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00:03:39Thirty, one and black. Mama, that's us.
00:03:44You shouldn't have talked that way to my friends. They're very sensitive.
00:03:46I didn't mean to hurt them. I love them.
00:03:48They're perfect gentlemen. Right down to their fingerprints.
00:03:52Ah. Ah.
00:03:55I've got a great idea.
00:03:56What is it?
00:03:57Let's go home.
00:03:58What's at home?
00:03:59You, my pipe, my slippers.
00:04:01Mickey, I think you're slipping.
00:04:03Darling, give me my pipe, my slippers and a beautiful woman.
00:04:06And you can have my pipe and slippers.
00:04:08That's sweet.
00:04:09We're staying here.
00:04:11And now, ladies and gentlemen, Buddy Hollis and his famous clarinet.
00:04:25That Reed man is really whacked up tonight.
00:04:29He'd be sporting a whack job too if he was carrying a torch like he's carrying for little Cookie over there.
00:04:33Take over, Max.
00:04:51What's wrong? Boat rocking too much for you?
00:04:57Or is the Reed man's condition a little too tough to take?
00:05:01The sensational Buddy Hollis.
00:05:03Sounded more like a kid with a kazoo.
00:05:05And his own tune, too.
00:05:06It isn't bad enough getting on the jumping juice, disappearing for days at the clip, forgetting where he's been.
00:05:11He doesn't even know where he is when he gets back.
00:05:13If you ask me, the guy's blown his top.
00:05:15Oh, what'd he expect after the pushing around we gave him?
00:05:17Maybe you'd like to patch things up with him.
00:05:22Would kind of make it convenient for you and those other dames you've been chasing around with lately, wouldn't it?
00:05:26Oh, you've been peeking.
00:05:29I must have blown my top, kicking Buddy over for a road company Kazanova like you.
00:05:33Well, there you are.
00:05:35The bandstand too crowded for you?
00:05:37Maybe you'd like me to bring the boys out here.
00:05:39Sorry, boss man.
00:05:40Am I in taking a girlfriend with you?
00:05:43Ex-girlfriend.
00:05:49Brings sunshine into everyone's life, doesn't it?
00:05:52Stay out in that sunshine long enough, you get a third degree burn.
00:05:59Where you going?
00:06:00I can't stand that oily kisser of yours too long without another drink.
00:06:04Sit down.
00:06:05What do you mean, sit down?
00:06:06I said sit down.
00:06:07Oh, let's go!
00:06:09Hey, take us back!
00:06:11Hey, you better get out of there.
00:06:12Hurry up, come on.
00:06:13Buddy!
00:06:14Buddy, you're all right.
00:06:19Get him up.
00:06:20He's not hurt.
00:06:20He's drunk.
00:06:21Come on, get him up.
00:06:22Get him out of here.
00:06:22He's all right.
00:06:24You didn't have to hit him.
00:06:25No, I should have stood there and let him crease my scalp with that clarinet.
00:06:28Man, he's beat.
00:06:29He couldn't lift it that hard.
00:06:30Well, what did you expect me to do?
00:06:31Just what you did.
00:06:32Ice through.
00:06:33Get him out of here.
00:06:33Hold on, hold on.
00:06:34I don't want any part of him.
00:06:35Get him out.
00:06:36What goes on here?
00:06:37Trying to turn this boat into a fishing barge?
00:06:40Relax, Phil.
00:06:40The band is my business.
00:06:41While it's working on this boat, it's my business.
00:06:43Okay, if that's the way you want it.
00:06:44When I finish here tonight, we'll wash up for good.
00:06:46I don't like fast shuffles, Tommy.
00:06:48Well, here's a card right off the top of the deck.
00:06:51Mitch Talbin's booked a tour of dance halls for me.
00:06:53Why, I can make more money with him in 30 weeks than I could with you in 30 years.
00:06:56You see, your publicity man did a good job on me.
00:07:00That awful smell around here must be your gratitude.
00:07:03Gratitude?
00:07:05Remind me to look that word up.
00:07:08I'll be in your office later for my dough.
00:07:09Dough?
00:07:11Remind me to look that word up.
00:07:14I need that money, Phil.
00:07:15The bookies are putting the squeeze on me.
00:07:16If I'm going to be left holding the bag, I'm holding everything that's in it.
00:07:19And remember, nothing foolish.
00:07:30Where are yours?
00:07:31Get him.
00:07:32What's all the fuss, Al?
00:07:53Heard you was going on tour.
00:07:55Yeah, first stop in Miami.
00:07:57Got a lot of friends in Miami.
00:07:58Want me to have him look you up?
00:08:01Gee, Al, I intended to pay you before I left town.
00:08:04No hurry.
00:08:06We'll be around till closing.
00:08:08If Mitch Talbin were here, I'd pay you what I owe you right now.
00:08:11I just signed up with him.
00:08:12There's Mitch Talbin.
00:08:19Oh, Mitch.
00:08:20Mitch.
00:08:20Hello, Tommy.
00:08:22You know Tommy Drake.
00:08:23Feel as though I know him intimately.
00:08:25Yeah, baby's quite a fan of yours.
00:08:27How we doing, kid?
00:08:28Well, I finally had it out with Brent.
00:08:31Everything okay?
00:08:32Yeah, yeah.
00:08:32It's all set except that I've got to have some money.
00:08:36Sure, anything you want.
00:08:37I need $12,000.
00:08:39$12,000?
00:08:41That's a lot of money.
00:08:42My luck's been a little sour lately, Mitch, but I'm good for it.
00:08:45I'll sign my tour money over to you.
00:08:47Yeah, I know, but trains get wrecked, planes crash, you might drop dead.
00:08:51Oh, I've got to think that over.
00:08:52You better think fast, Mitch.
00:08:54I've got to have it before closing.
00:08:56Well, I can think faster after I've had a drink.
00:08:59Come on, listen now.
00:09:00This is important, Mitch.
00:09:01Come on, come on.
00:09:06Baby, do you want to eat, or do you want to drink, or do you want to dance?
00:09:11I'm sure you wouldn't want to lose this.
00:09:13Oh, thank you.
00:09:15How about it?
00:09:15Not at all.
00:09:16Thank you very much.
00:09:17You're very welcome.
00:09:19Very welcome.
00:09:20Beautiful thing.
00:09:20The necklace.
00:09:25Oh, Mr. Charles.
00:09:26Hello.
00:09:27We've been looking all over for you.
00:09:29You know Mr. Thayer, of course.
00:09:30Yes.
00:09:31Well, we've saved a place for you at our table.
00:09:33It's down at the other end of the room.
00:09:35We're table hopping.
00:09:36You'll excuse us.
00:09:37Yes.
00:09:37Come on.
00:09:38All right.
00:09:40Who are they?
00:09:42Just the people who invited us.
00:09:44Oh.
00:09:45You ought to remember the Thayers.
00:09:47I ought.
00:09:48He presented the museum with a million dollars worth of antiques.
00:09:51He did?
00:09:52Yes.
00:09:53They're very nice.
00:09:54He seems especially nice.
00:09:55For a guy carrying a gun.
00:09:57A gun?
00:09:59Yes.
00:09:59I felt it just now, when we locked bumpers.
00:10:02You know, if this rampage of respectability persists, we'll have to get you a bulletproof girdle.
00:10:06If you people think a gambler like Brandt is going to turn the entire evening's proceeds over to charity, you're being very naive.
00:10:15Well, he is.
00:10:15Janet arranged it.
00:10:17I don't know how she ever persuaded him to.
00:10:19That doesn't take much imagination.
00:10:20Hello, Mr. Brandt.
00:10:21How are you?
00:10:22You know everybody.
00:10:22How do you do?
00:10:23We were just remarking about your generosity, Mr. Brandt.
00:10:27Oh, I'm, uh, I'm getting my cut.
00:10:29I thought so.
00:10:30A dance with your daughter.
00:10:32May I have that dance now, Miss Thayer?
00:10:34Janet has just finished dancing.
00:10:35I'm sure she's tired.
00:10:37I'd love to dance, Mr. Brandt.
00:10:38Janet!
00:10:39Take it, please.
00:10:40Well, maybe we'd better make this some other time.
00:10:45Father, if you'll take the trouble of consulting my birth certificate, you'll find that I'm a full age and perfectly capable of making my own decisions.
00:10:53Phil.
00:10:55Darling.
00:11:05I don't think the blue-blooded Mr. Thayer is going to like the idea of his daughter being married to a guy like me.
00:11:10Tomorrow, there won't be anything he can do about it.
00:11:13You're sure you want to go through with it?
00:11:15Maybe no dice.
00:11:17It's going to be a natural.
00:11:19Oh.
00:11:19Oh.
00:11:20I'll go down to my office, get my things and some money.
00:11:22Meet me at the companionway in 10 minutes.
00:11:24I'll go down to my office.
00:11:54I'll go down to my office.
00:12:24Let's go.
00:12:43Rain again.
00:12:47Thank you, Bertha. Tell Mr. Charles his breakfast is ready.
00:12:51Uh-uh. Cornflakes before comics.
00:12:53How about Mom?
00:12:54After breakfast, Nicky.
00:12:55Well, morning, son.
00:12:56Hi, Dad. Gee, you look keen.
00:12:59Beautiful day. Thought I'd rest for it.
00:13:01Looked like a page out of Esquire.
00:13:03Not the page I saw.
00:13:07I'm through.
00:13:09Oh, boy, another murder.
00:13:13How do you like that? It's a trap.
00:13:15What?
00:13:16I knew Roy shouldn't have trusted that arsenic Annie.
00:13:18She's a man dressed in woman's clothes.
00:13:20Annie's a man?
00:13:22Sure. It's a dead giveaway.
00:13:24A demon never passed a mirror like that without looking to see if her slip was showing.
00:13:28Dame?
00:13:30Well, that's what Daddy always says.
00:13:33I never say dame.
00:13:35I always say doll.
00:13:37Dish.
