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College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
Director: Ralph Murphy.
Writers: Cortland Fitzsimmons (novel), Garrett Fort & Robert N. Lee(screenplay), Allen Rivkin & P.J. Wolfson (additional dialogue).
Stars: Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charles Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, Lew Cody, David Landau, J. Farrell MacDonald, Kenneth Thomson, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Walter Hiers, Paul Page, Reed Howes, George Rosener.
Director: Ralph Murphy.
Writers: Cortland Fitzsimmons (novel), Garrett Fort & Robert N. Lee(screenplay), Allen Rivkin & P.J. Wolfson (additional dialogue).
Stars: Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charles Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, Lew Cody, David Landau, J. Farrell MacDonald, Kenneth Thomson, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Walter Hiers, Paul Page, Reed Howes, George Rosener.
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00:20:40I mean it.
00:20:44What?
00:20:48I have your promise that...
00:20:51Sure.
00:21:03Mike, send the boys in.
00:21:10He won't do it.
00:21:14He's just trying to protect Clark.
00:21:16Do you think he'll cross you?
00:21:17Sure, in a minute.
00:21:20Who else do you know that's close to the state team?
00:21:22Wait a minute, let me think.
00:21:24There was a young guy down here once who got in bed with a girl.
00:21:27Can you get him?
00:21:29Sure. This guy's in the bag.
00:21:33All right, if you get him, give me a ring at the hotel, will you?
00:21:36Oh, I'll have him down here in a half hour.
00:21:40Hello, Slip.
00:21:46Hello, Mac.
00:21:49Can I see the game?
00:21:50Yeah.
00:21:51Any objections?
00:21:53Who's gonna win?
00:21:54University.
00:21:58What'll your kid brother say to that?
00:22:00Let him remember me
00:22:07As I used to be
00:22:12When his love for me
00:22:17Made him strong and free
00:22:21That's a Broadway
00:22:23That's a Broadway
00:22:25Melody
00:22:26That's a Broadway
00:22:28Melody
00:22:31Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
00:23:01Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, here we are at Memorial Field with Johnny Moran your
00:23:29favorite sports writer broadcasting the gridiron classic of the season between state and university.
00:23:33Oh, what a day, what a day, what a day.
00:23:35Great football weather.
00:23:37Hold, clear, nippy.
00:23:39Nippy.
00:23:40That's it, it's nippy.
00:23:41Nippy.
00:23:42Nippy.
00:23:43There's an awful draft up here in the press box, folks.
00:23:46Must be a window open somewhere.
00:23:47Would you pardon me while I shut it?
00:23:49Ha, ha, ha, well, I got it down.
00:23:53I tell you, that state cheering section is positively a sensation, fellas.
00:24:02They're all dressed in red and white.
00:24:04The men are wearing short coats and long pants, and the women are wearing...
00:24:07Long coats and short coats.
00:24:08Long coats and short...
00:24:09Out of 70,000 seats in this place, you've got to pick this one.
00:24:14I tell you, Johnny, I like you.
00:24:16Well, don't let it ripen into love.
00:24:18Pardon the interruption, folks, but Jack Dempsey just came in to say hello.
00:24:22Sit right down, Jack.
00:24:23Stay as long as you like.
00:24:27What number's Clark?
00:24:28Number two.
00:24:29The boy down there with a goldfish.
00:24:31All right.
00:24:35Well, there go the two captains to meet the referee in the center of the field.
00:24:38Captain Shook, state's big center, and Captain Southern University's crack halfback.
00:24:42University.
00:24:43Okay.
00:24:44We'll defend that gold.
00:24:45Okay, boys.
00:24:46Let's go.
00:24:47Say, tell that guy Clark to stay out of my way or I'll flatten him.
00:24:50B-B-R-S-I-T-Y.
00:24:51B-B-C-T.
00:24:52Hey, listen, love.
00:24:53Will you forget about that nightmare you had last night?
00:24:54Nobody's gonna take me for a ride.
00:24:55Come on, now.
00:24:56Snap out of him.
00:24:57He's got a football game planned.
00:24:58All right, boys.
00:24:59On your turn.
00:25:00All right, boys.
00:25:01On your turn.
00:25:02All right.
00:25:03All right.
00:25:04All right.
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00:25:12All right.
00:25:13All right.
00:25:14All right.
00:25:15Well, here we go, folks.
00:25:16The Kings are lined up, ready for the kickoff.
00:25:18University's going to kick off the state.
00:25:19Remember that?
00:25:20Oh, it's terrific, exciting.
00:25:22Crowd holding their breath.
00:25:24Wish you could hold yours.
00:25:25I wish you'd leap in the lake.
00:25:27Well, it's State's ball third down.
00:25:28Now, maybe we see Wally Clark run with the ball.
00:25:41Nope.
00:25:42It's Stanley Bucket again.
00:25:43There he goes.
00:25:44He's away.
00:25:45He's away.
00:25:46Nope.
00:25:47Jorgerson's going to get him.
00:25:48No.
00:25:49Jorgerson missed him.
00:25:50He's running around the side and field.
00:25:51I had 10, 15 yards.
00:25:52There we go.
00:25:53Clawson forced him out of bounds.
00:25:54Oh, boy, what a run that was.
00:25:55He made a yard and a half.
00:25:57Clark's back to punt now.
00:25:58The boys are in kick formation.
00:25:59The ball is snapped.
00:26:00Hey!
00:26:01Oh!
00:26:02Oh!
00:26:03Oh!
00:26:04Oh!
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00:26:43?!
00:26:44Ahem!
00:26:45Oh!
00:26:46Oh!
00:26:47Oh!
00:26:48Oh!
00:26:49Oh, boy, what a game...
00:26:50What a game.
00:26:51Oh, oh, oh.
00:26:52Oh!
00:26:53Oh, oh it ain't.
00:26:54Oh, I guess we had an impact on the right first round!
