...Sorry, ...Wrong ...Number ...(1948) ...Full ...Movie ...｜ ...Starring ...Barbara ...Stanwyck, ...Burt ...Lancaster [Full Movie] [Full Episodes]Full EP - Full

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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Full Movie ｜ Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster [Full Movie] [Full Episodes]Full EP - Full

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00:05:44SO AS I SAY

00:05:47WHEN I KEPT

00:05:47GETTING THE BUSY

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00:05:49HUSBAND'S OFFICE

00:05:49I NATURALLY DIALLED

00:05:50THE OPERATOR

00:05:51AND TOLD HER TO TRY IT

00:05:52AND SHE DID

00:05:52AND THEN

00:05:53OUT OF A CLEAR SKY

00:05:55I WAS CUT INTO THIS

00:05:55GHASTLY CONVERSATION

00:05:57BETWEEN TWO KILLERS

00:05:58AND NOW I'D LIKE YOU

00:05:59TO TRACE IT FOR ME

00:06:00AT ONCE

00:06:00WELL MATAM

00:06:01that depends. Depends on what? On whether the parties have stopped talking to each other. Well,

00:06:06of course they've stopped talking to each other by now. It was just a short call. They weren't

00:06:11exactly gossiping. And what is your reason for having this call? Reason? Do I have to have a

00:06:16reason when I overheard two 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 killed somewhere, somewhere in this

00:06:27very city. And this murder is going to take place tonight. Do you hear me? Tonight at 1115. Now,

00:06:32isn't that a good enough reason? 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. You just sit

00:06:42there and let people die. Your call, please. Give me the police. Yes, madam, ringing the police

00:06:55department. Tick-tock, tick-tock. Listen to the big tick-tock. Isn't that nice? That's

00:07:03better. Say, maybe that's your mom calling for you.

00:07:10Pacing 17, Duffy speaking. Yes? Oh, yes, Mrs. Stevenson. I remember you. What? You what?

00:07:19A murder. Yes, go ahead. But there's lots of people by the name of George. And as for

00:07:27the private patrolman on 2nd Avenue and the bridge, 2nd Avenue is a very long street. And

00:07:33you happen to know how many bridges there are in the city of New York alone? Not to mention

00:07:37Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx. You know, telephones are very funny things.

00:07:43Now, look, lady. A lot of murders are committed in this town every day. If we could stop them,

00:07:46we wouldn't. A clue of this kind that's so vague, well, it's not much more use to us than no

00:07:51clue

00:07:51at all, unless you think there's something phony about this call and somebody's planning to murder

00:07:55you. Me? Well, of course not. That would be ridiculous. I mean, why should anybody? Well,

00:08:02you see, ma'am, there's nothing for you to worry about. Now, 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 trying to? Be a good girl. Everything is going to be

00:08:17all right. Well, I'm sorry, ma'am, but I've got a couple of other things here on my desk

00:08:23that require my immediate attention. Good night, ma'am. All right, don't listen. Who cares?

00:08:55Henry.

00:08:56Henry. Oh, Henry, why'd you leave me alone?

00:09:13Hello? Is this Plaza 51098? Yes? I have a person-to-person call for Mrs. Henry Stevenson.

00:09:20Chicago is calling. Oh. This is Mrs. Stevenson. One moment, please. Go ahead, sir. Hello,

00:09:30Leona. Hello, Dad. Is that you, sweetie, huh? And how's my girl tonight? What are you doing,

00:09:36Dad? What's that? Can you talk? I can talk. Can you talk? Sure, sweetheart. Go ahead. I can

00:09:43talk. A murder? Tonight, 1115? You call the police, eh? But how come? Where's Henry? Where's

00:09:52your nurse? Oh, Henry told her she could, did he? Well, then why didn't he come home?

00:09:59Business. Business? What business? Didn't I tell him time and again that his first consideration

00:10:04is to you? I'll worry about the business. No, but really, dear, when the guy has another

00:10:10responsibility in the world, and just because I'm not around to check up on him, just forget

00:10:14about him. Maybe just a gag. A couple of actors, maybe. On a radio program. Radio? Radio

00:10:21Sometimes happens. No need to worry your head on a hot night like this. Oh, hurry, everybody.

