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The Proud Rebel 1958
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00:00:00The End
00:00:53What time do they do at 9 o'clock?
00:00:55They always do it at 9 o'clock.
00:01:05The End
00:01:06Hold on there.
00:01:17Have those when you came in?
00:01:19Yeah.
00:01:20They'll be so dry they'll burn your blooming lungs out.
00:01:23I'd smoke a bit of old rope after 18 months of this.
00:01:32Stand up there.
00:01:41All right, sit down.
00:01:44O'Leary.
00:01:47Full name?
00:01:48Jimmy O'Leary.
00:01:50Committed from?
00:01:50The Old Bailey.
00:01:52How long?
00:01:52One year.
00:01:53Four and tuppence.
00:01:54Sign there.
00:02:00Come on.
00:02:02Next.
00:02:11Put up in that island this morning.
00:02:14Yeah.
00:02:14Won't I be glad to get out of here before they do?
00:02:16Next.
00:02:19Full name?
00:02:20Albert Owen Matthews.
00:02:21Where from?
00:02:22Swansea.
00:02:23Committed from?
00:02:24Flixton.
00:02:25How long?
00:02:2618 months.
00:02:28One pound, eight and sixpence.
00:02:29Sign there.
00:02:30Oh.
00:02:39Come on.
00:02:40This way.
00:03:03All right, well, you'll be out again, Jimmy, bye.
00:03:05Dad.
00:03:15Excuse me, can I have a word with you?
00:03:17What about?
00:03:18You've just been in there, haven't you?
00:03:19So what if I have?
00:03:20No offense, man.
00:03:21I just wondered if you ever got to speak to this chap, Alan.
00:03:24Alan?
00:03:25You mean the fellow they're going to tough this morning?
00:03:27Aye.
00:03:27Did you know him?
00:03:28No.
00:03:29He wasn't a bad chap.
00:03:31I just wondered how he took it.
00:03:33Now, look here, Jock, you can't go around killing Janes and expect to get away with it.
00:03:36I don't think he meant to kill her.
00:03:37You see it.
00:03:37Well, he did, didn't he?
00:03:38And for that stroke, you get, well, you get the nine o'clock walk.
00:03:42Your fellow yours?
00:03:43No, he's, he's my brother.
00:04:24I see they topped that, Alan, even with all them people signing that petition.
00:04:27Yeah, all that shamazoo didn't do him that good.
00:04:30Well, why should it?
00:04:31There's got to be a law right there.
00:04:33Now, take you and me.
00:04:34Why can I sleep home peacefully at night?
00:04:36Why?
00:04:37Because you ain't got a lodger, cop.
00:04:39Shorty, you know, Charlie.
00:04:40What you worried?
00:04:41Shorty, well, when did you get back?
00:04:42Morning.
00:04:43You're looking good.
00:04:44Well, I ought to be.
00:04:45I've been resting for 18 moons.
00:04:47Give us a cup of the old acca maraca, Charlie, will you?
00:04:49Sure.
00:04:50If you like the old times, seeing you around the place again, Shorty.
00:04:52That's right.
00:04:54Give us a fresh packet of facts, will you?
00:04:56Yeah.
00:04:57I had these when I went in, and they burned like your grandmother's feather bed.
00:05:00Yeah.
00:05:01That's a tough one.
00:05:01How's all the boys, Murray?
00:05:03Oh, all right.
00:05:04Most of them are all right.
00:05:05Some of them have been away for a bit.
00:05:06You know how it is.
00:05:08Oh, then I know a lot of flatties after you all the time.
00:05:10Never giving a fella a chance.
00:05:12What have you been doing, mate?
00:05:13Oh, a little of this, a little of that.
00:05:16I've been lucky.
00:05:17I'm running the Pins and Needles Club now.
00:05:19Cutting into my business, he is.
00:05:21Oh, is that so?
00:05:22All the boys still hang out there?
00:05:24Yeah.
00:05:25You'll be along again, I suppose.
00:05:27You try and keep me out.
00:05:28You better spend your money in here, Shorty.
00:05:31Your snooker will be too rusty to play with that bunch.
00:05:33I'll pick it up quick enough.
00:05:35I'll be seeing you then.
00:05:36So long.
00:05:37So long.
00:05:37See you tonight.
00:05:38All right.
00:05:42You know, Charlie, my boy, this is the real stuff out of the wash I've been used to.
00:05:45Got some milk in it.
00:05:47I should say so.
00:05:48What are you going to do, Shorty?
00:05:50Are you going back on the old lark?
00:05:52What else can I do?
00:05:53Why don't you get out of it?
00:05:54Get a straight job.
00:05:56Look at me.
00:05:57The boys are my best customers.
00:05:59But not yours truly.
00:06:00No.
00:06:00I stay off the crook and keep me nose clean.
00:06:03And when I go away, it's only the south end.
00:06:06Well, that's all I feel.
00:06:07But ever since I was a kid, they've had it in for me.
00:06:08Ah, come off it.
00:06:09It's not as bad as that.
00:06:10That's all you know.
00:06:11For once you've been inside, they keep on after you.
00:06:13And they'll put you in a stir for nothing just because you've got a record.
00:06:16Charlie?
00:06:17Oh, what's your name?
00:06:18Hello.
00:06:19Tell the package of the usual.
00:06:20Sure.
00:06:28Here you are, sweetheart.
00:06:30Chalk it up, will you?
00:06:31Oh, all right.
00:06:40Long time since you've been that close to her, Judy, eh, Shorty?
00:06:43Too long.
00:06:46Who's she?
00:06:47One of the regulars.
00:06:50Remember Alice?
00:06:51Alice Carson out hangout with.
00:06:53She's still about?
00:06:54Is she still about?
00:06:55I should say she is.
00:06:56Got a job at the Pallity Dance.
00:06:57Oh.
00:06:58Dance hostess.
00:06:59And the clothes.
00:07:00I don't know where she gets them from.
00:07:01She's a million-dollar baby now.
00:07:03Too rich for your blood, Shorty.
00:07:05She is, is she?
00:07:06Well, I can soon take care of that.
00:07:09Where's she live?
00:07:10Around the corner in Drummond Street.
00:07:11Oh.
00:07:11Over the newsagents.
00:07:12Well, they might go along when they see us and have a butcher's.
00:07:14Sure, why not?
00:07:15She'd be glad to see you, for old time's sake.
00:07:17Yeah.
00:07:17Well, let me start with you, Charlie.
00:07:19That's all right.
00:07:19It's on the house.
00:07:20Glad to see you back again.
00:07:21Oh, well, thanks.
00:07:23I think I'll go along and see if I can find one or two with the boys.
00:07:26Oh, sure.
00:07:28And if you don't find them, come back here about seven o'clock.
00:07:30Someone will be in for a cert.
00:07:32Sure.
00:07:33I'll give you a meal, Charlie.
00:07:35Um, Shorty.
00:07:36Give my luck to Alice.
00:07:41Clouds, ladies, ladies.
00:07:43Clouds, Clouds.
00:07:44Lovely blooms.
00:07:45How much of your roses, Mum?
00:07:46A chilling of market, don't you?
00:07:47Give me a tanner.
00:07:48Oh, all right, Dux.
00:07:51God bless you.
00:07:53Clouds, Clouds.
00:07:57Clouds, Clouds.
00:08:08The Dask.
00:08:26Bye, everybody.
00:08:49Alice.
00:09:01Blimey, Alice, you don't have to sleep.
00:09:28Alice.
00:09:56Alice.
00:10:19Well, young man?
00:10:23What are you doing in my house?
00:10:25I was just looking for a palomine up the stairs.
00:10:28Oh, you were, were you?
00:10:30Yes.
00:10:30It's that Alice.
00:10:31I told her when she took a room here, I says, none of your tricks here, Miss I says.
00:10:35I don't know what she's talking about.
00:10:36I don't know anything about no Alice.
00:10:38I was just looking for a palomine, like I said.
00:10:41Come on, I won't get out of here.
