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"In a realm where opulence hides corruption, a clever band of outcasts known as The Ermine Thieves weave through the shadows of high society. They steal not just for survival, but to expose the secrets of the powerful and disrupt the delicate balance of wealth and influence. With every daring heist, they leave behind whispers and legends, challenging the notion of justice and loyalty. Amid intrigue, danger, and unexpected alliances, their story unfolds as a thrilling journey of cunning, courage, and the blurred line between right and wrong."
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00:02:51Slintino's been late for lunch
00:02:52since that young wifeцен
00:02:52had a baby
00:02:53Joe Wilson the head bookkeeper
00:02:54told me this morning
00:02:56that there is a lawyer
00:02:57down here from New York
00:02:58to put this mill into a steel combine.
00:03:02It'll make Flint a millionaire, Joe says.
00:03:05A millionaire?
00:03:06Then you'll do that.
00:03:07Flint ain't interested in nothing but his wife and that baby and this mill.
00:03:13A million is a lot of money.
00:03:15This combine will be a hundred million dollar corporation.
00:03:19And we hope Mr. Dawson will accept the office of General Manning.
00:03:23Personally, I'll be guided by what Mr. Dawson thinks should be done.
00:03:26You've been rather quiet, Flint.
00:03:28What do you think of this merger?
00:03:33Well, as I listened to Enright, I kept thinking the whistle has blown for lunch.
00:03:40Get this done in the minutes, Joe.
00:03:43If this merger goes through, the bankers and promoters whom Enright represents
00:03:48will pocket between 15 and 20 million dollars.
00:03:52Gentlemen, my clients will not pocket them.
00:03:54Just a moment, Enright.
00:03:56I'm particularly interested in the large block of stock
00:04:00which is being bought in the 20-year plan by the employees of this mill.
00:04:04All stock will be traded in for stock in the new corporation.
00:04:07Yes, and when the water is squeezed out of the stock of this new corporation,
00:04:12it will shrink like a bag of cottage cheese.
00:04:15Well, I'm late for lunch, gentlemen.
00:04:18I move we adjourn.
00:04:19Thank you for the motion.
00:04:20Thank you for the motion.
00:04:21Wilson, have several copies of the minutes made for Mr. Enright.
00:04:29Yes, Mr. Marley.
00:04:37Well, I told you what Dawson would do.
00:04:40Yes, but you didn't tell me that you were going to flop over to his side.
00:04:43I agree with Flint, absolutely.
00:04:45Hmm?
00:04:46On the record, I want it to appear in the minutes that way.
00:04:51I have a check for the amount I mentioned two weeks ago.
00:04:59But remember, before I close this deal,
00:05:02I want the rest of the money and a written agreement as to the stock.
00:05:07All right.
00:05:08You'll hear from me shortly.
00:05:19Yeah, that's what I want.
00:05:21Yes, sir.
00:05:22What got this a late plan?
00:05:24I had one of these up in the director's room.
00:05:26Hard-boiled.
00:05:28I bet you swallowed him whole.
00:05:31Bad egg.
00:05:38Yes?
00:05:48Vivian, oh, this is Jim.
00:05:50Did you talk to Flint?
00:05:52Yes, I told him I couldn't stay here any longer.
00:05:55This gloomy house and those terrible mills
00:05:57and the city with Jim.
00:05:58I'll go mad.
00:06:00It's Flint's chance to make a fortune.
00:06:02You can have everything.
00:06:04Live where you like, travel.
00:06:05Steel is in his blood.
00:06:07Flint is steel.
00:06:09But I'm not.
00:06:11Talk to him again this afternoon.
00:06:13Put it to him squarely.
00:06:15It's all so hopeless, Jim.
00:06:17But drop in tonight and we'll talk things over.
00:06:20All right.
00:06:21Goodbye.
00:06:29Have Joe Swan report on my office at once.
00:06:31What did you want?
00:06:32The Swanson, one of the crane men on the night shift.
00:06:34He offered you a million to sell out.
00:06:36You ought to take it.
00:06:38Now, I have plans of my own.
00:06:41The time you boys are going to pay for the stock you're buying
00:06:43is going to be the biggest steel mill in the country.
00:06:46In the meantime, these dinner trails are going to remain full.
00:06:51Come on, boys.
00:06:53Time to get back to work.
00:06:57You were drunk again last night.
00:06:59Who said I was drunk?
00:07:01Ben?
00:07:03I had a drink, but I wasn't drunk.
00:07:05I handled the crane all right, didn't I?
00:07:09Yes, but supposing you were to pull the wrong lever.
00:07:12You might drop a ladle of metal onto some man walking on the floor below.
00:07:17Flint himself is on the floor a lot of the time.
00:07:20Maybe he'd give me another chance.
00:07:22Hmm.
00:07:23Flint?
00:07:23Flint himself is on the floor a lot, and he's against a man as that man's finish.
00:07:29I'm running that crane tonight, ain't I?
00:07:33Then it's your last night.
00:07:34Flint's a lot.
00:07:45Flint's a lot of the time.
00:07:50I'm running that cervical chair.
00:07:53I suppose I'm running that mujeres.
00:07:55I don't know what those parts were saying, maybe.
00:07:57I'm drifting thatbalance what was going on.
00:09:59My God, his leg!
00:10:06My God, his leg!
00:10:14My God, his leg!
00:10:21My God, his leg!
00:10:29My God, his leg!
00:10:37My God, his leg!
00:10:44My God, his leg!
00:10:52My God, his leg!
00:10:59My God, his leg!
00:11:01My God, his leg!
00:11:09My God, his leg!
00:11:17My God, his leg!
00:11:19My God, his leg!
00:11:27It's good advice, but hard to follow.
00:11:29You can rely upon the men at the mill.
00:11:33You yourself trained them.
00:11:34And Vivian, she's proving quite a businesswoman.
00:11:37Well, you and Joe Wilson take care of her.
