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Step into a classic 1940s mystery! When a wealthy old woman invites her quarrelsome relatives to a secluded mansion, the night turns deadly. One by one, guests are found murdered as a sharp-witted investigator races to unmask the killer.
This vintage black-and-white thriller blends suspense, dark humour and a touch of old-Hollywood charm—perfect for fans of classic whodunits and public-domain cinema.
Year: 1941
Genre: Mystery / Crime / Thriller
This vintage black-and-white thriller blends suspense, dark humour and a touch of old-Hollywood charm—perfect for fans of classic whodunits and public-domain cinema.
Year: 1941
Genre: Mystery / Crime / Thriller
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TVTranscript
00:00:00The End
00:00:30Oh, my God.
00:01:00Hello, boss. Hiya, Nora.
00:01:01Hi, Eddie.
00:01:02Afraid you were gonna be late.
00:01:03Well, how you betting on this legal battle?
00:01:04Think they'll put the old lady away?
00:01:06I'll quote the odds as soon as I look over the layout
00:01:08and ditch that heater.
00:01:15Hi, Mr. Denham.
00:01:16Oh, good morning, Mr. White.
00:01:17Hey, boss, how about me grabbing a couple of shots
00:01:19before things get started?
00:01:20Sure, go ahead.
00:01:24Who is he?
00:01:25That's that Freemus columnist.
00:01:26I invited him here.
00:01:30I still think you shouldn't attend this hearing.
00:01:35Suppose they make a mistake and try you.
00:01:38You know, there are two schools of thought
00:01:40about the sanity of columnists.
00:01:43Quiet.
00:01:44All right, Miss Denham, would you mind giving me a great big...
00:01:46Not at all.
00:01:47Smile.
00:01:48Now, remember, just leave everything to me.
00:01:53And don't let personal feelings enter into your testimony.
00:01:56We all know that Aunt Cassie is simply no longer capable of managing her money.
00:02:01We'll manage it much better for her.
00:02:04And besides, Aunt Cassie will be properly cared for in an institution.
00:02:07Don't you worry about a thing, Aunt Cassie.
00:02:12Why should I worry?
00:02:13I'm the only sane person in the family of nitwits.
00:02:19She don't look crazy to me.
00:02:21Reminds me of my old lady.
00:02:23All kindness.
00:02:25I guarantee you she wouldn't hurt a fly.
00:02:28But you ought to see those wolves.
00:02:29You can see dollar signs all over their faces.
00:02:33They're just hoping to put the old lady in the funny house
00:02:35so they can spend all that dough she's got.
00:02:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:38You got it, brother.
00:02:39You got it.
00:02:46Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.
00:02:48The Honorable Supreme Court in and for the County of New York
00:02:51is now in session.
00:02:52Judge Moore presiding.
00:02:57We will proceed with the sanity hearing of Miss Cassandra Denham.
00:03:02This action is brought by Attorney Garson Denham.
00:03:05And in behalf of himself, another relatives of said Cassandra Denham,
00:03:08who alleged that the defendant is incompetent
00:03:11and physically and mentally unfit to administer her real and personal property.
00:03:16And pray, therefore, that she be committed to a suitable institution
00:03:19provided by the state for those who are judged mentally incompetent.
00:03:24Mentally incompetent.
00:03:27You will proceed, Counselor Denham?
00:03:30Thank you, Your Honor.
00:03:32With your permission, I'll call the defendant in this action,
00:03:38Miss Cassandra Denham.
00:03:45Place your right hand in the Bible.
00:03:47Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,
00:03:49nothing but the truth?
00:03:50Why not?
00:03:51The truth never hurt anybody.
00:03:52Well, where is your attorney?
00:03:59Why should I spend money on an attorney
00:04:01when my only opposition is my nitwit nephew?
00:04:08Touche.
00:04:09Hey, what does that mean?
00:04:10It means score one for the old lady.
00:04:13The court will be glad to appoint an attorney
00:04:15to represent you without charge if you desire one.
00:04:18No, thank you.
00:04:20I can take care of myself.
00:04:25I must warn the spectators
00:04:26that this is no occasion for outbursts of a lot of things.
00:04:32Go ahead, Counselor.
00:04:33Thank you, Your Honor.
00:04:36What is your name?
00:04:36What is my...
00:04:40Your Honor, do I have to sit here
00:04:42and have my very own nephew ask me what my name is?
00:04:44Yes.
00:04:46Miss Cassandra Hildegard Denham.
00:04:48And what you need is a good spanking
00:04:50like I used to give you when you were a sniff of a boy.
00:04:56The old lady's crazy like a fox.
00:04:59You will confine your answers to the questions.
00:05:01And the court will tolerate no further demonstrations.
00:05:06Go ahead, Counselor.
00:05:10How much wealth do you possess, Miss Denham?
00:05:15Do I have to answer that question?
00:05:16Yes, yes.
00:05:19Three million dollars.
00:05:21And I'm going to hang on to it.
00:05:22Ha!
00:05:31Another one of those things, huh?
00:05:35Yeah, what?
00:05:36What you just said before.
00:05:38You know, a touche, touche...
00:05:39Yeah, you said a double.
00:05:42Yeah.
00:05:43I warn you, Miss Denham,
00:05:44to confine your answers to the questions.
00:05:46I...
00:05:47The alien is cooperating with the court
00:05:51will disregard irrelevant flippancies
00:05:53on the part of the defendant.
00:05:55I trust this is understood.
00:05:58Where do you keep your money and securities, Miss Denham?
00:06:01Wouldn't you like to know?
00:06:06Now, this is my last warning.
00:06:09One more outburst on the part of the spectators
00:06:11in the courtroom will be cleared.
00:06:14Now, you will answer the question.
00:06:16I refuse to answer on the ground
00:06:18that my money is my own
00:06:19until you decide it isn't.
00:06:21And in the meantime,
00:06:21it's none of his business.
00:06:26There's a smartest crazy woman I ever saw.
00:06:28Well, your objection is well put.
00:06:32You needn't answer.
00:06:33Thank you, Your Honor.
00:06:36Mr. Numb,
00:06:37would you say that you were eccentric?
00:06:41I live my own life, if that's what you mean.
00:06:45Did you or did you not
00:06:46recently give $500 to a man you'd never met?
00:06:49A total stranger.
00:06:51Not exactly a stranger.
00:06:53He was a farmer who lived up the road a piece from me.
00:06:56He was about to lose his farm,
00:06:58and I gave him the money so he wouldn't lose it.
00:06:59Did you demand any security for this gift?
00:07:02Why should I?
00:07:03The man's honest.
00:07:05I thought he'd sleep better
00:07:06without a mortgage hanging over his head
00:07:08like Damocles' sword.
00:07:10But you did give this man $500
00:07:12with no security whatsoever.
00:07:14Yes.
00:07:15Yes.
00:07:16Well, there you are, Your Honor.
00:07:18You see,
00:07:19it's perfectly obvious
00:07:20that my aunt is dissipating her assets.
00:07:22They're my assets.
00:07:24I'll give you ten to one
00:07:26she never sees a padded cell.
00:07:28What do you think I am, a sucker?
00:07:30Yes.
00:07:32Proceed.
00:07:34Miss Denham,
00:07:35tell me,
00:07:37is it true that you use vinegar on your apple pie?
00:07:42Why, yes.
