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00:02:35It's not your wife's fault, Kennedy. I can explain.
00:02:42You try to explain this?
00:02:44You've got to listen to me, Jim. I've been in love with Duncan for months.
00:02:49What are you going to do?
00:02:52Mr. Channing is not going to destroy the happiness of another man's home.
00:02:57You've killed him. And it was my ideal.
00:03:00Well, there he lies.
00:03:27That's a clever charade I've ever seen.
00:03:37And isn't Kennedy the old Barrymore, though?
00:03:39I wonder how much of this is on the level.
00:03:44Hey! Can't anybody guess this word?
00:03:51My lead, isn't it?
00:03:53Yes, you lead.
00:03:57Well, I'll concede you a trick in hearts.
00:04:08Well, what's the use of playing with a criminologist? He knows everything.
00:04:13Montrose, some professional advice.
00:04:16Ah, a client.
00:04:18Walter's sister and her husband are playing charade.
00:04:21Jim just caught Channing chiselling with Esme and shot him.
00:04:25Well, what did Esme say?
00:04:27She said, dunk is her ideal.
00:04:30What about dunk?
00:04:31Well, he's still lying on the floor.
00:04:34Ideal? Lies.
00:04:36Well, that's pretty obvious. Idealized.
00:04:38Oh, my hat for the brain. Idealized. I guessed it.
00:04:43Thank you so much. I'll win the prize.
00:04:47Esme should have gone on the stage. She's a good actress.
00:04:50Yes, she is.
00:04:52Hey!
00:04:53Do you dumbbells want us to do the whole thing again?
00:04:55Well, we're doing the best we can.
00:04:57Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:05:00I figured the whole thing out by myself.
00:05:03The word, the word, it is idealized.
00:05:06Well, allow me to be the last to congratulate you.
00:05:15Come on down.
00:05:16You can get up now.
00:05:17It's all over.
00:05:22Jump.
00:05:24Jump.
00:05:29Jim.
00:05:30He's dead.
00:05:31He's dead.
00:05:32Oh.
00:05:50Get upstairs where you belong.
00:06:01Well, you don't think that I...
00:06:06I loaded the gun myself.
00:06:10You weren't there, Colton.
00:06:11You saw me load the gun with blanks.
00:06:22Yes.
00:06:23As I say, I...
00:06:25But he's a little bit chill.
00:06:27What?
00:06:28What?
00:06:30This thing's impossible.
00:06:32Come upstairs, Jim.
00:06:33But, Colton, I...
00:06:34Come on.
00:06:35Come on.
00:06:39See, I'm in the dummy, yes.
00:06:41There we are.
00:06:45What is it, Lawrence?
00:06:46Beg pardon, Miss Julia.
00:06:48Mr. Kennedy just shot his secretary.
00:06:51Yes, we know that.
00:06:52They were playing a charade game.
00:06:54But Mr. Channing is dead.
00:06:56What?
00:06:59Oh.
00:07:03Lawrence.
00:07:05Are you...
00:07:06quite sure?
00:07:08Quite sure, sir.
00:07:19Now, Jim, this is serious.
00:07:21It's...
00:07:23homicide.
00:07:24Let me tell them, Colton.
00:07:26Somebody put real bullets in this gun.
00:07:28No.
00:07:29I'm your lawyer.
00:07:31And I don't want you to talk to anyone...
00:07:33until I find out what this is all about.
00:07:40He died instantly.
00:07:41Oh.
00:07:42Oh.
00:07:49I'll take Mrs. Kennedy to her room.
00:07:50That's right.
00:07:51Don't let anyone touch the body until the police arrive.
00:07:59It's lucky Montrose is here, isn't it?
00:08:03Well, what do you mean?
00:08:04Well, he sold the Brown murder.
00:08:08Murder?
00:08:12Why, you don't think that this is...
00:08:14This whole thing looks very fishy to me.
00:08:19Now, folks.
00:08:21I'm going to call the police.
00:08:23This is just...
00:08:24just a regrettable accident.
00:08:25Must be considered only as such.
00:08:28You understand.
00:08:29Yes, we understand, Mr. Colton.
00:08:30Well, that's right.
00:08:31Just a bit.
00:08:32Just a bit.
00:08:37Millie, get some smelling salts.
00:08:39There's some in Miss Julie's room.
00:08:40Go.
00:09:02Come on.
00:09:03Open that door.
00:09:10I'm Inspector Taylor.
00:09:14Yes, sir.
00:09:15Where's the body?
00:09:17Over there.
00:09:26Hi.
00:09:27Hi, Mr. Kennedy is on.
00:09:29He, uh...
00:09:31The accident we shot Mr. Duncan Channing, his second.
00:09:35Where's Mr. Kennedy now?
00:09:40Upstairs in his room.
00:09:42Waiting to give you his statement.
00:10:02Well?
00:10:04A bull's-eye, Chief.
