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A man wakes up from a terrifying nightmare of murder, only to find physical evidence that the crime actually happened. Starring a young DeForest Kelley (Star Trek’s "Bones") in his film debut, Fear in the Night is a claustrophobic, psychological noir masterpiece based on Cornell Woolrich’s story "And So to Death."
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00:01:15At first, all I could see was this face coming toward me.
00:01:22Then I saw the room.
00:01:25A queer, mirrored room.
00:01:34And somehow, I was inside it.
00:01:42There was danger there.
00:01:44I knew that.
00:01:46I wanted to turn and run, but I couldn't.
00:01:49It seemed as if my brain was handcuffed.
00:01:52And I had to do what I'd come to do.
00:01:53I had to do what I'd come to do.
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00:05:13I must have scratched myself.
00:05:47There they were, the button and that odd-shaped key.
00:05:51The things out of the drain.
00:05:53I'd never seen them before.
00:05:55I didn't have them when I undressed last night.
00:06:05That button wasn't mine.
00:06:07The key wasn't mine.
00:06:09But if they were there, it must have happened.
00:06:12The dream, the struggle, the murder, everything.
00:06:17But how?
00:06:19Did something like that happen and I not know it?
00:06:22Was I going insane?
00:06:26A jackhammer started pounding inside my head.
00:06:29I had to see if the outside world was still there.
00:06:38The street below looked the same as it did last night.
00:06:41The same greasy spoon where I eat now and then.
00:06:46The same traffic noises.
00:06:48The same characters louncing around.
00:06:53There was nothing the matter out there.
00:06:56It was in here with me.
00:06:58My stomach was riding a roller coaster.
00:07:01I was sick.
00:07:03I couldn't face going to work.
00:07:08The same thing.
00:07:27Hallo.
00:07:31Give me Fitzroy.
00:07:33Five oneを three.
00:07:39Fremont National Bank, Bill, you're speaking.
00:07:42Oh, yes, Grayson.
00:07:45Mm-hmm.
00:07:47What seems to be the trouble?
00:07:51Oh.
00:07:53It could be the flu.
00:07:55Mm-hmm.
00:07:57Yes.
00:07:58All right, all right.
00:08:00Goodbye.
00:08:02Good morning, Joe.
00:08:04Good morning, Mr. Jackson.
00:08:07Oh, isn't that a lovely morning?
00:08:09Lots of things I'd rather do than work today.
00:08:14Good morning, Mr. Vineyard.
00:08:16Morning, Betty.
00:08:16Vince Grayson just called.
00:08:17He's not feeling well.
00:08:19Will you take his window today?
00:08:20Oh, is Vince sick?
00:08:22What did he say it was?
00:08:47The more I tried to figure it out, the thicker I got.
00:08:51Suddenly, the room started spinning.
00:09:0040, 50.
00:09:09Federal 7-6-4-8.
00:09:16Hotel Commodore.
00:09:18Vince Grayson's room, please.
00:09:34He doesn't answer?
00:09:43Funny he shouldn't be there, isn't it?
00:09:45If he was sick, you know what I mean?
00:09:47No, I don't.
00:09:50I'd better check his books just to make safe.
00:09:54Miss, would you like to take this money or should I try another bank?
00:10:00I had to get out of my room.
00:10:02Out into the sunshine.
00:10:04I had to stay out of the shadows.
00:10:06And I knew that tonight, I'd be afraid of the dark.
00:10:10I had to talk to somebody about this crazy thing.
00:10:14Betty?
00:10:15I'd get sympathy from Betty.
00:10:18What I needed was an explanation.
00:10:22Cliff, my brother-in-law, he ought to be able to figure out something.
00:10:26I got to Cliff's place just before dinner.
00:10:29My sister, Lil, told me he was out in the garage.
00:10:35Hello, Cliff.
00:10:37Oh, hiya, Vince.
00:10:38How's the boy?
00:10:40Cliff, I want to talk to you.
00:10:42Be with you as soon as I finish sanding this.
00:10:45Exact reproduction of Martha Washington's bed.
00:10:54What's the matter, kid?
00:10:55Something on your mind?
00:10:57I need your help.
00:10:58You and Betty have a fight or something?
00:11:01Cliff, this is going to sound screwy.
00:11:04Last night, I dreamed I killed a man.
00:11:07I don't know who or where it was supposed to be.
00:11:10I stabbed him with a steel boar.
00:11:13During the fight, a button came off in my hand.
00:11:15When I'd kill him, I locked the body in a closet and took the key.
00:11:21And then when I woke up...
00:11:24Well, look.
00:11:28And this morning, there was blood on my wrist.
00:11:31I figured maybe I'd scratch myself in my sleep.
00:11:33My ear or my nose or someplace.
00:11:36So I just washed it off.
00:11:38That was before I saw these.
00:11:42You're all in pieces, aren't you?
00:11:44Cliff, you've got to help me.
00:11:45You don't know what I've been going through all day.
00:11:52Where'd you get this?
00:11:53I mean, where'd you first get it before you dreamed about it?
00:11:56Don't you understand what I've been telling you?
00:11:58I didn't have it before I dreamed about it.
00:12:01I never saw it before then.