00:26:55the lord no it's the wrong game we're in the middle of the second quarter no score and i decide
00:27:02both teams are fighting like demons what's the matter with buck and mac he won't let
00:27:05wally clark carry that ball maybe they're saving him you're saving him for what a rainy day
00:27:09hey buck tell me to carry that ball when i'm supposed to i can take care of myself i know
00:27:13what i'm doing hey get back you fool it may be a pass oh it's a pass they've caught buck in our
00:27:23position it's a touchdown
00:27:34and that touchdown folks was just a little gift made to university by buckham he left
00:27:39his position entirely uncovered
00:27:44here we go folks the teams are lined up ready for the kickoff university is going to kick off the
00:27:49state remember
00:28:03oh mama mama what a beautiful run
00:28:08it's touchdown no no there goes the referee's whistle ah he must have stepped out of bounds on university's
00:28:14three-yard line about huh right right yep the referees bring the ball out oh was that a run was that a
00:28:20was you excuse me folks emotions overcome me
00:28:23you know what do you know
00:28:30oh thanks thanks man thank you
00:28:34hey go have a see
00:28:40here's what we're tied up boys now let's do it
00:28:4346 all tackle what what's the idea buck give that ball to wally i'm still quarterback this team 46
00:28:49are you doing a swell job for the other side
00:29:02hey what is it come on let's get together we need this
00:29:05score suppose you forget about me and let's play your position okay oh come on
00:29:23well now let's go
00:29:2842 off tackle i'll take
00:29:30height
00:29:35where's my end
00:29:38wait one two three four
00:29:43all that brilliant work apart went for nothing I know another guy who's brilliant
00:29:58what is wrong for nothing now they're taking bucket out now I certainly feel sorry for the kid but he
00:30:23surely is off his game today well there can't be many more seconds before this half ends University
00:30:29punts just she should and here comes Clark all the states in the center of the field now only a few
00:30:41seconds to play they go to a huddle they come out the ball is snapped to Clark and there he goes
00:30:53yeah
00:31:00yeah
00:31:02yeah
00:31:03yeah
00:31:07yeah
00:31:12yeah
00:31:14And they lose the gun, and at the end of the first half, I hope I hold on for the second.
00:31:24Stand by, stand by, please.
00:31:35Good thing we've got a nation, though.
00:31:44I've got some in my locker.
00:32:00I'd like to get in my locker, if you don't mind, Buckingham.
00:32:06Sorry, kid.
00:32:08It's all right, Wally.
00:32:09I'm not a footballer you learned last night at Othello's.
00:32:14Why don't you learn to mind your own business?
00:32:16Hi, fellas.
00:32:17Tight down.
00:32:17Here comes the old man.
00:32:23Well, gentlemen.
00:32:27It took you just five, six of the first half to start playing football.
00:32:33Now, for that time, I thought you were a debating team.
00:32:37But with conferences and arguments and time out.
00:32:41And you, Connors.
00:32:44Don't you think university opposition enough without making our men take you out of place, too?
00:32:49Yes, sir.
00:32:51The hardest man we had to get by out there was you.
00:32:54Pick up your feet and move a little.
00:32:58Talking about opposition.
00:33:02I'm Kenny himself, couldn't have called our place better for university.
00:33:05I've got so much to say and so little time to say it.
00:33:10I'll put it all in these few words.
00:33:12Interfere for Clark.
00:33:15Block for Clark.
00:33:17And above all, give the ball to Clark.
00:33:21You'll see that, Griffith.
00:33:24I'm putting you in a quarter.
00:33:25You've just been listening to Governor Thompson, ladies and gentlemen, upon graduating state and himself.
00:33:34Quite a football player in his day.
00:33:38University team is already on the field.
00:33:41The second half is about to begin.
00:33:42Oh, boy.
00:33:43It's much colder up here now.
00:33:45Bad day for us all through.
00:33:46I'm about to cut it.
00:33:47I'm sorry you're not in there, kid.
00:33:54No more.
00:34:04University comes out of his huddle.
00:34:06The ball is snapped to Jogerson.
00:34:09There goes Clark.
00:34:10Back to receive.
00:34:10Oh, boy, did he hit him.
00:34:24That man, Souther, has been tackling after Demon all day long.
00:34:2743.
00:34:28That Clark takes it fast.
00:34:29Way deep.
00:34:29Let's go.
00:34:32Look.
00:34:34Okay, Walter.
00:34:36Signals.
00:34:38Change signals.
00:34:39I'll take it.
00:34:3924.
00:34:40Let's go.
00:34:57Hello, hello.
00:34:59Looks like somebody's hurt.
00:35:01Yep, there goes the state trainer out in the field.
00:35:03It's Griffith.
00:35:04They're taking him out.
00:35:05Oh.
00:35:05Bugger.
00:35:06Can you snap out of that trance long enough to call one play?
00:35:09Yes, sir.
00:35:1121.
00:35:12And give the ball to Clark.
00:35:14Get out there.
00:35:17Go, go, go.
00:35:19Bugger.
00:35:22Fight.
00:35:25Fight.
00:35:26One, two, three, four, five, two, three.
00:35:34There goes Tony Clark.
00:35:35He's in it clear.
00:35:42There's something wrong.
00:35:44Clark is slowing down.
00:35:47He's at the 15-yard line.
00:35:48One more second, he'll make it.
00:35:55Well, I guess that's about all for today.
00:35:56Clark is still lying there, not moving.
00:36:04He seems to be completely out.
00:36:07Now they're carrying Clark off.
00:36:09I don't see how he was hurt.
00:36:11There was no one near him.
00:36:12Must be something serious, huh?
00:36:14Don't look kosher to me.
00:36:17We'd better get him to the hospital right away.
00:36:19You go back to the field, I'll take him.
00:36:20No, no, let me.
00:36:21I know these boys so much better.
00:36:22Doc Collins, they want you on the field.
