- 17 hours ago
Torchy Blane tries to solve a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Glenda Farrell - Torchy Blane
Barton MacLane - Steve McBride
Gordon Oliver - Lucien 'Sonny' Croy
Hugh O'Connell - Hughie Sprague
Marcia Ralston - Ila Sayre
Tom Kennedy - Gahagan
Joe King - Mr. Guy Allister (as Joseph King)
Raymond Hatton - Maxie Monkhouse
Gordon Hart - Mr. Sills
Anderson Lawler - Alexander L. Torey
Harry Davenport - Colonel Higgam
Emmett Vogan - Clifford Vance
George Guhl - Desk Sergeant
Glen Cavender - George - Globe Chop House Manager
Lane Chandler - Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre
Don Downen - Herald Copy Boy
Earl Dwire - Globe Chop House Waite
Eddie Graham - Man at Bar with Sprague
John Harron - Reporter
Al Herman - Herman - the Bartender
Stuart Holmes - Zeppelin Captain
Lee Kohlmar - Papa - Zeppelin Passenger
Carole Landis - Blonde at Airport
Al Lloyd - Coroner
Greta Meyer - Mama - Zeppelin Passenger
Carlyle Moore Jr. - Airline Check-In Official
Jack Mower - Detective Cohan
Frank Orth - Newsreel Reporter at Airport
Paul Panzer - Steward - Zeppelin Officer
Bob Reeves - Police Officer
Sam Rice - German Waiter
John J. Richardson - Reporter With Sprague
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink - Frankfurt Hotel Clerk
Leo White - Shoeshine Man
Jack Wise - Reporter With Gahagan
Director - Frank McDonald
Glenda Farrell - Torchy Blane
Barton MacLane - Steve McBride
Gordon Oliver - Lucien 'Sonny' Croy
Hugh O'Connell - Hughie Sprague
Marcia Ralston - Ila Sayre
Tom Kennedy - Gahagan
Joe King - Mr. Guy Allister (as Joseph King)
Raymond Hatton - Maxie Monkhouse
Gordon Hart - Mr. Sills
Anderson Lawler - Alexander L. Torey
Harry Davenport - Colonel Higgam
Emmett Vogan - Clifford Vance
George Guhl - Desk Sergeant
Glen Cavender - George - Globe Chop House Manager
Lane Chandler - Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre
Don Downen - Herald Copy Boy
Earl Dwire - Globe Chop House Waite
Eddie Graham - Man at Bar with Sprague
John Harron - Reporter
Al Herman - Herman - the Bartender
Stuart Holmes - Zeppelin Captain
Lee Kohlmar - Papa - Zeppelin Passenger
Carole Landis - Blonde at Airport
Al Lloyd - Coroner
Greta Meyer - Mama - Zeppelin Passenger
Carlyle Moore Jr. - Airline Check-In Official
Jack Mower - Detective Cohan
Frank Orth - Newsreel Reporter at Airport
Paul Panzer - Steward - Zeppelin Officer
Bob Reeves - Police Officer
Sam Rice - German Waiter
John J. Richardson - Reporter With Sprague
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink - Frankfurt Hotel Clerk
Leo White - Shoeshine Man
Jack Wise - Reporter With Gahagan
Director - Frank McDonald
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00:01:10Lieutenant says nobody, that means newspaper guys.
00:01:13Especially newspaper guys.
00:01:16City desk.
00:01:17Yeah, just got a flash from the city news.
00:01:19Who got killed?
00:01:20Who?
00:01:21Milton T. Devereaux?
00:01:23Oh, they won't, huh?
00:01:25Well, I got one reporter they can't keep out.
00:01:27Torchy!
00:01:28Torchy Blaine!
00:01:30Torchy!
00:01:31Torchy!
00:01:32Get busy and locate Torchy Blaine.
00:01:33But she ain't here.
00:01:34She went out to buy a marriage license.
00:01:36A what?
00:01:36A marriage license.
00:01:37A marriage!
00:01:39Treachery.
00:01:40That's what it is.
00:01:42Treachery.
00:01:43I took her on when she didn't know the difference between a murder and a blessed event.
00:01:47I made her the smartest reporter in this cockeyed town.
00:01:50And how did she repay me?
00:01:52By running out to marry some bourgeois boob and spawn a kennel of brass.
00:01:56She's insane.
00:01:57She's cuckoo.
00:02:02My friend, I have to make the bulldog.
00:02:04I don't care what you got to make, you can't get in.
00:02:08Since when does a strange deal like you have to make an addition?
00:02:10Hi, Torchy.
00:02:11Hi, Torchy.
00:02:12Now, Mr. Seals, try to remember.
00:02:14How long had Devereaux been back from lunch when you found him?
00:02:17Uh, perhaps an hour.
00:02:19I went back to inquire about extending credit to a customer.
00:02:22I knocked on his office door and receiving no answer went in.
00:02:25Mr. Devereaux was sitting at his desk.
00:02:27I spoke to him, but he didn't answer me.
00:02:30Then I saw that he'd been shot through the head.
00:02:32My dear Miss Blaine, feature writer I may be.
00:02:35Trained seal never.
00:02:36Why, even now, my public is panting for the lowdown.
00:02:38And Mr. Gahagan here says no.
00:02:40He don't understand, Torchy.
00:02:41Nobody understands.
00:02:43Orders is no reporters, male or female.
00:02:45Especially female.
00:02:47So that's where that wandering Romeo's been, huh?
00:02:49Well, you can tell him for me...
00:02:50One minute, please.
00:02:51Greetings, honey.
00:02:52Oh, hello, Sprague.
00:02:54Oh, Mr. Lucian Croy, Star Telegram.
00:02:56Mr. Alice is expecting you, Mr. Croy.
00:02:58Go right in.
00:02:59Oh, here we go, kids.
00:03:00Uh-oh.
00:03:01What kind of a drag has he got?
00:03:02No drag.
00:03:03His old man happens to own the Star Telegram.
00:03:05That's Sonny Croy.
00:03:06But Pa finally put him to work.
00:03:08Well, I'm not going to let any son of a publisher get a beat on the Herald.
00:03:11See here, Gahagan, this is discrimination.
00:03:14That ain't dissemination.
00:03:15Gee, Torchy, I thought you'd understand.
00:03:17That's the tough part of being a copper.
00:03:19Nobody understands that I got a heart underneath this badge.
00:03:22I'm glad I'm quitting this job.
00:03:24You don't mean to tell me you're leaving the force.
00:03:26Yep.
00:03:2730 minutes more and I'm starting on a new career.
00:03:30Some creative work, perhaps?
00:03:32I ain't saying.
00:03:34It's a secret.
00:03:35It's a what?
00:03:36It's a secret.
00:03:37Go away.
00:03:38Gahagan, that calls for a picture.
00:03:39On the front page?
00:03:40On the front page.
00:03:41Get that down.
00:03:41Why, why, why, why.
00:03:42Hey, that's my cat.
00:03:43Let's go, hold it, Gahagan.
00:03:44Veteran officer on last big case.
00:03:47Guard's portals at scene of crime.
00:03:48Specifically, what's the idea?
00:03:50Ah, now, Gahagan, an action picture.
00:03:51The mob's pushing in on you.
00:03:53You race against the door, holding it back.
00:03:54That's it.
00:03:55Your hand, oh, get your arms higher.
00:03:56That's it.
00:03:57Ah, now we'll get an autistic angle on this from the rear.
00:04:01Hold that line, Gahagan.
00:04:03It's too bad about Mr. Devereaux.
00:04:04Sure is.
00:04:06Pardon me.
00:04:07Would you give this to the gentleman there in the hard hat?
00:04:09Yes, sir.
00:04:14Approximately a quarter to three.
00:04:16And no one in the store heard a shot fired?
00:04:18No, sir.
00:04:19They could have used the silencer.
00:04:20Yeah.
00:04:22Is there any other way into Devereaux's office except through the store?
00:04:25There's an outside door at the end of that passageway, but it's always kept locked.
00:04:29Well, we'll have a look at it anyway.
00:04:30Lieutenant, what are you going to tell that mob of newshounds out front?
00:04:33Don't tell them anything.
00:04:34This is one case I'm going to handle without being up to my neck and a bunch of crazy reporters every time I turn around.
00:04:39Good afternoon, Lieutenant McBride.
00:04:40Excuse me.
00:04:46I might have known you'd get past that half-witted, Gahagan.
00:04:48What are you doing here?
00:04:49I mistook this place for the marriage license bureau.
00:04:52I waited two hours for you.
00:04:54Well, this case broke.
00:04:55I couldn't get away.
00:04:56Besides, murder and marriage don't mix.
00:04:59So, you put murder before matrimony, huh?
00:05:02Well, listen to me, Steve McBride.
00:05:03I'm through hanging around license bureaus while you're galloping around me with your nose to the ground chasing crime waves.
00:05:07You're not a theian.
00:05:08Say you're a bloodhound.
00:05:09You're wasting my time.
00:05:10Why don't you ask him who carries the key to that back door?