00:12:03Then when I wake up, it turns out real.
00:12:05Now look, Vince.
00:12:06I've warned you before.
00:12:08You're working too hard.
00:12:09Don't you understand?
00:12:11There's a door somewhere this very minute this key belongs to.
00:12:14There's a man propped up behind a dead.
00:12:15And I don't know where nor who he is or how or why it happened.
00:12:18Only that I must have been there.
00:12:20I must have done it.
00:12:21Or why would it come to me in my sleep like this?
00:12:23And these things.
00:12:24Now look.
00:12:25You had those things before.
00:12:27You picked them up somewhere.
00:12:28And you misplaced them a long time ago.
00:12:30And last night, you had a Welsh rabbit or one drink too many.
00:12:34So you dreamed up a nightmare.
00:12:35And in it, you remembered these old things and wove them in it.
00:12:39Oh, no.
00:12:40Now, don't say no.
00:12:42Either you dream a thing or it really happened.
00:12:45Don't worry.
00:12:46If you dreamed that you had a fight with a guy and ram something in him,
00:12:50you'd wake up.
00:12:51It happened, Cliff.
00:12:52If I tell you it happened.
00:12:53You dreamed it.
00:12:54You had those things before.
00:12:59You've just been stretching your nerves thin, kid.
00:13:02Well, that's your answer.
00:13:04That's all you can tell me, huh?
00:13:06Cliff.
00:13:07Finn.
00:13:08Dinner's ready.
00:13:08If I tell you I didn't have these things before.
00:13:10Throw those things away.
00:13:11And look.
00:13:13Not a word of this to Lil.
00:13:15You understand?
00:13:16She's been worrying about you enough already.
00:13:22You haven't helped me a bit.
00:13:26I mean when the knuckles were.
00:13:27Well, naturally not.
00:13:29You expect me to arrest you for murdering a man in your dream.
00:13:32Well, the rest will have to happen in a dream too.
00:13:35Because I'm off duty when I'm dreaming.
00:13:40Come on, kid.
00:13:41Let's get some dinner.
00:13:43And smile for Lil, will you?
00:13:50You men coming in or not?
00:13:52You want your soup to get cold?
00:13:56I keep cracking the polish off of that one male.
00:13:59Are you lucky?
00:13:59Lil's got a rib roast tonight.
00:14:01You know I'm getting jealous of that butcher.
00:14:03Vince, why did you tell me you've been working hard at the bank all day?
00:14:06Because I did.
00:14:09How are you feeling, Vince?
00:14:11I thought you were sick.
00:14:12I was.
00:14:13I just didn't feel well.
00:14:14I kept calling your room all day.
00:14:16No one was there.
00:14:17Mr. Billio got suspicious.
00:14:18Can a guy take a day off?
00:14:20I just didn't feel like going to work and I wasn't sick enough to stay in my room.
00:14:23Now why does everybody have to make such a big thing of it?
00:14:27Vince.
00:14:30The blood.
00:14:32I washed it off.
00:14:55I don't know how long I was blacked out.
00:14:58I hazily remembered coming to for a moment and falling asleep again.
00:15:03It was sometime past midnight when something awakened me.
00:15:19Cliff, I...
00:15:21I blacked out.
00:15:22You certainly did.
00:15:25The truth?
00:15:26No.
00:15:27Not what you think.
00:15:28Not that dream business.
00:15:29The real truth.
00:15:31But you've been wearing yourself out.
00:15:33Why are you passed out like any neurotic?
00:15:35Take the key to button.
00:15:37You must have often had less than that to start out on.
00:15:40Find out where they came from and find out what they were doing on me.
00:15:45Find out where that mirrored room is.
00:15:46Forget them once and for all.
00:15:48Forget them.
00:15:49I can't.
00:15:49They're my only clue to what happened.
00:15:51Nothing happened.
00:15:52You're just selling yourself a phony bill of goods.
00:15:54Just as phony as that idea that the nail polish was blood.
00:15:58That's the kind of trick your mind's been playing on you.
00:16:00Oh, it can't be bad.
00:16:02And don't crack to Lil about this nonsense or I'll...
00:16:06Well, just don't crack.
00:16:08She's fretted about you for years, ever since your mother died.
00:16:11And right now would be the worst time of all.
00:16:14Now?
00:16:15What do you mean?
00:16:18Well, I wasn't going to tell you until later.
00:16:21Lil's going to have a kid.
00:16:24Oh, that's fine.
00:16:26That's great, Cliff.
00:16:27Okay.
00:16:28So now you know.
00:16:29So forget it.
00:16:30And if you harp on that...
00:16:33...spooky business that will help me, I'll...
00:16:35...I'll drag you off to a doctor.
00:16:38Now go on, kid.
00:16:39Try and get some sleep.
00:16:52Sleep?
00:16:53I felt I'd never sleep again until I knew the answer.
00:16:58I had to find the house where the nightmare took place.
00:17:02I had to know.
00:17:22I have a lovely house with a mirror-lined powder room on the second floor.
00:17:28Octagonal?
00:17:29No.
00:17:30It's only four squares.
00:17:31However, Mr. Grayson, if you'll come and look at it, I'm certain...
00:17:35...no thanks, I'm sorry.
