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Prepare for a moody cinematic voyage in this gripping British noir thriller. This high-quality, full movie features Cesar Romero as an amateur sleuth who teams up with the victim's sister to navigate the rain-slicked docks and dimly lit alleys of post-war London. Brimming with atmospheric tension, sharp dialogue, and the classic "wrong man" tropes of the genre, this stylish mystery is now free to watch for all fans of classic cinema who appreciate a story where the truth is as elusive as a shadow in the mist.
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00:00:25It's getting pretty thick. I'll get out and walk out of here.
00:00:28Here, take this.
00:01:13Here, take this.
00:01:14Here, take this.
00:01:33Here, take this.
00:02:12Here, take this.
00:02:41Here, take this.
00:03:13Here, take this.
00:03:14Here, take this.
00:03:19I'm sure he's not there.
00:03:22Have you any idea when he left?
00:03:25That was nearly an hour ago, and even in this fog.
00:03:28I see.
00:03:31Here, take this.
00:03:31Here, take this.
00:03:32Here, take this.
00:03:33Here, take this.
00:03:34Here, take this.
00:03:35Here, take this.
00:03:35Here, take this.
00:03:36Here.
00:03:59I'm sorry.
00:03:59I thought you were sin.
00:04:01I didn't mean to offend you, miss.
00:04:03You're welcome to join the party if you'd like.
00:04:05Perhaps you'd like to join Mr. O'Dell and myself for a drink, miss.
00:04:08You mean a drink of that?
00:04:09Well, she doesn't appreciate a work of art.
00:04:11Oh, I do.
00:04:12But I have to leave soon with someone calling for me.
00:04:14Who?
00:04:15My brother, if you must know.
00:04:18Her brother, her doll.
00:04:19You're passing up a great opportunity, miss.
00:04:21I am.
00:04:22Not everybody gets the chance to taste a real Dusseldorf detonator, is it, Mr. O'Dell?
00:04:26That's right.
00:04:27That's what that thing is.
00:04:28A Dusseldorf detonator?
00:04:31A Dusseldorf detonator.
00:04:33Oh.
00:04:34Well, what is it?
00:04:37A detonator.
00:04:39Well, it's more than a drink.
00:04:41It's, I'll say, it's a bit of nostalgia.
00:04:44Memory, a ceremony, a tradition,
00:04:46of which, unhappily, there are only too few still remaining.
00:04:51That's about the size of it.
00:04:53You see, Miss, uh,
00:04:55Miss, uh...
00:04:56Heather McMurray.
00:04:57Miss McMurray, I'm a writer.
00:04:58Mr. O'Dell was attached to our bomber squadron during the war.
00:05:01The Swizzle Swallows.
00:05:02I was doing a feature on the RAF.
00:05:03A fine bunch of lads, too, miss.
00:05:05Even if they did sometimes take a few too many.
00:05:08But after every raid,
00:05:10the Swallows concocted a new drink
00:05:11to sort of, uh,
00:05:13commemorate the occasion.
00:05:14Remember the Bremen blockbuster and the Cologne Killer?
00:05:17Don't forget the big noise from Hamburg.
00:05:18And the Kiel Pinhew.
00:05:20And the Betters' Garden Bombs, sir.
00:05:28I think we're about ready for it.
00:05:29You sure you, uh, remember?
00:05:31The room's rather small.
00:05:32Not quick.
00:05:33It will, sir.
00:05:41Like that?
00:05:47I'd better stand back of it, Miss.
00:06:04We've done it, Mr. O'Dell.
00:06:06A real detonator.
00:06:09Cups, Sid?
00:06:09Yes, sir.
00:06:10I think we should be big about this, Sid.
00:06:13Let the lady have the first drink.
00:06:15Oh, no.
00:06:15No, thanks.
00:06:16Never touch it.
00:06:17Yes, but, Miss, you ought to try it.
00:06:20Well, uh...
00:06:21Please, Father Bell.
00:06:22No, no.
00:06:22It's probably for me.
00:06:23I'll get it.
00:06:24I'm expecting a call from the airlines.
00:06:31Hello?
00:06:32I wish to speak to Mr. O'Dell.
00:06:33O'Dell speaking.
00:06:34Ah, Mr. O'Dell.
00:06:35I phoned to say if the fog is still with us.
00:06:38Well, you don't have the phone to tell me that.
00:06:40I can see it's still with us.
00:06:41When do I leave?
00:06:42I'll let you know the moment the fog lifts, sir.
00:06:44You know you're holding up a revolution.
00:06:46I can assure you, sir, we're just as anxious as you are.
00:06:50Now, stay that way.
00:06:56He says it's still foggy.
00:07:00Well, let's drink.
00:07:04Can I use your phone?
00:07:05It'll be so.
00:07:06Thanks.
00:07:13Come on, drink up before it loses its cake.
00:07:15Not much chance of that.
00:07:16Oh, well, here goes.
00:07:18Hello?
00:07:18Ambulance, please.
00:07:20I wanted ambulance sent to Water Street.
00:07:22The young man's been knocked down.
00:07:23Oh, he's dead, all right.
00:07:24Hit and run, probably.
00:07:26Thanks.
00:07:27Good night.
00:07:29Thanks, Jack.
00:07:30You're welcome.
00:07:31Yes, miss?
00:07:32That good porch you just made.
00:07:34Oh, yes, miss.
00:07:35Hit and run, just down the road.
00:07:36Excuse me.
00:07:37You think it may be your brother?
00:07:38Yes.
00:07:38I'll come over.
00:07:46Who is he?
00:07:47Her brother.
00:07:48I was waiting for Danny.
00:07:50He was supposed to meet me at the Crescent Bar.
00:07:53Oh, I'm sorry, miss.
00:07:54These wretched fogs cause so many accidents.
00:07:56This was no accident.
00:07:58What do you mean?
00:08:01Somebody ran him down deliberately.
00:08:03I'm sure of it.
00:08:04Well, I understand your feelings, miss, but it's not likely.
00:08:06This could happen to anybody on a dark street in a fog.