00:11:42She's more capable than you think.
00:11:45I've had power of attorney drawn up so that she can sign papers that require your signature.
00:11:51Oh, well, well.
00:11:52It would be excellent training for her.
00:11:54Good, yes.
00:11:56Well, it'll help to distract her mind and give her a deeper interest in my affairs.
00:12:01Mr. Murray, this won't do at all.
00:12:08The hospital isn't the place for iron and steel any more than the steel mill is the place for rest and quiet.
00:12:14You're quite right, Doctor.
00:12:14I'm sorry.
00:12:15I'd love to be responsible for his condition if this keeps up.
00:12:19Take these tentacles, please.
00:12:26Goodbye, John.
00:12:27Well, then.
00:12:31Well, Doctor, I suggest you give orders that he's to attend to no business whatsoever and seize no one, with the possible exception of Mrs. Dawson.
00:12:45Yes, yes.
00:12:52When will I be out of here?
00:12:54If you obey orders and forget all business worries, we'll have you back in your own home before the New Year.
00:13:01So you're beginning to face facts.
00:13:22Flint thinks more of his mills than he does of you.
00:13:26I'd like to take you away from here.
00:13:28You don't know what you're saying, Jim.
00:13:30But I love you.
00:13:31If he doesn't love you enough to take you away, then...
00:13:34Will you come with me?
00:13:39To go away with you?
00:13:43No.
00:13:44No, it's impossible, Jim.
00:13:46If Flint were the only reason, Jim.
00:13:56But there's another.
00:13:58It's all so hopeless.
00:13:59But I love you.
00:14:00Please.
00:14:01Please.
00:14:01If it's all so hopeless, Jim.
00:14:16Mrs. Dawson has called to take me home?
00:14:27I'm sure she'll be here a little later.
00:14:29But remember, another month in bed after you go home, the doctor's orders.
00:14:35Oh, I suppose so, I suppose so.
00:14:37Oh, Mr. Enright has gotten permission from the doctor to see you.
00:14:41Huh? Enright? Oh, yes, yes, yes. Show him in, please, nurse.
00:14:55Now, hello, Enright. Oh, all right. Sit down.
00:14:58Oh, thank you. The last time I saw you was the day this happened.
00:15:03Today I'm being moved to my home, and in a month's time I'll be at my desk.
00:15:08Well, the matter I've come to see you about is urgent.
00:15:10Well, it's about that merger. My answer's the same today as it was three months ago.
00:15:14The merger was put through six days ago.
00:15:17What? It's possible. My proxies, my own stock.
00:15:22Your proxies were revoked a week ago, and your stock purchased by my client.
00:15:26In October, you executed a general power of attorney.
00:15:29Yes, to my wife.
00:15:31Well, no doubt she acted for your best interests in selling your stock.
00:15:34That is, I assume you will never again be able to attend the business.
00:15:38Your assumption is wrong.
00:15:40Well, I'm not here to argue.
00:15:42The check paid for your stock was endorsed by your wife and deposited in her account.
00:15:47If there's any irregularity connected with this, I shall, of course, at once take steps to protect my client.
00:15:53What steps?
00:15:54If necessary, the detention of Mrs. Dawson.
00:15:56Detention? Ridiculous.
00:15:58Why, she's calling for me here today.
00:16:00Well, I've been informed she's sailing for England today.
00:16:04Oh, nurse, please telephone my home to see if Mrs. Dawson has left for the hospital.
00:16:24Yes, sir.
00:16:25For the protection of my client, I've prepared a general release.
00:16:33If you care to sign it.
00:16:35Otherwise, I shall be forced to take steps against Mrs. Dawson.
00:16:45Well, can you tell me where we can locate Mrs. Dawson?
00:16:48Yes, sir.
00:16:52Goodbye.
00:17:09Has Mrs. Dawson left for the hospital?
00:17:14Mrs. Dawson left the city last night with your daughter.
00:17:17Mrs. Dawson left for England.
00:17:18Mrs. Dawson left for England.
00:17:19Mrs. Dawson left for England.
00:17:21Mrs. Daugherent children.
00:17:22Mrs. Dawson left for England.
00:17:23That's been a lot necessary.
00:17:24Mrs. Dawson has left for completters.
00:17:25Mrs. Dawson left for England.
00:17:27Mrs. Dawson left for England.
00:17:28My wife has been tricked into this. I'll settle with whoever is responsible.
00:17:51Oh, yes, of course. Of course.
00:17:54It may interest you to know that we propose following James Marley's plan for a gradual expansion of the Dawson Mill.
00:18:06Sorry the industry has lost you. Good day.
00:18:15She couldn't have known what she was doing.
00:18:21She was very young. Younger than I by 15 years.
00:18:30Come in, Joe. Glad you're here. Why haven't I seen you in the past two months?
00:18:35Mr. Marley said that no one was to see you, sir. Doctor's orders.
00:18:39Do you know about the merger?
00:18:40We just heard about it this morning. Last week we gave our proxies to Mr. Marley.
00:18:48We thought, or he made it appear there was to be a fight. That he was going to act as you would have acted.
00:18:53Jim Marley. Is Marley at the mill?
00:18:57No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:19:03Jim Marley. Is Marley at the mill?
00:19:18I understand he's sailing for England. As soon as I heard this, I went to the bank.
00:19:23I took the liberty of checking things up, sir.
00:19:25Yes, sir.
00:19:27There isn't much left, sir.
00:19:37I see that everything's paid.
00:19:39Yes, of course.
00:19:41We had a meeting this morning.
00:19:43All the men at the mill.
00:19:45And we want you to know that...
00:19:48Well, that...
00:19:51You'll always be provided for.
00:19:54We're on the secret, sir.
00:19:58Oh, pardon me, crippled Joe.
00:20:01Plenty left so I can take care of myself.
00:20:04Yes, sir, of course.
00:20:16Oh, nurse.
00:20:18Would you have the authority come in here, please?