00:13:38Well, anyway, it was a very shrewd deduction.
00:13:40Don't throw the paper away.
00:13:41I want to read about that murder.
00:13:43Maybe we can figure it out.
00:13:44Aster!
00:13:45Aster!
00:13:46Your father's no longer interested in murders.
00:13:49Bye.
00:13:50Goodbye.
00:13:51Nicky.
00:13:52The piano is in the living room.
00:13:53But Mom, I got a pitch today.
00:13:55Uh, couldn't he practice later?
00:13:57He's going over to the Sayers this afternoon to meet their youngster.
00:14:00They might ask him to play and I want him to be at his best.
00:14:03Go on.
00:14:04Get...
00:14:08Aster, you stay out of this.
00:14:15Come on, mister.
00:14:16Come on.
00:14:18Shhh.
00:14:20Come on, mister.
00:14:21Nicky.
00:14:22Come here.
00:14:27Come here.
00:14:33Now, you see why I'm worried?
00:14:36He's been ducking his practicing all week.
00:14:38I think you're going to have to have a good spanking.
00:14:41Spanking?
00:14:43Spanking.
00:14:46Very well.
00:14:47Oh, no, I'm his mother.
00:14:48You're his father.
00:14:50I wouldn't have it any other way.
00:14:52Nick?
00:14:59Come here, son.
00:15:02I regret that I'm going to have to take a certain corrective action.
00:15:08I think this is the way they do it.
00:15:19I mean ...
00:15:20It's...
00:15:34I have no idea.
00:15:36What animal is down the sea.
00:15:39This isn't what animals do.
00:15:40You stop...
00:15:42I need to kill her as it is...
00:15:45怎麼辦?
00:15:46THE END
00:16:16THE END
00:16:46THE END
00:16:48That was very clever of you, Nicky.
00:16:50As a reward, you'll have no radio for the rest of the week.
00:16:53But, Mom!
00:16:54Your mother is absolutely right.
00:16:55Go to your room.
00:17:01Did you know about this glove?
00:17:03Why, Nora!
00:17:05Pardon me, Mrs. Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Brant are here to see you.
00:17:08Mr. and Mrs...
00:17:09Janet Thayer!
00:17:11She did it!
00:17:12She told me they were going to elope.
00:17:14Come on!
00:17:15Well, nearly well!
00:17:16Congratulations!
00:17:17Come on, Mr. Charles.
00:17:18What a surprise!
00:17:19Congratulations, Mr. Brant!
00:17:21If you go out and come in again, we can throw some rice at you.
00:17:24Yes.
00:17:25We throw some old shoes too, but we're wearing them.
00:17:27Please forgive us.
00:17:28We just flew in from Atlantic City and...
00:17:30Well, when we read the newspapers...
00:17:31Oh, the secret's out, huh?
00:17:33This calls for a celebration.
00:17:34Yes.
00:17:35Celebration?
00:17:36Mr. Charles has been saving his last bottle of scotch for just such an occasion.
00:17:39Nicky, where is that bottle?
00:17:41Oh, it's in my red pajamas, dear.
00:17:44In the left leg.
00:17:45Well, sit down.
00:17:46Sit down.
00:17:47Oh, Bertha, let's have some ice and soda.
00:17:48Never mind, we have some.
00:17:49I hope you don't mind drinking this early.
00:17:51I could use a drink, though I suppose I'll just be celebrating being elected public enemy number one.
00:17:56Oh, by the Thayer's, you mean.
00:17:58Ah, you found it.
00:17:59It was in the right leg.
00:18:00Mr. Charles, I think you have this all wrong.
00:18:03Have you read the morning paper?
00:18:05No, I haven't quite gotten to it yet.
00:18:07But I do know that...
00:18:09Well, Phil didn't do it.
00:18:16Oh, I know a lot of people heard him threaten Drake and that made it look bad,
00:18:19but he was just trying to scare him a little.
00:18:21This is why we've come to ask your help.
00:18:24Phil wouldn't shoot anybody.
00:18:26I'm sorry, I...
00:18:28I'd like to discuss this matter further, but I'm afraid it'll have to be by telephone.
00:18:33But Nick!
00:18:34Darling, Mr. Brandt is wanted by the police.
00:18:37Our having him here without notifying them makes us accessories after the fact.
00:18:42And I don't think you'd find the prison grave very becoming.
00:18:46I'm sorry we couldn't have the drink.
00:18:48Perhaps some other time.
00:18:49It's quite all right.
00:18:50I don't want to appear inhospitable.
00:18:52Here, take the bottle with me.
00:18:54Oh!
00:18:55I imagine that shot was missed for me.
00:18:58Phil, no.
00:18:59A fine way to kill a bottle.
00:19:01What goes on?
00:19:02What happened?
00:19:03Nicky, go to your room.
00:19:04Hey, that's the murderer whose picture was in the paper.
00:19:05Hold on to him.
00:19:06I'll buzz the cops.
00:19:07You buzz right back to your room.
00:19:09What happened?
00:19:10Did you pick anyone up here in the last few minutes?
00:19:12I haven't picked anybody up in the last ten minutes.
00:19:14Be right back.
00:19:16Was anyone hurt?
00:19:20Yes.
00:19:21An old friend of mine went completely to pieces.
00:19:30What was it?
00:19:31What was it?
00:19:32Oh, probably some drunk rehearsing for the fourth.
00:19:34In September?
00:19:35What?
00:19:36He was drunk.
00:19:39Did you discover anything?
00:19:41Yes.
00:19:42Never entertain newlyweds until you've read the morning papers.
00:19:45Here's the Charles apartment.
00:19:48The police, duck in there.
00:19:52Well, where is he?
00:19:53We got a flash that there's a maniac running amok up there.
00:19:55What's that, blood?
00:19:57I wish it were.
00:19:58Mr. Charles and I were just trying to launch our little boy's battleship.
00:20:01Well, there is something wrong, ain't there?
00:20:03I'm afraid our son has been listening to too much radio.
00:20:06We get that all the time.
00:20:07Just a minute.
00:20:08You'd be the fair-haired boys of the force if you could bring Phil Brandt in, wouldn't you?
00:20:13Phil Brandt?
00:20:14Hmm.
00:20:15Little surprise for you.
00:20:17Come in.
00:20:20There you are.
00:20:22Holy hollering cats, Phil Brandt.
00:20:24That's the sweetest double cross I've ever been handed, Charles.
00:20:27Unless you have to say, the better off you'll be, Brandt.
00:20:29But he didn't shoot anybody.
00:20:30Somebody even shot at him.
00:20:31You're a witness, Mrs. Charles.
00:20:33Hand-picked.
00:20:34Mr. Brandt may be able to fool some people with that phony shooting gag.
00:20:38But I've seen it pulled far too often even to be amused.
00:20:41But Mr. Charles, somebody did shoot at him.
00:20:43By special arrangement with Mr. Brandt himself.
00:20:46A quaint old maneuver to divert suspicion.
00:20:49Or as they say in the movies, they went that way.
00:20:51You're right, Mr. Charles.
00:20:52It's an oldie.
00:20:53A very old oldie.
00:20:54It's a lie and he knows it.
00:20:55But he's the great Nick Charles, the mastermind.
00:20:57We came over here asking your help and you've helped us.
00:21:00But you helped Phil right into the electric chair.
00:21:03Save it for your lawyer, lady.
00:21:05Thank you, Mr. Charles.
00:21:06Thanks a lot.
00:21:07Come on.
00:21:15I could have sworn that shot was on the level.
00:21:17Oh, it was on the level.
00:21:18What?
00:21:19Well, then why did you say...
00:21:20With Brandt around loose, there'd be other shots.
00:21:22One of them might hit the mark.
00:21:24He'll be safer in jail.
00:21:27Oh.
00:21:28Then you don't think he killed Drake.
00:21:29Oh, that I don't know.
00:21:31I suppose jail is the best place temporarily.
00:21:34But suppose he's innocent and can't prove it.
00:21:37Then it wouldn't be so temporary.
00:21:39Nicky.
00:21:40The police do make mistakes.
00:21:42Yes, there's a cheerful thought.
00:21:43Just what I've been thinking.
00:21:45Of course, if you were on the case...
00:21:47There would be no mistake.
00:21:49You know, it's positively sadistic the way you drive me to work.
00:21:53Well, all right, Mrs. Legree.
00:21:56My Nicky.
00:21:57But for the time being, we'll work without the police.
00:22:08Nothing new, folks. Nothing new.
00:22:10Get going.
00:22:11Hey, Mac, how about it?
00:22:12Sorry.
00:22:13You only got your photographs this afternoon with the rest of them news fellows.
00:22:15Ain't nobody getting on or off that boat without a passing inspector.
00:22:18Well, have you boys decided what kind of a gun Drake was shot with?
00:22:20Ballistics is a little bit puzzled, but they'll figure it out.
00:22:23Oh.
00:22:24Hey, you.
00:22:25Got a pass?
00:22:26Pass?
00:22:27Since when does a peaceful citizen need a pass to stroll along the waterfront?
00:22:29Well...
00:22:30There'll be a letter in the Morning Times about this.
00:22:32Well...
00:22:33There'll be a letter in the Morning Times about this.
00:22:41What's the matter now, Callahan?
00:22:43Patrolman Davis is hungry again.
00:22:45Got to get him a couple of sandwiches.
00:22:48Hmm.
00:22:49Sitting out on that deck kind of gave me an appetite, too.
00:22:52What'll it be?
00:22:53Shout at her and be sure it's hot.
00:22:54My rheumatism's killing me.
00:22:55Cold out there tonight, huh?
00:22:56Naturally.
00:22:57Whenever there's a job involving some slight inconvenience such as risking pneumonia, Michael
00:23:13Callahan gets it.
00:23:15Oh, and a couple of hams on white to go out.
00:23:18And no pick-a-lily this time.
00:23:20No pick-a-lily.
00:23:21What's yours?
00:23:22No, no, no.
