🎥 A gripping film noir crime thriller of greed, betrayal, and deadly secrets.
📽️ Plot Summary:
When wealthy businessman Lewis Vyner is found murdered, suspicion falls on those closest to him. Four people — his wife, his brother, his doctor, and his secretary — each had motives… and each harbors secrets. As the investigation unfolds, a tangled web of deceit reveals that the truth is far darker than anyone imagined.
🕰️ Year Released: 1954
🎭 Genre: Crime, Mystery, Film Noir
🎬 Directed by: Terence Fisher
🎞️ Starring: Paulette Goddard, Griffith Jones, Honor Blackman, William Sylvester
🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ Classic British film noir atmosphere
✔️ Intricate murder mystery with shocking twists
✔️ Features Honor Blackman (later famous as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger)
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✨ Four suspects… one murder… and a trail of lies leading to the truth.
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📽️ Plot Summary:
When wealthy businessman Lewis Vyner is found murdered, suspicion falls on those closest to him. Four people — his wife, his brother, his doctor, and his secretary — each had motives… and each harbors secrets. As the investigation unfolds, a tangled web of deceit reveals that the truth is far darker than anyone imagined.
🕰️ Year Released: 1954
🎭 Genre: Crime, Mystery, Film Noir
🎬 Directed by: Terence Fisher
🎞️ Starring: Paulette Goddard, Griffith Jones, Honor Blackman, William Sylvester
🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ Classic British film noir atmosphere
✔️ Intricate murder mystery with shocking twists
✔️ Features Honor Blackman (later famous as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger)
🔔 Don’t forget to LIKE 👍 | COMMENT 💬 | SUBSCRIBE 🔔 for more Film Noir & Mystery Classics!
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🎞️ #FilmNoir #ClassicMystery #TheUnholyFour1954 #GoldenAgeCinema
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✨ Four suspects… one murder… and a trail of lies leading to the truth.
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00:03:27and spoil the surprise.
00:03:32Get yourself a drink, Joan, you look awful.
00:03:36Oh, and Joan, don't ring Andrew, do you understand?
00:03:39I'm going down there myself.
00:03:41They will be surprised, won't they, boy?
00:04:11Well, hello, Harold.
00:04:14It'll be nice to know what your car is doing in my wife's garage.
00:04:22Well, hello, Harold.
00:04:25It'll be nice to know what your car is doing in my wife's garage.
00:04:41Oh, my God.
00:04:48You are lying.
00:04:50I have no idea how to use your ship.
00:04:57I have no idea how to use your house to use your house.
00:05:01I have no idea what your car will get in the house.
00:05:05I have no idea what your house is doing in my wife's garage.
00:05:39Have you seen Angie around?
00:06:01Angie?
00:06:02Angie Vickers.
00:06:02She's giving this party.
00:06:04Oh, I haven't seen Angie for a long time.
00:06:06I'll tell you a secret.
00:06:07You look for Job Crandall, Bill Saul, and Harry Bryce.
00:06:11She'll be there.
00:06:12Will she?
00:06:14Will she really?
00:06:15Come on, darling.
00:06:16Let's dance.
00:06:22Oh, Hanson, where'd you come from?
00:06:23Listen, Crandall.
00:06:34I'll give you 48 more hours to think it over.
00:06:37But you know what'll happen if you don't come to the right conclusion.
00:06:40And if I get one more threat out of you...
00:06:42Hello, Job.
00:06:48Sessions.
00:06:49Vic.
00:06:51We thought you were dead.
00:06:53No, I'm alive.
00:06:56But when did you...
00:06:57Now that I've found my business manager and chief accountant together,
00:07:01how is the old firm?
00:07:06Naturally, we've taken care of everything while you've been job.
00:07:09Business has improved.
00:07:11Nearly one third.
00:07:12Fine.
00:07:13And you won't need to be back for a while.
00:07:17Seen Angie around?
00:07:18No, not since I first arrived.
00:07:23Thanks.
00:07:29Now, perhaps you'll change your mind.
00:07:36Well, it's Christmas.
00:07:39No.
00:07:48Turn around, Bill.
00:07:57Go away, will you?
00:07:59I said turn around.
00:08:01What do you think?
00:08:01Say hello, Bill.
00:08:03Welcome me home.
00:08:06Vickers.
00:08:09Thank you, Bill.
00:08:11Now, maybe you can tell me where Angie is.
00:08:15No.
00:08:17No.
00:08:18All right.
00:08:21I'll see you later, Bill.
00:08:48I'll see you later, Bill.
00:08:59I'll see you later, Bill.
00:09:00Miguel.
00:09:00Blue.
00:09:00ken-
00:10:32Unless...
00:10:33Unless what?
00:10:36Unless you've acquired one in your travels, along with that scar.
00:10:42You've changed, Vic.
00:10:44Changed a lot.
00:10:47Which do you think you prefer, Bill?
00:10:49You weren't very fond of the old pickers, as I recall it.
00:10:51I don't like people very much.
00:10:55Not even the people I like.
00:11:01I can use about four gallons of that.
00:11:04Help yourself.
00:11:04What happened to you, Vic?
00:11:11He's not talking.
00:11:13But after four years, nobody knew whether you were alive or dead.
00:11:18You just walk in, not a word to anybody, and scare the living dead.
00:11:21I wonder if either of you made this much fuss when I disappeared.
00:11:31Anyone seen Harry?
00:11:32Oh, Jenny, this is Mr. Philip Vickers.
00:11:35Vic, this is Jenny, who I'm afraid is not as bright as a penny.
00:11:39Hello, Jenny.
00:11:41Hello to you.
00:11:42Say, by the way, where is Harry?
00:11:46Vic.
00:11:48Tell us, what did happen to you?
00:11:50You were with me, Job.
00:11:52You and Bill and Harry Bryce.
00:11:56Perhaps you'd like to tell me what happened.
00:11:57You and Bill and Harry Bryce.
00:12:27Sit down, everybody.
00:12:33What are you having for breakfast?
00:12:35Vic.
00:12:36I said, what are you having for breakfast?
00:12:39Lemon eggs, that's always easy.
00:12:48Sit down, Job.
00:12:49Hi, that sounds good.
00:12:59Who's the good Samaritan?
00:13:03Well...
00:13:03Oh, man.
00:13:17Oh, man.
00:13:21I'm having a Venturi behind me.
00:13:35It's all right now.
00:13:36Come on.
00:13:37Come on, Kristie.
00:13:37Oh, Vic, I knew you'd come back.
00:13:56Hello, Vic.
00:13:57Hello, hello.
00:14:00What happened to you?
00:14:02Tell me.
00:14:04What did they say happened to me?
00:14:05My friends, John, Harry, and Bill.
00:14:08But they didn't know they wired me from Portugal that you'd disappeared.
00:14:11Why didn't you send word to me?
00:14:13Why didn't you tell me?
00:14:14Tell you what?
00:14:16For three years, I didn't even know my own name.
00:14:21Amnesia?
00:14:24Yeah.
00:14:26Amnesia.
00:14:33One night we anchored in a small Portuguese harbor.
00:14:37I'd had one highball aboard the boat, but when we went ashore, I was very, very drunk.
00:14:47I don't know where we went, what we did, or who went with...
00:14:51but I do remember a man's voice saying, turn around, Vicus.
00:15:02I've waited a long time for this.
