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Quiet Please, Murder (1942) Full Movie ｜ Crime, Thriller ｜ George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning [Full Movie] [Full Story]Full EP - Full
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00:00:02The End
00:01:33Back again, huh?
00:01:35You're sure in love with that little book, aren't you?
00:01:37Richard Burbage, the first actor to play Hamlet, the only known copy.
00:01:42I dream about it.
00:01:43A lot of book collectors do.
00:01:45And between you and I, some of them would knive their own mothers just to get their hands on that
00:01:50book.
00:01:51So would I.
00:01:52Just to own it?
00:01:53No, I'd make a dozen, perhaps two dozen copies, perfect imitations.
00:01:58They could be sold as this original.
00:02:01Stolen goods.
00:02:02No questions asked.
00:02:04Plenty of suckers to buy a good forgery.
00:02:06That's been done before, too.
00:02:08Mind if I take it home with me?
00:02:10Over my dead body.
00:02:38Here it is.
00:02:43It's a beauty.
00:02:44Yes, yes.
00:02:45I said to myself, Rebescu, of all your clients, who would most love to see this great treasure?
00:02:52That is vital to you, Mr. Cleaver.
00:02:54You've told me that half a dozen times already.
00:02:56How much longer are you boys going to be?
00:02:58Oh, just a second.
00:03:00I'm not so sure of this.
00:03:01Oh, excuse, please.
00:03:03It's excellent property and most safe.
00:03:06The police look for it six months now.
00:03:09Forget nowhere.
00:03:10I know.
00:03:11Do you mind if I show this to someone who knows rare books?
00:03:14But yes, please do.
00:03:18I thought you were going to take me dancing.
00:03:20This is what I was telling you about.
00:03:22I've seen it twice already.
00:03:24It looks like a goodbye.
00:03:25Rebescu showed it to me the other day.
00:03:27Books are not in my line.
00:03:29What do you think of it?
00:03:31It's genuine, all right.
00:03:32Good.
00:03:32That's all I need to know.
00:03:35Miss Blandy, the most best expert of old books.
00:03:39What does she say?
00:03:40You might have told me you already had her opinion.
00:03:43I am most careful.
00:03:51I'll take it.
00:03:54You make the wise decision.
00:03:56Impossible to lose money in this book.
00:03:58It's like money in the bank.
00:03:59Check, all right.
00:04:00Oh, but I am so sorry.
00:04:02The person I act for, they must have cash.
00:04:06It is the term of the deal.
00:04:07You agree?
00:04:08You say yes.
00:04:09You pay cash if you buy it.
00:04:10All right, you Romanian bandit.
00:04:13I came prepared.
00:04:14Oh, thank you.
00:04:15It's all there.
00:04:18Stolen goods?
00:04:19Aren't you taking quite a risk?
00:04:20No.
00:04:21Your opinion on this Hamlet eliminates all that.
00:04:24I'm stealing it at $20,000.
00:05:01Mr. Fleet.
00:05:03Miss Blandy would like steel.
00:05:04I'll send her in.
00:05:07Darling, I couldn't wait until morning.
00:05:09Marla, this is a nice surprise.
00:05:11I made a good sale, it was so easy.
00:05:13You could resist your salesmanship.
00:05:15It worked beautifully.
00:05:16You simply had to have it stolen or not.
00:05:18What did I tell you?
00:05:19Just show the customers one and they think it's the original.
00:05:21We'll gross more than the originals were.
00:05:23They did it with a stolen Mona Lisa, sold dozens.
00:05:27Only five grand.
00:05:29I'm asking 20.
00:05:30Well, this man wouldn't go over 7,500.
00:05:32A thousand for a best you, 1,500 for me, leaves five for you.
00:05:36Myra, you wouldn't shortchange me, would you?
00:05:39Sure, if I were looking for trouble.
00:05:42Isn't that your favorite occupation?
00:05:45Eight copies in six months isn't bad.
00:05:47Chicago can use another and Detroit wants two more.
00:05:49Well, by the way, who'd you collect this from?
00:05:51Martin Cleaver.
00:05:53Are you crazy? I told you to avoid him.
00:05:55Darling, I still don't know why.
00:05:57He's dangerous.
00:05:58All of our customers could be dangerous, but as long as the cash is okay, why worry?
00:06:03What have you got against Cleaver?
00:06:05I never met him, but I don't want to do business with him.
00:06:09Cancel the deal.
00:06:10Don't be ridiculous.
00:06:13You seem worried. What is it?
00:06:15Give him his money back and he'll have to do as I say.
00:06:18Stick to larceny minded American suckers.
00:06:20He looked like one to me.
00:06:22He isn't. He's spending German money.
00:06:24Some of the loot the Nazi crowd smuggled out of occupied Europe.
00:06:28Uh-huh.
00:06:28So they can look like exiled kings if and when they escape after the war.
00:06:32Cleaver's buying for Goering or Himmler.
00:06:34Investing in works of art.
00:06:37Literary rarities like diamonds are supposed to be safe in the event of post-war inflation.
00:06:41Well, he stuck this time. I'm sorry I didn't get him for more.
00:06:43You're giving him his money back.
00:06:45I am not.
00:06:50You asked for that.
00:06:52Then get rid of the idea that you're running this show.
00:06:55I can always find another outlet for my stuff.
00:06:59And that's what you think.
00:07:02Do you know what the Gestapo is?
00:07:04If you do, he will take my advice and settle with Mr. Cleaver.
00:07:07That man's the saddest. There's not an ounce of mercy in him.
00:07:10You two boys should get along. You always say you enjoy being hurt.
00:07:17Yes.
00:07:25A very clever imitation.
00:07:28Beautifully aged paper.
00:07:31An offset printing process retouched by hand.
00:07:34The work of an artist.
00:07:37But I do not like to be fooled.
00:07:39Mr. Cleaver.
00:07:41Mr. Cleaver.
00:07:42How can you say such thing?
00:07:43I am a respectable art dealer.
00:07:45Then I return your work of art.
00:07:48I want my money back.
00:07:50You get me into this trouble.
00:07:52Believe me, Mr. Cleaver.
00:07:54I only act as agent for this woman.
00:07:56She says it's genuine and I believe it.
00:07:58She pays commission.
00:08:00So I suspect it.
00:08:02Where did you get this Hamlet?
00:08:03A man named Flagg?
00:08:05Forger of rare books.
00:08:06It looks like his work.
00:08:07I saw samples of it in Europe.
00:08:09I am a respectable man.
00:08:10I do not swindle people.
00:08:12And the man I represent does not like to be swindled.
00:08:15Who?
00:08:15Field Marshal Gehring?
00:08:17My client prefers to remain nameless.
00:08:19And I repeat, he will not submit to being swindled.
00:08:22You knew you were buying stolen profit.
00:08:24But not a forgery.
00:08:26Your other customers may not complain, but I do.
00:08:29This is terrible.
00:08:30My reputation.
00:08:31You think you're being swindled.
00:08:32Why don't you call the police?
00:08:33Oh, I won't need their help.
00:08:35I'm sorry you feel this way.
00:08:37I can't make good the money.
00:08:39Then produce Mr. Flagg.
00:08:45I'll deal directly with him.
00:08:46He's a very difficult man to reach.
00:08:48I suggest you find a way, quickly.
00:08:51Now as for you, Ribescue.
00:08:53No.
00:08:54No!
00:09:07Your Mr. Flagg probably doesn't know about the Hamlet deal.
00:09:11It was your own idea, wasn't it?
00:09:13And you pocketed the money behind his back.
00:09:17He did it deliberately?
00:09:19Then you must bring him to me.
00:09:20But he'd never...
00:09:21You can find some way.
00:09:25You needn't bother to tell the police about what happened here.
00:09:30It won't stop us.
00:09:32I don't work alone.
