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