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00:07:10Why, that's nice of you, and I appreciate it.
00:07:13But I'm very busy working on a formula for a new shaving lotion.
00:07:18Oh, but Doc, this is my daughter's idea.
00:07:21She's going to be awfully disappointed if you don't show up.
00:07:24Don't take no for an answer. Make him come.
00:07:27You see, it's a sort of a special occasion.
00:07:30I bet Mary is going to announce her engagement to that young rascal, Don Morton.
00:07:35Tell her I'll be there.
00:07:37Goodbye.
00:07:39Well, it's all arranged. He's coming.
00:07:41He's going to be surprised when he finds the special occasion
00:07:44to present him with this bonus check.
00:07:47Five thousand dollars.
00:08:18Good. You have not forgotten. You hate this strange oriental fragrance even while you sleep.
00:08:30Just as you did before I made you big and strong.
00:08:37Now, if you detect the fragrance in the night, then you're fully awake.
00:08:44You will strike.
00:08:53You will strike.
00:08:54Yeah, you will strike.
00:08:57Yes. You will strike. Don't kill.
00:09:01Well, Doc's late. I wonder if he's been called on a case.
00:09:05Perhaps I'd better phone him.
00:09:16Remember, Roy, Tommy, you're not to mention anything about this Mortis for the Dot
00:09:20until after your father has presented it.
00:09:22Have you warned those two lovebirds over there?
00:09:25Perhaps I'd better.
00:09:29I want to caution both of you.
00:09:31Enough to say a word about the check.
00:09:33Until you're ready to spring it on him.
00:09:34Your father will make the presentation, Mary.
00:09:37Why don't you unveil it like a statue?
00:09:39Then we could all be in on it.
00:09:40You know, I think it'd be a better idea to put it in a bottle
00:09:42and to launch him with it.
00:09:44You must have gotten that idea out of a bottle.
00:09:47Well, the Doc isn't coming.
00:09:50What?
00:09:50Oh, what a shame.
00:09:51Oh, he just got busy with his new formula
00:09:53and forgot all about us.
00:09:55He'd forget the formula if he knew about that $5,000 check.
00:09:58Why don't we all go up there and give it to him?
00:10:00No, no, I wouldn't do that.
00:10:01He doesn't like visitors when he's experimenting.
00:10:03Well, Roy can take the check up to him.
00:10:06Sure, I'll take it.
00:10:08Shall I make the Doc a speech when I give it to him?
00:10:10You won't have to, Roy.
00:10:12The check speaks for itself.
00:10:13Yeah, and says a mouthful.
00:10:14Son, tell the Doc we're awfully sorry he can't be with us,
00:10:17but of course we understand how busy he is.
00:10:20All right.
00:10:28Just a minute, Roy, and I'll be with you.
00:10:35That's it, all right.
00:10:40Now, what can I do for you?
00:10:41We were all sorry you couldn't be there tonight.
00:10:43Yes, yes, but you see, I'm busy.
00:10:46Something important, very important.
00:10:48Yes, of course.
00:10:49Mr. Morton and Dad had planned a little surprise for you.
00:10:52A surprise?
00:10:54It's in here.
00:10:56Well, let's see what it is.
00:11:00$5,000.
00:11:03What's this for?
00:11:04Just a little token of the firm's appreciation.
00:11:08Oh, I see.
00:11:10A bonus.
00:11:13Well, it's awfully nice of you, Father, Mr. Morton.
00:11:16I will thank them personally tomorrow.
00:11:19I'll tell them, Doctor.
00:11:20Well, aren't you curious about my new formula?
00:11:23Yes, of course, only I didn't want to be inquisitive.
00:11:25What is it?
00:11:26A new shaving lotion.
00:11:31Smell it.
00:11:33Pretty strong, isn't it?
00:11:34No, no.
00:11:34The scent evaporates a short time after you've used it.
00:11:39Try a few drops.
00:11:44Now rub it on the tender part of your neck.
00:11:47Here.
00:11:59Soothing, isn't it?
00:12:02Yes.
00:12:03When will it be ready for the market?
00:12:05Oh, it's still in the experimental stage.
00:12:08I want to try it out on several people first and see if it works.
00:12:12Well, if you'd like to send me a bottle, I'll be glad to try it for you.
00:12:15Thanks.
00:12:17Good night, Doctor.
00:12:19Goodbye, Roy.
00:12:35Lovely check, isn't this Doctor?
00:12:38They are wealthy because of you.
00:12:42You made them rich, doctor.
00:12:45It was your formula.
00:12:47Tonight they gave you $5,000 and wanted you to come down to their house and
00:12:55thank them for it. That was your money they gave you, like a bone tossed to a
00:13:03faithful soul.
00:13:21You should be very grateful, doctor. Very grateful. They are rich and happy, thanks to you. And what have you
00:13:32got, doctor?
00:13:57Good night, you have work to do.
00:14:03It's time you were on your way.
00:14:43Good night.
00:14:45while our families are here to announce our engagement.
00:14:48Look, Don, I've loved you a long time,
00:14:50ever since we were kids.
00:14:52But I'm afraid it's been more like a sister.
00:14:55Well, I...
00:14:56I had no idea you felt that way.
00:15:18Nothing's happened to Roy.
00:15:24Roy!
00:15:26I'd better call Dr. Carruthers.
00:15:27Oh, please, hurry.
00:15:33There's nothing I can do.
00:15:34You mean he's dead?
00:15:35Yes, I'd better call the coroner.
00:15:37You think it's murder?
00:15:38I don't know.
00:15:39I never saw anything like it before.
00:15:43The juggler being his seventh.
00:16:03Send Johnny Layton in here.
00:16:12Well, what have I done now?
00:16:13Who wants me fired this time?
00:16:15Nobody, yet.
00:16:16But it's still early.
00:16:18This came in from Heathville.
00:16:19It's a mystery killing.
00:16:20Old Martin Heath's son.
00:16:21Who's Martin Heath?
