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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Full Movie ｜ Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster [Full Movie] [Ranked]Full EP - Full
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00:05:44SO AS I SAY
00:05:47WHEN I Kept getting
00:05:48the busy signal
00:05:48in my husband's office
00:05:49I naturally dialed
00:05:50the operator
00:05:51and told her
00:05:51to try it
00:05:52and she did
00:05:52and then
00:05:53out of a clear sky
00:05:55I was cut into
00:05:55this ghastly
00:05:56conversation
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00:05:58and now
00:05:59I'd like you
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00:06:00at once
00:06:00well madame
00:06:01that depends
00:06:02depends on what
00:06:03on whether
00:06:04the parties
00:06:04have stopped
00:06:05talking to each other
00:06:05well of course
00:06:06they've stopped
00:06:06talking to each other
00:06:07by now
00:06:08it was just
00:06:09a short call
00:06:10They weren't exactly gossiping.
00:06:12And what is your reason for having this call, Trace?
00:06:14Reason?
00:06:15Do I have to have a reason when I overheard two murderers?
00:06:17Isn't it obvious?
00:06:19Now, look here, my good woman.
00:06:20You probably don't understand.
00:06:22But a human being, a woman, is going to be killed somewhere, somewhere in this very city.
00:06:27And this murder is going to take place tonight.
00:06:29Do you hear me?
00:06:30Tonight at 11.15.
00:06:32Now, isn't that a good enough reason?
00:06:33I quite understand, madam.
00:06:35But I would suggest that you turn this information over to the police.
00:06:38Oh, for heaven's sakes, all this idiotic red tape.
00:06:41You just sit there and let people die.
00:06:51Your call, please.
00:06:53Give me the police.
00:06:53Yes, madam.
00:06:54Ringing the police department.
00:06:56Tick-tock, tick-tock.
00:06:58Listen to the big tick-tock.
00:07:00Isn't that nice?
00:07:02That's better.
00:07:04Say, maybe that's your mom calling for you.
00:07:10Precinct 17.
00:07:11Duffy speaking.
00:07:12Yes?
00:07:13Oh, yes, Mrs. Stevenson.
00:07:15I remember you.
00:07:17What?
00:07:18You what?
00:07:19A murder?
00:07:20Yes, go ahead.
00:07:23But there's lots of people by the name of George.
00:07:26And as for the private patrolman and 2nd Avenue and the bridge, 2nd 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, Queens, 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, well, it's not much more use to us than no clue
00:07:51at all.
00:07:52Unless you think there's something phony about this call and 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, there'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, for just one second?
00:08:12Oh, now, darling, what are you crying?
00:08:15Be a good girl.
00:08:16Everything is going to be all right.
00:08:19I'm sorry, ma'am.
00:08:21But I've got a couple of other things here on my desk that require my immediate attention.
00:08:25Good night, ma'am.
00:08:26All right, don't listen.
00:08:27Who cares?
00:08:32Who cares?
00:08:33Who cares?
00:08:56Oh, Henry, why'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 for 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?
00:09:38If I can talk.
00:09:39Can you talk?
00:09:40Sure, sweetheart.
00:09:42Go ahead.
00:09:42I can talk.
00:09:44A murder?
00:09:46Tonight, 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 that his first consideration is to you?
00:10:05I'll worry about the business.
00:10:07No, but really, dear, when 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 crew?
00:10:21Well, sometimes happens.
00:10:23No need to worry your head on a hot night like this.
00:10:26Oh, hi, everybody.
00:10:29Oh, it hurt me.
00:10:35I wish you'd get the whole thing over with and 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.
00:11:22Number 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.
00:11:36It's donated by Ballum's Drugstore.
00:11:37And the next number is...
00:11:39You're wanted on the phone, Miss Jennings.
00:11:40Miss Stevenson.
00:11:42Number 59.
00:11:4259.
00:11:43Bingo!
00:11:45Oh, baloney.
00:11:45May I check those numbers?
00:11:46What's the matter?
00:11:47What were you saying?
00:11:48Mrs. Stevenson wants to speak to you on the phone.
00:11:50She said it's very important.
00:11:52Mrs. Stevenson?
00:11:5359.
00:11:53Well, why, for heaven's sake, didn't you say so?
00:11:5672.
00:11:56Over there.
00:11:56A little lady right here at the end.
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 home 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.
00:12:32With a young lady.
00:12:33Oh, yes.
00:12:34Rather good-looking.
00:12:36She came into the office this morning.
00:12:37Said her name was Lorne.
00:12:39Mrs. Frederick Lorne.
00:12:41Seemed very anxious to see him.
00:12:43Waited for him at least two hours.
00:12:53Mr. Stevenson.
00:12:55Someone to see you.
00:12:56Some other time.
00:12:57I told you I'm busy today.
00:12:59Hello, Henry.
00:13:01Don't you remember me?
00:13:03Why, sure, sure.
00:13:05Well, now, what do you know?
00:13:08Come 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.
00:13:21But the conversation wasn't very long.
00:13:23And I do know Mr. Stevenson made a date.
00:13:25Show you to my table.
00:13:26I'll be there.
00:13:27I don't know why, but he didn't leave with her.
00:13:31I'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, except 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 for Mr. Stevenson to stay away all day.
00:14:02And I'm sure it's nothing to worry about.
00:14:04Oh, now, Mr. Stevenson, I do hope I haven't let any cat out of the bag.
00:14:08But I'm sure, Mrs. Stevenson, it was all quite harmless.
00:14:12Mr. Stevenson seems so devoted, speaks 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.
00:15:05Come on, Mr. Stevenson.
00:15:08Come on, Mr. Stevenson.
00:15:44Hello?
00:15:45Mr. Stevenson, please.
00:15:46He's not in.
00:15:46Who's calling?
00:15:47This is Mr. Evans.
00:15:48When do you expect...
00:15:49I don't know.
00:15:49He 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.
00:15:54Let's call 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.
00:15:5915 minutes.
00:16:00I will.
00:16:01And you'll tell him that I called, please, in case he does come in?
00:16:03Yes.
00:16:03The name is Evans.
00:16:05It's very important.
00:16:06Yes.
00:16:07All right.
00:16:16Hello, this is the Lord, resident.
00:16:18I'd like to speak to Mrs. Lord, please.
00:16:20Mrs. Lord, one moment, please.
00:16:23Is 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?
00:16:30Well, where 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.