00:07:44Explain to the judge and the alienists,
00:07:46if you will, please,
00:07:47just why you douse vinegar on your apple pie.
00:07:52Gladly.
00:07:54That fat cook of mine
00:07:56makes him too sweet.
00:07:58She's done it for years.
00:07:59She wants to put weight on me.
00:08:19I give up, Your Honor.
00:08:20You should have done that long ago.
00:08:22This action is dismissed
00:08:25for lack of evidence.
00:08:28Hearing adjourned.
00:08:30Your Honor.
00:08:32Yes?
00:08:33I want to thank you.
00:08:36And if you ever come my way
00:08:37up in the mountains,
00:08:38drop in and have some apple pie.
00:08:40Without vinegar.
00:08:42Oh, thanks.
00:08:43Yeah, maybe I'll do that.
00:08:44But I like vinegar on apple pie.
00:08:48If you'd stop throwing those things around
00:09:08and tell me what you're looking for,
00:09:09maybe I could help you find it.
00:09:11Well, Brian,
00:09:11one of these days,
00:09:12I'm going to clear off this desk.
00:09:13You do,
00:09:14and you'll be out of business.
00:09:15What are you looking for?
00:09:17I'm trying to find that Hollywood item
00:09:18that Danny Dover sent about a week ago.
00:09:20For your information,
00:09:21it's down the composing room,
00:09:22all set up in type.
00:09:24Oh, Brian,
00:09:25I don't know what I'd do without you.
00:09:27Neither do I.
00:09:29Now that you have that problem off your mind,
00:09:30do you think you'd like to see a caller?
00:09:32Who?
00:09:33Goss and Denham.
00:09:34That lawyer who got his ears pinned back last week
00:09:36trying to put his aunt in an asylum.
00:09:38What does he want?
00:09:39Maybe he wants to put you in one.
00:09:40He seems sort of anxious about something.
00:09:42All right,
00:09:43have him come in,
00:09:43but you stay in the room when I'm talking to him.
00:09:45I'm allergic to lawyers.
00:09:46Okay.
00:09:48Come in,
00:09:48Mr. Denham.
00:09:52Good morning,
00:09:52Mr. Denham.
00:09:53Good morning,
00:09:53Mr. White.
00:09:55May I,
00:09:55may I speak to you alone,
00:09:57please?
00:09:58I am alone.
00:09:59Mr. O'Brien is part of me.
00:10:01Which part?
00:10:02Quiet.
00:10:03Have a chair,
00:10:04Mr. Denham.
00:10:04Speak freely.
00:10:06You look a bit worried.
00:10:08I am worried,
00:10:09Mr. White.
00:10:10This,
00:10:10this letter,
00:10:12this letter is definite proof
00:10:13that my Aunt Cassandra
00:10:14is mentally unbalanced.
00:10:16I don't know.
00:10:18I don't get it.
00:10:19This is just a simple invitation
00:10:20for you to spend a week
00:10:21at her place in the mountains.
00:10:22Yes,
00:10:22but she sent the same invitation
00:10:24to all the Denhams.
00:10:25And,
00:10:25and you'll notice
00:10:26she insists that we all arrive Friday.
00:10:29Friday promptly
00:10:30at midnight.
00:10:31Now,
00:10:32now why should she want us all
00:10:33to arrive at Greylock
00:10:34promptly on the stroke of 12?
00:10:37Perhaps 12 is her favorite number.
00:10:40I tell you,
00:10:40there's something sinister
00:10:41about this invitation.
00:10:43You'll notice she also says
00:10:45that any relative
00:10:46who fails to show up
00:10:47will be eliminated
00:10:49from her will.
00:10:50Yeah,
00:10:50I noticed that.
00:10:51A sort of a
00:10:52command performance,
00:10:53isn't it?
00:10:54Oh,
00:10:54it ought to be
00:10:55a cozy little group.
00:10:56with all you Denhams
00:10:57gathered around
00:10:57the festive board
00:10:58with the old lady
00:10:59you try to put
00:10:59in the booby hatch?
00:11:01I tell you,
00:11:01I have,
00:11:02I have a feeling
00:11:02that something terrible
00:11:03is going to happen.
00:11:04Oh,
00:11:04come Mr. Denham,
00:11:05you're taking it all too seriously.
00:11:07She probably just wants
00:11:08to bury the hatchet
00:11:09now that she's been
00:11:09declared sane.
00:11:10Sure,
00:11:11it's a great sport,
00:11:12burying hatchets
00:11:13at midnight,
00:11:14especially in people.
00:11:15You may scoff,
00:11:17but I have a premonition
00:11:19of death.
00:11:20I believe she plans
00:11:21to kill us all.
00:11:22After which,
00:11:22she'll probably confess
00:11:23and say,
00:11:24Sheriff,
00:11:25I did it with
00:11:25my little hatchet.
00:11:26Oh,
00:11:27stop it.
00:11:27Stop it,
00:11:28O'Brien.
00:11:29Hey,
00:11:30it does seem funny.
00:11:31Oh,
00:11:32poppycock,
00:11:33I watch her aunt
00:11:33on the witness stand
00:11:34and she's no killer.
00:11:35She's intelligent
00:11:36and harmless
00:11:37and what a sense
00:11:38of humor.
00:11:39It may strike her
00:11:40as humorous
00:11:40to murder us all
00:11:41in our beds.
00:11:42Mr. White,
00:11:43I'm going to leave
00:11:43this letter with you.
00:11:44just in case
00:11:45anything does
00:11:45happen to me.
00:11:47This fantastic idea
00:11:48of having us arrive
00:11:49at midnight
00:11:49is the hand at work
00:11:51of a madwoman.
00:11:51You'll see that.
00:11:52Okay,
00:11:52Mr. Denham,
00:11:53I'll be watching
00:11:53for murder news
00:11:54from Greylock.
00:11:55And if anything
00:11:56does happen,
00:11:56you'll see that
00:11:57she's brought to justice.
00:11:58Oh,
00:11:58sure.
00:12:00Thank you,
00:12:00Mr. White.
00:12:02Goodbye.
00:12:03Goodbye.
00:12:07Goodbye,
00:12:08Mr. Denham.
00:12:08See you in a shroud.
00:12:14Well?
00:12:16You know,
00:12:17this has all the elements
00:12:18of a swell murder mystery.
00:12:19Greedy relatives
00:12:20try to toss
00:12:21wealthy aunt
00:12:22into the booby hatch
00:12:22so they can get
00:12:23a hold of her money.
00:12:24Wealthy aunt
00:12:25outsmarts them
00:12:25and is declared sane.
00:12:27Then she invites them
00:12:27all to her place
00:12:28in the mountains
00:12:29to spend a week
00:12:29and tells them
00:12:30to get there
00:12:31exactly at midnight.
00:12:35Midnight.
00:12:36That midnight angle
00:12:37intrigues me.
00:12:38Forget it.
00:12:39How about your stuff
00:12:40for tomorrow night's broadcast?
00:12:41Midnight.
00:12:42Now,
00:12:43why should she insist
00:12:44on midnight?
00:12:45She probably saw
00:12:46the cat on the canary.
00:12:47Now,
00:12:48will you please
00:12:49go back to work?
00:12:51Okay,
00:12:52O'Brien,
00:12:52you slave driver.
00:12:54Here's the lead
00:12:54for the broadcast.