00:09:35I shall expect to hear from you within the hour.
00:09:38Plenty of time to locate Flagg.
00:09:41Good day, Miss Plainey.
00:09:44Possibly.
00:09:50Follow her.
00:09:51I think she's safe.
00:09:52If she'd do anything to save her own skin.
00:09:56Uh...
00:10:05Report to me at the usual place.
00:10:08Uh...
00:10:23What's you?
00:10:23He's been waiting for an hour.
00:10:25I don't know him.
00:10:26Doesn't look like ready cash.
00:10:28Tell him no, I haven't time now.
00:10:32You'd better make time, sister.
00:10:34The name is Myra Blandy.
00:10:38Don't be in such a hurry.
00:10:40I'll handle this.
00:10:45What is it, Mr. uh...
00:10:47Mr. McBurn?
00:10:49Well...
00:10:50I expected something ten years older and fat.
00:10:53Come back in ten years.
00:10:55No party name of William Shakespeare?
00:10:58Not personally.
00:10:59I wasn't around in 1600, but I sell books of his.
00:11:01So I hear.
00:11:03Just what are you driving at?
00:11:04The verbiage edition of Hamlet.
00:11:06It was snatched from the local library six months and nine days ago.
00:11:09And a guard was killed.
00:11:10Yes, I read all about that.
00:11:12And I understand you know where it can be picked up cheap.
00:11:15You're misinformed and you're insulting.
00:11:17I don't deal with thieves.
00:11:18You'll find the door over there.
00:11:20And I also hear very confidentially.
00:11:23And correct me if I'm wrong.
00:11:24That imitations of this Hamlet are being passed off at fat prices.
00:11:28You're wrong.
00:11:29Good day.
00:11:30Look, I want a little cooperation, sister.
00:11:32Edgar T. Collins shot me down here from New York.
00:11:36About a Hamlet he bought.
00:11:38He doesn't like it.
00:11:39I've never sold Mr. Collins any books.
00:11:41No, he bought it from a fellow named Simms in Baltimore.
00:11:44I don't see how that concerns me.
00:11:47You want a blueprint?
00:11:48I traced it to you.
00:11:50Oh, you're a detective.
00:11:52Hmm, private man.
00:11:53Well, I'm afraid you've been seriously misinformed.
00:11:55I've never dealt with any Mr. Simms in Baltimore.
00:11:58Look, beautiful.
00:11:59You're on the well-known spot, so pull your ears in.
00:12:02Collins doesn't want his money back.
00:12:04He wants blood.
00:12:05He's a nut on book collecting and wants everything kept on the up and up.
00:12:08He didn't buy your Hamlet as stolen goods either, so his skirts are clean.
00:12:11He isn't afraid to make a complaint.
00:12:15Now, this is all between you and me.
00:12:17But if I drop a hint in the DA's here...
00:12:21Well...
00:12:21A smart lawyer might beat the rap for you, but...
00:12:24Would you still be in business after all the publicity?
00:12:26I don't know what you're talking about.
00:12:30Can't we play ball?
00:12:32You're not in this alone.
00:12:33You handle the hot stuff for somebody.
00:12:35Who is it?
00:12:37He'd kill me.
00:12:38Who?
00:12:40Fleg?
00:12:43Yeah, that's one the cops don't know.
00:12:45Yet.
00:12:47This Shakespeare stuff, I'm told it's Fleg's product.
00:12:50He's good from way back.
00:12:51Where do I reach him?
00:12:53I don't know.
00:12:54Come on, let's have it.
00:12:55There are reasons why I have to handle the stuff he sends me.
00:12:58The hamlet isn't my only headache.
00:13:00I'm really afraid.
00:13:02Fleg now?
00:13:04The right man could steer you out of it.
00:13:06Do you mean it?
00:13:08Of course, I'm in business myself, but...
00:13:10The fee wouldn't be too high.
00:13:11Oh, I'd pay anything.
00:13:12Now, you help me build a case against Fleg,
00:13:14and I'll see that your skirts are kept clean.
00:13:16Deal?
00:13:17Deal.
00:13:17When do I meet him?
00:13:18Well, you better let me arrange it.
00:13:20I never know when he'll phone.
00:13:21I can't talk very well here.
00:13:23Where are you staying?
00:13:23The Bradley house.
00:13:24Pick me up for dinner.
00:13:25All right, about seven.
00:13:26Swell.
00:13:27Oh, by the way, I'm great for getting something very important.
00:13:30What?
00:13:31My retainer.
00:13:32Nice work if you can get it.
00:13:34Playing both sides.
00:13:35Oh, Fleg's the other side.
00:13:37You see, Collins hires me, and you pay off to be kept out of the case.
00:13:40Oh, I see.
00:13:42How much?
00:13:43Oh, uh, how about 500?
00:13:46How about 250?
00:13:48All right.
00:13:49On a count.
00:13:51You know, I like a businesswoman who knows her business.
00:13:54Of course, 500 would have bought you a better dinner.
00:13:58Thanks.
00:14:00Every instinct tells me I'm a fool, but I'm trusting you because I want to.
00:14:05You needn't worry.
00:14:06I lied to you because I was afraid.
00:14:09You still afraid?
00:14:10Not so much.
00:14:12See you at seven.
00:14:16And, uh, bring that smile along.
00:14:23Okay.
00:14:41Let's go.
00:14:42Hello, Mr. Cleaver.
00:14:43Myra Blandy.
00:14:44I spoke to Fleg.
00:14:45He won't meet you.
00:14:46He absolutely refuses.
00:14:48Of course I want to cooperate.
00:14:51I have a suggestion.
00:14:52Leave a book in my name at the information desk at the public library on K Street tonight.
00:14:56I'll have Fleg pick it up.
00:14:57That'll identify him when he asks for it.
00:15:00Oh, by the way, he uses the name of Mac Byrne.
00:15:02Hal Mac Byrne.
00:15:03He mustn't know about me.
00:15:05Yes, tonight at 8.30.
00:15:06Goodbye.
00:15:11Hello, Lady Dracula, and how are you this pleasant afternoon?
00:15:14Some tea?
00:15:15No, thank you.
00:15:17We're in the mood, aren't we?
00:15:18How many butterflies did you torture since lunch, hoping one would turn on you?
00:15:24Something tells me our little Myra harbors a secret.
00:15:28How do things go today?
00:15:30Nothing very exciting.
00:15:31Boston-wide for some more of your penmanship.
00:15:33And a Dickens autograph.
00:15:34See anybody amusing?
00:15:36Not a soul.
00:15:38Are you sure?
00:15:40Positive.
00:15:42I hear that Hal Mac Byrne is quite the ladies' man.
00:15:45Oh, yes, I was going to tell you about him.
00:15:47Yes, my little liar, after I dragged it out of you.
00:15:51Who told you?
00:15:52The book world isn't very big.
00:15:53He was followed to your place.
00:15:54And if you weren't so stupid disobeying orders, he wouldn't be bothering you.
00:15:58Don't fret, I can handle Mac Byrne.
00:16:00There's only one way to handle his kind.
00:16:02I'll handle it my way.
00:16:03Wait a minute, have you fallen for this cop?
00:16:05Jim!
00:16:07No woman would have walked out of me for that, but you stay.
00:16:11Why?
00:16:13Because I'm a punishment in your life.
00:16:15Your conscience demands it.
00:16:17Boy, don't give me the old chestnut about our expecting punishment because we were taught to as kids.
00:16:21But we do.
00:16:23Your everlasting lying, your flirting with danger, is a secret desire to be caught off guard and hurt.
00:16:29Listen to Dr. Freud.
00:16:31Why do you think there are so many automobile accidents?
00:16:34Mere carelessness?
00:16:35No.
00:16:37The unconscious impulse to punish ourselves is sometimes so great it becomes self-destructive.