00:20:21I'm giving up this room.
00:20:24But, Mr. Dawson, you can't.
00:20:26Some years ago, I endowed a ward.
00:20:29I want to be moved in there.
00:20:32You see, I want people to talk to.
00:20:44The boys won't let you do that.
00:20:46Move my bed, little Joe.
00:20:47So I can see out that window.
00:20:49Yes, sir.
00:21:05That's right.
00:21:07Now, you remember the plans we talked over together?
00:21:11For gradual expansion of the mill?
00:21:15And Marley stole them, too.
00:21:19The new corporation are carrying them out.
00:21:25Look out there.
00:21:27I can't see the mill for the snow.
00:21:31I can.
00:21:35I can see it.
00:21:37Not as it is now.
00:21:39But as it will be 10 or 15 years from now.
00:21:43When my plans are carried out, its capacity will be doubled.
00:21:53You're mistaken, my friend.
00:21:55Soliciting armed is one of the oldest and most honorable professions.
00:21:59Well, I save money.
00:22:01I get more out of life than most men.
00:22:03Well, you seem to have something which people with eyes seldom find.
00:22:07Happiness.
00:22:09People with eyes see very little.
00:22:11I know all that goes on around me.
00:22:15Through my other senses.
00:22:17I offer you a partnership.
00:22:19I'll furnish the locomotion.
00:22:21And you furnish the vision.
00:22:23Interesting.
00:22:25But for me, impossible.
00:22:27I have two serious purposes in life, Marshal.
00:22:31One is to find a woman and a child.
00:22:33To see they never want for anything.
00:22:35The other has to do with a man.
00:22:37Ah, but how will you accomplish these things?
00:22:39To take time.
00:22:40Ah, exactly.
00:22:41Throw in your lot with mine.
00:22:42And we'll wander until we find this woman and child.
00:22:44And the man.
00:22:45Is it a bargain?
00:22:46I assure you, my friend.
00:22:47You'll never have a dull day.
00:22:48Young Flint Dawson?
00:22:49No.
00:22:50No.
00:22:51No.
00:22:52No.
00:22:53No.
00:22:54No.
00:22:55No.
00:22:56No.
00:22:57No.
00:22:58No.
00:22:59No.
00:23:00No.
00:23:01No.
00:23:02No.
00:23:03No.
00:23:04No.
00:23:31No.
00:23:33If you are blind, how did you know I was a woman?
00:23:36By the sound of your footsteps.
00:23:38Also a faint fragrance.
00:23:40If we lose one sense,
00:23:42nature generously
00:23:43sharpens the other four.
00:23:45Oh, I see.
00:24:02Steel, copper, iron, coal.
00:24:08You carry quite a list.
00:24:10Who publishes these little volumes?
00:24:13I write them, have them printed.
00:24:14How interesting.
00:24:32What do these crowds remind you of, Josh?
00:25:02There we are.
00:25:32Well...
00:25:33Sure, and what kind of beggars are you,
00:25:49refusing a reward?
00:25:51Well, I have something else in mind.
00:25:53During the past two years,
00:25:55Martian and I have come in contact
00:25:56with nearly 2,000 beggars.
00:25:59We have a plan of organization
00:26:00that will give them self-respect,
00:26:03do away with fakers,
00:26:04and be of some service to the public.
00:26:07Oh, how far have you got along
00:26:09with this organization?
00:26:09We have several hundred members.
00:26:11It's selected members.
00:26:13Oh, wait a minute.
00:26:14Wait a minute.
00:26:15Megan's against the law.
00:26:17But our members operate
00:26:18under peddler's licenses.
00:26:20I sell sheep music.
00:26:22The point is that some daly's organization
00:26:26will have 5,000 pairs of eyes,
00:26:29ears, or both.
00:26:32In every city,
00:26:32we're in direct contact
00:26:33with the underworld.
00:26:35We could be of great service
00:26:36in apprehending criminals.
00:26:39Oh, sounds interesting.
00:26:42I'd better take you under the chief.
00:26:44Come on.
00:26:45Things have worked out well, Gus.
00:26:56We now have 680 members,
00:26:59and we want you to join us.
00:27:01An organization in every city,
00:27:03a comfortable place to live.
00:27:12How much are you taking each day, Milgan?
00:27:13I average pretty well.
00:27:16Three, four dollars.
00:27:18How much do you save?
00:27:20Never saved a penny in my life.
00:27:22That's the point.
00:27:24Now, this is the proposition.
00:27:26Our organization is actually firm.
00:27:28It didn't be.
00:27:30This is what we hope to do.
00:27:35You are in good business here, Sam.
00:27:38I'd like to have you
00:27:39on our finance committee.
00:27:40I'll take it over, John.
00:27:41How many members
00:27:44have you got lined up?
00:27:45Oh, over 1,100 in two years,
00:27:47with savings averaging
00:27:48around 270 a day each.
00:27:51That's $3,000 a day
00:27:53to be invested.
00:27:54More than a million dollars a year.
00:27:57It's getting into big business.
00:27:59You bet.
00:28:01The men who join us
00:28:02will someday live in comfort.
00:28:06They'll share
00:28:06in big enterprises.
00:28:09The gentlemen,
00:28:10are there any questions
00:28:11you wish to ask?
00:28:13Yeah.
00:28:14Say, what's the catch anyway?
00:28:17Heh.
00:28:18Sounds phony to me.
00:28:20What does this
00:28:20John Daniels get out of it?
00:28:22None of the money
00:28:23that you put in.
00:28:24No?
00:28:25But for organizing
00:28:26and overhead expenses,
00:28:28he will receive
00:28:2810% of the profits
00:28:30he will make for you
00:28:31by investing your money.
00:28:33Oh.
00:28:34But gentlemen,
00:28:36I think Mr. Daniels
00:28:38can explain this
00:28:38better than I.
00:28:39All right.
