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Hello and welcome everyone. In today's film from 1934 and called House of Mystery, the only mystery that will be, is how you sat through it. I'm just kidding or am I, no I'm kidding alright, I'll behave. Today's tale is set first in 1913, India. Where our main character John "Pren" Prendergast, an archeologist is at a temple of the great Kali. Unlike the King Tut curse, this deity is not monkeying around with having her temple violated and her priest are on it. Fast forward twenty years to the U.S. and we find Prendergast a rich man but partially paralyzed. Living in a big house with his companion Chanda and his nurse Ella. One day his backers from that time in India, come to collect on their investment. Why did they wait twenty years? Beats me, let's eat a banana and just go with it. Prendergast tells them that the "spirit of Kali" will kill them as she did with others he try to share his wealth with. So what to do, what to do. Well hold a séance, that always helps. Well let's just say the spirits didn't want to hear it and send a great ape to give Kali answer. What happens next, well your just gonna have to watch. Staring in this hairy tale we have...Clay Clement as Prendergast, Brandon Hurst as the Priest of Kali, Joyzelle Joyner as Chanda, Verna Hillie as Ella, Ed Lowry as Armstrong, John Sheehan as Smith, Fritzi Ridgeway as Stella, George 'Gabby' Hayes as Fells, Irving Bacon as the police inspector, ??? as the Ape and a few more. So as always, let's sit back, make some banana milkshakes and enjoy. Also thanks so much for watching.

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00:02:44Okay, why don't you look where you're going?
00:02:49He's supposed to be an archaeologist,
00:02:51but the only thing he's discovered so far
00:02:52is the dancer Shandu over at the Kela Temple.
00:03:14The Kela Temple
00:03:44The Kela Temple
00:04:13Why hast thou slain one of Kela's little ones?
00:04:27I didn't mean to kill the little beast.
00:04:30He jumped on my shoulder as I came into the temple
00:04:31and I struck him with my crop.
00:04:33Why camest thou here to defile our temple by thy presence?
00:04:36Well, the temple's open, isn't it?
00:04:38Take your hands off me, you swine's island.
00:04:41Thy speech is as profane as thine act.
00:04:45That's it.
00:04:46Tell my fortune
00:04:47and find out what these dogs will suffer
00:04:50when the governor hears about this.
00:04:52Through the sacred eyes of Kela I see the sahib
00:04:57has been sent by learned men to our country
00:05:00to wrest from our monuments and temples
00:05:03the history of our wisdom
00:05:05and the history of her past.
00:05:10Sahib
00:05:10has deceived those who sent him.
00:05:14He seeks not the wise men
00:05:16but their gold.
00:05:19Ere he leaves Zaysha,
00:05:20his pocket shall be filled to overflowing
00:05:22with bright gold.
00:05:25The gold shall not be his
00:05:27but he will not scruple to take it
00:05:30knowing that on every rupee
00:05:32shall be written the curse of Kela.
00:05:37Devil sahib
00:05:38we may not punish thee
00:05:40but Kela will not forget
00:05:43sometime
00:05:44somehow
00:05:45somewhere
00:05:46Kela will meet out justice.
00:05:50It is said
00:05:51I'll show you
00:06:09what I think of you
00:06:09and your curse.
00:06:10Kela is at the
00:06:40We're going to try to do something.
00:06:42Ah.
00:06:47I don't want to turn it over to my friend.
00:06:49He has died.
00:06:50He has died.
00:06:53That wasn't a close shave.
00:06:54They might have killed you, sahib.
00:06:57And they will kill me when they find him.
00:06:59Yeah, well, they shan't find you, Shanda.
00:07:02How did you happen to be in the temple?
00:07:04I had departed from the temple after the dancing ceremony.
00:07:07But when I knew the sahib was in danger,
00:07:09My people feel the troubles of those they love.
00:07:28That's very interesting.
00:07:30It was almost 20 years ago, Mr. Ellis.
00:07:33Proceed, Professor Potter.
00:07:35My colleagues here and in England financed this expedition.
00:07:45I, that is, Mrs. Potter, I put this Prendergast in charge.
00:07:50He understood that the backers were to share in the glory or the profit that might result.
00:08:01Oh, come to the point. Horatia, don't be so long-winded.
00:08:06Hyacinth, control yourself.
00:08:08You know, I, I can't see a thing without my glasses.
00:08:12Will, why don't you put them on?
00:08:14I'm afraid I, I left them at home.
00:08:17Oh, they're in your pocket. Stupid.
00:08:19Don't be absurd, Hyacinth.
00:08:21Hi, sir.
00:08:24And you want me to find this, uh, Prendergast, is that it?
00:08:28I have found, uh, that is, Mrs. Potter and I have found this Prendergast.
00:08:33Uh, it seems that...
00:08:35I was out shopping one day last week and my attention was attracted to a Hindu woman
00:08:39who gave her name to the clerk as Mrs. Priggin.
00:08:41Now, I put two and two together and did a little snooping.
00:08:45Mrs. Potter means investigating.
00:08:48I said snooping. And I certainly mean snooping.
00:08:51And what did you snoop? I mean, find out.
00:08:55Uh, that this, uh, Mrs. Pring and her husband live on a big estate in the suburbs.
00:08:59This Mr. Pring is an invalid in a wheelchair.
00:09:02And he's attended by an English nurse.
00:09:05Do you believe this Mr. Pring really is Prendergast?
00:09:08I know it.
00:09:10Any man would need more than 20 years and a pair of paralyzed legs to fool me.
00:09:15And you both want to share in this Hindu treasure, is that it?
00:09:19Certainly.
00:09:21Well, naturally, it would strengthen our position if I were to act as attorney for all the investors.
00:09:26Have you the names and addresses of these people by any chance?