00:15:04I want to watch your face as you go down.
00:15:06I suppose I remember those words because, even when you're drunk, do you remember a sentence of death?
00:15:17I don't know what hit me, or how long it was before I came to, but when I did, I was aboard a Mexican tram.
00:15:28There's nothing in my pocket to tell me who I was, nothing in my head, either.
00:15:37Except a big hole.
00:15:41Vic.
00:15:41Maybe now you can understand why I didn't write once I've recovered my memory.
00:15:53You see, a corpse doesn't write to his executioner and say, I'm coming back.
00:15:58But, of course, this is all a big surprise to you, isn't it?
00:16:02Not really, it's what I've been afraid of.
00:16:05I'm afraid one of them that killed me.
00:16:09Afraid, Angie?
00:16:11Or glad?
00:16:14Oh, Vic.
00:16:16You haven't changed a bit.
00:16:18But they're here.
00:16:20You couldn't have been that afraid.
00:16:21For four years I've been trying to find out what happened to you.
00:16:27Hey, Vic.
00:16:29Vic!
00:16:31What is it?
00:16:31Vic, they found Harry.
00:16:37He's dead.
00:16:52It's crazy.
00:16:54We were on the terrace.
00:16:55All of us.
00:16:56We were talking about Harry.
00:16:58Wondering where he was.
00:16:59And then he just seemed to float right out from under the landing.
00:17:03I called Bill.
00:17:04He must have got caught underneath.
00:17:06But how did it happen?
00:17:09You mean, who made it happen?
00:17:11He was our friend, Vic.
00:17:13Must have been accidental.
00:17:14We were all friends in Portugal, Job.
00:17:17All four of us.
00:17:18What's Portugal got to do with it?
00:17:20Nothing, maybe.
00:17:23Maybe a lot.
00:17:25You better go call the police.
00:17:26And ring Joe and Merrill.
00:17:28Tell us you better come down to the cottage.
00:17:30Right.
00:17:34You said it was going to be fun.
00:17:37About that sense of humor of yours.
00:17:41I'm beginning to like it even less than mine.
00:17:44Nobody even said they were sorry.
00:17:49Are you sorry, Vic?
00:17:49Did you see Harry last night?
00:18:01Did I, Bill?
00:18:11Were you with Harry last night, Angie?
00:18:13Yes.
00:18:16But only for a moment.
00:18:17He was very unpleasant.
00:18:18I told him to go away and he did.
00:18:22Were you down there, Vic?
00:18:26A leading question, but yes, I was.
00:18:29I saw you going aboard the boat.
00:18:31There was no sign of Harry then.
00:18:34Just his cigarette case.
00:18:37I found it in the boathouse.
00:18:39Why did you take the boat out, Angie?
00:18:43I wanted to get away.
00:18:46Hmm.
00:18:49Well, I wouldn't tell the police that if I were you.
00:18:52Then I won't tell them you were there either.
00:18:57Do you think I killed him, Angie?
00:19:00Well, perhaps you heard his voice and it was the same one that you heard in Portugal.
00:19:04Yes.
00:19:06Perhaps four years ago, you said to Harry,
00:19:08you're going on a long cruise with my husband.
00:19:11If by chance anything permanent should befall him, I should be most grateful.
00:19:20I hope for your sake, Angie,
00:19:23the police have a different theory.
00:19:24What do you think, Doc?
00:19:36Look at that.
00:19:37See the shape of the wound?
00:19:39A round, laceraged area here.
00:19:41Uh-huh.
00:19:42The skull is sprinted underneath.
00:19:44Looks to me like a bar of pipe with a lump at one end.
00:19:48Do you think he was hit?
00:19:49Sure he was hit.
00:19:50And hard, too.
00:19:52Could he have done it falling?
00:19:53He could have done.
00:19:55If he did, he went a lot of trouble to knock his brains out.
00:19:57If he hadn't, eh?
00:19:58He doesn't look any too bright.
00:20:01Men in his condition seldom do.
00:20:03Check two things particularly.
00:20:05Could he have done it falling?
00:20:07And could a woman have done it?
00:20:09An active woman in good condition.
00:20:11The sort that sails boats and things.
00:20:12Ah, women.
00:20:13They're getting too careful for their own good these days.
00:20:15Ah.
00:20:15Ah.
00:20:23Hey, Doc, come over here.
00:20:41He doesn't seem to have bled a lot.
00:20:43He wouldn't with that kind of wound.
00:20:45Oh.
00:20:47And if he was murdered, the killer probably wouldn't have got any blood on him.
00:20:49Hmm.
00:20:50Looks as though he lay down for a few minutes and then got up.
00:20:53It's amazing sometimes how long a chap can live with his skull smashed in.
00:20:58Then I suppose he fell over the edge.
00:21:00Somebody might at least have stepped in that puddle so he'd have a nice handy bloodstained shoe print to check on.
00:21:06Not even a sign of a track.
00:21:08Oh, well.
00:21:09They told me detecting wasn't easy.
00:21:11It's my own fault.
00:21:18I'm afraid accidents like this don't just happen.
00:21:22Of course, there's a faint possibility that he struck his head in falling from the landing.
00:21:26We'll know better after the autopsy.
00:21:27But who would want to murder Harry?
00:21:28He was always such a nice guy.
00:21:31Go to sleep, though.
00:21:33That's for the inspector to find out.
00:21:36Now, exactly what happened here last night?
00:21:39There was a party.
00:21:42Uh-huh.
00:21:43What time did you arrive, Mr. Vickers?
00:21:46I got here about midnight.
00:21:48I wasn't focusing too good by then.
00:21:51What about Harry Bryce?
00:21:52What did he do?
00:21:53Where was he?
00:21:53Who was he with?
00:21:54I don't know about the rest of them, but I didn't see him all night.
00:21:57Angie brought him down.
00:21:59I came with some other people.
00:22:01Harry and I had a fight.
00:22:03A fight?
00:22:05Story of our friendship, Inspector.
00:22:06One long, happy fight.
00:22:09I didn't care, of course, but I didn't think it looked right for him to be spending so much time with Angie while he was supposed to be engaged to me.
00:22:16So, of course, he went right over to Angie's.
00:22:19That's the last I saw of him all night.
00:22:20He was making a nuisance of himself, Inspector.
00:22:23I drove him down in my car because he was in no condition to drive himself.
00:22:29But his car is here.
00:22:31I drove it down.
00:22:31I see.
00:22:36You've been missing for four years, haven't you, Mr. Pickers?
00:22:39Yes.
00:22:40As I recall it, you vanished during a fishing cruise in Portuguese waters.
00:22:44Harry Bryce and these two gentlemen were with you.
00:22:46What happened?
00:22:47I can see the question's going to get monotonous.
00:22:52This happened.
00:22:53I went ashore one night and was knocked on the head.
00:22:56Result, amnesia and four rather unpleasant years.
00:22:59Assault and robbery?
00:23:00Uh-huh.
00:23:01Something like that.
00:23:05You've certainly kept the news quiet, Mrs. Pickers.
00:23:07There was nothing to keep quiet.
00:23:08I sent no word that I was coming.
00:23:12Do you think your sudden return might have had any bearing on what happened?
00:23:17What bearing could it possibly have?
00:23:19I've no idea.
00:23:21That's why I asked you.
00:23:23One other thing.
00:23:24I want everything in this house left just as it is.