00:36:23Walters hurt.
00:36:24Yeah.
00:36:25Why don't I go in?
00:36:26Okay.
00:36:30Sorry.
00:36:30I'm sorry, miss.
00:36:33I can't let you in.
00:36:34You've got to let me in.
00:36:35I'm his sister.
00:36:35I can't let you in, Liz.
00:36:37I can't.
00:36:37But I...
00:36:38Well, too, but there's...
00:36:40Hey!
00:36:41There you go, yeah.
00:36:43They're going on with the game, folks.
00:36:45As you know, the score is still 7-all and it's State's Ball and University's 10-yard line.
00:36:50Greenwood is now taking the place of Wally Clark.
00:36:52Can't you send someone in to see how he is?
00:36:56No, miss.
00:36:57I'm sorry.
00:36:57I'll have to ask you to wait in the reception room.
00:37:10Oh, nurse.
00:37:11How is he?
00:37:12Dr. Kyle's on his way for consultation.
00:37:14We can't tell him to them.
00:37:16I'm sorry.
00:37:18Lucille, State Law 13-7.
00:37:20Isn't that a handy?
00:37:21Shh!
00:37:22Oh, you just take it easy, sister.
00:37:40Everything's liable to be all right.
00:37:49Oh, this wanky.
00:37:51Why isn't it?
00:37:54Oh, doctor.
00:37:55Just a minute.
00:38:00Well, what does it look like?
00:38:03No one knows.
00:38:04We've never run close anything like it before.
00:38:07You mind if I take a look?
00:38:09No.
00:38:10You'll come back and tell me, won't you?
00:38:12You better.
00:38:13You better.
00:38:26Swell bunch of MDs you are.
00:38:28Here he is dying.
00:38:29You don't even know what's the matter with him.
00:38:31Well, it looks like apoplexy.
00:38:34Apoplexy?
00:38:34You ain't a football player?
00:38:35Certainly a heart collapse of some sort.
00:38:38Where have they got Wally Clark?
00:38:40In the receiving room.
00:38:44Well, come in, Collins.
00:38:46This is the team doctor, Mr. McKenna.
00:38:47You examined Clark just before the game, didn't you?
00:38:50Yes.
00:38:50How was his heart?
00:38:51All right.
00:38:52Ever have any trouble with it?
00:38:53Not in the three years I've known him.
00:38:55That knocks your heart gag in a cocked hat.
00:38:57Doesn't make sense.
00:38:58Some of these cases don't.
00:38:59Well, there's some sense to this one.
00:39:00That's what I'm here to find out about.
00:39:06Dorothy.
00:39:07Oh, Buck.
00:39:07How's Wally?
00:39:08They don't know.
00:39:09Where is he?
00:39:10Over there.
00:39:10Well, I'd better go.
00:39:11Not for a moment.
00:39:13Oh, it's been awful waiting here like this.
00:39:15Hold me tight.
00:39:17Everything should happen to him.
00:39:18I don't know what I...
00:39:18Listen, darling.
00:39:20Everything's going to be all right.
00:39:22It's got to be.
00:39:35He's gone.
00:39:37Well, you gentlemen have done all right so far.
00:39:48Now I'm going to take a hand.
00:39:50How?
00:39:50I'm ordering an autopsy right away.
00:39:52Why?
00:39:53You said he died of unnatural causes.
00:39:54That's where I come in.
00:39:56Mr. McKenna, I wouldn't be too hasty, please.
00:39:59You see, we have the school to consider.
00:40:01There's no use letting ourselves in for unnecessary publicity.
00:40:05You are in for it.
00:40:06You and the school both.
00:40:07And plenty of rising from the newspapers, too.
00:40:0970,000 people saw this kid drop, and they'll be wanting to know what dropped him.
00:40:13You better start thinking up your answers right now.
00:40:15Give me the coroner.
00:40:28Never mind about your dinner.
00:40:29Get right over here.
00:40:30I've got an autopsy I want you to rush through.
00:40:32Looks like a murder.
00:40:33Look.
00:40:42What's that?
00:40:52Looks like someone crawling around.
00:40:54Maybe that's the guy that did it.
00:40:55Let's go.
00:41:00Yeah.
00:41:01What's that?
00:41:03The coroner.
00:41:08Explosion of the brain.
00:41:10Well, what's that?
00:41:11And why?
00:41:12I see.
00:41:15In other words, you don't know either.
00:41:17You're almost as good as those doctors.
00:41:19All right, that's enough for me to go, and I'll call you back.
00:41:24Well, that wraps it up, boys.
00:41:26Clark was murdered.
00:41:29This is going to cause an awful smell.
00:41:31Mm-hmm.
00:41:33What are those boys of yours down here the first thing in the morning?
00:41:35Yours, too, Kennedy.
00:41:36We're all set to leave on the tenant's lap train tonight.
00:41:38I'm sorry.
00:41:39The boys like to stick around another day.
00:41:42Thanks, Jim.
00:41:43Any word from you on Buckingham yet?
00:41:44Nope.
00:41:45Keep on it.
00:41:48What's that?
00:41:49Maybe they got somebody.
00:41:52Hey, chick.
00:41:53We found a guy prowling around the stadium.
00:41:54Send him in.
00:41:55Get in, man.
00:41:56Come on.
00:41:57Yeah.
00:41:57Cut it.
00:41:58Cut it.
00:41:58Cut it out, will you?
00:42:00Hi, pal.
00:42:02Is this it?
00:42:03Yes.
00:42:03He looked like a dangerous character.
00:42:04And they shot at me.
00:42:06They missed me, but they shot at me.
00:42:08He was crawling along in his hands and knees like a cockroach.
00:42:10What?
00:42:10Who is the cockroach?
00:42:12I was only trying to find a way out.
00:42:14Out of what?
00:42:15A heavy fog?
00:42:16No, no.