00:10:42I'm going upstairs to put her right out, so don't you let me catch you here again.
00:10:46Oh, yes.
00:10:47Oh, yes.
00:10:48Oh, yes.
00:10:48Oh, yes.
00:10:48Oh, yes.
00:10:49Oh, yes.
00:10:49Oh, yes.
00:10:49Oh, yes.
00:10:50Oh, yes.
00:11:07Oh.
00:11:13Oh, yes.
00:11:16Oh.
00:11:16Oh, yes, oh.
00:11:19Then she says to me, there!
00:11:19Oh, yes, oh.
00:11:20Let's go.
00:12:31Once again, we bring you an episode in our series of famous murder trials.
00:12:36This week, we will reconstruct for you a case in which a murder was solved by one detail after another.
00:12:43It was built up into an unbreakable chain of circumstantial evidence.
00:12:47The murderer tried to prove an alibi, but it didn't help him.
00:12:50The evidence collected gradually and remorselessly.
00:12:53The murderer says,
00:14:50Good night.
00:14:52Well, as we go.
00:14:56Oh.
00:14:59How do I stand for catching another bus up north?
00:15:01You won't get no bus tonight.
00:15:02Well, there must be one somewhere.
00:15:03I'll tell you there ain't.
00:15:04Why, what's the hurry?
00:15:05Well, I got me mother in and I'd better get up there, see?
00:15:07Well, I'm sorry, champ, but you're out of luck.
00:15:09Here, wait a minute.
00:15:10If you get up on the Great North Road, you might come a little my lorry.
00:15:12I'll tell.
00:15:12I say, there's a transport cap a couple of miles from here.
00:15:15Try that.
00:15:16Okay, pal.
00:15:17Thanks.
00:15:17Good night.
00:15:18Good night.
00:15:22Good night.
00:15:49Good night.
00:15:49You don't happen to be going up north, mate?
00:15:50here i might be why well i want to get up to sheffield oh yeah the missus up there
00:15:54well i'll see what i can do i'm gonna have a cup of charge better come on in
00:15:56well hello
00:16:02are you going up north again already blimey i go down to the yard and unload they turn
00:16:07me around send me back again like a blooming train oh what a drum thing about to get an extra
00:16:10ten bob for yourself don't you ten bob even with the extras you can't make a decent living at this
00:16:15job if it wasn't for the missus making a bit on the side with the calf he'd blooming well starved
00:16:20come on miss come on let's have a cup of tea get that tino what's yours john no mate this
00:16:24is my
00:16:24treater same for me pleasing one of them sausage rolls please leave it to me ducks how's business
00:16:31down your way well i'm not so bad the old woman's half dead tonight serving teas and all i shouldn't
00:16:35know you've got to work out for your dough these days it's a proper charlie asking all right good
00:16:38evening hello wally lovely night ain't it sorry ducks nothing doing what do you mean nothing doing
00:16:44i'm not going your way and i can't give you a lift who asked for a lift anyway now looky
00:16:49i can't lose
00:16:49my job over you lorry girls lorry girls what do you mean aye aye aye cut it out you keep
00:16:54your mouth
00:16:54shut i ain't going to let no big step of the lorry driver get fresh with me
00:17:03take your filthy hands off me i'll have the police on you
00:17:18i'm talking about you writing them jones is the curse of the road they get tougher every day well
00:17:23them two was tough all right do you find many of them up and down the place yeah dozens of
00:17:27them
00:17:29I'll knock it.
00:17:30Take the butters of that bloke with Wally.
00:17:32So your missus lives in Sheffield?
00:17:35Yeah, she works there.
00:17:36She's got a business there.
00:17:39There you are.
00:17:40There it is.
00:17:41His name's Matthews.
00:17:42You and your Matthews. How could he get here?
00:17:45Oh, I don't know about that.
00:17:46But anyway, it says here he's a little bloke
00:17:49with dark hair wearing a grey suit.
00:17:51You better ask Wally.
00:17:52Come on, get your mind back on the game.
00:17:54What is it, mate?
00:17:56Oh, sorry, I just thought I saw a chap I know, so...
00:18:02Oi, Wally.
00:18:03What?
00:18:04Come here in there.
00:18:05I didn't see you.
00:18:06What?
00:18:09What is it?
00:18:10Just take a look at this.
00:18:13I thought it was you.
00:18:14Yeah!
00:18:18What do you take this place for?
00:18:20What's the matter with you?
00:18:20I'll teach you to go around running after another fellow's missus.
00:18:23What?
00:18:24We are potty.
00:18:25I ain't never seen this boat before.
00:18:26No.
00:18:27And I ain't never seen you before, neither only once.
00:18:29But you've been seeing plenty of a certain party, ain't you, Mr. Bloomin' Smith?
00:18:33Smith?
00:18:35Poor old chap.
00:18:35Now I know he's off his now.
00:18:36Don't you try that on with me.
00:18:38My name ain't Smith.
00:18:38And I never told no one it was.
00:18:40Of course he's not Smith.
00:18:41This man's name's Mackenzie.
00:18:44Wait a minute.
00:18:45Is this straight up?
00:18:46Of course it's straight up.
00:18:47You're the last one to kill anybody.
00:18:48Well, I'm sorry.
00:18:50Well, chap can make a mistake, can't he?
00:18:52You can't go on making mistakes like that.
00:18:55Well, you see, I only saw this fellow once, and well, all I can say is if you ain't him,
00:18:59well, you're his twin, that's all.
00:19:01Okay?
00:19:02Okay.
00:19:03But I'd like to give you back that one you gave me.
00:19:05Take that on tea, will you?
00:19:06Come on out.
00:19:09Here, Bill.
00:19:10What?
00:19:10Get a basin full of this.
00:19:12All the time we was talking about him, he was thinking I was no better in his lodger,
00:19:15and we thought you was a murderer.
00:19:17Blimey.
00:19:17This Matthews they're looking for.
00:19:19Matthews, who's he?
00:19:20The bloke worked only that girl today.
00:19:21Oh, him?
00:19:22Yes.
00:19:23Come on, lads, what's he gonna be?
00:19:24Rosie Lee for me.
00:19:25I don't have a cup of tea.
00:19:26What made you think I was this Matthews?
00:19:27Well, the paper said he was a little bloke wearing a grey suit.
00:19:29I've been telling Job, there's thousands of little blokes in this world,
00:19:33and thousands of grey suits too.
00:19:35That's right, and there's one too many now, isn't there?
00:19:37Yes, all right.
00:19:38Oh, tell us, do you know this fellow Smith?
00:19:41George Smith, his name is, and he drives a lorry too.
00:19:43No, no, no, no, that was George.
00:19:45Well, if I knew they'd have gone there, wouldn't I?
00:19:46I suppose you would.
00:19:47Well, a bit of a drink up if you're coming along with me.
00:19:49Yeah, I'm a tip.
00:19:50How much is that, mate?
00:19:51See you, four teas now and the other lot.
00:19:53Give us a bob, Job.
00:19:53There you are.
00:19:54Good night, Wally.
00:19:55Good night.
00:19:56So long, mate.
00:19:57Well, no hard feelings, eh?
00:19:59No, that's all right, mate.
00:20:00I can't.
00:20:01But here, if you come across this George Smith,
00:20:02give him the same wallop you give me, will you?
00:20:04Oh, mate.
00:20:05Good night, Buck.
00:20:05Good night, Buck.
00:20:06Good night, Buck.
00:20:07Good night, Buck.
00:20:36Good night, Buck.
00:20:37Are you going far tonight?
00:20:37To the side of Bedford.
00:20:39My wife runs one of these here caps.
00:20:41Has she?
00:20:42sell you?
00:20:42up on some of them sets. We're not binnipi. Come.
00:20:58Now, look here, son. I don't think you've proved you aren't this fellow they're looking for.
00:21:02Don't worry, a chum I ain't. Who are you, anyway?
00:21:04My name's Thompson. What? Thompson.