00:16:22Who's Martin Heath?
00:16:24Say, have you ever had a date with a girl?
00:16:26A girl?
00:16:27Oh, yes, a girl.
00:16:28I believe I did take a girl out once.
00:16:30Well, did she smell sweet?
00:16:33Of course she smells sweet.
00:16:34Most girls do.
00:16:35Well, that's because of Martin Heath Cosmetics Limited.
00:16:38They make all that goo that the women put on their faces
00:16:41so they won't have to wash them with soap and water.
00:16:43Hmm, I get it.
00:16:44A big man, huh?
00:16:45Yes, and a big advertising account.
00:16:47Grab yourself a photographer and get along over there to Heathville.
00:16:50The coroner's holding an inquest.
00:16:52Find out who really killed old man Heath's son.
00:16:55Okay, McGinney, I'm on my way.
00:16:57Ah.
00:17:11Chief Wilkins?
00:17:13Yeah?
00:17:14I'm Johnny Layton of the Chicago Register.
00:17:16Good to see you.
00:17:17And this is my cameraman, One Shot McGuire.
00:17:19Hi, Chief.
00:17:20Howdy.
00:17:20Say, we're down here to cover that Heath murder,
00:17:22but we didn't get much information at the coroner's inquest.
00:17:25I thought maybe you might be able to help us.
00:17:28Well, I'm always glad to cooperate with the newspapers,
00:17:31providing they cooperate with me.
00:17:33That's the policy of our paper.
00:17:35Well, to tell you the truth,
00:17:36I haven't got very far with this thing myself.
00:17:39Oh, here's something that might interest you.
00:17:42It's a picture of the victim's wounds.
00:17:44Mm-hmm.
00:17:45You'll be able to see it better with this glass.
00:17:49Are these scratches on the neck and shoulders?
00:17:52Yes, but we can't determine the source.
00:17:56They're too deep for fingernails.
00:17:58Too shallow to have been made by a knife.
00:18:01They're more like claws.
00:18:03That sort of bears out Dr. Crother's theory at the inquest
00:18:06of a wild animal.
00:18:09Have there been any circuses around here lately?
00:18:11No.
00:18:12Heard of any animal escaping from a zoo?
00:18:15No.
00:18:15Couldn't have been one of those African leopard men.
00:18:17They use steel claws.
00:18:19This isn't Africa.
00:18:20Okay, Chief, I was just trying to help.
00:18:23Chief, are you sure there's no clue you're holding back
00:18:26while investigating?
00:18:29Well, since you're going to work with me on this case,
00:18:32there is a clue.
00:18:33And a very weird one.
00:18:36The autopsy surgeon says that such wounds could have been made
00:18:40by the beak and talons of a bird.
00:18:42A bird?
00:18:44Well, there aren't any birds around here big enough to attack a man.
00:18:47How about an eagle?
00:18:48We know it wasn't a bird.
00:18:50How do you know that?
00:18:51Because we found several hairs on the shoulder of Heath's coat.
00:18:55Ah, chauché la femme.
00:18:57They're not human hairs.
00:18:59What kind are they?
00:19:01Well, it may sound silly,
00:19:03but the laboratory test shows that they were from a mouse.
00:19:06Well, who ever heard of a mouse big enough to kill a man?
00:19:11Say, a bat has hair like a mouse.
00:19:14Well, the only bats around here are no bigger than sparrows.
00:19:18There was a peculiar odor about the wounds,
00:19:20but they were so faint and elusive
00:19:23that the police chemists have been unable to identify it.
00:19:26Then it does give us something to work on.
00:19:28Well, the scent was a clue.
00:19:30It's been destroyed by evaporation.
00:19:35Say, uh, Chief, do you mind if I do a little sleuthing around on my own account?
00:19:39Certainly not. Go ahead.
00:19:40If I can help you any, why, uh...
00:19:42You can.
00:19:43Miss Heath seems to be the nearest to an eyewitness of the crime.
00:19:46I'd like to have a talk with her. Can you arrange it?
00:19:48I think I can.
00:19:50Well, Dr. Crothers refused to let her speak to us.
00:19:52We tried that this morning at the inquest.
00:19:54Well, don't you worry about Dr. Crothers.
00:19:56He's one of the finest men in Heathville.
00:19:58He just thought you'd add to Mary's grief
00:20:00so you could get sensational newspaper stories.
00:20:03I'll arrange an interview.
00:20:05Thanks, Chief.
00:20:06I'll, uh, keep in touch with you.
00:20:07All right.
00:20:09Uh, 4-8-J.
00:20:15Miss Heath, did your brother have any enemies that you know of?
00:20:18Why, no.
00:20:19Everybody in the village liked Roy.
00:20:21Mm-hmm.
00:20:22Well, what did he do at the factory?
00:20:24He had charge of the experimental department
00:20:26where the new products were developed.
00:20:28Oh, here comes Dr. Crothers.
00:20:31Hello, doctor.
00:20:32Hello, Mary.
00:20:33I took a shortcut from my laboratory through the garden hedge.
00:20:36You met Dr. Crothers at the inquest this morning.
00:20:38Yes.
00:20:39Mr. Layton, I hope you'll forgive me if I seemed a little abrupt.
00:20:44But I'm fond of Mary.
00:20:45And considering the ordeal she already went through,
00:20:49I wanted to protect her from dwelling too much of a tragedy.
00:20:53Of course.
00:20:53You were quite right.
00:20:54We're working on the case with the police now.
00:20:56Yes, I understand.
00:20:57Chief Wilkins phoned me.
00:20:59And if I can be of any assistance, just call on me.
00:21:02Thanks.
00:21:03Won't you sit down?
00:21:09Shall I serve, mademoiselle?
00:21:11No, Maxine. I'll do it.
00:21:13You may go now.
00:21:14Oui, mademoiselle.
00:21:19Do you take sugar, Mr. McGuire?
00:21:21Huh?
00:21:22Oh, no, ma'am. Never.
00:21:23In fact, I don't even take tea.
