Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)

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A sweet blonde goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that the blonde is suspect #1, tough cop Butch Saunders comes up with a scheme to crack ...  Director: Roy Del Ruth  Writer: Robert Presnell Sr., John H. Ayers, Carol Bird  Stars: Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O&apos;Brien

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00:00The end of the day

00:10Hello, Tom. Any new customers?

00:12Five, last night. Three suicides.

00:14The other two, we don't know what happened.

00:16Okay, I'll take a hinge of them.

00:30There's a log in there.

00:50I can't recognize this man. What hit him?

00:52Subway train. He was there last night.

01:00Let's go.

01:30Hello.

01:38Oh, yes. Mr. Bloom.

01:41Yes, we have a report on your case.

01:44We've located your wife in Philadelphia.

01:47She's at a hotel over there.

01:49Oh, I'm sorry. I can't mention names over the phone.

01:52You better come down here and we'll give you the details.

01:55All right. Goodbye.

01:56Have you had any news from my Clara yet?

02:01Who's handling your case?

02:03Mr. Conlon.

02:04If you'll just step in there, I think you'll find Mr. Conlon.

02:14This is Ms. Topsy Gordon and her press agent, Mr. Rangel.

02:16Where do you locate, Ms. Gordon?

02:21We found her hiding out in a farm up near Albany.

02:24Ms. Gordon, you have gorgeous considerable time and expense looking for you.

02:28Why did you disappear?

02:30It was a publicity stunt.

02:31A scheme my press agent invented to get my name and picture in the papers.

02:35I'm opening in a play on Broadway called The Blue Moon.

02:38If we could have kept her hidden for another week,

02:40she would have landed on the front page of every paper in the country.

02:43This department is up to its neck.

02:45Trying to be of service to people who need us badly.

02:47When you waste the time of my men for a cheap stunt like this,

02:50I ought to throw you both in jail.

02:52Oh, please don't. We were only trying to...

02:53Yes, I know. Trying to fool a lot of people, including the police department.

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