00:12:55See,
00:12:56I'd like to sit in
00:12:56on this little gathering.
00:12:58You know,
00:12:58it ought to be funny.
00:13:01I wonder if I drove
00:13:03up there in my car
00:13:04to Greylock.
00:13:08Oh,
00:13:08well.
00:13:09Well,
00:13:22here we are.
00:13:23I guess I can't say
00:13:25we aren't prompt.
00:13:25It's still a minute
00:13:26in minister 12.
00:13:27I don't care
00:13:28what time it is.
00:13:29We shouldn't be
00:13:29visiting a crazy woman.
00:13:30Oh,
00:13:31stop it,
00:13:31will you?
00:13:32Stop it.
00:13:32Stop it.
00:13:32Oh,
00:13:52good evening,
00:13:55Eric.
00:13:56Evening.
00:13:57Any of the others
00:13:58arrived yet?
00:13:59Not yet.
00:14:01Well,
00:14:01I guess we might
00:14:02as well go along
00:14:03in then.
00:14:04Guess you had.
00:14:04Good morning,
00:14:23Eric.
00:14:24Good morning.
00:14:25If t'was,
00:14:25you'd be too late.
00:14:26Too late for what?
00:14:28Too late to be
00:14:28murdered,
00:14:29no doubt.
00:14:30I tell you,
00:14:30Larry,
00:14:30I don't like this.
00:14:32After all,
00:14:33Aunt Cassie
00:14:33is your father's sister.
00:14:35And as your father's widow,
00:14:36I think I ought to tell you
00:14:37that...
00:14:37That father was a bit
00:14:38bomb.
00:14:39Yes,
00:14:39mother,
00:14:40I've heard all that before.
00:14:41Well,
00:14:42you mark my words.
00:14:43Oh,
00:14:43please,
00:14:44mother,
00:14:44do we have to go
00:14:44through that again?
00:14:45Better go on in
00:14:47if you want to be
00:14:47with Miss Cassie
00:14:48when the clock
00:14:49strikes midnight.
00:14:50They're all here,
00:15:14aren't they?
00:15:15I watched them come
00:15:16for my garden.
00:15:18Yeah,
00:15:18they're all here.
00:15:18fine.
00:15:20Fine.
00:15:36For goodness sakes,
00:15:37Garson,
00:15:37stop that pacing.
00:15:38You're making me nervous.
00:15:40Nervous?
00:15:41How do you think I feel?
00:15:42You should feel nervous.
00:15:44You started this whole thing
00:15:45getting us to sign
00:15:45that complaint
00:15:46against Aunt Cassie.
00:15:47That's right.
00:15:48Blame me for everything.
00:15:49Of course,
00:15:50you'd have been highly pleased
00:15:51if I'd succeeded.
00:15:52Naturally.
00:15:53But you didn't.
00:15:54And now we have to spend
00:15:54the week in this
00:15:55ratty old mansion.
00:15:56It isn't compulsory,
00:15:57you know.
00:15:57You can leave any time.
00:15:59Sure we can.
00:16:00And have Aunt Cassie
00:16:01cut us out of her will.
00:16:03You'd love that,
00:16:04wouldn't you?
00:16:05No,
00:16:05thanks.
00:16:06We are staying.
00:16:07Well,
00:16:08I'm hungry.
00:16:08I think I'll see
00:16:09if there's anything good
00:16:10in the icebox.
00:16:11Tom,
00:16:11Venom,
00:16:11don't you dare leave
00:16:12this room.
00:16:13How can you even think
00:16:13of food and we're all
00:16:14in danger?
00:16:15What danger?
00:16:16Why Aunt Cassie
00:16:17wouldn't hurt a fly?
00:16:18Welcome to Greyloft,
00:16:45my precious relatives.
00:16:46Aunt Cassie
00:16:46and Cousin Mary.
00:16:47All right.
00:16:48Aunt Cassie,
00:16:49I know that I speak
00:16:49for all of us
00:16:50when I say that
00:16:50we're delighted
00:16:51to be here.
00:16:52We certainly are.
00:16:53And I always look forward
00:16:55to visiting your
00:16:55charming old mansion.
00:16:57Greylock is such
00:16:58a lovely,
00:16:59restful place.
00:17:00Oh,
00:17:00Aunt Cassie,
00:17:00you look younger
00:17:01every day.
00:17:02Pop the cock,
00:17:03stop fawning over me.
00:17:05A week ago,
00:17:05you were trying
00:17:06to put me
00:17:06in a padded cell.
00:17:08But Aunt Cassie,
00:17:10you know we only
00:17:10did it for your
00:17:11own protection.
00:17:12And to get her money.
00:17:13Keep quiet,
00:17:14child.
00:17:15I'll handle this.
00:17:16I've been protecting
00:17:17myself for 40 years,
00:17:19since I was 25.
00:17:20I've done a pretty
00:17:21good job of it.
00:17:22So let's forget
00:17:23about protection
00:17:24and sit down,
00:17:26everybody.
00:17:34First,
00:17:35I want you to know
00:17:36I brought you here
00:17:36for a purpose.
00:17:37I want to study you
00:17:38all for a week,
00:17:39just like a scientist
00:17:40studies rats
00:17:41and guinea pigs
00:17:42in his laboratory.
00:17:42After all,
00:17:44I'm 65,
00:17:45I can't live forever.
00:17:46Everyone must die
00:17:47someday.
00:17:47Oh, please,
00:17:48Aunt Cassie,
00:17:48don't talk about dying.
00:17:50Why,
00:17:51you're the picture
00:17:51of health.
00:17:53And,
00:17:54well,
00:17:55I want to say right now
00:17:56that I had nothing
00:17:56to do with the attempt
00:17:57to send you away.
00:18:00It was all
00:18:00Cousin Garson's fault.
00:18:02He talked everybody
00:18:03into signing the petition.
00:18:04Silence.
00:18:05I don't care
00:18:06who started it.
00:18:07The fact remains
00:18:08that sooner or later
00:18:08I leave this veil
00:18:10of tears
00:18:10and laughter
00:18:11and when I do,
00:18:14I leave
00:18:15three million dollars.
00:18:17The bulk of it
00:18:17will go to the one
00:18:18I find most worthy.
00:18:21Which means,
00:18:21of course,
00:18:22I leave it to someone
00:18:23in this room.
00:18:24The worthiest
00:18:25of an unworthy lot.
00:18:30But I warn you,
00:18:31flattery will get you
00:18:32nowhere.
00:18:33So be yourselves.
00:18:35We'll retire now.
00:18:38Breakfast will be
00:18:42served at eight.
00:18:44I'll expect you,
00:18:45all of you,
00:18:46to be at the table
00:18:47promptly.
00:18:48I hope you sleep well.
00:18:50Don't let the knowledge
00:18:50that you're sleeping
00:18:51under the same roof
00:18:52with three million dollars
00:18:53disturb your slumbers.
00:18:56Come, child.
00:18:57And, Cassie,
00:18:58you mean that you
00:18:59keep all that money
00:19:00here in this house?
00:19:03Why not?
00:19:04With everyone trying
00:19:05to take it away from me?
00:19:06I like to keep it around,
00:19:07check up on it.
00:19:08once in a while.
00:19:12But don't try
00:19:13to look for it.
00:19:14You wouldn't find it
00:19:15in a million years.