00:08:09What makes you think it wasn't an accident?
00:08:12I don't know.
00:08:13Just the feeling I have.
00:08:14I'm almost sure of it.
00:08:17I'll take care of her.
00:08:18We'll be in the bar when you want us.
00:08:21Why would anyone want to kill Danny?
00:08:24You take it easy.
00:08:25Sit down here.
00:08:31What makes you so sure?
00:08:33He was always in trouble, trying to get money without working for it.
00:08:37I never heard from him except when he wanted something or was in a jam.
00:08:40And that's why he called you tonight?
00:08:42No, that's what's so funny.
00:08:44I hadn't heard from Danny in months.
00:08:46Then tonight he wants me to meet him.
00:08:48He said he'd be surprised.
00:08:49He was bringing it over.
00:08:51A surprise?
00:08:52Don't you see, if the surprise meant that Danny was in the money,
00:08:55somebody might have killed him for it.
00:08:58It's possible.
00:08:59But in a London fog where you can't see five feet in front of you,
00:09:02not very probable.
00:09:06You're really convinced, aren't you?
00:09:13Miss McMorrow?
00:09:14Yes?
00:09:15The constable tells me you have reason to believe this was not a simple accident.
00:09:19Yes, I...
00:09:19Have you any evidence to support this?
00:09:21No.
00:09:23It's just, well...
00:09:25Intuition.
00:09:26Intuition?
00:09:27Yes, he was always mixed up with the wrong sort of people.
00:09:30Who were these people?
00:09:31I don't know.
00:09:33I haven't seen Danny for several months.
00:09:35Where was he living?
00:09:36I don't know, I'm afraid.
00:09:38I see.
00:09:39Well, if you do find any information to substantiate your theory,
00:09:42we should appreciate your contacting us.
00:09:45Good night, miss.
00:09:46Good night.
00:09:50Well, that's that, I suppose.
00:09:52What?
00:09:52You giving up that easy?
00:09:54Why not try Scotland Yard?
00:09:56I suppose they'd let me past the front gates.
00:09:58With me, of course.
00:09:59Inspector McGlendon and I are buddies.
00:10:01We're like that.
00:10:03Are you sure this is all right?
00:10:05Now, stop worrying.
00:10:06Inspector McGlendon will do anything for me.
00:10:10Yes, we got the report.
00:10:12Oh, I quite agree, sir.
00:10:14I'll let you have it first thing in the morning.
00:10:16Sergeant Riley.
00:10:17Well, Mr. Adele, it's been a long time.
00:10:20Sergeant, this is Miss McMarrer.
00:10:22Riley and I worked together on those cases I told you about.
00:10:24That's right.
00:10:24Oh, I promised to talk to the inspector about her brother.
00:10:28He's just killed.
00:10:29Oh, seems free.
00:10:30No, don't announce me.
00:10:31I want to give the chief the surprise of his life.
00:10:34Just a minute.
00:10:35You can't go in with him.
00:10:36Don't worry.
00:10:36We're like that.
00:10:37It's true, Sergeant.
00:10:38Inspector McGlendon, he was...
00:10:39But that's not McGlendon.
00:10:46Hiya, Meg.
00:10:46You're a son of a gun.
00:10:48Relax.
00:10:58I'm so sorry.
00:11:05May I inquire the meaning of this, sir?
00:11:08I must be in the wrong office.
00:11:10I thought you were Mack.
00:11:11Inspector McGlendon.
00:11:12Oh, I'm afraid you're a little late, my friend.
00:11:15Isn't he on duty tonight?
00:11:16Chief Inspector McGlendon retired several years ago.
00:11:20I took his place.
00:11:21I'm Rigby.
00:11:22Can't understand why the Sergeant didn't tell you.
00:11:25Well, I guess you're the man I'm supposed to see anyway.
00:11:27This is Miss Heather McMurray.
00:11:29I'm Philip O'Dell.
00:11:30Oh, is this a social call?
00:11:31I wish it were.
00:11:33You see, her brother was just killed tonight.
00:11:35How?
00:11:36He was run down by a car.
00:11:39Well, that would be a traffic matter.
00:11:41This is CID.
00:11:42Criminal Investigation Department.
00:11:48I know, Inspector, but Miss McMurray's...
00:11:58I'm sorry.
00:11:59I tripped.
00:12:02Inspector, what I wanted to say was that Miss McMurray thinks that somebody ran her brother down deliberately.
00:12:08Oh.
00:12:10Have you got any evidence?
00:12:13No.
00:12:14But you expect to testify to your theory at the inquest?
00:12:17Certainly.
00:12:18Well, that seems to be that.
00:12:19I can assure you that the case will be efficiently handled.
00:12:23If the evidence at the inquest bears out your theory,
00:12:25normal investigative procedure will be instituted immediately.
00:12:28Normal investigative procedure?
00:12:30If I couldn't dig up more evidence in half an hour...
00:12:33Mr. O'Dell,
00:12:34if you're entertaining any notions of playing private eye,
00:12:37don't.
00:12:38If you interfere with the yard in any way,
00:12:40I'll have you jailed for obstructing justice.
00:12:42Okay, stick to normal investigative procedure.
00:12:45And I'll lay you two to one.
00:12:46You can't find out who killed Cockrobin.
00:12:48Come on.
00:12:49And another thing, I don't...
00:12:50Come on.
00:12:54Sergeant, I feel for you.
00:13:04Now, if that had been McClendon,
00:13:06we really were pals.
00:13:08Thanks for trying to help anyway.
00:13:10You know something?
00:13:11I hope the fog doesn't lift
00:13:12for just long enough to show up Rigby.
00:13:14He really got under your skin, didn't he?
00:13:16Yeah.
00:13:17Like the pins in a new shirt.
00:13:20There's nothing more we can do.
00:13:22Well, sure there is.
00:13:23That place your brother called from.
00:13:24Where was it?
00:13:25Peggy.
00:13:26Yeah, Peggy's.
00:13:27Let's try there.