00:16:41When we should be alert and on guard, our enemy, conscience, super-ego betrays us to psychic justice.
00:16:48A healthy body prays sick.
00:16:50Or we fear insanity.
00:16:51Or we show poor judgment in a crisis and make a mistake that destroys us.
00:16:56And what did all this wisdom ever buy our amateur psychoanalyst?
00:17:00You.
00:17:02You may be my automobile accident.
00:17:05You're dangerous to my interests.
00:17:07And it excites me to play with my own life.
00:17:10The way we live is a constant threat to our security.
00:17:13But we love it.
00:17:15Giving and taking pain.
00:17:17The torturing fear of destruction.
00:17:20Psychiatrists say there's a little of it in most people.
00:17:23But it has run away with us.
00:17:25So that when I make a mistake, it's my conscience punishing me?
00:17:28Precisely.
00:17:29You may be crazy, but I'm not.
00:17:33The funny part about it is that no court or sanity commission would ever call us crazy.
00:17:39But we're really a couple of walking horror stories.
00:17:42Speak for yourself, darling.
00:17:45Ah.
00:17:46The lady who never makes a mistake.
00:17:50All right.
00:17:51When do I get at McBurn?
00:17:52I said I'd have him.
00:17:54Bungle the job.
00:17:55When are you seeing him?
00:17:57For dinner.
00:17:58Then he has an appointment at the public library.
00:18:00After that.
00:18:01Public library.
00:18:02They've got some books I want.
00:18:04Some rather priceless books.
00:18:06I've been working on a new set up to get at them.
00:18:09Byrne.
00:18:09I can use him.
00:18:10Two birds with one stone.
00:18:12Please, Jim.
00:18:12Let me take care of McBurn.
00:18:14Why?
00:18:14Is there something else?
00:18:16Somebody you haven't told me about?
00:18:17No.
00:18:18It's my job.
00:18:19You want to be an eyewitness?
00:18:22No?
00:18:24I'm surprised.
00:18:27All right.
00:18:28Deliver the cop to the library and then go home.
00:18:32You're quite a girl, Myra.
00:18:36Freud, Lombroso, Havlon Kellis.
00:18:38They all had your number.
00:18:40Who was it, wrote, women seek intense and terrifying emotion because they really enjoy it.
00:18:44It's as necessary to their comfort as water to a fish, as natural as breathing.
00:18:50Can I fix you something, darling?
00:18:51What do you have in mind?
00:18:52Poison?
00:18:58Best dinner I ever had.
00:19:00Must have been the company.
00:19:02Funny coincidence.
00:19:02I liked it, too.
00:19:04I knew we'd get along the minute I laid eyes on you.
00:19:11Let me know if I get fresh.
00:19:13I promise.
00:19:14Are you so good to all your clients?
00:19:15Service?
00:19:16That's the McBurn trademark.
00:19:18Oh, driver, will you please stop a minute at the public library on K Street?
00:19:22Okay.
00:19:25You know, I feel even better than I did a second ago.
00:19:27No.
00:19:28No gun.
00:19:29Had a case last month where a party packed at Derringer.
00:19:31Did she appreciate your service?
00:19:33Well, I don't know.
00:19:34She was 64.
00:19:38What are we going to talk about flagging?
00:19:40You've been too busy telling me about the life and times of Mr. Hal McBurn.
00:19:44Well, I was just trying to get a nerve enough to talk about you.
00:19:49Be original.
00:19:50Don't say it.
00:19:51Huh?
00:19:51What?
00:19:52Did anyone ever tell you about your eyes?
00:19:55I like yours.
00:19:57Even if I wouldn't trust them.
00:19:58Open or shut.
00:19:59Oh, you wouldn't.
00:20:01I promise trouble.
00:20:03I like trouble.
00:20:05Well, be careful.
00:20:06This is a new hat.
00:20:07What a crack to make at a time like this.
00:20:09Do I worry about my $10 bonnet?
00:20:14I hope you're on the level with me.
00:20:16Of course I am.
00:20:18What made you say that?
00:20:20Well, I was getting lonesome on this case.
00:20:23No more.
00:20:28I hate to disturb you, sister, but if it's books you want, this is the joint.
00:20:37Do you live here?
00:20:38I have to pick up a book.
00:20:39Ask for it at the information desk.
00:20:41It's in my name.
00:20:42Now, why do you want a book when I'm around?
00:20:43Hurry up.
00:20:44Dad.
00:20:44Can I get all these insiders?
00:20:51Who uh- whoe?
00:20:56Whomens seek intense and terrifying emotion because they really enjoy it.
00:21:01You want to be an eye witness?
00:21:05Closing time.
00:21:06Fifteen minutes.
00:21:08Closing time.
00:21:09Closing time, 15 minutes.
00:21:27Tommy!
00:21:29Tommy!
00:21:32I'm awfully sorry, I thought you were someone else.
00:21:35Well, lucky Tommy.
00:21:36Closing time, 15 minutes.
00:21:40Closing time, 15 minutes.
00:21:46Say, where's the information desk?
00:21:48Why, it's always been right here.
00:21:49Oh, good.
00:21:51Have you got a book?
00:21:52I'd like a good murder mystery.
00:21:53Plenty of blood.
00:21:54Fiction room, second floor.
00:21:55Thanks.
00:21:56Say, if there's a call from me, you know where I am.
00:21:57Lieutenant Creighton.
00:21:59Homicide Squad.
00:22:03Better hurry, mystery.
00:22:05Closing time.
00:22:07Is it the way the cops in this town keep them trimmed?
00:22:09Reading books?
00:22:09A book never hurt anybody.
00:22:11Have you got one for Blandy?
00:22:13Myra Blandy.
00:22:14Is that your name?
00:22:15Do I look like her?
00:22:18Blandy.
00:22:18I'll see.
00:22:20Been in this racket long?
00:22:21About a year.
00:22:22Like it?
00:22:23Most of the time.
00:22:25Gee, how do you stand the quiet in here?
00:22:27I'm hardened to it.
00:22:30You ought to be in pictures, beautiful.
00:22:32I'm not kidding.
00:22:35Here's your book.
00:22:36Oh, thanks.
00:22:37Say, do you suppose to...
00:22:39Oh, excuse me.
00:22:44Mr. McBurn?
00:22:45Yeah.
00:22:46I'd like to talk to you for a minute.
00:22:48Who are you?
00:22:49I have information regarding certain literary forgers.
00:22:53I'll listen.
00:22:55Let's go in here, shall we?
00:23:41I thought we could be alone here for a minute.
00:23:44Now, what's on my mind?
00:23:46They all go to a bomb-proof bank vault tomorrow.
00:23:48Air raid protection.
00:23:49Well, I'd be glad.
00:23:51Did I tell you the New York Library buried $15 million worth of books for the duration?
00:23:55Yes.
00:23:56I've been petrified since we've lost Hamlet.
00:23:59This little handful.
00:24:01$150,000.
00:24:04I'm petrified myself.
00:24:08That'd make quite a haul.
00:24:10Perhaps you've got your eye on them, Mr. Flay.
00:24:13McBurn's the name.
00:24:15I'm afraid I must disagree.
00:24:18What were you going to tell me about fortress?
00:24:19Let's have it quick.
00:24:21That money must be returned.
00:24:24Just like that?
00:24:25Just like that.
00:24:27The consequences will be serious if you decide otherwise.
00:24:30Sue me?
00:24:31I don't know what you're talking about.
00:24:33You're a fake Hamlet, Mr. Flay.
00:24:35I'm not Flay.
00:24:36You're pig-headed as a German.
00:24:38Those who swindle my leaders don't get away with it.
00:24:41So you are a hiney.
00:24:43For the last time.
00:24:44Are you going to make good our losses?
00:24:47Sorry, I can't go for the $64 question.
00:24:49I've got a date.