00:19:16Did you ring,
00:19:17Miss Cassie?
00:19:18Yes.
00:19:19Have you placed the luggage
00:19:20in the right rooms?
00:19:21Everything is just
00:19:22as you ordered it.
00:19:23Good.
00:19:24Now we'll all have
00:19:25a splendid night's sleep.
00:19:27Come along.
00:19:27I'll distribute you.
00:19:28Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:19:30Ha, ha, ha.
00:19:31Ha, ha, ha.
00:19:32Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:20:14For goodness sake, quit threshing around like a hooked fish and go to sleep.
00:20:20Oh, I can't sleep.
00:20:23I've got too many things on my mind.
00:20:26Of course, you wouldn't understand that, not having any mind to speak of.
00:20:30Well, I like that.
00:20:32You dragged me away from home to spend a week in this dreary museum, and now you insult me.
00:20:36Where are you going?
00:20:38To get a book from the library. Have you any objections?
00:20:41No.
00:20:41Go ahead.
00:20:42Go and get killed wandering around in the middle of the night.
00:20:45You said yourself you had a premonition of death before we left home.
00:20:48Now, I've revised my estimate of the situation.
00:20:51Aunt Cassie may be a bit eccentric, but we're not in any danger.
00:20:55You go to sleep. I shan't be long.
00:24:02Ain't no use to argue with it, Miss Nora.
00:24:05Oh, Brian.
00:24:07Oh.
00:24:09Boy, at 10 o'clock in the morning, she knows better than that.
00:24:12Tell her I never talked to anybody in my sleep.
00:24:15She said you'd jump right out of bed if I tell your lawyer Denham have met her with some killing.
00:24:20What?
00:24:20Yes, sir?
00:24:21Yes, indeed.
00:24:21Mr. Denham's a corpse.
00:24:23Why did you say so?
00:24:24I kept trying to, sir.
00:24:26Well, pack me a bag.
00:24:27Hurry up.
00:24:29All right, a murder.
00:24:30You can't come in here.
00:24:38I think you're wrong, officer.
00:24:40I press card.
00:24:41Uh, my membership card in your lodge.
00:24:44Uh, Sheriff's Association.
00:24:47Uh, here.
00:24:48You might as well look these over, too.
00:24:50Honorary memberships and police organizations from Miami to Los Angeles.
00:24:53Goofy, isn't it?
00:24:54But then some people collect matches.
00:24:56Are you really Bob White, the fellow that writes a column?
00:24:58In the flesh, officer.
00:25:00Meet my secretary, Miss Nora O'Brien.
00:25:01And the alert young gentleman on the other side is Eddie Stutz, one of the best newspaper photographers in New York.
00:25:05I'm sure he'll want to take your picture before we leave.
00:25:08Won't we, Eddie?
00:25:08Oh, sure, sure.
00:25:10Uh, where'll I find the sheriff?
00:25:11Oh, Sheriff Boggs is holding the inquiry in the house right this minute.
00:25:14Thanks, officer.
00:25:15Be vigilant.
00:25:24Somebody in this room killed Garson Denham with that knife, and I propose to find out who did it.
00:25:37Why don't you get on with it instead of walking up and down, talking your head off?
00:25:40Murder cases take time.
00:25:42I've got to do a lot of deducting.
00:25:45Deducting?
00:25:45You sound like a millionaire making out his income tax.
00:25:49All right, everybody, hold it, please.
00:25:53Who are you?
00:25:55I'm Bob White, New York Evening Register, with cameraman and secretary.
00:25:59Now, tell me who you are.
00:25:59Let me think.
00:26:00You're, uh, you're Sheriff Boggs, and you're conducting an inquiry into the death of Garson Denham.
00:26:05Hiya, Sheriff.
00:26:05How is the inquiry progressing?
00:26:07Well, confidence, Mr. White.
00:26:09It ain't going so hot.
00:26:10Oh, they won't talk.
00:26:11Nobody knows nothing.
00:26:13Open and shut case, huh?
00:26:14Mostly shut.
00:26:16Shuttered in the dickens, but I'll solve it.
00:26:18You may not know it, Mr. White, but I'm a regular reader of your column.
00:26:21Well, thanks, Sheriff.
00:26:22Make a note of that.
00:26:23I got another reader.
00:26:24Maybe when I do solve this dastardly crime, you can write one of them editorials about
00:26:29me, like you wrote about J. Edgar Hoover or Dr. Defoe.
00:26:32Well, I'd be glad to, Sheriff, but how about the crime?
00:26:34Got any clues?
00:26:35Only this knife.
00:26:37I found it sticking in the, uh, carper stalactite.
00:26:40Take a look at it.
00:26:41No, no, no, no, no, no, Sheriff.
00:26:42You take care of that.
00:26:43I'm allergic to knives.
00:26:45It dates way back to the time you learned to use a fork.
00:26:47Quiet.
00:26:52Well, Miss Denham, I see your family reunion got off to a nice little murder.
00:26:55Something's always interfering with my plans.
00:26:59If you mention me on your column, be sure and spell my name right.
00:27:01Oh, you, uh, read my column?
00:27:05Yes.
00:27:06Oh, thank you.
00:27:07I was scared to death they'd ask me that on the witness stand.
00:27:11If I'd admitted it, they'd have thought sure I was crazy.
00:27:16You know, uh, Miss Denham, you and I are just going along fine.
00:27:21Just, just fine.
00:27:22I tell you I got orders not to let anybody in here.
00:27:25Don't tell me I can't come call Cassie Denham when she's in trouble.
00:27:27Get out of my way.
00:27:31Why, what are they doing to you, Cassandra?
00:27:34Are they accusing you of killing Garson Denham?
00:27:37If they are, I can tell them they're wrong.
00:27:39Any man who went snooping around like he did last night was bound to get his comeuppance.
00:27:44How do you know he was snooping?
00:27:46I saw him through the library window.
00:27:50What time was that?
00:27:51About one o'clock in the morning.
00:27:53Trowbridge Montrose, what were you doing looking through my library window at one o'clock in the morning?
00:27:58Probably looking for a book.
00:28:01Speak up, Mr. Montrose.
00:28:03How do you happen to be snooping at that hour?
00:28:05I was walking in my garden.
00:28:08All of a sudden, I saw a light come on in Cassie's library.
00:28:12I peeked through the window and saw Garson Denham snooping.
00:28:17Looking behind pictures and pulling books from shelves.
00:28:22What else did you see?
00:28:23Well, that was all.
00:28:24When he quit snooping and sat down to read, I went home.
00:28:30Do you generally walk in your garden at one o'clock in the morning?
00:28:33Always, when the flowers are in bloom.
00:28:37The scent of flowers at night is much sweeter than it is in the daytime.
00:28:40I loved the scent of flowers at night.
00:28:44Your name wouldn't be Ferdinand, would it?
00:28:47No.
00:28:48I was christened Trowbridge Cadwallader Montrose.
00:28:52However, my grandfather's name was Ferdinand.
00:28:56That explains it.
00:28:57Probably hereditary.
00:28:58Hereditary.
00:29:00What is hereditary?
00:29:03Look, Mr. Montrose, suppose we forget the whole thing.
00:29:06Mr. White, what is your theory of this crime?
00:29:09Well, Sheriff, I haven't had time to theorize, but I have a suggestion.