00:05:14Yeah.
00:05:15Torchy Blaine, if you start telling me how to run my business, I'll...
00:05:18I'll settle with you later.
00:05:22Well, gentlemen.
00:05:23Oh, Lieutenant.
00:05:24I told Sills he could go home now if it's agreeable to you.
00:05:27Well, it isn't agreeable to me just yet, Mr. Alistair.
00:05:29So, this is Torchy Blaine from the Herald.
00:05:31I thought you said no reporters.
00:05:32Well, let me worry about that, will you, Cohan?
00:05:35Yes, sir.
00:05:36Who carries the keys to that passageway door?
00:05:38Only Mr. Devereaux.
00:05:39And, uh, Mr. Alistair.
00:05:43Is that right?
00:05:44Yes.
00:05:44I have my key here, and I suppose Milton's is still in his pocket.
00:05:49Do you mind?
00:05:51Will you come with me, Mr. Alistair?
00:05:53Now, where do you think you're going?
00:05:54I want to talk to Mr. Alistair.
00:05:56No, you stay here and talk to Mr. Croy.
00:05:58Good.
00:06:02One newspaper man to another, Mr. Croy.
00:06:05Where do you fit in?
00:06:06I don't.
00:06:08Now, whoever did it had to come through this way.
00:06:10Maybe.
00:06:11There's a fair chance of finding any fingerprints on this.
00:06:15Why, it's unlocked.
00:06:16Uh-oh, this door's been jimmied.
00:06:19From the inside or out?
00:06:20From the outside.
00:06:22I thought I told you to stay and talk to Mr. Croy.
00:06:24He won't talk.
00:06:26I'll see you again in a few minutes, Mr. Alistair.
00:06:28Very well.
00:06:31I smell steak.
00:06:32There must be a restaurant around here.
00:06:33You can smell a porterhouse further than any woman I know.
00:06:39Well, Hawkeye, did the Redskins leave any trail?
00:06:42Well, it was an outside job anyway.
00:06:44Are you sure of that, Skipper?
00:06:45Sure, I'm sure.
00:06:47Somebody cased a place to see when Devereaux would be alone in his office.
00:06:49Then it'd be a simple thing to jimmied that door,
00:06:51go in the back way, shoot him from behind,
00:06:52and come out the same way.
00:06:53Does anybody know what the motive for the murder was?
00:06:56Sure, $250,000 worth of gems stolen from Devereaux's safe.
00:06:59And no clothes?
00:07:00Not a handle we can take hold of.
00:07:02You only had a line on that gun.
00:07:04Yeah, and if we only had the killer's address and telephone number.
00:07:06Well, if I just killed a man who was coming out of there
00:07:08with a gun in my hand,
00:07:10I might have duched it in here.
00:07:12Yeah, you might have.
00:07:20Look.
00:07:22Look!
00:07:24Say, you didn't do it, did you?
00:07:25No, no, honest.
00:07:27I must be psychic.
00:07:28Got a silencer on it, too.
00:07:29Looks kind of foreign.
00:07:31Yeah, it's a German Luger.
00:07:33Just been fired recently, too.
00:07:35Now, come on, and don't say anything about this.
00:07:36Do you still think of us an outside job?
00:07:38I'm not so sure about that, now.
00:07:43I'm sorry, Mr. Alistair,
00:07:44but so far, there doesn't seem to be a great deal to go on.
00:07:47Oh, Doc.
00:07:48What did you find out?
00:07:49Well, as near as I can tell,
00:07:51he died about 2.30.
00:07:53Have you a telephone here I could use?
00:07:54Why, yes.
00:07:55Will you show me where it is, please?
00:07:57Any prints, Cohen?
00:07:58No, nothing.
00:07:59Looks like a professionalized man did this job.
00:08:04Oh, Doc.
00:08:05The car is out back.
00:08:06Oh, thank you.
00:08:09Just a couple more questions, Mr. Alistair,
00:08:10and I won't bother you anymore.
00:08:12It's no bother, Lieutenant.
00:08:13I'd give anything I have
00:08:15to see the man who killed Milton brought to justice.
00:08:17You don't know of any enemies
00:08:18that your partner might have had.
00:08:20No, in the 20 years I've been in business with Milton,
00:08:22I've never heard anyone say a word against him.
00:08:24I suppose you were insured against his loss.
00:08:26Oh, yes, but the loss of the gems is nothing compared to...
00:08:28Just as a matter of routine, Mr. Alistair,
00:08:30I believe you said you were out to lunch when this happened.
00:08:33Yes, I got away rather late today.
00:08:35Where did you eat?
00:08:35Mr. Alistair had lunch with me at the Globe Chop House.
00:08:38Now, Mr. Crow, I understand that you've known
00:08:39both Mr. Alistair and Mr. Devereaux
00:08:41for quite a long time.
00:08:42Our families have been associated for years.
00:08:44My father was a college mate of Mr. Devereaux.
00:08:46Guy and I have always been close friends.
00:08:49Thank you, gentlemen.
00:08:49I guess that's all.
00:08:50Don't hesitate to call on me, Lieutenant,
00:08:51if I can help with the investigation.
00:08:53I won't.
00:08:53Come on, Perhant.
00:08:54Good day.
00:08:55Good day.
00:08:57Where's Torchy?
00:08:58I don't know.
00:08:59She must have beat it.
00:09:00Well, she might have let us know.
00:09:02I hope I haven't said anything I shouldn't, Miss Blaine.
00:09:04It's perfectly safe with me.
00:09:06But don't say anything to anyone else, huh?
00:09:08I thought she'd gone.
00:09:09I wouldn't want out on you, Skipper.
00:09:14All right, boys, all right.
00:09:17You can go in now.
00:09:18Hane will tell you all he knows.
00:09:19Yeah, that won't take long.
00:09:21Listen, Farrell.
00:09:22Give me the lowdown.
00:09:23Lieutenant McBlyne pushes to stay.
00:09:25He expects to have the suspect.
00:09:26In custody, within the next 24 hours.
00:09:30Come on, come on.
00:09:31When do you work for the Herald?
00:09:32You'll know those mugs you get ahead of you.
00:09:34I've already phoned in my story.
00:09:35Fast worker.
00:09:36Get him.
00:09:37Gahaggan.
00:09:39Gahaggan.
00:09:40Where is that monkey?
00:09:42I'll bust every bone in his head.
00:09:43Well, Skipper, I just remember Gahaggan resigned.
00:09:45What?
00:09:46Yes, he said he was putting on the stroke of eyes.
00:09:48Didn't he tell you anything about it?
00:09:49Yeah, but he's always talking like that.
00:09:51I didn't think he had brains enough to do it.
00:09:52That thick skull baboon, he was the best driver in the police department.
00:09:55Well, now I've got to drive this thing.
00:10:04That's the siren.
00:10:07No.
00:10:07It's all right.
00:10:08What's the matter?
00:10:09It's all right.
00:10:10It's all right.
00:10:11Come on, come on.
00:10:12Clear out.
00:10:12Come on.
00:10:12Well, I spent 55 cents on a taxi, 35 cents on a fresh gardenia,
00:10:18and I borrowed two bucks from Johnny to pay for the marriage license,
00:10:20in case you forgot.
00:10:22It's $2.90.
00:10:24Put my money on a horse, he might have showed.
00:10:26If I get a hunch that Luger's a cold potato,
00:10:28a check-up's libel to show it wasn't even bought in this country.
00:10:30Only six months for talking to myself?
00:10:32Oh, thank you, Judge.
00:10:34So far, this case is just a headache.
00:10:36Well, would it help you any to know
00:10:38that Lucian Croy had a quarrel with Devereaux yesterday?
00:10:41It certainly would.
00:10:42What about it?
00:10:42Well, Sills overheard the whole thing.
00:10:44It seems that only recently,
00:10:45old man Croy put Sonny to work on the Star-Telegram
00:10:47in hopes of making a useful member of society out of him.
00:10:51But Sonny got himself involved for the nightclub entertainer
00:10:53and far exceeded the reporter's salary
00:10:55on which the old man was making him live.
00:10:57Well, not wishing father to know, he went to Devereaux,
00:11:00hoping to nick the old family friend for enough dough
00:11:02to pay off his more pressing obligations.
00:11:04And Devereaux wouldn't come across, eh?
00:11:05Oh, not only wouldn't come across,
00:11:07but read Sonny such a lecture
00:11:09and threatened to tell his father.
00:11:10Sills described it as an extremely violent altercation.
00:11:14Well, that's something.
00:11:15We're going to the Globe Chop House
00:11:17and check up on a couple of alibis.
00:11:18Yes.
00:11:24Mmm, steak.
00:11:25Quiet, quiet.
00:11:26But Skipper, I...
00:11:27Oh, George.
00:11:30George.
00:11:31Now, just a minute, just a minute.
00:11:33Hello, Lieutenant.
00:11:34Hiya, George.
00:11:34Do you know Guy Alistair and Lucian Croy by sight?
00:11:36Yes, indeed.