00:23:26That means wearing apparel, personal effects, the works.
00:23:30They'll be returned to you as soon as we're through.
00:23:32I assume that none of you are wearing the clothes you had on last night?
00:23:35Except me.
00:23:36I can't let you have them now.
00:23:38I feel so conspicuous.
00:23:40Oh.
00:23:41All right, but don't have them cleaned or brushed.
00:23:43I'll send a man to the house to pick them up.
00:23:45That goes for shoes, socks, the lot.
00:23:47Mrs. Pickers, would you be kind enough to let me have a guest list?
00:23:50Everyone who was here last night?
00:23:51Yes.
00:23:52Would you do that for me, Jim?
00:23:54May I drive you home, miss?
00:23:56Well, who am I to argue with the law?
00:24:00No, that was quite a party.
00:24:06You'll be hearing from us, Mr. Pickers.
00:24:08We'd be most unhappy if we didn't, Inspector.
00:24:18And now, if you don't mind, you can all leave.
00:24:21And while you're at it, start covering up tracks and rehearsing alibis.
00:24:25Somebody is going to need a good one.
00:24:28Turn around, Pickers.
00:24:33Turn around, Pickers.
00:24:36Turn around, Pickers.
00:24:41Turn around, Vickers.
00:24:47Turn around, Vickers.
00:24:52Turn around, Vickers.
00:24:55Run, Vickers.
00:26:41Hello, old chap.
00:26:52Hello, do you want to go?
00:26:53Never mind, I'll do it.
00:26:55Morning, Philip.
00:26:56Any coffee left?
00:27:07Yes, I think so.
00:27:09I'm just trying to finish that list of guests for the inspector.
00:27:11John, how would you like to go down to the cottage for a while?
00:27:17I don't understand.
00:27:21Angie and I have a lot of years to make up for.
00:27:23We want to be alone.
00:27:25If the cottage doesn't appeal to you, choose a hotel.
00:27:28I'd suggest a trip somewhere if it weren't for the police.
00:27:31If you want to get rid of me, Philip, why don't you just say so?
00:27:34All right, I say so.
00:27:36What about Angie?
00:27:37If you must know the truth, I haven't discussed it with her.
00:27:39You mean you're just pushing me out?
00:27:41Let's call it a vacation.
00:27:43Even social secretaries need vacations once in a while.
00:27:46Anyway, the social season's over, I'm afraid.
00:27:50I'll let Angie tell me.
00:27:51Angie is still asleep, I'm telling you.
00:27:53That's the way it's going to be, Joan.
00:28:01I've called for a taxi.
00:28:03Come on.
00:28:04I see you've talked to them every day.
00:28:06I've tried to.
00:28:08Even my suitcase.
00:28:13I'll send the rest of your things on later.
00:28:15Well, at least let me go and get my hand.
00:28:17It's in the case.
00:28:19I put a check in it.
00:28:20Let me know when you want more.
00:28:23Wherever she wants to go.
00:28:26Very good, sir.
00:28:35Hi.
00:28:36Hi.
00:28:37I'm starved.
00:28:39Now, here's your orange juice.
00:28:42Smells so good.
00:28:44Now, I'm going to sit down until it's ready.
00:28:47The house is so quiet this morning, I haven't seen Joan.
00:28:50She isn't here.
00:28:52Huh?
00:28:53I sent her away for a vacation.
00:28:55She's earned it.
00:28:56I sent the servants, too.
00:29:01But I don't understand.
00:29:03Why would you do such a thing?
00:29:06Things have to be worked out.
00:29:08I've got to be alone.
00:29:15I'm going to phone.
00:29:16I'm going to have to pull.
00:29:18It's on.
00:29:23I've got to be alone.
00:29:29I'm going to have to be alone.
00:29:30I'm going to have to build it.
00:29:31It's on.
00:29:33No, it's fine.
00:29:42I think you've got to be alone.
00:29:42But I'm going to have to help.
00:29:44Breakfast is ready.
00:29:49The phones don't work.
00:29:51I know. I cut off the extensions.
00:29:53You're the one in my desk.
00:29:54Your den is locked.
00:29:55Is it?
00:29:57That's funny. I must have done it without thinking.
00:30:00Why do you want me alone in the house
00:30:02with the only phone in the locked room?
00:30:05Because I want to stay alive.
00:30:08Someone tried to kill me last night.
00:30:10They may try again.
00:30:11Perhaps Harry Bryce knew who it was that time in Portugal.
00:30:15That's why he's dead.
00:30:18Whoever it is wants you free of me pretty bad.
00:30:20If they think you're in any possible danger,
00:30:21they'll try to get me one way or another.
00:30:23Well, then call the police. Let them help you.
00:30:25I need your help, Angie.
00:30:28I want that somebody to get the impression
00:30:30that I've gone a little mad.
00:30:32That I've deliberately locked you off
00:30:33from all touch with the past.
00:30:36And perhaps I even intend to kill you.
00:30:39Now do you understand?
00:30:41Then why doesn't Angie call me?
00:30:45There are telephones all over the house.
00:30:47I've tried repeatedly, but I can't get any answer.
00:30:51I'm afraid, Inspector.
00:30:53He's got her there alone in that house,
00:30:55and I'm frightened.
00:30:57Then I think you'd better sit down and tell me why.
00:31:01Don't be afraid to say anything you want, Miss Merrill.
00:31:03I'm here to listen.
00:31:05Inspector,
00:31:06I think Philip Vickers killed Harry Bryce.
00:31:12Why?
00:31:12Because Harry was in love with Philip's wife.
00:31:15Was Mrs. Vickers in love with Harry Bryce?
00:31:17No, I almost wish she had been.
00:31:20But you're not sure that Vickers believes that?
00:31:22I'm only sure of one thing.
00:31:24He's got her there alone in that house.
00:31:26And who knows what may have happened to him mentally
00:31:28during the past four years.
00:31:29A blow on the head which destroyed his memory.
00:31:32Could have done so much more.
00:31:33Oh, yes.
00:31:35Did Mrs. Vickers ever mention
00:31:37that perhaps Mr. Vickers' disappearance
00:31:38was not accidental?
00:31:41She once said
00:31:42that she wondered whether it could have been murder.
00:31:46What do you think?
00:31:48I wouldn't have cared if it was.
00:31:50He always treated her shamefully.
00:31:52Never once considered her feelings.
00:31:54Oh, but I can't imagine
00:31:55any one of those three killing someone.
00:31:57They're just not the kind of people
00:31:58who commit murders.
00:32:00I wish I had a week's holiday with pay
00:32:02for every time I've heard that.
00:32:03I wouldn't have to work again till 1994.
00:32:07Now, you get some rest, Miss Merrill.
00:32:09Let us do the worrying.
00:32:11Thank you, Inspector.
00:32:14Oh, Miss Merrill.
00:32:15Yes?
00:32:16Wasn't your father financially involved
00:32:18in a corporation that was bankrupted
00:32:20by Mr. Vickers' company?
00:32:23And didn't he take his own life shortly afterwards?
00:32:25If it wasn't for Philip Vickers,
00:32:27my father would be alive today.
00:32:30Is that all, Inspector?
00:32:31Yes, that's all, Miss Merrill.
00:32:45Traherne here.
00:32:47This is Johnson, sir.
00:32:47We've found the murder weapon, I think.
00:32:49You have?
00:32:50What is it?