00:24:52One of your stormtroopers?
00:24:53I missed the first two reels.
00:24:55I don't get it.
00:24:56Gentlemen, we're closing now.
00:24:57It's almost nine o'clock.
00:24:58Oh, thank you.
00:24:59We're just leaving.
00:25:03Take him out the back way.
00:25:10We know how to make you cooperate, Mr. Flay.
00:25:20You must use the other door, gentlemen.
00:25:23Air raid precaution.
00:25:24Lock in this one.
00:25:26It's closing time, sir.
00:25:28McBurn?
00:25:28Nice of you to drop in.
00:25:30What do you want?
00:25:30I was told to give this to McBurn.
00:25:32I'll take it.
00:25:36Thanks.
00:25:37Wait for me here.
00:25:40Hey, take me too.
00:25:41I don't like him.
00:26:01It's a thought on the side, but...
00:26:02...
00:26:10Can I do it anyway?
00:26:10...
00:26:20You sleep alone.
00:26:30Been actually too long.
00:26:37I'm sorry but you can't go up there now we're closed no no I come back in the morning you
00:26:43can
00:26:43spend the whole day up there but not now I'll have to turn out all the lights when I come
00:26:52back
00:26:54how does the field of work brought off thank you Superman I'm gonna hurry please I want to cook a
00:27:00wolf you're gonna have him oh no it's the name of the cookbook it's the cook of the world but
00:27:06how
00:27:06the cook of the wolf if I know the name of what the fire I gotta ask you try the
00:27:10reading room
00:27:11always I get around the runs the run around to go here or go there you'd think I was a
00:27:15taxpayer
00:27:19you can't do business with Hitler only a crook or a fool would want to there is something we can
00:27:27do with
00:27:27him yeah yeah I told him a military secret and he fainted poor kid
00:27:46me
00:27:46you
00:27:46I'm
00:27:46me
00:27:46I'm
00:27:46me
00:27:46me
00:27:47me
00:27:47me
00:27:47me
00:28:16Stay right where you are.
00:28:17Stay right where you are.
00:28:19What was that crash?
00:28:20Somebody fell.
00:28:26I'm Craven, homicide.
00:28:28Dead?
00:28:29Mm-hmm.
00:28:30Somebody shoved a knife in his stomach.
00:28:32Don't let anybody leave the building.
00:28:34Lock the doors.
00:28:36You're all material witnesses.
00:28:39Please remain at the other end of the room.
00:28:42Another guy?
00:28:43He got me.
00:28:45Can I be of help?
00:28:46My name's McBurn, private man, New York agency.
00:28:51Sorry, lady, you've got to stay in here.
00:28:53Yes, I can use you.
00:28:55What's headquarters number?
00:28:57I'll call them.
00:29:00Outside line.
00:29:01See who it is.
00:29:02Isn't that the coroner's job?
00:29:04Do as I ask.
00:29:08Hello, Inspector Henderson.
00:29:09Craven speaking.
00:29:11K Street, Public Library, 9-5, Man Knives.
00:29:14Yeah.
00:29:15Send the boys over.
00:29:16Yes, sir.
00:29:17We're ready at this end.
00:29:19We'll stage the best murder investigation you ever saw.
00:29:23Yeah, Doc Daly's here.
00:29:24And still sober, too.
00:29:26Uh, the coroner's entitled to one little drink, isn't he?
00:29:28Yes, sir.
00:29:28Be there in five minutes.
00:29:30Okay, step on it.
00:29:32Get anything?
00:29:33This paper says his name's Martin Cleaver.
00:29:37Cleaver?
00:29:38Do you know him?
00:29:39Odd name.
00:29:41Seems to be in the art business.
00:29:43First the Hamlet quarto, now this.
00:29:46It's getting to be a habit.
00:29:47And I suppose we may expect the same results from the police.
00:29:50Nothing.
00:29:51You can expect what you like.
00:29:52Who are you?
00:29:53I'm Edmund Walpole, head of the reference room.
00:29:55Our $10,000 reward for the recovery of the Hamlet seems to be no incentive to you people.
00:30:00Oh, 10 G's, huh?
00:30:01I'm your man.
00:30:02But why don't you do something?
00:30:03The murderer may still be among us.
00:30:05Keep your pants on.
00:30:06I've got to wait for my technicians to arrive.
00:30:08Don't let anybody touch the body.
00:30:10Who would want to?
00:30:13Anybody leave?
00:30:14Not since he did the dive.
00:30:15Good.
00:30:16And our man's still in here.
00:30:21Have you been here long, madam?
00:30:23No.
00:30:24Did you come directly to this chair?
00:30:26No.
00:30:27First I went over to the...
00:30:28Show me.
00:30:34You knew he was meeting Cleaver.
00:30:36Why didn't you tell me?
00:30:37I'm as surprised as you are.
00:30:38Who did this to me deliberately?
00:30:41I thought you found danger exciting.
00:30:43From you, not from them.
00:30:46My men are coming.
00:30:47I've got to go through with this masquerade.
00:30:49Good luck.
00:30:51Not here.
00:30:52The neighbors might complain.
00:30:53Careful.
00:30:54Lying to me now may be your conscience.
00:30:57That one careless move.
00:30:59I never make any.
00:31:01I'll go into that later.
00:31:02Here comes my coroner.
00:31:05Murdered in a library.
00:31:07What was he waiting?
00:31:08He's a snappy.
00:31:09Where's Joe?
00:31:10You know what to do, Joe.
00:31:11Get everybody's story.
00:31:12Where he was and what he saw.
00:31:16We've got to get the books and get out quick.
00:31:19Neil McBurn.
00:31:20First chance you get.
00:31:21He's still with us.
00:31:21Uh-oh.
00:31:23Which one?
00:31:24Over there.
00:31:27What kept you so long?
00:31:28Some not mistook me for Flag.
00:31:30Was he going to be here tonight?
00:31:32I wouldn't know.
00:31:35Don't you believe me?
00:31:36Sure, beautiful.
00:31:37Why shouldn't I?
00:31:38You didn't tell the police I know, Flag.
00:31:40Just keep your mouth shut and let me handle this.
00:31:42You hired me and you're going to get service.
00:31:44Did you ever have a funny feeling you walked right into something?
00:31:47Mine says there's a bullet looking for me.
00:31:49Keep your eyes open.
00:31:50I need a pal.
00:31:54Knife.
00:31:55Pointed scissors.
00:31:56Spikes.
00:31:57Something like that did it.
00:31:59Did you turn up anything?
00:32:00Yes, I did.
00:32:01Miss Ogo.
00:32:02Yes, that's the man.
00:32:04Please.
00:32:05May I go now?
00:32:06You stay at your desk.
00:32:07You and a man named Benson went into the manuscript room with Cleaver.
00:32:12Uh-huh.
00:32:13Said he wanted to talk to me and he was called away.
00:32:16Why did you stop Benson?
00:32:17Oh, but I didn't, Lieutenant.
00:32:18He took sick and fainted, didn't you?
00:32:20Then I remembered my first aid and I was just going for a glass of water when Cleaver sailed
00:32:24over the balcony.
00:32:25I wasn't with him.
00:32:26You're lying, both of you.
00:32:28Am I?
00:32:28All right, don't talk.
00:32:29I'll take a pair of you down to headquarters.
00:32:32Vance, get his gun.
00:32:35Two, eh?
00:32:36Carrying one for a friend?
00:32:38Say, Lieutenant, there was a Cleaver in the book ragged.
00:32:41We ought to check the rare stuff.
00:32:43That's a good idea.
00:32:44A Wopo.
00:32:44Where do you keep it?
00:32:45Are valuable books.
00:32:47They're safe in the manuscript ball.
00:32:48Let's take a look.
00:32:52Outside line.
00:32:54Huh?
00:32:56Why not?
00:32:57Police orders.