00:10:29Oh, pardon me. I wish you'd get the whole thing over with and come home. House is like

00:10:39a morgue without you. Okay, dear, I won't keep you, but I just wanted to check up as usual.

00:10:44You'll call me tomorrow? Yes, dear, I'll call you tomorrow night, same time. Oh, and, Pet,

00:10:49tell Henry to call me at the office tomorrow morning. I'll have a talk with him.

00:11:03Number 9999. Number 1717. There's a telephone call for Miss Elizabeth Jennings. Okay. There's

00:11:12a telephone call for Miss Elizabeth Jennings. Number 46. Miss Elizabeth Jennings is wanted

00:11:19on the phone. Number 23. Twenty-three. Twenty-three. Oh, that makes two fours. All I need now

00:11:27is 14 or 65. Miss Jennings. Just a second, please. Just a second. We're getting pretty

00:11:32close now, ladies. Pretty close to that super-duper electric break. It's donated by

00:11:36Ballum's Drugstore, and the next number is... You're wanted on the phone, Miss Jennings.

00:11:40Miss Stevenson. Number 59. Bingo! Oh, baloney. May I check those numbers? What's the matter?

00:11:47What were you saying? Mrs. Stevenson wants to speak to you on the phone. She said it's

00:11:51very important. Mrs. Stevenson? Well, why, for heaven's sake, didn't you say so?

00:12:09Hello? I beg your pardon, Mrs. Stevenson. I had no idea. You're the last person on earth.

00:12:14Naturally, I'd ever keep waiting. Mr. Stevenson isn't home. Mr. Stevenson not home yet? Do you know

00:12:18where he is? Why, no, I don't, Mrs. Stevenson. The whole hours ago. Well, that is odd, isn't

00:12:23it? Last time I saw him, he was leaving to keep an appointment. Where? No, I don't know

00:12:29where, but I do know he had a lunch date with a young lady. Oh, yes, rather good-looking.

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

00:12:41very anxious to see him. Waited for him at least two hours. Mr. Stevenson, someone to see you.

00:12:56Some other time. I told you I'm busy today. Hello, Henry. Don't you remember me?

00:13:03Why, why, sure, sure. Well, now, what do you know? Come in, won't you?

00:13:11Yes, that's just the way he greeted her, Mrs. Stevenson. He didn't seem to be expecting

00:13:15her, but I'm sure she was somebody of importance to him. Unfortunately, I couldn't hear much

00:13:20of what they said, but the conversation wasn't very long, and I do know Mr. Stevenson made

00:13:24a date. I'll show you to my table. Thank you. I'll be there. I don't know why, but he didn't

00:13:29leave with her. I'll be back later this afternoon. If anyone calls... I don't know where he went

00:13:35after that, Mrs. Stevenson, today. It was 6.30 when I went home, and I was practically

00:13:42the last to leave, except for Jimmy, the porter. No, he didn't even come back to get

00:13:47his messages. There was only one. Some man on Staten Island who keeps calling him every

00:13:53week. A Mr. Evans. Regular pest he is, too. But on the other hand, it's not at all unusual

00:14:00for Mr. Stevenson to stay away all day, and I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. Oh,

00:14:05now, Mrs. Stevenson, I do hope I haven't let any cat out of the bag. But I'm sure,

00:14:10Mrs. Stevenson, it was all quite harmless. Mr. Stevenson seems so devoted, speaks so beautifully

00:14:16of you. Oh, did you like the flowers this week? I had the feeling, I mean, I thought

00:14:22camellias might be sweet just for a change, you know.

00:14:55I was going to take care of you. Oh, my God, I hope I haven't let any cat out of

00:14:58the

00:14:58Oh, my God, that's all.

00:15:02Oh, my God, my God.

00:15:12Oh, my God, my God, my God.

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00:15:52I don't know where Mr. Stevenson is called back later.

00:15:54Will 15 minutes be all right? I haven't much time. I'm leaving the city before midnight.

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

00:16:00Thank you, I will. And you'll tell him that I call, please, in case he does come in.

00:16:03Yes.

00:16:04The name is Evans. It's very important.