00:32:51The short length of inch metal piping
00:32:53drilled and bolted at one end.
00:32:55Water's washed clean, of course,
00:32:57and the surface is no good for prints.
00:32:58Uh-huh.
00:33:00Could a woman have used it?
00:33:02Oh, yes.
00:33:03Not too heavy for a woman, sir.
00:33:05Okay, keep at it.
00:33:15I suppose you want to hear my story
00:33:17about what happened on the fatal night.
00:33:23Did you have one?
00:33:25Sure, I got two or three.
00:33:26Which one do you want to hear?
00:33:28Oh, the one you think will keep me
00:33:30from breathing my hot little breath
00:33:32down your neck?
00:33:34I was quite a mob around.
00:33:37Somebody put some atomic energy
00:33:38in my cocktails.
00:33:40I don't remember anything
00:33:41after Vickers' life.
00:33:43Vickers was sober when you saw him.
00:33:44Oh, yeah, Vic didn't drink.
00:33:47Not what you call drinking.
00:33:49But he was drunk that night in Portugal.
00:33:52Everybody slips up with it sometimes.
00:34:01Eight on the nine.
00:34:11Harry Bryce have any enemies?
00:34:12Yes.
00:34:14No, no, Harry was a good boy.
00:34:18Nobody could dislike Harry.
00:34:20What about Vickers?
00:34:22Oh, him you could dislike.
00:34:25Who hit Vickers over the head?
00:34:30I thought you'd get around
00:34:32to asking me that.
00:34:34I don't know.
00:34:35And if I didn't know,
00:34:36I wouldn't tell you.
00:34:37Ah.
00:34:38Like that?
00:34:41Look, could have been anybody.
00:34:43Could have been Harry,
00:34:44could have been Job Crandall,
00:34:46maybe even me.
00:34:48On the other hand,
00:34:49he could have been taken by anybody
00:34:50for just the ordinary thing,
00:34:53his watch,
00:34:53his money.
00:34:54and those silly ideas
00:34:58blew through that hole in his head.
00:35:01I don't know.
00:35:07But what I do know is
00:35:08I wish he didn't have Angie
00:35:11up there all alone.
00:35:12Worried?
00:35:24Hello?
00:35:25Hello?
00:35:26Yeah.
00:35:29Inspector Teherne,
00:35:30just a minute.
00:35:30Hello?
00:35:37How'd that do, Johnson?
00:35:39Got something else for you, Inspector.
00:35:41A man's handkerchief.
00:35:42Expensive one, too,
00:35:43with the initial V
00:35:44in one corner.
00:35:46It's got streaks
00:35:47of what looked like rust on it
00:35:48and something else
00:35:49that looks like blood.
00:35:51Not bad, Johnson.
00:35:53Rush it to the lab
00:35:54and tell them
00:35:54I want to report on it
00:35:55right away, but quake.
00:35:58Something new?
00:36:00Maybe.
00:36:02You never know.
00:36:25What's the news, Brownie?
00:36:27Nothing.
00:36:27Some reporters came
00:36:29and went away mad,
00:36:30but nobody's been
00:36:31inside the house
00:36:31or come out of it
00:36:32since the Merrill woman
00:36:33and the servants
00:36:34left this morning.
00:36:35Okay, driver.
00:36:35Oh, it gets awful cold
00:36:37out here at night, Inspector.
00:36:38There's a chill comes up
00:36:39that just bites your...
00:36:40I'll see you get
00:36:41some long ones
00:36:41sent out to you, Brownie.
00:36:42Okay.
00:36:45Yeah, thanks.
00:36:50Now, Mrs. Vickers,
00:36:51when was the last time
00:36:52you saw Harry Bryce?
00:36:54About 10.30 or 11.
00:36:56Then I lost him in the mob.
00:36:57And about midnight
00:36:59you took the boat out.
00:37:00I suppose it was
00:37:01about that time.
00:37:02I didn't know this, really.
00:37:05And you saw your wife leave?
00:37:07Yes, it was shortly after 12
00:37:08when I saw the launch go out.
00:37:10Did you know then
00:37:11it was your wife?
00:37:12Yes, I'd seen her going aboard.
00:37:13At that distance
00:37:14and at night?
00:37:15I saw a woman
00:37:16in a light dress.
00:37:17Even at that distance
00:37:17a woman's skirts
00:37:18looked different
00:37:19from a man's trousers.
00:37:21It was my wife's boat
00:37:22and my wife's habit
00:37:22to take it out.
00:37:23Did you go directly
00:37:26from the cottage
00:37:27to the landing?
00:37:28Yes, I did.
00:37:36Yes?
00:37:38Speaking.
00:37:41It is.
00:37:45Okay, I think that does it.
00:37:47Bye.
00:37:50Now, don't tell me
00:37:51I can feel it coming.
00:37:52You're about to make an arrest.
00:37:54This is a funny kind of case,
00:37:55Mr. Vickers.
00:37:55Only three things stand clear.
00:37:57You came back.
00:37:58At one time
00:37:59your wife was down
00:38:00on the landing
00:38:00and Harry Bryce was killed.
00:38:03I'd like to tell you
00:38:04what happened that night
00:38:05as I see it.
00:38:07Mind if I smoke?
00:38:08Not at all.
00:38:14Four years ago
00:38:15a man went on a cruise
00:38:17with three of his friends.
00:38:18One night
00:38:20one of those friends
00:38:20tried to murder him
00:38:21but the job was bungled
00:38:22because the man lived.
00:38:25Now, he didn't tell anyone
00:38:26he was alive
00:38:27which could only mean
00:38:28one thing.
00:38:30He knew one of his friends
00:38:31had tried to kill him
00:38:32and he didn't trust his wife.
00:38:39The night he came back
00:38:40he found his wife
00:38:42down by the boathouse
00:38:43with a friend
00:38:44who had tried to kill him.
00:38:45He waited until his wife
00:38:48had gone
00:38:48then hit the friend
00:38:51very hard over the head
00:38:52with a short iron bar.
00:38:54He consigned the body
00:38:55and the bar to the water.
00:38:58There was blood
00:38:58and the iron rust
00:38:59on his hands.
00:39:01So he wiped them clean
00:39:02with his handkerchief
00:39:03weighted it down
00:39:05with a stone
00:39:05and threw it
00:39:07after the body.
00:39:08Then he went back
00:39:11to the house
00:39:12and played host
00:39:12for the rest of the night.
00:39:14From the limited data
00:39:15at your disposal
00:39:15you've concocted
00:39:16an excellent little plot.
00:39:18It does have some
00:39:18rather interesting aspects.
00:39:21In a documentary
00:39:22sort of style it is.
00:39:23That bit about the iron bar
00:39:24is based on fact
00:39:25I suppose.
00:39:26Yes, the murder weapon
00:39:27was found this morning.
00:39:29The laboratory
00:39:29found particles
00:39:30of blood and hair on it
00:39:31that's what the phone call was.
00:39:33And the handkerchief
00:39:33was a nice piece
00:39:34of follow through.
00:39:35When the old story
00:39:36doesn't have a leg
00:39:37to stand on.
00:39:38Good sound deduction
00:39:39all very logical.
00:39:41But you know
00:39:41what a smart defense lawyer
00:39:42would do to you in court?
00:39:44I know.
00:39:45Except for one thing.
00:39:49The handkerchief.
00:39:51A what?