00:09:30Ah, I have it. You're crazy. I have it.
00:09:34The cranial fissure on Homo neanderthal is an endemic aberration.
00:09:40I can find it if I kept on.
00:09:44Oh no, it's out this way.
00:09:48That's the absent-minded creature that I've been living with for 35 years.
00:09:53And now he'll spend the day in the museum among the mummies.
00:09:55And when he comes home tonight, he'll tell me he lost something.
00:09:59And if he does, I'll crown the numbskull with a poker.
00:10:02Here is the list of the investors.
00:10:07It is correct, except that some of them have died.
00:10:10But you get in touch with all of them, except the dead ones.
00:10:15Goodbye.
00:10:16Goodbye.
00:10:25Before we begin, I should like to check over this list and see if the remaining investors or heirs are all present.
00:10:44Mrs. Potter and Professor Potter, I know.
00:10:47Mr. John Armstrong.
00:10:48Right.
00:10:50I'd like to get this over with as soon as possible.
00:10:52I'm in the insurance business and I have a couple of hot prospects for this afternoon.
00:10:56But we shan't keep you long, Miss Armstrong.
00:10:59Mrs. Geraldine Carfax.
00:11:01Yes, I'm here.
00:11:02Although I did have to get off of my deathbed to get here.
00:11:05You see, I suffer so from indigestion.
00:11:08And my blood pressure is so low that I just...
00:11:11I'm in the insurance business.
00:11:13Won't you read over our new policy?
00:11:15We have a new disability clause.
00:11:16No one will ever be able to cure you but the spirit.
00:11:20No.
00:11:22I beg your pardon, but I don't believe I've had the pleasure.
00:11:27Estella is my companion.
00:11:29And I never go anywhere without her.
00:11:31You see, I have fainting spells due to my operation.
00:11:36Let's get out of business.
00:11:41Mr. David Feld.
00:11:43I'm here.
00:11:44Say, maybe I can...
00:11:45No.
00:11:47Thank you very much.
00:11:49Now, you ladies and gentlemen represent the remaining investors or heirs of the investors of the Prendergast Archaeological Expedition.
00:11:56I... I should like to know...
00:11:59That is, Mrs. Potter and I should like to know, what became of the English investors?
00:12:03There were but two of them.
00:12:06And they died six months ago.
00:12:08Suddenly and very mysteriously.
00:12:11Mysteriously?
00:12:13They were murdered.
00:12:15Scotland Yard is still investigating the case.
00:12:18That's neither here nor there.
00:12:20Have you seen this Prend person?
00:12:22Yes, Mrs. Potter, I have.
00:12:24He admitted his identity and explained that he changed his name to Prend for personal reasons.
00:12:27He informed me that he would be very glad to see and meet the investors and discuss the settlement on certain conditions.
00:12:35And what conditions?
00:12:37Mr. Prend will explain all the conditions tomorrow night.
00:12:40He wants to have you all at his home at 8.30.
00:12:43Well, if you meet me here in my office at 7.30, we can all go out together.
00:12:48Okay, I'll be here.
00:12:50And incidentally, while I'm gone, I wish you'd look this policy over.
00:12:54I shan't be able to go, my dear.
00:12:56I must be at the museum.
00:12:58They're going to unwrap the mummy of Ramesses IV.
00:13:02Listen, you worm.
00:13:04You'll be at Mr. Prend's house tomorrow night and forget all about the Ramesses IV.
00:13:09Or I'll make a mummy out of Potter the first.
00:13:11Ramesses, I used to smoke them.
00:13:14Well, I beg your pardon, Professor. I'll keep my hat if you don't mind.
00:13:18Here. Take your own hat.
00:13:27Although I ridiculed the whole thing as an ancient superstition,
00:13:32I came to know that the priest was right.
00:13:38Suddenly, in the dead of the night,
00:13:39I hear the soft poundings of the tom-toms.
00:13:44Grotesque shadows appear on the walls.
00:13:49Great hairy hands press on my throat.
00:13:56Strangling.
00:13:57Strangling.
00:14:00Strangling.
00:14:07My health has been destroyed.
00:14:12And as you see, I'm a helpless cripple.
00:14:14All these years, I've wandered over the globe,
00:14:20seeking some place where I could find peace.
00:14:25But nowhere in this world
00:14:30can you escape the curse of Kali.
00:14:34Finally, I went back.
00:14:43I wanted to return the treasure to the temple,
00:14:47but the priests wouldn't take it.
00:14:49They said it was a curse.
00:14:51I've often thought of the original investors in the expedition,
00:15:03and I wanted to give them what was rightfully theirs.
00:15:07I was afraid that the curse would be carried on to anyone
00:15:12who had any part of the treasure.
00:15:20Finally,
00:15:22I went to England
00:15:24and gave two of them their share.
00:15:30Within a month,
00:15:32both of these people had been found murdered.
00:15:35Then I knew I was right,
00:15:40that the curse of Kali
00:15:43would extend on to anyone
00:15:47who possessed any part of the treasure.
00:15:56I...
00:15:58I realized my days were numbered.
00:16:01So I came home.
00:16:05Back to the United States.
00:16:10To spend my last days
00:16:15in the country of my birth.
00:16:19Fantastic!
00:16:21Fiddlesticks!
00:16:23If you're so afraid of apes and monkeys, Mr. Prenn,
00:16:26what have you got that one for?
00:16:27I had an obsession several years ago
00:16:31that I might conciliate Kali
00:16:34by being good to the animals that were sacred to him.
00:16:38I made large endowments to zoological gardens
00:16:42for the care of monkeys.
00:16:44And that one I raised and kept with me until he died.
00:16:50There was no use.
00:16:52Kali would not be a piece.
00:16:53This is all very interesting, Mr. Prenn.