00:23:23A couple of hams on white to go out, please.
00:23:25No pick-a-lily.
00:23:26Thirty cents.
00:23:28Sadie, I wish your chowder was as thick as the fog.
00:23:34Hey, you.
00:23:56Get out of the boat.
00:23:58Who you?
00:23:59Get out of the boat.
00:24:02Who are you?
00:24:03Get out of my boat. That's who I am.
00:24:06Look, how would you like to make yourself a quick five dollars?
00:24:09Get into the boat.
00:24:10I just want you to roll me out of that gambling ship.
00:24:13Get out of the boat.
00:24:15Twenty-five dollars.
00:24:17Get into the boat.
00:24:19For twenty-five dollars, I give it the boat.
00:24:32Who's there? I can't see me. He's before me.
00:24:37It's Captain Kidd. Can't you see the rings of me ears?
00:24:41Oh, it's you, Callaghan.
00:24:43Did that come out of you, Callaghan?
00:24:46You'll be answering questions instead of asking them
00:24:49if you can't explain what the anchor's doing up out of the water.
00:24:52Anchor? Out of the water? I'll see about it right away.
00:24:55Hey! Psst!
00:24:57Lay off their way, shall I call you.
00:25:00Okay.
00:25:15Hey, Callaghan! That ain't an anchor out of the water.
00:25:18It's a dinghy!
00:25:19Now, how did that dinghy get there?
00:25:30Well, not very neat of it, Inspector, was it?
00:25:52What's the excitement, boy? Huh?
00:25:54It's just a razor blade.
00:26:00Oh, no. No, it couldn't have been Somerset Mall.
00:26:10Who's that?
00:26:11It's me, Bright Eyes. Who are you expecting, Admiral Hornsey?
00:26:14What are you doing down there?
00:26:16Walking up. Know any other way of getting on this ship?
00:26:19Hey, sandwiches.
00:26:24Now, where did you get that?
00:26:26Well, you brought it.
00:26:27How? By mental telepathy?
00:26:29You put it on the box when you told me to go down and look at the anchor.
00:26:32What anchor?
00:26:34Why, the anchor that...
00:26:36Look, Callaghan, you're past the retiring age.
00:26:39Now, why don't you put in for your pension?
00:26:41If you're insinuating that I gave you that sandwich.
00:26:44Well, who did? Captain Kidd with the rings in his ears?
00:26:50Callaghan, if you didn't bring me this sandwich,
00:26:54then we've got uninvoited guests.
00:27:06What is it, fella? Smells something interesting.
00:27:11The maestro.
00:27:24It's a reminder that I love you, Fran.
00:27:27Unfaithfully, Joan.
00:27:29Tommy.
00:27:39Tommy.
00:27:40Your dog.
00:27:41But I can't help it.
00:27:43Alice.
00:27:56Quiet, Esther.
00:27:59Rove.
00:28:02Rove.
00:28:03Rove.
00:28:05Rove.
00:28:06Rove.
00:28:07Rove.
00:28:10Rove.
00:28:11Rove.
00:28:12Under the storehouse, been introduced by Tommy Drake and the orchestra.
00:28:14Piccolo pie.
00:28:15Hmph.
00:28:18Received by Tommy Drake a sum of twelve thousand dollars
00:28:22and full payment of all debts, Al Amboy.
00:28:25Well, the fine, itchy-fingered hand of Mr. Amboy.
00:28:28I'll take that piece of music.
00:28:32If you're afraid of my bursting into song,
00:28:34it'd be a little difficult with the piccolo part.
00:28:36I said I'd take that piece of music.
00:28:37Go a little easy with that knife, brother.
00:28:39Just one word for me and that dog of mine will tear you to pieces.
00:28:44Give me that foil of some air in your shoes.
00:28:46Wait a minute. You win.
00:28:47I'm afraid these old kidneys wouldn't take a very good vulcanizing job.
00:28:51There you are.
00:28:52Get her, master!
00:29:00Come here. Drop him. Drop him.
00:29:02Come here. Hold him.
00:29:03Stop!
00:29:06Hold! Kill him again!
00:29:07Get him! Hold! Kill him!
00:29:08There he is!
00:29:09Hold him! Shoot!
00:29:11Well, that explains the dinghy.
00:29:13I'll report it to shore.
00:29:18Master!
00:29:21I'm not��는 me from there.
00:29:22You know, yeah!
00:29:26Got him.
00:29:27Let's shout-out!
00:29:31Oh, my God.
00:30:01Serenade to a heel, alias Tommy Drake.
00:30:31You always feel so light-hearted about murder?
00:30:34With Drake, that bullet was an improvement.
00:30:38Solid.
00:30:39Who are you?
00:30:40My name is Nick Charles.
00:30:42Cop?
00:30:43Cop.
00:30:44We got a pass from the inspector.
00:30:45We had to get our instruments.
00:30:48Let's go, fellas.
00:30:49We're packing.
00:30:49You know, the Constitution says the gate's got a right there in livelihood.
00:30:54Well, we ain't so lively without our tools.
00:30:57You know anyone besides Brandt who might have been interested in knocking Drake off?
00:31:01Try the phone book.
00:31:02You might find a couple of names on every page.
00:31:04Solid.
00:31:05Oh, wait a minute.
00:31:15He was shot, remember?
00:31:17What were you doing in Brandt's office last night?
00:31:20Me in Brandt's office?
00:31:21Yeah, you dropped one of those blades.
00:31:26Hold the phone.
00:31:28Every man uses a reed uses a blade.
00:31:31I ain't the only reed man in the band.
00:31:32Say, if that whacked up Buddy Hollis was in Brandt's office last night.
00:31:35He was just trying to get his job back.
00:31:38Did Brandt fire him?
00:31:39Drake fired him.
00:31:40They had a battle over a dame.
00:31:41He ain't gonna knock nobody off over a dame.
00:31:43Well, he was in there.
00:31:44Where can I find this whacked up character?
00:31:48Oh, he's been bouncing around from place to place lately.
00:31:52You'll probably dig him in one of the jam joints.
00:31:54Come again?
00:31:56Dig him in one of the jam joints.
00:31:59Where do boys go after closing and really ride?
00:32:03Just for cats and intellectuals.
00:32:05A rooty toots and bobby socks is fair bolting.
00:32:08Solid.
00:32:10Well, I don't wear bobby socks,
00:32:12but would you say I was a rooty toot?
00:32:15Strictly.
00:32:16But I guess I can ace you in.
00:32:19Well, considering the resemblance
00:32:20between this blade and the one in Brandt's office,
00:32:24I think you'd better.
00:32:26Shall we go?
00:32:27Go?
00:32:28Oh, the dust don't start rising till do some bells.
00:32:33Come again?
00:32:33He means those jams don't get started till around two.
00:32:36Come on, get going, you fellas.
00:32:38You can't stay here all night.
00:32:40Okay, Cossack.
00:32:41Let's go, Cossack.
00:32:47You know the park towers?
00:32:48Yeah, sure.
00:32:50Disabelle's.
00:32:51Yeah, I'll be there.
00:32:55Master, where'd you put that piccolo part?
00:32:59Where'd you put it?
00:33:01No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:33:02Where is it?
00:33:03Hey, you, planning to spend the night?
00:33:05No, I, uh, I was just looking on my instrument.
00:33:07Is it one of them big bears, two-over things?
00:33:09Yeah, yes, yeah, that's it.
00:33:10Well, there it is.
00:33:12Oh, yes, thanks.
00:33:14If it was any bigger, it'd bite you.
00:33:15Now get it and get it.
00:33:21Solid.
00:33:25Come in.
00:33:26Well, you're early.
00:33:27I was getting on kind of a nervous kick just sitting around there waiting.
00:33:31Darling, this is Mr. Clarence Krause, affectionately known at local 802 as Clinker.
00:33:37How do you do, Mr. Clinker?
00:33:38Well, the first spot we hit is Mitch Talvin, big band booker.
00:33:41Boy, they really flicked the whiskers at his bakes.
00:33:43I, uh, brought along the old liquor stick.
00:33:46Of course, if the reed man's already riding, I'm no-wheres.
00:33:49Uh, Mrs. Charles always wears her mouth open with this outfit.
00:33:55Come along.
00:33:57No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:33:58Look, swinging the classics are strictly off the car.
00:34:01Taxi!
00:34:02A gate who knows his dots takes his Beethoven and his Brahms straight.
00:34:06You know what I mean?
00:34:10Get in.
00:34:13No thanks.
00:34:14We don't want to intrude.
00:34:16Get in.
00:34:17Get in.
00:34:19Well, I'll be seeing you.
00:34:28Get in.
00:34:36I've been waiting for you to come home, Nick.
00:34:38Thought you were still nosying around out on the boat.
00:34:41No, I didn't care so much for the passenger list.
00:34:44Look, Nick, I've been with the cops all day.
00:34:47They think maybe I had something to do with Drake's killing, because the guy owed me some dough.
00:34:51That's silly.
00:34:53If a guy owes you money and you kill him, he can't pay you.
00:34:55Very smart.
00:34:57Elementary?
00:34:58I tried to tell him Drake paid off.
00:35:00But I even signed a receipt that was written in Drake's own handwriting.
00:35:03But they couldn't find that receipt.
00:35:06I sent the shiv over to see why.
00:35:08I know you've got that receipt, Nick.
00:35:11I want the cops to get it.
00:35:12I want you to tell them where you found it.
00:35:14You should have done that right away.
00:35:17Yes, I, uh, I intended to.
00:35:21I'm a little forgetful.
00:35:23I don't like people who forget things like that.
00:35:26See that you don't forget again.
00:35:28I'll remind him.
00:35:30Is that the spot?
00:35:31Yeah.
00:35:39Just a minute.
00:35:42You forgot something.
00:35:43Oh, oh, oh, yeah.
00:35:47You needn't wait.
00:35:53Man after my own heart.
00:35:55After my heart, you mean.
00:35:57And probably get it, too, if I don't dig up that receipt.