00:16:06Yes, all 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.

00:16:23Not 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, the Bayonne plant of the Carterelle Corporation.

00:16:44Headquarters on Staten Island.

00:16:45We are at 20, 20 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, 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...

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...

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...

00:17:34Then there'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.

00:17:57Then 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.

00:18:21It'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, I 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.

00:18:44Okay.

00:19:03Sally Hunt.

00:19:06Sally 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, go 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 microports.

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,

00:21:25if 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 there, 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.

00:22:38Sally, I'd never put the two of you together in a million years.

00:22:41Why?

00:22:42Well, you're both so different.

00:22:43You belong in different worlds.

00:22:46You don't belong here in Grassville, 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 Grassville 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.

00:23:27Was 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,

00:24:03she seemed to 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.

00:25:36Want 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?

00:25:52Yes, 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.

00:26:01Who says I'm playing around with him?

00:26:02Well, he's just not your type, and 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, but 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, so?

00:26:25What has all this got to do with the price of eggs?

00:26:27Leona, don't turn his head, or 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, I 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, show him a good time, introduce him to people, that's my

00:26:46business.

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, no 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, taking you abroad, giving 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, you 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 for the rest of your life.

00:27:31Well, honey, what parent doesn't want to hold on to his child until he's sure she has something better than

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

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

00:27:37It's just that you've become so dependent on me, you won't be happy until I feel the same way about

00:27:40you.

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 some 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 and 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?

00:30:35This 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 office.

00:31:05Hmm.

00:31:06That's interesting.

00:31:07What's interesting?

00:31:08Bring him up, Peter.

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

00:31:10What kind of funny coincidence I read in the paper about an old boyfriend of yours?

00:31:15What 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

00:31:32taken a 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?

00:31:54Oh, 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, 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?

00:32:16Oh, 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.

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

00:32:27Don't be silly.

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, $5,000 is enough.

00:33:01Have it in $100 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.

00:33:19And I suppose it wasn't.

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

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, there wasn't much I could see at first.

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

00:34:03We'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 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...

00:35:09Yes, a 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

00:35:53like 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,

00:36:25just as I was beginning to think it was all a wild goose chase,

00:36:28I saw something.

00:36:30Something quite strange.

00:36:31It sounded weird.

00:36:34It sounded weird.

00:36:39It sounded weird.

00:36:50It sounded weird.

00:36:57I was like, oh seen that strange.

00:37:04THE END

00:37:38THE END

00:38:10THE END

00:38:23THE END

00:38:33THE END

00:38:34They were in there for a good half hour, and when they finally came out, at first I didn't notice

00:38:38anything.

00:38:39All I thought of was how to get out of their way so they wouldn't see me as they were

00:38:43heading straight toward me.

00:38:45But when they got close and passed right in front of me, I saw Fred was carrying the briefcase.

00:38:52I didn't see my husband until he came home late that night. I was dying to ask about what happened

00:38:58there and what connection it could possibly have with Henry, but I didn't dare.

00:39:03And now, unless we do something, something drastic, it may be too late.

00:39:07Madam, your five minutes are up. Please deposit five cents for the next five minutes.

00:39:11Just a minute, please. I know I have another nickel.

00:39:18There. Are you still there, Leona?

00:39:19Yes, I'm here. But this is one of the queerest things I've ever heard.

00:39:23I know. I just didn't seem to be able to connect Henry with all of this mysterious activity either.

00:39:29That's why I went to see him today, to find out the truth from him.

00:39:33And did you?

00:39:34Scarcely.

00:39:36I'm awfully sorry, but it took much longer than I thought. I hope they took good care of you here.

00:39:39Yes, thank you.

00:39:40Maurice, two martinis, please. And by the way, tell Louise I'm expecting a call. It's very important.

00:39:44Yes, sir.

00:39:46Well, how have you been, Sally? It's been a long time.

00:39:48Yes, Henry. Eight years.

00:39:50How's dear old Graswell these days?

00:39:51I don't know. I haven't been there for years.

00:39:55Huh? Oh. Well, you wanted to see me, Sally. What was it about?

00:39:58Well, it isn't easy for me to explain. You see, I've thought about you a great deal in the past

00:40:04years, Henry,

00:40:04and, well, yesterday...