00:29:12What is it?
00:29:13I have a friend in New York with the name of Philo Christopher.
00:29:16Now, he writes murder mysteries.
00:29:17If I stand for him, probably he could help.
00:29:19Oh, no, you don't.
00:29:21I've read all his books, and I don't like the way he solves his crimes.
00:29:25He always brings in an outside character in the last three pages and pins the murder on him.
00:29:31Just to fool his readers.
00:29:33Nobody's going to pin this murder on an outside character.
00:29:36Somebody in this room killed Garson Denham, and I'm going to apprehend the guilty party.
00:29:40An admirable determination, Sheriff, and well put.
00:29:43In the meantime, we'll go to the village and arrange accommodations.
00:29:46You'll do nothing of the kind.
00:29:47We have plenty of empty rooms here, and you're welcome to stay.
00:29:51In fact, Mr. White, you can sleep in the bed George Washington once slept in.
00:29:55What, another?
00:29:56Father of our country certainly got around, didn't he?
00:29:59I accept your hospitality, Miss Cassandra, and you're very kind.
00:30:01In the meantime, Sheriff, what happens now?
00:30:04I don't rightly know.
00:30:06You fool, you blundering idiot.
00:30:08How can you be so dumb?
00:30:09You know this madwoman committed the murder.
00:30:11Why don't you arrest her?
00:30:12Now, take it easy, Mrs. Denham.
00:30:14I've got no proof that she killed your husband.
00:30:16Proof?
00:30:18Proof?
00:30:18What more proof do you want?
00:30:20She invited us here for a visit and insisted we arrive at midnight.
00:30:24Then she informed us she's going to study us for a week, like rats or guinea pigs.
00:30:28She had every reason to kill Garson, because he wanted to put her where she belonged, in an asylum.
00:30:33I demand that you arrest her.
00:30:34Now, hold on.
00:30:36Anne Cash has been doing queer things around these parts as long as I can remember.
00:30:40But she ain't crazy.
00:30:42The court just decided that.
00:30:44And I am arresting nobody till I've got proof.
00:30:47You fool!
00:30:48You're protecting a murderess!
00:30:49Tom, take me home.
00:30:51I'll not stay in this house another minute!
00:30:53Oh, yes you will.
00:30:55Nobody's leaving Greylock till I apprehend the killer.
00:31:00Tom, take me to my room.
00:31:02You all heard what I said.
00:31:04Nobody's leaving the grounds until this crime's cleared up.
00:31:06I'll have men guard the place day and night.
00:31:09That's all for now.
00:31:10Well, what about me?
00:31:12I live next door.
00:31:14You can go home.
00:31:15My men will keep an eye on you.
00:31:18Maybe after you get unpacked, you'd kind of like to talk this case over before the coroner gets here.
00:31:23Thanks, Sheriff.
00:31:24I'll be glad to.
00:31:25Seton.
00:31:27See that the press is made comfortable.
00:31:29Yes, ma'am.
00:31:30I'm married.
00:31:33I don't like this, Sherlock.
00:31:35I'm scared stiff.
00:31:36Chin up, Watson.
00:32:05I don't like this, Sherlock.
00:32:07I don't like this, Sherlock.
00:32:08I don't like this, Sherlock.
00:32:09I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:10I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:11I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:12I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:13I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:14I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:15I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:16I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:17I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:18I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:19I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:20I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:21I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:22I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:23I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:24I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:25I don't like this, Sherlock Holmes.
00:32:26Come in.
00:32:40Hi, how you all unpacked?
00:32:42Just about.
00:32:44Charming old place, don't you think?
00:32:46Yes.
00:32:47Wonderful view from that window.
00:32:49Have a look.
00:32:50Yeah?
00:32:56I told you the view was wonderful.
00:33:12Yeah, but the murderer used a knife.
00:33:14Well, maybe the next victim will be poisoned.
00:33:16Listen, honey, don't let this thing get you.
00:33:18There won't be any more murders.
00:33:19Come on, let's go down and kibitz with the sheriff.
00:33:26Hi, Sheriff.
00:33:29Any fingerprints?
00:33:30Nope.
00:33:31Can't find any.
00:33:32Take a look.
00:33:33Oh, thanks.
00:33:35You see any?
00:33:36Come on, Sheriff.
00:33:37Give me a shot of you holding the knife.
00:33:40A little higher.
00:33:41Hold it.
00:33:44Has the corpus delecti been removed yet?
00:33:46Nope.
00:33:47It's still in the library where the coroner left it.
00:33:49The undertaker's coming from the village.
00:33:51Do you mind if I take a look at it?
00:33:52No.
00:33:52Come on.
00:33:53You better stay here.
00:33:54This is not for you.
00:33:55I'm a newspaper man.
00:33:55Now you can take it.
00:34:00Hey, wait a minute.
00:34:02That ain't Garson Denham.
00:34:10You're right, Sheriff.
00:34:11That's Larry Denham.
00:34:13But he sure is a corpus delectus.
00:34:17Oh, look.
00:34:23Whoever knocked him off must have come in the window.
00:34:25You're a smart fellow.
00:34:27No signs of anybody.
00:34:29I'm going to round up everybody and question them.
00:34:32They can't do this to me.
00:34:33Killing a man in broad daylight, and I'm right in the next room?
00:34:42Well, here we go again, Miss Denham.
00:34:44What happened?
00:34:45What happened?
00:34:57Have they found the murderer?
00:34:58Well, if he hasn't, my bathwater's getting cold for nothing.
00:35:01Be quiet.
00:35:02Where were you doing the last half hour?
00:35:10I was transplanting a tree near the entrance gate.
00:35:13Deputy Judkins was with me.
00:35:15That's right, Sheriff.
00:35:16What about you?
00:35:19I was grusing the car in the garage.
00:35:21You look it.
00:35:26What were you doing?
00:35:27I was making apple pies.
00:35:29And I'll never be done for dinner at this rate.
00:35:32You got an alibi?
00:35:33I was counting the laundry.
00:35:36The cook saw me.
00:35:49What were you doing?
00:35:51I was spraying roses in my garden.
00:35:54That's what he was doing, Sheriff.
00:35:55I saw him mix the spray.
00:35:56So did I.
00:35:57Poison.
00:35:58I always use poison in my rose spray.
00:36:02It's certain death to insects.
00:36:05Where were you, Miss Cassie?
00:36:06I was running my bath.
00:36:09Oh!
00:36:10What's the matter?
00:36:10I left the water running to ruin everything.
00:36:12Oh!
00:36:13Stay right here.
00:36:14One of you boys run upstairs and turn off Miss Cassie's bathwater.
00:36:17Sit down.
00:36:19Anybody with you while you were drawing this bath?
00:36:21Yes, I was.
00:36:23Oh.
00:36:24For a moment, I thought I had something.
00:36:28And I was walking in the garden by the summer house.
00:36:36You didn't walk by the library by any chance, did you?
00:36:39Yes.
00:36:40Yes, I did.
00:36:41Why?
00:36:43Oh, just idle curiosity.
00:36:45Anybody see you taking this walk?
00:36:47I was watching him all the time, Sheriff.
00:36:48He never got out of my sight.
00:36:54Well, Sheriff, that's that.
00:36:55It sure is.
00:36:58How about you, Mrs. Denham?
00:37:01I was lying down, trying to rest.