00:21:07Oh. Got something to prove it?
00:21:10Well, perhaps I haven't, perhaps I haven't. What's it gonna do with you, anyway?
00:21:13Why do you take me up if you think I'm this fellow Matthews?
00:21:15Well, if I said anything in the cap, I might have got an innocent bloke into trouble.
00:21:19And I wasn't sure.
00:21:22You wasn't? Meaning you are now?
00:21:24I can always change my mind.
00:21:26Who do you think you are running the rule over me?
00:21:27I ain't running the rule over you. Don't look at the fix I'm in.
00:21:30I'll give you a lift, and if you are this year Matthews, I'll still get into trouble.
00:21:33What are you gonna do?
00:21:34Nothing. But when you get to Bedford, you'll have to explain yourself to the cops.
00:21:38Now, look here, what-
00:21:38Well, didn't you try any copers with me?
00:21:40I ain't so good tempered as a jock.
00:21:45Listen.
00:21:46I admit it.
00:21:47I'm shorty Matthews. I'm the fellow they're looking for.
00:21:49But I didn't do it so help me I didn't.
00:21:51What?
00:21:51You couldn't turn me in. You couldn't.
00:21:52You said just now you'd never get an innocent fellow into trouble while I'm innocent, see?
00:21:55And why are you doing a scarper?
00:21:56Because they'd never give me a break.
00:21:58I got a record, see?
00:21:59And once they caught me, well, they wouldn't even start looking for the fellow that really done it.
00:22:02Well, look here, you didn't do it. There must be some way of proving it.
00:22:03There isn't, I tell you, there isn't.
00:22:04They got me on this thing they call circumstantial evidence.
00:22:07They're only making their wives by running away.
00:22:09I've got to keep away from them.
00:22:11I might strike lucky, you never know.
00:22:12They might find the guy that really done it by accident, perhaps.
00:22:15You're sound as if you're telling the truth.
00:22:17Let them cut their wives.
00:22:18It ain't up to me to help you get away and lose my job.
00:22:21They topped me for the dead, sir.
00:22:23Look here, son. I got a wife.
00:22:24Mind up.
00:22:25Mind up.
00:22:55Mind up.
00:22:57Mind up.
00:23:07Mind up.
00:23:10Mind up.
00:23:14Mind up.
00:23:15Mind up.
00:23:17Mind up.
00:23:18Mind up.
00:23:19Mind up.
00:23:20Mind up.
00:23:21Mind up.
00:23:22Mind up.
00:23:22Mind up.
00:23:24Mind up.
00:23:55Hi, mate. What's up?
00:23:57Had a bit of a skid. Nearly broke my ruddy neck.
00:23:59Are you all right?
00:23:59Well, I am if this perishing wagon is. Have a look, will you, chum?
00:24:02Yeah, all right.
00:24:07She looks all right to me.
00:24:10Headlamp's a bit bent.
00:24:12How's the steering?
00:24:13Well, it don't seem so bad.
00:24:15I'll straighten her up.
00:24:16All right, go on. Back as you are.
00:24:26She'll do.
00:24:28Blimey, a bit shaky, ain't it?
00:24:30That would you be if you'd just miscopper the package.
00:24:32Yeah, they stopped you tonight.
00:24:33Who?
00:24:34The coppers.
00:24:35They're now looking for some bloke from London.
00:24:37I've been stopped twice.
00:24:38You have?
00:24:39Yeah.
00:24:39I ain't seen nobody.
00:24:40You will.
00:24:41Well, if your phone gets to RTL, I'll back you up.
00:24:43You was dazzled.
00:24:43I was what?
00:24:44You was dazzled by headlights.
00:24:45Oh, I'll get you.
00:24:47As drivers are going to stick together.
00:24:49Life's tough enough without losing your job over an accident.
00:24:51Sure.
00:24:51Well, I was dazzled by headlights, and if the phone cuts up rough, I'll let you know.
00:24:54Yeah, okay.
00:24:55Oh, I'm Sid Parsons, driving for Knoll Brothers, Lancaster.
00:24:59Thanks, chum.
00:24:59Okay, so long.
00:25:00Good luck.
00:25:00So long.
00:25:30How are you feeling, chum?
00:25:31Oh, it's my head.
00:25:35I thought you'd put it in your past your brains house.
00:25:38Can we get up on the seat?
00:25:39I think so.
00:25:40Come on.
00:25:40Thanks.
00:25:43Where are they?
00:25:44We've just come through a place called Midwell.
00:25:46Oh, yes.
00:25:47I know.
00:25:48How far is this cafe yours?
00:25:50Oh, about 10 miles.
00:25:53Oh.
00:25:55You don't half look bad to me.
00:25:57How come?
00:25:57Last, all right, we'll get to my place.
00:26:01Oh.
00:26:02I think I'd better get out the next place and try and get you something.
00:26:15You sit tight.
00:26:16I won't be out for much.
00:26:26Shorty.
00:26:27Hello, Molly.
00:26:28What's you doing up here?
00:26:29I've been up in Manchester.
00:26:30I didn't like it there, so I'm going back to town.
00:26:31The old palais?
00:26:32Yes, the dance hostess.
00:26:33But what about you?
00:26:34You're driving a lorry now.
00:26:35I thought you'd been away.
00:26:36Well, you see, Molly, I've turned it in now and I'm going straight, see, and I've changed
00:26:39my moniker to, you'll call me Bert, will you?
00:26:41Well, that's smashing, Shorty.
00:26:43Oh, I mean Bert.
00:26:45How's Alice?
00:26:45Seen her, like me?
00:26:46No, I haven't done yet.
00:26:47Funny how she was always saying as how she wished you'd quit before, well, before it was
00:26:50too late.
00:26:51That's right.
00:26:52Oi.
00:26:52Shh.
00:26:53Here she was working with me at the old palais, started just after you went away.
00:26:56Did she?
00:26:57We were mucking in together before I got that screwy idea about going to Manchester.
00:27:00Sorry, Molly, but I got me make me and took by that from the lorry, see, and I've
00:27:02got to get on with it.
00:27:03Oi.
00:27:03Hey, someday you're going to get into trouble picking up these lorry girls.
00:27:06What?
00:27:07If you never take chances, you never get nowhere, and this one's worth a bit of trouble.
00:27:10Pretty odd, ain't she?
00:27:11If you ain't careful, they'll be looking for you, like this bloke down in London.
00:27:15Who do you mean?
00:27:16This Matthew's fella.
00:27:17Oh, yes, I read about him.
00:27:19Not me, boy.
00:27:20I treat him rough, but not too rough.
00:27:22Oi.
00:27:27Cup of tea, chum.
00:27:28No, Tom.
00:27:29Me mate's just been took, Brady.
00:27:30I haven't got anything, have you?
00:27:31Got some aspirin.
00:27:32Okay, it'll do.
00:27:33How are you getting back to town?
00:27:34Oh, I've been copping lips.
00:27:35This is my chauffeur.
00:27:36Come on, kid.
00:27:37I should have a walk.
00:27:39How much of that?
00:27:39Franny.
00:27:41Well, goodbye.
00:27:42Bet.
00:27:43Cheerio, and all the best.
00:27:44So long.
00:27:47Who's your friend?
00:27:48Just a bloke I used to know in London.
00:27:50Come on, up in.
00:27:57So long, Franny.
00:27:59So long, Wally.
00:28:12Here, here, wait a minute.
00:28:14London's the other way, isn't it?
00:28:15You'll get to London, all right, sweetheart.
00:28:17Don't you worry.
00:28:18There's a place up here I want to stop at first.
00:28:20If you're thinking of starting anything, you're farming.
00:28:23Got to be nice to a fellow, ain't you?
00:28:24Well, as you're nice to me.
00:28:34Feeling better?
00:28:35Yes, thanks.
00:28:36You know, you're taking a lot of trouble for me, considering the fix you're in.
00:28:39Oh, forget it.
00:28:40What are you going to do?