00:21:25If you'll just deal me out, I'll take a look around.
00:21:28I may dig up a clue.
00:21:34What do you think of Dr. Crothers' theory about a wild animal, Mr. Layton?
00:21:37Well, frankly, I don't think much of it.
00:21:41I can't say that I blame you.
00:21:43But I, as a scientist, take many things into consideration
00:21:46a layman might overlook.
00:21:48For instance?
00:21:49The jagged nature of the wound.
00:21:52The rapidity with which the murderer escaped.
00:21:55The scratches from talons or claws.
00:21:58But when an animal attacks a human, there's bound to be a lot of noise.
00:22:01You heard Miss Heath testify there was no sound of a struggle.
00:22:04No.
00:22:06Only those awful screams.
00:22:09It's very puzzling.
00:22:11Very mystifying.
00:22:13Doctor, when you last saw Roy, did he seem worried or nervous or moody?
00:22:17No, not at all. On the contrary.
00:22:20He was in the best of spirits.
00:22:23Well, I've got to get back to the village now and follow my story.
00:22:26You'll excuse me?
00:22:27If you find it necessary for us to talk again, you may come back at any time.
00:22:30This evening, if it's all right with you.
00:22:32I'd like to spend some time here.
00:22:34Well, yes, that'll be quite all right.
00:22:36Goodbye, Miss Heath.
00:22:37Goodbye.
00:22:37Goodbye, Doctor.
00:22:42A little more chiffon, baby.
00:22:44I do not understand.
00:22:46Oh, you know what I mean.
00:22:47A little more your stocking.
00:22:50Like these?
00:22:52Sure, I like them.
00:22:53Who wouldn't?
00:22:54Now, hold nice and still, because this is going to take a little time.
00:23:03Well, if you're going to shoot, shoot.
00:23:05Right away, Johnny.
00:23:06I was just trying to get the focus.
00:23:08Mm-hmm.
00:23:10I got it.
00:23:11And not bad either.
00:23:13I'll be back in a minute, Frenchy.
00:23:15And don't worry none about those werewolves,
00:23:17because nothing's going to harm you while I'm around here.
00:23:20You make Maxine feel so calm.
00:23:22My big, brave journalist.
00:23:32This is my idea of nothing at all.
00:23:34Sitting here waiting for an animal to give us an argument.
00:23:39Look at that moon.
00:23:41And I had a date with Frenchy.
00:23:43Oh, stop crabbing.
00:23:44We're supposed to solve a murder.
00:23:46You, uh...
00:23:47Big, brave journalist.
00:23:53This is the first time I've ever been invited anywhere
00:23:56and asked not to shave until after I get there.
00:23:59I wanted to observe your exact reaction when you tried the lotion.
00:24:02Oh, now I understand.
00:24:06I want this lotion to be perfect
00:24:08before turning it over to you to be marketed.
00:24:11Here.
00:24:14It's a little strong.
00:24:16That'll make the customers think they're getting their money's worth.
00:24:20Oh, that feels great.
00:24:22Very soothing.
00:24:24I don't think you'll ever use anything else.
00:24:27Well, we wouldn't want to market anything,
00:24:28we wouldn't use ourselves.
00:24:31That almost smells good enough to be used as a cologne.
00:24:35What's the matter, Doc?
00:24:37Can't you stand your own lotion?
00:24:39I have a violent dislike for perfumes.
00:24:41Oh, I'm sorry.
00:24:44All right, Tommy.
00:24:45Good night, Doc.
00:24:47Goodbye, Tommy.
00:25:07Good night, Speeders.
00:25:14After a while, come to her.
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00:25:39What's that?
00:25:40Where?
00:25:41Something is moving.
00:25:48Come on out there, whoever is.
00:25:55What are you doing out here, Miss Heave?
00:25:57I thought you might want some company.
00:25:59Shall we sit down?
00:26:01You know, you shouldn't be wandering around the garden at night.
00:26:05After what's happened.
00:26:06Neither should you.
00:26:07Well, but it's part of my job.
00:26:09Mine too.
00:26:10Roy was my brother.
00:26:15Be careful, I think it's Tommy.
00:26:22Hello, Tommy.
00:26:22Hello, Tommy.
00:26:24What's up, sis?
00:26:25Mr. Layton wanted to stay in the garden for a while, so I joined him.
00:26:28Don't tell me you're waiting for that animal Dr. Carruthers mentioned.
00:26:32So you don't believe it either?
00:26:33I certainly do not. It's ridiculous.
00:26:37Somebody or something killed your brother.
00:26:39And I suppose you're working on the theory that the murderer always returns to the scene of the crime.
00:26:45Perhaps I am.
00:26:47Not for me.
00:26:49If you take my advice, Mary, you'll leave these gentlemen to their vigil and go to bed.
00:26:53That's what I'm going to do.
00:26:54Good night.
00:26:55Good night, Tommy.
00:27:02I don't think your brother likes my being here.
00:27:05Oh, you mustn't mind, Tommy.
00:27:06We're all terribly upset.
00:27:09I know.
00:27:17Help!
00:27:18Come on!
00:27:21Help!
00:27:24Oh, you're welcome.
00:27:29Help!
00:27:30Help!
00:27:31Help!
00:27:35Help!
00:27:35Help!
00:27:37Help!
00:27:39Help!
00:27:40Help!
00:27:55I'm telling you, McGetty, it was a bat. I saw it kill Tommy Heave.
00:28:00Listen, Johnny, I want you and One Shot to come on home or I'll fire both of you.
00:28:04I'm not coming home and neither is One Shot.
00:28:06I'm keeping him here to get a picture of the devil bat.
00:28:09That will look great in the headlines. The devil bat strikes again.
00:28:14Listen, don't tell me it had horns.
00:28:17Maybe I'd better send a wagon with the steel bars and the strong boys with the straight jackets.
00:28:22Look, Joe, have I ever lied to you?
00:28:25Plenty of times.
00:28:27Well, I'm not lying this time.
