you can identify her.
01:02:10Perhaps.
01:02:10Perhaps.
01:02:10Never saw this girl before in my life.
01:02:24How did you get her back here without attracting the police?
01:02:30The attendant is new.
01:02:31He didn't recognize her.
01:02:32We told him she was left with an undertaker by somebody who disappeared.
01:02:35You want her?
01:02:37Not interested.
01:02:38And thank you very much.
01:02:51French is much too casual.
01:02:53He may be back.
01:02:55Or Collins.
01:02:56If the girl you took back wasn't his wife.
01:02:58I'll bet a lot of dough she is.
01:03:01Doc?
01:03:02You're going to need Mrs. Taylor.
01:03:05There's a couple of places where she may be.
01:03:08I'll find her.
01:03:13Why don't you run along and get some sleep?
01:03:17Listen.
01:03:18If you think anybody's coming back, why don't you and I hide out here and wait for them?
01:03:21We might get them red-handed.
01:03:23Pretty risky.
01:03:24It's all right with me if it is with you.
01:03:26All right.
01:03:27I'll stay here and watch these two spots.
01:03:28And you watch the outside entrance from your car in case I fall asleep.
01:03:32Sleep in here?
01:03:33How could you?
01:03:34You don't know me.
01:03:35I can sleep anywhere.
01:03:38Put the light out.
01:03:41Look out, Bill.
01:04:02I got them.
01:04:07I got them, Doc.
01:04:08Hit the lights.
01:04:11Cortland.
01:04:19It's a good thing you were here, Doc.
01:04:20I really went to sleep.
01:04:22I'm sorry, Crane.
01:04:24But I couldn't let her be identified.
01:04:25Oh, then it is your sister.
01:04:27This case isn't closed yet.
01:04:28Why not?
01:04:29If this bird had come in...
01:04:30Look.
01:04:30Get me Strom, Taylor and Mrs. Taylor, and the car in it.
01:04:35Any more?
01:04:37I'll give you just one hour.
01:04:38That's big of you.
01:04:41You couldn't use Charlie Phillips, too.
01:04:43Who is he?
01:04:44He was kidnapped from Philly in 1903.
01:04:46Get out of here.
01:04:54Say, what's William's bringing that makes you think you can hang this thing on Cortland?
01:04:58Suppose I don't.
01:04:59You're no worse off than you were before, are you?
01:05:01No, just maybe a suit for false arrest from Cortland.
01:05:05Can't you hold him for trying to knock my brains out?
01:05:07That's no crime.
01:05:09You're so cute.
01:05:10It's a pleasure to see you again.
01:05:19Take one of the good seats.
01:05:21Doc, I'll need some hydrogen tetraoxide.
01:05:24Huh?
01:05:24Just ask for H2O4.
01:05:27Oh, I get it.
01:05:28You want a straighter with soda?
01:05:29Go in a basin from the laboratory.
01:05:38How do you do?
01:05:40And, uh, one of these people can identify the body?
01:05:48Two of them can, as I will.
01:05:49How about it, Cortland?
01:05:51She was my sister.
01:05:53And it was you who stole the girl's body?
01:05:55Yes.
01:05:56I know if I claimed it, the disgrace would kill my mother.
01:05:59So I hired a man to help me.
01:06:01Which one of you killed Al Horn?
01:06:04I did.
01:06:05I only meant to stun him.
01:06:07The rest of the story you know.
01:06:08Well, we still don't know who killed the undertaker.
01:06:13I did.
01:06:14Why?
01:06:15Well, he...
01:06:16He had threatened to talk, and I was in so deep that I didn't...
01:06:20It won't work, Cortland.
01:06:21Just a minute.
01:06:22Keep quiet, you.
01:06:23No.
01:06:24He did kill Al Horn, but he didn't mean to.
01:06:26That's only manslaughter.
01:06:28The death of that undertaker was cold-blooded murder.
01:06:31Cortland wouldn't do that even to shield his sister.
01:06:33I'm not shielding anyone.
01:06:35My sister is dead, and there's nothing more I can do for her.
01:06:38Put her right there, Doc.
01:06:42Uh, Mrs. Taylor, I wonder if we could ask you to stand up for a moment, please?
01:06:51Now, would it be asking too much for you to put those lovely curls in the basin?