00:16:44Headquarters on Staten Island.
00:16:46We have 20 Dunstan Terrace, Staten Island.
00:16:53Hello?
00:16:53Hello, Mrs. Lord.
00:16:54Yes, this is she.
00:16:55This is Mrs. Henry Stevenson.
00:16:57I don't believe we've met, but I understand you saw my husband this afternoon.
00:17:01Oh, yes, yes.
00:17:02As it so happens, Mrs. Lord, my husband hasn't come home this evening.
00:17:06I can't seem to locate him, and 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, but 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, are you trying to make fun of me?
00:17:42Just in case you don't happen to know it, I'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, is my husband there with you?
00:17:50Is he?
00:17:50Tell me the truth.
00:17:52It's three eggs separated, two measuring cups of milk, a third of a cup of shortening.
00:17:56Uh, then cream the shortening with a little sugar, then 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, but I can't talk now.
00:18:13Say, Mommy, you want me to ask Daddy to stop typing so you can talk better?
00:18:17Darling, please go to sleep.
00:18:18All right, Mom.
00:18:19Come on.
00:18:21It's impossible for me to explain right now, but I'll call you back as 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?
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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 in the hag line.
00:19:51I'm Leona Carter.
00:19:52What's your name?
00:19:53Oh, uh, this is Mr. Henry Stevenson.
00:19:55Hello, Henry.
00:19:55Shall we down?
00:19:56If you don't mind, miss, where I come from, it's the man who does the picking.
00:19:59All right.
00:19:59Go ahead.
00:20:00Why don't you get somebody your own speed?
00:20:02That is, I'm sure there are better dancers around.
00:20:04You'll do all right, Henry.
00:20:06Leona knows the way around the floor.
00:20:17You said your name was Cotterall?
00:20:19Yes, that's right.
00:20:20There's a big drug company by the name of Cotterall.
00:20:22I don't suppose there could be any connection.
00:20:24I'm afraid there is.
00:20:25My father owns it.
00:20:26You mean J.B. Cotterall?
00:20:30Anything wrong with that?
00:20:31No, it's just that I've always pictured J.B. Cotterall as a sort of walking tube of toothpaste.
00:20:37What do they call you, the aspirin aaron?
00:20:38No, I believe it's the cough drop queen.
00:20:47You know, there's nothing wrong with your dancing.
00:20:49Do you do a lot of it?
00:20:51Not at places like this.
00:20:52Oh, you're from out of town?
00:20:55Well, that depends on what you call out of town.
00:20:57Oh, I 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 and micropops.
00:21:11I'm sorry, I didn't know.
00:21:13That's all right.
00:21:15To be perfectly frank with you, I 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, he never got past the seventh grade.
00:21:23You don't say.
00:21:23My father always says, if a man hasn't any talent for making money, college won't knock it into him.
00:21:28And if he has a talent for making money, why should he waste his time in college?
00:21:33There's something in that, too.
00:21:34I guess your old man ought to know when 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 we sit the next one out?
00:21:45Sit it out?
00:21:46What for?
00:21:46I've got my own car off campus just 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, Sally's probably looking 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?
00:22:03But what about me missing her?
00:22:05Or did that idea ever 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 I can't oblige that Lagonda or whatever you call it.
00:22:37Tally Hunt.
00:22:39I'd never put the two of you together in a million years.
00:22:41Why?
00:22:42Why, you're both so different.
00:22:43You belong in different worlds.
00:22:46You don't belong here in Grasville, Henry.
00:22:48What makes you say that?
00:22:50Just a feeling.
00:22:52I've been around a good deal, and I...
00:22:55I think I can spot the real thing a mile away.
00:22:59Isn't that Grasville over there, Henry?
00:23:01Yeah.
00:23:06Guess we'd better turn around.
00:23:07Why?
00:23:08It's nice here.
00:23:09Think so?
00:23:11Stick around a few years and see how much you like it.
00:23:23Henry, that woman back there in the house who opened the door for me, was she your mother?
00:23:29My 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, but I never knew her.
00:23:41All she ever was to me was just a line of wet clothes hung across the kitchen.
00:23:45A mess of greasy pots and pans piled in the sink.
00:23:49All I ever saw of her was yellow soap and a mop in her old run-over shoes standing in
00:23:54the closet.
00:23:57But it's funny, I guess, but when I saw her lying there on the undertaking parlor last year, she seemed
00:24:03to me like somebody I hardly knew.
00:24:07I don't know why I'm telling you all this.
00:24:09There's nothing pretty or nice about my life anyway.
00:24:16Cigarette?
00:24:17Thanks.
00:24:21What's the matter?
00:24:22Nothing.
00:24:27What do you do here in Grassville, Henry?
00:24:30I have a job.
00:24:32Just a meal ticket till I can save up enough 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 and your father owns a hundred of them.
00:24:45Would you like to meet him, Henry?
00:24:48Who are you kidding?
00:24:50Nobody.
00:24:51I think Dad will like you very much.
00:24:54You're young, healthy, ambitious.
00:24:57And you probably know the drug business upside down.
00:25:00I wouldn't say that, Leona.
00:25:02Leona?
00:25:03Well, that's nice.
00:25:05Call me Leona again.
00:25:06I just work in 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, we're both acting like a couple of kids playing cat and mouse.
00:25:18Besides, what does a dame like you want with a guy like me?
00:25:24May I?
00:25:30Dad is coming to New York on business next weekend.
00:25:32I'm cutting my classes on Saturday.
00:25:36Why don't you want to come with me?
00:25:43I don't quite know how to say it, Leona.
00:25:45Well, say it and get it over with.
00:25:47For heaven's sakes, I'm leaving in a few minutes.
00:25:49You've been seeing a lot of Henry in the past few weeks, haven't you?
00:25:51Yes, what about it?
00:25:53Well, I just felt that I ought to warn you.
00:25:55Warn me?
00:25:56Henry's not the kind of man to play around with.
00:25:59Don't play around with him anymore, please.
00:26:00Who says I'm playing around with him?
00:26:03Well, he's just not your type.
00:26:05And you know it as well as I do.
00:26:07I like your name.
00:26:09Henry's poor, Leona.
00:26:10He's been bitterly poor all his life.
00:26:12I know that wouldn't matter to some boys,
00:26:14but it does matter to him terribly.
00:26:16I've known him all my life.
00:26:18Henry's father was a drunkard.