00:17:36That's not what I'm looking for.
00:17:40Six days went by without a lead.
00:17:42I scoured the papers.
00:17:44Not one line about the murder.
00:17:47And all week I've been avoiding Betty.
00:17:49I just couldn't face her with this thing gnawing at my brain.
00:18:00Who is it?
00:18:01Cliff.
00:18:04Hello, Cliff.
00:18:05Hiya, boy.
00:18:06Will you see what I've got downstairs?
00:18:08Come on.
00:18:09Put it on.
00:18:11Let's go.
00:18:11Jonah, I don't want to go anywhere.
00:18:13I want you to see my new second-hand car that I just got in exchange for my old second
00:18:17-hand car.
00:18:17Please, Cliff, I don't want to go anywhere.
00:18:19What are you trying to be, a groundhog?
00:18:21Lil and I taking a ride in the country.
00:18:22A little picnic.
00:18:23Listen, I'm all right.
00:18:24I don't need any fresh air jaunts to shake the devils out of me, if that's what you're doing.
00:18:28Now, look.
00:18:29Do you want Lil to worry any more than she is?
00:18:31After what I told you about her?
00:18:35Come on.
00:18:45Now, look, Cliff, if you think this is going to do any good...
00:18:48Don't be a drip.
00:18:49Come on.
00:18:53Hello, Betty.
00:18:54Hello, Vince.
00:18:55Hiya, Lil.
00:18:56I'm fine.
00:18:57Vince, I want you to know this wasn't my idea.
00:18:59What do you mean?
00:19:00I'm glad you picked me up.
00:19:01Well, where should we go, kids?
00:19:03Anywhere.
00:19:03I don't care.
00:19:04How about Solanda Canyon?
00:19:06All right.
00:19:14Solanda Canyon.
00:19:16It just popped into my head.
00:19:18Why?
00:19:19Betty and I always preferred the beach.
00:19:21But something made me say Solanda.
00:19:25Somehow, it seemed important.
00:19:42Do you know where you're going?
00:19:43Nope.
00:19:45But I got a hunch further down this road, we'll find just the right spot.
00:19:48Did you ever see anything so stubborn?
00:19:50I'm sure that the ants here are just as friendly as the ants farther down.
00:19:54Now, what's wrong with that place over there?
00:19:55Nothing, but, uh...
00:19:56Well, stop then.
00:19:58It's getting light, and besides, I'm hungry.
00:20:00Okay, okay, my love.
00:20:01That's just what I was going to do.
00:20:16Oh, this is the life.
00:20:18Toss me another one of those marshmallows, will you, beloved?
00:20:21At they wish, master.
00:20:24Plop!
00:20:27Mommy, you're wonderful.
00:20:29Uh-huh.
00:20:30Just as long as the marshmallows last.
00:20:32Uh-huh.
00:20:39Vince, are you coming back to work tomorrow?
00:20:42I don't think so.
00:20:46Mr. Billio asked me to go out with him yesterday.
00:20:48Well, why didn't you go? Why tell me?
00:20:51Vince.
00:20:52What is it? What's the matter?
00:21:10What is it?
00:21:11Did I do something?
00:21:13No, it's not your fault.
00:21:15It's just that...
00:21:16Look.
00:21:18We're through.
00:21:19There's nothing we can do about it.
00:21:21Don't call me up.
00:21:22Don't pay any attention to me.
00:21:24Get somebody else.
00:21:25Get anybody.
00:21:28It'll be better for you.
00:21:38Bill, Bill, you're a big girl now.
00:21:40Well, I can't help it.
00:21:41You know what lightning does to me.
00:21:43We better go.
00:21:44Hey, kids.
00:21:45It's gonna rain.
00:21:48Oh!
00:21:49Holy smoke, you didn't have to take me seriously.
00:21:52Yes, Benny.
00:21:53Come on and go!
00:22:20Come on.
00:22:21Now, the wipers won't work.
00:22:22You should have tried them before you bought it, dear.
00:22:24All right.
00:22:25All right.
00:22:43All right.
00:22:45I can't stand anymore.
00:22:47Stop at the first place you come to and let's get out of this.
00:22:49All right, baby.
00:22:50Now, calm down.
00:22:53No houses around here.
00:23:03That bridge.
00:23:04I've seen it before.
00:23:06But when?
00:23:10There's a cutoff a little ways ahead, just around the turn.
00:23:13There's a big house up there, I think.
00:23:17Do you know this section?
00:23:18Have you been here before?
00:23:21There's a cutoff.
00:23:30There's a cutoff.
00:23:30Are you gonna get us more lost than ever?
00:23:32No, keep going.
00:23:33You'll come to it.
00:23:34Two big posts and then turn the car between them.
00:23:37I didn't know myself.
00:23:38I didn't know myself how I knew that.
00:23:40But the closer we came, the harder my heart pounded.
00:23:43And the more frightened I got.
00:23:52There they are.
00:23:53There they are.
00:23:54Turn quick between those posts like he told you.
00:23:55hoo, there's a big hole in there.
00:24:17Come on!
00:24:22Good to see.
00:24:23Go!
00:24:24Come on, men.
00:24:43Let's make a dash for it.
00:25:07There doesn't seem to be anybody home.