00:32:58Lieutenant Craven says no outgoing calls.
00:33:01Okay.
00:33:09You ought to have a horn on that thing.
00:33:11Old Byron's done upon.
00:33:13You didn't copy.
00:33:14They're all still here.
00:33:15It would be impossible for a thief to open this safe.
00:33:18Whose handwriting is this?
00:33:19Byron's.
00:33:20His own corrections.
00:33:21I guess that makes it worth plenty.
00:33:23Looks like the original Solander.
00:33:25It is.
00:33:26What's the Solander?
00:33:27A slipcover to keep the book clean.
00:33:30You know books, Mr. Craven.
00:33:31Yes.
00:33:32I'm a great reader.
00:33:33Anything I could lay my hands on.
00:33:34Memory like an elephant.
00:33:36Listen.
00:33:36If Cleaver and his mob were after these and the killer still in the building, these books
00:33:39go under police protection right now.
00:33:41We'll lock them up at headquarters.
00:33:43All right.
00:33:44Perhaps the police ought to take the Thomas Jefferson manuscript too.
00:33:46It's a priceless historical document.
00:33:49Oh, yes.
00:33:49By all means.
00:33:51Anything you say.
00:33:52It's over here.
00:33:56I bet you've got a theory all your own, Mr. O'Byrne.
00:33:58Maybe.
00:34:00I agree with Mr. Craven.
00:34:01You're not telling everything you know.
00:34:03Maybe.
00:34:04Have you any clippings on the theft of the Hamlet Quarter?
00:34:07Yes.
00:34:07I'd like to let them over.
00:34:09I'll get them for you.
00:34:19Jefferson was president when he wrote this article on curing ham.
00:34:25A very interesting piece of Americana.
00:34:28Ought to bring a good price to the open market.
00:34:30Thomas Jefferson.
00:34:32Yes.
00:34:33A very good price.
00:34:34It's a collector's item, all right.
00:34:36You're making a very wise move putting it in a safe place along with the exhibition books.
00:34:41We'd hate to lose those five little books, wouldn't we?
00:34:44You'll have to sign for it, Lieutenant.
00:34:46Oh, gladly.
00:34:47I'll get the five books.
00:34:48Sign here, please.
00:34:49We always have to have a receipt for any books taken off the shelves.
00:34:53Didn't know I could get $150,000 so easily.
00:34:55Lieutenant Craven.
00:34:56Lieutenant Craven.
00:34:58They're gone.
00:34:59And they were right on this desk a minute ago.
00:35:02You were here.
00:35:03What a search.
00:35:03I saw no one else come in.
00:35:05Oh, there was a stack boy collecting books.
00:35:07He could have picked them up by mistake.
00:35:08That's right.
00:35:09He was pushing baby carriage 103 or 130.
00:35:12Let's go find him.
00:35:13Need any help with that?
00:35:14Not from you.
00:35:14Truck 103 tells his station it's on the third tier.
00:35:17We're on the fifth.
00:35:18Now.
00:35:20Why do you want these?
00:35:21Ever have a hunch?
00:35:22What's going on now is tied up with that hamlet job.
00:35:24I need an angle.
00:35:26You think whoever killed that guard...
00:35:27Is in the building again?
00:35:28Maybe.
00:35:29Where is station 126 in the stacks?
00:35:31126?
00:35:32On this floor.
00:35:33Show me.
00:35:39Say, you've got a couple of books in here.
00:35:42Two miles of books.
00:35:43Suppose we might get lost?
00:35:45You might.
00:35:46Leave the way.
00:35:48It's just like the big house.
00:35:50Every book's got a number.
00:35:51The Dewey Defimal System.
00:35:52We classify our books by numbers instead of titles.
00:35:55Very tricky.
00:35:56For instance, a book on agriculture is in the 630 group.
00:35:59And then say books on fruits, orchards and vineyards.
00:36:02They're classified as 634.
00:36:04There are ten major classifications.
00:36:06Philosophy is 100.
00:36:07Religion, 200.
00:36:08Literature is 800.
00:36:10History, 900.
00:36:10Sold to the little lady in the red hat.
00:36:13Then each volume has an office number.
00:36:19You ever try using all that concentration on something that wears pants and smokes a cigar?
00:36:25Uh-huh.
00:36:26We're getting married when the army's through with him.
00:36:28Yeah?
00:36:28What's he like?
00:36:29You.
00:36:30That's why I mistook you for him when you came in tonight.
00:36:32Oh, he's an ape.
00:36:34Not here.
00:36:35You know, I wish I'd met you before noon today.
00:36:37Why?
00:36:38I wouldn't have already fallen for somebody else.
00:36:41You couldn't compete with my army man.
00:36:43I've never been arrested for trying.
00:36:46This is station 126.
00:36:49What are you looking for?
00:36:50The book I wanted.
00:36:51Do the mice take the books around here?
00:36:53We don't have mice.
00:36:55Well, maybe the stack board took it.
00:36:56Well, that's easy to find out.
00:36:58Freddy!
00:37:00Oh, Freddy!
00:37:02He might be downstairs.
00:37:03I'll get him.
00:37:05You sound just like a husband.
00:37:07I skipped the compliments.
00:37:19Is that you, Kay?
00:37:23Who's there?
00:37:24Mac?
00:37:25Mac, where are you?
00:37:27Myra?
00:37:28What are you wandering around in here for?
00:37:30Looking for you, darling.
00:37:31I have to tell you something.
00:37:32Well, go ahead.
00:37:33Craven, he's Flegg.
00:37:36Yeah.
00:37:41He knew too much about rare books for an ordinary copper.
00:37:44I was afraid to tell you before, but I want to play square with you.
00:37:47You knew he was pulling this job tonight?
00:37:49No, I swear I didn't.
00:37:51I've got to watch my step.
00:37:53He's got a lot of innocent people sewed up.
00:37:55Somebody might stop a slugger to get wise.
00:37:57Well, don't let on you know.
00:37:58Now's your chance to get him.
00:38:00Mac, you do believe me.
00:38:03I want to, beautiful.
00:38:05Mr. McBurn.
00:38:06Get back outside and thanks.
00:38:09Up here.
00:38:11Do you want me, sir?
00:38:13Miss Ryan had to go with old Walpole.
00:38:14Did you take any books off this truck?
00:38:16Oh, no, sir.
00:38:17The morning ship puts them away.
00:38:18Oh, I see.
00:38:19Gee, my girl's waiting for me in a drug store and she'll get sore.
00:38:22Why can't I call her and tell her I'm stuck here?
00:38:24You know that cop on the switchboard says no outgoing calls.
00:38:27The police rule or something.
00:38:29I know.
00:38:29We're bottled up.
00:38:30Just roll with the punches and you'll recover.
00:38:33Who's down there?
00:38:35Who wants to know?
00:38:37Craven.
00:38:38Is that you, McBurn?
00:38:39Yeah.
00:38:40I want to see you.
00:38:52Lieutenant Craven.
00:38:57Don't you fool.
00:38:58Joseph.
00:38:59He's got the books.
00:39:00Wake him up.
00:39:12Make him talk but don't finish him until you get those books.
00:39:15I'll wait for you outside.
00:39:19Could I get anyone a drink of water?
00:39:22You've got to stay here.
00:39:23The police don't want you to leave your places.
00:39:26Where's the woman who was in this chair?
00:39:32Where is she?
00:39:34She closed us up.
00:39:36You know what to do.
00:39:40Go find her.
00:39:45Quit stalling.
00:39:45We know you've got them.
00:39:48Don't lie.
00:39:49Where did you put them?
00:40:23What do we do?
00:40:24No, no, no.
00:40:30We have to try.
00:40:31Don't lie.
00:40:32All you have to go.
00:40:32I'm just to take a look.
00:40:32Here's your boy.
00:40:33All you have to do is pick a look.
