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00:05:44SO AS I SAID

00:05:47WHEN I KEPT

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00:05:48BUSY SIGNAL

00:05:48IN MY HUSBAND'S

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00:05:49I NATURALLY

00:05:50DIALLED THE

00:05:51OPERATOR

00:05:51AND TOLD HER

00:05:51TO TRY IT

00:05:52AND SHE DID

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00:05:54CLARED SKY

00:05:55I WAS CUT

00:05:55INTO THIS

00:05:55GHASTLY

00:05:56CONVERSATION

00:05:57BETWEEN

00:05:57TWO KILLERS

00:05:58AND NOW

00:05:59I'D LIKE YOU

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00:06:00IT FOR ME

00:06:00AT ONCE

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00:06:01MADAM

00:06:01THAT DEPENDS

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00:06:03ON WHAT

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00:06:04THE PARTIES

00:06:04HAVE STOPPED

00:06:05talking to each other. Well, of course they've stopped talking to each other by now. It was just

00:06:09a short call. They weren't exactly gossiping. And what is your reason

00:06:13for having this call? Reason? Do I have to have a reason when I overheard

00:06:17two murderers? Isn't it obvious? Now look here, my good woman. You probably

00:06:21don't understand. But a human being, a woman is going to be

00:06:25killed somewhere, somewhere in this very city. And this murder is going to take

00:06:29place tonight. Do you hear me? Tonight at 11.15. Now isn't that a good enough

00:06:33reason? I quite understand, madam. But I would suggest that you turn this

00:06:37information over to the police. Oh, for heaven's sakes, all this idiotic red tape.

00:06:41You just sit there and let people die.

00:06:51Your call, please. Give me the police. Yes, madam.

00:06:54Ringing the police department. Tick-tock, tick-tock.

00:06:58Listen to the big tick-tock. Isn't that nice?

00:07:02That's better. Say, maybe that's your mom

00:07:06calling for you.

00:07:10Pacing 17. Duffy speaking.

00:07:12Yes? Oh, yes, Mrs. Stevenson. I remember

00:07:16you. What?

00:07:18You what?

00:07:19A murder? Yes, go ahead.

00:07:23But there's

00:07:24lots of people by the name of George.

00:07:26And as for the private patrolman

00:07:28and 2nd Avenue and the bridge.

00:07:312nd Avenue is a very long street.

00:07:33And you happen to know how many bridges there are in the city of New York alone?

00:07:36Not to mention Brooklyn, Staten Island,

00:07:39Queens, and the Bronx.

00:07:40You know, telephones are very funny things.

00:07:43Now, look, lady.

00:07:43A lot of murders are committed in this town every day.

00:07:46If we could stop them, we would.

00:07:47But a clue of this kind that's so vague,

00:07:49well, it's not much more use to us than no clue at all,

00:07:52unless you think there's something phony about this call

00:07:54and somebody's planning to murder you.

00:07:56Me?

00:07:57Well, of course not.

00:07:59That would be ridiculous.

00:08:00I mean, why should anybody?

00:08:02Well, you see, ma'am,

00:08:03there's nothing for you to worry about.

00:08:04Now, if you'll excuse me, please.

00:08:08Will you please excuse me, ma'am,

00:08:10for just one second.

00:08:12Oh, now, darling,

00:08:14what are you trying to be a good girl?

00:08:16Everything is going to be all right.

00:08:19I'm sorry, ma'am,

00:08:20but I've got a couple of other things here on my desk

00:08:23that require my immediate attention.

00:08:25Good night, ma'am.

00:08:26All right, don't listen.

00:08:27Who cares?

00:08:33Who cares?

00:08:56Henry.

00:08:58Oh, Henry,

00:08:59why'd you leave me alone?

00:09:13Hello?

00:09:14Is this Plaza 51098?

00:09:17Yes?

00:09:17I have a person-to-person call

00:09:19from Mrs. Henry Stevenson.

00:09:21Chicago is calling.

00:09:22Oh.

00:09:24This is Mrs. Stevenson.

00:09:26One moment, please.

00:09:28Go ahead, sir.

00:09:30Hello, Leona.

00:09:31Hello, Dad.

00:09:32Is that you, sweetie, huh?

00:09:34And how's my girl tonight?

00:09:36What are you doing, Dad?

00:09:37What's that?

00:09:38Can you talk?

00:09:38I can talk.

00:09:39Can you talk?

00:09:40Sure, sweetheart.

00:09:42Go ahead, I can talk.

00:09:44A murder?

00:09:45Sir, tonight, 1115, you call the police, eh?

00:09:49But how come?

00:09:51Where's Henry?

00:09:52Where's your nurse?

00:09:53Oh, Henry told her she could, did he?

00:09:56Well, then why didn't he come home?

00:09:59Business?

00:10:00What business?

00:10:02Didn't I tell him time and again

00:10:03that his first consideration is to you?

00:10:05I'll worry about the business.

00:10:07No, but really, dear,

00:10:09when the guy has another responsibility in the world

00:10:11and just because I'm not around to check up on him,

00:10:14just forget about him.

00:10:15Maybe just a gag.

00:10:17A couple of actors, maybe.

00:10:18On a radio program.

00:10:19Radio?

00:10:20Radio program?

00:10:21Sometimes happens.

00:10:23No need to worry your head on a hot night like this.

00:10:26Oh, hurry, everybody.

00:10:29Oh, pardon me.

00:10:35I wish you'd get the whole thing over with

00:10:37and come home.

00:10:38House is like a morgue without you.

00:10:41Okay, dear, I won't keep you.

00:10:43But I just wanted to check up as usual.

00:10:44You'll call me tomorrow?

00:10:45Yes, dear, I'll call you tomorrow night, same time.

00:10:48Oh, and Pat,

00:10:50tell Henry to call me at the office tomorrow morning.

00:10:53I'll have a talk with him.

00:11:02Number 99, 99.

00:11:05Number 17, 1, 7.

00:11:08There's a telephone call for Miss Elizabeth Jennings.

00:11:11Okay.

00:11:12There's a telephone call for Miss Elizabeth Jennings.

00:11:15Number 46.

00:11:17Miss Elizabeth Jennings is wanted on the phone.

00:11:21Number 23, 23.

00:11:2423.

00:11:25Oh, that makes two fours.

00:11:27All I need now is 14 or 65.

00:11:29Miss Jennings.

00:11:30Just a second, please.

00:11:31Just a second.

00:11:31We're getting pretty close now, ladies.

00:11:33Pretty close to that super-duper electric break

00:11:36that's donated by Ballum's Drugstore.

00:11:37And the next number is...

00:11:39You're wanted on the phone, Miss Jennings.

00:11:40I'm Miss Stevenson.

00:11:42Number 59.

00:11:43Bingo!

00:11:45Oh, baloney.

00:11:45May I check those numbers?

00:11:47What's the matter?

00:11:47What were you seeing?

00:11:48Mrs. Stevenson wants to speak to you on the phone.

00:11:50She said it's very important.

00:11:52Mrs. Stevenson?

00:11:53Well, why, for heaven's sake, didn't you face so?

00:11:5572.

00:11:56Well, with her, the little lady right here at the end of the house.

00:12:08Hello?

00:12:09I beg your pardon, Mrs. Stevenson.

00:12:11I had no idea.

00:12:12You're the last person on earth.

00:12:14Naturally, I'd ever keep waiting.

00:12:15Mr. Stevenson isn't home.

00:12:16Mr. Stevenson not home yet?

00:12:18Do you know where he is?

00:12:19Why, no, I don't, Mrs. Stevenson.

00:12:21He was supposed to come hours ago.

00:12:22Well, that is odd, isn't it?

00:12:24Last time I saw him, he was leaving to keep an appointment.

00:12:27Where?

00:12:28No, I don't know where.

00:12:29But I do know he had a lunch date with a young lady.

00:12:33Oh, yes, rather good-looking.

00:12:36She came into the office this morning, said her name was Lorde.

00:12:39Mrs. Frederick Lorde.

00:12:41Seemed very anxious to see him.

00:12:43Waited for him at least two hours.

00:12:54Mr. Stevenson, someone to see you.

00:12:56Some other time, I told you, I'm busy today.

00:12:59Hello, Henry.

00:13:01Don't you remember me?

00:13:03Why, why, sure, sure.

00:13:05Well, now, what do you know?

00:13:07Come in, won't you?

00:13:11Yes, that's just the way he greeted her, Mrs. Stevenson.

00:13:13He didn't seem to be expecting her,

00:13:15but I'm sure she was somebody of importance to him.

00:13:18Unfortunately, I couldn't hear much of what they said,

00:13:20but the conversation wasn't very long.

00:13:23And I do know Mr. Stevenson made a date.

00:13:25I'll show you to my table.

00:13:26I'll be there.

00:13:27I don't know why, but he didn't leave with her.

00:13:32I'll be back later this afternoon.

00:13:33If anyone calls...

00:13:34I don't know where he went after that, Mrs. Stevenson, today.

00:13:38It was 6.30 when I went home,

00:13:41and I was practically the last to leave,

00:13:44except for Jimmy, the porter.

00:13:46No, he didn't even come back to get his messages.

00:13:48There was only one.

00:13:50Some man on Staten Island who keeps calling him every week.

00:13:54A Mr. Evans.

00:13:56Regular pest he is, too.

00:13:58But on the other hand, it's not at all unusual

00:14:00for Mr. Stevenson to stay away all day.

00:14:02And I'm sure it's nothing to worry about.

00:14:04Oh, now, Mrs. Stevenson,

00:14:06I do hope I haven't let any cat out of the bag.

00:14:09But I'm sure, Mrs. Stevenson,

00:14:10it was all quite harmless.

00:14:12Mr. Stevenson seems so devoted,

00:14:15speaks so beautifully of you.

00:14:17Oh, did you like the flowers this week?

00:14:19I had the feeling...

00:14:21I mean, I thought...

00:14:22Camellias might be sweet just for a change, you know?

00:14:43Come on, Mrs. Stevenson.

00:15:23Come on, Mrs. Stevenson.

00:15:44Hello?

00:15:45Mr. Stevenson, please.

00:15:46He's not in. Who's calling?

00:15:47This is Mr. Evans. When do you expect...

00:15:49I don't know. He should be here any minute.

00:15:50Do you know where I could reach him?

00:15:52I'm sure I don't know where Mr. Stevenson is.

00:15:54Call back later.

00:15:54Would 15 minutes be all right?

00:15:56I haven't much time.

00:15:57I'm leaving the city before midnight.

00:15:58Yes, all right. 15 minutes.

00:16:00Thank you, I will.

00:16:01And you'll tell him that I call, please,

00:16:02in case he does come in?

00:16:03Yes.

00:16:03The name is Evans.

00:16:05The name is Evans. It's very important.

00:16:06Yes, all right.

00:16:16Hello, this is the Lord residence.

00:16:18I'd like to speak to Mrs. Lord, please.