00:35:59Dig it up?
00:36:00Yes.
00:36:01Well, I thought you said...
00:36:02Well, it got us out of the cab, didn't it?
00:36:04They might not have believed that I didn't have it.
00:36:06Oh, Nicky.
00:36:07Now, don't worry, darling.
00:36:08We're on no spot that a solution to the crime won't get us off.
00:36:11But it's like I told you, strictly for Gates and Gut Busters.
00:36:23Hey, I tell you what.
00:36:25You're a slush pump man.
00:36:27Come again?
00:36:28Da-da-da-da!
00:36:29Strictly from Memphis.
00:36:31And you?
00:36:32You're a canary, strictly from Memphis.
00:36:34Canary?
00:36:35Well, I could say you pluck a hot harp.
00:36:37Mr. Charles doesn't find that receipt.
00:36:40He'll be plucking a harp.
00:36:44Mitch boy!
00:36:45Klinker!
00:36:46I see you brought the pipe.
00:36:47Ah, ready to light.
00:36:48Oh, why don't you meet a couple of friends of mine?
00:36:50Mellow Man McGee and the missus.
00:36:51How do you do?
00:36:52How do you do?
00:36:52Hottest pump man in Memphis.
00:36:54Second hottest.
00:36:55Do you play an instrument, too?
00:36:57No, I'm a mudhead.
00:36:58A bird.
00:36:59A canary.
00:37:00A canary.
00:37:01Strictly from Tennessee.
00:37:04Oh, uh, Talbin had Drake and a band booked for a big tour.
00:37:07Yeah, poor Tommy.
00:37:08Didn't leave enough money for a decent funeral.
00:37:10Even asked me to square a $12,000 marker for him before he was shot.
00:37:13Well, I hope you kissed your $12,000 goodbye.
00:37:15Oh, no, that money never left the station.
00:37:17I always figured him for a bad risk.
00:37:19You're Talon, darling.
00:37:20Oh, uh, this is baby.
00:37:21Uh, Mrs. Talon.
00:37:23How do you do?
00:37:24We met before.
00:37:26The charity ball.
00:37:27You remember when you dropped your necklace?
00:37:29Oh, yes.
00:37:30Well, why aren't you wearing the necklace, baby?
00:37:32You're wearing the earring.
00:37:33Is it the jeweler's, darling, having the clasp fixed?
00:37:35Well, let's get going.
00:37:36They're really starting to roll.
00:37:37Oh, yes. Come on in.
00:37:39Watch out, you monster jet.
00:37:41Nemo!
00:37:42It's Wankersville.
00:37:43This can I gotta get.
00:37:45Put it in the deck.
00:37:46Shuffle it up and shuffle it up.
00:37:48Spread some of that friendship, friendship.
00:37:50Bop, man.
00:37:51Bop.
00:37:51Bop.
00:37:52Rignaca.
00:37:53Love it. Love it.
00:37:56Come on. Live a little, Ziggy. Live a little, man.
00:37:59My body needs lifting. Lay it on me, man. Lay it on me.
00:38:03I love it. Love it.
00:38:08Hold it, playmate.
00:38:09Okay, you can save it.
00:38:15Tommy Drake won't stay dead on me.
00:38:17From out of nowhere, his broken-down theme song comes back to haunt me.
00:38:21Sounds rather catchy.
00:38:22Ah, tune in, man.
00:38:23I'm talking about that broken-down Under the Stars jazz.
00:38:26Under the Stars?
00:38:27Yeah, and the piccolo part yet.
00:38:29Piccolo part?
00:38:30What about it? Have you got it?
00:38:31Relax, man. Relax.
00:38:32It's been cremated.
00:38:33Ooh, dig that music. It sends me out of this world.
00:38:37Should have sent you a little sonar.
00:38:38Yeah.
00:38:42I'm sorry. I don't feel it yet.
00:38:44That ain't it yet. I don't feel it.
00:38:46Oh, send me.
00:38:50Yeah. Now I'm getting it. That's more like it.
00:38:53Come on, you Balbanians. Start messing.
00:38:55Let's flip it now. Get it. Get it.
00:38:57Ooh, doo, doo, doo, doo.
00:38:59Huck, twinger.
00:39:01See here?
00:39:02Who?
00:39:03The reed.
00:39:04Oh, no. He ain't hear you.
00:39:06But it's still early.
00:39:09Hey, come on. Get with it.
00:39:10They'll think you're a couple of squares.
00:39:32Oh, hey.
00:40:28That don't sound like the old Hollis juice.
00:40:47You're not so easy to forget.
00:40:53That's Fran.
00:40:55Fran Page, Hollis' old flame.
00:40:58Well, unless I got my photographs mixed, she had a little fire left over for Mr. Drake, too.
00:41:03Yeah, the 88 man grabbed her off, and then he gave her the fuller.
00:41:07The fuller?
00:41:08The brush.
00:41:10The brush.
00:41:11Oh.
00:41:17Well, invite her over to the bar and have a drink.
00:41:19Okay, order me a double bourbon, and better make it the same for Fran.
00:41:23Think she'll like that?
00:41:25Oh, she can always give it to me.
00:41:29Pardon.
00:41:30Clinker.
00:41:32Well, Heidi D. Long time no.
00:41:35Hey, we really rode it high at that shuffle of yours the other night, didn't we?
00:41:38It was a wonderful jam.
00:41:40Yeah.
00:41:40Join us for the drink.
00:41:41I'm afraid I'll have to take a rain check.
00:41:43I'm with the Nick Charles department tonight.
00:41:44Nick Charles?
00:41:45Is he taking him?
00:41:46Yeah.
00:41:46I don't care for anything.
00:41:49I thought you told us he was a pump man.
00:41:52Oh, well, I didn't want you to think I was loading up your jams with a bunch of squares.
00:41:56Well, they were the squareest couple of hipsters I've ever seen.
00:41:58Yeah.
00:41:59What are they doing in a trap like this?
00:42:01They're looking for the reed.
00:42:02He's disappeared.
00:42:03Really?
00:42:04Yeah.
00:42:04I didn't know that.
00:42:05Why, darling, I thought that's what you came here to see Fran about.
00:42:08Hmm?
00:42:09Oh, no, no, no.
00:42:10I came to see her about a job I can get her in Havana.
00:42:14Well, Heidi D.
00:42:15Hey, Fran.
00:42:20Oh, hello, Klinker.
00:42:22Hey, I just caught you.
00:42:23Still the same old Fran.
00:42:25Still plugging to Reed's tune, too.
00:42:27It's the least I can do for him, isn't it?
00:42:29No, I've been looking all over for him.
00:42:30What do you want?
00:42:31Lessons?
00:42:32Oh, now, why don't you stay off with Fran?
00:42:33You know I always been in his corner.
00:42:35Sorry.
00:42:36I got the jumps.
00:42:38Hey, you need some laughs.
00:42:40Come on out and meet a couple of friends of mine.
00:42:42No, I don't feel like meeting anyone.
00:42:43Now, may we come in?
00:42:45Oh, uh, Fran, this is Mr. and Mrs. Nick Charles.
00:42:49How do you do?
00:42:49How do you do?
00:42:51Well, you're, uh, you're very jivey.
00:42:53Uh, hep warbler.
00:42:55Mr. Charles is a bit of a schmoe.
00:43:00Miss Page, I thought perhaps you might be able to help us locate Buddy Hollis.
00:43:03He seems to have evaporated.
00:43:04Somebody's been giving you a bum steer.
00:43:07I don't know anything about Hollis.
00:43:10Where is he?
00:43:11Why don't you ask me if I killed Tommy Drake?
00:43:14You probably had good reason to.
00:43:17Look, your three minutes are up and this line is busy.
00:43:19So hang up the phone and get out.
00:43:21Watch the fuss.
00:43:22Get him out of here.
00:43:23Just going.
00:43:24Okay, make mileage.
00:43:26Oh, get lost, you offbeat rinky-dink.
00:43:29You're nowhere.
00:43:32Reeb up.
00:43:35I don't believe there is any such person as Buddy Hollis.
00:43:38There must be.
00:43:39Missing persons bureau reported him seen in Chicago, Denver, Palm Beach, and Hollywood,
00:43:44but all at the same time.
00:43:45Oh, darling, how could he be in all those places at the same time?
00:43:49Split personality.
00:43:50Well, I think I detected a receipt-hunting party of Mr. Amboy's.
00:44:00Amboy?
00:44:01Nicky!
00:44:10Aston, get in your own bed.
00:44:20Now, you stay there, Aston.
00:44:41Oh, this wonderful, wonderful bed.
00:44:44I'm going to sleep for 20 years.
00:44:46When you get up, don't wake me.
00:44:50Nicky!
00:44:53What are you doing up, darling?
00:44:55I heard your voices.
00:44:57I hardly ever get to see you.
00:44:59Look at what time it is.
00:45:00Oh, that clock's fast.
00:45:02Who's going to ride me to school in the morning?
00:45:04Your father.
00:45:06We'll both ride you to school.
00:45:07Now, you kiss this fiend goodnight, and I'll plant him.
00:45:12Go on.
00:45:13Oh, you go.
00:45:14Now.
00:45:15Buddy.
00:45:17Whoa.
00:45:19Go on.
00:45:19You too, you night owl.
00:45:21Touch the light.
00:45:26Here we go.
00:45:27The piggyback spreads to sleepy town.
00:45:29Oh, how about a story, Dad?
00:45:32No, no story for you tonight.
00:45:34You've got to get some sleep.
00:45:35But your story's always put me to sleep.
00:45:38Hmm.
00:45:39Well, all right, but just a short one.
00:45:42Now, let's see.
00:45:43Oh, yes.
00:45:44Once upon a time, there was an outlaw named Dangerous Dan Magoop.
00:45:51Now, one...
00:45:52Well, what's this?
00:45:55That's protection.
00:45:57Protection?
00:45:58Well, I don't think you get much protection from an old blunderbuss like that.