00:25:09Well, I wish we could get in.
00:25:30I thought there'd be a key someplace.
00:25:48Ben, are you going to stay out there all day?
00:25:49Come on in.
00:25:55Let's have some light.
00:25:57Not that one.
00:26:00What is this, a rib?
00:26:02How do you know so much about this place?
00:26:04It's a rib.
00:26:05Your brother Vince, the great joker.
00:26:13Hello, anybody home?
00:26:15Don't do that.
00:26:17He's cold, he's shaking.
00:26:19So are you.
00:26:20Let's find a place to dry out before you catch cold.
00:26:49It looks like they've been away a long time.
00:26:52It looks like they've been away a long time.
00:26:53You're being a detective comes in handy.
00:26:55In case anybody shows up, we won't get into trouble for crashing in like this.
00:26:59Yeah, yeah.
00:27:01Let's see what gives with the fireplace.
00:27:07That's a break.
00:27:08That's a gas log.
00:27:29That's a break.
00:27:32That's a gas log.
00:27:32Maybe it wouldn't hurt you a bit.
00:27:39You're better already.
00:27:48Vince, why don't you come over here by the fire?
00:27:59Oh, my God.
00:28:20Oh, my God.
00:28:50Oh, my God.
00:29:22This is the place.
00:29:25This is the place, all right.
00:29:27Yeah.
00:29:33Wipe your brow.
00:29:37Have you got it?
00:29:45What are you two doing up there?
00:29:47Keep her downstairs.
00:29:48Keep her downstairs.
00:29:50Down a minute, Lil.
00:29:51Watch the tea in the kitchen.
00:29:53I got some water boiling.
00:29:54All right, but I wish you'd stop poking around.
00:30:12Look.
00:30:15that's what he was crossed in front of at night he must have been using a blowtorch
00:30:22that's what made that bluish light made her face stand out in the reflections like a mask
00:30:33that that must be the one I propped him up in after I
00:30:43no don't yeah give me a chance cut it out
00:31:01dry blood someone who was hurt was in here somebody who is dead
00:31:26then Claire come on down and have some tea
00:32:00I'll take these back to the kitchen I'll take the rain ought to let up soon meanwhile catch yourselves a
00:32:06nap
00:32:20close it I want them to hear this
00:32:36now let's hear about another dream you think I lied don't you know how to get here from a dream
00:32:42didn't you you know where the key was from a dream didn't you all that fumbling around didn't fool
00:32:48me even knew where the light switch was from a dream if you weren't Lil's brother I'd push a lion's
00:32:53face
00:32:53out to the back of your head but I tell you Cliff I tried hand him a for help she
00:32:57didn't have guts
00:32:58enough to come clean to say Cliff I went out to such and such a place in the canyon last
00:33:02night and
00:33:02killed a guy such and such a guy for such and such a reason but I tell you no you
00:33:06had to cook up a
00:33:06dream I can respect the guy no matter how rotten a crime he's committed who'll own up to it I
00:33:10can
00:33:11understand a guy will deny it flatly but a guy that'll come to someone trading on the fact he's
00:33:15married to his sister abuses common sense and make a fool out of him like you did to me but
00:33:19I didn't
00:33:19I got no use for him he's lower than the lowest route we ever brought in for knifing somebody in
00:33:23an alley look I found this key in my pocket when I woke up I found this button playing on
00:33:29my sympathies
00:33:30getting me to think in terms of doctors and medical observation was that it was it no I uh Cliff
00:33:35I
00:33:35swear you I didn't dream that was well the dream's over with and babies await now I'm going to get
00:33:41the
00:33:41packs out of you and whether they go any further than me or not that's my business but at least
00:33:44I'm
00:33:45going to have them how can I tell you what I don't know what were you doing here that night
00:33:48what brought you here I was never here before I never saw the place till the day when I came
00:33:51here with you and live who was the guy you killed what was his name I mean agony already without
00:33:56are
00:33:56you going to answer me are you I can't you're asking me things I can't answer that's the almighty
00:34:00whoever watches over us at night when we're unconscious who was the guy why did you kill
00:34:05him why I've handled close-mouthed guys before you're gonna tell me or I'm gonna have to you with
00:34:11my own hands get over there what is this I'll ask the questions what are you two doing in here
00:34:20you came in out of the rain that suits you not yet identify yourselves and be quick about it
00:34:29help yourself thanks early headquarters homicide division huh how about doing a little identifying
00:34:44yourself well I'm a deputy attached the county sheriff's office out this way Torrance is the name my
00:34:49brother-in-law Vince Grayson how do you deal I'm detail to keep an eye on this place I was
00:34:53home having a little
00:34:54bite deep down my way back to the station saying how'd you get in here thought I had it locked
00:34:58up
00:34:58the key was under a flower box on the porch it was must have been a spare I have the
00:35:02original we
00:35:02didn't know there was a second one what do you mean you're a detail to keep an eye on this
00:35:06place
00:35:06didn't you know there was a murder committed here last week it was I'd like to hear more about that
00:35:14sounds interesting oh no thanks I got them on about a month ago oh he's a carry a pack of
00:35:23these now
00:35:26nothing this place belonged to a wealthy couple named Belknap husband frequently goes along business
00:35:31trips he was away when it happened Mexico in fact we haven't able to notify him yet his wife was
00:35:39a pretty
00:35:39little thing was kind of flirty the young ducks used to run around with his name was Bob Clune was
00:35:46milkman
00:35:48found mrs. Belknap about daybreak Monday near a road that leads over here did dying unconscious both legs
00:35:55broken skull fractured insides all busted up kind of gets him done things like this are new to him I
00:36:03guess what it happened I did it to her you found the car blood and hair in the tires Bob
00:36:13Clune's car
00:36:14well then warner that's my chief he come over here have a look around he finds a safe busted in
00:36:19the
00:36:19mirrored room upstairs take you up and show if you want your room well that gave us a case clue
00:36:28knew that
00:36:28well no no no the safety left from Mexico he came here started to heist it mrs. Belknap caught him
00:36:33she ran out
00:36:34afraid he'd kill her he got his car chased her down the road and ran over pretty brutal all of
00:36:38a sudden life
00:36:39was swelling I don't know how to drive I kept thinking cliff knew that too
00:36:47have a smoke kid anyway that's a case we thought we had till Wednesday morning but yeah we sent out
00:36:54a
00:36:57The first thing she asked was, is Bob all right?