00:37:07Where's Larry?
00:37:11Sheriff.
00:37:13Where's Larry?
00:37:14Well, I see him.
00:37:16Larry's not here.
00:37:17Hey, you're right, ma'am.
00:37:18He ain't.
00:37:19He's dead.
00:37:20Dead?
00:37:22You mean, you mean Larry's been murdered?
00:37:27Yes.
00:37:28Not only that.
00:37:29Somebody stole the other carpus delicta.
00:37:31I told you to arrest her.
00:37:33I warned you this thing would happen.
00:37:35Woman is mad.
00:37:36She'll kill us all.
00:37:37Larry.
00:37:37My poor Larry.
00:37:39What do I do now?
00:37:41Well, did you call the coroner?
00:37:44No.
00:37:45I plum forgot her.
00:37:47One of you boys called the coroner right away.
00:37:50That's all for now.
00:37:51What I said about nobody leaving the grounds, still goes.
00:37:58Hello, Mary.
00:37:59All right, boys.
00:38:11Keep an eye outside.
00:38:14What do you folks make of this?
00:38:16They've all got alibis.
00:38:18I'm beginning to think maybe I did it.
00:38:19If you did, you're holding out on your paper.
00:38:21You haven't phoned in your story yet.
00:38:23That's right.
00:38:24I haven't.
00:38:24Proving you're a columnist, not a reporter.
00:38:27Now, look, mister.
00:38:28Let's get out of this funny house and go back to New York.
00:38:32They'll be dancing in 52nd Street tonight while we're playing tag with a knife thrower.
00:38:36You've got a fierce start with your column with readers from New York to Shanghai, China.
00:38:41Why take a chance?
00:38:42Relax, beautiful.
00:38:43Nobody's going to harm me.
00:38:44I'm the handsome young juvenile in this story.
00:38:46He never gets hurt.
00:38:47Now, you'll be a good girl.
00:38:49Get the editor on the phone and give him enough stuff for a flash bullet.
00:38:51Tell him I'll send him a follow-up story in an hour.
00:38:54Okay.
00:38:55What?
00:38:56Say, uh, Sheriff.
00:38:57Do you suppose we can do a little snooping in the library there before the coroner gets here?
00:39:02Oh, I guess it'd be all right if we don't disturb nothing.
00:39:05Swell.
00:39:06It's gone.
00:39:13There ain't no corpus delicta.
00:39:14Things are now beginning to conform to pattern.
00:39:17What are you talking about?
00:39:19There comes a time in every murder mystery when all of the corpus delicti are missing.
00:39:23It generally happens just past the middle of the picture.
00:39:25I don't know how you feel, pal.
00:39:38This thing's got me stumped, too.
00:39:39But we'll both keep trying.
00:39:40We'll figure it out together, eh, pal?
00:39:41Yes, sir.
00:40:03The law always catches up to the guilty party.
00:40:14Leave Greylock at once or you will die.
00:40:17Bye.
00:40:26Bye!
00:40:27Bye!
00:40:28Bye!
00:40:30Bye!
00:40:31Bye!
00:40:32Bye!
00:40:32Bye!
00:40:37Bye!
00:40:37Better come out of there or I'll shoot.
00:41:07Sheriff, Mr. White, you're searched.
00:41:15Never mind my shirt.
00:41:16I just found the bodies.
00:41:17Where?
00:41:18I fell out of the closet in my room.
00:41:19Leave the way.
00:41:24Where are the bodies?
00:41:25I don't see anyone.
00:41:27Where are they going?
00:41:29Are you sure you're not ill?
00:41:31You got a bottle you've been holding out on me.
00:41:33Why did I tell you they were right there?
00:41:35I came out of that bathroom and the statue was gone.
00:41:38There was a note there saying, you leave gray like I want till you die.
00:41:40I rushed to the door and it was locked.
00:41:42I looked at the key and I saw it was turned.
00:41:44So I knew there was somebody inside this room.
00:41:45So I went to the window there and it was locked.
00:41:47So I grabbed my pistol out of that drawer.
00:41:50Then what?
00:41:51And I pointed right at the door and I said, come out of there and I'll shoot.
00:41:54But that didn't come out.
00:41:55So I went over to the door like this.
00:41:57And I pulled it wide open.
00:42:03There they are again.
00:42:05Who's crazy now?
00:42:07Huh?
00:42:08Give me time and I'll find out who stole that statue and wrote that note too.
00:42:11I don't care anything about statues and oaks.
00:42:13Somebody call the coroner an undertaker.
00:42:15I've got the two corpus delictuses and by golly nobody's going to take them away from me.
00:42:20Sheriff, don't you think you ought to let my relatives go home?
00:42:24If the whole family is killed off, there'll be nobody to inherit my money.
00:42:28Sorry, Miss Cassie.
00:42:29Nobody leaves till I find the killer.
00:42:31Don't say I didn't warn you.
00:42:33I'll bet you a pretty penny there'll be more killings before this thing is over.
00:42:37Now, Mary.
00:42:3910 o'clock and time for the last minute news and flashes.
00:42:45Fernbrier, New York.
00:42:47Sheriff William Boggs in charge of the investigation of two murders, which occurred during the past 24 hours at Greylock, the lovely mountain estate of Miss Cassandra Denham, issued a statement an hour ago predicting early apprehension of the killer.
00:42:57Several important clues have been unearthed, the sheriff declared.
00:43:00Detroit, Michigan.
00:43:01Pickets, picketed, pickets.
00:43:02Today, when?
00:43:03Oh, you've got some new clues, eh, Sheriff?
00:43:06Well, not exactly, but after all I've got the corpus delictuses.
00:43:11But nothing else?
00:43:12No, but I've got the place guarded.
00:43:15Not a soul can get past my men going or coming.
00:43:18Good evening, everybody.
00:43:20I was taking my usual walk in the garden.
00:43:24I thought I'd drop in and see if there's anything that I could do.
00:43:27Did any of my men stop you on the way in?
00:43:30Why, no.
00:43:31I saw no one.
00:43:33Your deputy's a regular watchdog, Sheriff.
00:43:36There'll be bloodhounds when I get through dressing them down.
00:43:39Well, I think I'll get a little shut-eye, as you say in your column.
00:43:44Good night, everybody.
00:43:45Good night.
00:43:46I'll accompany you to the stairs.
00:43:48All right.
00:43:49Ah, yeah.
00:43:58Cassie, is there anything you want to tell me?
00:44:03No.
00:44:04Remember, I'll always stand by you.
00:44:09Don't overdo it.
00:44:11Good night.
00:44:13Good night.
00:44:15That sweet little soul who just left gives me the jiving jitters.
00:44:21I wonder who she'll kill next.
00:44:23Here, you cut that out.
00:44:24You're as jumpy as a pogo stick.
00:44:26She's not a killer.
00:44:27How do you know she isn't?
00:44:28Because she's not strong enough to shuffle the bodies of two full-grown men around like a set of Indian clubs.
00:44:33I guess you're right.
00:44:35How about a breath of fresh air before we turn in?
00:44:37I need it.
00:44:38How about you, Ed?
00:44:39No, thanks.
00:44:40Night air irritates my throat, unless it's in night clubs.
00:44:43I'll grab a couple of shots of the Chamber of Horrors while you're gone.
00:44:46That room fascinates me.