00:28:42I'm going to drop you off at your wife's cap, and then go off on me own.
00:28:45Oh.
00:28:48Now, look here.
00:28:49You don't stop and turn around.
00:28:50I'm going to get out.
00:28:51I'll stop it, all right.
00:28:52Here we are.
00:29:05Here.
00:29:06What's all this?
00:29:06You've got nothing to worry about, sweetheart.
00:29:08Now, don't you come any capers with me.
00:29:09Give us a little kiss, won't you?
00:29:10Here, you let go of me.
00:29:11Come on, give us.
00:29:12Let go of me.
00:29:15Let go of me.
00:29:16Come here, you little snake.
00:29:18Let go of me.
00:29:20Let go of me.
00:29:23Let go.
00:29:26Let go.
00:29:30What's that?
00:29:35Mike.
00:29:39Help.
00:29:40Help.
00:29:41Let go of me.
00:29:42Help.
00:29:43Help.
00:29:43Help.
00:29:45Shorty.
00:29:47You get inside that lorry, go on.
00:29:48You keep out of this.
00:29:49If you touch her, I'll kill you.
00:29:50Shorty.
00:29:52Shorty.
00:29:53Shorty?
00:29:53Shorty Matthews.
00:29:54You're what I have the cops you're looking for, for killing that James.
00:29:56Shorty!
00:30:13Come on, get in quick.
00:30:13Shorty, is it true what he said?
00:30:14Come on, get in quick.
00:30:14Come on, get in quick.
00:30:15Tell me.
00:30:16What happened?
00:30:16I want to know.
00:30:16I tell you this.
00:30:17I want to know now.
00:30:18Molly.
00:30:19Molly.
00:30:20Molly.
00:30:20It was...
00:30:20It was Alice.
00:30:22Alice?
00:30:23Some bloke down her end, you see.
00:30:24And they think it was me, but...
00:30:26But it wasn't.
00:30:27So help me, it wasn't.
00:30:28It wasn't me.
00:30:29I tell you, I didn't do it, Molly.
00:30:32She was dead when I found her, see?
00:30:33And I lost me head and I ran away.
00:30:36I lost me head, I tell you.
00:30:37Get away from me.
00:30:38I didn't do it, I tell you, Molly.
00:30:40Come on in quick.
00:30:41Come on, get in quick.
00:30:43Come on, get in quick.
00:30:44Now, here.
00:30:45It's all right, she's a palerman.
00:30:46I'll tell you about it later.
00:30:51Oh, but Shorty, I've got to go.
00:30:52You, sir, don't listen to me.
00:30:53Now, here, chum, what is all this?
00:31:10Evening.
00:31:11Good evening.
00:31:12Seen anyone in a Macintosh, a grey suit, about five foot sevens?
00:31:15You mean the Shorty Matthews?
00:31:16That's the one.
00:31:17No, I didn't see nobody with a couple of lorry drivers.
00:31:19One of them was a bloke I know, the other one was a stranger.
00:31:21Oh?
00:31:21Wait a minute.
00:31:22He was about that size.
00:31:24Nobody had on the lorry driver's cap.
00:31:25Which way did he go?
00:31:26I don't know.
00:31:27How long ago was this?
00:31:28About half an hour.
00:31:30He was in a hurry, too.
00:31:30Looks sort of nervous.
00:31:32At a guess, I'd say he was heading north.
00:31:33See what kind of lorry he was driving?
00:31:35No.
00:31:35Do you think that was really him?
00:31:36We'll let you know when we had a look at him.
00:31:38Good night.
00:31:38Thanks.
00:31:46Here we are.
00:31:47This is it.
00:31:49Okay, well, I'll just help you inside and I'll breeze off.
00:31:51You'd better come in for a minute.
00:31:52Shorty, where are you going?
00:31:53What's I got to do with you?
00:31:54You don't believe me anyway.
00:31:55Doesn't matter what I believe.
00:31:56You helped me, didn't you?
00:31:56You'd better come on in, chum.
00:31:57We may be able to think of something.
00:32:08Wait a minute.
00:32:09Let's have a deco first.
00:32:12Okay, it's empty.
00:32:12Come on.
00:32:21Well, Abe, what's the answer?
00:32:23It's all right.
00:32:23Doc's had an accident.
00:32:24Called a fortney one.
00:32:24Do you think I'd better call the doctor?
00:32:26No, no, no.
00:32:26Don't be sad.
00:32:27I don't want to see a doctor.
00:32:28Come on in the back room.
00:32:29Well, I shall call the doctor if I think it is.
00:32:31It's all right, I'll tell you.
00:32:31Come on.
00:32:37Now, what's the matter, Wally?
00:32:38Oh, nothing.
00:32:39This bloke helped me out and I want to have a bit of a chat in the next hall.
00:32:42Evening.
00:32:43This is Miss, er...
00:32:44An evening.
00:32:45Look at your forehead.
00:32:47Oh, it's all right.
00:32:47I'll tell you about it later.
00:32:48Go and get us some tea, there's a dear.
00:32:50Oh, all right.
00:32:53Now, look here, chum.
00:32:54You took an end of a chance in the open house.
00:32:56If you're telling the truth, why don't you take another one and give yourself up?
00:32:59Yeah.
00:33:00Well, that's what I say.
00:33:01If you didn't do it, why are you running away?
00:33:04It's easy enough to talk like that when you haven't been in stir.
00:33:06If you ain't got a record, I have.
00:33:07Yes, but you shouldn't have run away.
00:33:09Now, listen.
00:33:09This chap, Alan, they just hanged for the same thing.
00:33:12But I lost me head, that's all.
00:33:13I couldn't help it.
00:33:14Anybody would have.
00:33:15Yes, I quite see that, but...
00:33:18Now, Wally Mason, will you or will you not tell me what this is all about?
00:33:23I'll be a sport and I'll give me five minutes and I'll tell you the old story.
00:33:26Don't worry.
00:33:26It ain't nothing to do with me.
00:33:28No.
00:33:29All right.
00:33:36Shorty, suppose I say I believe you.
00:33:38Yeah?
00:33:39Where are you gonna get running away like this?
00:33:40But can't you see if I manage to keep away for a bit, they might find the chap that really
00:33:43done it.
00:33:50And I...
00:33:50Evening.
00:33:51Evening.
00:33:51Evening of a stranger.
00:33:52A short man.
00:33:53Gray suit.
00:33:54Dark hair.
00:33:55No.
00:33:56No, I haven't.
00:33:57You seem pretty nervous.
00:33:58Something wrong here?
00:33:59No, there's nothing wrong.
00:34:01Everything's all right.
00:34:02Well, there's nothing wrong.
00:34:03You don't mind if we have a look around, do you?
00:34:04Well, I...
00:34:05Come on.
00:34:12Hey!
00:34:16Harmon, you try that way.
00:34:17Now then, now then.
00:34:21You take that side, I'll go up here.
00:34:59Hey, this way.
00:35:00You go down there.
00:35:01I'll have to look over here.
00:35:05I go down.
00:35:07You tomato.
00:35:24I'll have to look over here.
00:35:25Sure of quote, this is the world of
00:36:00Oh, that's all right. Your husband's story sounds straight enough.
00:36:03You'd better come along to the station and talk it over there.
00:36:06You're wasting your time. He picked me up on the road. I don't know anything about any murders.
00:36:09Just come for the ride. That's all right. I'll back you up. Don't you worry.
00:36:12Thank you. I hope your head's better at the moment. Good night.
00:36:17I'll tell you, you're wasting your time. Oh, come on.
00:36:21Here, wait a minute.
00:36:24Johnson, we're taking her along. Keep your eye on her.
00:36:57Johnson, we're taking her along.
00:37:17Shorty, Shorty, what you're doing?
00:37:18Shut up. I know what I'm doing.
00:37:33No, sir. Johnson!
00:37:34Oh, God.
00:37:36Harmen!
00:37:38Beats!
00:37:40Mrs. Barty, you're crazy. They'll kill you for this.