00:36:59He didn't kill Bob Clune, did he?
00:37:00He?
00:37:01Yeah.
00:37:01What she told us sent us hot pudding right back here.
00:37:04We find Clune's body propped up behind one of those mirrored doors upstairs.
00:37:07He'd been stabbed with an awl.
00:37:08She died that night.
00:37:09Well, it went our case.
00:37:14Did you get anything on the real killer?
00:37:16Practically everything, except the guy himself.
00:37:18All the dope's over at my chief's office.
00:37:20I was just on the way over there.
00:37:22Are you interested?
00:37:23Oh, that's right up my alley.
00:37:25Might be able to even help you find the killer.
00:37:27Glad to have you come along.
00:37:28I'll have to tell the girls we'll be gone for a while.
00:37:36Shouldn't let it get you, kid.
00:37:37This is just routine with us.
00:37:39I know.
00:37:40It's just that I'm not used to this kind of discussion, I guess.
00:37:44Yeah, I can understand that.
00:37:45I was a little bit screwed myself when I first started on the job.
00:37:50They're both asleep.
00:37:51I left the note.
00:37:52Come on, Vince.
00:37:56Uh, I'll stay here.
00:37:58Come on, Vince.
00:38:11Funny I didn't see anything in the L.A. papers about it, Captain Warner.
00:38:14They've been playing ball with us.
00:38:17We had an idea if the killer didn't read about us finding the bodies,
00:38:20he might come back to take a look.
00:38:22Maybe to find out what happened to Mrs. Belknap.
00:38:26Here's a description she gave us before she died.
00:38:31The killer was about 24, medium build, light brown, wavy hair, worn rather long.
00:38:39His eyes were fixed and glassy as though he was mentally unbalanced.
00:38:45You got any pictures on them?
00:38:46Mrs. Belknap, Kloon, I mean.
00:38:49We had some photographs taken in the morgue.
00:38:51Let's have a look.
00:38:54Got any ideas?
00:38:55Nothing in particular.
00:38:57Just thought it might tie in with something at our office.
00:39:01Take a look, Vince.
00:39:02Oh, no.
00:39:03You might even know these people.
00:39:07It was them all right.
00:39:08The faces and the dream.
00:39:10That woman and the man I killed.
00:39:13Now I knew there was no escape.
00:39:16I was a murderer.
00:39:18Bye.
00:39:19Bye.
00:39:35Out like a light.
00:39:37What do you suppose did it?
00:39:38Those death pictures?
00:39:39Things like this sure get him.
00:39:40I noticed that before.
00:39:41He's not well.
00:39:43He gets these dizzy spells now and then.
00:39:45It's only since I started.
00:39:46Shut up.
00:39:49Man, that's better.
00:39:52He'll be all right.
00:39:53As soon as I get him home.
00:39:58Thanks, Warner.
00:39:59I'll be seeing you.
00:40:00Okay.
00:40:26Thanks, Lil.
00:40:27I'm sorry the rain spoiled the picnic.
00:40:29You take care of yourself.
00:40:30I'll call you.
00:40:33I'm going up with Vince for a while.
00:40:35My pet, you happen to be in a loading.
00:40:37Smiley's on this beat.
00:40:38If he says anything, just tell him whose car it is.
00:41:14Lil is waiting downstairs.
00:41:16I'm going to take her home first before I do anything.
00:41:20I love Lil.
00:41:22I think you love Betty, but that's your business.
00:41:26All I know is I love Lil.
00:41:30It's bad enough what this is going to do to her when she finds out.
00:41:34I'm going to see that she gets at least one good night's sleep.
00:41:38Before she does.
00:41:40What am I going to do, Cliff?
00:41:43I don't have to ask you if you killed them.
00:41:45You passed out cold when you saw that photograph some dead.
00:41:50In the morning, I'm going to take you down and turn in what I know at my own precinct house.
00:41:55And they can pass it on to Warner.
00:42:00And then I'm going to turn in my badge.