00:40:07Two martinis. Excellent to I, as always.

00:40:10Thank you. Well, here's to good old Graswell.

00:40:15Go on, tell me all about it. What's happening up there?

00:40:17I just told you, Henry, I'm not living in Graswell anymore. I'm married now, and I live in New York.

00:40:21Married? Well, what do you say? Anybody I know?

00:40:24No, he's a lawyer. As a matter of fact, he works in the district attorney's office on special assignments.

00:40:29That's why I wanted to...

00:40:30Pardon me, sir. Would you like to order him now?

00:40:32No, thanks. In a minute.

00:40:32Oh, Maurice, who is that man sitting behind me?

00:40:37I don't know, Mr. Stevenson. I'm sorry.

00:40:39Oh, thanks. Forgive me, you were saying? What's the matter? Do you want me to get you something else?

00:40:43No, thank you. I don't care for anything.

00:40:45Well, then, if you don't mind, I'm kind of thirsty.

00:40:47Henry, what I'm trying to say is this. A few days ago, I saw a picture of you in the

00:40:51paper about your being the vice president of the Cottrell Company.

00:40:53Sounds beautiful, doesn't it?

00:40:55You are still married to Leona, aren't you?

00:40:56Sure, I'm still married to Leona. Still live in Chicago. Still work for my father-in-law. Biggest drug business

00:41:01in the country.

00:41:02What do you do there, Henry?

00:41:04Push buttons, like all the other vice presidents.

00:41:06I mean it, seriously.

00:41:08So do I. On the invoice, King, I supervise all the little invoices that are made out on all the

00:41:12stuff that goes into the Cottrell Bill.

00:41:14Thousands and thousands of little okays that are made out on little pieces of paper, not to mention five carbon

00:41:18copies.

00:41:20How about some food? Oh, waiter.

00:41:23Yes, sir. Will you tell Albert we're ready for lunch?

00:41:25Henry, I don't mean to be inquisitive. I only mean this for your own good.

00:41:28My husband was making out a report yesterday. You're gone, Mr. Stephenson.

00:41:32Oh, thank you. Will you excuse me, Sally? Order something in the meantime. I'll be right back.

00:41:36I waited a while, then.

00:41:38Please pause at five cents for the next five minutes.

00:41:42But I haven't got another nickel.

00:41:45Leona. Leona, I have to call you back.

00:41:47But I only wanted to say that Henry never came back from that telephone call.

00:41:50And he is in trouble. Desperate trouble.

00:41:53Fred's working on some kind of a report for headquarters tonight.

00:41:55The case seems to be coming to a head.

00:41:57And he's been telephoning.

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

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

00:42:02Someone called Evans.

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

00:42:06Wardow Evans.

00:42:07He 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?

00:42:22I must make another telephone call.

00:42:24I'm sorry. We're closing up now, lady.

00:42:25But I...

00:42:53Who 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.

00:43:07I'm on the top floor and I'm sick.

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

00:43:19Please.

00:43:20Please, 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.

00:43:44It's Sally.

00:43:45Can 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.

00:43:52There was a police car standing in front of the house.

00:43:55But 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.

00:44:03But this Waldo Evans escaped.

00:44:05But who is this Waldo Evans?

00:44:07And 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?

00:44:15Well, that's absurd.

00:44:16My father called me from Chicago tonight.

00:44:18He never mentioned a word.

00:44:19Now, look, what gives us a thing straight?

00:44:21Who's been arrested and why?

00:44:23Three men.

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

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

00:44:26I didn't say he was.

00:44:27I 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?

00:44:34Why 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 prepared to see me happy?

00:44:40Can you stop something like this?

00:44:42Can you stop me to now?

00:44:51Hello?

00:44:52Hello?

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

00:44:56Hello?

00:44:57Hello?

00:44:58What's up?

00:44:59No, 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

00:45:03downtown.

00:45:04Hey, Brett.

00:45:05Yeah?

00:45:05The train's here.

00:45:06He'll be there in ten minutes.

00:45:07You can call him that.

00:45:09Okay.

00:45:23Hello?

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

00:45:26What is that?