00:37:43Not if they don't catch me, they won't.
00:37:44Oh, sure.
00:37:44You shut up.
00:37:46You believe me, don't you, Molly?
00:37:48I suppose I do.
00:37:49That's a good kid.
00:37:49I thought you would.
00:37:50Well, you know what I felt about Alice, don't you?
00:37:52I would never have done that to her.
00:37:53I'll tell you what I'm going to do, see?
00:37:55I'm going to drive this car on for a bit,
00:37:56then I'm going to ditch her, see?
00:37:57And your story will be that I wouldn't stop to let you out, see?
00:37:59But you're worse off than ever, stealing a police car.
00:38:01I can't help that now.
00:38:06Yes, one?
00:38:11I'm a police officer, car stolen.
00:38:13I mistake yours.
00:38:13Certainly, but I'm afraid I don't drive anymore.
00:38:15Oh, that's all right.
00:38:16I can drive.
00:38:17Oh, that's excellent.
00:38:18I'll move right over.
00:38:19Now, up this side, see?
00:38:19You can get in the back.
00:38:25But you, aye, aye, you see?
00:38:36Well, this is where I scoff her.
00:38:38So long?
00:38:39Shorty.
00:38:39Yes?
00:38:40Oh, I want to help you on this, I do,
00:38:41but I wish I could make you see there's any one right thing to do.
00:38:44I've got to work this out for myself, kid.
00:38:45Don't you worry about me, I'll be all right.
00:38:47So long.
00:38:47Here.
00:38:51Half a quid?
00:38:52Yeah, but look here.
00:38:53Oh, take it and shut up.
00:38:53I've got enough to get along on.
00:38:56You're a great kid.
00:38:57So long.
00:38:59Oh, shorty.
00:39:00If you ever want me, remember, I'll be at the palais again.
00:39:02Okay.
00:39:03Right on.
00:39:36Well, where is he?
00:39:36I don't know.
00:39:37Go on, scat around, boys.
00:39:39Well, what's the matter?
00:39:40Well, I'm frightened in a car with a murderer.
00:39:43You put me here.
00:39:44I'm sorry about that, but don't worry.
00:39:45We only want to ask you a few questions.
00:40:03I don't know.
00:40:28There you go.
00:40:29Hello, everyone.
00:40:30Oh, hi there.
00:40:31Is Molly in yet?
00:40:33No.
00:40:33I can't wait to see her.
00:40:35I can.
00:40:35I expected you to say something like that.
00:40:37Well, if you ask me, she's got a nerve coming back here at all.
00:40:40Cedging rides from lorry drivers and chasing about with murderers.
00:40:43Gives the clients the wrong impression of all us girls.
00:40:45Oh, this is a bit weird.
00:40:46Sure.
00:40:47Margie's jealous Molly's got her picture in the paper.
00:40:49Jealous?
00:40:50She ought to have plenty of clients now.
00:40:51I always think it gives a go of glamour.
00:40:53I can get along without that kind of glamour.
00:40:55Of course you can, darling.
00:40:56You've got along so far without you at all, haven't you?
00:41:00Molly!
00:41:01How are you, darling?
00:41:02Tell us what happened to you.
00:41:04Well, give her a chance to get her breath.
00:41:06Well, tell us what happened, Molly.
00:41:07But there's nothing to tell, Dax.
00:41:08I just ran into Shorty by accident up there,
00:41:10and when the police found out I got nothing to do with it, they let me go, that's all.
00:41:13But weren't you scared stiff being alone with a murderer?
00:41:15What's that about Shorty Matthews to be scared of?
00:41:17For plenty of lives, eh?
00:41:18Not I, you little boyfriend.
00:41:19Now listen, all of you.
00:41:20Alice was my best friend.
00:41:21Don't let's talk about it.
00:41:22That's right.
00:41:23Leave her alone, can't you?
00:41:24All right.
00:41:25Hello, Margie.
00:41:26Hello.
00:41:27Oh, what's the matter with you?
00:41:28Oh, don't take any notice of her.
00:41:29Snooty as usual, that's all.
00:41:31Come along, girls.
00:41:32Mustn't be late.
00:41:33Make the place look alive.
00:41:35All right, Pop.
00:41:35Hello, Molly.
00:41:36Hello, Pop.
00:41:37Feeling all right, my dear?
00:41:38Couldn't be better.
00:41:39That's the girl.
00:41:40You will be getting back into the swing of things in no time.
00:41:42Oh, she will.
00:41:43Oh, sweet of you to take me back.
00:41:44Oh, why shouldn't I?
00:41:45You couldn't help but happen.
00:41:46Well, thanks anyway.
00:41:47Well, I'd be as quick as you can, my dear, won't you?
00:42:08Don't let it get you down, ducks.
00:42:09The girls know how you feel.
00:42:11They'll soon stop talking about Alice.
00:42:12Thanks, Pauline.
00:42:13That's sweet of you.
00:42:13You know, I'd never believe that little Shorty Matthews would do a thing like that.
00:42:16I'm not so sure that he did do it.
00:42:18What?
00:42:19I say I'm not so sure that he did do it.
00:42:20You, Prima.
00:42:22I won't be happy with that.
00:42:24I won't be happy with that.
00:42:27I'll be happy with that.
00:42:28I'm not so sure that he did do it.
00:42:28I'll be happy with that.
00:42:28I'll be happy with that.
00:42:47All right.
00:42:49Good evening, Clifford.
00:42:55what are you doing in London I come back on me tracks things was getting too hot
00:42:58for me up north so I copped a lorry coming down this way what do you want
00:43:01I'm on the ribs Murray I gotta find a hideout and you can't hide out here I
00:43:05don't mean that any other boys about what if they are I won't bother I'm
00:43:08honest I won't all I want is a bit of dough just enough to give me a break
00:43:12okay there's a game on in the card room Tom about Paddy yeah the book that
00:43:37what you're looking at me like that for I didn't cook the kid you know that we
00:43:40don't know a thing except what we read in the papers you believe me Paddy don't you
00:43:45Tom what do I know about it all I know is just one of your game of poker you're in
00:43:49the wrong place if you think you're going to get any change out of us
00:43:52Alice was a good King Matthews I tell you she was dead when I found her if you
00:43:56didn't do it why did you run away well I got scared I knew they'd hang it on to me
00:44:00and the dex two of them in the billet room what they come for him what do you
00:44:05think why the hell did you have to come here boys you wouldn't
00:44:23that's right boys carry on we just called in to see everybody's happy as
00:44:26happy as a lot of blinking love fact is we'd like to have a word with an old
00:44:29friend of yours Tom yes who's that Ridge Hammond oh he been around lately ain't seen
00:44:35him in a fortnight get him to give us a ring when you see him again will you sure
00:44:39can you charge the call up to the yard why not as long as he doesn't make it a
00:44:43trunk call what have you got Tom yes I was too good for me come on let's
00:44:56get out and stay around the back way but you boys do believe me don't you I mean
00:44:59you didn't turn me in don't be upset Matthews you think we wanted to close a
00:45:03club of course you're in here go on beat it where can I go I haven't got any
00:45:06money and who played about that anyway yeah get on your way and don't come back
00:45:32you got light on your feet thanks you're a lucky kid you know getting a picture in the paper am
00:45:37I
00:45:37why no I've had a chance to dance with you the old evening they've been fair queuing up for you
00:45:41so hurry I'll be here tomorrow and every other night what say you and I go to some nice little
00:45:45place for a snack after the session thanks but my father calls for me every
00:45:48night and he's very strict oh I've heard that one before
00:45:55oh thank you good night
00:46:09oh look at her
00:46:13you know with all the lady doll she's not careful the same thing will happen to her it's happened to
00:46:16Alice sorry ducks Alice did take on a lot of dates didn't she yes don't I know it good night
00:46:21girls
00:46:22good night good night well I was off along get my bus oh where you living now same old digs
00:46:28oh well