00:16:56But I should like to know
00:16:58when we are going to get our money.
00:17:00When you've learned to appreciate the curse that goes with it.
00:17:04Just what do you mean by that?
00:17:06I'll give you all your shares
00:17:09on one condition.
00:17:11That you come here
00:17:13and live in this house with me for a week
00:17:15and learn what happens to the possessor of it.
00:17:17Why, this is absurd.
00:17:19It's just a scheme to cheat us out of our money.
00:17:21Pay me my share immediately or go to court about it.
00:17:23Mr. Fells,
00:17:25it will take you much longer than a week
00:17:27to get the money by litigation.
00:17:28My terms are really quite easy.
00:17:30Shanda is an excellent cook
00:17:32and I've engaged a new maid.
00:17:35I suppose you're going to tell us
00:17:36that's one of your eight ghosts.
00:17:38No.
00:17:40The phenomena I've been describing.
00:17:42It's a good thing to say.
00:17:44You're going to tell us
00:17:45that's one of your eight ghosts.
00:17:47No, the phenomena I've been describing.
00:17:49What's the point?
00:17:51What's the point?
00:17:52What's the point?
00:17:53What's the point?
00:17:55What's the point?
00:17:56What you've been describing
00:17:58is not as easily explained
00:18:00as what you've just heard.
00:18:02That's a plumber putting in a new heating system.
00:18:05I consider Mr. Prenn's conditions very reasonable.
00:18:08And as your attorney,
00:18:10I suggest that you comply with it.
00:18:12Well, I sincerely hope
00:18:14that you'll take Mr. Ellis' advice.
00:18:17And if you do,
00:18:19I'll expect you any time tomorrow.
00:18:21Wait a minute, Mr. Prenn.
00:18:23We have a right to know where that money is.
00:18:26It's here.
00:18:28In this house.
00:18:30Over two million dollars in gold and jewels.
00:18:33Two million dollars?
00:18:35I'll stay.
00:18:37Try and get me out of here.
00:18:40Just try and get me out.
00:18:43Are you satisfied?
00:18:44Well, I still have time to see Ramesses unwrapped.
00:18:50Oh, forget about Ramesses.
00:18:52And try remembering where you put your hat.
00:19:14Oh, dear.
00:19:15I feel terrible.
00:19:17You know, all this excitement has brought my nervous indigestion again.
00:19:21Well, they say that's the beginning of the end.
00:19:25Oh, don't be silly, Stella.
00:19:27Well, my grandmother felt just like that five minutes before she died.
00:19:32Well, don't be looking there.
00:19:35The money isn't hidden in here.
00:19:37I've read in stories that the best way to hide anything is to put it in the most obvious place.
00:19:41It's probably locked up in the safe down his room.
00:19:44I know one thing.
00:19:46Tonight, I'm going to have a seance.
00:19:48Seance?
00:19:49Pocahontas can tell me where the money is.
00:20:19I'm going to have a seance.
00:20:37Hello.
00:20:39Let me speak to Mr. Gage, please.
00:20:40This is Gage.
00:20:41This is Felt.
00:20:43Listen, old man.
00:20:45You'll have to give me another day.
00:20:46Yeah, and that's all you'll get.
00:20:49Nobody wishes in the game with me than does me out of five grand.
00:20:53Yeah, and have that dough tomorrow or else.
00:20:56All right.
00:20:58I'll get it somehow.
00:21:08Why, uh, I got into Mr. Prynne's room by mistake.
00:21:12How did you know it was Mr. Prynne's room?
00:21:16Good night.
00:21:18Yes, sure.
00:21:40Thank you, Mr. Armstrong.
00:21:42Thank you, Mr. Armstrong.
00:21:44That's quite all right, Miss Browning.
00:21:46It is Miss, not Mrs.
00:21:48No, it's Miss.
00:21:49Good.
00:21:50I'm suffering with heart trouble and dizzy spells.
00:21:53Oh, how long has this been going on?
00:21:56Ever since I first met you.
00:21:58Well, then it's probably temporary.
00:22:00You'll get over it.
00:22:01Oh, no.
00:22:01If you promise to take my case, doctor, I'll never get over it.
00:22:06Your nerves seem to be very good.
00:22:08Ah, in my business, you need nerve.
00:22:10I'm in the insurance business.
00:22:11Can I interest you in a policy?
00:22:13I have a policy.
00:22:14Really?
00:22:15Yes.
00:22:16My policy is never to get intimate with strangers.
00:22:20Good.
00:22:22Now that we're practically engaged, tell me,
00:22:26how did you come to get mixed up with the Prens, the Hindus, and the apes?
00:22:31Well, I was engaged as a private nurse in London by Mr. Prens.
00:22:34Oh, so you're English.
00:22:36Oh, I'm so happy.
00:22:37I always wanted to marry an English girl
00:22:40so I could have crumpets and tea for breakfast.
00:22:42Then I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed.
00:22:45Oh, don't tell me you can't make crumpets.
00:22:47No.
00:22:48No, I can't make crumpets.
00:22:49I don't like tea.
00:22:51And I'm not thinking of getting married.
00:22:54Tell me, what do you make of all this ape business?
00:22:57I don't know.
00:23:02At night, I hear strange noises, tom-toms, and footsteps on the stairs.
00:23:12I've often had to give Mr. Prens first aid treatment
00:23:15when he's been nearly frightened to death.
00:23:17Oh, you're scared, aren't you?
00:23:24Yes, but jobs are scarce,
00:23:26and Mr. Prens pays me twice as much as I could get anywhere else.
00:23:31Did it ever occur to you that this whole thing might be a fake,
00:23:34a hoax on Prens' part?
00:23:36Oh, that couldn't be, Jack.
00:23:38Why, the thing is gradually killing Mr. Prens.
00:23:40That woman gives me the creeps.