00:11:37Did you see him in here today?
00:11:38Yes, sir.
00:11:39They had luncheon at that table right there.
00:11:40What time?
00:11:41It was exactly two o'clock.
00:11:43I remember.
00:11:44I had just come on duty.
00:11:45How long did they stay?
00:11:47Oh, at least an hour.
00:11:48Maybe longer.
00:11:49Okay, thanks.
00:11:50I guess that's that.
00:11:51Skipper.
00:11:53Come on, Torchy.
00:11:54I see they have Porterhouse.
00:11:56Don't you ever think about anything else?
00:11:58Sometimes I think about a New York cut.
00:12:01Well, I might as well get it over with.
00:12:03Send us a waiter, please.
00:12:04Right away, Lieutenant.
00:12:08Hey, Skipper, look.
00:12:10Look at these figures.
00:12:11Yeah, they're kind of high.
00:12:13No, no, no.
00:12:14Look, it's all marked up here.
00:12:17$250,000.
00:12:18That's just the amount of the robbery, isn't it?
00:12:21Yeah, but it can't mean anything.
00:12:22Here in another place, there's $50,000
00:12:24with $38,000 subtracted,
00:12:25leaving $12,000.
00:12:27Probably some sap figuring out
00:12:29his losses on the stock market.
00:12:30Mm-hmm.
00:12:31But you must admit it is a coincidence.
00:12:35Look here.
00:12:36Look, there's a line drawn
00:12:38all the way across this map.
00:12:41Newark, Alameda, Honolulu,
00:12:43Manila, Hong Kong, Calcutta,
00:12:45on to Athens and Rome, Frankfurt.
00:12:47Why, it's a round-the-world trip.
00:12:48It's a round-the-world flight.
00:12:50There's a big airport
00:12:51in every one of those cities.
00:12:53Ah, looks like Croix and Alistair
00:12:55were going bye-bye.
00:12:56Do you suppose those two guys did?
00:12:58No, it don't make sense.
00:12:59The head waiter gave him
00:13:00a perfect alibi.
00:13:01Well, we can soon find out.
00:13:02Hey, waiter!
00:13:04Did you take care of Mr. Alistair
00:13:06and Mr. Croix at lunch?
00:13:07That I did, miss.
00:13:08Mr. Alistair had the lamb chops
00:13:09on the luncheon.
00:13:10They're very good, miss.
00:13:11Did you see either one of them
00:13:12marking up this menu?
00:13:13Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
00:13:14I'll get you...
00:13:15Oh, no, no, no.
00:13:15We just want to know
00:13:16who did the artwork.
00:13:17Oh, Mr. Croix did that.
00:13:19He was talking and explaining
00:13:21something to Mr. Alistair
00:13:22all through the meal.
00:13:23I saw him marking the menu
00:13:24with his pencil.
00:13:25Mr. Croix, eh?
00:13:26Yes, sir.
00:13:27Listen, did you see him
00:13:29leave the place at any time?
00:13:30That I did, sir.
00:13:31Right in the middle of the meal.
00:13:32How long was he gone?
00:13:34Well, I remember
00:13:35his liver was getting cold.
00:13:36So that's what's the matter
00:13:37with him, huh?
00:13:38But I brought him
00:13:39another portion, miss.
00:13:40Never mind that.
00:13:41Just how long was he gone?
00:13:42Well, as near as I can recall,
00:13:44it was about ten minutes, sir.
00:13:47Ten minutes?
00:13:48Yes.
00:13:49Come on, Torchy.
00:13:49Is anything wrong?
00:13:51I forgot his upper plate.
00:13:54I thought Croix lived
00:13:56with his old man.
00:13:56Maybe he got the gate.
00:13:58No wonder he can't get by
00:13:58on a reporter salary.
00:14:00Yes?
00:14:01Does Lucent Croix live here?
00:14:02No, he doesn't.
00:14:03Well, who's that?
00:14:05Mr. Croix happens
00:14:06to be visiting me.
00:14:07Who wants to see him?
00:14:08Lieutenant McBride,
00:14:09police headquarters.
00:14:11Oh.
00:14:11Come in.
00:14:14Oh, hello, Mr. Croix.
00:14:16I hope you're not intruding.
00:14:17Well, you're quite a detective,
00:14:18McBride.
00:14:19I don't remember telling you
00:14:20I was coming here.
00:14:21Mr. Croix,
00:14:21I'm going to be rather blunt.
00:14:22I hope you won't take offense.
00:14:24Didn't you have an interview
00:14:25with Milton Devereaux yesterday?
00:14:26I had an argument with him,
00:14:27if that's what you mean.
00:14:28I told him where to head in.
00:14:29I see.
00:14:30Being an old friend
00:14:31of my father's,
00:14:32Mr. Devereaux thought
00:14:33he could take charge
00:14:33of my personal life.
00:14:35I don't take dictation
00:14:36from anybody, McBride.
00:14:37Mr. Devereaux didn't think
00:14:39it quite the proper thing
00:14:40for the son of James Elliot Croy
00:14:42to be seen in public
00:14:43with a nightclub dancer.
00:14:44Oh, now I remember you,
00:14:46Miss Sayre.
00:14:47I saw you dancing
00:14:48at the Million Club.
00:14:49You must have pretty good eyes
00:14:50to pick me out of the chorus.
00:14:51Besides, I don't work
00:14:52at the Million Club.
00:14:53I work at the Golden Slipper.
00:14:56Well, make yourselves at home.
00:14:57Thanks.
00:14:59Isn't there anything else
00:15:00you'd like to know
00:15:01about my personal life?
00:15:02Yes, how did you happen
00:15:03to be away from the Globe
00:15:04Chop House for ten minutes
00:15:05just at the time
00:15:06that Devereaux was killed?
00:15:07Are you accusing me?
00:15:08I'm not accusing you
00:15:09of anything.
00:15:09Answer the question.
00:15:11Well, I wasn't away.
00:15:12I was in the telephone booth
00:15:13in the front of the restaurant.
00:15:14He was talking to me.
00:15:16For ten minutes?
00:15:16For ten minutes.
00:15:18Oh.
00:15:19Do you mind if I use your phone?
00:15:21Go ahead.
00:15:22Thanks.
00:15:26Hello, desk.
00:15:27Have you heard a record
00:15:28of Lucian Croy
00:15:28calling this number at 2.30?
00:15:31Thanks.
00:15:32Oh, he did.
00:15:33How long did he talk?
00:15:36Thanks.
00:15:36Now, what do you say?
00:15:39He's speechless with delight.
00:15:43You're on thin ice, McBride.
00:15:45My father's a pretty influential
00:15:46man in this town.
00:15:48Or had you heard.
00:15:49If your father can get my badge,
00:15:50he's welcome to it.
00:15:51In the meantime,
00:15:52my job is to find out
00:15:52who killed Devereaux.
00:15:53Croy, explain this.
00:15:55You don't miss a trick, do you?
00:15:57Are these your figures?
00:15:58Why?
00:15:58What do they mean?
00:15:59I'm getting fed up
00:16:00with your tactics, McBride.
00:16:01Suppose I won't tell you.
00:16:02What are you going to do about it?
00:16:03Now, don't make it
00:16:03tough of yourself, Croy.
00:16:04You had a row with Devereaux
00:16:05because you wouldn't lend
00:16:06your money,
00:16:06which you neglected to mention.
00:16:07Well, what of it?
00:16:08Plenty.
00:16:08Next day, Devereaux was knocked off
00:16:09and $250,000 in gems
00:16:11was stolen from his safe.
00:16:12Just before the killing,
00:16:13you had written the same figure
00:16:14on this menu card.
00:16:15On top of that,
00:16:16you mapped out
00:16:17a long trip for yourself
00:16:17around the world.
00:16:19Now, you've come through
00:16:19with some pretty smooth
00:16:20alibis for yourself, Croy.
00:16:21If you're smart,
00:16:22you'll clean the slate
00:16:23while you still have the chance.
00:16:30All right, McBride,
00:16:31you asked for it.
00:16:32You're just a dumb flatfoot.
00:16:34You've been making a fool
00:16:34out of yourself
00:16:35ever since you came in here.
00:16:36Now, I'll finish the job.
00:16:38I suppose you can read
00:16:38nice, easy words.
00:16:40Spell that out.
00:16:43You might find out things,
00:16:44McBride,
00:16:44if you'd read the papers.
00:16:45It's been on the streets
00:16:46for over an hour.
00:16:47World flight, eh?
00:16:48A publicity stunt.
00:16:50Well, the star telegram
00:16:51certainly needs the circulation.
00:16:52And in case you have
00:16:53any lingering curiosity
00:16:55about that menu, Lieutenant,
00:16:56I was illustrating
00:16:57my trip to Mr. Allister
00:16:58and those figures
00:17:00you were worrying about.
00:17:01their calculations
00:17:02regarding advertising contracts
00:17:04we're going to grab
00:17:04as a result of my little jaunt.
00:17:07Well, it sounds all right.