00:10:06Right through the pump, eh?
00:10:07Yeah.
00:10:09How did this happen?
00:10:11It was an accident, Mr. Polisman.
00:10:13Inspector.
00:10:15Well, anyway.
00:10:17I am Junior Kennedy.
00:10:18Mr. Kennedy's aunt.
00:10:20Hiya.
00:10:22And?
00:10:23They were acting a charade.
00:10:25You know.
00:10:26You guessed the word.
00:10:28I guessed the word?
00:10:29Yes.
00:10:30No.
00:10:31I mean everyone has to guess the word.
00:10:34Was it an accident?
00:10:36Certainly it was an accident.
00:10:38No, that's not what I mean.
00:10:39It was...
00:10:40Idealized.
00:10:41Idealized.
00:10:42That's the word.
00:10:44Are you trying to make me confused?
00:10:47You're confused already.
00:10:49Where were you when this, uh, game was being played?
00:10:53I was upstairs playing bridge.
00:10:55Then how did you know what the word was?
00:10:57They told me beforehand.
00:10:58Oh.
00:10:59You knew this thing was going to happen before it happened, eh?
00:11:03And who was they?
00:11:05Mr. Channing and Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy.
00:11:07Oh, Mrs. Kennedy's in this too, is she?
00:11:10Where is she?
00:11:11She fainted.
00:11:12Mr. Montrose helped her upstairs to her room.
00:11:15Oh.
00:11:17Is Philip Montrose here?
00:11:18Yes, he is.
00:11:19Thank heaven.
00:11:20Thank heaven is right.
00:11:21He'll at least be able to give us a sensible account of what happened.
00:11:38Where's the other body?
00:11:40The other body?
00:11:42Isn't one body enough?
00:11:43There isn't any other body.
00:11:45At 11.30 tonight, someone phoned headquarters that a murder had been committed in this house
00:11:49and the two people were dead.
00:11:55It's ten minutes past twelve, and it just happened.
00:11:59You're crazy.
00:12:03It's 11.40, and you're crazy, and your clock is cuckoo.
00:12:07Why, that clock was correct at 11.30.
00:12:09To find out who changed the clock, we'll find out what this is all about.
00:12:12Make pardon, sir.
00:12:16I changed the clock, sir.
00:12:19You changed the clock, Lawrence?
00:12:21Yes, Miss Julia.
00:12:22Mr. Kennedy wanted the little playlist to begin right on the stroke of twelve.
00:12:27Then you phoned for the police.
00:12:29No, sir, I did not.
00:12:30Well, who did?
00:12:32I don't know, sir.
00:12:34Who used the phone in the last half hour?
00:12:36We're getting no place fast.
00:12:42Who was here when the shot was fired?
00:12:45You!
00:12:47I was sitting within twenty feet of them, Inspector.
00:12:50You go ahead.
00:12:51Well, we were all sitting in the darkness when suddenly we saw the shadow of a man outside the door.
00:12:58What door?
00:13:00The front door, of course.
00:13:02Oh, that door.
00:13:04Quite.
00:13:05Oh, yes, yes, yes, dear me.
00:13:06As I was saying, we were all sitting in the darkness when suddenly we saw the shadow of a man outside the door.
00:13:19I might have known it was you.
00:13:44One bullet was for Channing and you thought I'd use the other on myself.
00:13:48But you're not going to get away with it.
00:13:53I've left a letter telling of the previous attempt on my life and pointing to you as the one who seeks my death.
00:14:00And then, Mr. Kennedy saw his wife as Mr. Channing and he pointed his gun at him and, oh, so sorry, and he fired!
00:14:11There's the other body.
00:14:12Keep the crowd down here.
00:14:13This is my house.
00:14:14I can look if I want to, I guess.
00:14:15Well, guess again, Sister.
00:14:16This time the word is no.
00:14:17Keep her down here.
00:14:18Why, you!
00:14:19Why, you!
00:14:20Why, you!
00:14:21Why, you!
00:14:22Why, you!
00:14:23Why, you!
00:14:24Why, you!
00:14:25Why, you!
00:14:26Why, you!
00:14:28Why, you!
00:14:29Why, you!
00:14:30Why, you!
00:14:31Why, you!
00:14:32Why, you!
00:14:33Why, you!
00:14:34Why, you!
00:14:35Why, you!
00:14:36Why, you!
00:14:37Why, you!
00:14:38Why, you!
00:14:39Why, you!
00:14:40Why, you!
00:14:41Why, you!
00:14:42Why, you!
00:14:43Why, you!
00:14:45This looks like it.
00:14:48Police!
00:14:52Who fired that shot?
00:14:53I don't know. I didn't hear any shot.
00:14:56I hadn't been out of this room all evening.
00:14:58I'm not asking you for an alibi.
00:15:01Yes.
00:15:02I don't know a thing.