00:42:05I'm scared stiff.
00:42:07Killers always are.
00:42:09Afterwards.
00:42:11I'll be back in the morning.
00:42:33I'm sorry.
00:42:41I'm sorry.
00:42:42I'm sorry.
00:42:46I'm sorry.
00:42:49I'm sorry.
00:42:53I'm sorry.
00:42:54And then, let's go.
00:42:54You think you're going to be patient?
00:42:55That's all you.
00:42:55Love you.
00:42:59You're, dear.
00:43:01I have to go for everything.
00:43:10The End
00:43:47I beg your pardon
00:43:55Look, he's trying to make up his mind
00:44:19Can't you go any faster
00:44:21Got her wide open
00:44:43Let's go
00:44:45Let's go
00:45:11Why didn't you let me?
00:45:15I didn't think it that way out
00:45:21Vince, oh Vince
00:45:23I didn't want to drag you into this
00:45:25What is it?
00:45:26If you were in trouble so horrible that you wanted to
00:45:30Dolly, don't
00:45:33He won't try it again, Betty
00:45:35Just keep that thought
00:45:37But why, Cliff?
00:45:38Why?
00:45:39Never mind now
00:45:40You go on down
00:45:42Take Lil home
00:45:43But don't tell her anything about that
00:45:46Just say that
00:45:47I thought it was better if I stayed here with Vince tonight
00:45:50He's not feeling well
00:45:51Okay
00:45:54Cliff
00:45:55Whatever it is that's come between us
00:45:58Promise me you'll help him
00:45:59You go on now
00:46:00And take care of Lil
00:46:29You go on now
00:46:43Cliff?
00:46:45I wake you up?
00:46:46No, I can't sleep.
00:46:49Have a smoke.
00:46:59What about the arrest, Cliff?
00:47:01Cancel for now.
00:47:03When a guy's willing to die like you were,
00:47:05there must be something to his story.
00:47:07I tried to tell you.
00:47:09I don't think you really knew what you were doing that night.
00:47:12I think you're telling the truth to the best of your ability.
00:47:16I'm licked.
00:47:18I'd rather not even talk about it.
00:47:20You might as well have let me jump.
00:47:23I'm dead inside already.
00:47:26Still, I can't figure why you picked that way.
00:47:29Most of them try the bridge or poison or even gas.
00:47:33Thought of that, but this place hasn't any gas.
00:47:35Yeah, good thing, too.
00:47:37More houses didn't have gas, there'd be less.
00:47:39Yeah?
00:47:40It'd be darned inconvenient if an electric light bulb burns out unexpectedly.
00:47:44Happened to a fellow in the next room the other night.
00:47:46Yeah?
00:47:46Yeah, I had to use a candle the same night I had the dream.
00:47:50Use a candle?
00:47:51How did you know?
00:47:52Were you in there with him?
00:47:53Hmm?
00:47:55No, he wrapped, stuck his head in the door.
00:47:58Wanted to know if my light had gone out, too.
00:48:01What'd you have to come in here for?
00:48:02Couldn't have told by the hall?
00:48:04I don't know.
00:48:05There's a little night light around the bin in the hall.
00:48:08Maybe that's on a different circuit.
00:48:10Still no reason for him to barge in on you.
00:48:19I'd like to hear the rest of this.
00:48:21There isn't an arrest of it.
00:48:23I've told you all there is.
00:48:24Never mind.
00:48:26Now, who was he?
00:48:27Did you know him?
00:48:28Now, tell it to me step by step.
00:48:31Like, to a six-year-old kid.
00:48:33Okay.
00:48:34Well, the guy's name was Berg.
00:48:37He'd been living in the room about, uh,
00:48:39oh, a week or ten days before that.
00:48:42Used to see him in the elevator.
00:48:45Chatted with him a couple of times in the lobby.
00:48:47All right.
00:48:48Now, tell me what happened the night his light went out.
00:48:51Well, I'd been in bed for some time.
00:48:54Reading the paper like I do every night.
00:49:03Just put the lamp out and got him to sleep
00:49:06when I heard this knock on the door.
00:49:10Who is it?
00:49:12Harry Berg from next door.
00:49:23Pardon me.
00:49:24Did I wake you?
00:49:26No, I just turned off the light.
00:49:27Oh, you did?
00:49:29The light in my room just went out.
00:49:31That's why I wanted to see you.
00:49:34I thought maybe the circuit was off.
00:49:37Your light working?
00:49:38Try it.
00:49:47Yes.
00:49:48It must have been the globe that burned out.
00:49:51Sorry I troubled you.
00:49:52Not at all.
00:49:55You're tired, aren't you?
00:49:57I can see you're pretty tired.
00:49:59I'm sorry.
00:50:01Oh, really?
00:50:02It's all right.
00:50:03You're tired.
00:50:05And I woke you up.
00:50:07It's all right.
00:50:14I guess he kind of had a one-track mind.
00:50:17Used to mumbling to himself, maybe.
00:50:20Anyway, he finally closed the door and went away,
00:50:22and I dropped off to sleep.
00:50:24Now, wait a minute.
00:50:26Are you sure the door closed after him?
00:50:28Did you see it closed?
00:50:30Did you hear it close?