00:39:52They found a handkerchief
00:39:53not far from the murder weapon.
00:39:55It had stains on it.
00:39:57Rust
00:39:57the same that's on the bar
00:39:59and blood
00:39:59Harry Bryce's blood.
00:40:01Are you trying to tell me
00:40:05you came here
00:40:05to arrest me?
00:40:07Wait a minute.
00:40:08I remember something
00:40:09about a handkerchief.
00:40:11Did Harry Bryce
00:40:12have one
00:40:12when you found him?
00:40:14No.
00:40:15Well he asked me
00:40:16for one that night.
00:40:18So I gave him one
00:40:18of Vic's.
00:40:19It was white
00:40:20of very fine linen
00:40:21with a hand embroidered
00:40:22V in the corner.
00:40:22Is that the one you found?
00:40:25Yes, Mrs. Vickers
00:40:26I'm afraid it is.
00:40:28Well that helps a lot.
00:40:29Because if a handkerchief
00:40:31came off the corpse
00:40:32anybody could have
00:40:32taken it.
00:40:35Including a woman
00:40:36who wouldn't have had
00:40:37one of her own handy.
00:40:41I take it you're not
00:40:42going to arrest me then?
00:40:44I guess not.
00:40:45Yet.
00:40:46And may I ask you
00:40:47to get out of my house?
00:40:49You may.
00:40:50But I'll be back.
00:40:52Anytime.
00:40:53Anytime at all, Inspector.
00:40:54Inspector.
00:40:59Thanks, but you
00:41:04shouldn't have told him
00:41:04that about the handkerchief.
00:41:05Well I had to, Vic.
00:41:06It was the truth.
00:41:07It put ideas into his head.
00:41:09Well even if it did
00:41:10and even if it put
00:41:11wrong ideas into yours
00:41:12I couldn't just sit there
00:41:13and watch him arrest you.
00:41:16No, Angie.
00:41:18Of course you couldn't.
00:41:19You know very well
00:41:25that Vickers will discover
00:41:26your little game
00:41:27before he's been back
00:41:27in the office five minutes.
00:41:29That's why I'm going to tell him.
00:41:31He'll give me a chance
00:41:31to pay it all back.
00:41:32Don't be a fool.
00:41:34I've told you
00:41:34that for one thousand pounds
00:41:35I'll cover your tracks
00:41:36and keep my mouth shut.
00:41:38It's cheap at the price.
00:41:39Do you really expect me
00:41:40to believe that you'd be
00:41:41content with one payment?
00:41:43I know your kind.
00:41:44You'd just go on and on
00:41:45bleeding me.
00:41:46You can't understand
00:41:47that I'd rather go to Vickers
00:41:48and make a clean breast
00:41:49of it, can you?
00:41:50And if Vickers goes
00:41:51to the police?
00:41:52I'll take a chance on that.
00:41:54Now shut up and get out
00:41:55or I may be tempted
00:41:55to tell them what you're up to.
00:41:57I'm afraid it's not
00:41:57as simple as that.
00:41:59You seem to be
00:42:00forgetting something.
00:42:01What?
00:42:02Angie.
00:42:03You leave her eyes.
00:42:03It's not what you
00:42:04and she have been up to
00:42:05the past few years
00:42:06although I'm sure
00:42:06Vickers would be
00:42:07very interested.
00:42:08It's what happened
00:42:09the night of the party.
00:42:11What do you mean?
00:42:11I mean that if you go
00:42:12to Vickers
00:42:12I go to the police.
00:42:14I'm going to tell them
00:42:15that I saw you
00:42:16the two of you
00:42:16and that you
00:42:17had Harry
00:42:18between you
00:42:18and were pushing him
00:42:19into the water.
00:42:21I'm going to tell them
00:42:22that I saw you
00:42:22from the terrace.
00:42:23I'm going to tell them
00:42:24that I saw you
00:42:25Get out, Sason.
00:42:47job open sort of
00:42:57perspective here.
00:43:01Where's Angie?
00:43:05Somewhere about.
00:43:07She's all right, Vic.
00:43:09I've got to see her.
00:43:10I've got to see Angie.
00:43:11Why?
00:43:12Why?
00:43:12If you've done
00:43:14anything to harm her,
00:43:15I...
00:43:16I killed Sessions.
00:43:37How did you kill him,
00:43:43Job?
00:43:43Did you hit him
00:43:45over the head
00:43:45the way you hit me?
00:43:47I hit him.
00:43:48I didn't know
00:43:49I was going to.
00:43:50He said something.
00:43:52I hit him.
00:43:54I didn't hit you, Vic.
00:43:56I never hit anyone
00:43:57before.
00:43:58What did he say?
00:44:00I didn't go down
00:44:01to the boathouse.
00:44:02He was lying.
00:44:03Now, why don't you
00:44:04stop lying, Job?
00:44:05You committed a murder.
00:44:06Why not tell the truth
00:44:07about me?
00:44:08I didn't try to kill you, Vic.
00:44:10And I don't know who did.
00:44:12Please, let me see Angie.
00:44:14Hello, Job.
00:44:17You all right?
00:44:19Of course.
00:44:21Angie.
00:44:23I killed a man.
00:44:25Job.
00:44:27They can only hang me once.
00:44:29So I'm going to say
00:44:30I killed Harry, too.
00:44:32I want to do it, Angie.
00:44:35Murder's wrong,
00:44:35but I know you didn't,
00:44:37Rudy.
00:44:37Not the way they made it.
00:44:39I know you killed him
00:44:41because you had to.
00:44:43I wanted you to know
00:44:44so you wouldn't try
00:44:45to save me.
00:44:46But, Job,
00:44:47what makes you think
00:44:48I killed Harry?
00:44:50Well, I saw you.
00:44:52I saw you down
00:44:53on the landing.
00:44:54I saw your hair
00:44:56and the light dress
00:44:57that you wore.
00:44:59Harry was with you.
00:44:59I saw him
00:45:01sort of crumple up.
00:45:03You tried to catch him,
00:45:04but when you straightened up,
00:45:05Harry wasn't there anymore.
00:45:07But you don't have to worry.
00:45:10It's all right.
00:45:12Now.
00:45:12I did not kill Harry Bryce.
00:45:30I was not the woman Job saw.
00:45:31I wonder who he did see.
00:45:33Oh, when will this ever be over, Vic?
00:45:35When can we ever go back
00:45:36to just being people again?
00:45:37Well, that rules our job.
00:45:44He's willing to take on
00:45:45an extra murder,
00:45:46no reason to fight Shire
00:45:47the one that didn't come off.
00:45:51I wonder when Bill will come.
00:45:54Do you think he will come here?
00:45:57He's in love with you, isn't he?
00:45:59That alone will bring him.
00:46:00He's in.
00:46:24Give him a minute.
00:46:25Come right out.
00:46:26Come on.
00:46:26Come on.
00:46:26Come on.
00:46:26Come on.
00:46:26Come on.
00:46:27Come on.
00:46:28Come on.
00:46:29Come on.
00:46:30Where's Angie?
00:46:33She isn't here.
00:46:34Where is she then?
00:46:36Joan's taken her somewhere.
00:46:37Opened the valley, I believe.
00:46:39What did I have?
00:46:40Scotch.
00:46:43Things were getting a little involved emotionally.
00:46:46Four years is a long time to be separated.
00:46:48Thanks.