00:23:48Shonda is a strange person.
00:23:51Person?
00:23:52She looks more like Gandy's ghost.
00:23:55The frontal osteology is egregiously recessive.
00:24:15Yes.
00:24:16I suppose you know that's caused by the malconjunction of the prenatal hiatus.
00:24:20Quite right.
00:24:21I guess if that guy got a stranglehold on your throat,
00:24:25it'd be just too bad, eh?
00:24:26Yes, his gargantuan prehensility would be titanic.
00:24:32You don't say so.
00:24:39I'm sorry.
00:24:40Certainly.
00:24:42Oh, Mr. Ellis.
00:24:43Yes?
00:24:44If something might interest you,
00:24:46a book on the law.
00:24:49Well, goodbye.
00:24:50Oh.
00:24:50Oh, don't forget,
00:24:51I have a patient to take care of.
00:24:53But, uh,
00:24:54I'm about to have a heart attack.
00:24:57Save it till later.
00:25:02Time for your medicine, Mr. Prens.
00:25:04I was wondering where you were.
00:25:06I was out in the garden with Mr. Armstrong.
00:25:09You know,
00:25:09he's really a very likable person.
00:25:12Aren't you afraid I'll get jealous?
00:25:14You couldn't be anything but your nice old self.
00:25:16Now, come on.
00:25:19Come on.
00:25:24Please.
00:25:33It's very interesting.
00:25:36Let's take a walk in the garden, Professor.
00:25:37Well, I, uh,
00:25:38all right.
00:25:40A little fresh air might do me good.
00:25:53Professor,
00:25:54I want to show you this.
00:25:56Oh, there you are.
00:25:58You idiot.
00:25:59Horatius,
00:26:00what did you do with your clothes?
00:26:02Why,
00:26:03I packed them in the suitcase.
00:26:05Oh,
00:26:05you did?
00:26:06You're quite sure of that.
00:26:08Yes, my dear.
00:26:08I remember because
00:26:09at the same time,
00:26:11I packed the dismembered bones of Ptolemy III
00:26:13and sent them to the museum.
00:26:15You numbskull.
00:26:16You sent your clothes to the museum
00:26:18and packed Ptolemy III in your suitcase.
00:26:20My highest sense,
00:26:21I can hardly realize...
00:26:22Yes, you did.
00:26:24Now you get Ptolemy III off of my bed
00:26:26or he'll spend the rest of his days
00:26:28at the garbage can.
00:26:29I beg your pardon,
00:26:30Mrs. Potter.
00:26:32Something important I want to show you
00:26:33and the professor.
00:26:34It came to my office this morning.
00:26:37Do not permit your clients
00:26:38to remain in the Prenn house.
00:26:40They will be killed
00:26:41one by one.
00:26:44Scotland Yard.
00:26:50I've never been to a seance.
00:26:52I've heard they're lots of fun.
00:26:54Ha!
00:26:54The only spirits I know anything about
00:26:56of a hundred proof kind.
00:26:58Mr. Armstrong,
00:26:59this is no time for levity.
00:27:02We may all learn something
00:27:03of vital interest to all of us.
00:27:05Professor Potter,
00:27:06what are your ideas
00:27:07on psychical phenomena?
00:27:08I don't believe anything
00:27:09I can't see.
00:27:11Anything you can't see,
00:27:13why, you're as near-sighted
00:27:14as a bat.
00:27:15Now, higher sense.
00:27:16Push up, Horatio.
00:27:17We shall now all place
00:27:21our hands upon the table.
00:27:25Place your left hand
00:27:28over your neighbor's right.
00:27:34We shall now concentrate.
00:27:40What's the matter with you?
00:27:41You look foolish.
00:27:42We must have
00:27:47all the lights out.
00:28:01You who have gone
00:28:04beyond the borders
00:28:05of time and place,
00:28:08here are please
00:28:10for enlightenment.
00:28:11Ha!
00:28:12Did you have to sing it?
00:28:13Shh!
00:28:18Oh, Kohantus!
00:28:21Is it thee?
00:28:23Speak to me.
00:28:25Tell me
00:28:26what force of evil
00:28:28afflicteth this household.
00:28:30What is that
00:28:35which afflicts our nostrils
00:28:37and enervates our senses?
00:28:49It is I.
00:28:52Pocahontus
00:28:53Pocahontus
00:28:55will answer
00:28:58thee.
00:28:59This night
00:29:03one of you
00:29:06will pass
00:29:08beyond
00:29:10the veil.
00:29:12Beware.
00:29:15The
00:29:16vapors
00:29:17of death
00:29:18turn
00:29:20around
00:29:20all
00:29:22of you.
00:29:24Look!
00:29:25It's a reflection of that.
00:29:27Oh, don't be absurd.
00:29:29It's moving.
00:29:31Turn up the light.
00:29:32Where's the switch?
00:29:32Over by the door.
00:29:34What is it?
00:29:36What's the matter?
00:29:37Mr. Kohler!
00:29:42Oh.
00:29:44She's dead.
00:29:45Maybe we could revive her.
00:29:46I don't think so.
00:29:48Her neck is broken.
00:29:49This is the kind of thing
00:29:50that's haunted me
00:29:51for years.
00:29:53And it will end
00:29:54only when I'm
00:29:55in my grave.
00:29:56Oh!
00:29:57What do you think
00:29:57we should do, Horatia?
00:29:59Get Ptolemy III
00:30:00and get out of here.
00:30:01Pocahontus
00:30:02was right.
00:30:03Wait a minute.
00:30:11Where did you come from?
00:30:12Outside.
00:30:13What are you doing
00:30:14in here?
00:30:15Same as everybody else,
00:30:16I guess.
00:30:16Well, what were you
00:30:17doing outside?