00:46:29I had to go somewhere where I'm good for a week's rent oh good night see you tomorrow good night
00:46:33Paulie
00:46:43shorty I had to come back they're still looking for me up north but they're bound to get you
00:46:45no I'm better off down what you're going to do I don't know I thought perhaps some of my pals
00:46:49might
00:46:49help me but I was lucky the swans didn't turn me in sure now don't you start all that about
00:46:53giving
00:46:53yourself off because I'm not going to do it see listen kid you believe me don't you well you said
00:46:57you did yes I do shorty well Molly I don't want to drag you into this but you're the only
00:47:01pal
00:47:02I got see will you help me well what can I do well I got an idea first of all
00:47:06I got to find an
00:47:06empty loft somewhere where I can hide out see perhaps an old house you don't have any of you
00:47:10no I don't shorty I got to find some stuff some grub and all wait a minute I believe there
00:47:16is an
00:47:16old house all boarded up quite near my digs oh that sounds a ticket well come on I'll take you
00:47:20then okay now you go on first will you they might pick me up and I don't want to get
00:47:24you into trouble
00:47:24again all right you're a funny guy do you have anything to eat no but I'll be all right once
00:47:32I get a
00:47:33hideout you go on
00:47:55yes ma'am sandwiches and a piece of cake take away that's right
00:48:09thank you ma'am thank you good night
00:48:11good night
00:48:32this is it
00:48:33looks all right oh oh and I've got these for you
00:48:39I'll target you with these
00:48:44looks if nobody's lived here for years
00:49:19how are you going to get in I'll be silly you watch me
00:49:41don't worry me as long as the spooks ain't cops you go by me staying in here all the time
00:49:46no not me
00:49:49you come on after me will you
00:49:55this is how I figure it out see
00:49:57this bloke that done Alice in well he didn't drop down from heaven did he I mean
00:50:02he must have come from somewhere wasn't he where do you figure out he come from eh
00:50:05I don't know
00:50:06well the ballet of course
00:50:09he's one of the blokes that Alice danced with at the ballet
00:50:11well it might have been
00:50:13well if you could keep your eyes open I mean if you wouldn't mind doing it for me
00:50:18well we might get a line on him see
00:50:22it's all right it's only one of them looking glasses
00:50:24you mean it it might have been someone that danced with her a lot
00:50:27that's right
00:50:28well maybe Pauline could help she knows a lot of Alice's regulars
00:50:31well will you see what you can find out
00:50:32yes of course I will
00:50:38Molly when I get out of this I'll I'll make it up to you honest I will
00:50:41it's all right shorty after all you risked your neck for me didn't you
00:50:45it's only right I should do the same for you
00:50:47you know
00:50:51I've got to go now
00:50:53all right
00:50:54I'll come back tomorrow night and bring you some more grab
00:50:56okay I could do with that
00:50:57wait a minute
00:51:01it's all right
00:51:03is there anything else you want
00:51:04no doubt
00:51:05oh what if you could lay hold of the razor
00:51:07oh all right
00:51:08good night
00:51:08good night
00:51:10Molly
00:51:10I wish I could tell you
00:51:14forget it
00:51:15yeah you haven't got any of these have you
00:51:17what's up
00:51:19good night
00:51:20good night
00:51:48hello
00:51:49hello
00:51:51hello
00:51:51hello
00:52:14hello
00:54:06Thanks very much. I'm sure.
00:54:11Any luck?
00:54:11Oh, no.
00:54:12He'd run to his mother if he'd as much as kissed a girl.
00:54:15He used to dance with Alice a lot.
00:54:16Yes, so he said.
00:54:17No, they all look the same to me.
00:54:19Dumb but harmless.
00:54:20Molly, you're not a detective.
00:54:21If there's anything in this idea of yours, why don't you go to the police and let them work it
00:54:24out?
00:54:25Because they wouldn't listen to me.
00:54:26They're certain that Shorty did it.
00:54:30What beats me is how you can be so certain you didn't.
00:54:32But I've told you, Pauline,
00:54:33if you would have heard him that night on the road, you'd have believed him too.
00:54:37Did you say something, dear?
00:54:38Not a word, darling.
00:54:39She keeps forgetting to blow her nose, dearie.
00:54:42Look, that one coming towards us now.
00:54:44He used to dance with Alice a lot.
00:54:50Shall we have this dance?
00:54:51Rightfully sorry.
00:54:52I'll put a nail or something in my shoe.
00:54:55My friend Miss O'Neill would be glad to dance with you, I'm sure.
00:54:57It's all right with me.
00:54:59O'Neill?
00:54:59Oh, the girl Matthew's kidnapped, ain't you?
00:55:01Yes.
00:55:02If Pop gets wind of what you two are up to,
00:55:04he'll soon put a stop to this detective work.
00:55:06Oh?
00:55:06Yes, and it's not good for business.
00:55:08If he gets wind of it, I'll soon put a stop to you.
00:55:10Oh, you will, will you?
00:55:11Yeah, I'll have this dance.
00:55:49Good evening, my dear.
00:55:51Oh, Mr. Fulber, good evening.
00:55:52Am I fortunate enough to find you disengaged?
00:55:54I was just sitting this one out.
00:55:56Oh, too bad.
00:55:56I was hoping that you'd do me the honour.
00:55:58Oh, I feel quite rested now.
00:56:00I'd like to dance.
00:56:01Thank you, my dear.
00:56:02Did you know Alice?
00:56:03Sure, I used to dance with her.
00:56:05I thought I'd seen you with her.
00:56:07She was a nice little kid, could dance well, too.
00:56:09I wish I'd lay my hands on that little crook, Matthews.
00:56:11My dear, your dancing is as perfect as your appearance.
00:56:15Oh, Mr. Fulber, it's such a treat to dance with a real gentleman.
00:56:18I mean, a gentleman a girl can rarely talk with.
00:56:22Tell me, didn't I see you out with Alice one night after the session?
00:56:25Me?
00:56:25Yes.
00:56:26Not me.
00:56:26Must have been some other bloke.
00:56:28I just used to dance with her.
00:56:29Ah?
00:56:30Isn't that Mr. Neal?
00:56:31The young lady whose picture I saw in the papers?
00:56:33Yes, that's her.
00:56:34Stupid little fool.
00:56:35Indeed.
00:56:36Why do you say that?
00:56:37Oh, because she is.
00:56:39She's made all us girls look cheap chasing about like one of those naughty girls.
00:56:42And now she's trying to prove that Shorty Matthews didn't kill Alice.
00:56:45Indeed.
00:56:47Interesting.
00:56:49How does our charming young detective propose to accomplish that?
00:56:52Oh, she thinks it was someone Alice met here.
00:56:54So she's dancing with all Alice's old clans.
00:56:57Offing them if they did it, I suppose.
00:56:59Then she's quite convinced of Matthews' innocence, is she?
00:57:01She's crackers.
00:57:02He told her he didn't do it and she believes.
00:57:05Would it surprise you very much if I told you that it's quite possible that Matthews did not do it?
00:57:09Why, Mr. Hoover, I wouldn't have expected an educated gentleman like you to say such a thing.
00:57:13Perhaps it's just because I've had the advantage of being educated, as you call it,
00:57:17that I hold an unorthodox view.
00:57:19Why, Mr. Hoover, I'm surprised at you.
00:57:30Oh, Molly, here's a gentleman you ought to meet.
00:57:33You've both got a lot in common.
00:57:34How do you do?
00:57:35Allow me to introduce myself.
00:57:36My name is Hoover.
00:57:38Walter Hoover.
00:57:39How do you do?
00:57:40Whatever did Marge mean?
00:57:41I think she was referring to your belief that Matthews did not murder Miss Carson.
00:57:46What's that to you?
00:57:47Anyway, how do you know what I think?
00:57:49Miss Margery told me.
00:57:50Well, of all...
00:57:50Oh, don't be concerned, my dear.
00:57:52I share your belief to a great extent.
00:57:55You do?
00:57:55Do you know something about it?
00:57:57Nothing.