01:06:56Or must I do it?
01:06:58Don't do that!
01:07:00Don't, Cort.
01:07:01Don't.
01:07:03Look, it's no use.
01:07:04He knows who I am.
01:07:06But I don't know who she is.
01:07:08His sister.
01:07:10If she's Catherine Cortland, then who is the lady in the morgue?
01:07:14The dead woman is the real Mrs. Taylor.
01:07:17Her husband killed her because she wouldn't give him a divorce so he could marry the rich Miss Cortland.
01:07:21Did you know that, Miss Cortland?
01:07:22No, I didn't know.
01:07:23He said she'd killed herself.
01:07:24She did kill herself.
01:07:25Why should I kill her?
01:07:26Because she was always following and spying on you.
01:07:29When you found her occupying a room next to Miss Cortland, you killed her while she was taking a bath.
01:07:33And you dragged her through the connecting door into Miss Cortland's room.
01:07:37When you got through, you discovered her body had left watermarks on the door, so you filled the tub to explain them.
01:07:43Three of them had been living in the hotel only a few days.
01:07:45Nobody saw them very much, so naturally everyone assumed the body found in that room belonged in that room.
01:07:50How do you know, Alice Ross, uh, Mrs. Taylor was murdered?
01:07:53Because her heel marks were a foot above the bathroom scales.
01:07:57If she had stood on them to hang herself, those marks would have been the same height as the scales.
01:08:02You're very clever, Mr. Crane.
01:08:04Wait a minute, I'm not finished.
01:08:06That's the gun he killed the undertaker with, if you can get it.
01:08:08I wouldn't try it if I were you.
01:08:10Don't die!
01:08:10Arrest him, Strom!
01:08:16I think he has.
01:08:23You, uh, knew your sister was alive in the first, didn't you?
01:08:25Yes.
01:08:26When Taylor told Sis his wife had killed herself, it frightened her and she wired me.
01:08:31I flew into town, but Mother had already hired the agency.
01:08:33If you turn state sevens, Cortland, Taylor will hang.
01:08:37I'll do the best I can to get you off of the light sentence.
01:08:41Even if he did try to kill Craig, that one we'll forget.
01:08:44I don't know how I ever brought myself to that.
01:08:47Thank heaven you stopped me.
01:08:48But how did Williams happen to be there?
01:08:50You sent him to look for Sis, didn't you?
01:08:52No, I wrote on that card, stick around, things are going to happen.
01:08:55But why?
01:08:56I knew you were the man who moved the body.
01:08:58You heard me tell Williams we were going to the cemetery last night.
01:09:00So you sent us to the party to get us out of the way while you did it.
01:09:04But that was guessing.
01:09:05No, I began to suspect you.
01:09:07And when you didn't show up at the party, I was sure you sent us there to get us out of the way.
01:09:10So I set a little trap for you.
01:09:12I left a message with the butler that we had gone to the graveyard.
01:09:15You showed up there a half an hour later.
01:09:17But at no time had either Doc or I told you which graveyard we were going to.
01:09:21Had we, Doc?
01:09:25What are you doing?
01:09:26Oh, I was just thinking, Bill, with a little lemon, it wouldn't be bad.
01:09:29Don't fool around with that stuff.
01:09:31You want to turn out to be a blonde?
01:09:37Margie.
01:09:39Maine.
01:09:40Eight.
01:09:41Seven.
01:09:42One.
01:09:43Six.
01:09:43Four.
01:09:43Come on!
01:09:44Where did you get that number?
01:09:46I'm a detective, remember?
01:09:47Remember?
01:09:59Yea.
01:10:00I'm a detective, eh.
01:10:03One.
01:10:03One.
01:10:04Two.
01:10:05One.
01:10:06Seven.
01:10:07Seven.
01:10:08Eight.
01:10:09One.
01:10:09Seven.
01:10:14Be careful.
01:10:18Seven.
01:10:19Seven.
01:10:20Seven.
01:10:21Seven.
01:10:21Seven.
01:10:22Seven.
01:10:22Five.
01:10:22Seven.
01:10:23Seven.
01:10:23Seven.
01:10:23Nine.
01:10:24Seven.
01:10:24Four.
01:10:25Seven.
01:10:26Eight.
01:10:26Eight.
01:10:27Nine.
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