00:28:41Now, in the first place,
00:28:43I want you to understand
00:28:45that not all of you
00:28:47will be allowed
00:28:47to join this organization.
00:28:49No?
00:28:49But...
00:28:50Those of you
00:28:52who are physically fit
00:28:53to earn their living
00:28:54in other ways
00:28:54won't even be considered.
00:28:56There are now
00:28:592,000 members
00:29:00who are saving
00:29:01about $3 a day each.
00:29:05Last year,
00:29:05these savings amounted
00:29:06to more than
00:29:08$2 million.
00:29:10That's a lot of money.
00:29:12Within 10 years,
00:29:13I estimate
00:29:13there will be
00:29:14about 5,000 members.
00:29:16And...
00:29:16Well, you can figure
00:29:18it out for yourselves.
00:29:19That will mean
00:29:20a total investment
00:29:21of between
00:29:21$40 and $50 million.
00:29:24Really?
00:29:25That's a lot.
00:29:26He can at any time
00:29:27draw up both
00:29:28principal and profits.
00:29:31The benefits include
00:29:32club rooms,
00:29:34a decent place
00:29:34to sleep in,
00:29:36food at cost,
00:29:37medical care,
00:29:39legal services,
00:29:40the purchase
00:29:41of wholesale prices
00:29:42of the wares you peddle,
00:29:44the license fees,
00:29:45et cetera, et cetera.
00:29:47Now, to you other men,
00:29:50I've time to say
00:29:51very little,
00:29:52except that we have
00:29:53an employment agency.
00:29:54if you want to work.
00:29:56Oh, I see.
00:29:57How do we know
00:29:58our money is coming
00:29:59and I'll explain
00:29:59everything to you.
00:30:00It's really on
00:30:01the principle of the...
00:30:02the service fee
00:30:14that we need
00:30:16for a while.
00:30:18Oh,
00:30:19no.
00:30:22Oh,
00:30:23no.
00:30:25Oh,
00:30:25no now.
00:30:27Oh,
00:30:28no now.
00:30:28Oh,
00:30:29New director's meeting.
00:30:42Big doings.
00:30:44With Jim Marley in control, this mill will soon be going full blast.
00:30:48Say, who is this Jim Marley?
00:30:50Uncle Joe, ain't Jim Marley the man that put this mill in the steel combined about 10 or 12 years ago?
00:30:5715 years ago.
00:30:58I thought so.
00:30:59He saved it from the scrap heap, didn't he?
00:31:01Young fella, this was the best independent steel mill in America.
00:31:05And that was when Flint Dawson was general manager.
00:31:09Something for you, Uncle Joe.
00:31:15Whatever happened to this Flint Dawson?
00:31:18He got hurt in a bad accident at the mill.
00:31:21After that, I heard he was killed somewhere in a train wreck.
00:31:25Come on.
00:31:26Come on.
00:31:27Come on.
00:31:28Come on.
00:31:29Come on.
00:31:31Come on.
00:31:32Come on!
00:31:33Well, looks like all us old-timers have been thrown on the scrap pile.
00:31:55You can't put new wine into old bottles.
00:32:04Those old employees were trained by Flint Dawson.
00:32:06They know how to make steel.
00:32:08He's right.
00:32:09This is not a charitable institution.
00:32:12And if any of the directors are not in sympathy with my policies,
00:32:15they have, of course, the privilege of tendering their resignations.
00:32:22Gentlemen, I move we adjourn for the day.
00:32:24Second the motion.
00:32:25Second the motion.
00:32:31We're with you, Jim.
00:32:32All the way.
00:32:33Thanks.
00:32:35Good work, Jim.
00:32:37Wilson, my nephew Lee Marley is arriving today from New York.
00:32:40He should be here now.
00:32:41Have him shown up to my office.
00:32:43Yes, Mr. Marley.
00:32:48Marley, you're skating on thin ice.
00:32:51How so?
00:32:52Davis tells me that you and the crowd are unloading the stock that gave you control of this corporation.
00:32:57We'll buy it back at the lower figure.
00:32:59Thin ice.
00:33:00Another point.
00:33:01There are still three or four hundred old employees who through the years have been buying stock.
00:33:07Boating stock.
00:33:08Dynamite.
00:33:09When combined stock has been sufficiently depreciated, we'll form a syndicate and buy them out.
00:33:14They'd rather sell their right arm.
00:33:16If they're out of work, they won't be able to make the payments.
00:33:21They'll have to sell out.
00:33:23Come in.
00:33:24Well?
00:33:25Mr. Marley.
00:33:26I hope you're out this policy of discharging the older men.
00:33:30My own notice came as somewhat of a surprise.
00:33:31Personally, I'm well fixed.
00:33:32I'm thinking of the old laborers.
00:33:33That policy's already gone into effect.
00:33:35Before you leave, check up on the stock being purchased by the employees.
00:33:36Where'd you keep the certificate?
00:33:37In the company.
00:33:38In the company.
00:33:39In the company.
00:33:40In the company.
00:33:41In the company.
00:33:42In the company.
00:33:43In the company.
00:33:44In the company.
00:33:45Well bring me the stockbooks.
00:33:46I'll go through them with you.
00:33:47Very well.