00:30:19Looking inside.
00:30:20No.
00:30:20Why were you outside
00:30:21looking inside?
00:30:23I was trying to get
00:30:24a line on the thief.
00:30:26What thief?
00:30:27The guy that stole
00:30:28my monkey wrench.
00:30:29I think this is a bug house.
00:30:31The house is all right.
00:30:32It's the people
00:30:33that are in it.
00:30:34You're right.
00:30:34The first thing to do
00:30:35is to send for the police.
00:30:37Huh.
00:30:38What can the police do?
00:30:39Maybe they could
00:30:40find my monkey wrench.
00:30:41nobody can solve this mystery
00:30:45but Pocahontas.
00:30:47Never heard of him.
00:30:48Say, this Pocahontas
00:30:50is the one that caused
00:30:51all this trouble.
00:30:52As far as I'm concerned,
00:30:53you can take her right back
00:30:54and sit her down
00:30:55in her wigwam.
00:30:56Oh, that woman.
00:31:03There you are, folks.
00:31:04Now you can see
00:31:05what confronts us.
00:31:06Death is just
00:31:07around the corner.
00:31:08Have yourself insured.
00:31:10Take out one of our
00:31:10new $20,000 policies.
00:31:12Easy payment.
00:31:13Don't let nobody
00:31:25in or out.
00:31:43Debt is prohibition.
00:32:04Death is prohibition.
00:32:13There's been a murder
00:32:24committed here.
00:32:26Who did it?
00:32:28That's your business.
00:32:31Listen, lady.
00:32:32Inspector Pickens
00:32:32of the Homicide Squad
00:32:33don't take no lip
00:32:34from nobody.
00:32:36Oh, Horatia.
00:32:37I'm being insulted.
00:32:38Sir, I'll have you know
00:32:40this is my wife.
00:32:41All right.
00:32:42Your apologies accepted.
00:32:44Who owns this joint?
00:32:46My home.
00:32:48These people are my guests.
00:32:50My housekeeper.
00:32:51My name is Prenn.
00:32:53All right, Prenn.
00:32:54How did it happen?
00:32:56We were having a say on
00:32:57when Miss Carfax
00:32:59was strangled by the ape.
00:33:03The ape?
00:33:05No, not this one.
00:33:06This is a stuffed ape.
00:33:08Stuffed what?
00:33:09Stuffed ape.
00:33:12No, not this one.
00:33:14Let's go.
00:33:14I'll try.
00:33:15Hey, you.
00:33:16Where are you going?
00:33:17Get a drink of water.
00:33:19Don't try to leave the house.
00:33:23And that goes for everybody here.
00:33:25Well?
00:33:27It's a long story, officer.
00:33:29We'll make it a short story, and
00:33:30now, officer,
00:33:34You know as much about it as we do.
00:33:37Hindus.
00:33:39Tom-toms.
00:33:41Apes.
00:33:42Haunted houses.
00:33:44Say, are you sure this seance wasn't a sleigh ride?
00:33:48I'm sure I don't understand you.
00:33:50I've got it!
00:33:52All right, what do you got?
00:33:53The phenomena connected with the frontal development of the orangutan
00:33:58must be indigenous to all the anthropoids.
00:34:01Gosh, you have got it.
00:34:03Wait a minute.
00:34:05Where are you going?
00:34:06To the zoo.
00:34:07Well, sit down.
00:34:09You're in one right now.
00:34:10Sit down, Horatio.
00:34:12Pipe down.
00:34:13I'm getting the orders around here.
00:34:15Boyer.
00:34:16Yes.
00:34:17You go out and search for the house on the grounds.
00:34:19If you see any apes or anything that looks like monkey brindes, bring it in here.
00:34:21Okay.
00:34:22You go out and watch the back door.
00:34:23Don't let nobody out.
00:34:33Don't do that.
00:34:34Is the coroner gone yet?
00:34:35Yeah, he took the body with him.
00:34:36No apes?
00:34:37No apes.
00:34:38No apes.
00:34:39No apes.
00:34:40No apes.
00:34:41No apes.
00:34:42No apes.
00:34:43No apes.
00:34:44No apes.
00:34:45No apes.
00:34:46No apes.
00:34:47No apes.
00:34:48No apes.
00:34:49No apes.
00:34:50No apes.
00:34:51No apes.
00:34:52That hindu woman does all the cooking and housekeeping.
00:34:54She don't know nothing.
00:34:55You know what?
00:34:56No.
00:34:57What?
00:34:58Something funny going on around here.
00:34:59I don't think that guy in the wheelchair is crippled.
00:35:02Struck me he might be phony.
00:35:03That struck me, too.
00:35:04Me, too.
00:35:05You go down and find out whether he's really paralyzed or not.
00:35:07Be clever about it.
00:35:08Use your beams.
00:35:09Be subtle.
00:35:10Ceptile.
00:35:11Thank you, my dear.
00:35:16There, how's that?
00:35:17Is that comfortable?
00:35:19My dear, I don't know what I'd do without you.
00:35:21I really think you owe it to yourself to take out a policy the way things are now.
00:35:26We don't know when one of us are going to be murdered.
00:35:31But who would I make the beneficiary?
00:35:34Now that Mrs. Carfax is gone, I have no one left but Pocahontas.
00:35:39Well, leave it to Pocahontas. One thing, she won't squander it.
00:35:43I do hope all this excitement doesn't affect you, Mr. Friend.
00:35:47I think I'll live through it.
00:35:50No, no, that's quite all right.
00:35:54Any clues yet, officer?
00:35:57No, but I'm on the Taylor one right now.
00:36:03Oh! Why, how dare you? Why did you do that?
00:36:07I beg your pardon, me foot slipped.
00:36:09I don't want anybody to leave the room.
00:36:14What's the idea?