00:16:20Mrs. Lord, one moment, please.

00:16:22Is that for me, Pete?

00:16:24No, lady, for Mommy.

00:16:25I don't know why you're not asleep.

00:16:27Sally, will you do something about Peter still being up?

00:16:30Where was I?

00:16:31Oh, yes.

00:16:33That the said Henry Stevenson did.

00:16:38Is that Bayonne or Cicero, then?

00:16:40Bayonne.

00:16:41The Bayonne plant of the Carterelle Corporation.

00:16:44This border is on Staten Island.

00:16:46We have 20...

00:16:4820 Dunstan Terrace, Staten Island.

00:16:53Hello?

00:16:53Hello, Mrs. Lord.

00:16:55Yes, this is she.

00:16:55This is Mrs. Henry Stevenson.

00:16:57I don't believe we've met,

00:16:59but I understand you saw my husband this afternoon.

00:17:01Oh, yes, yes.

00:17:02As it so happens, Mrs. Lord,

00:17:04my husband hasn't come home this evening.

00:17:06I can't seem to locate him,

00:17:07and I thought perhaps you might give me some idea.

00:17:10Oh, yes.

00:17:11I can't hear you, Mrs. Lord.

00:17:12Will you please speak up a little?

00:17:14Oh, certainly.

00:17:15I, uh...

00:17:15Is there anything wrong?

00:17:16You're not keeping something from me, I hope.

00:17:18Oh, no.

00:17:19No.

00:17:20Could I call you back, please?

00:17:21Call me back?

00:17:22Why?

00:17:22Because I, uh...

00:17:24It's my bridge day, you know.

00:17:26What's that?

00:17:26What has bridge got to do with it?

00:17:28Excuse me,

00:17:29but I don't understand you at all, Mrs. Lord.

00:17:31I'm sorry.

00:17:33And then, then...

00:17:35There's that excursion to Rotten Point.

00:17:37Rotten Point?

00:17:38Who is it?

00:17:39Well, look, Mrs. Lord,

00:17:40are you trying to make fun of me?

00:17:42Just in case you don't happen to know it,

00:17:44I'm a hopeless invalid.

00:17:45Just a minute.

00:17:46I'll give you the recipe.

00:17:47What are you talking about?

00:17:48Mrs. Lord,

00:17:49is my husband there with you?

00:17:50Is he?

00:17:50Tell me the truth.

00:17:52It's three eggs separated,

00:17:54two measuring cups of milk,

00:17:55a third of a cup of shortening,

00:17:56uh, then cream the shortening

00:17:58with a little sugar,

00:17:59then add a level tablespoon of flour.

00:18:02Leona, Leona, just a minute.

00:18:04This is Sally.

00:18:05Sally Hunt, Leona.

00:18:07Sally?

00:18:08Sally Hunt?

00:18:09I'm sorry to be so ridiculous,

00:18:11but I can't talk now.

00:18:13Say, Mommy,

00:18:13you want me to ask Daddy

00:18:14to stop typing

00:18:15so you can talk better?

00:18:17Darling, please go to sleep.

00:18:18All right, Mom.

00:18:21It's impossible for me

00:18:22to explain right now,

00:18:23but I'll call you back

00:18:23as soon as I can.

00:18:24Sally!

00:18:26Sally!

00:18:27Now, where's she gone?

00:18:28Sally!

00:18:30Yes, dear.

00:18:30I thought you'd gone out again.

00:18:31Joe'd like a bottle of beer.

00:18:33Got any on ice?

00:18:34No, Fred,

00:18:35I don't believe so,

00:18:36but I'll go down to the store.

00:18:38Okay, honey.

00:18:39Thanks, Sally.

00:18:41Let's see.

00:18:42Where were we?

00:18:43Better start a new paragraph.

00:19:03Sally Hunt.

00:19:31Sally Hunt.

00:19:45May I cut in?

00:19:46You don't mind, do you, Sally?

00:19:48It's an old Spanish custom

00:19:49in the hag line.

00:19:51I'm Leona Carter.

00:19:52What's your name?

00:19:53Oh, uh,

00:19:53this is Mr. Henry Stevenson.

00:19:55Hello, Henry.

00:19:55Shall we down?

00:19:56If you don't mind, miss,

00:19:57where I come from,

00:19:58it's the man who does the picking.

00:19:59All right, so I do.

00:20:00Why don't you get somebody

00:20:01your own speed?

00:20:02That is, I'm sure

00:20:03there are better dancers around.

00:20:04You'll do all right,

00:20:05Mr. Henry.

00:20:06The owner knows

00:20:07the way around the floor.

00:20:17You said your name was Carter?

00:20:19Yes, that's right.

00:20:21There's a big drug company

00:20:21by the name of Carter.

00:20:22I don't suppose

00:20:23there could be any connection.

00:20:24I'm afraid there is.

00:20:25My father owns it.

00:20:26You mean

00:20:27J.B. Carter?

00:20:30Anything wrong with that?

00:20:31No, it's just that

00:20:32I've always pictured

00:20:33J.B. Carter

00:20:34as a sort of

00:20:34walking tube of toothpaste.

00:20:37What do they call you?

00:20:38The aspirin aaron?

00:20:38No, I believe

00:20:39it's the cough drop queen.

00:20:47You know,

00:20:48there's nothing wrong

00:20:48with your dancing.

00:20:49Do you do a lot of it?

00:20:51Not at places like this.

00:20:52Oh,

00:20:53you're from out of town?

00:20:55Well,

00:20:55that depends on

00:20:55what you call out of town.

00:20:57Oh,

00:20:58I don't know.

00:20:59Harvard?

00:21:02Are you trying to be funny?

00:21:03Okay.

00:21:04What do you call out of town?

00:21:06Grassville.

00:21:07What college is up there?

00:21:08No college.

00:21:09The steel pipes

00:21:10and microports.

00:21:11I'm sorry,

00:21:12I didn't know.

00:21:13That's all right.

00:21:15To be perfectly frank with you,

00:21:16I never even finished high school.

00:21:18Not that I wouldn't have liked to.

00:21:19Neither did my father.

00:21:20As a matter of fact,

00:21:21he never got past

00:21:22the seventh grade.

00:21:23You don't say.

00:21:23My father always says,

00:21:25if a man hasn't any talent

00:21:26for making money,

00:21:27college won't knock it into him.

00:21:28And if he has a talent

00:21:30for making money,

00:21:31why should he waste

00:21:31his time in college?

00:21:32There's something in that, too.

00:21:34I guess your old man

00:21:35ought to know

00:21:35when it comes to making money.

00:21:40Well, I'll be getting along now.

00:21:42Just a minute.

00:21:43What do you say

00:21:44we sit the next one out?

00:21:45Sit it out?

00:21:46What for?

00:21:46I've got my own car

00:21:47off campus

00:21:48just outside the main gate.

00:21:50It's a Lagonda.

00:21:51I just got it from Europe.

00:21:52Did you ever drive one?

00:21:53I've never heard of it.

00:21:55Besides,

00:21:55Sally's probably

00:21:56looking all over for me.

00:21:57What difference does that make?

00:21:58This is a public dance, isn't it?

00:22:00Don't worry,

00:22:01she'll never even miss you.

00:22:02Oh, yeah?

00:22:03What about me missing her?

00:22:05Or did that idea

00:22:06ever strike you?

00:22:07Go on,

00:22:08don't be silly.

00:22:09For once.

00:22:11I'm not kidding.

00:22:12Neither am I.

00:22:15So long, Miss Caro.

00:22:17I'm sorry

00:22:17I can't oblige

00:22:18that Lagonda

00:22:19or whatever you call it.

00:22:37Sally,

00:22:39I'd never put

00:22:39the two of you

00:22:40together in a million years.

00:22:41Why?

00:22:42Well, you're both

00:22:42so different.

00:22:43You belong

00:22:44in different worlds.

00:22:46You don't belong here

00:22:47in Grassville, Henry.

00:22:48What makes you say that?

00:22:50Just a feeling.

00:22:52I've been around

00:22:53a good deal

00:22:53and I...

00:22:55I think I can spot

00:22:56the real thing

00:22:57a mile away.

00:22:59Isn't that Grassville

00:23:00over there, Henry?

00:23:01Henry?

00:23:02Yeah.

00:23:06I guess we'd better

00:23:07turn around.

00:23:07Why?

00:23:08It's nice here.

00:23:09Think so?

00:23:11Stick around a few years

00:23:12and see how much

00:23:12you like it.

00:23:23Henry,

00:23:24that woman back there

00:23:25in the house

00:23:25who opened the door

00:23:26for me,

00:23:27was she your mother?

00:23:28My mother's dead.

00:23:30Well, that's strange.

00:23:31So was mine.

00:23:32She died when I was born.

00:23:34What was your mother like?

00:23:35Oh, I don't know.

00:23:36You mean she died young, too?

00:23:38She died last year,

00:23:40but I never knew her.

00:23:41All she ever was to me

00:23:42was just a line

00:23:43of wet clothes

00:23:44hung across the kitchen,

00:23:45a mess of greasy pots

00:23:47and pans

00:23:47piled in the sink.

00:23:49All I ever saw

00:23:50of her was

00:23:51yellow soap

00:23:52and a mop

00:23:52in her old run-over shoes

00:23:53standing in the closet.

00:23:57It's funny, I guess,

00:23:58but

00:23:59when I saw her

00:24:00lying there

00:24:00in the undertaking

00:24:01parlor last year,

00:24:03she seemed to me

00:24:04like somebody

00:24:04I hardly knew.

00:24:07I don't know

00:24:08why I'm telling you

00:24:08all this.

00:24:09There's nothing pretty

00:24:09or nice about

00:24:10my life anyway.

00:24:16Figures.

00:24:17Thanks.

00:24:21What's the matter?

00:24:22Nothing.

00:24:27What do you do here

00:24:28in Grassville, Henry?

00:24:30I have a job.

00:24:32Just a meal ticket

00:24:32till I can save up

00:24:33enough to get out of here.

00:24:34What kind of a job?

00:24:36I work in a drugstore.

00:24:37A drugstore?

00:24:38Well, that is a coincidence.

00:24:40Yeah, a heck of a coincidence.

00:24:41I work in a drugstore

00:24:42and your father

00:24:43owns a hundred of them.

00:24:45Would you like

00:24:45to meet him, Henry?

00:24:48Who are you kidding?

00:24:50No, sir.

00:24:51I think Dad

00:24:51will like you very much.

00:24:54You're young,

00:24:55healthy,

00:24:56ambitious,

00:24:57and you probably know

00:24:58the drug business

00:24:59upside down.

00:25:00I wouldn't say that,

00:25:01Leona.

00:25:01Leona?

00:25:03Oh, that's nice.

00:25:05Call me Leona again.

00:25:06I just work

00:25:07in a drugstore.

00:25:08That's a different thing.

00:25:09But I like you.

00:25:11And that's a different thing, too.

00:25:13Like me, like you.