00:42:17You see, I was, it seems, I was generally overcome with excitement.
00:42:21You know, the game and the, and the general hubble, hubble, hubble, hubble.
00:42:26Yeah.
00:42:27And I passed out.
00:42:29No.
00:42:29And when I opened my baby blue eyes and looked around, there was nothing there but me and the moon.
00:42:37Everybody was gone.
00:42:39Oh, I was all alone.
00:42:41Oh, Mac, you don't know what it is to be all alone in a great big stadium.
00:42:44All right, boys, leave with me.
00:42:45I'll take care of them.
00:42:46I, come on, park the body over here and sing yourself to sleep.
00:42:49No, but look, look, look what they did to my, look, I'm full of holes.
00:42:53What are you kicking about?
00:42:54Now you can wear it next summer.
00:42:56A small town of humor.
00:43:03All right for me to come in?
00:43:04Yes, come in, Colin.
00:43:05I've been waiting for you.
00:43:06I'll be at the hotel, Mr. McKenna, if you want me.
00:43:08Right.
00:43:09Good night, Mike.
00:43:10Good night, Tom.
00:43:11It's Clark's uniform.
00:43:12I brought it down from the infirmary, as you asked me to.
00:43:14Thanks.
00:43:15The headgear's in the locker room.
00:43:17The officer on guard didn't seem to want to let me go in.
00:43:19Everything's locked and sealed.
00:43:20Coroner's orders.
00:43:21Sit down.
00:43:21Colin's being close to the boys as you are.
00:43:26You've probably got a pretty good line on most of them.
00:43:28How did Clark stand?
00:43:29Oh, great, great.
00:43:31Everybody liked him, except...
00:43:33Except what?
00:43:34Nothing important.
00:43:35It might be.
00:43:37Well, I'd rather have it come from Bucken.
00:43:39Oh, come on, come on.
00:43:40This isn't a class in ethics.
00:43:42Well, Bucken got a telephone call last night from Mortello.
00:43:46It's from a man named Buchanan.
00:43:48I believe he's a notorious gambler.
00:43:50Yes, I've heard of him.
00:43:51He's Bucken's brother.
00:43:53You don't say.
00:43:57Did you bring Bucken with you?
00:43:58I've been hanging around his room all this time, but he didn't show up.
00:44:01Oh, here's something I run across in his wastebasket.
00:44:07What was in there?
00:44:08Could you tell?
00:44:13Couldn't say without analysis.
00:44:15Tastes as if it might have had Strickman there.
00:44:18Take this down and have it analyzed.
00:44:20That, too.
00:44:20Come on, come on.
00:44:22I'll be right here.
00:44:23All right, all right.
00:44:24You don't have to go selling me around.
00:44:26Hey, McKenna.
00:44:27What's the smart idea of getting me up here at this hour?
00:44:30And my big night, too.
00:44:32Where's Slip Buchanan?
00:44:33Slip Buchanan?
00:44:35Who's that?
00:44:35Now, don't give me that.
00:44:36Listen, Archelle.
00:44:37I've got enough on you to close you up.
00:44:38Now, you better answer my questions and ask them straight.
00:44:41Where's Slip?
00:44:42He left town right after the game.
00:44:45Did he collect his dough?
00:44:46As far as I know.
00:44:48What's the lowdown on this deal between Slip and his brother?
00:44:51I don't know what you're driving at.
00:44:52I don't know nothing about him.
00:44:53Now, if you don't want to make things tough yourself, you better answer my questions.
00:44:56Where's the kid now?
00:44:57He left town on the 815.
00:45:01How do you know?
00:45:02Sam, took him to the station.
00:45:04Skipped town.
00:45:07Too bad he did that.
00:45:09Did what?
00:45:10Ran out like that.
00:45:11Oh, come, fellas.
00:45:13The boy undoubtedly had a very good reason for leaving.
00:45:15Oh, I don't doubt that.
00:45:17I only say he picked a funny time to go.
00:45:19Now, I know Buckingham pretty well, and I resent your implications.
00:45:21This is no time for anybody to resent anything.
00:45:24A boy was killed, a game was lost, somebody made a cleanup.
00:45:27We don't know who did it.
00:45:29We don't know how it was done.
00:45:31It might be anybody, but we do know it was murder.
00:45:35Murder?
00:45:37Did somebody say murder?
00:45:42Hello?
00:45:43Hello, operator?
00:45:44Give the New York Star Tribune it off right away.
00:45:48Someone's been murdered.
00:45:50Who was it?
00:45:57I don't know why you didn't take me.
00:46:26I like football.
00:46:27I had business to do.
00:46:30Sometimes mixing pleasure with business is awful nice, honey.
00:46:34My business is always a pleasure.
00:46:38See what that is.
00:46:41Oh, perhaps I'd better get dressed.
00:46:46Hello, kid.
00:46:47I didn't expect to see you here.
00:46:51I'll bet you didn't.
00:46:52Well, what got you here so early?
00:46:54Look at this.
00:46:58What?
00:47:01When did this come out?
00:47:02I just got it down at the corner newsstand.
00:47:05What's it all about?
00:47:06You know what it's all about.
00:47:08You killed Clark.
00:47:09Now, hold on.
00:47:10Hold on.
00:47:10You're talking wild.
00:47:11You lied to me.
00:47:12You promised me that Walter wouldn't be hurt.
00:47:14Keep cool.
00:47:15Keep cool.
00:47:16I've got a lawyer that'll spring you within 24 hours.
00:47:19You can't get away with this.
00:47:21I'd yell my head off to the police, the newspapers, and everybody.
00:47:24I'll tell them how you propositioned.
00:47:25Now, that's about all I'll take from you.
00:47:30You're not talking to a kid now.
00:47:33Sit down.
00:47:35Sit down.
00:47:36Now, get this straight.
00:47:46I didn't kill Clark, or have him killed, or intend that he be killed.