00:26:19He'd work one day and drink up every penny in the house the next.
00:26:22There were eight children.
00:26:24So?
00:26:25What has all this got to do with the price of eggs?
00:26:27Leona, don't turn his head.
00:26:29Or he'll never be able to find himself again.
00:26:31You mean you can't stand the competition?
00:26:33For heaven's sake, that's not the point.
00:26:34Oh, applesauce, just in case you don't know it,
00:26:36I happen to think a great deal of Mr. Henry Stevenson.
00:26:38Look, and I happen to think he's much too good for that town of yours.
00:26:41I never said he was.
00:26:42And if I want to make something 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 with him, Leona.
00:26:55So am I.
00:26:56And I don't go...
00:26:56And I usually manage to get it.
00:27:01But the fellow has nothing, honey.
00:27:02No background, no education, no training.
00:27:05And what did you have when you started in Amarillo, Texas?
00:27:08Look, honey, I've spent money on your education,
00:27:10taking you abroad,
00:27:11giving you everything in the world.
00:27:12What do you want to 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 with yourself just once?
00:27:26What does it matter to you if I love him or not?
00:27:28All you want is for me to stay home here with you
00:27:30for the rest of your life.
00:27:31Well, honey,
00:27:32what parent doesn't want to hold on to his child
00:27:34until he's sure she has something 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 so dependent on me
00:27:39you won't be happy until I feel the same way about you.
00:27:41What are you talking about, Leona?
00:27:42Haven't I always let you do anything you ever wanted to do?
00:27:44No, but marriage is something else.
00:27:47I've worked hard.
00:27:48I've heard of a big business just for you.
00:27:49And you yourself wouldn't want to see
00:27:51some worthless cluck of 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 of yourself and your business.
00:27:57You're hateful, selfish 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 your wonderful money
00:28:03and your wonderful business if 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 just as long as your business is safe.
00:28:10Leona, how can you say a thing like that?
00:28:12Oh, don't wait.
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.
00:28:16Leona, Leona, darling.
00:28:18I'm sorry.
00:28:19I didn't mean...
00:28:20We'll talk this over again, dearest.
00:28:21Maybe we can work something out.
00:28:23Leona.
00:28:24Wilkins.
00:28:26Wilkins.
00:28:35I, Leona, take thee, Henry.
00:28:37I, 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.
00:28:49From this day forward.
00:28:50From this day forward.
00:29:00I, Leona, take thee, Henry.
00:29:06I, Leona, take thee, Henry.
00:29:09I, 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.
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?
00:30:35Hello?
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, hearing from me after all of these
00:30:48years.
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.
00:30:58But about five weeks ago, a friend, he's my husband, and he works in the district attorney's
00:31:04office.
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?
00:31:11What kind of funny coincidence I read in the paper about an old boyfriend of yours?
00:31:15An 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, have taken
00:31:32a house for the summer in New York City.
00:31:34Mrs. Stevenson, in poor health for several years, is here to consult the eminent specialist,
00:31:39Dr. 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?
00:31:54A 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, but 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 and 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, and I suppose it wasn't.
00:33:20But anyway, at 6.30 that next Thursday, I went down to South Ferry.
00:33:36I don't know what I expected to see.
00:33:38As a matter of fact, there wasn't much I could see at first.
00:33:41But obviously, the stage was all set for something.
00:33:45Joe, his friend's closest friend, and 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 in marked 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.
00:34:04Come on, let's go.
00:34:09It may all sound silly to you now, Leona, my 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 borrow them.
00:34:40It 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, a young boy who was digging for clams by the water's edge.
00:35:16Further down, at the end of the beach, there 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 walking up toward the end of a small road
00:35:44leading 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, as 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.
00:36:08It 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, just as I was beginning to think it was all a wild goose chase,
00:36:28I saw something.
00:36:30Something quite strange.
00:36:50I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:36:51I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:36:52I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:36:53I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:36:55I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:36:57I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:36:58I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:37:00I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:37:01I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:37:02I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
00:37:03I was going to think it was all a wild goose chase.
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00:42:21WOULD YOU PLEASE
00:42:21GIVE ME SOME CHANGE
00:42:22I MUST MAKE ANOTHER
00:42:23TELEPHONE CALL
00:42:23I'M SORRY
00:42:24WE'RE CLOSING UP NOW
00:42:25LADY
00:42:25BUT I
00:42:52WHO IS IT
00:42:53WHO IS IT
00:42:54WHO IS IT
00:42:56WAIT A MINUTE
00:42:56I'M COMING
00:42:58CAN YOU HEAR ME
00:43:00I'M ALL ALONE
00:43:01HERE
00:43:02WHO IS IT
00:43:03FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE
00:43:04WHO IS IT
00:43:06I CAN'T
00:43:06COME DOWN
00:43:07I'M ON THE TOP FLOOR
00:43:08AND I'M SICK
00:43:16OH WAIT A MINUTE
00:43:17DON'T GO AWAY