00:46:02That's just an antique.
00:46:08Antique.
00:46:09Well, what about Magoop?
00:46:12Hmm?
00:46:13Oh.
00:46:14Son, you know, I think that story's a little too scary for this time of night.
00:46:18But I like to get scared.
00:46:20Well, I don't.
00:46:21It frightens me.
00:46:22Look, I'll tell it to you the very first thing in the morning.
00:46:25How's that?
00:46:26Okay.
00:46:27Good night, fella.
00:46:27Good night, Pop.
00:46:28Sleep tight.
00:46:28Good night, Asa.
00:46:29Nick, what are you doing?
00:46:49I'm getting dressed.
00:46:52Dressed?
00:46:55Well, I might as well get up, too.
00:46:58No, you're tired.
00:47:00You stay in bed.
00:47:01Oh, I feel fine.
00:47:03All I needed was a good night's sleep.
00:47:08Why all the darkness?
00:47:12It's dark in here.
00:47:17You open the curtains and let some daylight in.
00:47:24What time is it?
00:47:26Four o'clock?
00:47:27In the morning.
00:47:28Yep.
00:47:29Same morning?
00:47:30Same morning.
00:47:35What are you getting dressed for?
00:47:38Well, I'm going to run over and visit the Thayers.
00:47:40Four o'clock in the morning?
00:47:42Oh, that's the best possible time to ask questions.
00:47:45People aren't such artful dodgers at four o'clock in the morning.
00:47:48I'm going with you.
00:47:49Deft, no, you're going right back to bed.
00:47:51We're in this together.
00:47:53I'm going with you.
00:47:54Well, if I can ever get into my shoes again.
00:48:04Yes, what is it?
00:48:06Mr. and Mrs. Charles to see Miss Thayer.
00:48:08Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
00:48:10Miss Thayer is asleep.
00:48:12It's very important.
00:48:13You better wake her.
00:48:14Well, I'm afraid I can't.
00:48:16John.
00:48:17John, what is it?
00:48:18Miss Thayer, this is rather an unusual time to come visiting, but I've got to talk to you.
00:48:26You've done enough talking already, Mr. Charles.
00:48:29Janet, I tried to get in touch with you.
00:48:31Mr. Charles had to do what he did.
00:48:32It was for Brandt's own good.
00:48:34Oh, that's a neat switch.
00:48:36So now you're his benefactor.
00:48:38And yours too.
00:48:39Unless you'd enjoy being a widow.
00:48:45Very well.
00:48:54Won't you sit down?
00:48:58Miss Thayer, I...
00:48:59Well, would you like a drink?
00:49:03Well, this is my brandy hour.
00:49:05Mrs. Charles, would you like a drink?
00:49:06I could stand some sherry.
00:49:08Miss Thayer, the weapon that killed Tommy Drake seems to have the ballistics experts rather neatly stumped.
00:49:14That leads to one of two possible conclusions.
00:49:17Either the gun was handmade or it was a pre-ballistics antique.
00:49:22Probably very early 18th century.
00:49:24Perhaps the property of some collector.
00:49:26Oh, dear me, I'm terribly sorry.
00:49:28Oh, here, use this.
00:49:30It's quite all right.
00:49:32Well, that's very interesting, Mr. Charles.
00:49:35But not interesting enough to come breaking down doors at this hour of the morning.
00:49:40My husband is neither a gunsmith nor an antique collector.
00:49:43No, but wasn't the city museum given a million dollar art collection by your father?
00:49:49Oh, yes.
00:49:54Yes, father gave the museum his, uh, Elizabethan and Chippendale pieces.
00:50:00His, uh, Georgian silver.
00:50:04And, uh, and, oh, yes, his Flemish paintings, his Reynolds and his Rembrandt.
00:50:09Mm.
00:50:10Well, that was very generous of him, very generous indeed.
00:50:13Uh, your father was a collector of many things, wasn't he?
00:50:16Coral, coins, jade, and, uh, I believe, quite an assortment of 18th century firearms.
00:50:21All the weapons my father had, pistols or guns, went to the museum.
00:50:26Just a minute, Mr. Charles.
00:50:27Just a minute.
00:50:30My father seems to have overlooked a few.
00:50:33Am I to understand that the gun that hung here was given to the museum?
00:50:36No, Mr. Charles.
00:50:38I didn't give that gun to the museum.
00:50:41It was my favorite.
00:50:43Originally owned by an 18th century nobleman.
00:50:45He used it only once, to destroy a brigand who had certain aspirations toward the gentleman's daughter.
00:50:52Mr. Thayer, you had that gun with you the night Drake was murdered.
00:50:55Well?
00:50:56Were you perhaps intending to use it on a brigand who had certain aspirations toward your daughter?
00:51:01Perhaps.
00:51:03But he wasn't the man who was killed.
00:51:05But he and Drake were just about the same height and build.
00:51:08And in the darkness of the Lodex office, there could have been a mistake.
00:51:11True.
00:51:12But before Mr. Drake was killed, I was relieved of that gun.
00:51:15By my son-in-law.
00:51:17That's a fine wedding present for you.
00:51:19Throwing the whole mess right into Phil's lap.
00:51:21Here, son, I want you to feel secure for the rest of your life.
00:51:24You won't have anything to worry about.
00:51:26Until I throw the switch.
00:51:28You're lying and you know it and you had better...
00:51:44Yes?
00:51:45This is she.
00:51:47This is she.
00:51:47This is she.
00:51:47This is she.
00:51:47This is she.
00:51:48This is she.
00:51:50I see.
00:51:50Yes, of course.
00:51:52Just a minute.
00:51:52Oh.
00:51:55All right.
00:51:57I see.
00:52:01Of course.
00:52:02I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me.
00:52:06Janet.
00:52:07Janet.
00:52:08Well, do you wish to arrest me?
00:52:13Mr. Thayer, I am not a policeman.
00:52:15Well, if the police want my testimony, I'll be glad to oblige.
00:52:18I'm sure that'll make the police very happy.
00:52:19Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to go back to bed.
00:52:22Yeah.
00:52:22Oh.
00:52:23Uh.
00:52:23Uh.
00:52:24Uh.
00:52:24Uh.
00:52:24Uh.
00:52:25Uh.
00:52:25Uh.
00:52:26Uh.
00:52:27Uh.
00:52:29Darling, Mr. Thayer would like to go to bed.
00:52:31Uh.
00:52:32Hmm.
00:52:32It's nice to know people still go to bed.
00:52:36Mr. Charles and I used to go to bed once.
00:52:39Oh.
00:53:00Ah, park towers.
00:53:02Apartment F, first bedroom to the right.
00:53:09Uh-oh, driver, hold it.
00:53:14I should have worn a sleeping bag.
00:53:16125 Prospect Terrace, Apartment 3A.
00:53:21Look at that.
00:53:26Nick, we're going home.
00:53:29And I'm not tucking you in bed, I'm tying you in.
00:53:32Look, if you'll just put your bleary blue eyes a little closer, you'll see it.
00:53:36It's the impression left by the pressure of a pencil.
00:53:39Oh, yes.
00:53:40125 Prospect Terrace.
00:53:44The phone call at 4.30 in the morning must be pretty urgent.
00:53:48I have a hunch our headstrong heroine will be along soon.
00:53:51And sometimes I even amaze myself.
00:54:12Follow that car.
00:54:13Movie van.
00:54:15Yes, follow it.
00:54:16Yes, follow it.
00:54:18Oh, good luck.
00:54:20You're a good man.
00:54:22You're a good man.
00:54:24There's nothing wrong with him.
00:54:26I'm a good man.
00:54:28I'm a good man.
00:54:30You're a good man.
00:54:32You're a good man.
00:54:34I'm a good man.
00:54:36I'm a good man.
00:54:38I'm a good man.
00:54:40It's a good man.
00:54:42That jail doesn't look like a hundred and twenty-five prospect terrorists.
00:54:46She's probably going to tip Brandt off to her father's story.
00:54:50Your father started threatening me and I took the gun away from him.
00:54:54What did you do with it?
00:54:55I put it on the cabinet in my office and never saw it again.
00:55:00You don't believe me, do you?
00:55:01Honey, of course I do.
00:55:03You're going to have to step on it. I told you this against the rules.
00:55:05Just a moment, please. Honey, what will I do about this call?
00:55:09Well, I don't know. But I guess it's worth a chance.
00:55:14Be careful.
00:55:16All right, driver. Keep right on her.
00:55:18Keep going. Keep going. You're losing her.
00:55:20Now look, mister.
00:55:22The city shelled out over ten million bucks to install that traffic system.
00:55:24I don't think they'd have given the job to a guy...
00:55:26I don't think they'd have given the job to a guy...
00:55:27I don't think they'd have given the job to a guy...
00:55:28You're losing her.
00:55:29Now look, mister.
00:55:30It's spelled with a small s.
00:55:32It's spelled with a small s.
00:55:33I don't think they'd have given the job to a guy...
00:55:34...that spells go, capital S-T-O-P.
00:55:35He's right, Nick. It's spelled with a small s.
00:55:37I don't think they'd have given the job to a guy...
00:55:39...that spells go, capital S-T-O-P.
00:55:40He's right, Nick. It's spelled with a small s.
00:55:42I don't think they'd have given the job to a guy...
00:55:43...that spells go, capital S-T-O-P.
00:55:44He's right, Nick. It's spelled with a small s.
00:55:46You're losing her.
00:55:47Now look, mister.
00:55:48The city shelled out over 10 million bucks...
00:55:50...to install that traffic system.
00:55:52I don't think they'd have given the job to a guy...
00:55:54...that spells go, capital S-T-O-P.
00:55:56He's right, Nick. It's spelled with a small s.
00:56:16That sounds like it. Come on.
00:56:20No more jam sessions for me.
00:56:22But that's our clarinet.
00:56:37Fran Page.
00:56:43Turn it off, dear, will you?
00:56:46It must have just happened.