00:25:14Come on,

00:25:15we're both acting

00:25:15like a couple of kids

00:25:16playing cat and mouse.

00:25:18Besides,

00:25:18what does a dame

00:25:19like you want

00:25:19with a guy like me?

00:25:24May I?

00:25:30Dad is coming to New York

00:25:31on business next weekend.

00:25:32I'm cutting my classes

00:25:33on Saturday.

00:25:35Do you want

00:25:36to come with me?

00:25:43I don't quite know

00:25:44how to say it, Leona.

00:25:45Well, say it

00:25:46and get it over with.

00:25:47For heaven's sakes,

00:25:48I'm leaving in a few minutes.

00:25:49You've been seeing

00:25:49a lot of Henry

00:25:50in the past few weeks,

00:25:51haven't you?

00:25:51Yes, what about it?

00:25:53Well, I just felt

00:25:54that I ought to warn you.

00:25:55Warn me?

00:25:56Henry's not the kind

00:25:57of man to play around with.

00:25:59Don't play around

00:25:59with him anymore, please.

00:26:01Who says I'm

00:26:01playing around with him?

00:26:02Well, he's just

00:26:04not your type

00:26:05and you know it

00:26:06as well as I do.

00:26:07I like your name.

00:26:09Henry's poor, Leona.

00:26:10He's been bitterly poor

00:26:11all his life.

00:26:12I know that wouldn't

00:26:13matter to some boys,

00:26:14but it does matter

00:26:14to him terribly.

00:26:16I've known him

00:26:17all my life.

00:26:18Henry's father

00:26:18was a drunkard.

00:26:19He'd work one day

00:26:20and drink up every penny

00:26:21in the house the next.

00:26:22There were eight children.

00:26:24So?

00:26:25What has all this got

00:26:26to do with the price

00:26:26of eggs?

00:26:27Leona, don't turn his head

00:26:29or he'll never be able

00:26:30to find himself again.

00:26:31You mean you can't

00:26:32stand the competition?

00:26:33For heaven's sake,

00:26:34that's not the point.

00:26:35Oh, Applesauce,

00:26:35just in case you don't know it,

00:26:36I happen to think

00:26:37a great deal

00:26:37of Mr. Henry Stevenson.

00:26:38Look, and I happen to think

00:26:39he's much too good

00:26:40for that town of yours.

00:26:41I never said he was.

00:26:42And if I want to make

00:26:43something of him,

00:26:43show him a good time,

00:26:44introduce him to people,

00:26:45that's my business.

00:26:47And if I...

00:26:50You don't mean that.

00:26:51You couldn't possibly.

00:26:52Why couldn't I?

00:26:53I happen to be in love

00:26:54with him, Leona.

00:26:55So am I.

00:26:56And I don't go...

00:27:01But the fellow

00:27:01has nothing, honey.

00:27:02No background,

00:27:03no education,

00:27:04no training.

00:27:05And what did you have

00:27:06when you started

00:27:07in Amarillo, Texas?

00:27:08Look, honey,

00:27:08I've spent money

00:27:09on your education,

00:27:10taking you abroad,

00:27:11giving you everything

00:27:11in the world.

00:27:12What do you want

00:27:13to throw yourself away for?

00:27:14I love him.

00:27:15Love him?

00:27:15Oh, come on.

00:27:17If I really thought you did,

00:27:18you know I'd be the first to...

00:27:20What's the matter?

00:27:22You make me laugh.

00:27:24Why don't you be honest

00:27:25with yourself just once?

00:27:26What does it matter to you

00:27:27if I love him or not?

00:27:28All you want is for me

00:27:29to stay home here with you

00:27:30for the rest of your life.

00:27:31Well, honey,

00:27:32what parent doesn't want

00:27:33to hold on to his child

00:27:34until he's sure she has

00:27:35something better

00:27:35than what he's given her?

00:27:36Oh, don't be silly.

00:27:37It's just that you've become

00:27:38so dependent on me

00:27:39you won't be happy

00:27:39until I feel the same way

00:27:40about you.

00:27:41What are you talking about, Leona?

00:27:42Haven't I always let you

00:27:43do anything you ever

00:27:44wanted to do?

00:27:45But marriage

00:27:45is something else.

00:27:47I've worked hard.

00:27:47I've built up a big business

00:27:48just for you.

00:27:49And you yourself

00:27:50wouldn't want to see

00:27:51some worthless cluck

00:27:52of a husband.

00:27:52Leave me alone.

00:27:53Leona, don't, please.

00:27:54You don't care about me.

00:27:55You're thinking only

00:27:56of yourself and your business.

00:27:57You're hateful,

00:27:58selfish and hateful.

00:27:59Leona, don't, please.

00:28:00Try and be calm.

00:28:01You'll make yourself sick.

00:28:02And what good is

00:28:02your wonderful money

00:28:03and your wonderful business

00:28:04if I'm dead?

00:28:05Yes, that's what you want to do.

00:28:06Drive me into my grave.

00:28:07But you don't care

00:28:08just as long as

00:28:09your business is safe.

00:28:10Leona, how can you

00:28:11say a thing like that?

00:28:12Oh, go away.

00:28:12Don't touch me.

00:28:13Leona.

00:28:13I said don't touch me.

00:28:15Don't you dare touch me?

00:28:17Leona, Leona, darling.

00:28:18I'm sorry.

00:28:19I didn't mean...

00:28:20We'll talk this over again, dearest.

00:28:22Maybe we can work

00:28:22something out.

00:28:23Leona!

00:28:24Wilkins!

00:28:26Wilkins!

00:28:35I, Leona, take thee, Henry.

00:28:38I, Leona, take thee, Henry.

00:28:41To my wedded husband.

00:28:42To my wedded husband.

00:28:44To have and to hold.

00:28:46To have and to hold.

00:28:48From this day forward.

00:28:50From this day forward.

00:29:00I, Leona, take thee, Henry.

00:29:18I, Leona, take thee, Henry.

00:29:29I, Leona, take thee, Henry.

00:29:56Henry, hurry up, darling.

00:29:57I've reserved a table at Maxine's.

00:29:59The opera starts at 7.30.

00:30:01You know how I hate being late.

00:30:02In a minute, sweetheart.

00:30:03Where's your wallet?

00:30:05My wallet?

00:30:06Must be in my coat pocket.

00:30:27Sally Hunt.

00:30:33Hello?

00:30:34Hello?

00:30:35This is Sally again.

00:30:37I'm sorry I had to be so mysterious just now, but I couldn't talk.

00:30:40My husband was there.

00:30:41Well, it certainly was rather odd, to say the least.

00:30:44This whole thing must seem very peculiar to you, Leona.

00:30:46Hearing from me after all of these years.

00:30:48But I had to see Henry again today.

00:30:51I've been so worried about him.

00:30:52Worried?

00:30:53About what?

00:30:54Well, it's a little bit difficult for me to explain, but about five weeks ago, a friend,

00:31:01he's my husband, and he works in the district attorney's office.

00:31:05Hmm.

00:31:06That's interesting.

00:31:07What's interesting?

00:31:08Drink him up, Peter.

00:31:09What were you saying, dear?

00:31:11Kind of funny coincidence I read in the paper about an old boyfriend of yours.

00:31:15Our old boyfriend?

00:31:17Well, didn't you used to be stuck on a guy named Henry Stevenson?

00:31:20I used to know him, yes.

00:31:22What's he done?

00:31:23He just got his picture in the paper.

00:31:25He and his wife.

00:31:27Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stevenson.

00:31:29She is the former Leona Cotterell, the cough drop queen of Lake Forest, Illinois,

00:31:32have taken a house for the summer in New York City.

00:31:34Mrs. Stevenson, in poor health for several years,

00:31:37is here to consult the eminent specialist, Dr. Philip Alexander.

00:31:41Mr. Stevenson is a vice president of the Cotterell Corporation of Chicago.

00:31:45Hmm.

00:31:46A cough drop queen?

00:31:47That's funny.

00:31:48Who ever heard of a cough drop queen?

00:31:50He looks so different.

00:31:52You think so?

00:31:53What are you saving it for?

00:31:54Oh, a case I'm working on just now.

00:31:57Hmm.

00:31:57Toaster's burning.

00:31:59Oh.

00:32:04Fred.

00:32:05Hmm?

00:32:05I know it's supposed to be a secret,

00:32:07but why did you tear out that clipping?

00:32:09What possible connection can Henry Stevenson have to you?

00:32:12Oh, no connection to me.

00:32:13It's just a kind of a hunch I'm working on right now.

00:32:15What's it about?

00:32:16It's all sort of a special investigation I'm doing.

00:32:19Henry hasn't done anything, though, has he?

00:32:21I'm sorry, honey, but that's one too many questions.

00:32:23Oh.

00:32:24Say, don't tell me you're still stuck on the guy.

00:32:27Don't be silly.

00:32:32I'm sorry.

00:32:34Finished, Peter?

00:32:35Yes, ma'am.

00:32:36Lord speaking.

00:32:38Yes, Joe.

00:32:39Yeah.

00:32:41Oh, you did?

00:32:44Oh, great.

00:32:46Well, how about Stevenson?

00:32:48What?

00:32:50Oh, yeah?

00:32:51Well, now, that's pretty good news.

00:32:53He fell for it, eh?

00:32:55Oh, sure we'll go.

00:32:56Sure.

00:32:57Tell Harpootlian to line it up.

00:32:59Yes, five thousands enough.

00:33:01Have it in hundred dollar bills.

00:33:02Be sure they're marked,

00:33:03and keep your mouth shut for Pete's sake.

00:33:06Okay.

00:33:07Thursday?

00:33:08About 6.30.

00:33:10South Ferry?

00:33:11Right, Joe.

00:33:16You'll probably think it wasn't any of my business, Leona,

00:33:18and I suppose it wasn't.

00:33:20But anyway, at 6.30 that next Thursday,

00:33:22I went down to South Ferry.

00:33:36I don't know what I expected to see.

00:33:38As a matter of fact,

00:33:39there wasn't much I could see at first.

00:33:41But obviously, the stage was all set for something.

00:33:45Joe, he's Fred's closest friend,

00:33:47and is on his staff, was there.

00:33:48There was another man with him.

00:33:50I guess he was this Harpootlian they've mentioned.

00:33:52The one who was to bring the $5,000 and mark money.

00:33:56Are you sure Fred knows where we're supposed to meet him?

00:33:59Here he is.

00:34:02Sorry, fellas, we're a little bit late.

00:34:03Come on, let's go.

00:34:09It may all sound silly to you now, Leona,

00:34:12my spying on them and poking around like that,

00:34:14but something told me I had to find out what was up.

00:34:17I don't know.

00:34:18I still can't explain why, but I...

00:34:21I'd just follow them.

00:34:29What?

00:34:41It was one of the weirdest days I've ever spent.

00:34:46Have you ever been to Staten Island, Leona?

00:34:53Some parts of it, of course, are thickly settled.