00:13:28Why a nightclub?
00:13:30Well, you could stand a little cheering up.
00:13:32And you never can tell,
00:13:33we might pick up a clue there.
00:13:34You think you can find it?
00:13:35Yes, but I...
00:13:36All right, let's go.
00:13:37Come on.
00:13:55Come on.
00:14:19Now, please, you're making a fool of yourself.
00:14:23Why, a good performance deserves applause, and that was a good performance.
00:14:27Have another drink?
00:14:29No, thanks.
00:14:30Look, you told me we came here to look for clues.
00:14:33That's right.
00:14:34We've sat through this whole show all by ourselves, and you haven't even made a move to...
00:14:38You never know when clues are going to turn up.
00:14:40Haven't you ever seen any private eye movies?
00:14:41Yes, but I've never seen one where the hero just sat around watching floor shows.
00:14:47Well, what do you want me to do?
00:14:48Well, talk to somebody.
00:14:50Ask some questions.
00:14:52How about him?
00:14:54Why not?
00:14:55Oh, wait a minute.
00:14:56You must know everyone who comes in here, don't you?
00:14:59I believe so, sir, but not by name.
00:15:01Doesn't everybody who comes in here have to be a member or find them by member?
00:15:05That's true, madam.
00:15:08Well, do you think with a little persuasion,
00:15:11you might be able to remember whether a man by the name of Danny McMarrow was a member here and
00:15:16his address?
00:15:19More water, sir?
00:15:26Any more bright ideas?
00:15:28That one just cost me five pounds, exactly.
00:15:30Fourteen dollars in American money.
00:15:32Well, whose idea was it to come in here in the first place?
00:15:40That's a proprietress.
00:15:45Excuse me.
00:15:51Hold on.
00:15:52Hold on.
00:16:06Hold on.
00:16:21you may regret asking me to dance I don't think so Peggy you know me no but I figure since
00:16:29the
00:16:29name of the place is Peggy's and you're the boss surprised yes surprised to see you and your wife
00:16:35out in weather like this she's not my wife just a friend Heather McMurray McMurray any relation to
00:16:45Danny McMurray yes his sister do you know him well of course he's one of my best customers he even
00:16:53proposed to me once what's he doing now he just got himself killed oh no
00:17:05yes he was run down by a car we were hoping you could help us help you yes trace his
00:17:12last movements
00:17:12these past few days why what good would that do well uh his sister thinks it was murder and the
00:17:20police
00:17:21there really isn't any evidence I just thought that if she could find out for certain one way or the
00:17:25others she might feel better about it would you like to meet Danny's sister no I'm afraid I must go
00:17:35I'm
00:17:36sorry not to be of more help thanks for the dance goodbye goodbye that's Peggy she owns this place
00:17:55she wasn't very much help though she dances nicely oh would you like to try it no it's much too
00:18:04crowded
00:18:05I'm afraid we'd better go I have to work in the morning incidentally we haven't found any clues
00:18:22keep the change thank you sir oh uh you mind if I keep this as a souvenir of course not
00:18:29sir
00:18:30souvenir
00:18:34looks like I didn't waste my five pounds after all
00:18:48I said I've been detained and a friend of mine is stopping by if he gets there before I do
00:18:56would
00:18:56you give him the key and ask him to wait please thank you very much
00:19:24hello
00:19:27I'm a friend of Mr. McMurray's I'm supposed to meet him
00:19:29you just missed him I did yes he left a message for you
00:19:33he said he'd been delayed and that you ought to wait for him in his room
00:19:37ah that's thoughtful of him it's room 32
00:19:49it's the third floor thank you
00:20:19uh...
00:20:20um
00:20:30THE END
00:20:57THE END
00:21:25Danny, my boy
00:21:27Looks like you're still important to someone
00:21:39The END
00:22:06He had a petty criminal record
00:22:09Who do you suppose did this?
00:22:12Well, if I were given three guesses, I'd only require one
00:22:14A tall, dark American
00:22:21Well, I'll say one thing for Odell
00:22:22He's thorough
00:22:23No, really, Inspector
00:22:24You can't make me believe Odell did this
00:22:26No?
00:22:27Inspector McGlendon has the highest respect for him
00:22:29He'd know better than to break into a place and destroy evidence
00:22:45Oh, no
00:22:50Hi, Riley
00:22:52You win
00:22:54Why'd you do it?
00:22:56You know, I want to get on to one of those radio quiz shows, Riley
00:22:59I'd make a fortune
00:23:00I admit it looks bad, Inspector
00:23:02But I didn't do it
00:23:04Somebody slugged me over their head from behind that curtain
00:23:07Here, feel the bump
00:23:08Are you sure there weren't six of them coming at you with knives and guns?
00:23:12All right, don't believe me then
00:23:14He should have slugged you
00:23:15Your head's too hard to feel it
00:23:17Just a moment, Odell
00:23:18Weren't you catching a plane, leaving the country?
00:23:21Yeah, the plane's still held up
00:23:23Too bad
00:23:30You know, Riley
00:23:32Of all the myths perpetuated by the cinema
00:23:34The most patently inaccurate is the invincibility of the amateur detective
00:23:40Hmm, not bad
00:23:45Tell Mr. McMarray I couldn't wait any longer, will you?
00:23:49No, don't bother, I can reach
00:23:50Oh, thanks
00:23:55Not bad at all
00:24:44Oh, this is me
00:24:45No, it's me
00:24:47No, this is related
00:24:48These are the scenes
00:24:56What happened here?
00:25:00What's wrong?
00:25:02Danny, why did you do it?
00:25:07What about Danny?
00:25:10Danny, you...
00:25:47How do you feel?
00:25:49All right.
00:25:51Sorry to have caused you so much trouble.
00:25:53It's all right.
00:25:54You may make up a little for the way my brother was treating you.
00:25:58How did you first meet Danny?
00:26:01Well, you see, I'm an actress.
00:26:03He saw me act and said I was terrific.
00:26:07He said he was working for Chris Hamden, the film producer.
00:26:10He should get me into pictures.