00:44:56I'm so proud of you.
00:44:59That's about it.
00:45:01I'll grab something all over you.
00:45:05Hope I'm here for you.
00:45:08Thank you, Ed.
00:45:10For more information, visit www.fema.org
00:45:40Oh
00:46:10Oh
00:46:40Oh
00:47:10Hey
00:47:15Oh, it's you
00:47:31Did you get a good picture?
00:47:34I never miss
00:47:35That's fine
00:47:36If they look anything like me, I'll buy a dozen
00:47:39Well, that is if Price is right
00:47:41Look, Miss Cassie, are you nuts?
00:47:43The losses, I'm not
00:47:45Then why are you wandering around on this subway?
00:47:48Looking for a new victim, I betcha
00:47:50You think I'm a murderess?
00:47:52If you ain't, why are you here?
00:47:55Can you keep a secret?
00:47:56I'm a newspaper man
00:47:58Answer my question
00:47:59Sure, I can keep a secret
00:48:01Follow me
00:48:09Come on, come on
00:48:12Come on, come on
00:48:23I don't suppose you've seen many $10,000 banknotes in your day, have you?
00:48:26$10,000 banknotes?
00:48:28Look, Miss Cassie
00:48:29I'm lucky to cast my peepers on a double sawbuck
00:48:31Meaning twenty potatoes
00:48:32Meaning dollars to you
00:48:33Well, here are two hundred of them
00:48:36Two million in currency
00:48:37And a million in securities
00:48:39I want you to hold all of them for me for safekeeping
00:48:42Me?
00:48:43Carry three million dollars around with me?
00:48:45Lady, now I know you're crazy
00:48:47No, I'm wise
00:48:49Whoever is committing the murders is after my money
00:48:52And it's someone who suspects I keep it in the library
00:48:55Otherwise, why would Garson and Larry have been murdered in the library?
00:48:59Sounds reasonable
00:49:00It is reasonable
00:49:01But, if you keep the money and the securities hidden safely in your camera case
00:49:06No one will suspect
00:49:08And I won't tell a soul
00:49:10Because you might be murdered too
00:49:12You'll find yourself another boy, it ain't worth the risk
00:49:16Oh, yes it is
00:49:18Because when the murder is apprehended
00:49:20I'm going to give you one of these nice, crisp banknotes
00:49:25You mean?
00:49:26You mean I get $10,000?
00:49:29Yes
00:49:30Aunt Cassie, you made a deal
00:49:32You got any idea who the killer might be?
00:49:35Oh, I hope it isn't the one I suspect
00:49:38Who's that?
00:49:39My neighbor, Trowbridge Montrose
00:49:42You mean the flower smeller?
00:49:43Yes
00:49:44He's been in love with me for years
00:49:46I get it
00:49:47A short engagement, huh?
00:49:49No, we're not engaged
00:49:52I can't make up my mind
00:49:54Don't worry, you'll get around to it
00:49:56What makes you think he's the killer?
00:49:58Because he was furious when my relatives tried to put me in the insane asylum
00:50:02He cracked his knuckles
00:50:04And every time he does that, I know he's furious
00:50:07He wanted to give them a dose of his rose spray
00:50:10You mean the poison that he kills the bugs with?
00:50:13Yes
00:50:14Oh, I do hope the next murder is my poison
00:50:17My mind will be relieved
00:50:19Next murder?
00:50:20Oh, yes
00:50:21There'll be other murders
00:50:23Goodbye
00:50:27Goodbye
00:50:29Oh, boy
00:50:33This thing's gotten me stymied
00:50:35Let's sit down
00:50:37Okay
00:50:40It's a sense it's not Aunt Cassie
00:50:42She couldn't lug bodies around
00:50:44Neither could Martha Denham
00:50:46Nor Garson Denham's widow
00:50:48Or that niece that lives with the old lady
00:50:51Then it must be a man
00:50:53How about Tom?
00:50:54Oh, Tom
00:50:55He doesn't strike me as a boy
00:50:56He'd kill his father and cousin
00:50:59Somebody's coming
00:51:03Good evening
00:51:04Oh
00:51:05Hello
00:51:06Good evening
00:51:08Not very sociable, are they?
00:51:10What did you expect them to do?
00:51:11Sit in your lap?
00:51:12Oh, stop snapping at me, O'Brien
00:51:14Sorry
00:51:16You were eliminating suspects
00:51:18Well
00:51:19The butler's out
00:51:20He's an old family retainer
00:51:21So's Katie the cook
00:51:23Fat people seldom commit murder
00:51:25But cooks do use knives
00:51:26Oh
00:51:27Not knives
00:51:28Antique knives
00:51:29200 years old
00:51:31Well, there's still a chauffeur
00:51:32And the gardener
00:51:33And Mr. Trowbridge Montrose
00:51:35Oh, Montrose
00:51:36Monty wouldn't hurt a fly
00:51:38I don't know about that
00:51:39When he talked about spraying bugs
00:51:40He had an unholy look in his eyes
00:51:43Now
00:51:44Let's take the gardener
00:51:45You take him
00:51:46All he wants is to be left alone
00:51:48Well, there's still the chauffeur
00:51:50He's out too
00:51:51He was asleep over the garage
00:51:52When Garson Denham was killed
00:51:53And under a car
00:51:54When Larry got her
00:51:55But then who is the murderer?
00:51:56I don't know
00:51:58Maybe it's the little man
00:51:59That turns out the lights
00:52:00And electric ice boxes
00:52:02Very funny
00:52:04All on account of Aunt Cassie's money
00:52:07If only she'd distribute it
00:52:08Where it would do some good
00:52:09There wouldn't have been any murders
00:52:11Been any murders
00:52:12Why, Tommy
00:52:13You sound like you begrudge Aunt Cassie her money
00:52:17I do
00:52:18He's dead
00:52:19Who did it?
00:52:20I don't know
00:52:21We were sitting here talking
00:52:25When all of a sudden he groaned
00:52:26And then I heard someone run away
00:52:27Come on, boys
00:52:28Let's have a look around
00:52:29We'd better go in the house
00:52:30We'd better go in the house
00:52:31He's dead
00:52:36He's dead
00:52:37He's dead
00:52:38Who did it?
00:52:39He's dead
00:52:40He's dead
00:52:41He's dead
00:52:42He's dead
00:52:43Who did it?
00:52:45He's dead
00:52:45Who did it?