00:34:57But other parts seem to exist in a kind of dream,

00:35:01like the lonely beach we went to that day.

00:35:03It was quite a desolate place, Leona,

00:35:05far out on the island.

00:35:07No one was in sight except, yes,

00:35:09a young boy who was digging for clams by the water's edge.

00:35:16further down at the end of the beach,

00:35:18there was nothing but a few broken-down shacks,

00:35:20and back of them an old deserted house.

00:35:39A second later, I saw Fred and the other two men

00:35:42walking up toward the end of a small road leading to the beach.

00:35:46I couldn't quite make out if they talked to the clam digger or not.

00:35:50Anyhow, they entered one of the shacks that looked to me like an abandoned lunch stand.

00:35:55It was then that my attention was drawn to this strange-looking house.

00:35:59It looked absolutely empty,

00:36:01as though it hadn't been lived in for years.

00:36:03And yet, Leona, a freshly painted sign was in front.

00:36:0720 Dunstan Terrace.

00:36:09It seemed to belong to somebody called Evans.

00:36:12W. Evans.

00:36:13I waited there, watching.

00:36:16I'd say for about an hour, Leona.

00:36:19Nothing happened.

00:36:23And then,

00:36:24just as I was beginning to think it was all a wild goose chase,

00:36:28I saw something.

00:36:30Something quite strange.

00:36:32Something quite strange.

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00:41:58I've heard him mention Henry's name over and over again.

00:42:01And there's someone else in it, too. Someone called Evans.

00:42:03Your five minutes are up, madam.

00:42:06Wardo Evans. He owns the house out on Staten Island.

00:42:09The one that I saw.

00:42:10Pardon me, madam, but your five minutes are up.

00:42:12Just a minute.

00:42:20Would you please give me some change? I must make another telephone call.

00:42:23I'm sorry. We're closing up now, lady.

00:42:25But I...

00:42:52Who is it? Who is it?

00:42:56Wait a minute, I'm coming.

00:42:59Can you hear me? I'm all alone here.

00:43:02Who is it? For heaven's sake, who is it?

00:43:06I can't, but God, I'm on the top floor and I'm sick.

00:43:16Oh, wait a minute, don't go away. I need help.

00:43:20Please, please don't go. Can't you hear me?

00:43:23Can't you hear me?

00:43:42I had to call you from the subway. It's Sally. Can you hear me better now?

00:43:46The stores around here are closed by now and I couldn't find a booth.

00:43:50I've been home the only since I spoke to you and Morris happened.

00:43:53There was a police car standing in front of the house, but I got there.

00:43:55It seemed that house on Staten Island, the one I saw, was burned down this afternoon.

00:44:00The police had thrown a cordon around it.

00:44:02They captured three men, but this Waldo Evans escaped.

00:44:05But who is this Waldo Evans? And for heaven's sake, what is this connection with Henry?

00:44:09I still haven't found out, Leona, but I do know the whole thing has something to do with your father's

00:44:14company.

00:44:14My father's company? Well, that's absurd.

00:44:16My father called me from Chicago tonight. He never mentioned a word.

00:44:19Now, look, let's get the same straight. Who's been arrested and why?

00:44:23Three men. I don't know why.

00:44:24And why do you think Henry's one of them?

00:44:26I didn't say he was. I only know that he is involved somehow, terribly.

00:44:30Did they say he'd been arrested or was going to be?

00:44:32No, not exactly.

00:44:33Then what are you talking about? Why are you calling me like this?

00:44:36Are you so jealous that I took Henry away from you years ago?

00:44:39Are you scared of seeing me, Happy?

00:44:40Maybe he's not coming by, but maybe he's not seeing it now.

00:44:52Hello? Hello?

00:44:54What's the matter with you?

00:44:56Hello? Hello?

00:44:58What's up? No, no, Max.

00:45:00You know, I've got a kind of a hunch that maybe we ought to call the chief before we go

00:45:04downtown.

00:45:04Hey, Fred.

00:45:05Yeah, the train's here.

00:45:06He'll be there in ten minutes. You can call him then.

00:45:09Okay.

00:45:23Hello?

00:45:24Yes, this is Plata 51098.

00:45:26What is it?

00:45:27This is Western Union.

00:45:28I have a message for Mrs. Henry Stephenson.

00:45:31Is there anyone there to receive the message?

00:45:33This is Mrs. Stephenson.

00:45:34The telegram is as follows.

00:45:36Mrs. Henry...

00:45:37Darling, terribly sorry, but last minute...

00:45:39Do you wish us to deliver a copy of the message?

00:45:48Then I wait.

00:45:49The train goes over the bridge.

00:45:51Case is clear.

00:45:52I got your message, George.

00:45:53Everything okay for tonight?

00:45:54He hasn't gone by, and Mr. Stephenson hasn't come here.

00:45:57Henry...

00:45:58Back Sunday morning.

00:45:59Then I wait.

00:46:00The train goes over the bridge.

00:46:02Then I wait.

00:46:10Dr. Smith's office.

00:46:11The doctor's not in me.

00:46:12No, the doctor is not right now.

00:46:12You'll be in about an hour.

00:46:13May I have to call you?

00:46:14About 11...

00:46:14Dr. Alexander's office.

00:46:16No, madam, the doctor's not in.

00:46:17May I take the message?

00:46:19Dr. Sands.

00:46:19What is that, madam?

00:46:21No, I could not say.

00:46:22If you'll give me your name and tell...

00:46:24Mrs. Stephenson.

00:46:27Mrs. Henry Stephenson.

00:46:29Yes.

00:46:34Plaza 51098.

00:46:35I'll try to reach him for you.

00:46:37You know the doctor isn't in right now.

00:46:38Yes, you'll be here by the left.

00:46:57Pardon me, sir.

00:46:58Your office is calling.

00:46:59Oh, thanks.

00:47:00Sorry, honey.

00:47:01I'll be right back.

00:47:02Order another drink, will you?

00:47:02Oh, that horrible old phone.

00:47:04I hope it's nothing important.

00:47:05It won't be.

00:47:07Not tonight.

00:47:17Oh, doctor, I thought you'd never call.

00:47:19You must come right over.

00:47:20Oh, come, come.

00:47:21I'm sure it's not as bad as all that.

00:47:22Now, let's try to find out what's wrong.

00:47:24Everything's wrong.

00:47:24I want you to come over at once.

00:47:26I'm afraid I can't tonight, Mrs. Stephenson.

00:47:29Besides, we've gone into this so many times before.

00:47:31You'd just make up your mind to try to cooperate with your husband and me in our plan of action?

00:47:36Plan of action?

00:47:36What are you talking about?

00:47:38Why, Mrs. Stephenson, you know as well as I do.

00:47:40I explained in my letter over a week ago.

00:47:42What letter?

00:47:42I never received any letter from you.

00:47:44But then, surely your husband.

00:47:46Hasn't he spoken to you, Mrs. Stephenson?

00:47:48What about?

00:47:50I must say, I don't understand.

00:47:52Look, Mrs. Stephenson, I'm afraid this is...

00:47:54It's not quite the time or the place to go into all that.

00:47:56If you try to get some sleep and compose yourself, perhaps you can discuss it tomorrow.

00:48:01You'll discuss it now.

00:48:01Do you hear me now?

00:48:02This very minute?

00:48:04All right, Mrs. Stephenson.

00:48:06You'll hold the phone for a second, please.

00:48:10Could you transfer this call to the booth, please?

00:48:12Yes, I'm sure we can.

00:48:13Annie, will you switch to the doctor's call to the booth?

00:48:16Hold on a moment.

00:48:21Hello?

00:48:23Hello?

00:48:24Are you still there, Mrs. Stephenson?

00:48:25Yes, Doctor.

00:48:26Well, if you insist upon knowing, your husband called at my office for the diagnosis of your case, oh, I'd

00:48:32say about ten days ago.

00:48:34I discussed your condition with him thoroughly at that time.

00:48:37It was then that I told him...

00:48:38From all accounts, Mr. Stephenson, your wife's illness seems to date far back in her early childhood.

00:48:43Yet there were at times comparatively long periods of good health.

00:48:47Is that true?

00:48:48Yes, I suppose so.

00:48:51You mean to say you knew nothing of your wife's illness when you married her?

00:48:54No.

00:48:56How soon after your marriage did it first manifest itself?

00:49:01Well, I...

00:49:04I don't remember the date exactly.

00:49:05I should say it was a couple of years after we were married.

00:49:10You see, Doctor, we were living with our father then, in Chicago, at Lake Forest.

00:49:16Oh, Marie!

00:49:17Marie, will you get me Mrs. Stephenson's bag?

00:49:19Look, honey, about lunch today, I...

00:49:22I'd like to have Mrs. Stephenson's bag.

00:49:24All right, Marie.

00:49:25Yes, ma'am.

00:49:26How much do you want?

00:49:27How much do I...

00:49:29I'm sorry to disappoint you, dear, but it isn't what you think.

00:49:32It's simply that I wrote Ferguson's telephone number in your notebook last night.

00:49:35Yes, and?

00:49:36I was just going to tell you, I have a date for lunch with him today.

00:49:39Today?

00:49:40You know perfectly well you're having lunch with me today.

00:49:42It's Friday.

00:49:43I know, dear, but I won't be able to make it.

00:49:44This date with Ferguson's rather important.

00:49:46Oh?

00:49:47More important than me, I suppose?

00:49:49It isn't that, Leona.

00:49:50It's just that I had a talk with him last night and he asked me to drop by.

00:49:54It's about a job.

00:49:55A job?

00:49:56What on earth are you talking about?

00:49:57You have a job.

00:49:58Madame, is this the suit you're going to wear?

00:50:00If you don't mind, Marie, I'd like to speak to Mrs. Stephenson alone.

00:50:02But, madame, is late all right.

00:50:03Will you get out, please?

00:50:08What I mean to say, dear, and I've been meaning to say it for weeks, is that I don't belong

00:50:14to your father's organization.

00:50:15Sure, I married his daughter, so I'm a vice president now.

00:50:18I have a nice office, my name on the door, even a secretary.

00:50:21But what do I do?

00:50:22Nothing.

00:50:22What do you want to do, run the place after six months?

00:50:24No, but at least I'd like to hope that someday I'd get a chance to try.

00:50:28But working for your father is like, like running in a dream.

00:50:31No matter how hard you try, you know you'll never get anywhere.

00:50:33Oh, nonsense.

00:50:34Dad despises Deadwood.

00:50:35Sure.

00:50:36Only I happen to be his son-in-law.

00:50:38I'm not blind, Leona.

00:50:39As long as I'm married to you, he'll never give me a real chance.

00:50:42You're making mountains out of molehill.

00:50:44Look, honey, I'm only trying to be honest with you.

00:50:45I don't want to just graft off your charity the rest of my life.

00:50:48I want a chance.

00:50:49A chance on my own.

00:50:51Only you're not getting the chance.