00:46:49Angie wanted some time to think.
00:46:50When do you expect her back?
00:46:52Whenever she's ready.
00:46:54Traherne didn't mind her just vanishing?
00:46:57Didn't seem to?
00:46:58So you've been up here all alone, sulking and refusing to answer the telephone.
00:47:02Don't even call up any old pals, come around and play canasta and lighten the solitude.
00:47:07I wasn't that lonely.
00:47:13You know something, Vic?
00:47:18I think you're lying.
00:47:20Listen to me, Bill.
00:47:22No man can prevent another from being in love with a woman.
00:47:25Or from trying to steal her when he's not around.
00:47:27But Angie happens to be my wife and I'm getting fed up with the people accusing me of having murdered her.
00:47:32Or being just about to do so.
00:47:34You've got a lot of nerve, Vic.
00:47:37You resent being accused of murder.
00:47:39But the other way around, it's okay.
00:47:42You've accused me of murder.
00:47:44You've accused Job.
00:47:45And if Harry was still alive, you'd probably be accusing him.
00:47:48But you're resentful.
00:47:49Good old Bill.
00:47:53You've always were the only one with any guts.
00:47:56Go on.
00:47:58Oh, I'll go on.
00:48:00But if you've done anything to Angie, I'll go on till I see you in hell.
00:48:04I'm beginning to resent you, Vic.
00:48:15Yes, I can believe that.
00:48:18Apparently you all resented me.
00:48:21We had a right to.
00:48:24Let me ask you, Vic.
00:48:27Why did you want us hanging around?
00:48:29You amused me.
00:48:33That's your answer.
00:48:35You didn't have to stay and take it.
00:48:38Only there was Angie, wasn't there?
00:48:41She had all the virtues that I lacked.
00:48:45That's why you tried to murder me in Portugal.
00:48:50Oh, so now you've made a definite choice.
00:48:53It's me.
00:48:56Get up.
00:48:57Get up, for heaven's sake, and finish your drink.
00:49:08What makes you think I'd try to kill you anyway, Vic?
00:49:13You've always hated me, Bill.
00:49:16You've always wanted Angie.
00:49:19You're the only one I could ever imagine having enough guts to hit a man with homicidal intent.
00:49:25Even from the back.
00:49:27Well, I might hit you, Vic, with homicidal intent, but never from the back.
00:49:34There's just one thing wrong with your logic.
00:49:36One factor you've overlooked.
00:49:38What's that?
00:49:39You.
00:49:40You.
00:49:41You got hit on the head, all right.
00:49:43But the rest is all made up in your own mind.
00:49:46You had it pretty rough for four years.
00:49:48That's stamped all over you.
00:49:50You wanted revenge.
00:49:52We were the last people you remembered seeing.
00:49:54So we were it.
00:49:55But I heard a voice.
00:49:59It said, turn around, Vic.
00:50:01Because I've waited a long time for this.
00:50:05It said, I want to watch your face as you go down.
00:50:08Now, let me hear you say it, Bill.
00:50:13Imagination, Vic.
00:50:14Dreams.
00:50:15It spoke to me in English.
00:50:16It called me by name.
00:50:17It was no Portuguese thief talking to me.
00:50:20Let me hear you say it.
00:50:23You're crazy.
00:50:25It must have been your voice.
00:50:27Let me hear you say it, Bill.
00:50:29Vic.
00:50:30Stop that.
00:50:32Vic, stop it.
00:50:33You'll kill him, Vic.
00:50:34Vic.
00:50:35Vic.
00:50:42Thanks, Angie.
00:50:44Must be out of his mind.
00:50:47But he said you were...
00:50:48No, I was waiting in there.
00:50:51Oh, I see, Vic.
00:50:54You don't care how you work a deal to try and convince people you're not crazy.
00:50:58But for your own sake, Angie, you better make him see a psychiatrist.
00:51:03I think you'd better go, Bill.
00:51:05Do you want to get out of here?
00:51:06No.
00:51:08Thanks.
00:51:08No, I'll call you.
00:51:23What do you think, Angie?
00:51:24Is he right?
00:51:28Could be.
00:51:30Maybe I did dream all this.
00:51:34That would be ironic.
00:51:37Catching Joan back here to get one confession and getting one from me instead.
00:51:41I knew the whole thing was a lot of melodramatic nonsense.
00:51:43Just like you, Philip.
00:51:45An ordinary accident couldn't happen to you, to anybody else in the world, but not to Philip Vickers.
00:51:50With you, it would have to be attempted murder with a lot of fancy trimmings.
00:51:53You don't need a psychiatrist.
00:51:54You need a little sense.
00:51:56Vickers, did you do this?
00:52:19Certainly not.
00:52:20Brownie, is this the man?
00:52:20I told you I didn't see him.
00:52:24Well, don't stand there like fools.
00:52:26Bring the man in.
00:52:28Is there anything I can do?
00:52:30No, thanks.
00:52:30He's not badly hurt.
00:52:31Who is he?
00:52:44Don't you know?
00:52:45No, I don't know.
00:52:47He's one of my men, been watching the house.
00:52:49I found him all tied up just now.
00:52:52Would you mind telling us what you're doing here?
00:52:53You're under arrest, Mrs. Vickers, for the murder of Harold Bryce.
00:53:03You can't take her.
00:53:06Crandall turned himself in.
00:53:08We questioned him a little on his Bryce confession.
00:53:10There were a few holes in his story, and he fell right through them.
00:53:14After that, it was easy.
00:53:17Were you going to let him take the rap for her?
00:53:19You answer that yourself, Treherne.
00:53:21All right, I'll withdraw that.
00:53:24I was only hoping he'd keep you away from her long enough to find out the truth.
00:53:28This looks like a pretty good substitute.
00:53:30It still isn't true.
00:53:31Of course, the burden of proof rests with us,
00:53:33but this will do until something better comes along.
00:53:36Are you ready, Mrs. Vickers?
00:53:39I guess so.
00:53:41Will one of you get a coat, please?
00:53:43No, wait.
00:53:44You don't want Mrs. Vickers.
00:53:45You want me.
00:53:46I'm the woman Crandall saw with Harry Bryce.
00:53:49The woman had black hair, Miss Merrill.
00:53:50I was wearing a black snood.
00:53:52But I can show it to you.
00:53:53Joan, it's no use.
00:53:54You weren't even down there until the next morning.
00:53:56Well, I was.
00:53:56You were going to bed when I left, Joan.
00:53:58I was there, I tell you.
00:53:59You've got to believe me.
00:54:00Look, Miss Merrill, I appreciate how you feel.
00:54:02But I've had one phony confession tonight.
00:54:04That's enough.
00:54:05There's nothing you can do now.
00:54:06Why don't you confess?
00:54:07Why don't you confess?
00:54:09You know you killed him.
00:54:10Why don't you confess?
00:54:12Why don't you confess?
00:54:19It's all right, darling.
00:54:20Don't worry.
00:54:21Nothing's going to happen to you.
00:54:22I didn't do it, Vic.
00:54:24Fine, no.
00:54:25Let's get your coat and go off.
00:54:26Not you, Vickers.
00:54:27It'll work out, Dan.
00:54:47She's accomplished.
00:54:51I'll be seeing you, Mr. Vickers.
00:54:52I'll be seeing you.
00:55:22All right, Miss Merrill, his return was a great shock to you.
00:55:40No word, no warning.