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 we may 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.

00:46:04The train goes over the bridge.

00:46:19What is that matter?

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.

00:46:31Plaza 51098.

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

00:46:36No, the doctor isn't in right now.

00:46:38Yes, he'll be here by the way.

00:46:49Uh, pardon 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.

00:47:24Wrong.

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. Stephenson.

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?

00:47:36What 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 hasn't even 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 not quite the time or the place to go into all that.

00:47:56But if 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.

00:48:06Can 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?

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

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,

00:48:31oh, I'd say 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, Mrs. 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?

00:49:00Well, I...

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

00:49:05I...

00:49:06I 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. 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, 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

00:50:14your 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.

00:50:20Even 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?

00:50:25No, 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.

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.

00:51:23And 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!

00:51:40Would 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.

00:51:46I'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.

00:51:50Give me that key.

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

00:51:52I won't.

00:51:53I won't.

00:51:53No, 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.

00:53:48Have 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, you 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.

00:55:37For a while, everything seemed to straighten out.

00:55:39I was given a new office.

00:55:41Even a new title.

00:55:43But it wasn't long before we were back where we started.

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

00:55:47Yes, 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.

00:55:57It's the first steps on your left, sir.

00:55:58Shall I open it?

00:55:59It'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.

00:56:34But in the meantime, it's my money, and I'm the one who's going to pay for it.

00:56:43Henry.

00:56:44Henry.

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

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

00:56:49Henry.

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 sold up 16 different ways.

00:57:02For three meals a day and pocket money.

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

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

00:57:05My 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?

00:57:19What do I do but keep running back and forth between that rotten office and that stuffy

00:57:22house 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, Christ.

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, her attacks increased in violence and became

00:58:04more 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 and took to her bed, more or less permanently.

00:58:17When we left in New York this summer, Dr. Burnett in Chicago told me she didn't have much

00:58:21of 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, there's absolutely nothing wrong organically

00:58:41with 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.

00:59:04The mother died of heart failure.

00:59:06She was always so sure the child was affected, too.

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

00:59:13To simulate a false condition.

00:59:14Marriage, continue 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.

00:59:44Thank 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.

01:00:01And I think maybe I ought to prepare her.

01:00:04Get her used to 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.

01:00:24Give 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, Mr. 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 a sedative for you tonight.

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

01:00:50Hello?

01:00:51Hello, Mrs. Stevenson.

01:00:53Hello?

01:00:58Flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers, flyers.

01:01:26Hello.

01:01:27Mrs. Stevenson.

01:01:28Yes?

01:01:29This is Mr. Evans. Has Mr. Stevenson come in yet?

01:01:31No, he hasn't. He 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? Who are you?

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

01:01:43My name is Evans, Waldo Evans.

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

01:01:49but there are certain names and addresses that are important,

01:01:52and very 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,

01:02:17the name is spelled M-O-R-A-N-O,

01:02:20who 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.

01:02:30Morano? Who is Morano?

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

01:02:35that I escaped and am now at the Manhattan address.

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

01:02:40after 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, Mr. Stevenson.

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

01:03:03before the true facts are garbled

01:03:06by the police.

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

01:03:13of last year.

01:03:15The place was your father's plant

01:03:18at Cicero, Illinois.

01:03:20It's all right.

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 about this department.

01:04:20What you do here.

01:04:21This is where the formula for all our products

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

01:04:24Well, I suppose you could put it that way,

01:04:26Mr. Stevenson.

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

01:04:28which go into the 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, what do you do with all this

01:04:39after you break it down?

01:04:40Why, it goes into the cartel products.

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

01:04:43before you ship it out, where is it?

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

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

01:04:47But I suppose being Mr. Cottrell's son-in-law

01:04:52never do to leave it lying around loose.

01:04:58It's, uh, quite precious, you know.

01:05:00And you're the man in charge of it.

01:05:02I suppose I am.

01:05:06Uh, doesn'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 to make a mistake.

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

01:05:27I've been working here now for 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, how shall I say,

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

01:05:36Worry.

01:05:37I quite understand, Mr. Stevenson.

01:05:40I don't smoke.

01:05:42That's how I first became acquainted

01:05:43with your husband, Mrs. Stevenson.