00:26:13The whole line and I fell for it.
00:26:16Then one day he came to me and said he needed money desperately.
00:26:20I gave him all I had.
00:26:22Do you know why he needed money?
00:26:24He didn't ask.
00:26:26You see, I'm in love with him.
00:26:30Then suddenly he changed towards me.
00:26:33He grew cold.
00:26:36I realized he didn't love me anymore.
00:26:40Maybe he'd never loved me.
00:26:43Then he told me about this other woman.
00:26:46That he was going to marry her.
00:26:49I could have killed him.
00:26:51Did you?
00:26:52No, of course.
00:26:54Why do you ask?
00:26:56It was Danny who died last night.
00:26:59He was run down by a car in the fog.
00:27:01No.
00:27:03No.
00:27:05Didn't you know?
00:27:08I'm sorry.
00:27:10Do you mind if we leave now?
00:27:12I'll come back later if you'd like.
00:27:15Yes, I would.
00:27:19You won't try anything foolish again.
00:27:33Poor girl.
00:27:36I wonder how good an actress Marilyn Durant really is.
00:27:40You think she might be lying?
00:27:42Well, she had a pretty good reason to want him dead.
00:27:45She could have come back here and swallowed the pills just to fake suicide.
00:27:49You know, she came out of it pretty quick.
00:27:52Say, what was the name of this producer, girl?
00:27:54Christopher Hamden.
00:27:56Christopher Hamden.
00:27:58Hamden.
00:27:59I think I'll drop in on him.
00:28:02Maybe I can get in the movies.
00:28:09202, take 14.
00:28:12All right, Mr. Boar.
00:28:14Action.
00:28:15George, I know you have been deceiving me.
00:28:19The signature on this wheel is forged, George.
00:28:23I have been carrying the torch for an incorrigible forger.
00:28:27Admit it, George.
00:28:29This wheel is a forgery, George.
00:28:31George.
00:28:33How many times have I got to tell you that I cannot say these actinine lies?
00:28:37Will you show me one person, one person anywhere who talks like that
00:28:42and I'll buy a new hat for each of the writers' two heads?
00:28:46And you!
00:28:47Why don't you go get a haircut?
00:28:54All right, Ed.
00:28:55That's enough.
00:28:59You know, Donna, sometimes I think we should throw away the good scenes
00:29:02and release your bad ones.
00:29:03We'd make a fortune.
00:29:05Chris, that is not funny!
00:29:13Yes?
00:29:16Christopher Hampton.
00:29:17That's right.
00:29:18My name is Philip O'Dell.
00:29:19I'm a magazine writer.
00:29:21Can I talk to you for a minute?
00:29:22Of course, sit down.
00:29:24I think I've read some of your stuff.
00:29:27Publicities, ain't you ever?
00:29:28No.
00:29:29As a matter of fact, this is a bit awkward.
00:29:31Go ahead.
00:29:32Well, to tell you the truth, I'm checking on someone who used to work for you.
00:29:36Danny McMurray.
00:29:37Well?
00:29:38Well, there was a girl and he promised her a screen test.
00:29:47I might have guessed it when you told me it was Danny.
00:29:51The girls generally came in person.
00:29:54Quite a boy, wasn't it?
00:29:56You know, he's dead.
00:29:58Dead?
00:30:00No, I didn't.
00:30:01I'm sorry.
00:30:03Oh, he was a lot of trouble, but I liked him.
00:30:06I'm sorry to have to fire him.
00:30:08How did it happen?
00:30:09He was run down in the fog.
00:30:12Was it an accident?
00:30:14Could be.
00:30:16You're not from the police, are you?
00:30:17No, no.
00:30:19I'm purely amateur.
00:30:21Where did Danny go after he left you?
00:30:24To a radio company.
00:30:26Trivac Radio.
00:30:27I know because he wrote himself a glowing reference and signed it with my name.
00:30:31Can he help you?
00:30:33No, I'm afraid not.
00:30:35Like to see the rest of the scene?
00:30:37Well, I only take a few minutes.
00:30:38You might get a kick out of it.
00:30:39All right, thanks.
00:30:40The truth is, I don't know a thing about making pictures.
00:30:42I have to look at the day's work there to make them all think I do.
00:30:46Well, how did you get into this business?
00:30:48Just for a hobby.
00:30:49I'm still a mechanic at heart.
00:30:51I took a little flyer, made one picture, and for some reason, don't ask me why, it made money.
00:30:55So here I am.
00:30:57A great producer.
00:31:00All right, here we go.
00:31:02Cigar?
00:31:03No, thank you.
00:31:13Boswell here.
00:31:14Hello, Odell again.
00:31:17Yes, Mr. Odell.
00:31:19Something told me it was you.
00:31:21Yeah, me.
00:31:22Well, what about it? How soon do I leave?
00:31:24Well, perhaps I'd better explain about that.
00:31:28Yes, you'd better head. You know, the weather's clear now.
00:31:31Yes, so it is.
00:31:32But it seems that now they're having a little mechanical difficulty with the plane.
00:31:38What?
00:31:39Yes, sir. I have to replace an engine.
00:31:41Shall we take a few hours?
00:31:42What kind of an airline are you running, anyway?
00:31:44Get me a seat on another plane.
00:31:46That's impossible, sir.
00:31:47The United Nations has all seats reserved.
00:31:49What kind of crisis is on America?
00:31:51Well, there's going to be some sort of a crisis in your life
00:31:53if you don't get me on some sort of a plane out of London today.
00:31:56I promise you.
00:31:57There might be a possibility of some alternate route, sir.
00:32:01Would you consider that?
00:32:02Anything, as long as it's pointing in the right direction and it's got wings.
00:32:05I'll arrange what I can, Mr. Odell.
00:32:08But it may take a bit of doing.
00:32:10I'll do it.
00:32:10I'll phone you back in exactly an hour.
00:32:20So that's that.
00:32:21I'll have to admit defeat.
00:32:23You are my last hope.
00:32:25I'm sorry, I can't help you more.