00:47:52That's not my racket.
00:47:54He's dead, though.
00:47:56Yes, the fact is, he's dead.
00:47:59Well, that's just one of those things.
00:48:02It may have been his heart.
00:48:04Maybe he fell on his head.
00:48:05It may be lots of things, but I have nothing to do with it.
00:48:08That's what you say.
00:48:09Now, we'll just wait and see what happens.
00:48:12Now, you lay low here, and I'll help you to beat any rat that they frame against you if
00:48:17it costs me my last dime.
00:48:19Oh, it's all a stall.
00:48:20I know you.
00:48:21You're trying to cover.
00:48:22Don't you understand?
00:48:23I'm trying to help you.
00:48:25I don't want any help from you.
00:48:26I don't want any of your money.
00:48:27I was doing all right until you had to horn in again, and a swell mess you made of things,
00:48:32or for a few rotten dollars.
00:48:33But I'll get out from under alone, and you'll know what you can do with your lawyer and
00:48:36your last dime.
00:48:37Why, you ungrateful little sap.
00:48:39I've got a good mind to smack you in a jar like I used to.
00:48:42Hold it, Buchanan.
00:48:45Bucking?
00:48:46Yes.
00:48:48Come on, kid.
00:48:49We're taking you back upstate.
00:48:50There's a train leaving in 20 minutes, if you want to take it.
00:49:05Putting them under a light is a pretty old gag.
00:49:08I know that.
00:49:09It may work with these college kids.
00:49:10Just now I'm up a tree.
00:49:11Funny how small towns slow some people up.
00:49:14Oh, shut up.
00:49:15Now sit back and remember, the only reason you're here is to see they don't give me any
00:49:19bum steers on this football stuff.
00:49:21When I want you to say anything, I'll address you.
00:49:23Yes, teacher.
00:49:24Want an apple?
00:49:25Shut up.
00:49:26Send in Connors.
00:49:30Connors!
00:49:34I understand you sell liquor, Connors.
00:49:37No, sir.
00:49:38I mean, yes, sir.
00:49:39But only for minister purposes.
00:49:43You've got a good many patients around here, haven't you?
00:49:44Well, there's been a lot of sickness amongst the boys this winter.
00:49:49What were you doing at Ortella's the night before the game?
00:49:52I was down there on business.
00:49:53Business with Slip Buchanan, eh?
00:49:55Who?
00:49:55You met Slip Buchanan at Ortella's private office and they bought you.
00:49:57No, they didn't.
00:49:58They sold me.
00:49:58Sold you what?
00:49:59Four cases of rye.
00:50:01What are you getting for rye now?
00:50:04Five bucks a quart.
00:50:07Didn't Ortella make you a proposition to throw the game?
00:50:13No, sir.
00:50:14Did Ortella make a proposition to any of the boys?
00:50:16I should say not.
00:50:17They'd have torn his place down.
00:50:22When do you graduate, Connors?
00:50:24I don't know.
00:50:25The faculty don't seem to want to tell me.
00:50:28You know you hated Clark's guts.
00:50:39Sure I did.
00:50:39But I didn't kill him.
00:50:41Did you try?
00:50:43No.
00:50:44I'd have been satisfied to cripple him for life.
00:50:47Hmm.
00:50:47Nice boy.
00:50:52Why were you sent out of the game, Griffith?
00:50:54I wasn't sent out.
00:50:55I got hurt.
00:50:56Funny, you got hurt just in time to get out of the game.
00:50:58In time?
00:50:59I don't get you.
00:51:00Time to get away from Clark before he died.
00:51:02Say, you can't get away with that.
00:51:04Sit down.
00:51:04Sit down.
00:51:08Miss Dorothy Clark.
00:51:14You and young Buckin are engaged.
00:51:16Is that right?
00:51:17Well, practically.
00:51:18I wanted to announce it Saturday night at the Delta Dance, but...
00:51:23But what?
00:51:26Buck didn't seem to want me to do it.
00:51:28What reason did he give?
00:51:29I'd rather not talk about it at all.
00:51:32I've been so upset.
00:51:33Please, Miss McKenna, I'd rather not.
00:51:35I'm sorry, Miss Clark, but we've got to talk about it.
00:51:38Anything that you can tell me to throw any light on this case is important,
00:51:42no matter how unpleasant it may be for you.
00:51:44Excuse me.
00:51:45Yes?
00:51:47What?
00:51:49Oh.
00:51:50Yeah, all right.
00:51:52I'm sorry.
00:51:53Something important has just come up.
00:51:54Do you mind waiting in the next room for a few moments?
00:51:56Why, of course not.
00:52:00It shall be long.
00:52:09Send in Buckin.
00:52:10I'm disappointed in you, Buck.
00:52:18I didn't think you'd run away.
00:52:20I did not run away.
00:52:21I had to go to New York.
00:52:22What was the big rush?
00:52:22Well, I had to see somebody there.
00:52:24Slipped you down, eh?
00:52:25Well, yes.
00:52:25What'd you have to see him about?
00:52:27I'd rather not say.
00:52:28Well, I can well understand that, all right.
00:52:30You want to get your cut out of the money to help slip back on the game.
00:52:33I didn't have anything to do with the money to slip back on the game.
00:52:35Ortele says you did.
00:52:36Ortele's a liar.
00:52:37He ought to know he was in his private office where you wouldn't slip the night before the game.
00:52:40He was not.
00:52:40We were alone.
00:52:41And you admit you were there?
00:52:42Yes.
00:52:45You and Clark were pretty close friends, I understand.
00:52:48Yes, we were.
00:52:49Roommates.
00:52:50Spent your vacations together and all that sort of thing.
00:52:52Yes, his family had a hunting lodge in Canada.
00:52:54Did you ever tell him about Slip Buchanan being your brother?
00:52:57Yes.
00:52:58Oh, you did?