00:33:48as somewhat of a surprise personally I'm well fixed I'm thinking of the old
00:33:55laborers that policy has already gone into effect before you leave check up on
00:34:01the stock being purchased by the employee where do you keep the
00:34:04certificate in the company safe well bring me the stock books I'll go through
00:34:08them with you very well
00:34:18come on I want to be my uncle that's a little woman hit her but wait till he
00:34:29sees you not now I'm gonna steal your car I'll come and get you after I've seen my
00:34:33attending this is gonna be the most exciting day of my life you don't leave
00:34:38what I'd like what I'd like one of those little cottages you just had I could put
00:34:42up your lunch every day cottage cheese and cottage pudding and you cook certainly
00:34:47are you sure I'm not too sure I never tried willing to try it
00:34:54promise to marry me you want to marry me just for my opinion
00:35:01well a dispensate old man at 25
00:35:06don't you forget to call for me I won't all right bye dear
00:35:11I'm going to make you secretary of this corporation you don't mean secretary of
00:35:16combined steel exactly what I do mean I'm putting in young vigorous men wait I'll
00:35:21work day and night
00:35:24secretary of combined steel I certain party will be mighty glad when she hears this
00:35:31yeah well this position Lee is one of great responsibility you'll have to forget
00:35:37about women but you see uncle Lizzie this is different but we're going to settle down even
00:35:44it's in a workman's cottage that is if she'll marry me yeah put up a chair and I'll tell you about your new
00:35:53duties as secretary of combined steel I don't know that's the only answer I can make to your questions Joyce but you do know Scotty you're the wisest man in the world
00:36:09Joyce darling I know father and your mother and your brother I raised you there isn't anything I wouldn't tell you all right then just answer me one question who is John Daniels
00:36:20John Daniels
00:36:23John Daniels is as much of a mystery to me as he is to you more so I hear from three or four times a year I receive sums of money for your support I keep detailed accounts
00:36:33yet you've never seen the man
00:36:35twelve years ago a man came into my office with a letter from John Daniels I was to go abroad to an institution in Liverpool and arrange for the adoption of a six year old child
00:36:45her name was Joy McLaughlin since that time yes I know
00:37:03well that's all I know all right if you can't tell me anything I'm going to tell you something I'm in love this time it's the real thing you're sure it's the real thing
00:37:13mm-hmm we met on the boat just before it sailed from Buenos Aires we were together every evening
00:37:19well who is he and when am I going to meet him
00:37:23a letter Mr. Taggett that's marked important for immediate delivery
00:37:29will you feel great?
00:37:31sure
00:37:32well for the first time after all these years I'm going to meet John Daniels
00:37:49what?
00:37:50goodnight
00:37:51goodnight
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00:38:18goodnight
00:38:19My name is Martian. Mr. Taggart.
00:38:24How do you do?
00:38:25Mr. Daniels is waiting to see you.
00:38:34Mr. Taggart is here, John.
00:38:42Mr. Dawson.
00:38:43I mean, Scott, glad to see you.
00:38:45Lots of things to talk about.
00:38:49How are you?
00:38:51How do you do?
00:38:53I read in the papers you were killed in a railroad accident 15 years ago.
00:38:57Oh, I had some baggage on that train.
00:38:59The incident served a purpose.
00:39:01Helped to conceal my identity. Sit down.
00:39:05The last time I talked to you was the time I advised you to take up the study of law.
00:39:09The time you made it possible for me to study law.
00:39:11Well, I figured that an honest office boy would make an honest lawyer.
00:39:14You proved I was right.
00:39:16Also, I liked your lack of inquisitive.
00:39:18I hadn't been from a lack of curiosity.
00:39:20A strange story, Scott.
00:39:24Possibly you remember a man named Jim Marley.
00:39:26Yes.
00:39:27Yes, he was secretary and treasurer of the old Dawson Company at the time of your accident.
00:39:33It wasn't an accident.
00:39:34On the day I learned what Marley's done, I insisted for me move her to the hospital wound down for the destitute.
00:39:40There I came to know a blind man named Martha.
00:39:44Amazing story I've ever heard.
00:39:47Well, my estimate, through fortunate investments, we've almost doubled their savings for it.
00:39:52Financially, this must be one of the strongest paternal organizations in the world.
00:39:56It is.
00:39:57It is.
00:39:58You...
00:39:59You haven't mentioned your daughter.
00:40:01Do you mind telling me how you found her?
00:40:04Marshal and I found Joyce in England.
00:40:09Just twelve years ago.
00:40:11We also found Joyce's mother on the morning of that day.
00:40:36According to this letter from Gypsy Jones, this is the street.
00:40:49We turn in this corner.
00:40:51Where's the little girl with her?
00:40:53Yes, they were together.
00:40:55She followed them.
00:40:56Gives a number of the house.
00:41:00Why don't we go there?
00:41:01Well, this is not the kind of street she'd live in.
00:41:05Officers have been in and out all day.
00:41:16Miss Berger found a body she did early this morning.
00:41:19Suicide.
00:41:20That's what they say.
00:41:21But how do they know?
00:41:22A man came up to see her last night.
00:41:24Didn't anybody hear the shot?
00:41:25Woke me up.
00:41:26Then a truck went rumbling by.
00:41:28And I says to Miss Jones...
00:41:30Here they come.
00:41:32That night we found Joyce in a small institution where her mother had placed her.
00:41:45You haven't seen Joyce since then?
00:41:58I've seen her at least twice a year.
00:42:00In order not to humiliate her, I've always remained in the shadows.
00:42:04As to Marley...
00:42:05I've bided my time.
00:42:06Now that time has come.
00:42:07These are your instructions, Scott.
00:42:08Preliminary to the time when I shall confront Marley personally.
00:42:09He's exceeded in placing himself as the head of Combine Steel.
00:42:10Then he'll depress the stock by selling it short.
00:42:11With the idea of buying it back at a lower figure for personal crooked profit.
00:42:13My idea and plan is to buy that stock quickly.
00:42:14I'll go over these instructions tonight.
00:42:15Use E.J.
00:42:42And I want you to buy 10,000 shares outright.
00:42:45Give them to Joyce.
00:42:47So that I'm beaten, she won't have to suffer.
00:42:50Stop buying tomorrow at noon.
00:42:52I'll follow your orders to the left.
00:42:55Good night, Scott.
00:42:56Good night, sir.
00:43:12Marley, your old enemy E.J. Curry is buying combine in 5,000 share lots.
00:43:42Curry's back in the market, Mr. Marley.
00:43:46Here it is.
00:43:48Curley must have learned your short on combined steel.
00:43:51He's out to get you.
00:43:52Splendid.