00:57:58Except what a lifetime of speculation on the mysteries of the human mind can teach me.
00:58:02Oh, I see.
00:58:04Well, if you'll excuse me...
00:58:06But I'll say this, Miss O'Neill.
00:58:07My knowledge of psychology makes it seem likely that you're right in supposing that no simple criminal like Matthews did
00:58:14it.
00:58:14It would be the work of a much more highly organized individual.
00:58:19Yes, I suppose so.
00:58:21Well, if you'll excuse me...
00:58:23Good night.
00:58:25Good night.
00:58:28Who was that old fogey?
00:58:29He used to be a schoolmaster.
00:58:31Well, he's barmy.
00:58:32I beg your pardon.
00:58:32And I'll thank you to start meddling in my business.
00:58:35If I want anyone told what I'm doing, I'll take care of it myself.
00:58:38I'm not taking any orders from you, Miss O'Neill.
00:58:41You with your cops and murders.
00:58:42Oh, wait a minute.
00:59:00Thank you, Lord Matthews, sir.
00:59:07Thank you, sir.
00:59:08Good luck to you, Your Governor.
00:59:09Cheer.
00:59:12Ah, good evening, Mr. Hubert.
00:59:13Good evening.
00:59:14Good evening, everybody.
00:59:16I'm in the chair.
00:59:17What's yours?
00:59:17Well, I'll have a ginger brandy.
00:59:20Ginger brandy.
00:59:21And how's the professor of sci...
00:59:24sci...
00:59:25The word that escapes you, Mr. Peebles, is psychology.
00:59:28Yes, of course.
00:59:30Yes.
00:59:30It shouldn't have escaped me, should it?
00:59:32We've heard it pretty often in here, haven't we, and all.
00:59:35Not often enough, it seems.
00:59:37Now, Mr. Peebles,
00:59:38you know it's a rare treat, the way Mr. Hoover talks.
00:59:40Yes, indeed.
00:59:41It's seldom enough we meet an educated gentleman like Mr. Hoover.
00:59:44To you, Mr. Peebles.
00:59:46And to you, ladies.
00:59:48I don't deserve your flattery.
00:59:52Any news today, Mr. Hoover?
00:59:55News?
00:59:56On what subject?
00:59:57Well, you've only been talking on one subject lately, haven't you?
01:00:00Come now, Mr. Smith.
01:00:01Surely you won't hold it against me
01:00:03that I've become engrossed in the most interesting problem
01:00:06of abnormal criminal psychology.
01:00:08Oh, listen to the words come out.
01:00:11I'm hanged if I can see anything so interesting in it.
01:00:13Happens every day of the year.
01:00:15My dear, Mr. Smith.
01:00:17Miss James, I see empty glasses about.
01:00:19Ask the ladies and gentlemen what they'll have.
01:00:21Oh, thank you very much, Mr. Hoover.
01:00:23Yes, same again, dear.
01:00:24A beer.
01:00:24My dear, Mr. Smith, I'm afraid you only take a superficial view.
01:00:27Do I?
01:00:28Yes.
01:00:29You see, to a student in these matters,
01:00:31the impulse that dictates the action
01:00:33and the sense of power that comes from the evasion of the consequences
01:00:36makes each instance unique.
01:00:38Even though you may say,
01:00:40tous ça change, tous c'est la même chose.
01:00:42Mercy.
01:00:43Good afternoon, sir.
01:00:44Good afternoon, Mr. Hoover.
01:00:45All the best.
01:00:46Well, um, Sanferi Ann, Mr. Hoover,
01:00:49and may your days be as long as your words.
01:00:52Would you mind repeating that in English?
01:00:54Certainly.
01:00:56The man who killed that girl
01:00:58enjoyed for a moment the sensation of power over life and death.
01:01:02Now he has the sense of power that comes from knowing something
01:01:07that nobody else in the world knows.
01:01:10You do give things a queer twist.
01:01:13Meaning you still think Matthews didn't do it.
01:01:16I'm more convinced than ever this evening.
01:01:19Have something out, Mr. Hoover.
01:01:20Do tell us.
01:01:21You don't mean to say that you've got information.
01:01:24Of course not.
01:01:25I have no means of getting information.
01:01:27The police have that.
01:01:28I merely think and observe.
01:01:31Oh, nonsense.
01:01:32Do you mean to stand there and say that...
01:01:34Mrs. Smith, no arguments here, if you please.
01:01:36Miss James, never discourage a sceptic.
01:01:39Doubt is the stimulator of conversation.
01:01:43It may amuse you all to know
01:01:45that I have come to a not uninteresting conclusion.
01:01:47No, ye, and something will be silly.
01:01:49But are you going to tell us?
01:01:50We can hardly wait.
01:01:53The unfortunate Matthews is in London.
01:01:56Really?
01:01:56Have they caught him?
01:01:57No, they haven't caught him.
01:01:59The police don't even know that he is in London.
01:02:01Then how do you know?
01:02:03By the elementary deduction
01:02:04that a criminal always returns to the scene of his crime.
01:02:08Is that all you've got to go by?
01:02:11That, and a look of fear in a pair of lovely eyes.
01:02:15An expression of anxiety on a pretty face.
01:02:18And there in Uncle Tom Cobble's whiskers.
01:02:23Mr. Peebles, I envy you with the possession of such a sense of humour.
01:02:26I would like to be able to stay longer to enjoy more fully the rapier play of your wit.
01:02:31But, alas, I have an appointment.
01:02:34Good night.
01:02:36Au revoir, ladies.
01:02:38Good night.
01:02:39Good night.
01:02:39And give our love to them beautiful eyes.
01:02:42Good night.
01:02:46Crackers.
01:02:47Crackers?
01:02:47The best free show in London.
01:02:49That's what he is.
01:02:51Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
01:03:10you know i'm hungry let's go somewhere and have a bite before we go home thanks pauline i'm too
01:03:14tired i think i'll go home if you don't mind right what you got there yeah oh nothing just a
01:03:18pair of
01:03:19old shoes i'm taking to be resold that's all sure you won't come no thanks i'm too tired honestly
01:03:23oh thanks for helping me tonight though we didn't get very far did we no it's all pretty hopeless
01:03:29lolly what's bothering you i mean it's something more than just thinking shorty didn't do it isn't
01:03:33it no no i'm just tired that's all good night good night
01:04:13shorty shorty
01:04:18shorty
01:04:33holly
01:04:45molly
01:04:54it's all right shorty
01:04:59i guess i must be getting soft
01:05:01i got your things and i brought you some candles and i got the razor
01:05:08to the door oh no no not by the window okay better be careful
01:05:18sit down will you did you ask pauline about the blokes that allys dance with yes i i even
01:05:24danced with some of them myself well surely i don't think this is going to be any use even
01:05:29Even if I had the luck to dance with the one that did it, I couldn't tell.
01:05:33Oh, I've tried asking questions and all that, but I'm just no good at it.
01:05:41It's all right, Molly. Don't you worry about it. Just an idea, Maya, that's all.
01:05:44What are you going to do?
01:05:51Molly.
01:05:53I calmed down this morning and I got to thinking what a wild goose sort of chase I've been sending.
01:05:58I started using my loaf.
01:06:01Molly, I...
01:06:03I don't care about nobody else besides you and I don't want to go on like this with you thinking
01:06:07I ain't doing the right thing, see?
01:06:08Schulte.
01:06:09Yes, I'm going to do like you said. I'm going to get myself up.
01:06:13It's you what made me do it, Molly. It's...
01:06:16It's for you.
01:06:24Oh, Schulte, I'm glad, but you can't do it.
01:06:28I don't want you to now.
01:06:31I'm glad you said that, kid, because it means you feel the same way I do.
01:06:35I know I do.
01:06:36That's why I've got to go on with it.
01:06:37I've got to run me chances so when it's all over, I can get a job and go straight.
01:06:43Molly.
01:06:46If everything was all right, would you marry me?
01:06:51Yes.