00:52:59When?
00:53:00The day of the game.
00:53:02Day of the game.
00:53:03It was a funny time to tell him, wasn't it?
00:53:04After knowing him all those years?
00:53:06Why didn't you tell him before?
00:53:09Why didn't you tell him before?
00:53:11Could it be that you didn't want him to know that you were the brother of a notorious gambler?
00:53:14Isn't that it?
00:53:15No, that's not it at all.
00:53:17Now look here, Buck.
00:53:18And you're shielding someone, and you're putting your own neck in a noose.
00:53:22I'm trying to help you, Mr. McKenna.
00:53:23You're not helping me.
00:53:25You were with Clark every minute, Saturday morning until the game.
00:53:27You never left his side once.
00:53:29I checked up on that.
00:53:30Now, if anyone could have gotten to him, you'd know who and how.
00:53:32And you're going to tell me how.
00:53:33I wish to God I did know how, Mr. McKenna.
00:53:35If I did, I'd send him to the chair for it.
00:53:38Okay, Bucken.
00:53:39You don't have to tell me how.
00:53:41You told me something else.
00:53:43You told me why.
00:53:47Joe, hop over to headquarters and pick up a warrant for Stanley Bucken.
00:53:51The charge is murder in the first degree.
00:53:53And if Judge Boyan is in bed, pull him out.
00:53:55I'll look in here until you get back.
00:53:56You can't do that.
00:53:59I didn't kill him.
00:54:00You did.
00:54:00You know you're trying to lie out of it.
00:54:02Everything you tell me is a lie.
00:54:03But there's one thing you overlooked.
00:54:05Did you ever see that before?
00:54:06It was found in your room and empty.
00:54:08The poison in that bottle is the stuff that killed Clark.
00:54:09That wasn't poison.
00:54:10It was only a bromide.
00:54:11Oh, Slip told you that, did he?
00:54:12He put one over on you.
00:54:14And you gave that stuff to Clark.
00:54:15I didn't give it to him.
00:54:16I poured it down the drain.
00:54:17Did anyone see you poured it down the drain?
00:54:18What reason would I have for doing a thing like that?
00:54:20Double motive.
00:54:21Money and the girl.
00:54:22Slip made you a proposition.
00:54:23You saw a chance to kill two birds with one straw.
00:54:25That's a lie.
00:54:25For years you've been trying to keep your family connections hidden from Clark and his sister.
00:54:29Hoping to get by, marry a rich girl, four flesh and lie your way into security.
00:54:33No, that's not true.
00:54:34It's all wrong.
00:54:34You're lying now and I'll prove it.
00:54:40Miss Clark, can you step in a moment, please?
00:54:45Miss Clark.
00:54:45I want to have you answer one question.
00:54:50A gambler named Slip Buchanan won $350,000 on that game yesterday.
00:54:54He won it because your brother was murdered.
00:54:56Did you know that man was Buck's brother?
00:55:05Why, of course I did.
00:55:07And it didn't make any difference to you?
00:55:08Certainly not.
00:55:10Why, shit it.
00:55:15And there you are.
00:55:22Where am I?
00:55:23You tell me.
00:55:24Right back on page one.
00:55:27No trace of poison, the autopsy said.
00:55:29I know that.
00:55:30I was bluffing him.
00:55:31The stuff in that bottle was just a mild bromide.
00:55:34I've got to find out how.
00:55:35That's the important thing, how.
00:55:38Could he have died of old age?
00:55:40You never will if you don't lay off those wisecracks.
00:55:43In every detective story I've ever read, they always brought the suspect back to the scene of the crime and he gave himself away.
00:55:49And in this case, they're just 22 football players, a couple of coaches, some water boys, referees, and a flock of rubbers.
00:55:55Bring them all back.
00:55:56Bring them all back.
00:55:57Play the game all over again, I suppose.
00:55:59Say, here, cut it out, will you?
00:56:04Listen.
00:56:07Maybe that one cylinder brain of yours has given birth to an idea.
00:56:09Am I a proud papa and at my age?
00:56:12I'm going to do it.
00:56:13Do what?
00:56:14Bring them all back and play the game over.
00:56:16Ah, now, listen.
00:56:16Play for play.
00:56:17You've got the charts.
00:56:19I'll get those guys so hopped up and hysterical that somebody will crack.
00:56:22Exactly.
00:56:23And it better not be you.
00:56:27Now, boys.
00:56:29We're going to replay the game from the start of the second quarter up to the time when Clark made his run.
00:56:34And I want everyone to try and remember everything you did in each play and do exactly the same thing today.
00:56:41Mr. Moran here has a complete list of the charts and plays in order, so we can check on everything.
00:56:46The rest is up to you.
00:56:48I want you to help all you can by remembering what you did individually.
00:56:52I'm here for just one purpose.
00:56:54To find out how Walter Clark was killed.
00:56:57My boys are ready, Buchanan.
00:56:59All right, then.
00:56:59You got him on the field.
00:57:01Old fellas, another thing about Buckham.
00:57:04Forget all that newspaper stuff.
00:57:06It put him in a tough spot.
00:57:08Now, do all you can to make it as easy as possible for him.
00:57:11Because after all, in the last analysis, the guilty person may be anyone in this room.
00:57:17Come in, Buck.
00:57:23Glad to see you back, boy.
00:57:25Come on.
00:57:29Hello, Buck.
00:57:31Hello, Buck.
00:57:31Get into your suit and I'll explain on the way out to the field.
00:57:34Thanks for helping me out, Buck.
00:57:35Who takes Clark's place?
00:57:37Greenwood there.
00:57:38Oh.
00:57:39Don't mind, do you, son?
00:57:41No, no.
00:57:42That's okay with me.
00:57:44Sweet mama.
00:57:45I certainly wouldn't like that job.
00:57:53All right, now, boys.
00:57:54Take your positions as you were at the start of the second quarter.