00:15:04You haven't got anything on me.
00:15:06And you've got no right to talk to me that way.
00:15:08Inspector Taylor?
00:15:10Hello, Mr. Montrose.
00:15:12Did you hear that shot?
00:15:14Yes, I thought it came from this end of the hall.
00:15:17It did not.
00:15:18Hey, listen, you're not going to pin this on me.
00:15:21Now, Walter, no one's trying to pin anything on you.
00:15:25We're all unnerved by this terrible accident.
00:15:28Thanks.
00:15:41I was with Mrs. Kennedy in her room.
00:15:45Aunt Julie's room is at the end of the hall.
00:15:48That is Walter Grayson's.
00:15:50This is Mr. Kennedy's room.
00:15:55Kennedy?
00:15:57I want to see him.
00:15:58Well, Kennedy's downstairs.
00:15:59Oh, no.
00:16:00His lawyer told me he was waiting in his room to see me.
00:16:05Then maybe that shot...
00:16:20...qué stare again.
00:16:23They had been teaching Hong Kong and even000 headed towards its plane.
00:16:26Dead!
00:16:28...
00:16:39Dead.
00:16:40...
00:16:42...
00:16:43It looks like an open-and-shut case to me, murder and suicide.
00:17:08But I tell you, there's no reason for it, Inspector. Channing and Mr. Kennedy were the best of friends, so far as I know.
00:17:26Oh, come in, Lawrence.
00:17:31Mr. Kennedy is dead, sir?
00:17:36Yes.
00:17:38That's terrible. Poor Mrs. Kennedy.
00:17:42Lawrence, as a matter of fact, Channing and Mr. Kennedy were on the best of terms, weren't they?
00:17:50No, sir, they were not.
00:17:54They were sore at each other?
00:17:56They had a violent quarrel in the library this morning, sir, and Mr. Channing told me at lunchtime that he'd handed in his resignation to Mr. Kennedy.
00:18:04What did they quarrel about?
00:18:06I don't know, sir.
00:18:08Does Mrs. Kennedy know about this?
00:18:10I doubt it, sir.
00:18:12Well, that's all. You can go.
00:18:16What did I tell you? Murder and suicide.
00:18:32Now, here's the case of a nutshell, quarrel, animosity, sudden impulse to murder.
00:18:42Murder has a revulsion of feelings, can't face the consequences, and takes the easiest way out.
00:18:50But a suicide generally needs a note.
00:18:52Well, this one didn't.
00:18:54Probably didn't have time.
00:18:56I don't know.
00:19:00Downtown mystery.
00:19:01Read all about it.
00:19:02Second edition.
00:19:03Read all about it.
00:19:04Read all about the big murder.
00:19:06Make burn.
00:19:07Make burn.
00:19:08Channing murder.
00:19:09Downtown.
00:19:10Channing murder.
00:19:11Read all about it.
00:19:12Read all about it, folks.
00:19:14Read all about it.
00:19:26All of you might have been in South America, for all of you seem to know about this murder.
00:19:46I haven't been able to get a single bit of information out of any of you.
00:19:49Don't think you're fooling me.
00:19:51The murder is in this room right now.
00:19:55$6,000, sir.
00:19:59Mrs. Kennedy will see you now, sir.
00:20:01Well, she will.
00:20:02We'll see.
00:20:03Mr. Montrose, shall we go up?
00:20:12You stay where you are, Grayson.
00:20:14You'd better do where the policeman says brought her.
00:20:16We can get along without you, too, sister.
00:20:20I don't want anyone to leave this room until I come back.
00:20:25I think this is an absolute imposition.
00:20:26Well, I think it's quite thrilling.
00:20:27Don't you realize that one of us is a murderer?
00:20:40Yes.
00:20:41That's not a good answer, no?
00:20:42No?
00:20:43No.
00:20:44No?
00:20:45No.
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00:20:57Inspector Taylor, madam.
00:21:25I'm sorry to trouble you, Esme.
00:21:27But there are some questions which must be answered.
00:21:30I understand.
00:21:32Mrs. Kennedy, who do you think killed your husband?
00:21:37I don't know.
00:21:39He didn't have an enemy in the world, as far as I know.
00:21:42Did you see your husband when you went upstairs?
00:21:45No, I didn't.
00:21:47Did you see anything out of the ordinary as you went up the hall?
00:21:50Will I...
00:21:51Inspector, I'm afraid Mrs. Kennedy wasn't in a position to see anything.
00:21:55She collapsed, and I have to send her maid to Aunt Julia's room to get the smelling salts.
00:22:02Nellie Scripps.
00:22:03Did you see anyone in the hallway?
00:22:15No one, sir.
00:22:16And you went direct to Miss Julia's room and returned immediately?
00:22:19Yes, sir.
00:22:22She's lying, Inspector.
00:22:29I saw her standing outside the card room door at the other end of the hall.