00:50:34Did it go like this?
00:50:36Did it make a click?
00:50:39Or did it go like this?
00:50:41Without a click?
00:50:43I can see you're having trouble giving me a definite answer.
00:50:46You don't remember it either way.
00:50:48Oh, what difference does it make?
00:50:50The door must have closed.
00:50:51He went away, and I went to sleep.
00:50:54He was standing there with a candle in his hand,
00:50:57and he kept saying, you're tired.
00:50:59So what?
00:51:01Eyes fixed and glassy, as though he were mentally unbalanced.
00:51:06What?
00:51:08I was just remembering something in the deathbed statement
00:51:11Mrs. Belknap gave to Warner.
00:51:13You, uh, you say you've chatted with this fellow once in a while.
00:51:18What about?
00:51:19Oh, sports, politics.
00:51:24Going down the elevator one time,
00:51:25he had a box of methylated cough drops in his pocket.
00:51:29Go ahead, have one.
00:51:30No thanks, I don't like them.
00:51:33Oh, go on.
00:51:34They're good for you.
00:51:36No thanks, really.
00:51:39You should have one.
00:51:40Your voice sounds kind of hoarse.
00:51:47I took one because I kind of felt sorry for it.
00:51:51I really hate those cough drops.
00:51:54Testing willpower.
00:51:57You seem to make something out of this silly thing.
00:52:00What is it?
00:52:02I'm just guessing.
00:52:03That's all.
00:52:07You get some sleep, kid.
00:52:09Where are you going?
00:52:12Hey, I thought you were going to stay here tonight.
00:52:18You're going to have to take one of your hats.
00:52:21I'm going out to the Belknap home
00:52:23and the Warner's headquarters while I'm out there.
00:52:26Now?
00:52:27All the way out there?
00:52:29This hour of the morning?
00:52:30I don't know what I've got yet.
00:52:32If anything.
00:52:34And, Vince,
00:52:35don't try any more shortcuts.
00:52:48That clock is always a little slow.
00:52:51It's like the horse I had yesterday.
00:52:58Hello, kid.
00:52:59Come on up to your room.
00:53:04A little call a while ago.
00:53:05She's been worried.
00:53:07Married to a cop for 15 years and still worried.
00:53:09You didn't tell her anything?
00:53:11No.
00:53:11Good.
00:53:24Have you been up there all this time till now?
00:53:26I'll go back to the town once in between
00:53:28and get something I needed.
00:53:29Get a leave of absence.
00:53:30What for?
00:53:32I'll tell you later.
00:53:36I'll tell you later.
00:53:45Open it.
00:53:55Well, who is it?
00:53:58Who is it?
00:54:01I'll tell you later.
00:54:15I'll tell you later.
00:54:17I'll tell you later.
00:54:19what's the word?
00:54:21I'll tell you later.
00:54:36I'll tell you later.
00:54:37husband, Louis Belknap. What about me? Does this mean, was, was he the one who? There's no out in
00:54:45this for you, Vince. Not yet. I checked your fingerprints with the ones worn from the mirrored
00:54:49door. You found your way into Belknap's home. You punctured Bob Clune's heart with a bore and
00:54:55shoved his body into a closet. And Mrs. Belknap? You didn't kill her. You can't drive. We think
00:55:03Belknap drove you up there. Was waiting for you outside. Mrs. Belknap ran out and her husband
00:55:08using Clune's car deliberately ran over her. Why didn't I know what I was doing? We think
00:55:15we know why, Vince. But there's only one way to prove it. Show that it could have happened
00:55:21in the first place by making it happen all over again. You mean go back and commit the crime
00:55:27over again? Not exactly. You've killed a man, Vince. Right now you're guilty. We've got to
00:55:32prove you didn't know what you were doing and why you didn't know. What do you mean?
00:55:36We haven't got much time. They located Belknap yesterday. He's flying back from Mexico this
00:55:41afternoon. He wired Warner to have his wife reburied in the family plot today. He'll be
00:55:45back in time for the funeral. Get your coat on. Where are we going? To the place you'd rather
00:55:49not go than all other places right now. There's no room where I... I know, kid. It's not going
00:55:57to be easy. You've got to go back there and stay tonight and wait for Belknap. He may be a
00:56:02dangerous killer, but it's your one chance to save yourself from paying for a murder. Think
00:56:07he can make it?
00:56:20I was scared sick, but I got back into that house before Belknap returned from the funeral. A couple
00:56:26of friends drove back with him. I waited upstairs looking down into the living room as they said
00:56:31goodbye. Why don't you come and stay at our place tonight, Lewis? Yeah, we'd love to have you. Don't
00:56:37worry yourselves about me. Oh, bye. Good night. Good night. He was coming up. My blood turned to
00:56:46water. I wanted to scream out to run away from there, but I had to stay. It was my only
00:56:53chance
00:56:54to save myself.
00:57:36that doesn't feel good. How are you?