00:57:58Come on, boys.
00:57:58Let's call.
00:58:03What's the next play?
00:58:05Spinner through left guard.
00:58:07Thirty-eight carrying the ball.
00:58:08What's a spinner?
00:58:08Twenty-four snaps to thirty-four.
00:58:12Who faints the two on the right, spins left and passes the thirty-eight.
00:58:14Fifteen and thirty-four take out eighty-seven and eighty-three.
00:58:17Twenty-one boxes out the end.
00:58:18Never mind, I'll watch it.
00:58:21Bucken.
00:58:22This is a spinner through left guard.
00:58:25Come in.
00:58:27What is it?
00:58:28Southard was playing farther out to the extreme left.
00:58:31How about that, Southard?
00:58:34Well, maybe I was a little farther over.
00:58:36All right, let's go.
00:58:40Finally.
00:58:42All right.
00:58:43Fight.
00:58:44One, two, three.
00:58:45Come on.
00:58:55What is this?
00:58:56What is this?
00:58:57That's what happened in the game.
00:58:58He kicked Wally, and I ran over and pulled him off.
00:59:00So, what are you trying to do?
00:59:01Pin something on me?
00:59:02None of that stuff.
00:59:02Did you kick Clark?
00:59:04Sure, I kicked him.
00:59:05After that straight arm he gave me, I'd have kicked his teeth out if I could have reached him.
00:59:07That's very interesting.
00:59:08We'll take that up later.
00:59:09Go on with the game.
00:59:10The ball went to university right here.
00:59:12Okay.
00:59:13Come on, gang.
00:59:13All right, our ball.
00:59:14Let's go.
00:59:14This is the penalty for too much time, boys.
00:59:33This is one place I want to check up.
00:59:38This is where you had that little argument with Clark.
00:59:40What was it all about?
00:59:41Well, he was sore because I was keeping the ball away from him.
00:59:43Yeah, we noticed that.
00:59:44Why?
00:59:45Well, it was just as I told you, Mr. McKenna.
00:59:47I was worried about him.
00:59:48And I knew if he wasn't carrying the ball, he wasn't in so much danger.
00:59:51Danger from what?
00:59:52Well, I didn't know what exactly, but I knew there was something hanging over him.
00:59:57Maybe if I'd been able to watch him closer, why, he'd be standing here alive now instead of...
01:00:02Stop it!
01:00:02Stop it!
01:00:03I can't stand it!
01:00:05There was something hanging over him.
01:00:07It's here now, in this field.
01:00:09I can feel it.
01:00:09I fell it on that last place.
01:00:11I don't want to take the part of a dead man.
01:00:13Leave me alone!
01:00:14Leave me alone!
01:00:15I won't take the place of a dead man.
01:00:17Something will happen to me.
01:00:18I tell you, I won't do it!
01:00:19You'll let him out!
01:00:30Get him into the locker room, quick.
01:00:31Where was Clark at this point?
01:00:36Right there, getting a rubdown.
01:00:38He's positive?
01:00:39Yes, sir.
01:00:40I was talking to him.
01:00:41All right.
01:00:42Where's the boy that's doubling for Clark?
01:00:44How about that boy, Collins?
01:00:45I need him.
01:00:46He's through for the day, McKenna.
01:00:47You can't use him anymore.
01:00:49Anybody else?
01:00:50Come on, boys.
01:00:52Mr. McKenna's got to have someone take Clark's position.
01:00:55Anybody at all?
01:00:56Oh, no, not me.
01:01:03I didn't know anything about football.
01:01:05All right.
01:01:06I'll use Bucken.
01:01:08But that'll jam everything up.
01:01:10The plays won't be the same with me in the wrong position.
01:01:12Never mind about that.
01:01:13I may have a couple of ideas of my own.
01:01:16Listen, Mr. McKenna, that's not fair.
01:01:17I'm in a spot, and I'm trying to prove something.
01:01:19You are proving something.
01:01:20You're afraid.
01:01:21I am not.
01:01:22All right.
01:01:23Get up on the slide.
01:01:29Let me have the clothes Clark wore in the game.
01:01:37You don't mind, do you?
01:01:38Not a bit.
01:01:43Mr. McKenna, are you any particular reason for wanting me to wear the identical jersey that
01:01:48Wally wore?
01:01:49Maybe.
01:01:49Why?
01:01:50Well, this isn't it.
01:01:51That's all.
01:01:51What do you mean?
01:01:52The one that Wally wore in the second half had a tear on the shoulder.
01:01:55How about that, Collins?
01:01:56You brought these direct to me last night.
01:01:58Certainly I did.
01:01:59And that's the jersey I took off Clark.
01:02:01This isn't the one, I tell you.
01:02:02Say, what kind of an alibi are you trying to pull?
01:02:04Why do you want to do it?
01:02:05Wait a minute.
01:02:05Wait a minute.
01:02:06What difference does it make, anyway?
01:02:08Get up on the table.
01:02:19Okay, boy, do your stuff.
01:02:21Mr. McKenna, he didn't rub Wally down.
01:02:25It was Collins.
01:02:27That's right, I did.
01:02:28Well, go ahead then.
01:02:30Well, you don't want to waste time waiting while I actually give him a rubdown, certainly.
01:02:34You're the one that's wasting time.
01:02:45Well, let's have something right.
01:02:47The jersey was wrong.
01:02:49Let's have the right bottle.
01:02:51Now, how can I possibly be expected to remember what bottle I used?
01:02:54Well, I remember.
01:02:55You got it from your locker.
01:02:57If you remembered what happened to Wally as well as you seem to remember everything else,
01:03:00you'd save us all a lot of trouble.
01:03:01What are those crooks, Collins?
01:03:03How do you know he got the bottle out of his locker?
01:03:05Because I was sitting there talking to Wally when he asked me to move.
01:03:08All right, Doc, open up and get going.