00:32:27But I told you, I hardly knew Danny McMahon.
00:32:30He was just a customer here.
00:32:31A little more regular than some.
00:32:33And a little more persistent.
00:32:43Well, if I'm still here, do you mind if I drop around once in a while?
00:32:46I'd like you to.
00:32:47Strictly business, of course.
00:32:49Of course.
00:32:51Well, excuse me.
00:32:56Excuse me.
00:33:03What are you doing here?
00:33:04I need hardly ask the same of you.
00:33:07Found any new clues?
00:33:14Now look, I've done the best I could.
00:33:16It's not my fault we only find blind alleys.
00:33:18No, Pam.
00:33:28Look, why don't you give it all up?
00:33:30You'll only drive yourself crazy and you'll accomplish nothing.
00:33:33I can't.
00:33:34Well, I know I'm no detective, but even a professional can't find evidence of murder unless there's been one.
00:33:39You never did believe me, did you?
00:33:42I wonder why you've been helping me.
00:33:49Don't you really know?
00:33:58You'll call me before you leave.
00:34:00I sure will.
00:34:01Goodbye, Bill.
00:34:04Hasta la vista.
00:34:09Let's go.
00:34:35You were lucky that time, Governor.
00:34:37Yeah.
00:34:40That time.
00:35:19Oh, good, sir.
00:35:20I'm so glad we got you in.
00:35:21This is airline reservations.
00:35:23We've done it, sir.
00:35:24We've done it, sir.
00:35:25It couldn't be done, but we did it.
00:35:26Yes, it's the alternative route was the clincher.
00:35:29Now, listen carefully, sir, because it's a bit complicated.
00:35:32You take a helicopter to the Naval Air Base, and there'll be a jet fighter waiting to fly you from
00:35:38there to an aircraft carrier at sea.
00:35:41The carrier makes contact with a blimp for Lisbon, and there you'll catch a fast-flying boat for Malta.
00:35:48Now, this is the trickiest connection because at 4 a.m., they're going to drop the Iron Curtain just long
00:35:54enough for you to fly over it.
00:35:55From Pakistan, you go nonstop to the Solomon Islands, where a converted Japanese bomber makes a once-a-month run
00:36:02to the Galapagos Islands.
00:36:04Well, at the Galapagos Islands, you're only a stone stroke from your revolution.
00:36:08And the plate leaves there at...
00:36:09Well, you'll have to cancel it.
00:36:15Cancel it?
00:36:24Hello?
00:36:26Hello?
00:36:29What's going on down there, Mr. Boswell?
00:36:32Mr. Boswell, did you hear me?
00:36:34I said cancel it.
00:36:39Hello?
00:36:44Would this happen to be one of your recordings?
00:36:46Surely.
00:36:47Yes, this is one of ours.
00:36:49Well, if it isn't too much trouble, could I possibly run it?
00:36:52Certainly.
00:36:53Will you follow me?
00:36:59There you are, sir.
00:37:00Just switch on.
00:37:02When you're through, I'll rewind it for you.
00:37:04All right, thanks very much.
00:37:05Not at all, sir.
00:37:11Thank you, sir.
00:37:15Benhaven.
00:37:16Reference S-5-3.
00:37:18Go ahead, Mr. Sorrowby.
00:37:22What...
00:37:23What shall I say?
00:37:25Tell me what's worrying you.
00:37:27Tell me about the fire.
00:37:29The fire.
00:37:32The...
00:37:32That wasn't my fault.
00:37:34It was Margaret.
00:37:36She made me do it.
00:37:39It was Margaret made me do it.
00:37:42What did Margaret make you do?
00:37:44She didn't say George would be killed.
00:37:48I...
00:37:48I killed George.
00:37:51I burned him.
00:37:53They...
00:37:53They didn't say he'd be killed.
00:37:55They should have told us...
00:37:57It's all right.
00:37:58Quietly now.
00:37:59It's all right.
00:38:02Now...
00:38:03Where was this fire?
00:38:05That's the...
00:38:06At the garage.
00:38:09George's garage at...
00:38:10At...
00:38:11At Glenstone.
00:38:12It...
00:38:13It's all burned up.
00:38:15George's garage is burning.
00:38:17It's burning.
00:38:18It's burning.
00:38:19It's burning!
00:38:20George is burning!
00:38:21Stephen!
00:38:22It's burning!
00:38:22It's burning!
00:38:36At last, we have some real evidence.
00:38:39Wait till you hear this.
00:38:40We'll get a pad and pencil and take it down.
00:38:46Well, here we go.
00:39:10Well, the voice is on it when I played it in the shot.
00:39:13Well, they don't seem to be on it now.
00:39:16Well, it must be the volume.
00:39:19No wonder it doesn't play.
00:39:23That was the end of it. Let's wind it back and play the beginning.
00:39:26You're never going to hear the beginning.
00:39:28Why not?
00:39:29It's gone.
00:39:31It's gone? Where?
00:39:32You have the machine on a race and wipe the recording right off the wire.
00:39:36Well, can't we put it back on?
00:39:39I'm afraid not.
00:39:41Oh, no.
00:39:47Why don't they perfect these things?
00:39:49We can't put the recording back.
00:39:51You can try and remember what they were saying.
00:39:53I'll take it down.
00:39:55Well, all I remember is that there was something about a fire.
00:40:01A fire?
00:40:04And I think they were talking about some place or other.
00:40:10A place?
00:40:12And something about somebody making somebody do something.
00:40:19Something they didn't want to do.
00:40:21How do I put that down?
00:40:22And something about a fire.
00:40:23You said that.
00:40:42I give up.
00:40:45That's all I can remember.
00:40:46A fire and a place.
00:40:49Does it add up to anything?
00:40:50Yes.
00:40:52Exactly nothing.
00:40:57First piece of real evidence we've had.
00:40:59And I louse it up.
00:41:00Maybe Rigby was right about amateur detectives.
00:41:04Maybe you should pack your bag and go home.
00:41:08Bag?
00:41:09Oh, me?