00:55:44All of a sudden, there he was.
00:55:52So you went down to the cottage to try and warn Mrs. Vickers?
00:55:56Yes.
00:55:59I don't know how long it took me.
00:56:01It seemed like hours.
00:56:03I went the long way around because the shortcut is dark and lonely.
00:56:07When I got there, I saw the light in the boat house.
00:56:15I knew that Angie went down there a lot to get away from people she didn't like.
00:56:19I hoped she'd be there alone.
00:56:20As I passed the landing, I heard a strange sound in the darkness.
00:56:30I stopped.
00:56:32I saw the shape of a man lying in a heap beside the bench.
00:56:35He seemed to be hurt.
00:56:40It was Harry.
00:56:42I thought at first that he was drunk, that he'd fallen and hurt himself.
00:56:45I asked him if he was all right.
00:56:47And I saw his face.
00:56:49Suddenly, he just fell and went over the edge into the water.
00:56:57A handkerchief had fallen out of Harry's pocket.
00:56:59I picked it up.
00:57:01Then I saw the bar.
00:57:02I was beyond thinking clearly.
00:57:04I picked it up and threw it as far as I could into the water.
00:57:07I waited the handkerchief and threw that in too.
00:57:20All of a sudden, I became afraid.
00:57:39Afraid of the murderer.
00:57:41Next thing I knew, I was running.
00:57:43Then I got in the car and go to sleep back to the house.
00:57:51All right, Miss Merrill.
00:57:53Try to calm down and try to relax.
00:57:57You'll let Angie go now.
00:57:59I'm sorry, Miss Merrill.
00:58:01But it was Philip.
00:58:03Why don't you arrest him?
00:58:04Philip killed Harry Bright.
00:58:05You know he did.
00:58:06What I may or may not know and what I can prove are two different things, Miss Merrill.
00:58:11But you can't hold Angie now.
00:58:12You only have her because of what Job said.
00:58:14And now you know it was me he saw.
00:58:16We only have your word for that.
00:58:17Oh, just how stupid can you get?
00:58:20It was Philip.
00:58:21He did it.
00:58:22Who else would have any reason for doing it?
00:58:26You?
00:58:28Miss?
00:58:30You hate Fickers enough to do anything if you knew it could destroy him.
00:58:34You'll never stop believing that your father would be alive today if it hadn't been for Philip Fickers.
00:58:38Revenge is a strange thing, Miss Merrill.
00:58:42It'll eat into a person's soul and rot away the insides until there's not one shred of decency or speck of human feelings left.
00:58:52Yes, sir?
00:58:52You can send in Sergeant Evans now.
00:58:54Right, sir.
00:58:56We're holding you for further questioning, Miss Merrill.
00:58:58But...
00:58:59The only way I can solve this case is by getting the truth out of all the people concerned.
00:59:04Which I've not been getting from any of them yet.
00:59:06But I'll get it.
00:59:08And now if you'll excuse me, I have things to do.
00:59:10Shh.
00:59:10Sergeant Johnson.
00:59:21Yes, sir?
00:59:22Send for Philip Fickers for questioning.
00:59:25Then come in here and start making noises like an assistant.
00:59:27Right, sir.
00:59:38Well?
00:59:38Well?
00:59:38Well, we're right back where we started from.
00:59:44Suspects fall in every time you open the door, but they slip through your fingers like water.
00:59:47It's all very sad.
00:59:49You're getting paid for it, sir.
00:59:50What happens now?
00:59:53I do a little more questioning, and I let them go.
00:59:56And then?
00:59:57Somebody will get killed.
00:59:59This thing isn't finished yet.
01:00:01No matter who killed Harry Bryce, his death didn't solve anything.
01:00:05It was just a curtain raiser.
01:00:06Now, undress Mabel and get the stuff down to the lab.
01:00:08That house and everyone connected with it are going to be watched.
01:00:14I'm going to make each one of them sweat, figuring out what they've got to do.
01:00:20And then they'll go ahead and do it.
01:00:22They can't wait.
01:00:24This isn't a murder for profit or convenience.
01:00:27And it isn't cold-blooded.
01:00:28It's hot and it's violent.
01:00:31And that kind of murder won't wait.
01:00:32You're going to be ...
01:00:33Ah, yes.
01:00:34Um, do you mind turning a little the other way, sir?
01:00:36Mabel here.
01:00:37She's the bashful type.
01:00:38Oh.
01:00:38How are you done fine when did they let you go Joan and I
01:01:08came home about two o'clock. How did Trehearne treat you? He behaved admirably. He now knows everything about me except how to prove I killed Harry. I know he's convinced I did it. What on earth is this? My clothes. It was the inventory. One man's suit blue, one pair of man's shoes black and so on. These things have been put to every test known to modern science and found pure. No blood. Trehearne was terribly disappointed. I know I shall never want to
01:01:38wear my things again. Let's have a drink. Definitely. Unless you want anything, Angie, I think I'll go upstairs. I'll put these things in your room for you, Philip. Don't bother. I'll take them up when I go. No bother. Joan. Yes, Philip? Thanks for getting Angie out of that. There's nothing to thank me for.
01:02:08It's not a sweater she's knitting. It's a noose. She and Trehearne are going to fasten an army together and tie it with a true lover's knot. She's been down there since early morning trying to talk me right into death row. Poor Joan. She's only trying to help me. Be patient a little longer, darling. I'll talk to her and try to straighten her out. And if she won't straighten?
01:02:38She's all the other day.
01:03:08Oh, my God.
01:03:38Oh, my God.
01:04:08Did you call Bill and invite him to dinner?
01:04:19Yes, I did.
01:04:20But I really don't understand.
01:04:23He was lying last night or I'm off my head.
01:04:26He came here to do something and then changed his mind.
01:04:28He played the whole thing off against me.
01:04:31So now I'm suspected of lunacy and he's got you and Joan as witnesses.
01:04:35But take how does it help to have him here again?
01:04:39He's tried twice to kill me and he'll try again.
01:04:43This time I want to bring him out into the open.
01:04:45I want him here where I can keep an eye on him.
01:04:58Don't break.
01:04:59I suppose you realize the grounds are crawling with cups.
01:05:07Doesn't surprise me.
01:05:08Just like old times, I've forgotten what it was like to have a shadow.
01:05:12You too, Bill?
01:05:13Sure.
01:05:14I don't know about you two characters, but I feel like a nightcap.
01:05:17How about it?
01:05:18You've both had a pretty hard day.
01:05:20You deserve one.
01:05:21It's a wonderful idea.
01:05:22I'll get the ice, pour the drinks.
01:05:24I'll even come back and help you drink them.
01:05:25I can't stand this much longer, Vic.
01:05:33No, neither can I.
01:05:35It's up to him to make the first move.
01:05:38I hope it's soon.
01:05:39I don't want to spend the rest of my life playing 300 gin rummy.
01:05:47I thought you'd gone to bed.
01:05:49Bill, I've put a package in your carton.
01:05:52You leave here.
01:05:52I take it straight to Trahan, there's a note inside explaining the whole thing to him.
01:05:57Wait a minute, just give me that once more, a bit slower.
01:06:00Listen, I find evidence proving that Philip killed Harry.
01:06:04It's in your car.
01:06:06I can't leave it here because I can't leave Angie alone with him.
01:06:08You've got to take it to the police.
01:06:10Do you understand?