00:50:52I won't have you traipsing around, do you hear?

00:50:54Just because Dad doesn't go falling all over himself,

00:50:57you're not going to throw away a million-dollar business like Carter's for an idle whim.

00:51:01It happens to be my business, too, you know.

00:51:03And to think my own husband turns up his nose at it.

00:51:07Now, will you ring for Marie, please?

00:51:09I'm late already.

00:51:10And call Ferguson and tell him you've changed your mind.

00:51:12Hurry up.

00:51:16But I didn't change my mind, Leona.

00:51:21You mean you're still going?

00:51:22Yes.

00:51:22And I'm sure one day you'll see.

00:51:24It'll be better for both of us.

00:51:25Henry!

00:51:26Henry, wait!

00:51:30No, you're not going.

00:51:31Not as long as you're my husband.

00:51:33Leona!

00:51:34Come on, don't be silly, Leona.

00:51:35Give me that key.

00:51:36You can't do it.

00:51:36You can't do this to me.

00:51:38Nobody's ever done it.

00:51:38Nobody, nobody!

00:51:40Will you please stop it and give me that key?

00:51:42Henry, please, if you love me.

00:51:43If you love me at all, don't do this.

00:51:45Henry, I beg you.

00:51:46I promise you.

00:51:47I'll talk to Dad.

00:51:47I'll do anything.

00:51:48Anything you want.

00:51:49Only don't leave me.

00:51:50Don't go away.

00:51:51Give me that key.

00:51:52No, I won't.

00:51:52I won't.

00:51:53I won't.

00:51:53Oh, Henry.

00:51:54You're hurting me.

00:51:56Henry, please.

00:51:57I love you.

00:51:58Henry, don't.

00:51:59I beg you.

00:52:04Henry.

00:52:06Henry.

00:52:08Henry.

00:52:19Good evening, Wilkins.

00:52:21Good evening, sir.

00:52:24Stevenson upstairs?

00:52:25Yes, sir.

00:52:25She's upstairs.

00:52:35What is this?

00:52:36Anybody sick?

00:52:37I beg your pardon, sir.

00:52:39Henry.

00:52:40Henry, come here.

00:52:40I want to talk to you.

00:52:44What's the matter?

00:52:46It isn't Leona, I hope.

00:52:47Yes, it is.

00:52:48She had an attack today.

00:52:49A heart attack.

00:52:49She almost died.

00:52:51A heart attack?

00:52:53Come in.

00:52:54There's something I want to discuss with you.

00:53:02You two have any words this morning?

00:53:05Yes, but what's that got to do with Leona's heart?

00:53:08Weren't you supposed to have lunch together today?

00:53:11Yes.

00:53:12I'm asking you, why didn't you have lunch with my daughter today?

00:53:14Well, because I had to see somebody else.

00:53:15And she didn't object to it, eh?

00:53:17Yes.

00:53:17As a matter of fact, we had an argument over it.

00:53:19A rather private one.

00:53:21About what?

00:53:22Look, Mr. Cotterell, if you don't mind, I'd like to see my wife.

00:53:25You'll see her when she's ready to see you.

00:53:29Now, wait a minute, Mr. Cotterell.

00:53:30What's this all about?

00:53:31Sit down, Stephenson.

00:53:33Just in case you don't know it, Leona's had a heart condition since she was a little girl.

00:53:36Her mother died of it the day she was born.

00:53:38Leona can't stand being treated the way you did this morning.

00:53:40She never has been before, and she's not going to be now.

00:53:42By you or anyone.

00:53:44And what happens if once in a while her husband has an opinion of his own?

00:53:47I don't give a hoot about your opinions.

00:53:49Have them.

00:53:49Think anything you like.

00:53:50But while you're in this house, you do what my daughter tells you to do.

00:53:52Listen, Mr. Cotterell.

00:53:53I don't think this is the time for this kind of a discussion.

00:53:56But as long as you insist, I might as well tell you.

00:53:58The argument I had with Leona this morning was about a very important decision.

00:54:02Oh, nonsense.

00:54:03A decision I made as much for the sake of my wife's future as for mine.

00:54:07And now if you'll excuse me.

00:54:09And it was for the sake of her future that you had lunch today with Bill Ferguson, eh?

00:54:18Well, did you get the job?

00:54:22No, I didn't.

00:54:24You think you're so bright, Mr. Stevenson.

00:54:26But it so happens that Bill Ferguson sells me two million dollars worth of dyes every year.

00:54:30Who do you think he's going to care more about?

00:54:31You or me?

00:54:33So that's what's happened.

00:54:35Now, let's see.

00:54:35Who else in Chicago would you like to have lunch with?

00:54:38About a job.

00:54:39Go ahead.

00:54:40I'm open to suggestions.

00:54:41Face up to it, Stevenson.

00:54:42You haven't a chance.

00:54:44Just as long as you're my son and all you're working for Cotterells and nobody else.

00:54:47Come on, Stevenson.

00:54:48Stop being a kid.

00:54:50If you really cared for Leona the way I do, I'm sure you'd have done the same thing in my

00:54:53place.

00:54:54Besides, you haven't done so badly for yourself.

00:54:57And even if you think you have, it's still a whole lot better than Grassville.

00:55:01Now, you'd better go and see Leona.

00:55:04She's asking for you.

00:55:08Maybe I shouldn't have given in like that, Doctor.

00:55:11Maybe that was the moment to pull out.

00:55:13Yes, things might have been different.

00:55:15But somehow I couldn't.

00:55:17Probably the old man wasn't altogether wrong about me.

00:55:20No, I couldn't go back to Grassville anymore.

00:55:24I suppose from that day on I began to compromise.

00:55:28Always with the one hope in the back of my mind that somehow, someday I'd win out on my own.

00:55:33How long did this attack of Mrs. Stevenson's last?

00:55:35Oh, she got well pretty quickly.

00:55:38For a while, everything seemed to straighten out.

00:55:39I was given a new office, even a new title.

00:55:42But it wasn't long before we were back where we started.

00:55:45You mean she suffered another attack?

00:55:46Yes, several.

00:55:48I remember one day in particular.

00:55:50It was about a year later.

00:55:52I had an idea that I thought, that I hoped, might help the situation.

00:55:57If the first step's on your left, sir, shall I open it?

00:55:58It's all right.

00:55:59I have the key right here.

00:56:00Very good, sir.

00:56:01This way, Leona.

00:56:02Look, Henry, don't you think it's about time you let me in on this jolly little secret?

00:56:05Well, let me show you first.

00:56:06Just a minute.

00:56:07If it's another apartment, I don't want it.

00:56:09But you haven't even seen it, Leona.

00:56:11It's really something.

00:56:11It has terraces all the way around, a 45-foot living room, a private bar.

00:56:15Come on.

00:56:15I've told you a thousand times, we don't need an apartment.

00:56:19It isn't an apartment I'm looking for, Leona.

00:56:21What I want is a home, a home of our own.

00:56:23We just can't go on living with your father forever.

00:56:25I don't see why not.

00:56:27There's plenty of room.

00:56:28It's comfortable.

00:56:28I like it.

00:56:29Besides, who's going to pay for this little thing?

00:56:31Well, I hope eventually I will.

00:56:33Eventually.

00:56:33But in the meantime, it's my money, and I'm the one who's going to pay for it.

00:56:43Henry.

00:56:46Henry, you're so naive.

00:56:47You're like a little boy with a box of candy.

00:56:49I can't just throw my money away on everything you happen to see.

00:56:52There's a limit.

00:56:52A limit.

00:56:53Sure, there's a limit.

00:56:54I'm supposed to follow you around like a pet dog tied to a chain.

00:56:57I'm supposed to like whatever crumbs you want to throw me.

00:56:58Henry, don't be ridiculous.

00:57:00Yeah, you've got me sorted up 16 different ways for three meals a day and pocket money.

00:57:03That's all you care about.

00:57:04That's all you married me for, my money.

00:57:06I should have known it.

00:57:07I should have...

00:57:08Stop it, Leona.

00:57:08Let's not go to pieces.

00:57:09Please, just for once, will you listen to me?

00:57:11You hate me.

00:57:12You're bored with me.

00:57:13All you want to do is get away.

00:57:14Okay, I'm bored.

00:57:15Bored stiff.

00:57:16Who wouldn't be with that neat little routine you've got cooked up for me?

00:57:18What do I do but keep running back and forth between that rotten office and that stuffy house of yours?

00:57:22What do I have?

00:57:23Nothing.

00:57:24Nothing of my own.

00:57:25Not even the studs on my shirt nor the matches in my pocket.

00:57:27Henry, how can you say this to me?

00:57:29Remember?

00:57:30You told me once I'd love this kind of life.

00:57:32Do you want to know something?

00:57:33I do love it.

00:57:34I love it now more than you'll ever know.

00:57:36But I want to be my own boss, profiting by every bit of it.

00:57:38Not just a stooge on the outside looking in.

00:57:40Get it?

00:57:41Get me some water, Chris.

00:57:43Please, Leona.

00:57:43It isn't that I want to be without you.

00:57:45I could love you still if only you'd try to understand.

00:57:47Henry, I feel a lot.

00:57:49I came to know her better, of course, after a while.

00:57:52I held my temper in there about everything.

00:57:59But even so, no matter how hard I tried,

00:58:02her attacks increased in violence and became more and more frequent.

00:58:06Sometimes it was just some little thing that had set her off.

00:58:09Then, yes, it was about a year ago.

00:58:12She just seemed to give up hope of ever getting well.

00:58:14It took to her bed, more or less permanently.

00:58:17When we left for New York this summer,

00:58:19Dr. Burnett in Chicago told me she didn't have much of a chance.

00:58:23Since then, it's been more and more like a nightmare.

00:58:28I don't know exactly how to tell you this, Mr. Stevenson.

00:58:34It would probably be quite a shock to you.

00:58:36But if you want to know the truth about your wife,

00:58:39there's absolutely nothing wrong organically with her heart as the sound is a bell.

00:58:43I've examined her thoroughly.

00:58:45Your evidence just now confirms what I thought right from the beginning.

00:58:47And that is?

00:58:48That her condition is mostly mental.

00:58:50She's what we call a cardiac neurotic.

00:58:52Her attacks don't spring from any physical weaknesses.

00:58:54They're brought on by her emotions, her temper, and her frustrations.

00:58:58The whole thing is probably quite unconscious on her part.

00:59:02The pattern was laid out by her father.

00:59:05The mother died of heart failure.

00:59:07She was always so sure the child was affected, too.

00:59:10Subconsciously, you see, she learned her to deceive her.

00:59:13To simulate a false condition.

00:59:14Marriage continued the process.

00:59:18Oh, I'm sorry.

00:59:19It must have caught her.

00:59:20I hope I didn't break anything.

00:59:23That's all right.

00:59:24The number plate snapped off, that's all.

00:59:28Of course, I'm not saying that your wife isn't a sick woman.

00:59:31Mentally, she's very sick.