00:43:53Sell from my account 5,000 shares each time the stock goes up half a point.
00:43:58But you're already short 15,000 shares.
00:44:01I'm going 40,000 shares short.
00:44:03I'll bring in the security before the market opens tomorrow morning.
00:44:07All right, goodbye.
00:44:11I'll leave.
00:44:12Yes, sir.
00:44:13Call a special meeting of directors tomorrow morning.
00:44:15You'll only have to notify these men.
00:44:18Anything wrong?
00:44:19Oh, no.
00:44:20An old enemy of mine named Curry has apparently secured considerable backing,
00:44:24and he's trying to get stock control of combined.
00:44:26Any chance of his succeeding?
00:44:28I'll have my heel on his neck within 24 hours.
00:44:31Oh, another matter.
00:44:32There are 400 stock certificates representing 40,000 shares of combined that Wilson failed to prepare for issues.
00:44:40This evening I'll help you go through them.
00:44:42You'll have to sign each certificate as secretary of the corporation.
00:44:45Yes, sir.
00:44:46I did have an appointment this evening, but I can break it.
00:44:48Oh, that's all right.
00:44:49I'll be back here at 9.30.
00:44:50That'll be time enough.
00:44:52Well, what now?
00:44:53Well, now I'll tell you why we're here.
00:44:54Scott Taggart lives in that apartment house over there.
00:44:55And this afternoon he told me I must never see you again.
00:44:56Oh, yeah?
00:44:57Well, I'll talk to him about that.
00:44:58Now, listen, Lee.
00:44:59I have an idea.
00:45:00It has something to do with my guardian.
00:45:01All my life I've felt a force.
00:45:02It sounds silly, but it's there.
00:45:03It's invisible, but it has a name.
00:45:04John Daniels.
00:45:05Oh, is that your name?
00:45:06John Daniels.
00:45:07Oh, is that your name?
00:45:08John Daniels.
00:45:09Oh, is that your name?
00:45:10John Daniels.
00:45:11Oh, is that your name?
00:45:12John Daniels.
00:45:13Oh, is that your name?
00:45:14John Daniels.
00:45:15Well, I'll tell you why we're here.
00:45:16Well, I'll tell you why we're here.
00:45:17Scott Taggart lives in that apartment house over there.
00:45:19And this afternoon he told me I must never see you again.
00:45:21Oh, yeah?
00:45:22Well, I'll talk to him about that.
00:45:23Well, listen, Lee.
00:45:24It's invisible, but it has a name.
00:45:26John Daniels.
00:45:27Oh, is that your guardian's name?
00:45:28Yes.
00:45:29And tonight I'm going to see him, and you're going with me.
00:45:31That's why we're here.
00:45:33Scottie made an appointment to see him.
00:45:34I found that out.
00:45:35And we're going to follow him.
00:45:37Oh, now, listen.
00:45:38I'm no good as a detective.
00:45:39Shh.
00:45:40They're Scottie now.
00:45:50Hurry, before he gets out of sight.
00:45:54Did you see that?
00:46:08The man that let Scottie in locked the gate.
00:46:11Well, what's our next move, Miss Sherlock Holmes?
00:46:14Have you got the nerve to go through with it?
00:46:16Bet I have.
00:46:17Well, we can't go in the front way.
00:46:19Well, how about the back?
00:46:21I could put on a long gray beard.
00:46:24Have you got one with you?
00:46:25I'll grow one.
00:46:26Let's go over the top.
00:46:29Of what?
00:46:30Of that wall.
00:46:31And through the garden.
00:46:32Oh, I can just see myself dangling by the seat of the pants from one of those spikes.
00:46:36Yeah, and you laugh.
00:46:38I promise not to laugh if you won't look when I climb.
00:46:41Hold everything.
00:46:42I've got an idea.
00:46:44Hold on.
00:46:45Hold on.
00:46:55Come on.
00:46:56I'll go first.
00:46:57Catch if you fall.
00:47:05Come on.
00:47:08Oh, no.
00:47:09Careful now.
00:47:10There you are.
00:47:21Well, here goes nothing.
00:47:40Look in the eye.
00:47:41Which eye?
00:47:43Do you think you'll bite?
00:47:44I'll see.
00:47:45Nice doggy.
00:47:46Say, here's a watchdog.
00:47:47He's a committee of welcome.
00:47:48Nice boy.
00:47:49Come on.
00:47:50Come on.
00:47:51I'll catch him.
00:47:52Yeah, and if I miss, he'll catch you.
00:47:53You hold him.
00:47:54I'll get down there by myself.
00:47:55I hope.
00:47:56Oh, here.
00:47:57Do they help?
00:47:58Come on, I'll help you.
00:47:59There.
00:48:00There we are.
00:48:01Oh.
00:48:02Good job.
00:48:03Get down.
00:48:04Oh, yeah.
00:48:05Come on.
00:48:06Come on.
00:48:07Come on.
00:48:08Come on.
00:48:09Come on.
00:48:10Come on.
00:48:11I'll catch him.
00:48:12Yeah, and if I miss, he'll catch you.
00:48:13You hold him.
00:48:14I'll get down there by myself.
00:48:15I hope.
00:48:16Oh, here.
00:48:17Do they help?
00:48:18Come on, I'll help you.
00:48:19There.
00:48:20There we are.
00:48:21Oh.
00:48:22Good job.
00:48:23Good job.
00:48:24Good job.
00:48:25Good job, sir.
00:48:26You gotta listen.
00:48:27Come on, Ben.
00:48:28I'm Mr.
00:48:33zweit.
00:48:35Marley's in over his head.
00:48:36$40,000 shares short.
00:48:37But tomorrow night, I'll make a pauper of him.
00:48:43A beggar in a street corner.
00:48:46That's early in the beginning.
00:48:49I have several accounts to settle.
00:48:52This is but one of them.
00:48:53Thank you, finito.
00:48:54Never都有 alike.
00:48:55He hasn't any legs.