00:22:34How do you explain that?
00:22:38Well, I forgot about that, sir.
00:22:42I went down to talk to Mr. Grayson.
00:22:46Did you talk to him?
00:22:47No, sir.
00:22:48He wasn't there.
00:22:49How did you know he wasn't there?
00:22:51Because I rapped three times.
00:22:53Mr. Grayson has testified that he didn't leave the card room all evening.
00:22:56Did you go in?
00:22:57No, sir, I didn't.
00:23:00I rapped down the door and called Mr. Grayson.
00:23:03Mr. Grayson.
00:23:05And, uh, got no answer.
00:23:08Millie, you came into this room after the shot was fired.
00:23:12Where were you when you heard the report?
00:23:15Why, I heard it while I was standing in front of the card room door, sir.
00:23:21Well, you said you didn't hear the report.
00:23:23There was no report while she was at the card room door, sir.
00:23:30I want to talk to you later.
00:23:33We'll go down now and talk to Grayson.
00:23:38You'll excuse us, won't you, as made?
00:23:53For heaven's sake, Walter, pull yourself together.
00:23:59Your actions are absolutely ridiculous.
00:24:01Keep quiet, will you?
00:24:06Grayson, you testified that you never left the card room all evening.
00:24:12Yes?
00:24:13Millie Scripps has just told me that she could get no answer when she rapped on the door.
00:24:19Yes, that's right.
00:24:20I heard her, but, well, I didn't want to talk to her.
00:24:24How many times did she rapp?
00:24:27Three times.
00:24:30Well, that's a good guess.
00:24:32What are you trying to do, make me the goat?
00:24:34Now, Walter.
00:24:35Well, why doesn't he leave me alone?
00:24:36I never quarreled with him, you know that.
00:24:38Why doesn't he question Colton?
00:24:40Colton quarreled with him all that afternoon.
00:24:43All right, Mr. Colton.
00:24:44I, I forgot about that, Inspector, I...
00:24:54And nobody knew anything about this murder, eh?
00:24:59I wouldn't be surprised to find another body you've all forgotten about.
00:25:03Oh, my goodness.
00:25:05Now, uh, what did you and Kennedy quarrel about?
00:25:11I, I didn't approve of the new will he had drawn up.
00:25:16Why?
00:25:17Because, uh, because Mrs. Kennedy was disinherited in the new will.
00:25:22My nephew made a will, disinheriting his wife, and I didn't know anything about it.
00:25:28Preposterous.
00:25:32Yeah.
00:25:34Did, uh, Kennedy sign that will?
00:25:36Yes.
00:25:38He gave it me on the evening of the party.
00:25:40Together with a, with a sealed letter.
00:25:44What was in that letter?
00:25:47I don't know.
00:25:48Oh.
00:25:49Kennedy gave you a letter, and you don't know what was in it?
00:25:52It was, it should be opened only in case of, he's dead.
00:25:57Well, have you opened it?
00:25:59No.
00:26:01He stole it from my coat.
00:26:02In this house.
00:26:04On the night of the murder.
00:26:05You forgot to tell us that also.
00:26:09Mr. Colton, did Mr. Kennedy change the executor in the new will?
00:26:15Yes.
00:26:22I, I was the executor in the old will.
00:26:27Miss Julia is the executrix of the greatest one.
00:26:32I can quite understand why you should object to the changing of the will, Mr. Colton.
00:26:36Is there anything else you've, uh, forgotten, Mr. Colton?
00:26:44No.
00:26:45It's everything.
00:26:47I have an important engagement, if, if I may go.
00:26:50All right.
00:26:52All of you can go now.
00:27:01There are several angles I'd like to talk over with you, Mr. Montrose.
00:27:16Well, come over to my house.
00:27:17It's just a short distance.
00:27:18Oh, Philly.
00:27:19Yes.
00:27:19He's sending everybody away.
00:27:21Oh, now, don't you worry, Aunt Julia.
00:27:24Inspector Taylor is stationing a policeman on guard on every floor, day and night, until
00:27:29he makes an arrest.
00:27:30Well, isn't somebody going to be arrested now?
00:27:32Well, uh, whom do you suggest?
00:27:34Why, Colton, of course.
00:27:36That lawyer knows what's in the letter and where the will is.
00:27:39Everybody knows that, except that policeman.
00:27:43Police.
00:27:44Have some peanuts, Dean?
00:28:04No, thank you.
00:28:14Thanks, Dean.
00:28:44Hey, you been out of the house?
00:28:55No, I've been downstairs.
00:28:58Yeah?
00:29:01Sure a lot of mud down in that parlor.
00:29:05Well, what of it?
00:29:06What are you doing in my room?
00:29:15The police left instructions that all windows are to be locked tonight.
00:29:36I've had the cook prepare a little midnight lunch in the kitchen.
00:29:42Thanks, Dean.
00:29:43I'm sure hungry.