00:17:08You must be very proud of him.
00:17:10Oh, yes, I'm proud of him.
00:17:12It's a swell out.
00:17:13It's marvelous.
00:17:14I'm the happiest girl
00:17:15in the world.
00:17:16Well, let's keep quiet.
00:17:20Well, Mr. Croy,
00:17:21I guess you've explained everything.
00:17:22Come on, Torchy.
00:17:24Save your breath, McBride.
00:17:25The commissioner might find out
00:17:27you're on the payroll.
00:17:29You should have let him have it.
00:17:32Croy, you can't sock a guy
00:17:34just because he's a heel.
00:17:35Croy's got a clean ticket.
00:17:36No, I'm not convinced.
00:17:37Look, I let you leave me
00:17:38on a wild goose chase
00:17:39and what happens?
00:17:40I make a monkey
00:17:41out of myself.
00:17:42Well, Skipper, I...
00:17:43And no funny cracks either.
00:17:44You've wasted all of my time
00:17:46at your gonna.
00:17:46So now on,
00:17:47I handle this case alone.
00:17:48Where'd I leave that car?
00:17:51Down there in front
00:17:52of a fire plug.
00:17:53Oh.
00:17:54Well, I don't know.
00:17:55Croy's alibi...
00:17:56Croy's alibis are airtight.
00:17:57I was right in the first place.
00:17:59It's an open and shut proposition.
00:18:00Murder and robbery
00:18:01by a professional jewel thief.
00:18:02Uh-huh.
00:18:03I know a certain nice man
00:18:05this job would fit to a T.
00:18:06A bird by the name of Veroni.
00:18:08Only he happens to be serving
00:18:09a stretch in a penitentiary
00:18:10right now.
00:18:12Well, that lets him out.
00:18:14You may be right, but...
00:18:16But what?
00:18:17Just...
00:18:17Oh, Bill, my compact.
00:18:23Oh, thank you, my man.
00:18:25Gahagin!
00:18:26Hats for the hills,
00:18:27siren and all!
00:18:30Gahagin!
00:18:32Awful Gahagin.
00:18:33He's in disguise.
00:18:37That'll be $1.85, Mr. Craig.
00:18:39The pulchry sum
00:18:40means nothing to me.
00:18:41But Herman,
00:18:42did you ever ruminate
00:18:44on the hardship
00:18:44this archaic rule
00:18:46imposes on my less fortunate
00:18:47and companions
00:18:48who may not be married
00:18:49to a rich woman?
00:18:50I don't ruminate anymore,
00:18:52Mr. Sprague.
00:18:52I got a furnished flat.
00:18:53admirable Herman.
00:18:57admirable, home is where
00:18:58the heart is.
00:18:58Here's to a speedy trip,
00:18:59Huey.
00:19:00Happy landing!
00:19:01I hope you beat Croy.
00:19:02Friends,
00:19:03Romans,
00:19:03and rewrite men,
00:19:05I shall not only beat
00:19:06Croy,
00:19:07I expect to make
00:19:08such speed
00:19:08around the old
00:19:09terrestrial apple
00:19:10that I shall not only
00:19:11pass him once,
00:19:13but twice.
00:19:13Atta boy!
00:19:14Perhaps thrice!
00:19:16Hooray!
00:19:17Hello!
00:19:18Oh, hail, Coyce.
00:19:19How about a small libation?
00:19:21No, thanks.
00:19:21Too early in the morning
00:19:22for me.
00:19:22Early?
00:19:23Why, it's 11 o'clock
00:19:24in the morning.
00:19:24What's the occasion
00:19:25for all the hilarity?
00:19:26You don't know.
00:19:27Tonight,
00:19:28I soar into the darkened
00:19:29skies to bring fame
00:19:31and subscribers
00:19:32to the Daily Journal.
00:19:33In other words,
00:19:34I'm going to lick
00:19:35that termite Croy
00:19:36at his own game.
00:19:37You mean,
00:19:37you're flying around
00:19:38the world, too?
00:19:39After an oration
00:19:40that was truly remarkable,
00:19:41I finally convinced
00:19:42the owners of my paper
00:19:43that the world
00:19:44would rise and thrill
00:19:45to my dash for glory.
00:19:47Well, congratulations,
00:19:49Huey.
00:19:49I hope you win.
00:19:51Win?
00:19:51A Sprague,
00:19:52with the exception
00:19:52of my wife,
00:19:53always wins.
00:19:55Here, come on.
00:19:56I'll talk to you.
00:19:56What do you know
00:19:57about Lucian Croy?
00:19:58I know him
00:19:59to be a worm in a wand,
00:20:00a foolish young man
00:20:01who throws money around
00:20:02like it was confetti.
00:20:03Yeah, well,
00:20:04you do a little
00:20:04throwing around yourself,
00:20:05you know.
00:20:05I may use the unfortunate
00:20:07Mrs. Sprague's gold
00:20:08to bring light
00:20:09and merriment
00:20:09into the world,
00:20:10but there's a difference.
00:20:11I'm a spendthrift.
00:20:12I get value received.
00:20:13Sonny's a waste room.
00:20:15Well, I thought
00:20:16the old man
00:20:16was making him
00:20:17live on a reporter salary.
00:20:18Oh, that'll never
00:20:18stop Sonny Croy
00:20:19as long as his credit's good.
00:20:20I saw him drop
00:20:21ten grand
00:20:22at Markle's
00:20:22the other night.
00:20:23Ten grand.
00:20:24His credit must be good.
00:20:26And that's nothing
00:20:27to what he's
00:20:28in the Flanagan for.
00:20:29Flanagan the bookie?
00:20:30The same.
00:20:30And the overhead
00:20:31on Mademoiselle Sayre.
00:20:33Now, there's an item
00:20:34that must be terrific.
00:20:36Huey,
00:20:36you ought to write
00:20:37a gossip column.
00:20:37If I weren't leaving town,
00:20:39I'd run for mayor.
00:20:40I want a Mrs. Sprague
00:20:41another round.
00:20:41Join us?
00:20:42No, thanks.
00:20:42I've got to go.
00:20:43Why not, boys?
00:20:44It's on Mrs. Sprague.
00:20:45Certainly.
00:20:45The flanagan.
00:20:46Sprague!
00:20:46Sprague!
00:20:47Sprague!
00:21:07poor, poor, poor, poor,Use.
00:21:09Good morning, Orville.
00:21:10Oh, gee, scawrgy.
00:21:13How did you
00:21:14know it was me?
00:21:15How could I help her?
00:21:17Markle beautiful
00:21:17name neither.
00:21:19You've been acting
00:21:19awfully mysterious
00:21:20lately, Gahagin.
00:21:21What are you up to?
00:21:23I'm on a mission.
00:21:24Mah-hum.
00:21:25You'll be on a
00:21:25stretcher
00:21:26if Steve McBride
00:21:26ever catches you.
00:21:27Why, gee,
00:21:28you wouldn't say
00:21:28nothing to him?
00:21:28I won't say a word if you tell me where Marco's gambling place is.
00:21:31Marco's.
00:21:33A minute.
00:21:35A, B, C, A, B, C, A.
00:21:36Marco.
00:21:37Starts with an M.
00:21:38Yeah.
00:21:40Let's see.
00:21:41Marco's.
00:21:42Oh, the last time we raided Marco's was upstairs at 8340 North Main Street.
00:21:468340.
00:21:47Uh-huh.
00:21:48Thanks, Gagan.
00:21:49You've got a memory like an elephant.
00:21:50I never forget.
00:21:52Now.
00:21:54One or two, one or two.
00:21:55Four shines.
00:21:56She costs a forty-six.
00:21:57Yeah, that makes sense.
00:21:58What do you want to do?
00:22:03Gee, I forgot my pocketbook.
00:22:04Put it on the card.
00:22:11Oh, hello, Mr. Alistair.
00:22:12How do you do?
00:22:16Hi, Skipper.
00:22:17What's the matter with you?
00:22:18Guess what I've been doing.
00:22:19Eating, I suppose.
00:22:20No.
00:22:21I've been doing some investigating.
00:22:23I went to all the places where Lucian Croy owes money.
00:22:25They thought I was the old man's confidential secretary.
00:22:28Look, I've got enough dope to tack this murder onto Croy.
00:22:31Oh, you've got enough dope to tack it onto Croy, eh?
00:22:33That's very interesting.
00:22:35You know those figures on the menu?
00:22:36$38,000?
00:22:37Well, Croy's debts just totaled that amount.
00:22:39And guess what else?
00:22:40I give up.
00:22:41You tell me.
00:22:42Well, he promised to pay all his creditors when he gets back from this round-the-world flight.
00:22:45Look, Skipper, you've got to keep him here.
00:22:46Why?
00:22:47Well, don't you see?
00:22:48He's planning on taking the gems he stole to Europe to dispose of him.
00:22:51He wouldn't dare get rid of them in this country.
00:22:53Very good, Torchy.
00:22:55Very logical.
00:22:56And very cockeyed.
00:22:58What do you mean, cockeyed?