00:56:48That record would have played for only about three minutes.
00:56:50Nick, you don't think that Janet could...
00:56:55Oh. How did it happen?
00:56:58I thought perhaps you could tell us.
00:57:00She phoned me less than a half hour ago.
00:57:02Offered to sell me some information that would help Phil.
00:57:05Sell or withhold information?
00:57:07About an antique gun, for instance?
00:57:11It's true Phil got that gun from Father.
00:57:13But he didn't use it.
00:57:15He put it on the cabinet in his office and never saw it again.
00:57:18I see.
00:57:19We followed you until you left the jail and then we lost you.
00:57:22What delayed you?
00:57:23The money.
00:57:24She wanted $2,500.
00:57:26I had to go to Phil's place to get it.
00:57:28Miss Page didn't strike me as a blackmailing type.
00:57:30Like, I don't think she was.
00:57:33She said she needed the money for somebody out of town.
00:57:37Had to have it in a hurry.
00:57:39She seemed quite upset and nervous about it.
00:57:42Hollis doesn't seem to be anywhere in town.
00:57:49Hello, Hotel Vesta.
00:57:50Yes, Miss Page stopped here several times.
00:57:52Was she alone?
00:57:53Now, see here.
00:57:54We don't go snooping on our guests.
00:57:56Their comings and goings are strict to their own business.
00:57:58That applies to your Miss Page.
00:57:59She just stayed in her room and kept to herself.
00:58:02Except about 10 or 2, she'd go out and get back about 10 after 3.
00:58:05That's all.
00:58:06Outside of after dinner when she did the same thing.
00:58:09Only then she'd leave about 10 of 8 and get back about 10 after 9.
00:58:13That's all I know about her because we don't go snooping on our guests.
00:58:17I don't suppose you would remember whether she ever had any visitors.
00:58:22Ain't a question of not remembering.
00:58:24Just a question of not snooping on our guests.
00:58:26Ain't no concern of ours or some Al Amboy and a couple of his friends come visiting her.
00:58:30They were nice, polite young gentlemen.
00:58:32Just went out with Miss Page about same time.
00:58:34She never called a cab and there was never any outside.
00:58:37So I just decided she'd like to take walks for her health.
00:58:40And if you've come here to fish for information, you've come to the wrong place.
00:58:43Because we never go snooping on our guests.
00:58:46Mr. Purdy, telephone.
00:58:48Oh, yes.
00:58:5210 to 2, 10 after 3, 10 to 8, 10 after 9.
00:58:55Sounds like visiting hours.
00:58:58Those are visiting hours.
00:59:00Hey, he latched on to something, teacher.
00:59:05Are there any public institutions, a jail, a prison or a hospital within 10 minutes walk of here?
00:59:12Fast walking or slow walking?
00:59:14Never mind.
00:59:20But you're sure there's no Hollis there?
00:59:23I see.
00:59:24Unless you want to try the city pound, the dump or the water works,
00:59:27that just about takes care of all the public institutions in Poughkeepsie.
00:59:30Hey, maybe he's in some private institution.
00:59:33Clinker, you're magnificent.
00:59:37We just have to walk 10 minutes in various directions until we find the right institution.
00:59:41What? You've got the nose of a bloodhound.
00:59:43Don't let him worry you. The rest of your face looks fine.
00:59:4910 minutes right on the nose of the bloodhound.
00:59:52And we're running out of directions.
01:00:00Malley, rest home.
01:00:01Well, let's have a look.
01:00:06I'm afraid Mr. Hollis' condition will not permit visitors.
01:00:09What?
01:00:10Exactly what is his condition?
01:00:11Exactly how does that concern you?
01:00:13Dr. Manala, we're his friends. We have the right to see him.
01:00:16Unless you produce him, I'll produce the police.
01:00:21Bring in nine.
01:00:22Yes, sir.
01:00:26Mr. Hollis has not had very many visitors.
01:00:28His mind has been completely shattered by alcohol.
01:00:30He just sits in his room and plays the same melody over and over without variation.
01:00:36I must ask you to be very careful with him.
01:00:37He seems to be suffering from a deep-rooted guilt fixation.
01:00:41Visitors have a somewhat disturbing effect on him.
01:00:44Sometimes an alarming effect.
01:00:52Buddy, there are some friends here to see you.
01:00:53They want to talk to you.
01:00:54Hiya, Kingpin.
01:00:58Hiya.
01:01:00I see you got the old jute flute.
01:01:03I heard you're breezing it just now.
01:01:06Still head man, kid.
01:01:10Oh, well, come on, Candy Boy.
01:01:14Don't you recognize me?
01:01:16This is the old clinker.
01:01:18Remember how we used to bell it out at those jam sessions?
01:01:24Well, I just come up here to see how you feel.
01:01:30Well, I thought maybe there was something you might want.
01:01:35The radio.
01:01:38Noise box.
01:01:43Nothing happens. The poor guy is nowhere.
01:01:48Buddy, the boys at the boat have been asking about you.
01:01:51What?
01:01:52They think you got a pretty rough deal from Tommy Drake.
01:01:54I...
01:01:55Nurse.
01:01:56Buddy.
01:01:57Buddy.
01:01:58All right, Buddy.
01:01:59Visiting in hours a row.
01:02:01I...
01:02:03I...
01:02:05Isn't there any way to make him talk?
01:02:06If there is, I don't know it.
01:02:08Why do you think he kept staring at me that way?
01:02:11Probably identified you with a Miss Paid.
01:02:13She came to see him. She was very kind to him.
01:02:15Do you think that perhaps if I were alone...
01:02:17Much too risky. This is upsetting. He may become violent.
01:02:21I'm sorry. I will not permit it.
01:02:24Well, we'll have to try something else.
01:02:27Thank you, Doctor. I'll be back.
01:02:28You apparently have time to waste. I'm sorry. I haven't.
01:02:32I'm sorry, but I'll be back.
01:02:34I think maybe he'd open up if we kept coming around or something.
01:02:42I think I'd rather figure out some or something.
01:02:45Darling, I'm not very hungry. I think I'll go back to the hotel and freshen up.
01:02:49Well...
01:02:50I have half a Poughkeepsie on my face.
01:02:53I like that corner particularly.
01:02:57We'll join you as soon as we finish.
01:02:59Who gets the bone?
01:03:01I do.
01:03:04Well, we'll just send it to the laboratory.
01:03:22Have we any report on that case that came in yesterday?
01:03:24Not yet.
01:03:25I'm worried about that.
01:03:34You're not afraid of me, are you?
01:03:35I'm a friend of Fran's.
01:03:36You remember Fran.
01:03:37We're doing an act together now.
01:03:38Great little partner, Fran.
01:03:39We always feature your song.
01:03:40Tears the place apart.
01:03:41Tears the place apart.
01:03:43Oh...
01:03:44Oh...
01:03:45Oh...
01:03:47Oh...
01:03:49Oh...
01:03:50There's no other piece.
01:03:51Good, honey.
01:03:52I'm sorry...
01:03:53Well...
01:03:54Oh...
01:03:55I'm sorry...
01:03:56No...
01:03:57No...
01:03:58It's good, it's good.
01:03:59You're not afraid of me, are you?
01:04:00No.
01:04:01No, please.
01:04:02No, please.
01:04:03We're with ourselves.
01:04:04You remember Fran.
01:04:05We're doing an act together now.
01:04:06It's a song. It tears the place apart.
01:04:12Go on, play it. It's my favorite tune, too.
01:04:24I suddenly got a sneaking suspicion that she wasn't going back to the hotel.
01:04:28So I checked and found I was right.
01:04:30She didn't by any chance come back here to take a second crack at Hollis, Eugenio.
01:04:34I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Charles. Your wife is not here.
01:04:38Please.
01:04:43That's swell, Buddy. Swell.
01:04:48Buddy, I want you to tell me...
01:04:50Fran always used to come in right on cue.
01:04:54I'll... I'll breeze it again and you try it.
01:05:01Go on, go on. Take it.
01:05:04I... I can't. I have a sore throat.
01:05:07I caught a cold last night.
01:05:11I'll tell Fran I saw you.
01:05:17I'll tell her you played the song for me.
01:05:19You don't sing with Fran.
01:05:21Buddy, I'm trying to help...
01:05:22You never sang with Fran. They sent you. They sent you to spy on me.
01:05:26They told you to say that Fran sent you, didn't they?
01:05:28No.
01:05:29Yeah. Yeah, I killed Drake.
01:05:30Now I have to kill you.
01:05:31No.
01:05:32That's why I hid the gun for you.
01:05:33I have to kill you.
01:05:34No, no, no, Buddy, don't go!
01:05:35I have to kill you.
01:05:36I have to kill you.
01:05:37No, Buddy, don't go!
01:05:38I have to kill you.
01:05:39No, Buddy, don't go!
01:05:40I have to kill you.
01:05:41I have to kill you.
01:05:42I have to kill you.
01:05:46Solace!
01:05:47What the heck!?
01:05:48Darling!
01:05:50I'm all right.
01:05:51Take it easy, boy. Take it easy.
01:05:53How did you come to have a gun?
01:05:54Don't you search the rooms? Are you a patient?
01:05:56This is a rest home, not a jail or an asylum.
01:05:58Give him some water.
01:05:59And some hand grenades to play with.
01:06:01Nick, that's the murder gun.
01:06:04He confessed he killed Tommy Drake.
01:06:06I see.
01:06:08I'll take that.
01:06:09Just a minute.
01:06:10Wait a minute. I think this may interest the police.
01:06:13Let's go.
01:06:18Yes, I'm calling New York.
01:06:20Darling, why bother to call? We'll be home in a couple of hours.
01:06:23I just want to hear my son's voice.
01:06:25For a moment there, I didn't think I'd ever hear it again.
01:06:28Howarth certainly didn't look like a killer.
01:06:31Maybe he isn't.
01:06:32Oh, Nick, he admitted it. He even took a shot at me.
01:06:36For a complete miss.