00:29:57Hey.
00:29:59The deacon says there's some chow in the kitchen for you.
00:30:01Come on.
00:30:02Yeah?
00:30:04But Taylor told us not to leave this spot.
00:30:05I'll wait until you come back.
00:30:08Thanks, Dean.
00:30:17Well, well.
00:30:22Well, this certainly is a break.
00:30:35Why didn't you come in the back way?
00:30:56What's it tell you?
00:30:58I have a good mind to...
00:30:59You wouldn't dare.
00:31:12Say, them salami and eggs were great.
00:31:15They sure were.
00:31:16Say, is that cook married?
00:31:18I don't know.
00:31:19But I'll make inquiries.
00:31:22Got a cigar?
00:31:22There's a whole humidorful over here.
00:31:25A what?
00:31:26A box.
00:31:28Oh.
00:31:29I don't know.
00:31:29I don't know.
00:31:47Police headquarters, please.
00:31:48Hello.
00:31:56Hello?
00:31:57Inspector Taylor.
00:31:59He's not?
00:32:01Oh.
00:32:02This is Millie Scripps.
00:32:04The maid at the Kennedy home.
00:32:06Tell Inspector Taylor if he will be here tomorrow morning at nine.
00:32:10I may have something important to tell him.
00:32:12No, I tell you, Mr. Montrose,
00:32:42everything points to young Grace.
00:32:44He had every motive.
00:32:46His sister who supported him suddenly disinherited.
00:32:49And I know, Inspector.
00:32:51But we have just as much reason to suspect the lawyer
00:32:53or the butler
00:32:55or Millie Scripps.
00:32:57Millie Scripps?
00:32:58Yeah.
00:33:00There's a dame hasn't told everything she knows by a long shot.
00:33:04I'm going to haul her down to headquarters in the morning
00:33:06and sweat it out of her.
00:33:09Excuse me.
00:33:12Hello?
00:33:12Just a minute.
00:33:16Sergeant Brush wants to talk to you.
00:33:21Hello, Sarge.
00:33:23Yeah.
00:33:26She did?
00:33:28Where?
00:33:30Yeah?
00:33:31Nine o'clock.
00:33:32Okay, Sergeant.
00:33:36There you are.
00:33:38Millie Scripps is going to tell us something
00:33:40in the Kennedy home tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
00:33:45Gosh, it's getting late.
00:33:47I've got to be going.
00:33:50I know.
00:33:51Let's go.
00:33:57Thank you, Sarge.
00:34:58Good morning, Inspector.
00:35:02Hi.
00:35:05Good morning, Inspector.
00:35:14Good morning, Inspector.
00:35:15Hi.
00:35:16Are there any strips down yet?
00:35:21This is her day off.
00:35:23I don't think she is.
00:35:25Well, bring her down here.
00:35:34Lawrence.
00:35:35Come in here.
00:35:37What do they want Millie's scripts for?
00:35:47I don't know, sir.
00:35:48Oh, yes you do.
00:35:49You stick them on to her.
00:35:51You always have disliked her.
00:35:52You even dismissed her.
00:35:54Because she was here under false pretenses.
00:35:57Her references were forged.
00:35:59Well, my sister hired her back, didn't she?
00:36:02And for a very good reason, I imagine, Mr. Walter.
00:36:06Listen, Lawrence.
00:36:07If you're insinuating that Millie has anything on my sister, you're all wrong.
00:36:11It's me she threatened.
00:36:13Understand that?
00:36:14Me!
00:36:15So, Millie's scripts threatened you, huh?
00:36:18What were you afraid she'd tell?
00:36:23I don't know.
00:36:24What do you mean, you don't know?
00:36:25That's what I said, I don't know!
00:36:28She told me if I didn't marry her, she'd go to you with information that would wreck this house from top to bottom.
00:36:34In other words, she knows who committed the murder.
00:36:37Well, that's what she intimated.
00:36:39Who did it?
00:36:40I don't know!
00:36:43Well, Millie's scripts knows, and we'll soon find out.
00:36:46Get Millie's scripts.
00:36:50Why didn't you come through with this before?
00:36:52Why should I?
00:36:53This is my own private affair.
00:36:55Murder isn't anyone's private affair.
00:36:58When I get through with this girl, I'm going to know plenty about you.
00:37:02You weren't thinking about going away anywhere, were you?
00:37:16No, of course not.
00:37:17Well, why not?
00:37:27There's no reason why I should stay here, is there?
00:37:29I'll tell you better after I've talked with Millie's scripts.
00:37:32Beg pardon, sir.
00:37:33Millie's scripts is dead.
00:37:36Millie's damned.
00:37:37Millie's dead!
00:37:41Grayson...
00:37:58She's been dead for hours, Chief.
00:38:10Yeah, she never knew what hit her.
00:38:18Say, it looks like a struggle.
00:38:21No.