00:28:28If it ever got out that I cooked up a fake story about a devil bat,
00:28:31I wouldn't be able to get a job on a country weekly.
00:28:33Print the story, Joe. So help me, it's on the level.
00:28:37All right, I'll print it. But I won't believe it.
00:28:40Not until One Shot gets me a picture of that devil bat in action.
00:28:44Don't worry, he'll get it. Goodbye.
00:28:47You, my friend, are going to get a shot of the devil bat in action.
00:28:50Who, me? How?
00:28:52Have you noticed there's a taxidermist shop in the village?
00:28:56Well, you wouldn't suggest that I go out and stuff a bird, would you?
00:28:59One Shot?
00:29:00To think that you'd even hint that I would suggest
00:29:02you'd have the village taxidermist build you a nice, big bat for pictorial purposes.
00:29:06Besides, a bat isn't a bird, it's a mammal.
00:29:09Well, why didn't you say so in the first place?
00:29:11Where is this bird stuff in the Emporium?
00:29:16Oh, down on Cottage Grove Avenue.
00:29:45Good night, Sue.
00:30:27Let's go.
00:30:28Now, here's the idea, Frenchy.
00:30:29You hang on to the bat until I get my camera set up.
00:30:32And when I raise my hand, you give the bat a good shove
00:30:35and it'll swing out just like it's flying.
00:30:37Then I can get a swell picture from a boss, get it?
00:30:40Me? I am wise, no?
00:30:42No, but hang on to the bat until I raise my hand, huh?
00:31:20I'm going to take you to jail until you explain this.
00:31:27Come on.
00:31:28You can't do this.
00:31:29I'm doing it.
00:31:31I'm doing it.
00:31:31I'm doing it.
00:31:31I was just conducting a little experiment,
00:31:34trying to find out how the devil bat does his killing.
00:31:36I'm sure McGuire didn't intend doing anything wrong.
00:31:39He's just a little overzealous about his work.
00:31:42Well, with the town in an uproar,
00:31:45and everybody terror-stricken,
00:31:46wondering whether he's going to be the next victim,
00:31:48I don't want any more trouble stirred up,
00:31:51even with an artificial bat.
00:31:53You'd better get back to the hotel.
00:31:54I want to talk to the chief alone.
00:31:56Is it all right, chief?
00:31:58Yeah, but be careful in the future.
00:32:03Ever smell anything like this before?
00:32:10Well, yes.
00:32:11That's the same stuff that's been on
00:32:13every one of the devil bat's victims.
00:32:15Where'd you get it?
00:32:16Found it in Don Morton's bathroom.
00:32:19Find out where Morton got it?
00:32:21No, I didn't want to arouse suspicion by asking questions
00:32:24till after it's been analyzed.
00:32:26Do you think it has any connection with the murders?
00:32:29That's the way it strikes me, but I can't figure out how.
00:32:33I'll get the police cameras on it right away.
00:32:35I'll snoop around and see if I can find out where Morton got it.
00:32:39Well, it probably came from down at the Heath cosmetic plant.
00:32:42I've been working on the theory of a disgruntled factory employee
00:32:45committing the crimes.
00:32:48It's certainly more than coincidental that all the victims
00:32:50have been members of the Heath and Morton families.
00:32:53Yeah.
00:32:54It looks like a plot to wipe them all out.
00:32:57I wish the rest of them would leave town
00:32:59until this crime is solved.
00:33:02You're worried about Mary, aren't you?
00:33:05Well, yes.
00:33:06I've been urging her to leave, but she won't go without her father.
00:33:09And he insists on remaining here to help clear up the crime.
00:33:12And worse than that, neither Heath nor Morton
00:33:14will let me give them a bodyguard.
00:33:16I guess we'll just have to wait for something to break.
00:33:18Good night, Chief.
00:33:19Good night, Johnny.
00:33:30Boy, if I got a picture, it'll knock my Ginty dead.
00:33:33Meet the double bat.
00:33:35Well, how about that wire?
00:33:37Looks as if the bat's on a flying trapeze.
00:33:39Oh, but I'm not through working on it yet.
00:33:41See, I can touch this picture up so the bat will look like
00:33:43he's got nothing around him but nothing.
00:33:46Okay, Rembrandt, you win.
00:33:53This is your news commentator, Walter King.
00:33:55Tonight we're broadcasting from the little village of Heathville
00:33:57where an alleged devil bat has claimed three victims
00:34:00during the past six weeks.
00:34:02You will note that I say alleged devil bat.
00:34:04That, ladies and gentlemen, is because your correspondent
00:34:06has been very skeptical from the start
00:34:08as to the existence of this horrendous creature.
00:34:10I have as my guest in the studio tonight,
00:34:12Professor Percival Garland Raines,
00:34:14perhaps the world's greatest authority on animal life.
00:34:17I'm going to interview Professor Raines
00:34:18on the subject of the devil bat.
00:34:20Our radio audience may draw its own conclusions.
00:34:23Professor Raines, first let me ask you, point blank,
00:34:27do you believe that any such creature as the devil bat exists?
00:34:30I do not.
00:34:32He's got a nerve.
00:34:33Quiet.
00:34:34In the dark ages when men and women lived in caves,
00:34:37there may have existed a bat of this size,
00:34:39but not in this day and age.
00:34:41How do you account for the fact that Mary Heath,
00:34:44whose two brothers were victims of the devil bat,
00:34:47and a newspaper reporter, John Layton,
00:34:49claimed to have seen this amazing creature?
00:34:51Sometimes under stress of excitement,
00:34:53our minds play tricks on us.
00:34:55Hey, he's insinuating you saw the little bat that wasn't there.
00:34:59Pipe down.
00:35:00But how about the picture of the devil bat
00:35:02published by Mr. Layton's paper?
00:35:04I examined that picture under a powerful magnifying glass.
00:35:07I denounced it as a fraud.
00:35:10Whoever constructed the strange-looking monster
00:35:12forgot to remove a label from the silk,
00:35:14from the silk used on its left wing.