01:06:38Meaning what?
01:06:39Meaning that in his condition, he couldn't hit the ocean from a rowboat.
01:06:43Tommy Drake was shot right through the middle of the heart.
01:06:46Then why did he confess?
01:06:48Well, cracked minds play funny tricks on you.
01:06:51And by the same token, you can play funny tricks on cracked minds.
01:06:55Now, I have a hunch that Fran Page knew exactly who the trickster was.
01:07:00That's why she was murdered.
01:07:02Oh, I see.
01:07:04All you have to do to prove your innocence is confess your guilt.
01:07:08Yes, yes, I'm calling you off.
01:07:16Hello?
01:07:17Oh, hello, Mrs. Charles. I just came up to talk to your husband.
01:07:21Oh, no, no, I can't talk to him on the phone. I'll wait.
01:07:24May I talk to her, please?
01:07:25Bertha?
01:07:26Oh, yes, she's here.
01:07:28May I talk to her, please?
01:07:30Hi, Mom. When are you coming home?
01:07:35Hello, darling.
01:07:36I'm afraid we won't be able to have dinner with you again.
01:07:39Yes, you can stay up until 9.30.
01:07:43We'll come in and kiss you when we get home.
01:07:45Tell Bertha we'll be home in a few hours.
01:07:48Okay, I'll tell her as soon as she comes in. Bye.
01:07:51So does she... Nicky!
01:07:54Come on, Mammy. We don't want to settle in Poughkeepsie.
01:07:57What's the matter?
01:07:58Uh, nothing.
01:07:59Janet's waiting at the apartment. She wants to talk to you.
01:08:02Well, it's all set. The Hound can ride with us.
01:08:04In the baggage car.
01:08:06Do you always have to ride in the baggage car because of the M-U-T-T?
01:08:19He understands every word.
01:08:21Two spades.
01:08:22Two no-trump.
01:08:23With a hand like this, I should have a finger bowl. I pass.
01:08:27Three no-trump.
01:08:28I pass.
01:08:31Well, what do you think?
01:08:36He needs glasses.
01:08:38Yes.
01:08:39Either that or he has something in his eye.
01:08:42What is it, boy? A sender?
01:08:44Yeah. Let me see.
01:08:46Come here. Hold still.
01:08:49Hold still.
01:08:51So let me see that.
01:08:53Why, that's the same...
01:08:55Of course. I remember the lace perfectly.
01:08:58Where'd you get this?
01:09:00East Fifth Avenue, I think.
01:09:02I mean, is it yours?
01:09:03Nick.
01:09:04I only steal cocktail napkins.
01:09:06Of course, it's mine.
01:09:08No.
01:09:09It's Janet's.
01:09:10When she spilled that drink last night, I must have taken it.
01:09:13Yes.
01:09:14I had that bag.
01:09:16This is exactly like the handkerchief that was lying beside Fran Page's body.
01:09:20I thought it was odd that Miss Janet got there after we did,
01:09:24and then burst in without knocking.
01:09:26Nick.
01:09:28Janet's home alone with Nicky.
01:09:34What do you mean alone?
01:09:36I thought I didn't hear right.
01:09:38Nicky said Bertha was out.
01:09:40Nick, Janet got rid of her.
01:09:42She lied to me.
01:09:44She said that Bertha was there.
01:09:46Why would she lie to me unless...
01:09:48Nick, you know how she hates us.
01:09:50She blames us for everything.
01:09:51This may be her way of...
01:09:53Nick, what'll we do?
01:09:55How long before we get to New York?
01:09:58Oh, an hour at least.
01:10:00An hour?
01:10:01Yeah.
01:10:02Oh, now.
01:10:03Nobody's gonna hurt a little kid.
01:10:07Oh, that's right, Mommy.
01:10:09No one will hurt a little boy.
01:10:20Only a few more minutes.
01:10:22How could you leave him alone with a strange woman?
01:10:25But I thought she was your friend.
01:10:27She only wanted me to get down the druggist to get her some headache tablets.
01:10:30I wouldn't have gone only if she looked so pale and weak.
01:10:33I couldn't refuse her, could I?
01:10:34Why couldn't you refuse her?
01:10:35Darling, how could she know?
01:10:37Oh, I'm sorry.
01:10:39Gee, Mr. Charles.
01:10:40Out of sight of them.
01:10:41I've been all over the neighborhood.
01:10:43The elevator boy remembered taking them down,
01:10:44and that Thea chick told them to tell Bertha they'd be back in a little while.
01:10:48Two hours is quite a little while.
01:10:56Your kid!
01:10:59Yeah, we got on it right away.
01:11:01Yes, right away.
01:11:04I made you some fresh coffee.
01:11:07Thank you, Bertha.
01:11:08None for me.
01:11:09Oh, you better have some, darling.
01:11:11It'll calm your nerves.
01:11:13Nicky, check with the police again.
01:11:15Darling, I've checked five times.
01:11:17They're tearing up the town.
01:11:18If anything pops, they'll call us.
01:11:20Hey, Mom! Pop!
01:11:21Nicky! Darling!
01:11:23I've been pinched!
01:11:24Nicky!
01:11:25Where'd you find them, Kramer?
01:11:26Nabdom coming out of the Capitol Theater.
01:11:28Darling, will you take Nicky to his room, please?
01:11:31Come, dear.
01:11:34Miss Thayer, I'm afraid I'm going to have to be blunt.
01:11:36Just exactly what's the idea?
01:11:38I'll be glad to tell you.
01:11:39If you'll just give me a chance to catch my breath.
01:11:44Well, thank you, Kramer.
01:11:45It's a pleasure.
01:11:46I'll report to headquarters.
01:11:50Well?
01:11:51While Bertha was out, you had some visitors.
01:11:53They insisted upon waiting for you.
01:11:55One of them kept playing with a knife.
01:11:57Oh, yes?
01:11:58The other kept eyeing little Nicky
01:12:00and repeating how tough it would be on you
01:12:01if anything ever happened to the youngster.
01:12:03I got worried so I took him into the bedroom
01:12:05and pretended to put him to bed
01:12:06and I took him out the bedroom door.
01:12:08I'm very grateful to you for that.
01:12:11Well, I can't understand it making such a fuss.
01:12:17Well, perhaps this will explain.
01:12:22That's what I came to see you about.
01:12:25Yes, I did get to Fran's apartment before you.
01:12:27She was dead when I got there.
01:12:29I was going to remove the knife
01:12:31and then I remembered about fingerprints
01:12:32so I took out my handkerchief.
01:12:34But I just couldn't.
01:12:36So I got up and ran
01:12:37and I was afraid of being seen
01:12:38and I started down the back staircase
01:12:40and suddenly I remembered the handkerchief.
01:12:43I rushed back to get it
01:12:44and found you there.
01:12:46Well, I don't know why I didn't tell you about it.
01:12:48I guess I just got panicky.
01:12:50Nicky.
01:12:53Oh, that's the truth.
01:12:54Please believe me.
01:13:10Nick, you awake?
01:13:13No, I'm asleep.
01:13:17Why are your eyes open?
01:13:18Counting sheep.
01:13:21I bet they're black ones.
01:13:22Like Amboy and his pals.
01:13:25And Brandt.
01:13:26And Hollis.
01:13:27And Fran Page.
01:13:29Are you sure her murder was tied up with Drake's?
01:13:33I think it adds up.
01:13:35Fran Page was going to talk.
01:13:37If she intended to pin the Drake murder on Hollis,
01:13:39why should anyone have wanted to kill her?
01:13:42Hollis is hopelessly insane,
01:13:44totally unresponsible for his acts.
01:13:46No.
01:13:48She was obviously going to pin it on someone else.
01:13:51And that someone else did away with her.
01:13:54And with Hollis in his present condition
01:13:55and taking the blame,
01:13:57someone else probably feels pretty safe.
01:14:00But suppose Hollis regained his senses.
01:14:04All you'd have to do is perform a miracle and cure him.
01:14:07The impression that Hollis is cured and ready to talk is all we'd need.
01:14:11What would happen?
01:14:13The killer would undoubtedly try to get him before he had a chance to talk.
01:14:16That might be our chance to get the killer.
01:14:20Mammy, I think we're going to reopen the SS Fortune.
01:14:24We?
01:14:26You and I and the police department?
01:14:29My Nicky.
01:14:30My Nicky.
01:14:31My Nicky.
01:14:32Owe.
01:14:33I'm going to go.
01:14:34That's all.
01:14:36The killer.
01:14:38I'm going to go.
01:14:50I'm going to go.
01:14:52You are all are looking for it.
01:14:54I'm going to go.
01:14:56Now!
01:14:57Mr. Brandt.
01:14:59My table.
01:15:01I didn't know you'd be here tonight.
01:15:03The only table I have left is...
01:15:05Darling, it's a wonderful crowd.
01:15:07But, Nick, what worries me?
01:15:11Table three, Mr. Brandt. Is that all right?
01:15:13That's okay.
01:15:15George, table three for Mr. Brandt.
01:15:17Yes, Mr. Brandt.
01:15:19They promised they'd come, Phil, and if they do, I want them in our table.
01:15:21What's all this finger business about?
01:15:23I'm having the most likely candidates
01:15:25seated where I can watch them squirm.
01:15:27I hope it all goes as smoothly as you expect.
01:15:29Anything should happen to poor Hollis.
01:15:31I've taken every precaution.
01:15:33Sergeant, your slip is showing.
01:15:35Oh. Thanks, Nick.
01:15:37There's the inspector.
01:15:39Everything all right, Nick?
01:15:41All right.
01:15:43Now all we have to do is sit quiet, keep our fingers crossed.
01:15:47If any fingers crossed now, I can't lick my drink.
01:15:50Uh-oh. Some shiny eyes in the jungle.
01:15:53Talbot.
01:15:55Mr. Talbot.
01:15:56Our reservation.
01:15:57Of course, Mr. Talbot. Just a moment, please.
01:16:01Table four, Mr. Talbot.