00:59:32And her attacks are real enough.

00:59:35They give her acute distress, even pain.

00:59:38But given proper psychiatric treatment, she may snap out of it entirely.

00:59:42Live on for years and years.

00:59:44Well, thank you very much, Mrs. Stevenson.

00:59:45You've been most helpful.

00:59:47I'll call on Mrs. Stevenson tomorrow.

00:59:49This is a psychiatrist.

00:59:49I want her to see.

00:59:50Just a minute.

00:59:52I wish you could wait a few more days, doctor.

00:59:54Could you?

00:59:56I'd like to think this over.

00:59:57Think it over?

00:59:58Well, yes.

00:59:59You see, she's so easily upset, and I think maybe I ought to prepare her, get her used

01:00:05to the idea.

01:00:06Well, naturally, it will be quite a shock.

01:00:09Perhaps a few days, more or less, won't matter very much.

01:00:12Unless you wanted to write her a letter.

01:00:14It might make it easier for her to take, and it would give me more time to talk to her.

01:00:18Well, that's an extremely delicate matter, Mr. Stevenson.

01:00:21But if you think you can manage it, let's try it that way.

01:00:23Give me a ring in a couple of days.

01:00:25Meanwhile, I'll write a letter to your wife.

01:00:27Thanks, doctor.

01:00:28Thank you very much for everything.

01:00:30And that's just the way I left it with her, not two weeks ago, Mrs. Stevenson.

01:00:33And I simply don't understand, because I wrote you as we planned on...

01:00:37Let me see now.

01:00:38We could go last Friday.

01:00:40I'll call you back later tonight.

01:00:42Now, just try to lie back and relax.

01:00:45I believe I prescribed her sedative for you, didn't I?

01:00:48Well, then, just double the dose.

01:00:49Hello?

01:00:51Hello, Mrs. Stevenson.

01:00:53Hello?

01:00:58Flyers!

01:00:59Flyers!

01:01:00Flyers!

01:01:01Flyers!

01:01:03Flyers!

01:01:04Flyers!

01:01:26Hello?

01:01:27Mrs. Stevenson.

01:01:28Yes?

01:01:29This is Mr. Evans.

01:01:30Has Mr. Stevenson come in yet?

01:01:31No, he hasn't.

01:01:32He won't be back till Sunday.

01:01:34Will you please, please, Mr. Evans, tell me what this is all about.

01:01:38Why are you calling him every five minutes?

01:01:40Who are you?

01:01:41I've already told you, Mrs. Stevenson.

01:01:43My name is Evans.

01:01:45Waldo Evans.

01:01:46I'm very sorry if I've annoyed you,

01:01:48but there are certain names and addresses that are important,

01:01:52very important, for Mr. Stevenson to know.

01:01:56So if you'll be good enough to take the following message...

01:01:59What are you talking about? I can't take any messages now.

01:02:02If you'll please tell Mr. Stevenson

01:02:04that the house at 20 Dunstan Terrace has been burned down.

01:02:09I burned it down.

01:02:11Also please tell Mr. Stevenson

01:02:13that I do not believe it was Mr. Morano.

01:02:16The name is spelled M-O-R-A-N-O.

01:02:21Who betrayed us to the police.

01:02:23As Mr. Morano has already been arrested.

01:02:26So there's no necessity for the money now.

01:02:29Morano?

01:02:30Who is Morano?

01:02:32Thirdly, will you please tell Mr. Stevenson

01:02:35that I escaped

01:02:36and am now at the Manhattan address.

01:02:38However, I do not expect to be here

01:02:41after midnight.

01:02:43If he wishes to find me,

01:02:45he may call the number

01:02:46Bowery 2-1000.

01:02:49And now I believe that's all

01:02:50if you'll be so good as to read it back to me.

01:02:53Read it back to you?

01:02:54Are you insane?

01:02:55Don't you realize I'm a terribly sick woman?

01:02:58I'm very sorry for you, Mrs. Stevenson.

01:03:01Perhaps it would be better to tell you

01:03:03before the true facts are garbled

01:03:07by the police.

01:03:11It happened on the second Monday in January

01:03:13of last year.

01:03:16The place was your father's plant

01:03:18at Cicero, Illinois.

01:03:30The place was your father's plant

01:03:48at Cicero, Illinois.

01:03:51Working late?

01:03:52Oh, yes.

01:03:53Yes, I'm afraid so, Mr. Stevenson.

01:03:54Catching up a little.

01:03:55I lost a little time last week.

01:04:14Anything I can show you, Mr. Stevenson?

01:04:16No, no thanks.

01:04:17Just curious.

01:04:18I've always been curious

01:04:19about this department.

01:04:20What you do here.

01:04:21This is where the formula

01:04:22for all our products

01:04:23are developed, isn't it?

01:04:24Well, I suppose you could

01:04:25put it that way, Mr. Stevenson.

01:04:26You see, there are many ingredients

01:04:28which go into

01:04:28the various pharmaceuticals.

01:04:30We break down the raw materials

01:04:32into their various components.

01:04:33Many of them extremely rare.

01:04:35Is that so?

01:04:36And, uh,

01:04:38what do you do with all this

01:04:39after you break it down?

01:04:40Why, it goes into

01:04:40the cartel of products.

01:04:42I know, but in the meantime,

01:04:43before you ship it out,

01:04:44where is it?

01:04:45Well, I'm afraid that's rather

01:04:46a company secret, Mr. Stevenson.

01:04:47But I suppose

01:04:48being Mr. Cottrell's

01:04:49son-in-law

01:04:52never do to leave it

01:04:53lying around loose.

01:04:58It's, uh,

01:04:59quite precious, you know.

01:05:00And you're the man

01:05:01in charge of it.

01:05:02I suppose I am.

01:05:07Doesn't it ever worry you?

01:05:08Worry me, Mr. Stevenson?

01:05:10Oh, pardon me.

01:05:17What I mean is, uh,

01:05:19being responsible for all this.

01:05:21For instance,

01:05:22suppose you were ever

01:05:23to make a mistake.

01:05:25A mistake, Mr. Stevenson?

01:05:27I've been working here now

01:05:28for 15 years,

01:05:29and I'm sure that no one

01:05:30has ever had cause to complain.

01:05:31Of course, of course.

01:05:33I was just,

01:05:34how shall I say,

01:05:35curious, that's all.

01:05:37I quite understand,

01:05:38Mr. Stevenson.

01:05:40I don't smoke.

01:05:42That's how I first

01:05:43became acquainted

01:05:43with your husband,

01:05:44Mrs. Stevenson.

01:05:45About a month later,

01:05:46I was waiting for my bus,

01:05:47as usual.

01:05:48Oh, Wally!

01:05:49Oh, oh, good evening,

01:05:51Mr. Stevenson.

01:05:51I've been.

01:05:52You're sure it's not

01:05:53too much trouble?

01:05:54No trouble at all.

01:06:02It's a very beautiful car,

01:06:03Mr. Stevenson.

01:06:05It's my wife's.

01:06:06Oh?

01:06:06I've never owned a car,

01:06:08and I've always seemed

01:06:08it's a bit too mechanical

01:06:09for me.

01:06:10Personally,

01:06:10I much prefer a brace

01:06:11of spanking horses

01:06:12and a good carriage.

01:06:14I've brought up around

01:06:15horses, you know,

01:06:16in Surrey,

01:06:16and I suppose one never

01:06:17gets it out of one's blood.

01:06:19Do you care for horses,

01:06:20Mr. Stevenson?

01:06:21No, not very much.

01:06:22Oh, you've seen

01:06:23a great deal.

01:06:24They're such fine creatures,

01:06:25so powerful,

01:06:27and at the same time

01:06:28so gentle and affectionate.

01:06:30I've often wished

01:06:31that I owned

01:06:32a small number of them.

01:06:34You don't say.

01:06:36Only I'd never

01:06:37keep them in the stable.

01:06:38That's far too cruel.

01:06:40I'd let them be free,

01:06:41as nature intended,

01:06:43in a very large meadow.

01:06:44And every day

01:06:45I'd go down there

01:06:46with bits of carrot

01:06:47and sugar and stroking.

01:06:49As a matter of fact,

01:06:50I've already picked out

01:06:51the perfect spot.

01:06:52It's near Dorking,

01:06:53in England.

01:06:54There's a bit of land there,

01:06:56all green grass

01:06:57and shade trees,

01:06:58with a beautiful brook.

01:06:59Horses do love a brook.

01:07:01I price it every now and then,

01:07:03just for my own amusement,

01:07:04you know.

01:07:05But it always seems

01:07:06just a little,

01:07:07how shall I say,

01:07:09beyond me.

01:07:11Sounds nice.

01:07:12But why is it

01:07:13always beyond you?

01:07:14Haven't you saved enough

01:07:14at that job of yours?

01:07:16Well, Mr. Stevenson,

01:07:17the high cost of living,

01:07:18you know.

01:07:19And,

01:07:20to be frank,

01:07:21I've become a bit

01:07:21overanxious on occasion

01:07:22for ready money

01:07:23and lost doubt

01:07:24on foolish speculations.

01:07:26But I'm putting

01:07:27a little aside

01:07:27now every month,

01:07:29someday,

01:07:29a very distant one,

01:07:30I'm afraid,

01:07:31when I've retired

01:07:32from my job.

01:07:33But why wait

01:07:34till you've retired?

01:07:35What good is a dream

01:07:36when you're too old

01:07:36to enjoy it?

01:07:37That's quite a truism,

01:07:39Mr. Stevenson.

01:07:39I suppose

01:07:40the zest does go out

01:07:41of things

01:07:41with the encroachments

01:07:42of old age.

01:07:43You said it, Wally.

01:07:44You can't live

01:07:45on dreams forever.

01:07:46Waiting only weakens

01:07:47you and your dream.

01:07:48My motto is,

01:07:49if you want something,

01:07:50get it now.

01:07:53It's the next turn

01:07:54on the right,

01:07:55Mr. Stevenson,

01:07:56number 54.

01:08:06Well, good night,

01:08:07Mr. Stevenson,

01:08:08and thanks ever so much.

01:08:09Oh, Wally,

01:08:10about that conversation

01:08:11we had at the lab

01:08:12last month,

01:08:12I've been thinking

01:08:13there might be

01:08:14a way out after all.

01:08:15A way out?

01:08:17Why, whatever

01:08:17do you mean,

01:08:18Mr. Stevenson?

01:08:19To have that meadow

01:08:19in England,

01:08:20those horses.

01:08:21How so,

01:08:21Mr. Stevenson?

01:08:22By making a mistake

01:08:23every once in a while.

01:08:25A mistake?

01:08:26Yes, nobody has to know.

01:08:27Please, Mr. Stevenson.

01:08:28Pardon me,

01:08:29I'd better be going.

01:08:33Wally,

01:08:33wait a minute.

01:08:34Yes, Mr. Stevenson.