01:03:20Nice luck.
01:03:21Oh.
01:03:21Oh.
01:03:21And now, how do I know he's going to do this?
01:03:47All right, team, on the field.
01:04:00Making a crack like that in front of a detective.
01:04:03I'll teach him to keep his loose mouth shut.
01:04:05Take it easy, Tyler.
01:04:12What's the next play?
01:04:13Forward pass.
01:04:14Uh, no.
01:04:17The leather egg is thrown to that young gentleman with the number two on his back
01:04:21who tosses it to that great big blonde fellow way over there on the outskirts.
01:04:27You get me?
01:04:28I got you.
01:04:29Yeah.
01:04:30Hey, Mac, look.
01:04:3285, 29, 78.
01:04:34Hit on you.
01:04:36This is one play I figured, right?
01:04:40Hello, Slip.
01:04:41I'm expecting you.
01:04:42Thought for a while you wouldn't come out.
01:04:44I'd have to send for you.
01:04:45What are you trying to hang on my kid brother?
01:04:47Nothing yet.
01:04:49Somebody is, according to the papers.
01:04:51Little misprint.
01:04:51Stick around.
01:04:53Don't worry.
01:04:54I'll be here.
01:05:01What next, Buckin?
01:05:03This is where Griffith was hurt and I went in.
01:05:05All right, Griffith.
01:05:06Stay where you are.
01:05:06From now on, you're Buckin.
01:05:08Yes, sir.
01:05:09All right, fellas.
01:05:10Come on.
01:05:11Collins.
01:05:12I want to talk to you.
01:05:13Sure, sure.
01:05:14But not now.
01:05:15Later.
01:05:16First down.
01:05:18All right, now.
01:05:21All right, this is a play, fellas.
01:05:2321.
01:05:27Let's call this thing off, McKenna.
01:05:28You're not gaining anything by all this.
01:05:30You'll have these boys all haywire.
01:05:32Forget it.
01:05:38Hey, that's just the way Wally looked before the play.
01:05:41Hey, that's just the way Wally looked before the play.
01:06:11Get those doctors.
01:06:21Collins, knock them.
01:06:30Hey, Mac.
01:06:34Boys, come on.
01:06:35Get back to the kit wing.
01:06:36Come on, boys.
01:06:37Give them a break, boys.
01:06:38Give them a break, boys.
01:06:38Give them a break.
01:06:38Give them a break, now.
01:06:41What is it, Doc?
01:06:42We've scheduled them to hospital quick.
01:06:50Wait a minute, Collins.
01:06:52What did you do to my brother?
01:06:53I couldn't help it, McKenna.
01:06:54You double-crossing rat.
01:06:55You killed class.
01:06:56I didn't mean to kill anybody.
01:06:57What did you do?
01:06:58What did you use?
01:06:59Nitroglycerin.
01:07:00I figured they'd never catch on.
01:07:01They'd never think of it.
01:07:02I made a solution gun, rubbed it in.
01:07:04But I didn't mean to kill anybody.
01:07:05I thought it would just make him sick enough to get him out of the game.
01:07:09And everything would have been okay if he hadn't made that long run.
01:07:11The overexertion killed him.
01:07:13And now, now you've done the same thing to my brother.
01:07:16But you're in this too, Buchanan.
01:07:17You're just as guilty as I am.
01:07:19So keep away from me.
01:07:20There's enough of that stuff in here to blow us both to hell.
01:07:22And so help me, I'll let you have it.
01:07:24Put that bottle down.
01:07:26Don't!
01:07:42And there I was standing there with my eyeballs hanging on my mustache,
01:07:47listening to this quack Dr. Collins splattered the spinach.
01:07:51And when he said he'd blow up the place, ooh, was I a rabbit?
01:07:55Oh!
01:07:57Pardon me, Chief.
01:07:58I want to jot down a little something.
01:08:02Hello, hello!
01:08:07He's got his mouth full of corks again.
01:08:10It seems this guy Collins was doing a lot of the legal work for hoodlums around here.
01:08:16And Ortele was wise to it.
01:08:18And he told Collins he'd better be a good little boy and do what he said or else.
01:08:22Oh, but man, can you imagine slipping a guy nitroglycerin?
01:08:27I already told you that he rubbed it on him.
01:08:31But he used too much and the overexertion caused by Clark's long run brought on a brain hemorrhage.
01:08:37No, not me, Clark.
01:08:42Well, the same to you.
01:08:44And so the doc, oh, pardon me.
01:08:47Hello, hello, Mac.
01:08:49Oh, pardon me, Chief.
01:08:50The mayor just came in to congratulate him.
01:08:52Sit right now, mayor, and take the lead out of your, uh, what?
01:08:58Oh, oh.
01:08:59Oh, Bucken, Bucken, oh, he'll recover.
01:09:02He's okay.
01:09:03Yeah, he didn't give him so much of the stuff and they knew what to do for him.
01:09:08Yeah, he's over at the hospital with his girlfriend holding his head.
01:09:11And both are doing very nicely, if you know what I mean.
01:09:14That's short, Horatio.
01:09:15I told you we eat at seven.
01:09:17The wife's having relatives for supper.
01:09:19Oh, fine.
01:09:20I never tasted one of them, but if you can eat them, I can.
01:09:23Come on, come on.
01:09:24Yeah, okay.
01:09:25Oh, Chief, I've got to cut this short.
01:09:27I've got to, I'll give you the rest of the dope later on.
01:09:30Oh, Chief, wait a minute, listen.
01:09:32While we're on it, I want you to jot it down that this whole mystery was washed up by none other than Mr. General J. McKenna,
01:09:39late of the New York, no, no, McKenna, Mac.
01:09:43Mac.
01:09:44M, M as in mug, G as in cockroach, and K as in crazy.
01:09:54My good old pal.
01:09:56Ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:09:56THE END
01:10:26THE END
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