00:43:18I NEED HELP
00:43:19PLEASE
00:43:20PLEASE
00:43:21DON'T GO
00:43:21CAN'T YOU HEAR ME
00:43:22CAN'T YOU HEAR ME
00:43:42I HAD TO CALL YOU
00:43:43FROM THE SUBWAY
00:43:43IT'S SALLY
00:43:44CAN YOU HEAR ME
00:43:45BETTER NOW
00:43:46THE STORES AROUND HERE
00:43:48ARE CLOSED BY NOW
00:43:48AND I COULDN'T FIND A BOOTH
00:43:49I'VE BEEN HOMELY ONLY
00:43:51SINCE I SPOKE TO YOU
00:43:52AND MORRIS HAPPEN
00:43:52THERE WAS A POLICE CAR
00:43:54STANDING IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE
00:43:55WHEN I GOT THERE
00:43:55IT SEEMS THAT HOUSE
00:43:57ON STATEN ISLAND
00:43:57THE ONE I SAW
00:43:58WAS BURNED DOWN
00:43:59THIS AFTERNOON
00:44:00THE POLICE HAD THROWN A CORDON
00:44:01AROUND IT
00:44:01THEY CAPTURED THREE MEN
00:44:03BUT THIS WARDO EVANS
00:44:04ESCAPED
00:44:05BUT WHO IS THIS WARDO EVANS
00:44:07AND FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE
00:44:08WHAT IS THIS CONNECTION
00:44:09WITH HENRY
00:44:09I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND OUT
00:44:11LEONA
00:44:11BUT I DO KNOW
00:44:12THE WHOLE THING
00:44:12HAS SOMETHING TO DO
00:44:13WITH YOUR FATHER'S COMPANY
00:44:14MY FATHER'S COMPANY
00:44:15WELL THAT'S ABSURD
00:44:16MY FATHER CALLED ME
00:44:17FROM CHICAGO TONIGHT
00:44:18HE NEVER MENTIONED A WORD
00:44:21WHO'S BEEN ARRESTED
00:44:22AND WHY
00:44:23THREE MEN
00:44:23I DON'T KNOW WHY
00:44:24AND WHY DO YOU THINK
00:44:25HENRY'S ONE OF THEM
00:44:26I DIDN'T SAY HE WAS
00:44:27I ONLY KNOW THAT
00:44:28HE IS INVOLVED SOMEHOW
00:44:29TERRIBLY
00:44:29DID THEY SAY
00:44:30HE'D BEEN ARRESTED
00:44:31OR WAS GOING TO BE
00:44:32NO NOT EXACTLY
00:44:33THEN WHAT ARE YOU TALKING
00:44:34ABOUT
00:44:34WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME
00:44:35LIKE THIS
00:44:35ARE YOU SO JEALOUS
00:44:37THAT I TOOK HENRY AWAY
00:44:38FROM YOU YEARS AGO
00:44:38ARE YOU CARE TO SEE ME
00:44:40HAPPY
00:44:40MAKING SOMETHING LIKE
00:44:42MAKING SOMETHING LIKE
00:44:42MAKING SOMETHING LIKE
00:44:43NOW
00:44:52HELLO
00:44:59HELLO
00:44:59YOU KNOW I'VE GOT
00:45:01A KIND OF A HUNCH
00:45:01THAT MAYBE WE OUGHT
00:45:02TO CALL THE CHIEF
00:45:03BEFORE WE GO DOWNTOWN
00:45:04HEY BRETT
00:45:05TRAIN'S HERE
00:45:06BE THERE IN TEN MINUTES
00:45:07YOU CAN CALL HIM THAT
00:45:16OKAY
00:45:23HELLO
00:45:24YES THIS IS PLATER 51098
00:45:26WHAT IS THAT
00:45:27THIS IS WESTERN UNION
00:45:28I HAVE A MESSAGE
00:45:29FOR MISSES HENRY
00:45:30STEPHENS
00:45:31IS THERE ANYONE THERE
00:45:32TO RECEIVE THE MESSAGE
00:45:33THIS IS MISSES
00:45:33STEPHENSON
00:45:34THE TELEGRAM IS AS FOLLOWED
00:45:36MISSES HENRY
00:45:37DARLING TERRIBLY SORRY
00:45:38BUT LAST MINUTE
00:45:39WE WISHES TO DELIVER
00:45:40A COPY OF THE MESSAGE
00:45:48THEN I WAIT
00:45:49THE TRAIN GOES OVER
00:45:50THE BRID
00:45:51CASE WAS CLEAR
00:45:52I GOT YOUR MESSAGE
00:45:53GEORGE
00:45:53EVERYTHING OKAY
00:45:54BUT TONIGHT
00:45:54HE HAS GONE BY
00:45:55AND MISSES
00:45:56HE HASN'T COME IN
00:45:57HIM
00:45:57BACK SUNDAY MORNING
00:45:59THEN I WAIT
00:46:02THEN I WAIT
00:46:03THEN I WAIT
00:46:03THEN I WAIT
00:46:04THEN I WAIT
00:46:04THEN I WAIT
00:46:04THEN I WAIT
00:46:10THEN I WAIT
00:46:17May I take the message?
00:46:19What does that matter?
00:46:21No, I could not say.
00:46:22If you'll give me your name and tell...
00:46:24Mrs. Stevenson.
00:46:27Mrs. Henry Stevenson.
00:46:29Yes.
00:46:31Plaza
00:46:3451098.
00:46:35I'll try to reach him for you.
00:46:56Uh, pardon me, sir.
00:46:58Your office is calling.
00:46:59Oh, thanks.
00:47:00Sorry, honey, I'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.
00:47:24Wrong!
00:47:24Everything's wrong.
00:47:25I want you to come over at once.
00:47:27I'm afraid I can't tonight, Mrs. Stevenson.
00:47:29Besides, we've gone into this so many times before.
00:47:31Do you just make up your mind to try to cooperate with your husband and me in our plan of
00:47:35action?
00:47:36Plan of action?
00:47:37What are you talking about?
00:47:38Why, Mrs. Stevenson, 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, hasn't he spoken to you, Mrs. Stevenson?
00:47:48What about?
00:47:50I must say, I don't understand.
00:47:52Look, Mrs. Stevenson, I'm afraid this is 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 we can discuss it tomorrow.
00:48:01You'll discuss it now.
00:48:01Do you hear me now, this very minute?
00:48:04All right, Mrs. Stevenson.
00:48:06Can you 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 the doctor's call to the booth?
00:48:16Hold on a moment.
00:48:21Hello?
00:48:23Hello, are you still there, Mrs. Stevenson?
00:48:25Yes, Doctor, yes.
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.
00:48:36It was then that I told him, from all accounts, Mr. Stevenson, your wife's illness seems to date far back
00:48:42in 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.
00:48:50You 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 her father then, in Chicago, at Lake Forest.
00:49:16Oh, Marie!
00:49:17Marie, will you get me Mrs. Stevenson's bag?
00:49:19Look, honey, about lunch today, I...
00:49:22I'd like to have Mrs. Stevenson'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. It'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? More 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? What on earth are you talking about? You 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. Stevenson alone.
00:50:02But, madame, he's 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? Nothing.
00:50:22What do you want to do, run the place after six months?
00:50:25No, 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, dead despises Deadwood.
00:50:35Sure, only 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, a 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 Dead 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? I'm late already.
00:51:10And call Ferguson and tell him you've changed your mind. Hurry up.
00:51:16But I didn't change my mind, Leona.
00:51:21You mean you're still going?
00:51:22Yes, and I'm sure one day you'll see. It'll be better for both of us.
00:51:26Henry! Henry, wait!
00:51:30No, you're not going. Not as long as you're my husband.
00:51:33Leona!
00:51:34Come on, don't be silly, Leona. Give me that key.
00:51:36You can't do it. You can't do this to me.