00:49:02Oh, did you see the hate in his face?
00:49:05It frightens me.
00:49:06I'm not going to do any more of this eavesdropping.
00:49:08I'm going in there right now.
00:49:09No, you're not.
00:49:10I want to hear what they're saying.
00:49:14What I'm doing is in no way connected with this organization.
00:49:17I waited all these years to be able to handle it personally.
00:49:21Tonight, I'm resigning as head of this union.
00:49:23There's one thing to consider, Mr. Dawson.
00:49:25Not only are you going to crush James Marley.
00:49:27But others who are connected.
00:49:28Oh, they're all over the same stripe.
00:49:31I didn't mind Marley's nephew.
00:49:33Lee Marley.
00:49:34Your daughter Joyce is in love with you.
00:49:37What?
00:49:42Lee!
00:49:43That man's my father.
00:49:46You can promise me something.
00:49:48Anything, dear.
00:49:49Promise you won't say anything to your uncle to laugh
00:49:50after I've had a chance to talk to Scott.
00:49:53I've seen him the first thing in the morning.
00:49:54I've had a chance to think things out.
00:50:04You'll see how to pass him in now, Liz.
00:50:06I'll see you.
00:50:07Who are these men?
00:50:24Well, some have retired, but all either are or have been beggars.
00:50:33Marshal?
00:50:34This is Scott Taggart.
00:50:43I met Mr. Taggart when he came last night.
00:50:58Sir, we welcome you.
00:50:59The first outsider to enter this room.
00:51:03I have an announcement to make.
00:51:05I want you and Taggart by my side on the platform.
00:51:07As you may.
00:51:08Who else?
00:51:11I had to not기로 do.
00:51:15How are you?
00:51:15How are you?
00:51:16How are you?
00:51:16I have to go.
00:51:17I had to go.
00:51:17There he is.
00:51:18There he is.
00:51:18There he is.
00:51:19There he is.
00:51:19Here he is.
00:51:20Let's see.
00:51:20You want to go, that's it.
00:51:21Thank, thank you.
00:51:22Oh, thank you.
00:51:22my friends 15 years ago I spoke to some of you on street corners and in the
00:51:41rooming houses of different cities all that we planned at that time has come to
00:51:47pass three years ago against some opposition your Finance Committee wisely
00:51:56invested all funds in government and state on which you can draw to the full
00:52:02amount of your savings and profits my own fortune has come through you and what is
00:52:10left at my death will be returned as an endowment to this institution I have
00:52:17fulfilled my part of the bargain but now it has come necessary for me to devote my
00:52:22time to personal matters tonight I am resigning as head of this organization
00:52:33we won't let you resign I wouldn't leave you if there was not a man to take my
00:52:43place he has been with me from the beginning and I know no man of greater
00:52:50foresight I suggest as my successor not the blind Martian but Martian the man of
00:52:57superhuman vision but we need both you and Martian so we need you very much
00:53:02say a word to the car
00:53:17I can't I can't make a speech but I can play something lively
00:53:21I believe that's right anything
00:53:51Come on, more!
00:54:21Come on, more!
00:54:51Come on, more!
00:55:21Come on, more!
00:55:23Come on!
00:55:25Come on, more!
00:55:27Come on, more!
00:55:29Come on, more!
00:55:31Come on, more!
00:55:33Come on, more!
00:55:35Come on, more!
00:55:37Come on, more!
00:55:39Come on, more!
00:55:41Come on, more!
00:55:43Come on, more!
00:55:45Come on, more!
00:55:47Come on, more!
00:55:49Come on, more!
00:55:51Come on, more!
00:55:53Come on, more!
00:55:55Come on, more!
00:55:57Come on, more!
00:55:59Come on, more!
00:56:03Come on, more!
00:56:05Come on, more!
00:56:07Good morning, gentlemen!
00:56:08Good morning!
00:56:09Good morning!
00:56:10I'm by and open four points up from yesterday's closing!
00:56:12Well, that about wipes me out!
00:56:14I can't hold out much longer!
00:56:16We're all in the same boat!
00:56:17We're licked!
00:56:18Curry and his crowd have outsmarted you!
00:56:20Don't you!
00:56:21Well, what are we going to do?
00:56:22What do you suggest?
00:56:23Cover as quickly as we can!
00:56:24You turn tail, I see you take plenty of medicine!
00:56:26But, Jim, we can't hold out much longer!
00:56:28You can hold out for a couple of hours, can't you?
00:56:29Then what?
00:56:30Combined, we'll then break five, ten, possibly fifteen points!
00:56:32Curry and his crowd will run to cover!
00:56:33How are you going to break the market?
00:56:36There's a quarter of director's presence!
00:56:38Several have failed to show up!
00:56:40We can proceed without them!
00:56:42Everything will be regular on the minutes!
00:56:45And after that?
00:56:46For the first time since Combined Steel was organized sixteen years ago,
00:56:51it has become necessary to pass the quarterly dividend!
00:56:54Oh!
00:56:57Fine!
00:56:58I have to hand it to you, Jim!
00:57:00You certainly have outsmarted Curry!
00:57:03You certainly have!
00:57:04Gentlemen, let's get busy!
00:57:16All right, good bye!
00:57:27Combined has dropped two more points!
00:57:29Can you get fifty-seemaker an eighth!
00:57:36all right, good bye!
00:57:38Combined has dropped two more points!
00:57:41but at fifty-Sieben and an 8th!
00:57:43Well, John, as I pointed out some 15 years ago, soliciting arms is both an ancient and honorable profession.
00:58:00Well, I'm let alone in this.
00:58:04But you're not.
00:58:05Huh?
00:58:07We are together, as we've been in everything else.
00:58:10What do you mean, Marshal?
00:58:11For the first time in my life, I bought stock, combined steel, on margin.
00:58:18Marshal and I are in the same position.
00:58:20Everything we have, Mr. Dawson, came through you.