00:23:00What are you grinning at?
00:23:02You want to nail the guy that killed Devereaux, don't you?
00:23:04The guy that killed Devereaux is locked up right out there.
00:23:07What?
00:23:08Yeah, just like I told you.
00:23:09Veroni did it.
00:23:10Veroni?
00:23:11I thought you said he was in the penitentiary.
00:23:13Yeah, but he was paroled the day before yesterday.
00:23:14And this morning, the robbery detail picked him up trying to pawn these stones.
00:23:16Alistair's already practically identified him.
00:23:17Oh, gee.
00:23:18I thought I had something.
00:23:19Oh, Torchy.
00:23:20You're a nice kid, and I'm sorry you didn't have a little better luck.
00:23:22But running down criminals is a man's job.
00:23:23It takes a masculine mind and years of experience to crack these cases.
00:23:26So you just go back to your office and write a nice little story about what the women's clubs are doing to promote world peace,
00:23:28and then I'll take you.
00:23:29And I'll take you.
00:23:30I'll take you.
00:23:31I'll take you.
00:23:32I'll take you.
00:23:33Okay, Skipper.
00:23:34I guess you win.
00:23:35Hey, what about the gun?
00:23:36Oh, that's the gun that killed Devereaux, all right.
00:23:37We checked on it.
00:23:38Go ahead and play with it if you want to.
00:23:39And you traced it to Veroni?
00:23:40Not yet, but we will.
00:23:41It's just a matter of routine.
00:23:42Then you haven't really proven Veroni guilty.
00:23:44Why, we've got so much on that jagged that he's bound to break.
00:23:46He'll have to cop a plea to keep from going to the chair.
00:23:47Well, what if he doesn't?
00:23:48Well, I don't know.
00:23:49I don't know.
00:23:50I don't know.
00:23:51I don't know.
00:23:52I don't know.
00:23:53I don't know.
00:23:54I don't know.
00:23:55I don't know.
00:23:56I don't know.
00:23:57I don't know.
00:23:58You've got so much on that jagged that he's bound to break.
00:24:00He'll have to cop a plea to keep from going to the chair.
00:24:02Well, what if he doesn't break?
00:24:04After all, the only thing you have on him is the fact that he has a criminal record.
00:24:07You can't convict him on that.
00:24:09What if your case blows up?
00:24:11Up.
00:24:12Ah, that's just speculation.
00:24:13You just said Alistair hadn't positively identified the diamonds.
00:24:16Not positively.
00:24:18He will.
00:24:19Maybe he can't.
00:24:21Maybe he won't.
00:24:22Maybe Veroni got him someplace else.
00:24:24Maybe he...
00:24:25What's the idea of you coming in here singing maybe?
00:24:27I work like a horse trying to make this case airtight and you come along and start kicking holes in it.
00:24:30I don't think you've even got a case.
00:24:32What do you mean I haven't got a case?
00:24:34Ah.
00:24:35I suppose you think you've got one.
00:24:37You picked the son of the most influential man in town as a suspect without a scrap of evidence.
00:24:41Then when I find the man who really did the job, you won't admit it.
00:24:44Every time you come in here, you try to stop the machinery.
00:24:46And I sit around like a sap and listen to you.
00:24:49Why should I let myself get worked up over every screwy angle that you try to spring on me?
00:24:53I want Veroni.
00:24:55I want him for murder.
00:24:56I got him.
00:24:59Lieutenant, you sprung a leak.
00:25:11Oh, Maxie.
00:25:12Sit down, Tortilla.
00:25:13Give me the jitters.
00:25:14Maxie, do you think they'll let me do it?
00:25:16How do I know?
00:25:17It's in the lap of the guards.
00:25:18They just gotta let me go.
00:25:19No, I think that Vance is so, but I'm not sure about the chief.
00:25:24Tortilla.
00:25:25Come in.
00:25:26Yes, sir.
00:25:28As publisher of the Herald, I've always insisted that people want to read news.
00:25:32At best, this idea of yours is merely a publicity stunt.
00:25:36Oh, Colonel, this is more than a publicity stunt.
00:25:39It's a race against time for the world's record.
00:25:42Mr. Vance, you've always told me to play up the feminine angle in my stories.
00:25:45A woman doing anything is good copy.
00:25:46Here I'd be in a race around the world against two men and I'd beat them, too.
00:25:50Oh, it'll be the greatest demonstration of commercial transportation ever seen.
00:25:55Can't you picture it?
00:25:56Fast passenger planes, the China clip of the...
00:25:58Listen, Colonel, Nellie Bly did it in 72 days with a horse and buggy,
00:26:02or whatever it was she used.
00:26:03Here I'd be doing it in less than 20 and our readers would eat it up.
00:26:07Tortilla, I hate to dampen your enthusiasm,
00:26:10but I still don't think that a lot of reporters chasing each other around the world is news.
00:26:15All right.
00:26:16All right.
00:26:17I guess I'll have to tell you why I really want to make the trip.
00:26:19Gentlemen, I have every reason to believe that Lucian Croy killed Milton Devereaux.
00:26:25And if you let me follow him, I'll bring back the proof.
00:26:27Tortilla, do you realize what you're saying?
00:26:29Yes, sir, I know exactly what it means.
00:26:31That's why I've been keeping it quiet.
00:26:33Boy, what a yarn that would make.
00:26:35Monkhouse, what do you know about this?
00:26:37I only know, Colonel, if Tortilla says she'll do it, she'll do it.
00:26:44All right, Tortilla, you're on. Hop to it.
00:26:47You mean it, Colonel?
00:26:48Sure. All right, Monkhouse.
00:26:49Oh, thanks.
00:26:50Come on, you. We've got to have a story on this.
00:26:52We're only asking me this.
00:26:53Nope. The boys say he won't talk.
00:26:54What'll these women do next?
00:26:55What women?
00:26:56You know who I mean. What's her name?
00:26:57Your girlfriend. Miss who's this here? Torchy Blaine.
00:26:58What do you know?
00:26:59You know who I mean. What's her name? Your girlfriend. Miss who's this here? Torchy Blaine.
00:27:01What about her?
00:27:02She's on her way to China. Say, Lieutenant, Verone's mad at you about them poor boys.
00:27:04You know who I mean. What's her name? Your girlfriend. Miss who's this here? Torchy Blaine.
00:27:06What about her? She's on her way to China. Say, Lieutenant, Verone's mad at you about them pork chops he had last night for supper. They gave him a rash.
00:27:21Well. Best of luck, Lucien. I'll be anxious to know how you come out.
00:27:46I'll come out all right. Don't worry about that.
00:27:48It's not all right. Don't worry about that.
00:27:50There's too much at stake for any slip-up.
00:27:52That's the spirit. I know you'll win.
00:28:06What's your name, please?
00:28:07Huey Sprague, do you?
00:28:08C-14, Mr. Sprague.
00:28:09Ah, thank you.
00:28:10Pardon me, but do you know my wife?
00:28:12No, I don't think I do.
00:28:13Allow me to congratulate you.
00:28:15Looks like you're going to have some competition.
00:28:17You mean that chiseler Sprague?
00:28:19He's just trying to make copy out of my idea.
00:28:21I don't even consider him competition.
00:28:23Friends, behold the sportsman.
00:28:25Wham!
00:28:27I'm flying with James.
00:28:29Lucian Croyd.
00:28:31I went from the crowd,
00:28:33picking love in the crowd.
00:28:35When we're flying high in the air.
00:28:37Come on!
00:28:39Will you shake hands for a picture?
00:28:41Oh, a picture?
00:28:43How about a few words for the newsreel, Mr. Croyd?
00:28:45Although I didn't anticipate anyone else taking up my idea when I originated this flight around the world.
00:28:51All that I can say is that I'm delighted to have Mr. Sprague as my competitor.
00:28:55And whoever wins, well, it'll be a sporting venture in every way.
00:28:59And now, Mr. Sprague, can we have a few words from you?
00:29:01Why, certainly. Why not?
00:29:03Now, friends, all I can say is that my competitor's conception of a sporting venture is to put roller skates on a blind man and push him in front of a streetcar.
00:29:11I shall have the great pleasure of showing Mr. Croyd a clean pair of heels, which, counting him, makes three.
00:29:18Really nothing at all, boys. A simple little trip around the world. I expect to do it in about fifteen, sixteen days.
00:29:24The name, please.
00:29:26Torchie, uh, Theresa Blaine.
00:29:27Uh, seat nineteen, Miss Blaine.
00:29:30Torchie, there's some of your filth, Mr. Here's another one.
00:29:33What is this?
00:29:34Welcome, Torchie. Welcome to our flying circuit.
00:29:37Oh, thank you, Huey. Thank you.
00:29:39A picture, please, Miss Blaine. And a few words for the newsreel.
00:29:41This is about the greatest adventure a girl could have, and I know that every woman in the world will thrill to...
00:29:47Will thrill to decide you, and I wish you were going along.
00:29:57What's the idea of running out on me?