00:51:38Nobody's ever done it. Nobody! Nobody!
00:51:40Will you please stop it and give me that key?
00:51:42Henry, please, if you love me. If you love me at all, don't do this.
00:51:45Henry, I beg you. I promise you.
00:51:47I'll talk to Dad. I'll do anything. Anything you want.
00:51:49Only don't leave me. Don't go away.
00:51:51Give me that key.
00:51:51No, I won't. I won't. I won't.
00:51:53No, Henry. You're hurting me.
00:51:56Henry, please. I love you.
00:51:58Henry, don't. I beg you.
00:52:04Henry.
00:52:06Henry.
00:52:08Henry.
00:52:08Henry.
00:52:12Henry.
00:52:16Henry.
00:52:19Henry.
00:52:19Good evening, Wilkins.
00:52:21Good evening, sir.
00:52:23Stevenson upstairs?
00:52:25Yes, sir. She's upstairs.
00:52:35is what is this anybody sick i beg your pardon sir henry henry come here i want to talk to
00:52:41you
00:52:44what's the matter isn't leona i hope yes it is she had an attack today a heart attack she
00:52:50almost died a heart attack something i want to discuss with you you do have any words this
00:53:03morning yes but what's that got to do with leona's heart weren't you supposed to have lunch together
00:53:09today yes i'm asking you why didn't you have lunch with my daughter today because i had to see somebody
00:53:15else and she didn't object to it hey yes as a matter of fact we had an argument over a
00:53:20rather
00:53:20private one about what look mr carter if you don't mind i'd like to see my wife you'll see her
00:53:25when
00:53:26she's ready to see you now wait a minute mr carter what's this all about sit down stevenson just in
00:53:33case you don't know it leona's had a heart condition since she was a little girl her mother died of
00:53:37it
00:53:37the day she was born leona can't stand being treated the way you did this morning she never has been
00:53:41before and she's not going to be now by you or anyone and what happens if once in a while
00:53:45her
00:53:45husband has an opinion of his own i don't give a hoot about your opinions have them think anything
00:53:50you like while you're in this house you do what my daughter tells you to listen mr carter i don't
00:53:54think this is the time for this kind of a discussion but as long as you insist i might as
00:53:57well tell you
00:53:58the argument i had with leona this morning was about a very important decision oh nonsense a decision
00:54:04i made as much for the sake of my wife's future as for mine and now if you'll excuse me
00:54:08and it was
00:54:09for the sake of her future that you had lunch today with bill ferguson eh well did you get the
00:54:19job
00:54:22no i didn't you think you're so bright mr stevenson but it so happens that bill ferguson
00:54:27sells me two million dollars worth of dyes every year who do you think he's going to care more about
00:54:31you or me so that's what's happened now let's see who else in chicago would you like to have lunch
00:54:37with about a job go ahead i'm open to suggestions face up to it stevenson you haven't a chance
00:54:43just as long as you're my son and all you're working for carteros and nobody else come on stevenson
00:54:48stop being a kid if you really cared for leona the way i do i'm sure you'd have done the
00:54:53same thing
00:54:53in my place besides you haven't done so badly for yourself and even if you think you have it's still
00:54:58a whole lot better than grassville now you'd better go and see leona she's asking for you
00:55:08maybe i shouldn't have given in like that doctor maybe that was the moment to pull out
00:55:13yes things might have been different somehow i couldn't probably the old man wasn't altogether
00:55:19wrong about me no i couldn't go back to grassville anymore
00:55:24i suppose from that day on i began to to compromise always with the one hope in the
00:55:29back of my mind that somehow someday i'd win out on my own how long did this attack of mrs
00:55:34stevenson's
00:55:35last oh she got well pretty quickly for a while everything seemed to straighten out i was given
00:55:40a new office even a new title but it wasn't long before we were back where we started you mean
00:55:45she
00:55:45suffered another attack yes several i remember one day in particular it was about a year later
00:55:52i had an idea that i thought that i i hoped might help the situation it's the first steps on
00:55:58your left
00:55:58sir shall i hope it's all right i have the key right here very good sir this way leona look
00:56:02henry
00:56:02don't you think it's about time you let me in on this jolly little secret well let me show you
00:56:06first
00:56:06just a minute if it's another apartment i don't want it but you haven't even seen it leona it's really
00:56:11something it has terraces all the way around a 45-foot living room a private bar come on
00:56:15i've told you a thousand times we don't need an apartment it isn't an apartment i'm looking for
00:56:20leona what i want is a home a home of our own we just can't go on living with your
00:56:24father forever
00:56:25i don't see why not there's plenty of room it's comfortable i like it besides who's going to pay
00:56:30for this little thing well i hope eventually i will eventually but in the meantime it's my money
00:56:35and i'm the one who's going to pay for it henry
00:56:46henry you're so naive you're like a little boy with a box of candy i can't just throw my money
00:56:50away on everything you happen to see there's a limit sure there's a limit i'm supposed to follow you
00:56:55around like a pet dog tied to a chain i'm supposed to like whatever crumbs you want to throw me
00:56:58henry
00:56:59don't be ridiculous yeah you've got me sort of 16 different ways for three meals a day and pocket
00:57:03money that's all you care about that's all you married me for my money i should have known it i
00:57:07should
00:57:08stop it leona let's not go to pieces please just for once will you listen to me you hate me
00:57:12you're bored
00:57:12with me all you want to do is get away okay i'm bored bored stiff who wouldn't be with that
00:57:17neat
00:57:17little routine you've got cooked up for me what do i do but keep running back and forth between that
00:57:21rotten office and that stuffy house of yours what do i have nothing nothing of my own not even the
00:57:25studs on my shirt nor the matches in my pocket henry how can you say this to me remember you
00:57:30told me
00:57:31once i'd love this kind of life do you want to know something i do love it i love it
00:57:35now more than you'll
00:57:35ever know but i want to be my own boss profiting by every bit of it not just a stooge
00:57:39on the
00:57:39outside looking in get it get me some water please the owner it isn't that i want to be
00:57:44without you i could love you still if only you try to understand i came to know her better of
00:57:50course
00:57:50after a while i held my temper in there about everything
00:57:59but even so no matter how hard i tried her attacks increased in violence and became more and more
00:58:04frequent sometimes it was just some little thing that had set her off then yes it was about a year
00:58:11ago she just seemed to give up hope of ever getting well took to her bed more or less permanently
00:58:17when we left in new york this summer dr vernette in chicago told me she didn't have much of a
00:58:21chance