00:38:22Somebody's searching for the letter.
00:38:24Someone who knew she had it.
00:38:25Far thought she had it.
00:38:33Get the medical examiner and post a man here.
00:38:55Good morning, Inspector.
00:38:58Good morning.
00:38:59Have you talked to Millie Scripps?
00:39:01We're a little late.
00:39:04Millie Scripps is dead.
00:39:07Dead?
00:39:07Yeah.
00:39:08She was killed during the night.
00:39:09I'm arresting young Grayson for the murder.
00:39:13Walter?
00:39:13Walter?
00:39:13Congratulations, Inspector.
00:39:19I'm glad you've solved the mystery.
00:39:23I'll just bet you are, Colton.
00:39:29All right, Grayson.
00:39:31Grayson.
00:39:31Grayson.
00:39:43Oh, Mr. Martial's?
00:39:49Too bad.
00:39:51Yes.
00:39:53Too bad.
00:39:54Too bad.
00:40:13You didn't know me.
00:40:31Okay.
00:40:31Maybe.
00:40:32I'm sorry.
00:40:35Good morning.
00:40:37мног-
00:40:40And now, wait.
00:41:10I thought you'd gone.
00:41:26Why, I was just going.
00:41:29Lauren, aren't you afraid to stay here all by yourself?
00:41:33I'm afraid of nothing.
00:41:35Well, I am not so brave.
00:41:40You have to eat those things all the time.
00:42:06Grayson, stop it, will you? Stop it!
00:42:14I've told you before, he'll stop when you get ready to talk.
00:42:18I tell you, I don't know anything.
00:42:20What did you do with the will and the letter, Grayson?
00:42:23I don't know anything about any will or letter.
00:42:25I didn't even know they existed until that old fool cope and mention them to you.
00:42:29You're lying, Grayson.
00:42:30You killed Millie Scripps to get that letter.
00:42:32I tell you, I don't know anything about a letter.
00:42:34But you did kill Millie Scripps.
00:42:36You murdered your sweetie because you thought she was going to tell them.
00:42:40I didn't touch her, I tell you, I didn't touch her.
00:42:42Did she have the letter?
00:42:43How should I know?
00:42:44Don't lie to me, Grayson.
00:42:45I know you've got it.
00:42:46You don't know anything of the sort.
00:42:49You're just bluffing me.
00:42:50You're just bluffing me.
00:43:20What's that sound like to you, Grayson?
00:43:31High voltage?
00:43:33What?
00:43:34Electricity?
00:43:37Oh, no, you don't.
00:43:39You can't scram me.
00:43:41I'm not trying to scare you, Walter.
00:43:44I can make it a lot easier for you if you come through.
00:43:50You think it over.
00:43:59Hello?
00:44:01Yes, Lawrence.
00:44:02Inspector, I've got it.
00:44:04I found the letter and the will.
00:44:07You did?
00:44:09Wait a minute.
00:44:11Lawrence says he found the letter and the will where you hid him.
00:44:14Oh, that's a lot of bunk.
00:44:15I don't even believe it's Lawrence on the wire.
00:44:18All right, Lawrence, let's have it.
00:44:20I'm alone in the house, sir.
00:44:22But I've hidden it.
00:44:25Hello?
00:44:27Hello?
00:44:32Mike, get that county house back again.
00:44:34Well, you can't get them.
00:44:44Something's happened at the Kennedy house.
00:44:45Come on.
00:44:48Keep Grayson here.
00:44:49I'll get back.
00:44:49I'll get back.
00:45:19Try a window.
00:45:23Force it if you have to.
00:45:24Okay, Chief.
00:45:39You've forgotten your bag, Mrs. Kennedy.
00:45:41Oh, thank you.
00:45:46Good afternoon, Inspector.
00:45:47How do you do, Mrs. Kennedy?
00:45:50You're not surprised to see me here?
00:45:52I saw your car on the driveway.
00:45:56Doesn't seem to anybody at home.
00:45:59No, it's the seventh day off.
00:46:01You got a key?
00:46:03Let me.
00:46:11Thank you, Inspector.
00:46:12Anything wrong?
00:46:22No, I just thought I'd make another try for that letter.
00:46:25In that case, I'm afraid I can't be of any help to you.
00:46:28So if you want me, I'll be in my room.
00:46:31I got him.
00:46:53Where is he?
00:47:19Is he dead?
00:47:20Is he dead?
00:47:22No.
00:47:25It's his day off.
00:47:27It's his day off.
00:47:39Well, Peanuts, are you the new butler?
00:47:41No, but they need one.
00:47:44Well, what do you mean?
00:47:46Well, somebody just handed the butler his ticket.
00:47:49There's the latest development.
00:48:03How'd it happen?
00:48:04I don't know.
00:48:05I was talking to the butler on the phone.
00:48:07He told me he'd found the will and the letter.