01:05:45About a month later,

01:05:46I was waiting for my bus, as usual.

01:05:48Oh, Wally!

01:05:49Oh, oh, good evening, Mr. Stevenson.

01:05:51I'm in.

01:05:52You're sure it's not too much trouble?

01:05:54No trouble at all.

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

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

01:06:06Oh?

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

01:06:08They've always seemed

01:06:08it's a bit too mechanical for me.

01:06:10Personally, I much prefer

01:06:11a brace of spanking horses

01:06:12and a good carriage.

01:06:14I've brought up around horses, you know,

01:06:15in Surrey,

01:06:16and I suppose one never gets it

01:06:18out of one's blood.

01:06:19Do you care for horses, Mr. Stevenson?

01:06:21No, not very much.

01:06:22Oh, you've seen a 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 keep them

01:06:37in the stable.

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

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

01:06:41as nature intended

01:06:42in 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

01:06:48and stroking them.

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, 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 always

01:07:13beyond you?

01:07:13Haven'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,

01:07:18and to be frank,

01:07:20I've become a bit

01:07:21overanxious on occasion

01:07:22for ready money

01:07:23and lost doubt

01:07:24on foolish speculations.

01:07:26When I'm putting

01:07:27a little aside

01:07:27now every month,

01:07:29someday,

01:07:29or very distant one,

01:07:30I'm afraid,

01:07:31when I've retired

01:07:32from my job.

01:07:33Then 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 the zest

01:07:40does go out of 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,

01:08:17whatever do 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,

01:08:26nobody has to know.

01:08:27Please,

01:08:27Mr. Stevenson.

01:08:28Pardon me,

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

01:08:33Wally,

01:08:33wait a minute.

01:08:34Yes,

01:08:35Mr. 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,

01:08:43a chemist like you

01:08:44ought to be able

01:08:44to work miracles.

01:08:45Work miracles,

01:08:46Mr. Stevenson?

01:08:46Certainly.

01:08:47Look what you've done

01:08:48for the company

01:08:48all these years.

01:08:49What have you

01:08:50gotten out 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

01:09:02talked the whole

01:09:02thing over

01:09:02with somebody else.

01:09:06You talk 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.

01:09:12You 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,

01:09:16not 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,

01:09:21so young and fine.

01:09:23Yes,

01:09:24I'm young.

01:09:24Young enough

01:09:25not to waste my life

01:09:25in dreaming.

01:09:26There are things

01:09:26I want to do,

01:09:27big things.

01:09:28The only way

01:09:28to get them

01:09:28is to be strong,

01:09:29to be...

01:09:31Oh,

01:09:31what's the use of talking?

01:09:32I'm sorry,

01:09:33Wally,

01:09:33sorry I brought

01:09:33the whole thing up.

01:09:34I trusted you

01:09:35because,

01:09:35well,

01:09:36I thought you

01:09:36were my kind

01:09:36of person.

01:09:37I guess I was

01:09:37mistaken.

01:09:38But,

01:09:38Mr. Stevenson,

01:09:39what if we were

01:09:40caught?

01:09:40I mean,

01:09:41why should we

01:09:42be caught?

01:09:42Morano has

01:09:43it all figured out.

01:09:44Besides,

01:09:44for once

01:09:45there's an advantage

01:09:45in being

01:09:46Cotterall's son-in-law.

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

01:09:49I wouldn't want

01:09:49to see you

01:09:50take a chance

01:09:50like that alone.

01:09:54May I come in?

01:10:01And we weren't

01:10:02caught,

01:10:02Mrs. Stevenson,

01:10:03for nearly seven months.

01:10:04From March 9th

01:10:05to September 14th,

01:10:06we weren't caught.

01:10:08I never saw

01:10:09Mr. Morano.

01:10:10I merely carried

01:10:11out our mutual plan.

01:10:12Every Friday afternoon,

01:10:14Mr. Stevenson

01:10:14handed me the money.

01:10:16By September 14th

01:10:17of last year,

01:10:18I had saved

01:10:19the sum

01:10:20of $7,555.49.

01:10:25But,

01:10:26it was in the early

01:10:27afternoon of that day

01:10:28that...