00:29:58Oh, Skipper, it was sweetie you to see me off.
00:30:00Why do you want to go in for this? It won't get you anything, racing around the world.
00:30:03Oh, that's what you think. You forget there's a certain Sonny Croy in this race.
00:30:06Are you still hanging on to that idea? Why don't you stop trying to be a detective?
00:30:10Why don't you start?
00:30:12Excuse me, Miss Blaine. You'll have to get aboard.
00:30:14Oh, oh, well...
00:30:16Well, good-bye, Skipper.
00:30:19Good-bye. Take care of yourself, you little idiot.
00:30:21You too, you big roughneck.
00:30:27Well, here we are.
00:30:28Good-bye, Uncle.
00:30:30Your eyes open.
00:30:31I will. Good-bye.
00:30:33I need to stop him.
00:30:35Good-bye.
00:30:36Good-bye.
00:30:38Flight number eight to California.
00:30:40All aboard.
00:30:42Hold the plane. Hold the plane. Hold the plane.
00:30:45Hold the plane.
00:30:49Your name, please?
00:30:50Orville Gahagan.
00:30:51C-16, Mr. Gahagan.
00:30:52All right.
00:30:55Gahagan!
00:30:57Gahagan! Come back here!
00:30:59Gahagan!
00:31:05Gahagan!
00:31:18Quite a thrill, isn't it, Lieutenant?
00:31:19Makes you wish you were going along.
00:31:21Yeah.
00:31:22Yeah, it does.
00:31:35Gahagan, you're not going to China to become a missionary.
00:31:38You're up to something.
00:31:39Who, me?
00:31:40Mm-hmm.
00:31:41I suppose you expect to win this race and get quite a story.
00:31:47I don't know whether I'll win the race or not, but I'll get quite a story.
00:31:52Oh, say, Lieutenant.
00:31:53Uh, what's his name?
00:31:54You know, uh, Bonehiser called in from the ninth precinct and said he just remembered something about Veroni.
00:32:11Can you walk one of these?
00:32:15What about Veroni?
00:32:16Yeah, what about Veroni?
00:32:18Uh, now what was that?
00:32:21Oh, yes.
00:32:23Uh, Bonehiser!
00:32:24Yeah, Bonehiser said that at the time, uh, whatchamacallit, the jeweler was killed, he was dusting Veroni off an apartment 15 miles on the other side of town.
00:32:36Is he sure it was Veroni?
00:32:37I guess so.
00:32:38Bonehiser knows him on account of Veroni owes him six bucks that he borrowed when Bonehiser pinched him last summer.
00:32:45Well, that's just dandy.
00:32:48Say, Lieutenant, don't you think maybe we better turn, uh, what's his name?
00:32:51Veroni?
00:32:52Yeah, Veroni loose.
00:32:53Yeah, turn him loose.
00:32:54It looks like we'll never get to the bottom of this murder.
00:33:00Lieutenant, I got it!
00:33:01I got it!
00:33:03What?
00:33:04It's the only way it'll work, do you see?
00:33:06You have to go around the loop twice, and then it slides off just as he...
00:33:15Well, I know that, otherwise we can never go around on the inside.
00:33:18You are so straight on.
00:33:19And, he aspiring to our ne gos.
00:33:20Now what?
00:33:22It would never have to go around the hang of the war.
00:33:24You mean inside be Zusammen clothes care even when it's too late.
00:33:25So while.
00:33:26What?
00:33:27My neck!
00:33:29What?
00:33:30It's a traditional man.
00:33:31It's a unstoppable sweep!
00:33:32To say the gentleman we will only need.
00:33:33The Spartan Tower has never gained so much...
00:33:42Say, how much time have I got?
00:34:05Just an hour.
00:34:06Hello, Hugh.
00:34:07Oh, hello, Al.
00:34:08Say, I got a little number I want to call up.
00:34:10Meet me over in Alameda.
00:34:11I want to talk to you.
00:34:12All right, I'll be over there.
00:34:13Oh, Torchy, how about a picture?
00:34:15All right, boys, take it.
00:34:16Oh, Torchy, how about a story?
00:34:17Oh, let me get my breath.
00:34:18I'll see you over in the waiting room.
00:34:19Hey, Torchy, where did spring go?
00:34:21I don't know.
00:34:22Gahagan, how far are you going on this trip?
00:34:24And who's putting up for you?
00:34:27Yeah, yeah, I know.
00:34:28It's a secret.
00:34:28Miss Blaine, telegram.
00:34:30Oh, thanks.
00:34:31Hey, Torchy, is this California?
00:34:34Yes, this is California.
00:34:36What's the matter with you?
00:34:37I don't know.
00:34:39I guess I ain't climbing it.
00:34:40The aptitude's got me.
00:34:43Yes.
00:34:51From McBride?
00:34:52How'd you guess?
00:34:54Say, how's he coming along with the Devereaux murder?
00:34:55Oh, fine.
00:34:56He expects to have it all cleared up by the time we get back.
00:34:58Does the big simp really think he's got something?
00:35:02Don't miss that china clipper.
00:35:04Oh, hello, Mr. Crowley.
00:35:22Who are you spying on, you big flatfoot?
00:35:24Oh, honest, Mr. Crowley, I'm spying on...
00:35:26Say, listen here.
00:35:28I resent that.
00:35:29Well, I'd still like to know what you're doing on this trip.
00:35:32Well, I'm on...
00:35:33Well, it's none of your business.
00:35:34That's what I'm doing.
00:35:43Thanks, bud.
00:35:43Well, I hate to see you go, but there's your plane.
00:35:45You better hurry.
00:35:46Oh, they'll wait.
00:35:47Well, thanks, Irene, for a silly afternoon.
00:35:53Well, take good care of yourself now.
00:35:54And send a postcard.
00:36:08I will.
00:36:08I'll send one to your mother, too.
00:36:09Oh, Huey!
00:36:10Oh, mother's name is Short Trumple.
00:36:13Huey!
00:36:14Goodbye!
00:36:17Goodbye, Irene.
00:36:18Yes, Mrs. Thumbelwacker.
00:36:20I won't forget.
00:36:24Goodbye!
00:36:28Bye!
00:36:43Bye!
00:36:51Bye!
00:36:51Bye!
00:36:52Bye!
00:36:52Bye!
00:36:53Bye!
00:36:53Bye!
00:36:54Bye!
00:36:54Bye!
00:36:54Bye!
00:36:54Bye!
00:36:54THE END
00:37:24THE END
00:37:54THE END
00:38:01I wonder where Sonny Croy is?
00:38:03He doesn't seem to appreciate what the Chamber of Commerce is doing for us.
00:38:07Oh boy.
00:38:08More a coolie arrow and a wiki wiki.
00:38:11How are you, Henry?
00:38:31Hello, Croy.
00:38:33Excuse me, Huey.
00:38:34Well, hurry back.
00:38:40Oh.
00:38:41Compliments to the Chamber of Commerce.
00:38:42Oh, thank you.
00:38:43Don't mention it.
00:38:44I feel like a horse that's won a derby.
00:38:46Oh, you won his derby.
00:38:47I ask him, huh?
00:38:58Yes.
00:38:59Hang one on him.
00:39:00I mean one of those.
00:39:02Like this?
00:39:03Yes, like this.
00:39:04Oh, thanks.
00:39:10Constance, this is the Chamber of Commerce.
00:39:12Oh, heck.
00:39:13I thought it was for me personally.
00:39:14Mahalo.
00:39:17These native customs are positively humiliating.
00:39:20Gahagan, I know all.
00:39:21Huh?
00:39:22When you resigned from the police force, you did so to become a private detective.
00:39:26Gee, I'm only doing my duty.
00:39:29Don't apologize, Gahagan.
00:39:31I think your attitude is highly commendable.
00:39:33And you ain't so?
00:39:34Not at all.
00:39:35Are you a married man?
00:39:36And how?
00:39:38Is it noticeable?
00:39:39Unmistakably so.
00:39:40Give me that camera.
00:39:43I'm going to take a picture of you.
00:39:44It'll be a nice little souvenir for the wife.
00:39:47I rented this especially on account of you.
00:39:49Of course.
00:39:49Now, just rape your arm right over there.
00:39:53That's it.
00:39:54Now, relax.
00:40:05Oh, I wonder if you could let me in.
00:40:07I forgot my key.
00:40:08Yes, ma'am.
00:40:19Oh, go ahead.
00:40:23Oh, go.
00:40:24Oh, go.
00:40:25Oh, go ahead.
00:40:34Oh.
00:40:35Oh.
00:40:35THE END
00:41:05THE END
00:41:35THE END
00:42:05THE END
00:42:07Will that go right away?
00:42:08Yes, it will.
00:42:11Oh, Miss Blaine.
00:42:13You dropped your lipstick.
00:42:15Oh, thank you.
00:42:17In my room.
00:42:18I...
00:42:19I...
00:42:20I...
00:42:21I...
00:42:23I...
00:42:23THE END
00:42:53THE END
00:43:23THE END
00:43:28Hello?