01:07:15He was at the palais tonight.
01:07:17The palais?
01:07:17Yes, he was dancing with Margie. Talked about you.
01:07:19What, he ain't a cop, is he?
01:07:20No, he used to be a schoolmaster.
01:07:22I thought he was...
01:07:23Shh, shh, shh.
01:07:29It's all right.
01:07:33I'd better get him inside. Come on.
01:07:41Come on, what are you doing here?
01:07:43In view of the somewhat informal nature of our introduction, I might ask you that question.
01:07:50Come of it.
01:07:50If you don't speak up, I'll give you another taste of this.
01:07:52Oh, my friend, I've had enough.
01:07:54Besides, you've nothing to fear.
01:07:56You haven't a better friend in the world than me.
01:08:00What's he talking about?
01:08:01Search me.
01:08:02That's the way he was talking at the palais tonight.
01:08:03You might add, Miss O'Neill, that I told you that I was convinced of Matthew's innocence.
01:08:10What?
01:08:11That's right.
01:08:12He said that, too.
01:08:13He made a regular speech about it.
01:08:14I thought he was nuts.
01:08:18How did you get here?
01:08:19I took the liberty of following Miss O'Neill.
01:08:21What for?
01:08:22To confirm certain suspicions that I had formed.
01:08:25Well, what sort of...?
01:08:25You see, I am a student of abnormal and criminal psychology.
01:08:31What's that got to do with me?
01:08:33Everything.
01:08:34My insight into the, shall we say, crepuscular recesses of the human mind
01:08:40have convinced me that you are not the man who killed Alice Carson.
01:08:44What?
01:08:49Is that so?
01:08:52And who done it, then?
01:08:53Oh, now, my dear fellow, you're confusing my function with that of a common detective.
01:08:58Well, if you ain't a tech, then...
01:09:00What you so interested for?
01:09:01That's what I'd like to know.
01:09:03I think I told you.
01:09:04I'm a student of the vagaries of the human mind.
01:09:08Oh, such a pretty cat.
01:09:10My subtle one.
01:09:11Oh, my little puss cat.
01:09:13She got some kittens over there, too.
01:09:16No, has she?
01:09:16May I see the kittens?
01:09:17Go on.
01:09:18Go over in that corner.
01:09:19Come on.
01:09:19Let's see.
01:09:21Help yourself.
01:09:28He done it.
01:09:31What?
01:09:34Lovely auntie.
01:09:38Yeah.
01:09:42What's your name?
01:09:44Hoover.
01:09:45Walter Hoover.
01:09:49Why did you kill Alice?
01:09:54Alice?
01:09:54That's what I said.
01:09:55My dear Matthews.
01:09:57What makes you so certain Shorty didn't?
01:10:00You're being very ingenuous, Matthews.
01:10:02Different though we are, we have one thing in common.
01:10:07Neither of us killed Alice.
01:10:09Then you did.
01:10:10Well, if we knew that, we wouldn't be here, would we?
01:10:13Well, I mustn't impose any further on your hospitality.
01:10:17Where are you off to?
01:10:18Home, of course.
01:10:19Oh, no, you ain't.
01:10:20You're going to stop right here.
01:10:22I'm not going to take any chance at you going to the cops.
01:10:23My dear Mr. Matthews, I believe in your innocence.
01:10:26Well, that's fine.
01:10:27And we'll stay here until they find out who done it, shall we?
01:10:30In that case, I should consider myself your guest.
01:10:33That's right.
01:10:34And thank you for your hospitality.
01:10:37But why shouldn't we reverse the role?
01:10:40Reverse the what?
01:10:41I have quite a pleasant little flat.
01:10:43If we are to wait till the murderer is caught,
01:10:45we should be much more comfortable there.
01:10:50You mean I can stop at your place?
01:10:52Certainly.
01:10:53It's such a nice home for you, my pretty.
01:10:56The invitation, of course, includes Miss O'Neill.
01:10:59No, you'd better be getting along.
01:11:00But why?
01:11:01I should be delighted to show her my little home.
01:11:05Oh, okay.
01:11:07Shall we be going?
01:11:08Look here.
01:11:10In case you get careless, no funny business.
01:11:12See?
01:11:13I wish you would cease mistrusting me.
01:11:15I am determined to prove your innocence.
01:11:18Miss O'Neill, will you bring the kittens?
01:11:28Thank you, sir.
01:11:37You go in first.
01:11:38No, Fier.
01:11:39No, but I insist.
01:11:40No, you go in first.
01:11:49Come on.
01:11:50I think we put the kittens in my bedroom.
01:12:01There, my pretties, there's a nice comfortable bed for you all to yourselves.
01:12:07And now we'll get to a saucer of milk, shall we?
01:12:14Matthews, you can leave your coat here if you like.
01:12:16Oh, thanks.
01:12:17Miss O'Neill, if you wish to tidy up, you'll find everything you want in there.
01:12:22Thanks.
01:12:24Come upstairs, Matthews.
01:12:26Perhaps you'd like a drink?
01:12:27Oh, thanks.
01:12:28You don't mind.
01:12:57Now, you make yourself at home, Matthews, while I look after our guests.
01:13:01Guests?
01:13:01The little ones downstairs, you know.
01:13:03Oh.
01:13:04Good morning, Matthews.
01:13:21How do you think that you're at home?
01:13:21I hope I shall not have to tell you again.
01:13:23I ask you a question.
01:13:23I want to tell you again that you'll have nothing to fear from me.
01:13:25Nothing.
01:13:26And I appeal to you, in the sacred name of hospitality,
01:13:29to look upon me as your host and friend.
01:13:36All right.
01:14:04All right.
01:14:31All right.
01:14:33Go on back downstairs.
01:14:35Go on.
01:14:42Interested in books, Matthews?
01:14:46Miss Trouba.
01:14:48I'd like to talk to you.
01:14:50Of course.
01:14:54well when we was down at the old house did you hear what i was saying to molly i admit
01:14:58i did
01:14:58hear some of it my boy well it goes see i'm going to do like i said you won't have
01:15:04to keep me here
01:15:04after all what you mean i'm going to give myself up what i don't want to spend the rest of
01:15:09my life
01:15:10dodging the cops better take a chance now than later that's utter nonsense no it isn't a chap
01:15:16like you you ought to understand reading all them books you know how the fellow feels if i don't
01:15:20give myself up well they'll never look for the chap that really done it they'll go on looking for me
01:15:24no but it's just the other way about if you give yourself up now they'll be only too happy to
01:15:28put
01:15:28the blame on you all the law wants is a scapegoat i'm not so sure mr uber when you come
01:15:33to think of it
01:15:34how often does an innocent fella get topped you may not think much of the cops you know but they're
01:15:37a
01:15:37pretty smart lot and the more i think about it the more i feel that the guy what really done
01:15:42this won't
01:15:42stand a chance if i go and tell what i know you can't do that i won't allow you to
01:15:47do that what
01:15:47you so worried about well i'm worried on your account naturally knowing you to be innocent as i
01:15:53do oh i i thought perhaps she was worried in case i still thought you've done it well i did
01:16:00at first
01:16:00see but i i understand now you just like studying these things don't you precisely that's why you
01:16:05must listen to me now it's too late i i want to get it on with it matthews i have
01:16:09a confession to
01:16:09make yeah i've been keeping something from you yeah i know the identity of the murderer yeah
01:16:16well who is it i can't furnish proof yet but if you wait here while i go down and look
01:16:23after our
01:16:23little guests i will tell you against my better judgment i will tell you
01:16:56it's only you where shorty he's upstairs he'll be down in a moment he's going to have a bath and
01:17:05a shave
01:17:06come and help me feed the kittens
01:17:25there you are you little imps
01:17:35they look so helpless now you'd hardly think their time will come to play with mice
01:17:46if you scream you fool the police will come and matthews will hand
01:18:17come and help me in a few minutes
01:18:35Molly!
01:18:37Molly!
01:18:50Molly!
01:19:20Molly!
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