01:10:29When did you get it?

01:10:30It came this morning

01:10:31in the inter-office 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.

01:10:37If 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

01:10:42feeling this transfer

01:10:43to 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,

01:11:00what 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,

01:11:05you stupid fool.

01:11:06We've been a bunch

01:11:06of stooges up 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,

01:11:15you'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'll establish

01:11:21headquarters for ourselves

01:11:22back east.

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

01:11:24and split Moreno's

01:11:25share between 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,

01:11:39New York,

01:11:41Staten Island.

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

01:11:44we began operations

01:11:45on Staten Island,

01:11:47New York.

01:11:48Our headquarters

01:11:48were an abandoned house

01:11:50at 20 Dunstan Terrace,

01:11:51which I purchased

01:11:52for Mr. Stevenson.

01:11:54Here,

01:11:54twice a week,

01:11:55after work,

01:11:56I would come from

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

01:11:59And here,

01:12:00Mr. Stevenson

01:12:01would mail me

01:12:01or telephone

01:12:02his instructions

01:12:03from Cicero.

01:12:05The character of our work

01:12:06now became more complex

01:12:07inasmuch 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.

01:12:27Pardon me?

01:12:38Come right in.

01:12:39Good evening.

01:12:41This is the professor.

01:12:42Wally, this is Morano.

01:12:44Morano?

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

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

01:12:46did you, professor?

01:12:48Now, with the kind assistance

01:12:49of 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,

01:12:57Stevenson,

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?

01:13:21Yes, sir.

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.

01:13:28Leave him alone.

01:13:30Leave him alone,

01:13:30I said.

01:13:31Hold it, fellas.

01:13:33Are you 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, of 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?

01:14:23Ah, now 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

01:14:28a load off his feet.

01:14:29It's a long way

01:14:30from here to Bayonne,

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

01:14:39business for yourself,

01:14:40we've suffered

01:14:41quite 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

01:14:52their 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

01:14:57as I do

01:14:57I don't have

01:14:58that 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

01:15:03that does.

01:15:04What do you suppose

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

01:15:06But I thought I read

01:15:07somewhere about

01:15:07your wife being sick,

01:15:09even dying.

01:15:14So what about it?

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

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

01:15:49I mean,

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

01:15:51I wouldn't worry

01:15:51about it, Stevenson.

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

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

01:15:54They know their business.

01:16:00I wouldn't say

01:16:01you had much

01:16:01of a choice, anyhow.

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 came 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 the 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?

01:16:47Where's Mr. Stevenson now?

01:16:48I wish I knew,

01:16:49Mrs. Stevenson.

01:16:50Perhaps if you tried

01:16:51the Bowery number...

01:16:53The Bowery?

01:16:54The Bowery number?

01:16:55...that 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 the police.

01:17:24But...

01:17:25It doesn't matter.

01:17:26Just give me

01:17:26the Bowery number.

01:17:27The one for Mr. Stevenson.

01:17:29Point five.

01:17:31Mr. Evans is at

01:17:32the Manhattan address,

01:17:33but he's leaving now

01:17:35and may be found

01:17:36at Bowery 2, 1000.

01:17:39Bowery 2, 1000?

01:17:41Yes, after midnight.

01:17:43Good night, Mrs. Stevens.

01:17:44Thank you very much.

01:17:46Good night.

01:18:20Bowery 2, 1000.

01:18:22Bowery 2, 1000.

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, he's not here, ma'am.

01:18:42Oh.

01:18:43Well, Mr. 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.

01:18:51They wouldn't do no good.

01:18:53No?

01:18:54Well, what number is this?

01:18:57What am I calling?

01:18:59Bowery 2, 1000, ma'am.

01:19:01The city morgue.

01:19:39Your call, please.

01:19:41I've heard...

01:19:42Give me the police, quick.

01:19:44Ring 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,

01:20:13what about the hospital?

01:20:15Hello, operator.

01:20:17Operator, operator.

01:20:18Hello, do.

01:20:19Is this a hospital?

01:20:20Yes.

01:20:21I want the nurse's registry.

01:20:23Who do you want

01:20:24to speak to, please?