01:16:04George, table four.
01:16:05Yes, Mr. Talbot.
01:16:06Well, my old friend Slashbunk.
01:16:08How do you do?
01:16:09Mr. Talbot.
01:16:10You attend all the openings?
01:16:12Naturally.
01:16:13It's my business.
01:16:14If Hollis has really come out of the fog,
01:16:16and is half as good as he used to be, I can book him.
01:16:18I think he's going to surprise you.
01:16:24Stunning jewelry.
01:16:26Those earrings.
01:16:27Very attractive.
01:16:29Earrings are higher up.
01:16:37Oh, charm boys.
01:16:39Table four, Hal Amboy.
01:16:41Yes, Mr. Amboy.
01:16:42Table two, Mr. Amboy.
01:16:46Henry, table two.
01:16:47This way, please.
01:16:51Good evening, Mrs. Amboy.
01:16:52Good evening.
01:16:53Oh, Amboy.
01:16:54How did you enjoy your trip to Poughkeepsie?
01:16:56My lone friend Payton's the dough to send Hollis up there.
01:17:00He's okay now, so I'm here to collect.
01:17:03Someday I'm going to take lessons from you on how to get blood out of a stone.
01:17:07I just have my boys break it up into little pieces.
01:17:16Remind me not to turn my back on that little group tonight.
01:17:19Nick, that Mrs. Amboy, the necklace she's wearing.
01:17:22She can afford it.
01:17:24But it matches Mrs. Talbin's earrings.
01:17:30Let's have champagne tonight, Al.
01:17:31Sure.
01:17:34I don't feel like dancing, Mitch. Let's hit this one out.
01:17:36Anything you say, baby.
01:17:38How much would a trinket like that cost?
01:17:41Why, darling.
01:17:43$12,000?
01:17:45The value's unimportant. It's the thought.
01:17:48The thought happens to be that $12,000 is just about the amount that Drake owed Mr. Amboy.
01:17:54Oh.
01:17:58Well, boss man, everything looks set.
01:18:00The doc says the joint's having a kind of a restorative effect on the reed.
01:18:04He's even got him convinced he's never been away.
01:18:07That all that murder biz was strictly a bad dream.
01:18:10So he'll play all right.
01:18:13He'll look good up there, too.
01:18:14Well, the prettier the bait, the better the catch.
01:18:17Come again?
01:18:19That's an old saying I just made up.
01:18:21Look, boss man.
01:18:22Uh-oh.
01:18:23Fish is number five and six at the beginning of the middle.
01:18:26Ah, five.
01:18:27Yeah, beg your pardon.
01:18:29Oh, good evening.
01:18:30Good evening.
01:18:31I was using my influence to try to get you a good table.
01:18:33We're sitting with Mr. Brandt.
01:18:34I didn't think you people could be dragged into this place.
01:18:37You couldn't very well offend Mr. Brandt.
01:18:39After all, he's a member of the family now.
01:18:42We'll see you later.
01:18:43Uh, what's there?
01:18:46I ran across your gun.
01:18:48The valley rest home in Poughkeepsie.
01:18:50The inspector insisted that I leave it with him.
01:18:52He, uh, he has some strange notion that since Brandt is a member of your family now,
01:18:57he's trying to shield you.
01:18:59The inspector is famous for his little jokes.
01:19:03Hey, boss man.
01:19:04I, uh, I hate to bring this up, but I don't know about sitting next to the reed.
01:19:09Suppose somebody takes a shot at him and misses.
01:19:12Would you rather hear her hit?
01:19:14Oh, no, no, no.
01:19:15But if you miss one thing, well, you're bound to hit another.
01:19:18And I thought instead of being up on the stand beside him,
01:19:21I could kind of play, uh, offstage.
01:19:24Why don't you bring your instrument to the table?
01:19:26That would be even safer.
01:19:27Unless our murderer makes a cushion shot.
01:19:31Oh, that's what I like.
01:19:33Sympathy.
01:19:42Nick.
01:19:43If you saw something you knew wasn't there, what would you do?
01:19:49I'd go back to Poughkeepsie with Dr. Monilaw.
01:19:53And you saw a blank space where you knew something should be.
01:19:57I see that all the time.
01:19:59What is it?
01:20:00Mrs. Amboy's necklace. She isn't wearing it anymore.
01:20:03Well, I don't like it, Al.
01:20:04Sorry, but that's the way it's gotta be.
01:20:07No, she isn't.
01:20:09And Mrs. Talbin is wearing it.
01:20:15Hmm.
01:20:16But it matches her earrings perfectly.
01:20:18What do you get out of it?
01:20:20A sudden urge to merge with Talbin's.
01:20:22Come on.
01:20:23Come on.
01:20:27I'm sending Johnson down to Rio to close the deal.
01:20:29I think it'd be a sensation.
01:20:30I've never seen anything like him this time before.
01:20:32He's got more colors.
01:20:42This is not really my racket.
01:20:44I have to give her one whirl around the floor to keep the franchise out.
01:20:47Yes, I know what you mean.
01:20:49Oh, I wanted to ask her to stay and have a drink with us,
01:20:51but those tables for two are hardly big enough to hold one.
01:20:54Have a drink with us when you're finished dancing.
01:20:56We're finished.
01:20:58Waiter.
01:21:05It's a wonderful opening.
01:21:08Well, think Hollis will ever be able to take Drake's place?
01:21:12Nobody will ever be able to take Tommy Drake's place.
01:21:15Yes, I know how you folks feel about him.
01:21:18After all, it was really you who cleared up his debt, wasn't it?
01:21:20I told you I didn't let him have the money.
01:21:23What difference?
01:21:24$12,000 or a necklace, probably worth more.
01:21:29I don't know what you're talking about.
01:21:30You should.
01:21:32Didn't you just redeem the necklace?
01:21:34Re...
01:21:36Well, Mrs. Talbin's been wearing that necklace all evening.
01:21:40In that case, somebody had better tell Mrs. Amboy she's lost hers.
01:21:43Wait a minute.
01:21:44I just redeemed the necklace in the powder room.
01:21:50What?
01:21:52I gave it to Amboy that night.
01:21:54I didn't want anything to happen to Tommy Drake.
01:21:56Tommy Drake.
01:22:04And I nearly threw a $100,000 tour in that guy's lap.
01:22:09That tour would have meant a lot of money to you too, wouldn't it?
01:22:13Of course.
01:22:15But you wouldn't advance him to $12,000?
01:22:18Even though you knew Amboy was preparing a cement kimono for him?
01:22:22I told you he was a bad risk.
01:22:26Seems very puzzling.
01:22:28But I'm sure that Hollis will soon make it all very clear.
01:22:37Now, ladies and gentlemen, Buddy Hollis and his famous clarinet.
01:22:40At the end of this number, Buddy is going to make an announcement
01:22:42that's going to throw a little bombshell into the Tommy Drake murder case.
01:22:57I'll see you soon.
01:22:58I'll see you soon.
01:22:59Bye.
01:23:27Bye.
01:23:28Bye.
01:23:37Let the potter get rough. Duck.
01:23:39I'm practically under the table now.
01:23:41Not the way I'd like to be.
01:23:55Well, Buddy, I guess this is it.
01:23:56Time for that little bombshell.
01:23:58Buddy, tell everyone how Tommy Drake was murdered.
01:24:02Tell them how the murderer took advantage of your condition
01:24:04and planted a gun on you,
01:24:06and then worked on you until he had you convinced that you had killed Drake,
01:24:09and how, with murder on your conscience, you went completely to pieces.
01:24:12Tell them why Fran Page was murdered,
01:24:14how she came to visit you several times at the Valley Rest Home,
01:24:18and gradually pieced things together and threatened to talk.
01:24:21Tell them about the someone who went to her apartment
01:24:24to try to keep her quiet and couldn't,
01:24:26and how he turned on her phonograph loud
01:24:29so that her screams couldn't be heard as he plunged his knife into her.
01:24:33You told me who he is. You told the police.
01:24:35Now tell all these people who he is.
01:24:37Tell them. Tell them!
01:24:39Come on, buddy. Tell them.
01:24:40Never mind, buddy. I'll tell them.
01:24:43It's true about Fran. I killed her. I had to.
01:24:46And I killed Tommy Drake. I didn't intend to.
01:24:49I wanted to keep away from Phyllis.
01:24:51I went to reason with him, and when I saw that gun on the cabinet, I...
01:24:54I think we know the rest.
01:24:56I don't think you do.
01:24:57Everything would have been all right if you hadn't meddled into it.
01:25:00Well, this is the last time you're going to...
01:25:06Keep away, all of you. Don't touch him.
01:25:09You knew about Tommy and me all along.
01:25:12Weren't you clever?
01:25:14That's why you wouldn't lend him the money that night.
01:25:16You wanted Amboy to kill him.
01:25:18But I crossed you up by paying Amboy off with my necklace.
01:25:21I... I... I couldn't let him take you away from me.
01:25:24At first, I thought Phil Brandt did it.
01:25:26That's why I took a shot at him at the Charles' apartment.
01:25:29But you did it! You did it!
01:25:31Mrs. Talbot, let the police have him.
01:25:35I swore I'd kill the man who shot Tommy Drake.
01:25:46Well, I guess you did.
01:25:48And think you did it all with your own little hatchet.
01:25:52I'm proud of you, darling.
01:25:55Thank you, Angel.
01:25:56Now Nick Charles is going to retire.
01:25:59You threw with crime?
01:26:01No, I'm going to bed.
01:26:03That reminds me.
01:26:04Mm-hmm.
01:26:31Melody Rogers.
01:26:36Mark
01:26:44All right, all right.
01:26:46This is soundtrack, okay?
01:26:47And this, you know,
01:26:51Ain't this 17, right now?
01:26:54I'm going to show you the mere pair.
01:26:55Yeah, that's what I have.
01:26:55Not much more of a separate pair of California.
01:26:58Shiger is not going to finish through when weritt.
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