01:08:37Look,

01:08:38I've got it all

01:08:38figured out.

01:08:39The differences

01:08:39need be so slight,

01:08:41nobody but yourself

01:08:41ever has to know.

01:08:43Why, a chemist like you

01:08:44ought to be able

01:08:44to work miracles.

01:08:45Work miracles,

01:08:46Mr. Stevenson?

01:08:47Certain.

01:08:47Is that what you've

01:08:48done for the company

01:08:48all these years?

01:08:49What have you gotten

01:08:50out of it?

01:08:51Nothing.

01:08:51Nothing but the

01:08:52dirty end of the stick.

01:08:57Wally!

01:09:00Come on,

01:09:01don't be silly.

01:09:01I've already talked

01:09:02the whole thing over

01:09:02with somebody else.

01:09:06You talked this over?

01:09:07With whom?

01:09:09A man named Murano.

01:09:10He'll take everything

01:09:10we can get

01:09:11and unload it.

01:09:11You know what

01:09:12offense is,

01:09:12don't you?

01:09:13We'll split the money

01:09:13three ways.

01:09:14You a drug thief?

01:09:16No, not necessarily.

01:09:17The Cotterall Company

01:09:18makes a lot of products

01:09:18we can dispose of.

01:09:19Mr. Stevenson,

01:09:20how could you?

01:09:21You, so young

01:09:22and fine.

01:09:23Yes, I'm young.

01:09:24Young enough not to

01:09:25waste my life in dreaming.

01:09:26There are things

01:09:26I want to do,

01:09:27big things.

01:09:28The only way to get them

01:09:28is to be strong,

01:09:29to be...

01:09:31Oh, what's the use

01:09:32of talking?

01:09:32I'm sorry, Wally.

01:09:33Sorry I brought

01:09:33the whole thing up.

01:09:34I trusted you because,

01:09:35well, I thought you

01:09:36were my kind of person.

01:09:37I guess I was mistaken.

01:09:38But, Mr. Stevenson,

01:09:39what if we were caught?

01:09:40I mean,

01:09:41why should we be caught?

01:09:42Moreno has it all figured out.

01:09:44Besides, for once

01:09:45there's an advantage

01:09:45in being Cotterall's son-in-law.

01:09:47It's just that I...

01:09:49I wouldn't want to see you

01:09:50take a chance like that alone.

01:09:54May I come in?

01:10:01And we weren't caught,

01:10:02Mrs. Stevenson,

01:10:02for nearly seven months.

01:10:04From March 9th

01:10:05to September 14th,

01:10:06we weren't caught.

01:10:08I never saw Mr. Morano.

01:10:10I merely carried out

01:10:11our mutual plan.

01:10:12And every Friday afternoon,

01:10:14Mr. Stevenson handed me

01:10:15the money.

01:10:16By September 14th

01:10:17of last year,

01:10:18I had saved a sum

01:10:20of $7,555.49.

01:10:25But it was in the early afternoon

01:10:27of that day that...

01:10:29When did you get it?

01:10:30It came this morning

01:10:31in the interoffice mail.

01:10:32I don't understand it.

01:10:33I never said a word.

01:10:35That's why I'm sure

01:10:35they must suspect.

01:10:36If they suspected anything,

01:10:38they'd have fired you outright.

01:10:39Call the police.

01:10:41I'm sorry.

01:10:41I can't help feeling

01:10:42this transfer to New Jersey

01:10:43is a sign,

01:10:44a warning.

01:10:45I'm sure of it.

01:10:48A sign of what?

01:10:49To stop this.

01:10:51Mr. Stevenson,

01:10:51I just can't go on

01:10:52any longer.

01:10:53Shut up.

01:10:59Now, what do you mean

01:11:00by this kind of drivel?

01:11:01It's just that money

01:11:02doesn't seem that important.

01:11:03Maybe not to you.

01:11:05Look here, you stupid fool.

01:11:06We've been a bunch of stooges

01:11:07up to now.

01:11:07Moreno's kicked us around.

01:11:09Now we have a chance

01:11:09to get rid of him.

01:11:10That transfer of yours

01:11:11is just what I was looking for.

01:11:12As a matter of fact,

01:11:13we're much better off

01:11:14operating from Bayonne.

01:11:15Look, you'll be your own boss

01:11:16aparting with me.

01:11:17I'll tell Moreno

01:11:18you've been laid off here.

01:11:19This setup's over.

01:11:20Then you and I

01:11:21will establish headquarters

01:11:22for ourselves back east.

01:11:23We'll operate on our own

01:11:24and split Moreno's share

01:11:25between us, see?

01:11:26Don't you think

01:11:26that's rather dangerous?

01:11:27I'm just a chemist,

01:11:28Mr. Stevenson.

01:11:29I don't know anything

01:11:30about that aspect

01:11:31of the business.

01:11:31But I do.

01:11:32I've been doing

01:11:33a little research

01:11:33and I'll teach you plenty.

01:11:34Come here.

01:11:35I'll give you an idea.

01:11:37This is the cholera plant

01:11:38at Bayonne, New York,

01:11:41Staten Island.

01:11:42One and a half months later,

01:11:44we began operations

01:11:45on Staten Island, New York.

01:11:48Our headquarters

01:11:48were an abandoned house

01:11:50at 20 Dunston Terrace,

01:11:51which I purchased

01:11:52for Mr. Stevenson.

01:11:54Here, twice a week,

01:11:55after work,

01:11:56I would come from

01:11:57your father's Bayonne plant.

01:11:59And here, Mr. Stevenson

01:12:01would mail me,

01:12:02or telephone,

01:12:03his instructions

01:12:03from Cicero.

01:12:05The character of our work

01:12:06now became more complex,

01:12:08inasmuch as I was

01:12:09directly selling the products

01:12:10as well as removing them

01:12:11from the plant.

01:12:13A little over three months ago,

01:12:14Mr. Stevenson arrived

01:12:16in New York himself

01:12:17to supervise the work.

01:12:18But unfortunately,

01:12:20it was at that time

01:12:21that the final chapter

01:12:23of our enterprise

01:12:24was being written.

01:12:26Pardon me?

01:12:38Come right in.

01:12:39Good evening.

01:12:41This is the professor.

01:12:42Wally, this is Murano.

01:12:44Murano?

01:12:44Yes, that's right.

01:12:45You didn't expect me,

01:12:46did you, professor?

01:12:48Now, with the kind

01:12:49assistance of Mr. Evans,

01:12:50that is the name,

01:12:51isn't it?

01:12:52Yes, sir.

01:12:52With the kind assistance

01:12:53of Mr. Evans,

01:12:54we'll proceed

01:12:54with our business.

01:12:55As I was saying,

01:12:56Stevenson,

01:12:57according to our information,

01:12:59and we have

01:12:59pretty accurate sources,

01:13:01since you decided

01:13:01to disassociate yourself

01:13:03from us,

01:13:03you have accumulated

01:13:04quite a stock,

01:13:05of which you have been

01:13:06able to dispose

01:13:07of only one-third.

01:13:09Now, that leaves

01:13:09quite an amount

01:13:10hanging around loose,

01:13:11doesn't it?

01:13:12Where is it?

01:13:15I told you,

01:13:16I don't know

01:13:16anything about it.

01:13:17You don't, huh?

01:13:20How about you, professor?

01:13:22As Mr. Stevenson

01:13:23just said,

01:13:23we don't know,

01:13:24I'm sorry to say.

01:13:25Well, so am I.

01:13:27All right, boys.

01:13:29Leave him alone.

01:13:30Leave him alone,

01:13:30I said.

01:13:31Hold it, fellas.

01:13:33Or you'll what,

01:13:35Stevenson?

01:13:47Look, Stevenson's size

01:13:48doesn't count

01:13:49in our business.

01:13:49We all know

01:13:50you're a big, strong guy.

01:13:51We all know

01:13:51you can fight.

01:13:52But this isn't the way

01:13:53you're going to settle

01:13:54the little difference

01:13:55our organization

01:13:55happens to have with you.

01:14:00Now, there's one thing

01:14:01I haven't told you

01:14:02yet.

01:14:05We had a,

01:14:06what do I call it,

01:14:07a board meeting

01:14:08last Thursday.

01:14:10And the vote was

01:14:11seven to one against you.

01:14:12That's pretty bad.

01:14:13I'm not saying

01:14:14I didn't argue

01:14:15the point,

01:14:15of course,

01:14:16but if you insist

01:14:17on being stubborn,

01:14:18there's nothing I can do.

01:14:20Stop beating about

01:14:20the bush for Pete's sake.

01:14:21What do you want?

01:14:23Now you're talking.

01:14:25Now let's just relax

01:14:26for a second.

01:14:27I'm sure the professor

01:14:28would like to get a load

01:14:28off his feet.

01:14:29It's a long way

01:14:30from here to pay on,

01:14:31isn't it?

01:14:31No, thanks.

01:14:32It's quite all right.

01:14:34Mr. Stevenson,

01:14:35I beg you,

01:14:35give them what they want.

01:14:36You can take everything

01:14:36I've...

01:14:37Shut up!

01:14:38You see, Stevenson,

01:14:39since you went into business

01:14:40for yourself,

01:14:40we've suffered quite a loss.

01:14:43Now, if you were

01:14:44to turn back

01:14:44what you've accumulated

01:14:45and pay us, say,

01:14:48$200,000

01:14:49for our injured feelings,

01:14:50I might get the board

01:14:51to reconsider their decision,

01:14:53provided, of course,

01:14:54the both of you

01:14:54continue working

01:14:55under our humble supervision.

01:14:56You know as well as I do,

01:14:57I don't have that kind of money.

01:14:58No, but you've got

01:14:59very good connections,

01:15:00a rich father-in-law,

01:15:02a rich wife.

01:15:03Yeah, a lot of good that does.

01:15:04What do you suppose

01:15:04I went into this business for?

01:15:06But I thought I read somewhere

01:15:07about your wife being sick,

01:15:09even dying.

01:15:14So what about her?

01:15:15She's got insurance,

01:15:17hasn't she,

01:15:17made out in your name?

01:15:19I'm pretty sure

01:15:19the board would give you,

01:15:20say, 90 days

01:15:21to raise the money

01:15:22on something like that.

01:15:24Why 90 days?

01:15:26Isn't that what

01:15:26the doctor said?

01:15:33Yes, that's what he said,

01:15:35but...

01:15:38What's that?

01:15:39Oh, just a little I owe you

01:15:40to make it legal.

01:15:42You see, everything

01:15:42can be straightened out

01:15:43without any trouble.

01:15:47I suppose something happened

01:15:48and she didn't...

01:15:49I mean,

01:15:50I mean, if she got...

01:15:51I wouldn't worry about it,

01:15:52Stevenson.

01:15:52You've got a doctor's word

01:15:53for it, haven't you?

01:15:54They know their business.

01:16:00I wouldn't say

01:16:01you had much of a choice,

01:16:02anyhow.