00:35:17That label reads, Made in Japan.
00:35:27Put through a hurry, call to Heathville.
00:35:29I want to talk to Johnny Layton.
00:35:31He's at the Heathville Hotel.
00:35:35One guess who that is.
00:35:36Yeah, McGinty.
00:35:44I'm sorry.
00:35:44I'm sorry.
00:35:44Pour it on.
00:35:45So you slipped over a fake picture on me, huh?
00:35:48Well, you're fired.
00:35:49Both of you.
00:35:50And I'll see to it that you never work on another newspaper
00:35:53as long as I live.
00:35:55Made in Japan.
00:35:57You tell One Shot McGuire he ought to be snapping photos
00:35:59in a booby hatch.
00:36:01Both of you, come on in and get your final checks.
00:36:04Oh, no.
00:36:04We're not coming in to get anything.
00:36:07All right, so we're fired.
00:36:08But we're staying here just the same.
00:36:10I saw that bat.
00:36:12We're going to stay here until we catch that bat.
00:36:14And when we do,
00:36:15I'm going to bring it in and stuff it down your throat.
00:36:17Goodbye.
00:36:21Well, we're fired.
00:36:23Mm-hmm.
00:36:23Again.
00:36:26That's him calling back to apologize.
00:36:28Now, you give him a good scare.
00:36:31No use begging us to go to work for you again, McGetty.
00:36:34You fired us, and we're staying fired.
00:36:36Oh, oh, Mary, I thought it was somebody else.
00:36:39Johnny, why did you make a joke of a tragic thing like this?
00:36:42But it wasn't intended as a joke, Mary.
00:36:44I was only trying to get the news.
00:36:46I suppose you call it getting the news when you arrange to print a picture
00:36:49that's a deliberate hoax that has the entire country laughing.
00:36:53A grand joke, Johnny, but somehow I can't appreciate it.
00:36:57But I can explain that picture.
00:36:59Don't try, Johnny.
00:37:09Made in Japan.
00:37:11I ought to skin you alive and nail your hide to a barn door.
00:37:19Here's the chemistry part on that shaving lotion.
00:37:24I see he couldn't break down one of the ingredients.
00:37:27Yes, he said it must be some element with which he's not familiar.
00:37:31We won't get anywhere until we identify it.
00:37:35There's just one other man in this town that might be able to help us.
00:37:39Dr. Carruthers.
00:37:42Yeah, Carruthers could help us.
00:37:44I found out he compounded that lotion.
00:37:47Well, if you suspect Carruthers, you're barking up the wrong tree, Johnny.
00:37:51He's the last man in this town that would harm anyone.
00:37:54Why, everybody loves him.
00:37:56Maybe so.
00:37:57But here's something else I dug up.
00:38:01The Heath and Morton fortunes are based on a greaseless cold cream formula
00:38:04that Dr. Carruthers invented.
00:38:06So what?
00:38:08All the doctor got out of it was $10,000, and the others made a fortune.
00:38:13Well, it's common knowledge that he sold out for cash when he could have had an interest in the firm.
00:38:18Just the same, every victim had this stuff from his laboratory on him.
00:38:25Maybe you've been working too hard on this case, Johnny.
00:38:28I'd like to get his reaction on this stuff.
00:38:30If he denies knowing anything about it, we'll know there's a tie-up somewhere.
00:38:34I think you're bombing.
00:38:36But just to show you that I'm following up every clue, we'll talk to him.
00:38:41We'll put this in another bottle, and without telling him we know, he compounded it.
00:38:45Ask him to analyze it.
00:38:46Doc, I hope we're not upsetting your work barging in on you this way.
00:38:50No, no, not at all.
00:38:51I'm anxious to help solve these crimes.
00:38:54All the victims were very dear friends of mine.
00:38:57Here's a sample of the stuff young Morton and the two Heath boys had on them
00:39:00when they were attacked by the devil bat.
00:39:02Of course, it doesn't make sense to me that the bird would choose only people using that particular stuff.
00:39:08A bat is not a bird, it's a mammal.
00:39:12Well, anyway, our police chemists couldn't break down one of the ingredients.
00:39:16We thought perhaps you could.
00:39:19Why?
00:39:20I compounded this myself.
00:39:23It's a new shaving lotion I'm experimenting with.
00:39:27The ingredient your chemists couldn't break down, I discovered years ago in Tibet.
00:39:32How did you happen to put it in a shaving lotion?
00:39:35Oh, the llamas use it in some of their religious rites as a perfume.
00:39:40The scent is very pleasant and can't be imitated by competitors.
00:39:44But what were Don Morton and the two Heath boys doing with this stuff?
00:39:48Oh, it is the policy of our firm to try out any new product before marketing it.
00:39:54Well, that knocks our theory into a cocked hat.
00:39:57Yeah, we were hoping the unknown ingredient might turn out to be some sort of a clue.
00:40:04This isn't the kind of bottle I give it out in.
00:40:07But I presume your chemist changed it when making the analysis.
00:40:11Yeah.
00:40:13Is there anything else I can do to help?
00:40:17Tell me, did you hear Professor Raines on the radio last night?
00:40:20Yes.
00:40:22It was very interesting and very asinine.
00:40:25You mean you believe there is a devil bat?
00:40:27Why not? You saw it, didn't you?
00:40:29Well, sure I did. So did Mary.
00:40:31Then why worry about what one scientist says?
00:40:34That one scientist got me fired.
00:40:38You mean your newspaper discharged you?
00:40:42That's right.
00:40:43That's too bad.
00:40:46Then you will believe in Heath's will before the mystery is solved.
00:40:50I'm afraid not.
00:40:52I'm going to stay here and work with the Chief.
00:40:56Since you're going to stay here for a while,
00:40:59I would like you to try out a bottle of the new lotion
00:41:03and tell me how you like it.
00:41:06And you too, Chief.
00:41:07No, no, not me, Doc.