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 but 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 your evidence just now confirms what i thought right from the beginning
00:58:47that is that her condition is mostly mental she's what we call a cardiac neurotic
00:58:52her attacks don't spring from any physical weaknesses they're brought on by her emotions
00:58:56her temper and her frustrations the whole thing is probably quite unconscious on her part
00:59:02the pattern was laid out by her father the mother died of heart failure he was always so sure
00:59:08the child was affected too subconsciously you see she learned to deceive him to simulate a false
00:59:14condition marriage continued the process oh i'm sorry it must have caught i i hope i didn't break
00:59:21anything that's all right the number plate snapped off that's all of course i'm not saying that your
00:59:29wife isn't a sick woman mentally she's very sick and her attacks are real enough they give her acute
00:59:36distress even pain but given proper psychiatric treatment she may snap out of it entirely live on
00:59:42for years and years well thank you very much mr stevenson you've been most helpful i'll call on mrs
00:59:48stevenson tomorrow this is a psychiatrist i wanted to see just a minute i i i wish you could wait
00:59:53a few
00:59:53more days doctor could you i'd like to think this over think it over well yes you see she's she's
01:00:00so
01:00:01easily upset and i i think maybe i ought to prepare her get her used to the idea well naturally
01:00:07it will
01:00:07be quite a shock perhaps a few days more or less won't matter very much unless you wanted to write
01:00:13her a
01:00:13letter it might make it easier for her to take and it would give me more time to talk to
01:00:17her well
01:00:18that's extremely delicate matter mr stevenson but if you think you can manage it let's try it that way
01:00:24give me a ring in a couple of days meanwhile i'll write a letter to your wife thanks doctor thank
01:00:28you
01:00:28very much for everything and that's just the way i left it with him not two weeks ago mr stevenson
01:00:33and i simply don't understand because i wrote you as we planned on let me see now we could go
01:00:39last
01:00:39friday i'll call you back later tonight now just try to lie back and relax i believe i prescribed
01:00:46a sedative for you tonight well then just double the dose hello hello mrs stevenson hello
01:01:28this is mr evans has mr stevenson come in here no he hasn't he won't be back till sunday will
01:01:34you
01:01:35please please please mr evans tell me what this is all about why are you calling him every five
01:01:40minutes who are you i've already told you mrs stevenson my name is evans waldo evans i'm very sorry if
01:01:48i've annoyed you but there are certain names and addresses that are important very important for mr
01:01:54stevenson to know so if you'll be good enough to take the following message what are you talking
01:01:59about i can't take any messages now if you'll please tell mr stevenson that the house at 20 dunston
01:02:06terrace has been burned down i burned it down also please tell mr stevenson that i do not believe it
01:02:15was mr morano the name is spelled m-o-r-a-n-o who betrayed us to the police as
01:02:24mr morano has already been
01:02:25arrested so there's no necessity for the money now morano who's morano thirdly will you please
01:02:34tell mr stevenson that i escaped and am now at the manhattan address however i do not expect to be
01:02:40here
01:02:41after midnight if he wishes to find me he may call the number bowery two one thousand and now i
01:02:50believe
01:02:50that's all if you'll be so good as to read it back to me read it back to you are
01:02:54you insane don't you
01:02:56realize i'm a terribly sick woman i'm very sorry for you mrs stevenson perhaps it would be better to
01:03:02tell you before the true facts are garbled by the police it happened on the second monday in january
01:03:13of last year the place was your father's plant at cicero illinois
01:03:51working late oh yes yes i'm afraid so mr stevenson catching up a little i lost a little time last
01:03:57week
01:04:14anything i can show you mr stevenson no no thanks just curious i've always been curious about this
01:04:19department what you do here this is where the formula for all our products are developed isn't
01:04:24well i suppose you could put it that way mr stevenson you see there are many ingredients
01:04:28which go into the various pharmaceuticals we break down the raw materials into their various components
01:04:33many of them extremely rare is that so and uh what do you do with all this after you break
01:04:39it down
01:04:39why it goes into the cartel products i know but in the meantime before you ship it out where is
01:04:44it
01:04:45well i'm afraid that's rather a company secret mr stevenson but i suppose the mr cartel's son-in-law
01:04:52never do to leave it lying around loose
01:04:58it's quite precious you know and you're the man in charge of it i suppose i am
01:05:06uh doesn't it ever worry you worry me mr stevenson oh pardon me
01:05:16thank you what i mean is uh being responsible for all this for instance suppose you were ever to make
01:05:25a mistake a mistake mr stevenson i've been working here now for 15 years and i'm sure that no one
01:05:30has ever had cause to complain of course of course i was just how shall i say curious that's all
01:05:37why i quite understand mr stevenson i don't smoke that's how i first became acquainted with your
01:05:44husband mrs stevenson about a month later i was waiting for my bus as usual oh wally
01:05:49oh oh good evening mr stevenson hop in you're sure it's not too much trouble no trouble at all
01:06:02it's a very beautiful car mr stevenson it's my wife's oh i've never owned a car they've always
01:06:08seemed it's a bit too mechanical for me personally i much prefer a brace of spanking horses and a good
01:06:13carriage i've brought up around horses you know in surrey and i suppose one never gets it out of one's
01:06:18blood you care for horses mr stevenson no not very much oh you've seen a great deal they're such
01:06:24fine creatures so so powerful and at the same time so gentle and affectionate i've often wished
01:06:31that i owned a small number of them you don't say only i'd never keep them in the stable that's
01:06:39far too
01:06:39cruel i'd let them be free as nature intended in a very large meadow and every day i'd go down
01:06:46there
01:06:46with bits of carrot and sugar and stroke as a matter of fact i've already picked out the perfect spot
01:06:52it's near dorking england a bit of land there all green grass and shade trees with a beautiful brook
01:06:59horses do love a brook i price it every now and then just for my own amusement you know but
01:07:05it always
01:07:05seems just a little how shall i say beyond me sounds nice but why is it always beyond you haven't
01:07:14you saved enough at that job of yours well mr stevenson the high cost of living you know and
01:07:20to be frank i've become a bit over anxious on occasion for ready money and lost out on foolish
01:07:24speculations but i'm putting a little aside now every month someday very distant one i'm afraid when
01:07:31i've retired from my job but why wait till you've retired what good is a dream when you're too old