00:40:33You can come up to the house,
00:40:46Hey!
00:40:49Get back in there!
00:41:18What the devil are you doing here?
00:41:23Why, you came up and smoked a cigarette?
00:41:25Why, I have it. Keep your hands high.
00:41:27Oh, I have it. Keep your hands high.
00:41:35Eric Parson. Working in the shipyard, huh?
00:41:39Save you money, too.
00:41:41Parson sounds foreign. You German?
00:41:43No. I don't blame you.
00:41:50Where'd you get this?
00:41:52Under this table?
00:41:55Down in the library.
00:41:58Who dropped it?
00:42:01All right. Get downstairs where you belong.
00:42:11When are they gonna let us get out of here?
00:42:13I got something cooking on the stove.
00:42:15You've always got something cooking.
00:42:17They won't even let me call my husband.
00:42:18And when he doesn't hear from me, he gets the craziest ideas.
00:42:21The cops says they haven't got the killer yet.
00:42:26Go back to your chair.
00:42:29Say, I'm so scared I've got to get something to read.
00:42:32Well, help yourself.
00:42:33I must get my mind off this murder.
00:42:35I'm gonna have a baby.
00:42:37Wait till you get home.
00:42:38I mean my wife.
00:42:39Those cops ought to be shot.
00:42:41This is awful. I got a date.
00:42:43Yeah, I've given my boyfriend every alibi express murder.
00:42:47Hmm.
00:42:57Matt.
00:42:59Oh.
00:43:00You like dark rooms too?
00:43:01Just to get out of flags, would he?
00:43:03What are you doing?
00:43:04Getting the police while I'm still alive.
00:43:06He has men out there.
00:43:07They'll shoot if they see you.
00:43:08I got to risk it before there's any more killing in here.
00:43:31Hollis, Flegg's bodyguard.
00:43:32I've met him. He thinks I have the books.
00:43:35And somebody stuck Martin Cleaver with one of Flegg's forgeries.
00:43:39A Hamlet maybe.
00:43:41Was it you?
00:43:42Well, Flegg has lots of other outlets.
00:43:44Has he?
00:43:46I figure it like this.
00:43:50After Cleaver put the screws on, you ran into me.
00:43:54I was yelling Hamlet too.
00:43:56Cleaver used a gun.
00:43:58I used a jailhouse.
00:43:59You were on the spot.
00:44:01I know what you're thinking, Mac.
00:44:02And you're wrong.
00:44:04Am I?
00:44:05You played me off against Cleaver.
00:44:07You told him the guy who'd come to pick up a book would be Flegg.
00:44:12You knew he'd have his way or kill.
00:44:15No.
00:44:16Somewhere along the line, you also told Flegg that I was Mr. Trouble.
00:44:20He said he'd take care of me, right?
00:44:22Mac, you're so wrong.
00:44:25Beautiful.
00:44:26You wouldn't be you if you weren't lying.
00:44:29You knew I'd walk in here tonight with two men laying for me.
00:44:33Flegg sent a note using your name to get me up on that balcony.
00:44:37I didn't write this.
00:44:38I wasn't even on the balcony.
00:44:39Part of Flegg's plan to take over the library.
00:44:42He needed a body to stage a fake police investigation.
00:44:45And I was elected.
00:44:46And you knew it.
00:44:48No, Mac.
00:44:49Anyway, Cleaver went instead and got stuck with Hollis knife.
00:44:56And all the time, you were my pal.
00:45:01I never believed much in things happening at first sight.
00:45:05But it did, Mac.
00:45:08That's why I was afraid.
00:45:09That's why I wanted to be rid of you.
00:45:13I've always had my own way with the man.
00:45:15I wanted to.
00:45:17But this time it's different.
00:45:20You won't believe that.
00:45:21But it's true.
00:45:24I can try.
00:45:34You kind took a shot at me before.
00:45:37I had no hard feelings.
00:45:39But you're what I like.
00:45:41You can trust me.
00:45:43Well, I don't expect you to play straight.
00:45:45I just want you to be around.
00:45:47And in the clear when this is all over.
00:45:50We can have some fun.
00:46:02This wasn't in your bag before.
00:46:05I didn't want to get an appointment I had at 9.30 at a bookstore on 31st street.
00:46:09What a client.
00:46:10Makes notes in the middle of murder.
00:46:12I'll be back for you, beautiful.
00:46:14With a riot squad.
00:46:15Mr. McBurn.
00:46:17Yes?
00:46:18I've been looking everywhere for you.
00:46:20Something awful's happening.
00:46:21Those policemen, they're fake.
00:46:22I heard them talking.
00:46:24They stole the books.
00:46:25Well, not exactly.
00:46:25I'm going for help.
00:46:26Say nothing and you'll be all right till I get back.
00:46:28I'm terrified.
00:46:29Well, Myra, keep an eye on the kid.
00:46:31There's a guy in the army writing letters to her.
00:46:32Got to do our bid.
00:46:36Well, this side looks clear.
00:46:37Careful, they have a man out there.
00:46:40I feel so helpless.
00:46:42They're murderers.
00:46:43We'd better go back to the others.
00:46:44They'll be suspicious.
00:46:55Where is he?
00:46:56I don't know.
00:46:57Not far.
00:46:58You were with him.
00:46:59Where'd he go?
00:47:00He didn't tell me.
00:47:02You have fallen for him.
00:47:04Don't be silly.
00:47:05I delivered him to you, didn't I?
00:47:07There's no hate without love.
00:47:09You hate because you dread love.
00:47:11And the fear of desiring it.
00:47:14Save it.
00:47:15He's been out for an airing.
00:47:16I wouldn't try that again, mister.
00:47:18Said he went out to get the right time.
00:47:20Come on.
00:47:21Oh, I've been here before.
00:47:24Has he guessed it?
00:47:26About me?
00:47:28Than that little librarian.
00:47:30Maybe she knows too.
00:47:33That's all I want to know.
00:47:36You might have stopped a slug.
00:47:38I don't want anybody else to try that.
00:47:40You're all in temporary police custody.
00:47:42Take me in here.
00:47:51Breaking out of here wasn't a very wise move, McBurn.
00:47:54I got lonesome.
00:47:55Say, don't you think it's time Mr. Cleaver went to the icebox?
00:47:58I'm running this show.
00:47:59Show is the word.
00:48:00We have reason to believe that you know where the missing books are.
00:48:02Wish I had.
00:48:04I can take you downtown and sweat it out of you.
00:48:06Now, if you really mean headquarters, Lieutenant, I'd love that.
00:48:10Oh, Miss Ryan.
00:48:12Will you please come here?
00:48:19You'd like a book from Stacks.
00:48:21Certainly.
00:48:22Kiss Catton's Collector's Guide.
00:48:23I understand it carries a description of the missing books.
00:48:26I'll get it for you right away.
00:48:31Hollis.
00:48:32Yeah?
00:48:33The girl.
00:48:35Right.
00:48:36Letter alone, Flagg.
00:48:39Flagg?
00:48:39So you've been playing cat and mouse with me, eh?
00:48:42I thought I was the cat.
00:48:44I have underestimated your abilities.
00:48:46Call your man off.
00:48:47That girl can't hurt you.
00:48:48No, but you can spoil my set-up since she knows things that you know.
00:48:50Now, we were talking about some stolen books.
00:48:52If I had them, I'd give them to you.
00:49:00What?
00:49:01Blue signal?
00:49:02Hello?
00:49:04Somebody said blue signal and hung out.
00:49:07That's the signal for an air raid alert.
00:49:09We must stand by for the sirens.
00:49:10This is a fine time to have a blackout.
00:49:15There they go.
00:49:17Everybody must go to the shelter in the basement.
00:49:19We're blacking out.
00:49:20Hey, wait a minute.
00:49:20You can't do that.