01:20:25I want the nurse's registry.

01:20:26I want to hire

01:20:27a trained nurse

01:20:28immediately 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

01:20:41a trained nurse.

01:20:42I need her immediately.

01:20:43We quite understand that, madam.

01:20:45But in the first place,

01:20:46this is a city house.

01:20:47All I know is that

01:20:48I'm a sick woman

01:20:49and I'm all alone

01:20:50in this horrible,

01:20:51empty house.

01:20:52I overheard a conversation,

01:20:55a telephone conversation

01:20:56a while ago about,

01:20:57about a murder.

01:20:59A murder to be committed

01:21:01at 11.15.

01:21:03I don't know what's happened

01:21:05to my husband.

01:21:06If something isn't done,

01:21:08I'm afraid.

01:21:09I don't know if something is bad.

01:22:00what was that what was what madam that clicked just on my telephone as though someone had lifted

01:22:07the 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 now

01:22:25who is it who's there Henry Henry Henry

01:22:51yeah but I haven't any time to talk now call back later did you say mr. Steven mr. Stevenson from

01:23:04from

01:23:05New Haven do you wish to accept the call madam oh yes yes I'll take it one moment please go

01:23:11ahead

01:23:11New Haven go ahead sir hello darling Henry Henry where are you well I'm on my way to Boston dear

01:23:19stopping off between trains in New Haven did you get my wire yes yes I got it I just thought

01:23:23I'd

01:23:24check up and see how you were I was so sorry I couldn't reach you by phone but of course

01:23:27I knew

01:23:27you'd be all right well I'm not all right

01:23:35there's someone in this house right now I'm sure of it oh now honey how could there be don't tell

01:23:41me

01:23:41you're still alone well of course I've been alone who else would be here you promised to be home at

01:23:46six o'clock but Leona I thought I explained to you in my wire I've been alone for hours I've

01:23:50been a

01:23:50prey to every kind of horrible call and Henry I want you to call the police do you hear me

01:23:54tell them

01:23:55to come over at once now honey you know you're perfectly safe in that house it's all locked up

01:23:59there's a private patrolman you're right in the heart of New York City in the telephones right

01:24:03beside your bed Henry what do you know what do you know about a man named Waldo Evans Waldo Evans

01:24:15boy what do you ask he called me up tonight I had a long talk with him just a little

01:24:19while ago

01:24:20about you about me what about me well he told me some terrible things some of it sounded insane but

01:24:26there were other parts that sounded true you mustn't listen to every crazy crap that calls you up there

01:24:31now just try to forget about it hey they said you'd been stealing from dad's company is that true

01:24:36Henry true of course not what a crazy idea well he he left some kind of a message for you

01:24:42that the

01:24:43the house on Staten Island 20 Dunstan 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 they said

01:24:57you were a criminal Henry a desperate man and Evan said Evan said you wanted me to to die

01:25:06and that money Henry that money those people wanted why didn't you ask me for it well I'd have given

01:25:12it

01:25:12to you gladly but would have saved your life I'll give it to you now if it isn't too late

01:25:16that's all right

01:25:17forget about it I didn't mean to be so awful to you Henry I I only did it because I

01:25:24loved you

01:25:26I thought you didn't love me and that you'd go away and leave me

01:25:36Leona Leona yes I want you to do something for me will you forgive me where can I will you

01:25:40I want

01:25:41you to try listen to me Leona I want you to try to get out of bed I I can't

01:25:48you've got you I want

01:25:49you to get out of that bed and walk to the window I want you to scream out in the

01:25:52street Leona

01:25:54I can't move Henry I'm too frightened keep trying otherwise you've only got three more minutes to live

01:26:00don't talk to me anymore just get out of that bed I confess everything everything I did steal

01:26:05your mom and I was so desperate I even tried I arranged to have you Henry Henry there's somebody

01:26:12coming up the stairs get out of that bed get out of that bed no no I can't please please

01:26:19please don't I'll find for them to get me they'll know they'll find out for Moreno

01:26:26please please please I'll not give you anything please no no

01:26:57ready with your party

01:26:58Leona, hello? Leona!

01:27:01Sorry, wrong number.

01:27:28Leona!

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