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Eight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.
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00:00:05The End
00:00:47I'm sorry, sir, but you can't send any swear words in a telegram.
00:00:51Eleven-pound boy arrived. Mother and child doing okay. Who said America was through?
00:00:57I'll repeat. A paid telegram to Dr. Murray Reed, 219 Temple Avenue City. Congratulations. Stop. Plans afoot for a small
00:01:08party in your honor. Manville Penthouse next Saturday, 10 p.m. Stop. Maintain secrecy. Stop.
00:01:15Promise you most original party ever slated. Signed, your host. Yes, sir. I'll send that to the eight addresses you
00:01:22gave me. Please deposit $3.36 in the coin box.
00:01:27Thank you. Gee, that guy's got a spooky voice. Maybe he's an undertaker. No, he's throwing a party.
00:01:33A party.
00:01:35A party.
00:01:57A party.
00:02:14No answer.
00:02:20Hello?
00:02:22Oh, hello, Mr. Osgood.
00:02:25Why, no, of course I'm not too busy.
00:02:27I see you've gotten rid of young Abbott, doctor.
00:02:29Thanks for acting so promptly.
00:02:31Well, you may rest assured that I will never retain anyone on the faculty who is distasteful to you, Mr.
00:02:36Osgood.
00:02:38Yeah.
00:02:39But he claims it wasn't radicalism.
00:02:42He says it was just constructive patriotism to train the next generation to take care of crooks like you, Mr.
00:02:50Osgood,
00:02:50who cheat the investing public.
00:02:54Yes.
00:02:56Oh, by the way, the papers tonight will carry the story of your latest gift to us.
00:03:03Oh, that wasn't necessary, doctor.
00:03:05You know how I dislike publicity.
00:03:08Perhaps my example will encourage others.
00:03:10It's all right, doctor.
00:03:12Keep up the good work.
00:03:15Get the afternoon papers.
00:03:16Clip all references to my gift to Rayburn University.
00:03:19Yes, sir.
00:03:20There's a Mr. Henry Abbott waiting to see you.
00:03:26Abbott?
00:03:28Probably wants me to have him reinstated in the university.
00:03:31Let him wait.
00:03:32Yes, sir.
00:03:34Now, get campaign headquarters.
00:03:36I want to talk to Burke.
00:03:37Yes, sir.
00:03:43Mr. Abbott?
00:03:45Yes.
00:03:45Uh, Mr. Osgood says for you to wait.
00:03:52Oh, uh, good afternoon, Mr. Burke.
00:03:56Hello, Burke.
00:03:57What's up?
00:04:10Is this true?
00:04:11Thirty years ago, when I was a boy.
00:04:13When did you tell me?
00:04:14You know what you've done?
00:04:15You've handed the mayor's chair to Tim Cronin's man on a platter.
00:04:18For thirty years, I've been straight.
00:04:19There hasn't been a whisper.
00:04:20How did I find out?
00:04:21That woman lawyer of Cronin's.
00:04:23Sylvia Inglesby.
00:04:24Yes, she traced me back every step of the way.
00:04:26My whole career ruined.
00:04:27My whole career?
00:04:28What about mine?
00:04:29We've held you up as a stainless character.
00:04:31And you come sniveling in here the day before election and tell me that you're a jailbird.
00:04:34You've let Tim Cronin make me the laughingstock of the whole city.
00:04:36Get up!
00:04:37But I...
00:04:38Get up!
00:04:39Get me Tim Cronin's office.
00:04:41Yes, uh, Mr. Abbott is still waiting, sir.
00:04:44Tell him that Dr. Reed's decision is final.
00:04:46Yes, sir.
00:04:56Mr. Abbott.
00:04:58Yes.
00:04:59Mr. Osgood says to tell you that Dr. Reed's decision was final.
00:05:08Ask him if he needs a new candidate for mayor.
00:05:30Mr. Jason Osgood would like to speak to Mr. Timothy Cronin.
00:05:34What do you say?
00:05:35Mr. Cronin is in conference with his attorney, Miss Sylvia Inglesby.
00:05:42Yeah, why didn't you tell him that?
00:05:43Osgood would have got a kick out of it.
00:05:45It's going to be hard on Burke.
00:05:48It was the only way we could get at Osgood.
00:05:50We had to smash that good government league of his.
00:05:53And don't you waste any sympathy on Burke.
00:05:56He shouldn't have gotten our way.
00:05:57It must be nice to have everything your own way.
00:05:59You ought to know.
00:06:03Goodbye.
00:06:32Two lumps, June.
00:06:34You know, Margaret, your party last night settled a problem for me.
00:06:38Really? What was it?
00:06:40About the Cronin girl.
00:06:42She's been everywhere, you know.
00:06:44But I couldn't quite make up my mind about her.
00:06:47Of course, when you left her out, that decided me.
00:06:51Well, I've no doubt she's a very nice girl.
00:06:53But after all, she is the daughter of a corrupt politician.
00:06:57And one must draw the line somewhere.