00:36:16I lost my bit.
00:36:18What bit?
00:36:19Just a little bit.
00:36:20Are you sure you lost it in here?
00:36:22No, I think I lost it in the garage.
00:36:24Why don't you go out there and look for it?
00:36:25It's warmer in here.
00:36:28What's the use?
00:36:30What did you find out?
00:36:35I found out it's paralyzed, all right.
00:36:37Didn't let anybody know what you were after.
00:36:38Did you think I'm done?
00:36:40Huh?
00:36:40I was subtle, just like you said.
00:36:42Oh.
00:36:42I saw it.
00:37:00There it is again.
00:37:02What is it?
00:37:02A townhouse.
00:37:03It's in there!
00:37:05Clancy!
00:37:06Hey, let me hit that tank!
00:37:10Now, that's the end of the ape.
00:37:13Hey, get a dose of his own medicine.
00:37:15The strangest little ape I ever saw.
00:37:18I've never seen him.
00:37:20I've never seen him.
00:37:22I've never seen him.
00:37:24I've never seen him.
00:37:26I've never seen him.
00:37:28I've never seen him.
00:37:29I've never seen him.
00:37:31The strangest little ape I ever saw.
00:37:35Why?
00:37:37It's not an ape. It's a man.
00:37:40Oh, my goodness.
00:37:47Fells!
00:37:49So, Fells was a murderer.
00:37:51Oh, no, it can't be.
00:37:53It has to be. You people saw an ape, and here it is.
00:37:55Yes, but Fells was at the table when we saw the ape's hands,
00:37:58when Mrs. Carfax was killed.
00:38:00Oh, you were seeing things.
00:38:02What's that smell?
00:38:04Incense!
00:38:13Now that I remember,
00:38:14incense was burning in a bowl behind Mrs. Carfax.
00:38:17So what?
00:38:18We've caught the ape to kill Carfax.
00:38:20You forget one thing, Inspector.
00:38:21Yeah, what?
00:38:22Who killed Fells?
00:38:23Yeah, I never thought of that.
00:38:24Fells' neck was broken just like Mrs. Carfax's.
00:38:26So what?
00:38:27A creature of superhuman strength did the killing.
00:38:29Yeah?
00:38:30Well, if it was an ape, how did he...
00:38:32Ah.
00:38:33Ah, so this is the way you got in and out.
00:38:36Listen, you mugs, you go and find that ape,
00:38:37and you'll be pounding the beat.
00:38:38Oh, Chief, we looked all over the joint there,
00:38:39and there's a sign of it anywhere.
00:38:40How about the garage?
00:38:41Search the ground, search everything,
00:38:42and find that TomTom gadget.
00:38:43No son of an ape is gonna make a monkey out of me.
00:38:46Come on, now, get going.
00:38:47Don't come back without some information.
00:38:50Come on, I'll fight everybody.
00:38:52Poor Fells.
00:38:55I... I can't understand it.
00:38:57What I can't comprehend is the reason
00:39:00of a human being.
00:39:01It's a human being.
00:39:02We must have a human being.
00:39:04The human being.
00:39:05What is the human being?
00:39:06What is the human being?
00:39:07What is the human being?
00:39:08What is the human being?
00:39:09Who is the human being?
00:39:10I don't know.
00:39:11What I can't comprehend is the reason for the monkey suit.
00:39:14I think the explanation for that is relatively easy.
00:39:17Fells was heavily in debt.
00:39:19He knew the money was in the house and made up his mind to get it.
00:39:22No doubt he got that gorilla suit when he went to town this afternoon.
00:39:26He thought that if anyone of us saw him prowling around the house,
00:39:28he'd have time to get back to his room during the excitement.
00:39:31Poor devil.
00:39:33If he'd only believed in the curse on the treasure.
00:39:37We'll all be killed one by one.
00:39:40Just like rancid a trap.
00:39:43And for what?
00:39:44Just a few paltry dollars.
00:39:46I, for what, am I leaving this house immediately.
00:39:48Horatia, get my coat.
00:39:50Nobody's leaving this joint until I solve this murder.
00:39:54Horatia, are you going to allow this Bulgarian to brownbeat me?
00:39:58Sit down.
00:39:59Now, see here, my man.
00:40:00Sit down.
00:40:04Oh, if I were only married to a man instead of a dictionary.
00:40:09Now, listen.
00:40:10Nobody's putting nothing over on me about this ape business.
00:40:14There's a murderer in this house and I'm going to find him.
00:40:17Yes, and while you're trying to find a murderer, we'll all be killed.
00:40:21Oh, no, you won't.
00:40:23I'll keep my eye on every one of you.
00:40:25I won't turn my back for a minute.
00:40:27Come in.
00:40:38Give me a police headquarters.
00:40:41This is Pickens.
00:40:42Let me talk to the corner.