01:16:15That happened

01:16:16on the evening

01:16:17of the 23rd

01:16:18of this past April.

01:16:19I need not describe

01:16:20Mr. Stevenson's distress

01:16:21when, four days ago,

01:16:24the IOU

01:16:24came due.

01:16:26As I understand it,

01:16:28Mr. Stevenson

01:16:28saw Mr. Morano,

01:16:29but his request

01:16:31for an extension

01:16:31was most heartlessly refused.

01:16:34I have not seen

01:16:35either Mr. Stevenson

01:16:36or Mr. Morano since.

01:16:39And now,

01:16:40inasmuch as I've already

01:16:41given you

01:16:41the final message,

01:16:42I believe the rest

01:16:43explains itself

01:16:44quite simply.

01:16:45Mr. Evans,

01:16:46where's my husband?

01:16:46Where's Mr. Stevenson now?

01:16:48I wish I knew,

01:16:49Mr. Stevenson.

01:16:50Perhaps if you tried

01:16:51the Bowery number...

01:16:53The Bowery?

01:16:53The Bowery number?

01:16:55That I gave you

01:16:56in the message.

01:16:57And now,

01:16:58if you'll check it over

01:16:59with me...

01:16:59Yes, I can't!

01:17:00I can't!

01:17:01I'll repeat it for you,

01:17:03Mrs. Stevenson,

01:17:03once more.

01:17:05Point one.

01:17:06The house at

01:17:0720 Dunstan Terrace

01:17:08was burned down

01:17:09this afternoon

01:17:09by Mr. Evans.

01:17:11Point two.

01:17:12Mr. Evans escaped.

01:17:13Point three.

01:17:15Mr. Morano

01:17:15has been arrested,

01:17:16so it'll not be necessary

01:17:18to raise the money.

01:17:20Point four.

01:17:21It was not Mr. Morano

01:17:23who tipped off

01:17:23the police.

01:17:24But...

01:17:24It doesn't matter.

01:17:26Just give me

01:17:26the Bowery number.

01:17:27The one for Mr. Stevenson.

01:17:30Point five.

01:17:31Mr. Evans

01:17:32is at the Manhattan address,

01:17:33but he's leaving now

01:17:35and may be found

01:17:36at Bowery 2,

01:17:381000.

01:17:39Bowery 2,

01:17:401000?

01:17:41Yes,

01:17:42after midnight.

01:17:43Good night,

01:17:43Mrs. Stevenson.

01:17:44Thank you very much.

01:17:46Good night.

01:17:47Good night.

01:18:20Bowery 2,

01:18:211000.

01:18:21Bowery 2,

01:18:221000?

01:18:23Is Mr. Stevenson there?

01:18:25Mr. Who?

01:18:26Mr. Stevenson.

01:18:27Mr. Henry Stevenson.

01:18:28I was told to call

01:18:29by Mr. Evans.

01:18:30Just a minute,

01:18:31I'll see.

01:18:33Stevenson's name?

01:18:34Yes, that's right.

01:18:35All the phone.

01:18:40No,

01:18:41he's not here, ma'am.

01:18:42Oh.

01:18:43Well,

01:18:44Mr. Evans said

01:18:45he might be expected.

01:18:46Could I leave a message?

01:18:48A message, ma'am?

01:18:49We don't take

01:18:50no messages here, ma'am.

01:18:52They wouldn't do no good.

01:18:53No?

01:18:54Well,

01:18:56what number is this?

01:18:57What am I calling?

01:18:59Bowery 2,

01:19:001000, ma'am.

01:19:01The city morgue.

01:19:16Come on.

01:19:39Your call, please.

01:19:41I've heard her.

01:19:42Give me the police, quick.

01:19:43Ringing the police department.

01:19:45No, wait a minute.

01:19:54Give me a hospital.

01:19:55I can't be alone,

01:19:56I'm telling you.

01:19:57Hurry, hurry.

01:19:59One moment, please.

01:20:12Operator.

01:20:13Operator.

01:20:13Operator, what about the hospital?

01:20:15Hello, operator.

01:20:16Operator.

01:20:17Operator.

01:20:18I don't do.

01:20:19Is this a hospital?

01:20:20Yes.

01:20:21I want the nurse's registry.

01:20:23Who do you want to speak to, please?

01:20:25I want the nurse's registry.

01:20:26I want to hire a trained nurse

01:20:28immediately for the night.

01:20:30Pardon me just a second.

01:20:38Yes?

01:20:42All I know is that I'm a sick woman

01:20:49and I'm all alone in this horrible empty house.

01:20:52I overheard a conversation,

01:20:54a telephone conversation a while ago

01:20:57about, about a murder.

01:20:59A murder to be committed at 11.15.

01:21:03I, I don't know what's happened to my husband.

01:21:06If something isn't done,

01:21:08I'm afraid.

01:21:10I'm afraid.

01:21:13I'm afraid.

01:21:14I'm afraid.

01:21:20I'm afraid.

01:22:00What was that?

01:22:01What was what, madam?

01:22:03That, that click just now on my telephone.

01:22:06As though someone had lifted the receiver

01:22:08off the hook of the extension downstairs.

01:22:10I didn't hear it, madam.

01:22:11Well, I did.

01:22:13There's someone in this house.

01:22:15There's someone in the kitchen downstairs

01:22:17and they're listening to me now that...

01:22:25Who is it?

01:22:26Who's there?

01:22:28Henry!

01:22:30Henry!

01:22:32Henry!

01:22:47Hello?

01:22:48Sue Haven is calling Mrs. Henry Stevenson.

01:22:51Is she there?

01:22:52Yes, but I haven't any time to talk.

01:22:53Now call back later.

01:22:54I have a person-to-person call

01:22:55from Mrs. Henry Stevenson

01:22:57from Mr. Henry Stevenson.

01:22:59Do you not wish to accept the call, madam?

01:23:01Did you say Mr. Stevenson?

01:23:03Mr. Stevenson from New Haven?

01:23:06Do you wish to accept the call, madam?

01:23:08Oh, yes.

01:23:09Yes, I'll take it.

01:23:10One moment, please.

01:23:11Go ahead, New Haven.

01:23:12Go ahead, sir.

01:23:14Hello?

01:23:14Darling?

01:23:15Henry!

01:23:16Henry, where are you?

01:23:17Well, I'm on my way to Boston, dear.

01:23:19Stopping off between trains in New Haven.

01:23:21Did you get my wire?

01:23:21Yes, yes, I got it.

01:23:23I just thought I'd check up and see how you were.

01:23:25I was so sorry I couldn't reach you by phone,

01:23:27but of course I knew you'd be all right.

01:23:28Well, I'm not all right.

01:23:36There's someone in this house right now.

01:23:38I'm sure of it.

01:23:39Oh, now, honey, how could there be?

01:23:41Don't tell me you're still alone.

01:23:42Well, of course I've been alone.

01:23:44Who else would be here?

01:23:45You promised to be home at 6 o'clock.

01:23:46But, Leona, I thought I explained to you in my wire.

01:23:48I've been alone for hours.

01:23:49I've been afraid of every kind of horrible call.

01:23:52And, Henry, I want you to call the police.

01:23:54Do you hear me?

01:23:55Tell them to come over at once.

01:23:56Now, honey, you know you're perfectly safe in that house.

01:23:59It's all locked up.

01:23:59There's a private patrolman.

01:24:01You're right in the heart of New York City

01:24:02and the telephone's right beside your bed.

01:24:07Henry, what do you know?

01:24:09What do you know about a man named Waldo Evans?

01:24:13Waldo Evans?

01:24:15Why?

01:24:15What do you ask?

01:24:16He called me up tonight.

01:24:17I had a long talk with him just a little while ago about you.

01:24:21About me?

01:24:22What about me?

01:24:22Well, he told me some terrible things.

01:24:25Some of it sounded insane,

01:24:26but there were other parts that sounded true.

01:24:29You mustn't listen to every crazy crap that calls you up there.

01:24:31Now, just try to forget about it.

01:24:32They said you'd been stealing from Dad's company.

01:24:35Is that true, Henry?

01:24:37True.

01:24:37Of course not.

01:24:38What a crazy idea.

01:24:40Well, he left some kind of a message for you

01:24:42that the house on Staten Island,

01:24:4520 Dunstan Terrace,

01:24:46had been burned down

01:24:47and that the police knew everything

01:24:49and that Morano had been arrested

01:24:51and I...

01:24:53Are you still there, Henry?

01:24:55Yes, I'm here.

01:24:57They said you were a criminal, Henry,

01:24:58a desperate man.

01:25:00And Evans said...

01:25:01Evans said you wanted me to...

01:25:04to die.

01:25:06And that money, Henry,

01:25:07that money those people wanted.

01:25:09Why didn't you ask me for it?

01:25:11Well, I'd have given it to you gladly,

01:25:12but would have saved your life.

01:25:14I'll give it to you now if it isn't too late.

01:25:17That's all right.

01:25:17Forget about it.

01:25:18I didn't mean to be so awful to you, Henry.

01:25:22I only did it because I loved you.

01:25:26I thought you didn't love me

01:25:29and that you'd go away and leave me.

01:25:34Leona.

01:25:36Leona.

01:25:36Yes?

01:25:37I want you to do something for me.

01:25:39Will you forgive me, first Henry, will you?

01:25:40I want you to try.

01:25:41Please, Henry, please.

01:25:41Listen to me, Leona.

01:25:43I want you to try to get out of bed.

01:25:46I...

01:25:47I can't.

01:25:48You've got to.

01:25:49I want you to get out of that bed

01:25:50and walk to the window.

01:25:51I want you to scream out in the street, Leona.

01:25:53I...

01:25:54I can't move, Henry.

01:25:56I'm too frightened.

01:25:58Keep trying.

01:25:58Otherwise, you've only got three more minutes to live.

01:26:00Don't talk to me anymore.

01:26:02Just get out of that bed.

01:26:03I confess everything.

01:26:04Everything.

01:26:04I did steal from your mom

01:26:05and I was so desperate I even tried.

01:26:07I arranged to have you...

01:26:09Henry!

01:26:10Henry, there's somebody coming up the stairs!

01:26:13Get out of that bed!

01:26:14No!

01:26:15No, I can't!

01:26:17Please, please, please, please!

01:26:19Please, Leona.

01:26:20I'll find where they get me.

01:26:21They'll know.

01:26:21They'll find out from the run-off.

01:26:23Oh, no.

01:26:24No.

01:26:26Please.

01:26:27Please, I'll give you anything.

01:26:29Please, no.

01:26:31No!

01:26:33No!

01:26:57Ready with your party?

01:26:59Leona, hello?

01:26:59Leona!

01:27:02Sorry.

01:27:02Wrong number.

01:27:03Come on.

01:27:08No!

01:27:09No!

01:27:22No!

01:27:25No!

01:27:26No!

01:27:27No!

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Full Movie ｜ Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster [Full Movie] [Full Story]Full EP - Full

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