00:41:10Yes.
00:41:10No, no, no.
00:41:11The name of the place it was.
00:41:12Bag?
00:41:13No.
00:41:13Something to do with Bag.
00:41:15Bag.
00:41:16Bag.
00:41:17Gladstone.
00:41:17That's the name of the place.
00:41:19Gladstone, of course.
00:41:20Where is it?
00:41:21It's about 40 miles from here.
00:41:22Take my car.
00:41:23Where's my car?
00:41:35There weren't no other way.
00:41:36Do you really want a local fire to write about?
00:41:40Yeah.
00:41:41This one happened some years back.
00:41:42Biggest fire we ever had.
00:41:47There it is.
00:41:48Reliance Garage, 1939.
00:41:51There was a fire.
00:41:53I used three hoses on that.
00:41:54And had the new model 12 nozzle on mine.
00:41:57Crew of 15 helping me.
00:42:02I call it my big birther.
00:42:04Every minute...
00:42:05Did you save the building?
00:42:07Burnt to the ground.
00:42:09I got a medal for it though.
00:42:10That news clipping on the wall there tells all about it.
00:42:16How did you get the medal?
00:42:18For saving some of their plans and drawings.
00:42:20I tried to save George too.
00:42:22Only it was all finished for the time I got.
00:42:24Did you say George?
00:42:26Yes.
00:42:27One of the three young fellows that ran the garage.
00:42:29George Maybrick.
00:42:30He got killed in the fire.
00:42:32Who were the other two?
00:42:33Martin Sorobey and Christopher Hamden.
00:42:35The left here right after with Mrs. Maybrick.
00:42:38Who was she?
00:42:40George Maybrick's wife, Margaret.
00:42:42Pretty young thing she was.
00:42:43Did you read about my medal?
00:42:45What happened to Margaret and the two men?
00:42:48Margaret disappeared.
00:42:49Nobody's heard from her since.
00:42:51Sorobey and Christopher Hamden.
00:42:52Well, they went up to London.
00:42:54Set up in the motor trade.
00:42:55Did well too.
00:42:56Is he still in the motor trade?
00:42:58No.
00:42:59I did hear that they'd sold out.
00:43:01Ha!
00:43:01Gone into theatricals of some such nonsense.
00:43:05Funny you wanting to know about that fire.
00:43:08Why?
00:43:09Well, there was another young fellow.
00:43:11He was a writer too.
00:43:12Asking exactly the same questions as you are.
00:43:15A little while back.
00:43:17Was his name Danny McMurray?
00:43:32What do you think of the rails, Will Chris?
00:43:33All right with you.
00:43:34Looks all right to me, John, but...
00:43:36Well, the devil, I don't know a thing about making a picture.
00:43:39You know that.
00:43:39All right.
00:43:40When we finish lighting, we'll shoot it that way, huh?
00:43:42Oh, John.
00:43:43Yeah?
00:43:44These young ladies are actresses.
00:43:46Think you can find parts for them in the picture?
00:43:48All right.
00:43:49Think about a gourd-driven make-up.
00:43:50We'll figure out.
00:43:51Right over there.
00:43:58Well, Mr. O'Dell, want to see how we make movies?
00:44:02Well, what can we do for you?
00:44:03Always cooperate with the press.
00:44:05No rule of mine.
00:44:06Mr. Hampton, I'd like to ask you a question.
00:44:10You probably won't like it.
00:44:11Go ahead.
00:44:12Shoot.
00:44:13Was Danny McMurray blackmailing you?
00:44:18You're not serious.
00:44:21Now, what ever gave you such a wild notion as that?
00:44:23Maybe not so wild.
00:44:25It explains a lot of things, things that don't make sense otherwise.
00:44:28You see, I've just come back from Gladstone.
00:44:31And?
00:44:32I found out about the fire and George.
00:44:35Public knowledge.
00:44:36Nothing there to...
00:44:37I also learned that Danny McMurray had been there, checking on the fire.
00:44:41Now, a man like Danny doesn't follow fire engines, you know.
00:44:44There's just one thing wrong with that picture.
00:44:46To blackmail me, Danny would need evidence.
00:44:49And he didn't have any.
00:44:51Did he?
00:44:53I don't know.
00:44:55What about Margaret and Martin Sorrowby?
00:44:57Margaret, I haven't heard from her in years.
00:45:00I suppose they told you about poor Martin.
00:45:02During the war, we were bombed out.
00:45:04He cracked up.
00:45:06We took him to Glenhaven.
00:45:07What's that?
00:45:09Mental hub.
00:45:11You think I could talk to him?
00:45:12That's impossible.
00:45:14You see, Martin died two years ago.
00:45:20Well, thanks very much.
00:45:23Come back any time.
00:45:25It must be frustrating playing detective.
00:45:27It is.
00:45:30Connors.
00:46:07Is that Glenhaven?
00:46:09I want to talk to Dr. Campbell. Is she in?
00:46:10No.
00:46:29For me.
00:46:34Come back an hour.
00:46:37Then she can take a hurry.
00:46:40Is that like a more peaceful?
00:46:56I, I never seemed to belong, you know, everybody else had lots of friends, but I was always
00:47:03to learn. Oh, can I help you? Well, I hope so. You see, I'm a writer, and I'm doing a
00:47:11piece for an American
00:47:12engineering magazine about famous engineers. Yes. Well, we heard that Martin Sotheby was brought
00:47:17here after he, as we put it, went off his rocker. That's true. Well, could you tell me something
00:47:22about his death? Was it natural? His death? I'm afraid you made a mistake. Mr. Sotheby was... Mr. Sotheby's
00:47:28been dead for two years. Well, the young lady just told me that... I've been in charge of Glenhaven
00:47:36since it was opened, several years ago. Miss Andrews has been with us for six weeks. I know
00:47:43what I'm talking about. Mr. Sotheby's dead. Well, didn't you just say... I say he's dead.
00:47:54Well, I guess he's dead.
00:48:01Well, I guess, and he's dead. Well, I guess I was told.