01:07:36to enjoy it that's quite a truism mr stevenson i suppose the zest does go out of things with the
01:07:42encroachments of old age you said it wally you can't live on dreams forever waiting only weakens you
01:07:47and your dream my motto is if you want something get it now
01:07:53it's the the next turn on the right mr stevenson number 54
01:08:06well good night mr stevenson and thanks ever so much oh wally about that conversation we had
01:08:12the lab last month i've been thinking there might be a way out after all a way out by whatever
01:08:17do you
01:08:18mean mr stevenson to have that meadow in england those horses how soon mr stevenson by making a
01:08:23mistake every once in a while a mistake yes nobody has to know please mr stevenson pardon me i'd better
01:08:29be going to be going wally wait a minute yes mr stevenson look i've got it all figured out the
01:08:39differences need be so slight nobody but yourself ever has to know why a chemist like you want to be
01:08:44able to work miracles work miracles mr stevenson certainly look what you've done for the company
01:08:48all these years what have you gotten out of it nothing nothing but the dirty end of the stick
01:09:01i've already talked the whole thing over with somebody else
01:09:06you talk this over with whom a man named morano you'll take everything we can get and unload it
01:09:11you know what offense is don't you we'll split the money three ways you a drug thief no not
01:09:16necessarily the coderall company makes a lot of products we can dispose of mr stevenson how could
01:09:21you you so so young and fine yes i'm young young enough not to waste my life in dreaming there
01:09:26are
01:09:26things i want to do big things the only way to get them is to be strong to be now
01:09:31what's the use of
01:09:32talking i'm sorry wally sorry i brought the whole thing up i trusted you because well i thought you were
01:09:36my kind of person i guess i was mistaken but mr stevenson what if we were caught i mean why
01:09:41should we
01:09:42be caught morano has it all figured out besides for once there's an advantage in being coderall's
01:09:46son-in-law it's just that i i wouldn't want to see you take a chance like that alone
01:09:54may i come in
01:10:01and we weren't caught mrs stevenson for nearly seven months from march 9th to september 14th we weren't
01:10:07caught i never saw mr morano i merely carried out our mutual plan every friday afternoon mr stevenson
01:10:14handed me the money by september 14th of last year i had saved the sum of seven thousand five hundred
01:10:22and fifty five dollars and 49 cents but it was in the early afternoon of that day that when did
01:10:29you
01:10:29get it it came this morning in the interoffice mail i don't understand it i never said a word
01:10:34that's why i'm sure they must suspect if they suspected anything they'd have fired you outright
01:10:39call the police i'm sorry i can't help feeling this transfer to new jersey is a sign a warning i'm
01:10:45sure
01:10:45of it a sign of what to stop this mr stevenson i just can't go on any longer shut up
01:10:59now what do you mean by this kind of drivel it's just that money doesn't seem that important maybe not
01:11:04to you look here you stupid fool we've been a bunch of stooges up to now moreno's kicked us around
01:11:08now we have a chance to get rid of them that transfer of yours is just what i was looking
01:11:12for
01:11:12as a matter of fact we're much better off operating from bayonne look you'll be your own boss apart
01:11:17with me i'll tell morano you've been laid off here this setup's over then you and i'll establish
01:11:21headquarters for ourselves back east we'll operate on our own and split rano's share between us see
01:11:25don't you think that's rather dangerous i'm just a chemist mr stevens and i don't know anything
01:11:30about that aspect of the business but i do i've been doing a little research and i'll teach you
01:11:34plenty come here i'll give you an idea this is the cholera plant at bayonne new york staten island
01:11:42one and a half months later we began operations on on staten island new york our headquarters were
01:11:49an abandoned house at 20 dunston terrace which i purchased for mr stevens here twice a week after
01:11:56work i would come from your father's bayonne plant and here mr stevenson would mail me or telephone
01:12:02his instructions from cicero the character of our work now became more complex inasmuch as i was
01:12:09directly selling the products as well as removing them from the plant a little over three months ago
01:12:14mr stevenson arrived in new york himself to supervise the work but unfortunately it was at that time that
01:12:21the final chapter of our enterprise was being written pardon me
01:12:38come right in good evening this is the professor wally this is morano morano yes that's right you
01:12:45expect me did you professor now with the kind assistance of mr evans that is the name isn't it
01:12:52yes sir with the kind assistance of mr evans we'll proceed with our business as i was saying
01:12:56stevenson according to our information and we have pretty accurate sources since you decided to
01:13:02disassociate yourself from us you have accumulated quite a stock of which you have been able to
01:13:07dispose of only one third and that leaves quite an amount hanging around loose doesn't it where is it
01:13:15i told you i don't know anything about it you don't how about you professor as mr stevenson just said
01:13:23we don't know i'm sorry to say well so am i all right boys leave him alone leave him alone
01:13:30i said
01:13:31hold it fellas oh you'll what stevenson
01:13:47look stevenson size doesn't count in our business we all know you're a big strong guy we all know
01:13:51you can fight but this isn't the way you're going to settle the little difference our organization
01:13:55happens to have with you now there's one thing i haven't told you yet we had a what do i
01:14:07call it a
01:14:07board meeting last thursday and the vote was seven to one against you that's pretty bad
01:14:13i'm not saying i didn't argue the point of course but you insist on being stubborn there's nothing i can
01:14:19do stop beating about the bush for pete's sake what do you want yeah now you're talking now let's just
01:14:26relax for a second i'm sure the professor would like to get a load off his feet it's a long
01:14:30way
01:14:30from here to bayon isn't it no thanks it's quite all right mr stevenson i beg you give them what
01:14:35they
01:14:35want you take everything i shut up you see stevenson since you went into business for yourself we've
01:14:41suffered quite a loss now uh if you were to turn back what you've accumulated and pay us say uh
01:14:47two hundred thousand dollars uh for our injured feelings i might get the board to reconsider their
01:14:52decision provided of course the both of you continue working under our humble supervision
01:14:56you know as well as i do i don't have that kind of money no but you've got very good
01:15:00connections a
01:15:01rich father-in-law a rich wife yeah a lot of good that does what do you suppose i went
01:15:05into this
01:15:05business for but i thought i read somewhere about your wife being sick even dying
01:15:14so what about it she's got insurance hasn't she made out in your name i'm pretty sure the board