00:48:10He was just going to tell me where he'd put them when we were cut off.
00:48:13Oh, Carter, will you trace those telephone wires down?
00:48:17Well, that's heavy.
00:48:28Too heavy.
00:48:31Inspector, when you were cut off, what did you do?
00:48:35I took a look.
00:48:37Precisely.
00:48:39That's what Lawrence did.
00:48:42That's what killed him.
00:48:43How do you mean?
00:48:46This is the same device that was used in the Ferguson case.
00:48:50When Lawrence first jiggled the hook, it broke the contact.
00:48:55The second jiggle released a spring,
00:48:59which drove a needle into the base of the brain.
00:49:04Death was instantaneous.
00:49:05Right through the air.
00:49:14That's why we couldn't find any mark on it.
00:49:16The wires have been cut right outside that window.
00:49:19Someone in this house loaded that phone.
00:49:22Who's in the house?
00:49:23Nobody.
00:49:24Mrs. Kennedy drove up right after we got here.
00:49:27Let's have Mrs. Kennedy down here.
00:49:31Right.
00:49:32Get Mrs. Kennedy.
00:49:34Carter, get to a phone.
00:49:35Report this to headquarters.
00:49:37Let's get the body out of the way.
00:49:43Well, who got it this time?
00:49:45The butler.
00:49:45Take me to the nearest home.
00:49:46Mrs. Kennedy, chief.
00:50:07Oh, hello, Philip.
00:50:08Oh, hello.
00:50:10Inspector Taylor is anxious to know
00:50:12where all the members of the family were this afternoon.
00:50:15Definitely.
00:50:16We all know where my brother is.
00:50:19I've been to the dressmaker
00:50:20and Aunt Julia's over at the cartwright.
00:50:23Would you mind phoning to see if she's still there?
00:50:26Certainly.
00:50:32That's funny.
00:50:33I've forgotten the cartwright's number.
00:50:36The number is Hillside.
00:50:385606.
00:50:40Oh, yes, of course.
00:50:46Hello.
00:50:47Hello.
00:50:51Hello.
00:50:57The phone's dead.
00:51:00So is the butler.
00:51:03Lawrence?
00:51:05Dead?
00:51:07Yes.
00:51:07Well, now, Inspector.
00:51:12You've got to release my brother.
00:51:13He couldn't possibly have done it.
00:51:15Oh, this should definitely eliminate him from the case.
00:51:17Even you must see that.
00:51:19I arrested your brother for the murder of Millie Scripps,
00:51:21and he killed her.
00:51:23Don't forget that.
00:51:24But this does eliminate young Grace.
00:51:26It does not.
00:51:27He could have loaded that phone before he was arrested.
00:51:30He knew the butler always used it.
00:51:32But, Inspector, who cut the telephone wires
00:51:34while you were phoning?
00:51:38Huh?
00:51:39Young Grayson was in jail, you know.
00:51:42Of course.
00:51:47This isn't a murder case.
00:51:49It's an epidemic.
00:51:50It's an epidemic.
00:52:02It's an epidemic.
00:52:28Why, Julie, what's the trouble?
00:52:35It's my gun.
00:52:37Somebody took the bullets out and loaded it with blanks.
00:52:41Don't you see what it means?
00:52:43I'm going to be the next one.
00:52:46Now, don't you tell a soul about this.
00:52:48When you go back to your bedroom, reload it with real ones.
00:52:52But...
00:52:52Now, now.
00:52:58Come in.
00:53:12Sorry, Mrs. Kennedy.
00:53:14Your room is next.
00:53:15That's perfectly all right.
00:53:16Go right ahead.
00:53:17Yeah.
00:53:28Oh.
00:53:34Any luck, Inspector?
00:53:36No.
00:53:37But I tell you, that letter's right here in this house.
00:53:40It's got to be.
00:53:41You're crazy.
00:53:43That letter isn't in this house.
00:53:44Everybody knows that somebody's got it.
00:53:48I think you're right.
00:53:50Somebody has got it.
00:53:52Who?
00:53:54You.
00:53:54You.
00:53:55You.
00:53:58Ella.
00:54:15Ella, shut that darn thing off.
00:54:21Yeah?
00:54:24Ella.
00:54:24Why did Lawrence stay in yesterday afternoon?
00:54:28He said he was going to stay home and vacuum the hallway.
00:54:31That peanut nibbler was here the day before.
00:54:34The vacuum?
00:54:36Yeah.
00:54:40Oh.
00:54:51Ella.
00:54:53Ella.
00:54:53Ella.
00:54:53Ella, these flowers are all, Wilson.
00:55:01I want you to change them.
00:55:03Ach, but Miss Julia, I should cut them fresh this very morning.
00:55:07It doesn't make any difference.
00:55:08I want them changed.
00:55:09I don't like them.
00:55:10Ach, but hurry up.
00:55:11Go on.