00:48:17I've been on his death while he was dead. I can't live my life.
00:48:17The whole thing... I think, though, is that he's dead. I can't live my life.
00:48:17I thought he'd live my life. He's dead. He's dead. I knew he'd live my life.
00:48:28Oh, my God.
00:49:22Oh, nurse, I'm Dr. Jones from St. Thomas's, uh, have they moved, uh, Mr. Soroby yet?
00:49:28Moved? Why, no, he's still in 311.
00:49:32Oh, thank you.
00:50:11Yes?
00:50:17Martin Soroby, what can I do for you?
00:50:21I'm, uh, not disturbing you.
00:50:23Oh, no, no, not at all.
00:50:24No, no, no, I have plenty of time to finish this.
00:50:27It's a device for the future anyway.
00:50:29Car radar.
00:50:31Mr. Soroby, I'm checking into the death of George Maybrick.
00:50:35Ah, yes.
00:50:37Poor George.
00:50:39Uh, interesting detail, that, I think.
00:50:42Uh, there was something funny about it, wasn't there?
00:50:45Something funny?
00:50:46No, I don't think so.
00:50:49We murdered him.
00:50:53Uh, observe how the car headlights here serve as antennae for the radar transmitter.
00:50:59You murdered him?
00:51:01Who did?
00:51:02Chris and Margaret and I.
00:51:05Margaret made us do it.
00:51:09It, Margaret made you do it, but why?
00:51:13Oh, well, you see, George, her husband, invented a wonderful new supercharged carburettor.
00:51:19It was going to make us all rich.
00:51:21Margaret always wanted that, you know, to be rich.
00:51:24Well, was she going to steal it from her husband, or what?
00:51:27Oh, no, no, you see, uh, George was very patriotic.
00:51:31The war had just begun, and, uh, he wanted to give the carburettor to the government, you see.
00:51:36Uh, that drove Margaret wild.
00:51:39Oh, uh, this is a new, uh, television tube I'm working on.
00:51:42Do you like it?
00:51:43Well, uh, then she persuaded you to help her kill him, and then set the fire to make it look
00:51:48accidental.
00:51:49Well, uh, I didn't know that she meant to kill George that night, you see.
00:51:53She said that we were only to scare him, but...
00:51:55Yes, but the fire chief in Gladstone said that you all left town.
00:51:58Yes, well, uh, Chris and I started in business to manufacture the carburettor.
00:52:03Uh, we, we gave Margaret her share.
00:52:06Then, the Nazi bomb hit us, wiped us out.
00:52:30Look, Mr. Sowerby, I know they're holding you here.
00:52:33If I can bring Inspector Rigby of Scarpin Yard, he can get you out, and...
00:52:36Get me out?
00:52:37Whatever for?
00:52:40Because you don't belong here.
00:52:41You're no more insane.
00:52:43Of course I belong here.
00:52:44I'm hopelessly insane.
00:52:49Are you serious?
00:52:51Of course.
00:52:52You see, uh, my condition is peculiar.
00:52:55Uh, I, I can no longer distinguish between fantasy and fact.
00:53:00But, that drawing, perhaps it means something, or probably it doesn't.
00:53:08Let's try upstairs.
00:53:12Yes, you see, the, the things I've told you, perhaps they're true.
00:53:17I don't know.
00:53:18But, the way my mind is, you see, it, it, it, it's impossible to be certain.
00:53:23But, it's impossible.
00:53:24Most sane people feel the same way.
00:53:26I don't know the conditions, but that's all.
00:53:30I see.
00:53:32I see.
00:53:33I see.
00:53:35I see.
00:53:36I see.
00:53:38I see.
00:53:39I see.
00:53:41I see.
00:53:42I see.
00:53:46I see.
00:53:52I see.
00:54:19It's me again, remember?
00:54:20Certainly, sir.
00:54:24Hey, just a minute, sir.
00:54:25Sorry, I gotta go.
00:54:38Yes, it was, Odell, positively.
00:54:40Andy talked to Soromy.
00:54:42What?
00:54:43We can't do that.
00:54:47But if you had told me about McMurray,
00:54:48I could have handled him without murder.
00:54:50Now we're in too deep.
00:54:52What?
00:54:56All right, you win.
00:54:59Yes, I told you I'd do it.
00:55:02All right, Margaret, goodbye.
00:55:05Conor.
00:55:08Here's what I want you to do.
00:55:09And you know quite well you're absolutely forbidden to have visitors.
00:55:13And so as a punishment, I'm having you transferred to room 10, where you won't be able to play with
00:55:19all this nonsense.
00:55:20Get your things together.
00:55:23Now this is the way I see it.
00:55:25Hampton, Soroby and the girl murder Maybrook for his invention.
00:55:28And then set fire to the place.
00:55:30Make it look like an accident.
00:55:31And 13 years later, a kid by the name of McMurray finds out about it and blackmails Hampton.
00:55:36Hampton gets tired of paying off and has the kid run down.
00:55:39Killed.
00:55:40It's simple.
00:55:42Not so simple.
00:55:43Why not?
00:55:44It's perfect.
00:55:45Too perfect.
00:55:46Sort of thing only you could dream up.
00:55:47This is no dream.
00:55:48This is the real McCoy.
00:55:50All you have to do is take a ride with me and hear it from a witness even you can't
00:55:53laugh off.
00:55:54Who?
00:55:54Who?
00:55:55Hampton's partner, Martin Soroby.
00:55:58What do you think, Riley?
00:56:00I think take a chance, sir.
00:56:02All right.
00:56:04But I warn you, Odell.
00:56:06If this was a wild goose chase.
00:56:07Come on.
00:56:51If you were friends, I'd be at the gate if you could try to drive, don't be afraid of the
00:56:52Look like an accident.
00:56:57Excuse me.
00:56:58I'm Inspector Rigby from Scotland Yard.
00:57:00What's happened here?
00:57:01This poor chap was run down by a car.
00:57:03Didn't even know.
00:57:03Oh, who is he?
00:57:04I don't know.