00:41:09If my wife ever smelled perfume on me,
00:41:11she'd suspect me, sure.
00:41:14Well, Mr. Layton, I understand you are not married.
00:41:17All right. I'll try it in the morning when I shave.
00:41:19I guess we're better be going, Chief.
00:41:21See you later, Doc.
00:41:22So long, Dr. Crothers.
00:41:24Goodbye, Mr. Layton.
00:41:38What's the matter?
00:41:39Does that smelly shaving lotion put you to sleep?
00:41:42Well, why did you tell the doctor you're going to use it if you think it's smelly?
00:41:44Oh, I don't know. I guess I was a little ashamed of ever suspecting the old dog.
00:41:49Well, I like it and I'm going to tell him so.
00:41:54What time is it?
00:41:56After midnight.
00:41:58Midnight?
00:41:59Oh, they ain't no use of waiting around here any longer.
00:42:02This must be the Bats' night off.
00:42:10Did you hear that?
00:42:11Yeah.
00:42:18Get that camera ready.
00:42:32Look out.
00:42:41You got him.
00:42:42Listen, Johnny, I'm going to cook that bird personally for McGinney.
00:42:46And I'll even stuff it myself.
00:43:25I was still skeptical when I came to Heathville today to examine the body of this so-called devil bat.
00:43:32But after seeing it personally, and making exhaustive research, I've arrived at the conclusion that the creature is the lone
00:43:40survivor of a type of giant bat, which existed in great numbers during the early part of the Neolithic age.
00:43:50Perhaps I should explain for the benefit of some of our listeners that the Neolithic age is that period of
00:43:56antiquity commonly called the Stone Age.
00:43:58What?
00:44:02Imbecile.
00:44:04Bombastic ignoramus.
00:44:52I'm sorry, McGinty, but one shot and I are not interested. At your prices, of course if there was a
00:44:58raise of space.
00:44:58of say 20, 30, $30 plus a fat bonus.
00:45:02We might consider it.
00:45:03You're holed up men, both of you.
00:45:05I refuse to be robbed.
00:45:07Have it your way, McGinty, have it your way.
00:45:09But we have the bat's corpus delecti
00:45:12and the exclusive picture.
00:45:13Of course, I've got an eyewitness story
00:45:15that two syndicates are bidding for.
00:45:18And don't forget, you gotta pay us
00:45:19for the time we were fired.
00:45:22That's better.
00:45:24Now you're talking boss.
00:45:25Okay, we're working for you again.
00:45:27We'll gather up the loose ends and see you in a couple of days.
00:45:29Goodbye.
00:45:32Come in.
00:45:34Hello, Johnny.
00:45:35Well, Mary.
00:45:37Johnny, I came to tell you that I'm sorry
00:45:39I said what I did the last time we talked.
00:45:42Do you suppose...
00:45:43Well, I don't know how to say it, but...
00:45:46I do.
00:45:47Miss Heath, do you suppose that little French girl
00:45:49would apologize to me if I looked her up?
00:45:52Positive, she would.
00:45:57All right, let me look back.
00:46:06But it doesn't work.
00:46:11I don't know.
00:46:13It's too funny.
00:46:14You know, I got to take out of the chair.
00:46:15But there's nothing.
00:46:15Sometimes there's nothing.
00:46:16I'm asking you to take your time.
00:46:16Well, I'm asking you now.
00:46:16I'm asking you now.
00:46:17I'm asking you now.
00:46:18But I'm asking you.
00:46:19I'm asking you now.
00:46:19I'm asking you to take out the car.
00:46:20And you know...
00:46:20I'm asking you now.
00:47:02You will be even greater than your unfortunate predecessor.
00:47:18Enraged, aren't you?
00:47:21Fine.
00:47:23I'm enraged also.
00:47:26Tonight, I shall call on Henry Morton and you shall strike him down.
00:47:34Henry, the lotion has turned out to be better than I had hoped.
00:47:39I want you to try it.
00:47:41Well, just leave it here, Doc, and I'll try it in the morning after shaving.
00:47:50It smells good, doesn't it?
00:47:52Yes, but isn't it too strong?
00:47:54No, no, no. Evaporation quickly tones it down just to the right scent.
00:48:00Rub a few drops on your face.
00:48:02Well, I'd rather wait until after I shave.
00:48:05Then my skin will be more tender and receptive to a lotion.
00:48:09Well, just a little here.
00:48:12The texture of the skin there is always very delicate.
00:48:19I'll give you a few drops in your hand.
00:48:32I hope you're right about that scent evaporating quickly.
00:48:36I smell the high heavens.
00:48:38Perhaps that will be the secret of its success.
00:48:42Well, you can never tell what's going to happen in this business.
00:48:45You can believe me, Henry.
00:48:47You don't have to worry.
00:48:49Yes, I can believe that, Doc.
00:48:51All of your formulas have been highly successful.
00:48:55Well, I've been going over the report to the company's annual earnings.
00:48:59A net profit of over a million dollars.
00:49:02Not bad, eh?
00:49:04When you remember what we built on.
00:49:08A mere $10,000 for your formula.
00:49:12You shouldn't have demanded all cash, Doc.
00:49:15You should have ridden along with us.
00:49:17Then you'd be rich, too.
00:49:19But then you've had a lot of fun in your laboratory.
00:49:22With your experiments.
00:49:25Dreaming up something new.
00:49:27You're a dreamer, Doc.
00:49:30Too much money is bad for dreamers.
00:49:33So you try to pay me in flattery,
00:49:36telling me that I'm a dreamer.
00:49:40Well, I do dream.
00:49:43Dreams that you could never guess.
00:49:47Your nerves are afraid, Doc.
00:49:50Now, calm down.
00:49:51Get a grip on yourself.
00:49:52You've been working too hard on your formula.
00:49:54Formula?
00:49:56That's but child's play for a great scientist.
00:50:01Your brain is too feeble to conceive what I have accomplished in the realm of science.
00:50:09Doc, you've made some great scientific discovery.