00:58:23You two-tank it.
00:58:24I bought combined yesterday at 63.
00:58:27Well, you'd better both sell out quickly.
00:58:28Put in your orders.
00:58:29We'll put in our orders to sell when you put in yours.
00:58:31Well, they'll wipe you out.
00:58:33Marley and this crowd are selling short the stock of a corporation they themselves control.
00:58:36Now they've passed a quarterly dividend for no other reason but to still further depress that stock.
00:58:42Marley personally has gone further.
00:58:44Last night, he stole a lot of other stocks from the company's vaults.
00:58:48This morning before the market opened, he put it up as security.
00:58:51That stock didn't belong to him.
00:58:53It's being purchased by the employees of the corporation.
00:58:55Marley can be sent to the penitentiary for that.
00:58:57I have another thought in mind.
00:59:00I'm going out to Marley's office.
00:59:04What is it, Mike?
00:59:11Joyce!
00:59:12Joyce!
00:59:13I just heard what happened.
00:59:15Me, Marley, telephoned me that his uncle's gotten the best of you.
00:59:18I came to tell you that I helped him.
00:59:20I didn't tell Scarley, but I sent the stock that you gave me to Mr. Marley this morning before I understood it all.
00:59:26You mustn't worry.
00:59:27I'll see that you never want for anything.
00:59:30But that isn't what I came here for.
00:59:33I'm sorry.
00:59:34I've been so ungrateful after all you've done for me.
00:59:37I'm so sorry.
00:59:38Now, now, now.
00:59:39Come, come, now.
00:59:40I don't mind being poor.
00:59:41I don't mind anything now.
00:59:43I don't mind anything now.
01:00:02Hello?
01:00:05What?
01:00:08Are you sure?
01:00:10Are you sure?
01:00:10a miracle is happening the mind is going up orders are coming in from all parts of the
01:00:18United States what does this mean Marsha haven't any idea have you been using the funds of the
01:00:24organization to help me in a personal fight why no John certainly not what did you do after I left
01:00:30the club room last night I telegraphed the local headquarters in every city that you had resigned
01:00:36yes and what else did you say if you were going to be the head of combined steel corporation what you
01:00:46old box you old we've got to get down to headquarters what doing that John Daniels
01:00:53has been made ahead of combined steel everybody's buying it come on here kid let me see that paper
01:01:02keep the change I'll be rich before the day is over thanks hey Joe come here
01:01:12what's the trouble come on down to headquarters John Daniels been made head of combined steel chance to
01:01:19clean up if we buy the stock quick George sad Sam yeah yeah I just heard buy me a thousand shares at the
01:01:29market it's incredible we cut all quarterly dividends and people all over the country
01:01:47flood the brokerage houses with buying orders
01:01:50what do you want as a committee of workmen waiting downstairs I haven't time for any workmen but it's
01:02:16about some stock being held for them by the corporation huh oh yes I'll have to see about that
01:02:27you may tell the committee of workmen your uncle has stolen the stock they were buying
01:02:57oh that's a lie you can tell the committee that the stock will be issued when the the workmen
01:03:03finished paying for it mr. Wilson offered to pay the amount owing on his stock but the head bookkeeper
01:03:09couldn't find the certificates in the safe gentlemen that's all you need to know except before the
01:03:16market closes today the control of combined steel will have changed hands the dividends will be paid as
01:03:21as usual now you may go but
01:03:24there
01:03:27oh
01:03:28oh
01:03:30oh
01:03:32oh
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01:04:12did you ever see that revolver before
01:04:21i know
01:04:23you bought it in liverpool three days before vivian was killed
01:04:28was found on the floor beside her
01:04:30i sailed two days before she killed herself
01:04:33you sailed several days after her death
01:04:37but the records of the steamship company the records of the company show that you built passage
01:04:41but the persis report showed you did not sail on that boat you killed her
01:04:45i didn't i didn't kill her she took her own life
01:04:50i had no idea
01:04:52i had no idea john i swear that's what we're going to find out
01:04:59come on
01:05:01come on
01:05:02come on
01:05:04if i turned you over to them
01:05:07you'd be buried with a lot of metal into which they could throw you
01:05:10perhaps you'd rather die that way
01:05:15the way you tried to kill me
01:05:19i'll see if you leave here safely and go to england to be tried for murder
01:05:23i'll give you five minutes to think things over
01:05:29the point is that you have nothing to fear from a trial if you didn't kill vivian
01:05:51uh
01:06:01uh
01:06:09uh
01:06:13You can't go in there, buddy.
01:06:29Is my uncle still in there?
01:06:34If the stock we issued to the workman was stolen,
01:06:36I'm as guilty as he.
01:06:38I signed the certificates.
01:06:40Your crime is one of ignorance.
01:06:43To have learned the steel business, young man,
01:06:46you should have started at the bottom,
01:06:47not at the top.
01:07:06Hey, man, man, listen.
01:07:08What's ever happened to your stock?
01:07:09It's my fault.
01:07:10And I'm going to see that you don't lose a dime of your money.
01:07:12We don't care what you've got to say.
01:07:14We want Jim Molly.
01:07:15Yeah, we want to see Molly.
01:07:16Go away.
01:07:31What are you doing here?
01:07:32What's happening?
01:07:33It's all right here.
01:07:34Don't worry.
01:07:34What are you doing here?
01:08:03Let's go.
01:08:33It's Flint!
01:08:41Flint Dawson has come back.
01:08:43It's him, all right.
01:08:45Old Flint Dawson himself.
01:08:51The mill will be closed until next Monday.
01:08:54All former employees will then return to work.
01:08:57Your stock will be issued to you, paid for in full.
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01:09:33Don't shortages.
01:09:34bottom that's the way to learn the steel business young man here comes the chief
01:09:46my first day and no dinner fail i have lunch all ready for you at our cottage cottage cheese and
01:09:52cottage pudding come on great
01:09:54well steve that's a nice piece of pie
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