00:49:21Mr. Craven, I am the air raid warden for this building.
00:49:24I have my orders.
00:49:25Miss Ovo, air raid.
00:49:27Miss Hartwig, can you hear the sirens?
00:49:29Take everybody to the shelter.
00:49:31Now, please walk.
00:49:32Don't run.
00:49:34Don't get excited.
00:49:35This way, please.
00:49:36This way.
00:49:38Don't be nervous.
00:49:39Our shelter is bomb-proof.
00:49:41Everything's under control.
00:49:43Don't get excited.
00:49:46Take it easy, folks.
00:49:48Watch your step on the stairs.
00:49:50Take it easy, sir.
00:49:51Keep calm.
00:49:53Let's get out of here.
00:49:54Not like it what I'm after.
00:49:56McGuern knows where those books are.
00:49:57We can take him with us.
00:49:59Now, wait.
00:50:08We need to take him with us.
00:50:09But I tell you, it's too risky.
00:50:11That's what I say.
00:50:12Make him talk, then come back.
00:50:14All right, let's go.
00:50:48Who's there?
00:50:52Who's there?
00:51:41Who's there?
00:52:11Who's there?
00:52:15Who's there?
00:52:15Come on!
00:52:15Come on!
00:52:16Come on!
00:52:34Come on!
00:52:41Hey!
00:52:43Come on!
00:52:48Hey, where are you?
00:53:37I thought you knew all the dirty tricks.
00:53:40I thought you knew all the dirty tricks.
00:53:44I thought you knew all the dirty tricks.
00:53:49Kay! Kay!
00:54:01Kay!
00:54:07Kitty hurt.
00:54:09Oh, that's a break.
00:54:10Take it easy.
00:54:29Let me down, Mac. I can walk.
00:54:31You sure?
00:54:32Where can we hide?
00:54:33Well, some place where I can show a light in this black house.
00:54:35The window.
00:54:36No, a flag would be up here for us.
00:54:39Can we get up on the roof?
00:54:40Yes.
00:54:40Let's go.
00:54:50Very careless of you, MacBurn, breaking doors.
00:54:54Didn't you read the sign? Quiet, please.
00:54:57Get over there, Myra.
00:55:01What's she doing in this?
00:55:02Like Miss Ryan, she knows more than is good for her.
00:55:06He's worried about you, Myra. It's a good sign.
00:55:09This way, please.
00:55:10I don't know how long this blackout inconvenience will last.
00:55:13But I've arranged for a quiet, persuasive talk.
00:55:23This will do very nicely.
00:55:26MacBurn, I'm curious to know who betrayed my identity.
00:55:29You did?
00:55:30Sounding off on old books.
00:55:32I'm glad it wasn't an old friend.
00:55:34And out of business, you have something that I want.
00:55:36I haven't got the books.
00:55:37Son of that, please.
00:55:38I've gone to great trouble to acquire them tonight.
00:55:46Look, Flake.
00:55:46Let the women go.
00:55:47This is between you and me.
00:55:49Wouldn't you play good cards if you had them?
00:55:53Oh, your racket is new.
00:55:55But of all the crazy stunts trying to put the slug on me in the air
00:55:58when you could do it on some dark, quiet street.
00:56:00Two birds with one stone.
00:56:02Well, when you kill the wrong man, why didn't you finish what you started on me?
00:56:06Because of the emotional suspense, the anticipation of whether you would catch me or not.
00:56:11You see, I belong to a strange breed.
00:56:15We find pleasure in fear and pain.
00:56:18You like to be hurt?
00:56:20It's a form of self-punishment.
00:56:22Oh, well, I'll do all I can for you.
00:56:24I'm sorry, but the game is over.
00:56:27I intend to get what I want.
00:56:30Cleaver went in for books. Why don't you ask his man, Benson?
00:56:33Thank you, I did.
00:56:41But it was a waste of time.
00:56:44To die in terror.
00:56:47But he didn't appreciate it.
00:56:50Come on now, quit stalling.
00:56:54Suppose you find out where the books are after I take the women out of the building.
00:56:59Forgive me, but I wouldn't trust you that far.
00:57:02Since you insist upon being so stubborn, I shall have to do things my way.
00:57:07Oh, you mustn't show a light. It's definitely against the rules.
00:57:11I know, but the window's covered.
00:57:13Oh, yes. Well, don't put on any more lights.
00:57:15Oh, Mr. Walpole.
00:57:16Yes, my dear?
00:57:17Never mind. Tell him later.
00:57:19It's a perfect blackout, not a light showing anywhere.
00:57:23Everybody's doing his bit.
00:57:28A harp string around the finger can give excruciating pain.
00:57:32A crippled finger isn't very beautiful, you know.
00:57:35Well, Vern, I'm curious to know if you like to watch pain.
00:57:38Let her alone, Flegg.
00:57:40Mac, don't let him do it.
00:57:41All right, you can have the books.
00:57:43Where are they?
00:57:43I've got to use the phone.
00:57:45You couldn't have got them out of the building.
00:57:46I mean the inter-office phone. They'll only be given up on my say-so.
00:57:48Well, who's got them?
00:57:50It's got to be handled my way.
00:57:52All right, go ahead.
00:57:57I want the information desk, please.
00:58:00Sorry, pal. You've got to get an okay.
00:58:03Okay.
00:58:04Let him have it, Joe.
00:58:07Mr. Walpole there?
00:58:08Just a second.
00:58:09Mr. Walpole, telephone.
00:58:12Oh, thank you.
00:58:14Walpole speaking.
00:58:16All clear.
00:58:17What?
00:58:19Oh, the all clear signal.
00:58:22Very good.
00:58:26Have the books ready for me when I come down.
00:58:28Don't let anyone else have them.
00:58:32Well, what are you waiting for?
00:58:34You have the all clear.
00:58:36That didn't sound like my senior warden's voice.
00:58:39You've got to be careful.
00:58:40Fifth columnists try to spoil blackouts.
00:58:43Well, somebody else could have phoned for your warden.
00:58:45Yes.
00:58:47Walpole.
00:58:48So he's in it with you.
00:58:51Let's go down there.
00:58:55Perhaps I ought to call him back just to make sure.
00:58:59I don't know how many signals you'll want, but I can't stand this darkness.
00:59:02What a murderer loose.
00:59:04I want light.
00:59:05Mr. Walpole.
00:59:07Mr. Walpole.
00:59:08You're disobeying my orders.
00:59:16Get those lights out.
00:59:17Get those lights out.
00:59:18They won't get those lights out.
00:59:20They won't get those lights out.
00:59:20Come on.
00:59:24Who gave you an all clear?
00:59:26Get those lights out.
00:59:27Get these men.
00:59:27You're up.
00:59:31Get those lights out.
00:59:31My men just got back from searching Flegg's apartment.
00:59:34This the original?
00:59:35We found it on Flegg's workbench.
00:59:37Along with a lot of other stuff.
00:59:39It is, Inspector.
00:59:41It is.
00:59:42Though I didn't sell it.
00:59:44Why sell fine books when the suckers will pay for imitations?
00:59:48Besides, I'm a collector myself.
00:59:50But I was careless, wasn't I?
00:59:52And I was lucky.
00:59:54For one brief moment I left myself unguarded.
00:59:58The subconscious mind exacting its punishment.
01:00:01He likes to hurt himself.
01:00:03I always knew this would happen.
01:00:06But when and how?
01:00:10I'd wake up nights in a cold sweat thinking I'd been caught.
01:00:14You see, like a lot of criminals, I wanted to be caught.
01:00:19That's what a conscience does to us.
01:00:21Though we don't always know it.
01:00:23We can outwit other people, but never ourselves.
01:00:25I seem to have outsmarted myself in this job.
01:00:28I get all the slapping around, but the reward has to be split twelve ways.
01:00:31Please help recover the hamlet.