00:57:09What's the matter?
00:57:12Martin Sowerby.
00:57:14The man we were going to question.
00:57:16Maybe you have got something, Odell.
00:57:19I wonder how they worked this.
00:57:21Anybody see the accident?
00:57:22Any witnesses?
00:57:24Oh, you saw it, madam.
00:57:26Would you mind answering a few questions?
00:57:27Not at all, young man.
00:57:28Anything to help the police.
00:57:30What did you see?
00:57:31Well, Mr. Sowerby was walking down the road
00:57:34when a big gray car came roaring around the curb
00:57:37on two wheels and...
00:57:39Anything else?
00:57:40Well, there was a bit foreign-looking man driving.
00:57:44He could have been an enemy agent.
00:57:47Could you estimate how fast the car was traveling?
00:57:50Oh, yes, at least 200.
00:57:54What's your name, madam?
00:57:56Why, Mary.
00:57:58Mary Stewart.
00:58:02I've heard that name.
00:58:03I should hope so, young man.
00:58:06I'm the Queen of Scots.
00:58:08All right, Mary.
00:58:09Time to hold court.
00:58:10Your subjects are waiting.
00:58:11Poor Mr. Sowerby.
00:58:13He had the room just next to mine.
00:58:16I shall never get another Prime Minister like him.
00:58:19What is this place?
00:58:20This is Glen Haven, the mental home.
00:58:29All right, Odell.
00:58:31Let's go over this so-called case you've given us, shall we?
00:58:35First, a man is run down by a car in a fog and killed.
00:58:39No witnesses.
00:58:42A girl thinks that might be murder.
00:58:45You claim you were hit over the head in the victim's room.
00:58:48I was hit on the head.
00:58:50No witnesses.
00:58:52You find a roll of wire from a recorder with nothing on it.
00:58:55There was something on it.
00:58:57No witnesses.
00:58:59You find a man died in a fire 13 years ago,
00:59:03and a lunatic tells you that was murder.
00:59:05Then the lunatic escapes and gets himself killed.
00:59:08All right, so he couldn't talk.
00:59:10That's obvious.
00:59:12And on the strength of all that conclusive evidence,
00:59:15you want me to arrest one of the biggest men in London.
00:59:20You know, there's an expression you Americans use for a situation like this.
00:59:23Very appropriate.
00:59:25It stinks.
00:59:29Well, I guess that's that.
00:59:31I'll be gone.
00:59:34That is, if I'm still free to go.
00:59:36No, you're free to go, all right.
00:59:37As a matter of fact, I understand you've been having a little trouble with a plane reservation.
00:59:41Yeah.
00:59:42Well, your troubles are over.
00:59:44I'm sure I can get you on a plane and out of the country as quickly as you can pack
00:59:48your things.
00:59:51Thanks.
00:59:55And next time you pass a butcher shop, buy Laughing Boy a heart, will you?
01:00:03And yet I'm so sure your brother was blackmailing Hampton.
01:00:06And that Hampton's a murderer.
01:00:08Do you realize the position that puts you in?
01:00:11What do you mean?
01:00:12The police can't help you.
01:00:14You've got no evidence.
01:00:15But Hampton thinks you have.
01:00:17He thinks you've got blackmail evidence Danny used.
01:00:20The recording.
01:00:21They know I talked to Sowerby.
01:00:22That's why he was killed.
01:00:23Don't you see?
01:00:24As long as you remain in England, you're in danger.
01:00:26If you go home, Hampton will think he's safe.
01:00:30Promise me you'll go.
01:00:31I promise.
01:00:33After I've done one more thing.
01:00:34Yes.
01:00:36There's a place I want to see.
01:00:38Probably won't lead anywhere.
01:00:40You'll be careful.
01:00:44You know, there's one thing about all this that I don't regret.
01:00:46What's that?
01:00:48Meeting you.
01:00:53Meeting you.
01:00:54Meeting you.
01:00:55Ali opened the door.
01:04:39Hello, Margaret.
01:09:10Thank you very much.
01:10:02Margaret, why did you risk coming here?
01:10:09Just a minute, dear.
01:10:13You look tired.
01:10:14Why don't you come and sit down?
01:10:26I repeat, why come here?
01:10:28And why her?
01:10:30Why shouldn't a wife visit her husband's office?
01:10:33A wife?
01:10:34A wife?
01:10:34Why don't you come here?
01:10:34Why don't you come here?
01:10:35Surprised, honey?
01:10:36Didn't your friend blunder on that bit of information?
01:10:40That's why I couldn't let your brother blackmail me into marrying him.
01:10:44Why tell her that?
01:10:45What difference will it make?
01:10:48But without Odell?
01:10:50Odell's sure to follow her.
01:10:51He'll be here.
01:10:54Now, we've wasted enough time.
01:10:56What was the blackmail evidence that Danny had?
01:10:59There isn't any.
01:11:00No.
01:11:01Then I suggest you do some quick thinking.
01:11:03Margaret, don't do anything foolish.
01:11:05Come on.
01:11:30Where's Heather?
01:11:34In here, Inspector.
01:12:02In here, Inspector.
01:12:14Get to that door switch or we'll lock them in.
01:12:22Get to that door switch or we'll lock them in.
01:12:47Oh, my God.
01:13:03Oh, my God.
01:13:33Oh, my God.
01:14:10Oh, my God.
01:14:29Oh, my God.
01:14:33Oh, my God.
01:14:53Oh, my God.
01:15:21Oh, my God.
01:15:36Oh, my God.
01:16:05Oh, my God.
01:16:11Oh, my God.
01:16:19Oh, my God.
01:16:27Oh, my God.
01:16:41Oh, my God.
01:16:42Oh, my God.
01:16:54Oh, my God.
01:16:58Oh, my God.
01:16:59Oh, my God.
01:17:00Oh, my God.
01:17:00Oh, my God.
01:17:00Oh, my God.
01:17:33Oh, my God.
01:17:48Oh, my God.
01:17:56Oh, my God.
01:18:19Oh, my God.
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