00:43:30Yeah?
00:43:31Well, what does the city news bureau want?
00:43:34No, I haven't got anything new on the Devereaux case.
00:43:38Well, Lieutenant, there's a good-looking young dame outside waiting to see you.
00:43:41I don't want to see anybody.
00:43:43Oh, hello, mister.
00:43:45What, sit down?
00:43:45What can I do for you?
00:43:49You can jerk Lucy and Croy out of that race around the world and lock him up.
00:43:54What for?
00:43:55Murder.
00:43:56Croy killed Milton Devereaux and took those diamonds.
00:43:58Why did you wait till now to tell me?
00:44:00Because I was engaged to Croy and he ran out on me.
00:44:03I went to his father to try and get a settlement and he gave me a run around too.
00:44:06Oh, so now you want to get even, eh?
00:44:08Yes, I'm talking.
00:44:09You had the right dope.
00:44:10Croy's guilty and I hope he gets the chair.
00:44:13You must be crazy about him.
00:44:14Nobody's going to cross me up and get away with it.
00:44:17Just a moment, Miss Sayre.
00:44:18What about that telephone gag you told me about the other day?
00:44:21You mean to tell me you and Croy cooked that up together?
00:44:23No, it was like this.
00:44:25Lucian called me up that afternoon at 2.30 and told me to keep the wire open.
00:44:29He didn't come back on the line for 10 minutes.
00:44:30Then he said he was too busy to talk.
00:44:33I didn't think anything of it at the time.
00:44:34He's always standing me up.
00:44:35Do you know what Croy did with the stuff he stole?
00:44:37No, I don't.
00:44:39Will you be at the same address for the next few days?
00:44:41Yes.
00:44:42You will have him arrested, won't you?
00:44:44Oh, I can't do that.
00:44:45But he's got it coming to him.
00:44:46Can't you do anything?
00:44:48Well, what you told me helps.
00:44:50Yeah.
00:44:50Well, I'm going to take the next boat for Germany.
00:44:53Maybe I can connect with your boyfriend in Frankfurt.
00:44:56And when I do, I've got an idea.
00:44:57I'll find him unloading those stones.
00:45:00Blyphus, find out when the next boat sails for Germany.
00:45:20And we'll find out when the next boat is theholбо.
00:45:25My house was so popular we're in the mud.
00:45:29I'll find Ace Ave.
00:45:30So far we'll find out at veces Marani.
00:45:31I've got an idea before Germany.
00:45:40I'm also voting.
00:45:41I've got an idea that Lily would run as he's Beiō to fight me at his fotografies.
00:45:44And from there, he would take the next boat of Germany through Germany.
00:45:48Here.
00:45:50Here.
00:45:52Here.
00:45:54Here.
00:45:56Here.
00:45:58Here.
00:46:00Here.
00:46:02Here.
00:46:04Here.
00:46:06This is good.
00:46:08Thank you, my dear.
00:46:10Mr. Croy.
00:46:12Yes.
00:46:14I am E.L. Tori.
00:46:18I will expect you in an hour.
00:46:24This is the address.
00:46:48Here.
00:46:50Here.
00:46:52Here.
00:46:54Here.
00:46:56Here.
00:46:58Here.
00:47:00Here.
00:47:06Yes!
00:47:07Yes!
00:47:08Yes!
00:47:09Oh!
00:47:10Oh!
00:47:11Oh!
00:47:12Oh!
00:47:20Gee, here we are.
00:47:21Gee thought you're looking sweat.
00:47:22Oh!
00:47:23I'm so glad to see anybody in my life, Skipper.
00:47:27I made reservations for you.
00:47:29This is Mr. McBride.
00:47:30What do you do, Mr. McBride?
00:47:31How are you?
00:47:32Did you have a nice trip, sir?
00:47:33Yeah, great.
00:47:35It's a good thing that Zeppelin was delayed.
00:47:36We'd both have missed him.
00:47:38Maybe the breaks are coming our way.
00:47:39Where's Croy now?
00:47:41He's probably in his room.
00:47:42I saw him going up in the elevator just as I was leaving to meet your train.
00:47:45What's Mr. Croy's room number, Mr. Lucian Croy?
00:47:47414, sir.
00:47:49Yours is 302.
00:47:51Come on.
00:47:52Thanks.
00:47:53Take that to my room.
00:47:54I'm stopping off at 414.
00:47:56Let's go, Tozy.
00:48:08McBride.
00:48:08Yeah.
00:48:09Hello.
00:48:11How did you get here?
00:48:12Well, Croy, we finally caught up with you.
00:48:14You're going to answer for the murder of a mutant Devereux.
00:48:16Are you crazy, McBride?
00:48:18We've been over there once.
00:48:18I didn't kill Devereux and you know it.
00:48:20Isla Sayer tells a different story.
00:48:22Isla?
00:48:22Yeah, she talked.
00:48:23Your telephone alibi didn't stand up.
00:48:25You called Isla and told her to keep the wire open while you went out and killed Devereux.
00:48:28Then you had the gun in the drain pipe, came back in and hung up.
00:48:31That wasn't such a clever trick after all.
00:48:33Well, Isla Sayer lied.
00:48:34You can't hold me on her say so.
00:48:36Anyway, I'm in a race around the world.
00:48:37That's enough, Croy.
00:48:38You might as well confess.
00:48:39You know we've got it on you.
00:48:40You can't arrest me, McBride.
00:48:42You haven't any authority here.
00:48:43You'll change your mind after a couple of days in the Frankfurt Hoosgau.
00:48:46I'll go.
00:48:47All right, get your clothes together.
00:48:48Let's get started.
00:48:55What is it?
00:48:55It's a cablegram for you, Skipper.
00:48:59Alistair confesses story false.
00:49:02Return immediately.
00:49:04Ricker, Commissioner.
00:49:06Oh, sorry.
00:49:09All right, Croy, I guess you can forget it.
00:49:10Looks like your girlfriend went back on us.
00:49:12You came a long way to make a fool out of yourself this time, Skipper.
00:49:15Come on, Tortie.
00:49:22Well, what do we do now, Skipper?
00:49:24I'm going to take the Zeppelin for home.
00:49:25The guy may be guilty, but how are you going to prove it?
00:49:27Oh, if we only had one definite piece of evidence.
00:49:29We haven't got it, so we might as well go out and eat.
00:49:31Oh, I'm sorry.
00:49:32I haven't timed.
00:49:33You mean to say you're refusing a chance to eat?
00:49:35Yes, I'll see you on the Zeppelin.
00:49:42Are you sure there can't happen anything?
00:49:46Yes, I'm sure.
00:49:47Mama, for why you don't speak English?
00:49:50Oh, I forgot.
00:49:52I still can't believe that this big balloon goes up in the air.
00:49:55You will soon find out, Mama.
00:49:59Come, we want to look at it.
00:50:01Speak English, Papa.
00:50:02Oh, I forgot.
00:50:04Officer, how soon do we take off?
00:50:05Ten minutes, sir.
00:50:07Off Wieders泉 to you.
00:50:12Off Wieders泉 to you.
00:50:17Well, Gahegel, it's been a very successful excursion.
00:50:43Athens, Baghdad, Alexandria.
00:50:45And I shall never forget you and the Acropolis by Moonlight.
00:50:49It was positively incandescent.
00:50:56Gahegel!
00:50:59Gahegel!
00:51:00Gahegel!
00:51:01Well, hello, Chief.
00:51:02Have you been around the world, too?
00:51:04Listen, I heard about you playing international sleuth.
00:51:06What do you think you are?
00:51:07Well, I was...
00:51:08Shut up!
00:51:09When I get you home, you're going back to driving that police car
00:51:11if I have to wrap the steering wheel around your neck.
00:51:12Oh, I can't do that, Chief.
00:51:14Mrs. Spade's the first, Orville.
00:51:15Orville.
00:51:16That's not my name.
00:51:18Mrs. Spade called me in on kind of a dog she had named Orville.
00:51:21Oh, I can confirm that statement.
00:51:22And I assure you, our friend Gahegel here has a very promising career ahead of him,
00:51:26as a private investigator.
00:51:28Yeah, I got a career ahead of me.
00:51:30Look at these pictures I took from Mrs. Spade's divorce case.
00:51:32You don't mind.
00:51:33Go ahead.
00:51:33Enjoy yourself.
00:51:35Take a look at that.
00:51:36Is that a honey?
00:51:37What is all this?
00:51:38Oh, is that...
00:51:39Well, Huey, it looks like you'll have to go to work for a living.
00:51:46No Spade ever worked for a living.
00:51:48Permit me to show you some pictures that I have of my faithful friend.
00:51:52Gee, have you got them with you?
00:51:53I sure have.
00:51:54Can I see them?
00:51:54With pleasure.
00:51:55Boy, these will knock your eye out.
00:51:56Oh.
00:51:58Oh.
00:51:58Oh.
00:52:03Oh.
00:52:03Yes, I'm presenting them to Mrs. Gahegan.
00:52:12Say, what is this?