01:00:33They're entitled to a cut.
01:00:34I never argue with the law.
01:00:36Mr. Flegg, won't you please tell us what you've done with those five books?
01:00:39I've tried to.
01:00:40I haven't got them.
01:00:41I hate to sound mercenary, but will the library offer a reward?
01:00:45I suppose so, yes.
01:00:47About five grand.
01:00:48Oh, you know where they are.
01:00:49No, but I'd hate to go to a lot of trouble just for the exercise.
01:00:52We'll pay five thousand dollars.
01:00:54Twenty five hundred.
01:00:56You tempt me.
01:00:57Yes, definitely.
01:00:58Oh, by the way, look for some leads in Cleaver's papers.
01:01:01He didn't work alone.
01:01:05Hope you enjoy the hanging.
01:01:07You wouldn't understand.
01:01:10Die in terror.
01:01:16Listen, I've given my statement.
01:01:18I've got to go.
01:01:19It's my job.
01:01:19I'm on the morning shift.
01:01:20All right, but what's the name?
01:01:21Helen Murphy.
01:01:22Okay, Helen.
01:01:24Eric Parson.
01:01:26You must stop being frightened.
01:01:27It's all over now.
01:01:30I want to talk to you.
01:01:32Excuse me, please.
01:01:48I want to talk to you.
01:01:48Did Fleg talk about me?
01:01:49Not a word.
01:01:51Well, you didn't let him.
01:01:54Thank you, Mac.
01:01:55When I protect a client, I protect him.
01:01:58You're in the clear.
01:01:59Just as you promised.
01:02:00Cigarette?
01:02:02No, thank you.
01:02:07Something's wrong.
01:02:08What is it?
01:02:13Where are those five books you lifted off that stack wagon?
01:02:16Don't give me that.
01:02:17You got them and you let Fleg gun for me, thinking I had them.
01:02:19You're out of your mind.
01:02:21Stop acting.
01:02:21You tried to play me off against Fleg.
01:02:23Why not?
01:02:24I was a lucky guy.
01:02:25I might knock off Fleg.
01:02:26That'd make you top man in the racket.
01:02:28A swell setup.
01:02:30And you're made of ice.
01:02:36A retainer.
01:02:42I kept my end of the bargain.
01:02:45You're not in the Fleg case so far.
01:02:47But from right now, you're on your own.
01:02:49You've got to listen to me.
01:02:50Where are those books?
01:02:51I don't know.
01:03:02Could be.
01:03:08920.
01:03:10Darwin's biography of African chieftains.
01:03:14All books are classified according to number.
01:03:16History is 900.
01:03:18Here's 930.
01:03:20Malmson's history of Rome.
01:03:23C31.
01:03:25The letter C, maybe.
01:03:27I explained that memo.
01:03:30C31.
01:03:31Yeah, Charleston's ancient tales of the Nile Delta.
01:03:59You sure had a date in the morning.
01:04:01With 150 grand.
01:04:03Going to blame a girl for trying?
01:04:05I'd have told you.
01:04:06In a pig's eye.
01:04:08Look, beautiful.
01:04:09Nothing ties you to the killings tonight.
01:04:10No proof.
01:04:11But I'm going to nail you for the Hamlet forgery.
01:04:14Revenge?
01:04:15No.
01:04:15To teach you a lesson.
01:04:17You had me going for a while.
01:04:19But a man doesn't mean a thing to you.
01:04:21You live for little Myra and nobody else.
01:04:23And you'll always be that way.
01:04:25Mac.
01:04:27What you said was true until you came along.
01:04:29Oh, don't hand me that one.
01:04:30Any dame who worries about her hat and a taxi.
01:04:33That was the tip-off to me.
01:04:34But I didn't want to believe it.
01:04:35Mac.
01:04:36I love you.
01:04:37It's the first time I've ever been able to say that to any man.
01:04:40Oh, lay off.
01:04:41You've yelled Wolf too many times.
01:04:42I wanted to give you a break.
01:04:44But you tried to destroy Kay, that innocent kid.
01:04:47You were the only one who knew she'd spotted Flake.
01:04:50And you tried to tip him off about it.
01:04:51I couldn't help it.
01:04:52I was jealous.
01:04:53You?
01:04:53No.
01:04:54You wanted to convince Flake you were on his side.
01:04:57And that was your big mistake.
01:04:58You were falling for her.
01:05:00No.
01:05:00She doesn't mean a thing to me.
01:05:01Only what she stands for.
01:05:02She's waiting for some guy in the army.
01:05:06But you wouldn't get it.
01:05:07There are thousands like Kay.
01:05:08And a lot of guys in the army counting on him.
01:05:10Daydreaming about things after the war.
01:05:12Her useless death would have hurt him.
01:05:15Maybe I am a sentimental slob, but I don't buy that.
01:05:17Thanks for the buggy ride.
01:05:27Oh, so you know where they were all the time, eh?
01:05:29Nope.
01:05:30I found this on Flake and figured it out all by myself.
01:05:34And don't horn in on the reward.
01:05:36Is that so?
01:05:37Yeah.
01:05:42Mac, you have to see me home.
01:05:44Oh no.
01:05:44You're the only one I can count on.
01:05:46Kleber's men are out there and they know what happened.
01:05:47They'll kill me.
01:05:49Maybe they will.
01:05:49Maybe they won't.
01:05:51People who do business with Hitler's mob know the payoff.
01:05:54Go ask the cops to take you home.
01:05:55Oh, Mac, don't desert me now.
01:05:57I'm sick of your lying.
01:05:58I'm not lying.
01:05:59I tell you, I'm terrified.
01:06:01Yeah, you're like Flake.
01:06:02You love it.
01:06:09Good night, or I mean good morning.
01:06:12Exciting night, wasn't it?
01:06:14Mr. Walpole, would you mind seeing me home?
01:06:17I don't want to go out alone.
01:06:19Why, there's nothing to be afraid of now.
01:06:21Flake's been taken to headquarters and our streets are the safest in the country.
01:06:44I do not work alone.
01:06:49My dear, we all sit in motion for our own destruction.
01:06:58You know where I can get a taxi?
01:07:00Not around here, but there's a stand four blocks down.
01:07:40Not around here, but there's nothing to be afraid of.
01:07:41It's scary.
01:07:42It's scary to only have to go out there.
01:07:42People never want to go out.
01:07:42But no one is dead.
01:07:42They're late.
01:07:43You know the truth that they're going to live.
01:07:43They're dead.
01:07:45They're dead.
01:07:46They're dead.
01:07:49They're dead.
01:07:49I'm going to go.
01:07:58I'm going to go.
01:07:59I'm going to go to the top of the bottom.
01:07:59I'm going to go.
01:07:59I'm going to go.
01:07:59It's going to go.
01:08:06I'm going to go.
01:08:10That dummy.
01:08:11Which way did you go?
01:08:11Headed east towards Main Street.
01:08:13What's up?
01:08:13One of the Clevers gun men just found
01:08:15that opened a German's paper.
01:08:16No, no, I swear.
01:08:41Wait a minute.
01:08:43Help me.
01:08:44Hold it.
01:08:45The wine's doing in here.
01:08:52He got her all right.
01:08:56Night.
01:08:59Hello. Can you tell me all about it now?
01:09:01I'll buy you a cup of coffee.
01:09:02Put poison in it?
01:09:06Oh, I'm sorry.
01:09:07I guess you're not all alike, but right now I'm not very good company.
01:09:23She was involved somehow, wasn't she?
01:09:26You liked her too.
01:09:30I feel like a guy who's lost his pet cat.
01:09:34Did you ever have a cat when you were a kid?
01:09:36Mama's her dad to go.
01:09:39You know what it means to lose something.
01:09:41You could do without, but you had to have.
01:09:46Come on. I'll buy the coffee.
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