00:40:43hello bud come on on get another body yeah somebody croaked him when I turned
00:40:51my back oh don't worry with Ned Pickens on the job there'll be no more murder
00:40:58oh wait a minute who's out of this room all the insurance guy he's the one I
00:41:14suspect at all let go quick help help it's in here huh here Armstrong quick the aid that went out that
00:41:33window all right what do you want to do let it get away all right let's hear what happened well
00:41:38after I left bells this room I came in here for a handkerchief the incense was burning then all of a
00:41:43sudden I heard the tom-toms and the eight climbed in through that window I suppose you expect us to
00:41:48believe that hoey well what do you mean find the apes oh no it's what about the garage nothing there
00:41:54you hear that we've combed this house and grounds from end to end and there's no apes around you're
00:42:01the guy that called our attention to this instance before you know what I think what I think you're
00:42:06the murderer and this last gag of yours is just a stunt that throws suspicion away from yourself why
00:42:11that's absurd I've been listening to some of your talk and I know what your purpose is you're crazy
00:42:17yeah crazy like a fox you could get this whole thing for one reason and what's that those you
00:42:22could sell a lot of insurance I've never heard anything so ridiculous lawyer Clancy put him under
00:42:27arrest and then he won't be anymore in murders
00:42:29water
00:42:52she's dead that poco spirit sure let her down how's he he'll be all right
00:43:06what happened
00:43:16it was terrible
00:43:20this walker felt faint
00:43:23she started towards the french window
00:43:27to get some air
00:43:29to get some air
00:43:31suddenly the tom-toms began
00:43:33the ape
00:43:36came through the window
00:43:38she screamed
00:43:41he grabbed her
00:43:43that's all I remember
00:43:48I must have fainted
00:43:53well Mr. Bigshot I guess that lets me out
00:43:56you can save yourself the trouble inspector
00:44:09I assure you that ape is quite dead
00:44:13it's ridiculous keeping us cooped up here like this
00:44:16three people have been killed already
00:44:18the house has bewitched
00:44:20Mr. Ellis
00:44:21you are our attorney I insist that is Mrs. Potter insists that you take means to get us out of here
00:44:28my clients are perfectly justified in wishing to leave here inspector
00:44:31you have no right to make them stay here to become victims of whatever's going on in this house
00:44:34you're no closer to the solution of this mystery than you were after the first murder
00:44:37you're no closer to the solution of this mystery than you were after the first murder
00:44:40boy you ought to get a medal for the way you gum this case up
00:44:43this isn't the case it's an epidemic
00:44:46telephone telephone phone
00:44:48phone
00:44:49telephone cables
00:44:56car
00:44:58hello
00:44:58hello
00:44:59ah hello bud
00:45:00yeah I'm up to my neck in apes
00:45:02come on out we got two bodies for you now by the time you get here it'll
00:45:06probably be even half dozen
00:45:08We'll wait for the coroner, and then we'll call it a night.
00:45:20Cigarette.
00:45:21Cigarette.
00:45:26When the coroner gets here, why, we'll take a statement from each of you as to what you did and saw last night.
00:45:33And then we'll all meet at the district attorney's office tomorrow.
00:45:38Cigarette.
00:45:42Bauer!
00:45:43Landsy, cover that door.
00:45:46Cover everything.
00:45:47Look, look there.
00:45:49And if it looks suspicious, let him have it.
00:45:55Well, hello.
00:45:56What do you mean, hello?
00:45:57Oh, just, hello.
00:45:59Where have you been for the last half hour?
00:46:02Oh, here and there.
00:46:04Yeah, well, it's just what you've been doing here and there.
00:46:07What are you doing here and there?
00:46:09Oh, this and that.
00:46:11Do you know anything about this Tom Tom?
00:46:14What's his last name?
00:46:16Say, listen, you. Pop out with a good alibi or I'll pinch you for murder.
00:46:20The only way that you can prove that you're not a murderer around here
00:46:23is to get yourself killed.
00:46:29What'd she say?
00:46:31She thinks I should go out into the garden and get some air.
00:46:35All right. Don't try to make a getaway.
00:46:37There's a cop out there.
00:46:45Who's that?
00:46:46Where?
00:46:47At the door.
00:46:49Oh, fire!
00:46:51They got me!
00:46:52Turn off the lights!
00:46:58Be calm, everybody. Be calm.
00:47:00Who's dead or missing?
00:47:01Smith.
00:47:02Where's Smith?
00:47:03He's gone.
00:47:04I figured that out too.
00:47:05Where are you going?
00:47:06I'm going to find Mr. Prynne.
00:47:07He may be hurt.
00:47:08All right.
00:47:09Inspector.
00:47:10What?
00:47:11Read this.
00:47:12What do you make of it?
00:47:19This is the second note I've had like this.
00:47:20The man who writes some evidence, he knows what he's writing about.
00:47:21And I suggest that we follow his instructions.
00:47:22Well, I should say so.
00:47:23If you don't value your lives, I value mine.
00:47:24Say, remember this is a frame-up of yours.
00:47:25Pickens will be right with you.
00:47:26Clancy.
00:47:27Go out and find Prynne and that Hindu woman, and tell him I want him at the district attorney's
00:47:30office tomorrow.
00:47:31And make it emphatic.
00:47:32Tomorrow.
00:47:33Emphatic.
00:47:34Wait a minute.
00:47:35What about Ella?
00:47:36Uh, Miss Browning.
00:47:37We can't go out and leave her here alone.
00:47:38Oh, fiddlesticks.
00:47:39She's lived here long enough without getting into trouble.
00:47:40Let's get out of here.
00:47:41Yeah, I want to meet this Scotland Yard guy and get the low down.
00:47:43Maybe it's an English shape.
00:47:44And the district attorney wants to see us as soon as we get through here.
00:47:45Well, there's almost time for Scotland Yard to put in an appearance.
00:47:47Well, I'm going to go out and find Prynne and that Hindu woman, and tell him I want
00:47:50him at the district attorney's office tomorrow.
00:47:51And make it emphatic tomorrow.
00:47:52Empatic.
00:47:53Wait a minute.
00:47:54What about Ella?
00:47:55Uh, Miss Browning.
00:47:56We can't go out and leave her here alone.
00:47:57Oh, fiddlesticks.
00:47:58She's lived here long enough without getting into trouble.
00:47:59Let's get out of here.
00:48:00Yeah, I want to meet this Scotland Yard guy and get the low down.
00:48:03Maybe it's an English shape.
00:48:05And the district attorney wants to see us as soon as we get through here.
00:48:09Well, there's almost time for Scotland Yard to put in an appearance.
00:48:13I bet this is all just a scheme to get us away from the Prynne house.
00:48:17I've been doing some thinking.