00:55:12I don't like them.
00:55:14I'll go.
00:55:31Oh.
00:55:31Oh.
00:55:33Okay.
00:55:33Hold on.
00:55:34I've got them.
00:55:59I've found the will and the letter.
00:56:01Well, what are you going to do with them?
00:56:04What am I going to do with them?
00:56:05I'm going to turn them over to the police.
00:56:13Please don't, Julian.
00:56:15Destroy the letter at any rate.
00:56:16Hasn't there been enough tragedy around here already?
00:56:18Esme Kennedy, have you gone clear out of your mind?
00:56:21Do you mean to say that you don't want to see the murderer of your own husband punished?
00:56:27You seem to forget one thing.
00:56:29Whoever has touched those papers has died.
00:56:31You're not safe, not for a minute.
00:56:32I'm not afraid.
00:56:34I'm going to take these right down to the police.
00:56:46Roses.
00:56:47Ella, you know how I loathe roses.
00:56:49Please get me something else.
00:56:50Maybe I'd better phone the inspector.
00:57:01Have you forgotten what happened along?
00:57:04That's right.
00:57:06I won't take them to the police.
00:57:09I'll take them to Philip.
00:57:10Philip Montrose?
00:57:11Yes.
00:57:12Don't tell a soul.
00:57:14I'll run through the back lanes.
00:57:15I'll take them to the police.
00:57:16I'll run through the back lanes.
00:57:46Did you want the car, Miss Julie?
00:58:03No.
00:58:05No, I was...
00:58:07I was just going for a walk.
00:58:16Morningside 4-4-1-2.
00:58:30Hello, darling.
00:58:42Did you get the passport?
00:58:44Yes.
00:58:46It happened.
00:58:48Aunt Julia.
00:58:51She found them in the vacuum, so her lines hid them.
00:58:53No, she just left here.
01:00:08Oh, Tony.
01:00:23Oh, never mind the telephone.
01:00:26You can leave for today.
01:00:27But my day off is Tuesday, sir.
01:00:29I know, but I'm going out.
01:00:31Run along now.
01:00:31Thank you, sir.
01:00:32Thank you, sir.
01:00:38I came the back way.
01:01:00Is anybody here with you?
01:01:04Why, no.
01:01:05Good.
01:01:08What on earth has happened?
01:01:18I've got it.
01:01:20Got it?
01:01:22Got what?
01:01:23I've got the will and the letter.
01:01:28Have you opened it?
01:01:31No, not yet.
01:01:33Good.
01:01:34Give it to me.
01:01:34I'll turn it over to the police.
01:01:35If we give it to that bungling inspector unopened, he'll probably make a mess of this as usual.
01:01:41I'll do nothing of the kind.
01:01:44Julia, remember that everyone who has known the contents of that letter has died.
01:01:51That's why I hurried over here.
01:01:55I know I'm in no danger when I'm with you.
01:01:58Of course not.
01:01:59Look here, Philip.
01:02:02I'm going to open this letter myself.
01:02:04After all, who found it, I'd like to know.
01:02:07I did.
01:02:08No.
01:02:08Give it to me.
01:02:10I'll give it to Inspector Taylor.
01:02:12I warn you.
01:02:16I've had enough of this nonsense.
01:02:18I'm going to open the letter.
01:02:32Hello?
01:02:34Just a minute.
01:02:35Did anyone know you were coming here?
01:02:41No one.
01:02:43That is, except Esme.
01:02:47Strange.
01:02:52Inspector Taylor wants to talk to you on the phone.
01:02:55Yes, and I've got something to say to him, too.
01:02:57Well, Inspector, we've certainly got a surprise for you.
01:03:05After you spent the entire day tearing our house to pieces,
01:03:08I found the will and the letter.
01:03:12Hello?
01:03:14Hello?
01:03:15Father Rachel.
01:03:16Go ahead, sister.
01:03:18I'm listening.
01:03:22Inspector.
01:03:22Inspector.
01:03:23I don't understand.
01:03:28The funniest telephone call,
01:03:30Mr. Montrose said you were on the line.
01:03:33I have been on the line.
01:03:37I was sure.
01:03:39I wasn't mistaken, Inspector.
01:03:45Let me have that letter.
01:03:53I don't understand.
01:04:18I'll answer that.
01:04:48Montrose, I'm afraid this call is for you.
01:05:00Thanks, Inspector.
01:05:11Hello.
01:05:16Oh, Inspector, what?
01:05:31He's dead.
01:05:33Montrose was the murderer.
01:05:35His death is a confession.
01:05:38He took the same route he sent Lawrence.
01:05:41Oh, and if you'd clicked the hook,
01:05:44you'd have been dead.
01:05:47Or you.
01:05:51Well, I can't say he didn't warn me.
01:05:55The police department could have used a brain like that.
01:06:07The police department could use any brain.
01:06:10Well, I'll...
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