00:52:47I don't know
00:52:48We were sitting here talking
00:52:49When all of a sudden he groaned
00:52:50And then I heard someone run away
00:52:51Come on, boys
00:52:52Let's have a look around
00:52:53We'd better go in the house
00:52:54We'd better go in the house
00:52:55hey somebody over by that big tree
00:53:11nobody here they didn't climb up yeah but we saw him go behind the tree
00:53:22maybe he kept right on going with the tree between him and us
00:53:25uh maybe you're right well i guess that's that i'll see you later come on let's go
00:53:32oh it's you well who'd you think it was
00:53:53hey suppose you tell me what you're doing sneaking around this time of night
00:53:57i'm not sneaking around this time of night i'm taking that can of water michael in the garage
00:54:01oh yeah well come on let's see what michael knows about this come on
00:54:06anybody here yeah
00:54:14you want something you send this fellow for a can of oil sure i did what about it
00:54:19well for your information there's been another murder someone just killed tommy denim young
00:54:23tommy that's why i tackle you in the garden yeah i wouldn't you know it
00:54:28well i guess we might as well start for the house the sheriff will want to question everybody again
00:54:33you know if these murders don't stop i'm never gonna get that car grazed
00:54:36oh that's gonna be tough
00:54:44it's the same thing all over again everybody was everywhere else except where the murder was
00:54:49committed somebody's lying somebody in this room murdered three men how are you going to go on
00:54:55being a fool you know she's the guilty one i almost wish you were right i confess and get it over with
00:55:02it's all because of my money if i thought i could expose the murderer i destroy graylock and all my
00:55:07wealth this minute cassie what are you saying i mean it sheriff i wonder if i could have a word with
00:55:14miss cassie alone sure go on thanks sheriff miss cassie would you mind stepping into the library for
00:55:19just a moment not at all
00:55:33miss cassie you missed your calling what are you talking about you could have been the great american
00:55:37bernhardt oh that was a great act you put on out there come on give what's your angle
00:55:44you're a young smart aleck aren't you don't stall me you've got something on your mind
00:55:49what is it well to tell you the truth i've been toying with a surefire plan to trap the murderer
00:55:56how i've been living in this museum piece for 65 years i'm sort of tired of it it's sliding panels
00:56:03and hidden passages give me the horrors sliding panels hidden passages the place is honeycombed with
00:56:09them the old shack was a headquarters for the colonial spies during the revolutionary war
00:56:15and a station for an underground railroad during the civil war i tell you mr white every time you
00:56:20touch a wall in this place it's liable to jump at you yeah yeah yeah then maybe the murderer is hiding
00:56:30in one of those secret passages now he might be but if he isn't my plan is still good i'm going to set
00:56:39fire to graylock you're going to do what i'm going to burn the old shack down you see whoever the killer
00:56:47is he or she is after my money until today i had three million in cash and securities hidden in this
00:56:54house today i removed it your photographer has it hidden in his camera case
00:57:01you you mean to say eddie's got three million dollars carrying around with him in the camera
00:57:08case yes but if your money is safe miss cassie why burn the place down because the murderer will give
00:57:16himself away if he thinks the money is going up in smoke the house means nothing to me for 65 years
00:57:21it's had me hanging on the ropes i learned that bit of slang reading your column but listen that's arson
00:57:28arson no it isn't i've no insurance i'm not cheating anybody
00:57:36i'm just lighting a bonfire to take a great load off my shoulders oh but it seems such a shame to
00:57:42destroy such a lovely old place oh pish and tosh if i don't burn it down we'll all find ourselves in
00:57:48the cemetery besides the upkeep of the old shack is terrific what do you say will you help me well
00:57:56okay what's the setup you get everybody outside on some pretext leave the rest to me keep your eyes
00:58:03open and the first one who makes a break for the house is the murderer so long mr white hey what do
00:58:09you mean so long keep your eyes open i certainly but so long mr white
00:58:26why should we be hurted out here at this hour of the night where's aunt cassie calm yourself and don't
00:58:42ask questions
00:58:47hey look
00:58:55Oh, what is it? What's happened? What is this mean?
00:59:06Did I set it on fire?
00:59:09Told her she was crazy.
00:59:10What are you doing, Cassie?
00:59:11Don't you worry about anything.
00:59:25Oh, what is it?
00:59:55What's your money?
01:00:02Your money is in there.
01:00:04Yes, I know it.
01:00:05It'll be destroyed.
01:00:07I'm glad of it.
01:00:08Money is a curse.
01:00:10A curse that breeds evil.
01:00:19Your eye is open for the break.
01:00:23You can't destroy it.
01:00:25It's mine.
01:00:26Mine, I tell you.
01:00:27I lived with you, put up with your strictness, pretended to love you, knowing that one day
01:00:31it would be mine.
01:00:32Oh, I hated you.
01:00:34Yet I pretended to love you, knowing that someday you would die and your money would be mine.
01:00:39Then when the others stepped in, I killed.
01:00:41Yes, Michael and I murdered so that one day it would all be mine.
01:00:45I would be your only ass.
01:00:46I would be your only ass.
01:00:46Please.
01:00:47Hey, tie her loose.
01:00:49Don't shoot.
01:00:51My husband.
01:00:52Your husband?
01:00:53What are you talking about?
01:00:55We've been married over a year.
01:00:57Don't let them kill me.
01:00:59Don't.
01:00:59Please don't.
01:01:00I'll take it to the village.
01:01:01Come on.
01:01:02I'll take it to the village.
01:01:04Don't let him go.
01:01:04Don't let him go.
01:01:05Come on.
01:01:05Don't let him go.
01:01:05Come on.
01:01:06Don't let him go.
01:01:06Don't let him go.
01:01:07Don't let him go.
01:01:07Where is it?
01:01:27I swear he dashed behind this tree.
01:01:29I saw him, too.
01:01:30So did I.
01:01:31Come on.
01:01:33How come you're not playing Daniel Boone with the sheriff and his boys?
01:01:36It's not quite time for the Marines to move in.
01:01:38Are the Marines coming?
01:01:39They're practically here.
01:01:41Folks, follow me.
01:01:42I'm about to catch a killer.
01:01:46Come on, folks.
01:01:47Let me get this car off the grease pit.
01:02:01Stand back, folks.
01:02:02Tomorrow I'll have to do a little shooting.
01:02:06What is this?
01:02:08Quiet.
01:02:09Here he comes down.
01:02:13Hey!
01:02:14Come on.
01:02:15Get out of there and keep your hands in the air.
01:02:19Hey!
01:02:19Where did you find him?
01:02:21Puffed out of a hole in the ground just like that.
01:02:24Thanks for tipping off about those secret passages.
01:02:26I figured there must be one near that big tree in the garden
01:02:28after our friend here did that neat disappearing act early in the evening.
01:02:32Take it away, Sheriff.
01:02:33Sheriff!
01:02:35Part!
01:02:44Wilbridge, will you marry me?
01:02:47Cassie!
01:02:48Do you mean it?
01:02:49Of course I do.
01:02:50I've got to live somewhere in other gray locks no more.
01:02:53Maybe we can wake up Judge Hoskins and get hitched tonight.
01:02:57Darling!
01:02:59Love is in the air.
01:03:00Come on.
01:03:04Here's your money, Miss Cassie.
01:03:05And if it's all the same to you, I'll have my ten G's at this moment.
01:03:09Here you are.
01:03:10You've earned it.
01:03:12Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh.
01:03:15Hey.
01:03:16Hey!
01:03:17Hey, this is Confederate money.
01:03:19Hey, where's the penny?
01:03:20I guess I forgot to tell you all.
01:03:22I'm one of the denims of Virginia from the deep south.
01:03:31Trowbridge, darling.
01:03:32You have enough real money for both of us, haven't you?
01:03:35Ampled by fifth.
01:03:36You better have.
01:03:38You've been taking care of the old shack and all my relatives for 20 years.
01:03:42Well, what do we do now?
01:03:46I don't know what you're going to do, brother, but I'm going to do this.
01:03:51Okay.
01:03:51Hold it.
01:04:00The Hayes office ain't going to like that long kiss.
01:04:03The Hayes office ain't going to like that long kiss.
01:04:33The Hayes office ain't going to like that long.
01:04:46There's a door with no luck.
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