00:07:00It's a telegram, madam.
00:07:01Oh, thank you.
00:07:20Another telegram, Miss Jean.
00:07:22Well, this certainly is our busy day.
00:07:24In the gospel train, I'm coming.
00:07:27I hear it just as hell.
00:07:30I hear the car wheels moving.
00:07:32And rumbling through the glass.
00:07:34I hear the car pulls light.
00:07:35I hear the car.
00:07:49I can't wait till I'm with you.
00:07:54I hear the car.
00:08:00I hear the car pull.
00:08:01I hear the car pull.
00:08:03I hear the car pull.
00:08:04Good news, Mr. Abbott?
00:08:06Oh, no. Invitation to a party.
00:08:37You and I are old friends, Margaret.
00:08:39Own up now. It was you who sent that telegram.
00:08:42Until I entered this room five minutes ago
00:08:44and found you here,
00:08:45I hadn't the slightest idea whom I was to meet
00:08:47or who was giving the party.
00:08:49But seeing you here,
00:08:50I had my suspicions.
00:08:52And I'm hardly in the mood for any celebration,
00:08:54especially after what happened at the polls yesterday.
00:08:57The whole town's laughing at me.
00:08:58I've never been so humiliated in my life.
00:09:00When I think of what Tim Cronin did to me, I...
00:09:01All right, Jason. It wasn't you.
00:09:03So we'll go back to Dr. Reed.
00:09:05Well, I know nothing whatever about it.
00:09:07At least, nothing more than is contained
00:09:09in this telegram.
00:09:10Well, I think it's all a silly joke.
00:09:12Well, it was clever enough to bring us here.
00:09:14It was clever at that.
00:09:16Seems to me, Margaret, that somebody's trying to challenge your position
00:09:19as giving the city's most humorous parties.
00:09:21Well, tonight I'm quite content to be a guest.
00:09:23And when our host appears,
00:09:25I'm going to ask him to show me his house.
00:09:27But this light seat is marvelous.
00:09:29I don't like it. I don't like it a bit.
00:09:44I don't like it.
00:09:57The place is too perfect.
00:09:59Nothing has ever been used.
00:10:00You mark my words.
00:10:02Something is going to happen.
00:10:03Well, you've heard the instructions.
00:10:05Everything is to be timed to the second.
00:10:07I don't .
00:10:47Don't think I'm through.
00:10:49Just now Tim Cronin's in control.
00:10:51But Cronin's a crook and crooks are always greedy.
00:10:53He made mistakes without having.
00:10:55Cronin's a dangerous man, Mr. Osgood.
00:10:57I've heard some terrible stories about him.
00:10:59Anything you've read about Cronin, you can modify by two.
00:11:01The man's overly unscrupulous.
00:11:03What name should I say, sir?
00:11:05Somebody's got a sense of humor.
00:11:11How are you, Osgood?
00:11:13I'm well, thank you.
00:11:16Hello, doctor.
00:11:17I met you once somewhere.
00:11:19Speakeasy, wasn't it?
00:11:20I've never been in such a place in my life.
00:11:22All right, doc.
00:11:23My mistake made it was in church.
00:11:25You all know Sylvia?
00:11:31This, I believe, is Mrs. Chisholm.
00:11:33I've heard my daughter speak of you quite recently, in fact.
00:11:37She's a very charming girl.
00:11:39Yeah.
00:11:40I'll tell her you said so.
00:11:48How are you?
00:11:49Fine, and you?
00:11:50Splendid, thank you.
00:11:51Glad to hear it.
00:11:52Interesting place, sir.
00:11:54No hard feelings, I hope I could.
00:11:55My man won and you is lost.
00:11:57I guess that's all there is to it.
00:11:59I don't think there's anything to be gained by discussing the matter.
00:12:02Okay.
00:12:03I sure love a good loser.
00:12:07Slow place, eh?
00:12:08I haven't had any idea to look like this.
00:12:11Why not own up, Sylvia?
00:12:12You're the one who sent those telegrams.
00:12:14You're wrong, my dear.
00:12:16I got one myself.
00:12:17Shall I read it to you?
00:12:19That's hardly necessary.
00:12:20We all got them.
00:12:26The grandest city in the world.
00:12:29Say, Osborne, do you have any idea how I feel about that tonight?
00:12:37Maybe you can guess.
00:12:39I think we'd better go.
00:12:41Oh, doctor.
00:12:42Doctor.
00:12:43Yes?
00:12:44We're leaving.
00:12:47We're leaving.
00:12:48It's very popular here.
00:12:49What do you want to go for?
00:12:51Why, you only just come.
00:12:53Somebody planned a swell party and now you want to run out on it.
00:12:56Everybody makes hoopie on Saturday night.
00:12:59We've got that much in common anyhow.
00:13:01Good night.
00:13:13Hello, folks.
00:13:15Well, this is a surprise.
00:13:17Why don't they build elevators all the way up to penthouses?
00:13:20Good evening, Miss Chisholm.