01:15:20would give you say 90 days to raise the money on something like that why 90 days isn't that what
01:15:26the doctor said yes that's what he said but
01:15:38what's that oh just a little i owe you to make it legal you see everything can be straightened out
01:15:43without any trouble
01:15:47i suppose something happened and she didn't i mean i mean if she got i wouldn't worry about it
01:15:52stevenson you've got a doctor's word for it haven't you they know their business
01:16:00i wouldn't say you had much of a choice anyhow
01:16:15that happened on the evening of the 23rd of this past april i need not describe mr stevenson's distress
01:16:22when four days ago the iou came due as i understand it mr stevenson saw mr morano
01:16:30but his request for an extension was most heartlessly refused i have not seen either
01:16:35mr stevenson or mr morano since
01:16:39and now in as much as i've already given you the final message i believe the rest explains itself
01:16:44quite simply mr evans where's my husband where's mr stevenson now i wish i knew mrs stevenson
01:16:50perhaps if you tried the bowery number the bowery the bowery number that i gave you in the message
01:16:57and now if you will check it over with me i can't i can't i'll repeat it for you mrs
01:17:03stevenson once
01:17:04more point one the house at 20 dunston terrace was burned down this afternoon by mr evans
01:17:11point two mr evans escaped point three mr morano has been arrested so it'll not be necessary to raise
01:17:19the money point four it was not mr morano who tipped off the police it doesn't matter just give me
01:17:26the
01:17:26bowery number the one for mr stevenson point five mr evans is at the manhattan address but he's leaving
01:17:34now and may be found at bowery two one thousand bowery two one thousand yes after midnight good night mr
01:17:43stevenson thank you very much good night
01:17:48so
01:18:26it's not here ma'am oh
01:18:43well mr evans said he might be expected could i leave a message message ma'am we don't take no
01:18:50messages here ma'am they wouldn't do no good no well what number is this who what am i calling
01:18:59maury two one thousand ma'am the city morgue
01:19:02ma'am they're dead
01:19:22ma'am i'm
01:19:39Your call, please.
01:19:41I've heard...
01:19:42Give me the police, quick.
01:19:43Ringing the police department.
01:19:45No, wait a minute.
01:19:54Give me...
01:19:55I can't be alone, I'm telling you.
01:19:57Hurry, hurry!
01:19:59One moment, please.
01:20:12Operator, operator, what about the hospital?
01:20:15Hello, operator, operator, operator!
01:20:18Tell you.
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 immediately for the night.
01:20:30Pardon me just a second.
01:20:38Yes, and what were you saying?
01:20:40I said I want to hire a trained nurse.
01:20:42I need her immediately.
01:20:43We quite understand that, madam.
01:20:45But in the first place, this is a city house.
01:20:47All I know is that I'm a sick woman, and I'm all alone in this horrible, empty house.
01:20:52I overheard a conversation, a telephone conversation a while ago about, about a murder.
01:20:59A murder to be committed at 11.50.
01:21:03I, I don't know what's happened to my husband.
01:21:06If, if something isn't done, I'm afraid.
01:21:10I'm afraid.
01:21:12I, I won't know what's happened to my husband.
01:22:00what was that what was what madam that clicked just now on my telephone as though someone had
01:22:07lifted the receiver off the hook of the extension downstairs i didn't hear it madam well i did
01:22:13there's someone in this house there's someone in the kitchen downstairs and they're listening to me
01:22:18now
01:22:25who is it who's there
01:22:46hello
01:23:00did you say mr steven mr stevenson from from new haven do you wish to accept the call madam
01:23:07oh yes yes i'll take it one moment please go ahead new haven go ahead sir hello darling
01:23:15henry henry where are you why i'm on my way to boston dear stopping off between trains in new
01:23:20haven did you get my wire yes yes i got it i just thought i'd check up and see how
01:23:24you were
01:23:25i was so sorry i couldn't reach you by phone but of course i knew you'd be all right well
01:23:28i'm not all
01:23:29right
01:23:35there's someone in this house right now i'm sure of it
01:23:39oh now honey how could there be don't tell me you're still alone
01:23:42well of course i've been alone who else would be here you promised to be home at six o'clock
01:23:46but leona i thought i explained to you in my wire i've been alone for hours i've been a prey
01:23:50to every
01:23:50kind of horrible call and henry i want you to call the police do you hear me tell them to
01:23:55come over
01:23:56at once now honey you know you're perfectly safe in that house it's all locked up there's a private
01:24:00patrolman you're right in the heart of new york city and the telephone is right beside your bed
01:24:06henry what do you know what do you know about a man named waldo evans waldo evans why what do
01:24:16you
01:24:16ask he called me up tonight i had long talk with him just a little while ago about you about
01:24:21me
01:24:21what about me well he told me some terrible things some of it sounded insane but there were
01:24:27other parts that sounded true you mustn't listen to every crazy crap that calls you up there now
01:24:31just try to forget about it hey they said you'd been stealing from dad's company is that true henry
01:24:36true of course not what a crazy idea well he he left some kind of a message for you that
01:24:43the
01:24:43their house on staten island 20 dunston terrace had been burned down and that the the police knew
01:24:48everything and that morano had been arrested and uh are you still there henry yes i'm here
01:24:56they said you were a criminal henry a desperate man and evans said evans said you wanted me to
01:25:04to die and that money henry that money those people wanted why didn't you ask me for it well i'd
01:25:11have
01:25:11given it to you gladly but would have saved your life i'll give it to you now if it isn't
01:25:16too late
01:25:16that's all right forget about it i didn't mean to be so awful to you henry i i only did
01:25:23it because i
01:25:24loved you i thought you didn't love me and that you'd go away and leave me
01:25:35leona leona yes i want you to do something for me will you forgive me for him i will you
01:25:40i want you to try listen to me leona i want you to try to get out of bed
01:25:46i i can't you got you i want you to get out of that bed and walk to the window
01:25:51i want you to
01:25:52scream out in the street leona i i can't move henry i'm too frightened keep trying otherwise you've
01:25:59only got three more minutes to live don't talk to me anymore just get out of that bed i confess
01:26:03everything everything i did steal your mom and i was so desperate i even tried i arranged to have you
01:26:10henry henry henry there's somebody coming up the stairs get out of that bed no no i can't
01:26:19please don't i'll find them if they get me they'll know they'll find out from the run
01:26:25please don't i'll give you anything please don't i'll give you anything please no no
01:26:57ready with your party leona hello leona sorry wrong number
01:27:30you
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