00:48:19And it's going to take more than an old fruit of an ape to make me give up my share of that money.
00:48:24It's too bad that ape did attack me.
00:48:26Yes, it is too bad.
00:48:28What's that?
00:48:29If he had, I have no doubt of what the outcome would have been.
00:48:39He's out.
00:48:57Yes, Ella, dear.
00:49:01Why, Ella, dear, where are you going?
00:49:10I'm leaving, Mr. Prant.
00:49:12Leaving?
00:49:13What for?
00:49:15I'm afraid of what's going on in this house.
00:49:18There might be more murders.
00:49:20I don't think so, my dear.
00:49:22Now those other people are gone.
00:49:25Why, you think they had something to do with the murders?
00:49:29One of them did.
00:49:31I'm quite sure of that, my dear.
00:49:33But what about the ape?
00:49:34I've come to believe that the ape was an obsession of mine.
00:49:40Brought on by brooding for years over that foolish curse.
00:49:44Please don't leave me.
00:49:48I don't know what to say, Mr. Prant.
00:49:50You know, there's something I've wanted to talk to you about for days.
00:49:56But I hesitated because...
00:49:58Ella, darling, I wanted to ask you to be my wife.
00:50:05Chounder.
00:50:07Why, no, dear.
00:50:08She's just my housekeeper.
00:50:10You know, she's been brooding a great deal lately.
00:50:13And I think she's terribly homesick.
00:50:17And I think I'll let her go back.
00:50:19There's no hurry.
00:50:22Take your time and think it over.
00:50:25Well, uh...
00:50:26In the meantime, please don't leave me.
00:50:30And after all, my dear,
00:50:32a brave little nurse doesn't run away from her duty.
00:50:37All right, Mr. Prant.
00:50:39I'll stay.
00:50:41I think I'll go to bed now.
00:50:43Good night.
00:50:44Scotland Yard.
00:50:49Oh, well.
00:50:53The plumber.
00:50:54You, the man from Scotland Yard?
00:50:57Yep, I've seen him before.
00:50:59He's the McCoy, all right.
00:51:00Scotland Yard.
00:51:02Incredible.
00:51:03Scotland Yard first became interested in the case
00:51:05when two people were killed in Prant's house in London.
00:51:08The case baffled the Yard officers in London,
00:51:11and they came to believe implicitly
00:51:13that the Hindu curse was behind the murders.
00:51:16Nonsense.
00:51:17That's what I thought.
00:51:18And when I was assigned to the case,
00:51:19I found out that Mr. Prant was having a new water system
00:51:22installed in his house.
00:51:23That's how I became the dumb plumber.
00:51:26Have you solved this mystery yet?
00:51:27I have.
00:51:28Then why didn't you tell us about it last night
00:51:29and prevent the murders?
00:51:30Because I didn't solve it until after the murders.
00:51:33As a matter of fact,
00:51:34we haven't any actionable evidence yet.
00:51:36We must scrap the ape and whoever's behind him.
00:51:39That's why I asked you to meet me here.
00:51:42All right, let's hear the story.
00:51:44Well, we're not all here yet.
00:51:45We must wait for Miss Ella Browning.
00:51:46But you didn't say anything about her in your note.
00:51:49She wasn't in the room when I left.
00:51:51One of you would have had to tell her,
00:51:52and the walls at the Prant house have ears.
00:51:55I left a note in her room.
00:51:56She should be here any minute.
00:51:58Why didn't you tell me?
00:51:59I'd have gotten her out of there.
00:52:01I don't care for this whole setup.
00:52:09You know, I don't think you've been looking at all well lately.
00:52:19You think so, Sahib?
00:52:20Yes, I was thinking that an ocean voyage might do you good.
00:52:27How do you think you'd like a trip back home?
00:52:30Will the Sahib go with me?
00:52:32Oh, well, no.
00:52:35No, you see, Shander, I have a lot of important things to attend to here.
00:52:40Do you wish me to go alone?
00:52:42Yes.
00:52:43Well, that is, you can go on ahead,
00:52:45and as soon as I clear things up, I'll join you.
00:52:49Very well.
00:52:51That's a good gal.
00:53:02Not bad for a cripple, eh?
00:53:27My people have taught this Sahib Minnathrix.
00:53:29You know, I have to laugh when I think how we fooled all those saps with the curse of K-Li.
00:53:39K-Li, old kid.
00:53:42You're all right.
00:53:44Come on, Shander.
00:53:46Drink a toast to K-Li.
00:53:49K-Li, my pal.
00:53:54Here you are to K-Li,
00:53:57who knows nothing.
00:53:59And here's to K-Li,
00:54:01who knows everything.
00:54:03Well, here's to go to them.
00:54:05I'll stick to them.
00:54:06Long may they wave.
00:54:13Yes, sir, K-Li.
00:54:14We certainly fooled them, didn't we?
00:54:16Well, that old priest of yours
00:54:18spouted all that junk about a curse.
00:54:21He didn't know I'd have a chance
00:54:22to make good use of it someday,
00:54:24did he?
00:54:26Did he?
00:54:31Well, there.
00:54:36You?
00:54:36He's ready.
00:54:56Come on.
00:54:58Yeah, I've got it!
00:54:59Come on.
00:54:59Bye.
00:55:00How about today?
00:55:01Come on.
00:55:01It's the Tom Tom another murder Ella if anything happens to that girl
00:55:31I know but it's gone now
00:55:36Where's mr. Prim? He is asleep for a man. He's tired the Tom Tom's didn't even awaken him. Are you sure he's asleep?
00:55:44He's asleep
00:55:47The man saw it must also be tired. Why does she not go to this?
00:55:51Oh, that's what I was trying to do when those Don Tom Tom started again
00:56:01It is done okay like revenge is dying
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