00:52:13What is this?
00:52:14This is some kind of a trick.
00:52:15That's trick photography.
00:52:17Yeah, but I ain't never seen them dames.
00:52:19Honest, I ain't.
00:52:19Well, you'll have a hard time convincing Mrs. Gahegan of that.
00:52:22Oh, my.
00:52:23Of course, unless you give your pictures to Mrs. Spade,
00:52:26I have no reason to deliver these to Mrs. Gahegan.
00:52:29I suggest an even trade.
00:52:33What about me career?
00:52:36Oh, you look natural behind that steering wheel again.
00:52:40Yeah, it's nice to have you back again, Gahegan.
00:52:52Notorious jewel thief found murdered.
00:52:57Alexander Couttori was found shot to death today in his apartment Lindenstrasse numero 101.
00:53:10I put that in the English pretty good.
00:53:14Huh, Mama?
00:53:15It's a case for you, Sherlock.
00:53:17Murder?
00:53:18Come on, let's get out of here before I commit another one.
00:53:20Skipper, I've got one of the angles that's been bothering me.
00:53:26Louder, nobody can hear you.
00:53:29Hey, I hope this guy knows where he's going.
00:53:32Listen, Skipper, you remember when we were in that alley back of Devereaux and Alistair's and I smell steak?
00:53:37Don't you ever think about anything but something to eat?
00:53:39That steak was in the kitchen of the Globe Chop House.
00:53:42Say, it must have been at that.
00:53:44Devereaux and Alistair's front's on the alley, the Globe Chop House is the next street over.
00:53:47The backs of those two buildings must be opposite each other, just across the alley.
00:53:51Then Croy didn't need ten minutes to kill Devereaux.
00:53:53Two or three would have been enough.
00:53:54All he had to do was go to the washroom, duck out through the rear, kill Devereaux, and walk calmly back the same way.
00:53:59Torchy, I believe you're beginning to talk sense.
00:54:01I'm going to have another little chat with Mr. Croy.
00:54:03Oh, Skipper, wait.
00:54:05Oh, you wait.
00:54:06Mr. Croy may want to play rough.
00:54:07Oh, Stevie, no.
00:54:08Listen, am I going to have to throw you out of here?
00:54:11No gent would throw a lady out of here.
00:54:17Click.
00:54:37Croy, is he...
00:54:39Yeah, looks like it was done with that bottle.
00:54:42I'll get the captain.
00:54:43No, close the door.
00:54:44We don't want a mob in here yet.
00:54:46Maybe our only chance to find out anything.
00:54:48Who do you suppose had it in for him enough to do this?
00:54:50I don't know, but if somebody on board,
00:54:52he hasn't been dead long.
00:54:56Looks as if the killer left his card.
00:54:58A.L. Torrey.
00:55:00Skipper.
00:55:02That's the name of the man that sent Croyd
00:55:04that cablegram in Honolulu,
00:55:06telling him to deliver the diamonds in Frankfurt.
00:55:08Let me see it.
00:55:10101 Lindenstrasse.
00:55:14Isn't that the same address we heard
00:55:16that German couple reading out of the paper?
00:55:18But that junk thief was murdered.
00:55:20Yeah, his name was Katori, wasn't it?
00:55:22Alexander Katori.
00:55:24A.L. Torrey, that sounds like...
00:55:26I'll bet it's the same man.
00:55:28Well, if it is, this card being here
00:55:30is pretty good evidence that Croyd met Katori last night
00:55:32and sold him to Devereux diamonds.
00:55:34We'll soon find out. Where's his bag?
00:55:36Here it is.
00:55:38He's the one with the false bottom. I told you about it.
00:55:44Look!
00:55:45There's a fortune in that tray.
00:55:47But these are emeralds and rubies.
00:55:49The gems that were stolen from Devereux and Alistair's
00:55:51were diamonds.
00:55:52Oh, that's right.
00:55:54But where did these come from?
00:55:55And what happened to the diamonds?
00:55:56I don't know yet, but there's one thing I do know.
00:55:58Torchy, you had this figure just backwards.
00:56:00Croyd wasn't going to sell any stones to Katori.
00:56:02He was going to buy some.
00:56:04It would have been a sense to smuggle these through the customs.
00:56:06They wouldn't have bothered anyone on the world flight.
00:56:08Croyd didn't have money to buy gems.
00:56:10He must be acting as somebody's agent.
00:56:12That's about it.
00:56:13And when there's murder in a set-up of this kind,
00:56:15it's usually due to one thing, a double cross.
00:56:17Croyd needed money, lots of money.
00:56:19He killed Katori so he could keep these stones for himself
00:56:21and pretend he never got them.
00:56:23But it looks like whoever he was working for
00:56:25finally caught up to him.
00:56:26Skipper, this is beginning to hook up all the way back to that Devereaux killing.
00:56:30Almost, but not quite.
00:56:33Come on, I've got to report this.
00:56:40Skipper, those figures on the menu in the Globe Chop House,
00:56:43they were all about this Katori deal.
00:56:45Croyd was figuring out his cut.
00:56:47Yeah, but what... I beg your pardon.
00:56:48Are you Miss Blaine?
00:56:49Yes.
00:56:50The radiogram for you.
00:56:51Stewart, take me to the captain.
00:56:52Oh, wait a minute.
00:56:53This may be that other angle.
00:56:57It is.
00:56:58I took the number on that Luger in your office.
00:57:00Played a long shot and turned it over to the Frankfurt police for a check-up.
00:57:03There it is.
00:57:04Luger automatic.
00:57:05Your number purchased Berlin three years ago by Guy Allister.
00:57:08Frankfurt Police Department.
00:57:09Then I was wrong about Croyd.
00:57:11It was Allisterd.
00:57:12He slipped across the alley from the restaurant,
00:57:14killed Devereaux while Croyd was phoning Islaser.
00:57:17Torchy, you got it.
00:57:18Allisterd's the one that Croyd's been working for.
00:57:21Well, Allisterd couldn't have killed Croyd because he's back in...
00:57:24Wait a minute.
00:57:25Have you got a passenger list?
00:57:26Yes, sir.
00:57:27Let me see it.
00:57:28Here you are, sir.
00:57:32Get some officers and come to State Room 10 right away.
00:57:34Yes, sir.
00:57:36Get back, McCoyd.
00:57:37You can't get away with this, Allisterd.
00:57:38Can't I?
00:57:39I know you killed Devereaux, then you staged a fake diamond robber
00:57:41to account for what you'd already stolen from your partner.
00:57:42You're pretty smart.
00:57:43Then you had to kill him to cover yourself and you killed Croyd.
00:57:45Get back!
00:57:46You better drop that gun and give up.
00:57:47I've got one chance and I'm taking it.
00:57:51What is the matter?
00:57:54Allisterd, he killed a man.
00:57:55He went through here.
00:57:56Oh, no.
00:57:57Allisterd!
00:57:58Allisterd!
00:57:59Allisterd!
00:58:00Allisterd!
00:58:01Allisterd!
00:58:05Look, he pulled a ripcorr too soon.
00:58:08Allisterd!
00:58:09Allisterd!
00:58:11Look, you pull the ripcord too soon.
00:58:29My dear Torchy, you've made good on everything you promised.
00:58:32And in behalf of the Herald, I'd like to present you with this little token.
00:58:38Oh!
00:58:38Thank you, Colonel Higgum.
00:58:42And a bonus check. Here, you take this.
00:58:44You made a good job of it, Torchy.
00:58:46Whatever happened to Huey Sprague? He didn't even reach town to finish the race.
00:58:49Oh, Mrs. Sprague was so glad to see him that she took him straight to Florida for a second honeymoon.
00:58:53No!
00:58:56And more than winning the race, Torchy, you delivered an amazing story.
00:59:00Ah, but an even more amazing story is about to break.
00:59:03Stevie and Lieutenant McBride and I are on our way to buy a marriage license.
00:59:07Yeah, that's right.
00:59:08Torchy, you can't marry him.
00:59:11Huh?
00:59:12What's the matter with me?
00:59:13Nothing.
00:59:14Excuse me.
00:59:15Well, we've got to be going. Come on, Skipper.
00:59:16Get out.
00:59:17Okay, let's go.
00:59:18Goodbye.
00:59:19Get me down.
00:59:20Goodbye.
00:59:21Oh, Torchy, may I see you in a minute?
00:59:23I'll be right with you, Skipper.
00:59:26What is so rare as a day in June? Nature in tune. Nature in tune, roses in bloom, and overhead, an autumn moon.
00:59:34All right, get going, long fella.
00:59:36Oh, what a day. What a day.
00:59:38Come on, Gahagan.
00:59:49Union Station, Gahagan. Siren and all.
00:59:51Oh, boy.
00:59:52Say, that's not where you buy a marriage license.
00:59:55Oh, sorry, Skipper. I've got to cover a convention in Chicago.
00:59:58Torchy Plane, someday I'm going...
00:59:59Oh, boy. What a day. What a day.
01:00:02What a day.
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