00:50:12I'm sorry.
00:50:12What is it?
00:50:14When you'll find out, Henry, it'll be too late for you.
00:50:19Oh, come, come, Doc.
00:50:21You can't pretend to control a man's destiny.
00:50:26I've already proved it three times.
00:50:38I'm sorry.
00:50:41Perhaps you're right, Henry, about my working too hard.
00:50:46I guess I'm a little tired.
00:50:48I'd better go home and get some rest.
00:50:50Sure.
00:50:51A night's sleep will do you good.
00:50:53Good night, Doc.
00:50:56Goodbye, Henry.
00:50:58Good night.
00:51:0936 J.
00:51:11Hello?
00:51:12Is that you, Martin?
00:51:14Yes, Henry.
00:51:16I want you to call the chief of police Wilkins to come to your house immediately.
00:51:20It's very important.
00:51:21The chief's here now.
00:51:22Don't let him leave until I get there.
00:51:24What a nice happened.
00:51:26I think I've got a clue to all those murders.
00:51:29It may peter out.
00:51:31But if half what I suspect is true,
00:51:33it's the most diabolical plot that a mad man ever concocted.
00:51:37What is it?
00:51:41Talk about the absent-minded professor.
00:51:43I forgot my hat.
00:51:46Henry, what is it?
00:51:48I'll tell you all about it when I get there.
00:51:50I hope I didn't intrude on a private conversation.
00:51:53No, nothing important.
00:52:33I've got to be.
00:52:33I've got to be.
00:52:34It's hard for me to tell you,
00:52:34where you can't see you.
00:52:40What do you want to see you again?
00:52:45You can't find the darkness.
00:52:45You can find it all yours.
00:52:46You can find it.
00:52:47You can find it.
00:52:48You can find it.
00:52:48Yes, sir.
00:53:15Ah
00:53:21I hope Henry was right about having a clue
00:53:24But why didn't he explain more about it when he phoned
00:53:28When I insisted
00:53:29He changed his tone as if he'd been interrupted
00:53:32I was afraid that he might be overheard
00:53:39What is that squeaky sound?
00:53:41Oh, just some night noise
00:53:43Help!
00:54:17Let's go
00:54:25Here
00:54:26prey
00:54:26on
00:54:27war
00:54:27It
00:54:48St
00:54:49I feel much better, Mr. Heath, since you asked us to stay in your home
00:54:52until this new devil bat has been killed.
00:54:54I've been worried about Mary.
00:54:56What reason have you to believe that Mary is in danger?
00:54:59Only this.
00:55:01I'm convinced that someone is using the bat to wipe out the entire Heath and Morton families.
00:55:05As a scientist, I assure you, the thought of a human controlling a bat is fantastic.
00:55:10Just the same, no villagers have been killed or even attacked.
00:55:14You're forgetting, aren't you, that Mr. McGuire was attacked?
00:55:17He's not a member of either family.
00:55:19Why, I'm practically a member of this family already.
00:55:22I'm going to marry Miss Heath's maid.
00:55:23Oh, really?
00:55:25Well, boys, I'll have Maxine show you to your rooms.
00:55:28I must be running along home. It's past my bedtime.
00:55:30Good night, gentlemen. Good night, Martin.
00:55:32Good night, Doctor.
00:55:32Good night, Doctor.
00:55:34Good-bye, Mary.
00:55:37Come along.
00:55:45Maxine?
00:55:46Oui, mademoiselle.
00:55:52Did you fill my perfume bottles with something new?
00:55:55Oh, no, mademoiselle. I never touch your perfume.
00:55:57It's funny. I don't recognize it.
00:56:00Perhaps Dad filled them as a surprise.
00:56:03He always does that with every new perfume the plant puts out.
00:56:06Is there anything else?
00:56:08No, Maxine, that's all. Good night.
00:56:10Good night, mademoiselle.
00:56:22Oh!
00:56:23Good night.
00:56:37I'm coming.
00:56:38Oh, dear 맛.
00:56:41Yes, the pontaine sucks.
00:57:02Mary, what happened?
00:57:04It was trying to get in the window.
00:57:05A big bat.
00:57:06A big bat.
00:57:07Oh, it was awful.
00:57:14Mary, I want you to tell me everything you did
00:57:16just before that bat tried to get in.
00:57:18Well, first I took a bath.
00:57:20Then I brushed my hair,
00:57:22and Maxine came in and turned the covers down.
00:57:25And then fastened the screen,
00:57:26which somehow had come unhooked.
00:57:28Yeah. Go ahead, what else?
00:57:30Well, then we talked about some new perfume
00:57:32that someone had put in my dressing table bottles.
00:57:35Dad, did you put any new perfume in my bottles?
00:57:38No, I didn't.
00:57:40Is that the stuff?
00:57:41Yes.
00:57:43Tony, this smells like...
00:57:44Wait, quiet.
00:57:45I've got a hunch that I want to follow up,
00:57:47and I'll need everybody's cooperation.
00:57:48We'll do everything we can.
00:57:50Of course.
00:57:51What's Carruthers' number?
00:57:5348J.
00:57:58Operator, give me 48J, please.
00:58:03Hello, Dr. Carruthers.
00:58:04This is Johnny Layton.
00:58:06That's right.
00:58:06Something terrible has happened to Mary.
00:58:08Can you hurry over?
00:58:10I'll be right there.
00:58:11Good.
00:58:13Oh, Johnny, I'm all right.
00:58:14I don't need a doctor.
00:58:15That's where the cooperation part comes in, Mary.
00:58:17You'll have to pretend to be a nervous wreck.
00:58:19Mr. Heath, you in one shop must help her trick Dr. Carruthers
00:58:21into staying here as long as you can.
00:58:22Where are you going, Johnny?
00:58:24To do a little private bat hunting.
00:58:54You can go to Loochers and get on.
00:58:56You have to pretend to be in the double- Theme song,
00:58:56where in the middle of the night,
00:58:56That's right.