00:57:57how'd you get here you showed me the way didn't you you remembered coming here you didn't think
00:58:03I would did you you couldn't have then how'd I get here you explain it how long have you been
00:58:11in
00:58:11here like this since shortly before dark I got in while you were at the funeral who'd you bring
00:58:18with you just this you remember the drive-up you couldn't have you had the look the typical look of
00:58:30the hypnotized subject I faked it I was holding a thumbtack pressed into each palm the whole way so
00:58:35I wouldn't go under no matter how good you were at it then why did you do everything I directed
00:58:39when
00:58:40I put the knife in your hand and told you what to do you took it I thought maybe you'd
00:58:43pay off to
00:58:43keep me quiet and then if I balked I figured I'd get a knife in my back but what happened
00:58:49what went wrong inside I let you out of the car told you what to do I dropped the knife
00:58:54somewhere
00:58:55in the dark but I came up anyway clone was stealing your dough and about to run out with your
00:59:00wife
00:59:00wasn't that it yes yes but how I would have been killed by clone only your wife handed me a
00:59:08board by
00:59:08mistake and I had to use it to save myself oh that explains how she got out of the house
00:59:14I had
00:59:15to finish her with his car I might have known you were under imperfect control oh your control is
00:59:22perfect enough bill now don't let that worry you still have the knack but you just said yeah and
00:59:28you fell for it I didn't know what I was doing when I came up here to do your dirty
00:59:31job I'd have never
00:59:33found you but I saw your picture in the paper as a husband of the murdered woman and recognized you
00:59:36as
00:59:37bird I didn't come here to be paid off for what I did even though your will is stronger than
00:59:42mine
00:59:42you know you couldn't make me commit murder I killed that man in self-defense but I'll never
00:59:49be able to clear myself in the eyes of the law ever I'm going to make you pay for doing
00:59:54that to me
00:59:57now this way wait don't do that alive maybe I can do something for you I'll give you money I'll
01:00:04get
01:00:04you out of the country no one will know my conscience will know I've got an honest man's
01:00:09conscience in the murderer's body you should have left me alone down out that was your mistake wait
01:00:15one minute give me one minute to make you see just 60 seconds you don't want to kill me those
01:00:22two
01:00:22were plotting against me for months I knew it that's why I planned the whole thing I had to do
01:00:27it don't you
01:00:27understand you can understand that stop it Bell now just a few seconds please you don't want to kill
01:00:35me look up look up please see just 30 seconds and I'm sure I can make you understand just a
01:00:46few seconds
01:00:47shall we take him now we've got to let him finish we've got to have proof for a jury that
01:00:53he can
01:00:53actually put him under just 15 seconds that's all that isn't much is it 15 seconds killing me won't
01:01:01calm your conscience you don't really want to kill me Grayson drop your gun it's too heavy drop the gun
01:01:12Grayson you're too tired to hold it up just drop it you'll feel so much better just let go better
01:01:25still
01:01:26give the gun to me Grayson you're tired that horrible curtain closed over me again I couldn't fight it
01:01:44I knew he was taking me somewhere I didn't want to go but my brain was handcuffed
01:01:54and I was walking through another nightmare
01:02:24be quiet we'd better get up there quick
01:02:36early one he's got him on the car by the garage
01:02:47oh
01:02:51oh
01:02:52oh
01:02:52Let's go.
01:03:22Let's go.
01:03:23Let's go.
01:03:23Let's go.
01:03:38Let's go.
01:03:50Let's go.
01:04:00Let's go.
01:04:16Let's go.
01:04:20Let's go.
01:04:22Let's go.
01:04:46Let's go.
01:05:09Let's go.
01:05:12Let's go.
01:05:33Let's go.
01:05:35Let's go.
01:06:00Let's go.
01:06:05Let's go.
01:06:07Let's go.
01:06:11Let's go.
01:06:12Let's go.
01:06:28Let's go.
01:06:29Let's go.
01:06:34Let's go.
01:06:39Let's go.
01:06:45Let's go.
01:06:56Let's go.
01:06:59Let's go.
01:07:01Let's go.
01:07:04Let's go.
01:07:12Let's go.
01:07:16Let's go.
01:07:25Let's go.
01:07:27Let's go.
01:07:28Let's go.
01:07:30Let's go.
01:07:34Let's go.
01:07:35Let's go.
01:07:37Let's go.
01:07:41Let's go.
01:07:41Let's go.
01:08:10Let's go.
01:08:11Let's go.
01:08:19Oh, my God.
01:08:45Oh, my God.
01:09:12Oh, my God.
01:09:15Yeah.
01:09:17All of a sudden, I'm all right.
01:09:36I'll see you inside.
01:09:37Too bad you have to go through the uranus, Grayson,
01:09:39but good luck.
01:09:40Thanks a lot for everything.
01:09:43Come on.
01:09:45Vince, it must have been horrible.
01:09:47It was.
01:09:48If I didn't read the newspapers,
01:09:49I'd never know what my wonderful husband's doing.
01:09:52If you knew, you'd never have let me do it.
01:09:55Vince, we'd better go face the judge.
01:09:57Don't worry.
01:09:58You've got a perfect play of self-defense.
01:10:00Come on, mother.
01:10:07Scared, darling?
01:10:08I'll be glad when it's over.
01:10:09I'll be right there with you all the time.
01:10:23I'll be right there with you all the time.
01:10:24Now we'll see you next time.
01:10:24What?
01:10:24If you want to trust and don't want it,
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