01:06:14Sure.
01:06:17Sure, I understand.
01:06:22What will it be, over the rocks?
01:06:27Over the rocks.
01:06:34Over the rocks.
01:06:43Over the rocks.
01:06:44Over the rocks.
01:06:47Over the rocks.
01:06:49Over the rocks.
01:06:50Over the rocks.
01:06:51Over the rocks.
01:06:52Over the rocks.
01:06:53Over the rocks.
01:06:54Over the rocks.
01:06:55Over the rocks.
01:06:56Over the rocks.
01:06:57Over the rocks.
01:06:58Over the rocks.
01:06:59Over the rocks.
01:07:00Over the rocks.
01:07:01Over the rocks.
01:07:02Over the rocks.
01:07:03Over the rocks.
01:07:04Over the rocks.
01:07:05Over the rocks.
01:07:06Over the rocks.
01:07:07Over the rocks.
01:07:08Over the rocks.
01:07:09Over the rocks.
01:07:10Over the rocks.
01:07:11Over the rocks.
01:07:12Over the rocks.
01:07:13Over the rocks.
01:07:14Over the rocks.
01:07:15Over the rocks.
01:07:16Over the rocks.
01:07:17Over the rocks.
01:07:18Well, happy night, Cap.
01:07:28And pleasant dreams.
01:07:35So long, Vic.
01:07:36Good night, Angie.
01:07:48Good night.
01:08:18Good night.
01:08:48Good night.
01:08:51You killed her.
01:09:03You killed her.
01:09:04You killed her.
01:09:05You killed her.
01:09:06You're mad.
01:09:12That was right.
01:09:14You're mad.
01:09:16You're mad.
01:09:18You're mad.
01:09:20Let me go!
01:09:36You're mad.
01:10:06You're mad.
01:10:22You're mad.
01:10:24You're mad.
01:10:26You're mad.
01:10:30You're mad.
01:10:46You're mad.
01:12:26You were expecting me, Bill.
01:12:47I've been expecting you ever since you came back.
01:12:52Move over there, Vic.
01:12:55I'm going to call the police.
01:12:57No need to do that, Bill.
01:12:58They'll be here soon enough.
01:13:00They want me for murder.
01:13:04Murder?
01:13:06It's all rather hazy.
01:13:08I woke up with a poker in my hand and Joan was dead.
01:13:12And you killed Joan?
01:13:15No, Bill.
01:13:16You killed Joan.
01:13:17I killed Angie.
01:13:22Angie?
01:13:24Oh, you're lying, Vic.
01:13:26Why would you want to kill her?
01:13:27I had a splitting headache and she screamed at me.
01:13:32It hurt my head.
01:13:34And she said you were right, Bill, that I was obviously quite mad.
01:13:38And so, I still had the poker in my hand.
01:13:41I suppose I did it to stop her screaming as much as anything.
01:13:44But you really shouldn't have said I was mad.
01:13:48You're lying, Vic.
01:13:50You can't needle me that way.
01:13:53Why should I lie, Bill?
01:13:55I've nothing to lose.
01:13:58The way you've worked it out, I haven't a hope.
01:14:01Use the phone.
01:14:02Check up.
01:14:03When you're finished, get me a drink, will you?
01:14:10I feel rotten.
01:14:28Get down.
01:14:33You did that for me, Bill.
01:14:40Four years of hard labor, you get strong doing that.
01:14:45Now, get up.
01:14:47Get up!
01:14:52Did you kill Angie, Vic?
01:14:55Did you kill her?
01:14:55No, I didn't kill her.
01:14:57She's safe.
01:14:59But she thinks I killed Joan.
01:15:00I can't expect her to think anything else.
01:15:03The one thing I can do is stop you taking what you want after I'm out of the way.
01:15:08No, I'm not going to kill you, Bill.
01:15:10You're far too important to me for that.
01:15:13I'm going to try to make you talk.
01:15:19Four years ago, I could have taken you on, Vic.
01:15:23I could have given you height and weight, and I could still take you on.
01:15:26Because your guts were nothing but stuffed fellers.
01:15:30Now I don't know.
01:15:33You went down easy enough in Portugal.
01:15:35I was doped.
01:15:36You're doped now.
01:15:38I know, but I can still see.
01:15:43You're quite sure about that, Doc?
01:15:45There's no possible doubt.
01:15:46Mrs. Vickers, you'd better come with us.
01:15:52Come on, Johnson.
01:15:53We really have got our killer this time.
01:16:03You killed Harry?
01:16:05Yeah.
01:16:06You killed Joan?
01:16:07Yes.
01:16:08Will you tell the police?
01:16:10No.
01:16:11No.
01:16:11No.
01:16:11No.
01:16:16No.
01:16:29Now will you tell the police, Bill?
01:16:31No.
01:16:46You should be dead, Vickers.
01:17:02I hit you hard enough.
01:17:04You wanted my wife.
01:17:06She needed a man.
01:17:08Not a stuffed shirt.
01:17:11Yeah, I wanted her.
01:17:13Well, I couldn't have her while you were still alive.
01:17:15And you killed Harry.
01:17:19He was around her too much.
01:17:22I got down to the boathouse.
01:17:24He was all alone.
01:17:26There was no way you could prove it wasn't you.
01:17:29And Joan?
01:17:30I could fill that in myself.
01:17:36You didn't have to go to all this trouble, Vickers.
01:17:38What do you mean?
01:17:41Sol's a very smart boy.
01:17:42He painted a beautiful picture.
01:17:45He knocked out Miss Merrill in the kitchen.
01:17:47Then went back into the lounge and drugged your drinks.
01:17:50After you'd passed out,
01:17:51he dragged in Miss Merrill,
01:17:53hit her over the head,
01:17:54then set the stage.
01:17:56Only one detail was wrong.
01:18:00Miss Merrill was already dead.
01:18:02She was under great tension.
01:18:03And the shock of being knocked out stopped her heart.
01:18:06The medical examiner can prove that she was dead
01:18:08before the time of Sol's departure.
01:18:09and over one hour before you were supposed to have killed her.
01:18:13You mean that...
01:18:14That's right, Mrs. Vickers.
01:18:16We came here to arrest Sol.
01:18:18I'm disappointed.
01:18:28Yes, and your pride is touched.
01:18:30To the quake.
01:18:32I had such a beautiful case against you.
01:18:35Circumstantial evidence.
01:18:37Not with your visual testimony, Mrs. Vickers.
01:18:39Hey, now, do you blame her?
01:18:41She wakes up in a drunk sleep and sees me.
01:18:43Darling, we're interrupting Mr. Trehearne.
01:18:45It's his story. Let him tell it.
01:18:49When Miss Merrill doctored a pair of your shoes,
01:18:52it gave Sol just the chance he'd been waiting for.
01:18:55What could be more convincing
01:18:57than that you discover Miss Merrill
01:18:58had sent incriminating evidence to the police?
01:19:00You fly into a rage and you kill her.
01:19:03There was the motive, the weapon, the fingerprints,
01:19:05and the body.
01:19:08What more would the police need
01:19:09to convict a man for murder?
01:19:11Not much.
01:19:13You'll have to stick around
01:19:18while the usual legal machinery
01:19:20grinds its mess through the mill.
01:19:21I take it you went planning another sea trip just yet?
01:19:23Not just yet.
01:19:25Well, thanks for the ride, Trehearne.
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