00:58:56That's right.
00:58:56I'll be right there.
00:58:56All right.
00:58:59You have to pretend to be in the middle of the day.
00:58:59You have to pretend to be in the middle of the night.
00:59:00It's a popular song,
00:59:02I really want to pretend to be in the middle of the night.
00:59:11The devil, try to get through that window.
00:59:13If she's suffering from fright, I'll give her a seraphim.
00:59:18Where's Mr. Layton?
00:59:20Why, I guess he's out in the garden hunting the devil bat.
00:59:22Layton is a very brave young man.
00:59:26Give him his heat, one of these, every half an hour.
00:59:28Oui, Doctor.
00:59:29It will quieten her nerves.
00:59:30But, Doc, hadn't you better stay until she's quieter?
00:59:32She'll be all right in the morning.
00:59:34Hey, Doc, I don't feel so good myself.
00:59:37Would you mind taking my temperature?
00:59:38You look perfectly well, Mr. McGuire.
00:59:41Well, you ought to see my tongue.
00:59:42It looks just like a squirrel's tail.
00:59:44Look.
00:59:45Try some calomel.
01:00:31Some calomel.
01:00:43Oh, my God.
01:01:09You may have visitors tonight, and it would be dangerous for me if they found you here.
01:01:32No.
01:01:46No.
01:01:48No.
01:01:51No.
01:02:01It's not.
01:02:30Hi, Doc.
01:02:31I hope I'm not intruding.
01:02:32No, no, not at all.
01:02:35I heard you're out, stalking the devil bat.
01:02:38Any success?
01:02:39No, but I thought maybe you might be able to help me.
01:02:42Well, I don't see how that's possible,
01:02:44but if you can suggest anything...
01:02:46Well, you could give me some more of that new concoction of yours,
01:02:49that shaving lotion.
01:02:51But how on earth could that possibly help catch the devil bat?
01:02:55I've still got a crazy idea that if I douse myself with it,
01:02:59it might attract the killer.
01:03:00I don't see how you can connect the two.
01:03:03But there is a bottle of the lotion on the table.
01:03:06Thanks.
01:03:26You see, Doc, I figured out something.
01:03:30All four of the murdered people had this lotion on them
01:03:32when the devil bat struck.
01:03:34Now, my plan is to sit in the garden
01:03:36and when the killer makes one of those power dives,
01:03:39I'll blast him.
01:03:41Layton, I'm afraid all these murders have affected your mind.
01:03:46Maybe you'd like to come along, Doc, and be an eye witness.
01:03:49I'm sure it would be just a waste of time,
01:03:52but I'll be glad to watch your experiment.
01:03:55Good. I knew I could count on you to help me.
01:04:03I tell you, Layton,
01:04:05expecting a bat to be attracted by the scent of a lotion
01:04:08is all foolishness.
01:04:10I think I better run around.
01:04:12Ah, sit down, Doc.
01:04:14The devil bat's behind schedule tonight.
01:04:23You, uh, aren't very chummy tonight.
01:04:25What's the matter?
01:04:27Uh, firearms always make me nervous.
01:04:30Oh, I thought maybe you didn't want to be sitting too close to me.
01:04:33Uh, just in case the devil bat does show up.
01:04:36According to your theory, the killer wouldn't attack me.
01:04:40I haven't any of that lotion on me.
01:04:46You have now, Doc.
01:04:48Why did you do that?
01:04:49To make it a 50-50 proposition, Doc.
01:04:54Now sit down.
01:04:55And don't try any shenanigans.
01:05:02Not so funny when it's your own juggler vein that's in danger.
01:05:06Is it, Doc?
01:05:08I, I don't know what you're talking about.
01:05:12Maybe you made a mistake when you let that devil bat of yours
01:05:14out of the attic tonight.
01:05:17Don't worry about the bat killing you.
01:05:19I'm saving you for the hangman.
01:05:25Tell me, Doc.
01:05:26How did you, uh, develop a monster bat like that?
01:05:30You wouldn't understand the scientific theory.
01:05:45You wouldn't understand the truth.
01:05:50I didn't believe what happened.
01:05:53I keep working with people.
01:05:54I believe I'm capable of doing what happened.
01:05:54But I'm really lucky.
01:05:54But it's still nothing to do.
01:05:55You ain't got to do it.
01:05:58I'm for the man.
01:05:59I don't believe I'm going to get to do it.
01:06:00But I don't know where he's going to do it.
01:06:05It doesn't matter.
01:06:11Hello, Chief, what are you doing out here?
01:06:12Young fellow, don't think that you're the only man working on this case.
01:06:16It was lucky I was here, too.
01:06:18Thanks, did you kill the devil bat?
01:06:19No, he got away.
01:06:20Well, here's one bird that didn't get away,
01:06:22and he's the murderer we've both been looking for.
01:06:26Quick, shoot it!
01:06:35Where is it?
01:06:35It's gone.
01:06:38And so's the doctor.
01:06:40Did you get the bat?
01:06:41What happened?
01:06:42Dr. Carruthers is the murderer,
01:06:43and he's hiding somewhere, he's in the garden.
01:06:45You fellas get back to the house and guard Mary.
01:06:49Come on.
01:06:56Doctor!
01:06:58Dr. Carruthers!
01:07:01Doctor!
01:07:04Has anything happened to Johnny?
01:07:05Is he hurt?
01:07:06They took him up to my place.
01:07:08You better come along with me.
01:07:25They took him up to my house.
01:07:27Mary?
01:07:28Mary?
01:07:28Mary?
01:07:29Mary?
01:07:29Mary?
01:07:30Mary?
01:07:31Mary?
01:07:32Mary?
01:07:34Mary?
01:07:40Are you all right, Mary?
01:07:41Go help Dr. Carrabbas. He's over there.
01:07:45That devil bat belonged to the doctor, Mary.
01:07:48He created it to commit those murders.
01:07:53Well, it's too late to help the doc.
01:08:27Well, it's too late.
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