00:13:21Good evening.
00:13:21Mr. Osgood.
00:13:22How are you?
00:13:23Doctor?
00:13:24How do you do?
00:13:27Well, Sylvia.
00:13:30And Cronin.
00:13:32I think this is swell of you, Tim.
00:13:34I suppose it's your way of celebrating.
00:13:36Considerate of you to invite Osgood.
00:13:38And very nice of him to accept.
00:13:41I've changed my mind.
00:13:42I'm remaining.
00:13:43What about you, Margaret?
00:13:44As you wish.
00:13:45You're not thinking this is my party, are you?
00:13:48Well, yes, isn't it?
00:13:49That's the trouble with you authors.
00:13:51You've got too much imagination.
00:13:57Name, please.
00:13:58Hello, everybody.
00:14:02Friends and enemies.
00:14:08Oh, this is rich.
00:14:10How are you, Margaret?
00:14:11Hello.
00:14:12Which one do I thank?
00:14:14Hello, Osgood.
00:14:16My doctor, is this a pleasure or is it a pleasure?
00:14:19Hello, Sylvia.
00:14:20Is this your idea of a joke, Mr. Abbott?
00:14:22What, meeting you?
00:14:23You should take yourself more seriously, doctor.
00:14:26Hello, Jim.
00:14:26I'm asking if you invited me here as a perverted joke on myself.
00:14:30If so, I will...
00:14:31I?
00:14:31Why, doctor, have you forgotten?
00:14:33I'm one of the unemployed.
00:14:35Oh, allow me, Mr. Cronin, Mr. Abbott.
00:14:38Isn't this your party?
00:14:39I wish I could plead guilty, but I don't run to this sort of thing.
00:14:42My guess is as good as anyone's.
00:14:44I picked Jean Trent.
00:14:44Oh, that's impossible.
00:14:46She wouldn't have asked me.
00:14:47Oh, don't be silly, Jim.
00:14:49Jean's too good a sport to hold grudges.
00:14:51Well, who else could it be?
00:14:52The whole thing's got Hollywood stamped all over it.
00:14:55Why, those people can't even pay the gas bills without a lot of drama.
00:15:04Miss Jean Trent.
00:15:07Hello, Jean.
00:15:08Hello, Henry.
00:15:10There she is.
00:15:11When did I tell you?
00:15:13Thrilled.
00:15:18Now, then, everyone.
00:15:21Make your prettiest bows and say thank you.
00:15:24Jean, is this your party?
00:15:26My dear, your roof garden is charming.
00:15:28Wait a minute.
00:15:29Wait a minute.
00:15:30I don't understand.
00:15:31Come along now, Jean.
00:15:32You've had your fun.
00:15:33Oh, no.
00:15:33Well, don't be silly, Henry.
00:15:36This is your party, isn't it, Margaret?
00:15:38No.
00:15:39Jean, I'm clairvoyant.
00:15:40I can read your thoughts like an open book.
00:15:43Now, look in the eye.
00:15:44You received a telegram asking you to come to this party and signed your host, didn't you?
00:15:50Yes, I did.
00:15:51I knew it.
00:15:52So did I.
00:15:52So did all of us.
00:15:53But the peculiar thing about this shindig is there isn't any host.
00:16:13What name did you say, sir?
00:16:25Mr. William Jones.
00:16:32Did you send?
00:16:33Are you our host?
00:16:36Me?
00:16:37Oh, no.
00:16:39Excuse me, sir.
00:16:40I'm the assistant butler.
00:16:41What?
00:16:43Well, you see, I ain't got no fish and soup.
00:16:46And I got to wait for my brother to come home.
00:16:48He works in a speak up on 50th Street.
00:16:50And that, and that, that's why I'm so late.
00:16:53Go into the kitchen.
00:16:55Yes, sir.
00:17:00I regret, sir.
00:17:01I apologize, sir.
00:17:02All right, all right, all right.
00:17:04What's your name?
00:17:06Hawkins, sir.
00:17:08It would be.
00:17:11Hawkins, we'd like to know something.
00:17:12Who's giving this party?
00:17:13That I cannot tell you, madam.
00:17:15You mean it's a secret?
00:17:16I mean I do not know, sir.
00:17:17I was engaged this afternoon by telephone through the Castilden Agency.
00:17:21Typewritten instructions were mailed to me, sir.
00:17:23I was to come here tonight and find everything in readiness for me.
00:17:26How'd you get in?
00:17:27The key also was mailed to me, sir.
00:17:29Your host has planned a very interesting evening, if I may say so, sir.
00:17:33Well, Hawkins, you seem to be as much in the dark as the rest of us.
00:17:35Maybe we'd understand it better if we had a little, uh, glass of something.
00:17:39I'll bring the cocktails immediately, sir.
00:17:41If you will pardon me.
00:17:42Aye.
00:17:56Don't turn that thing on, Hawkins.
00:17:57It makes such a beastly noise.
00:17:58If you don't mind, sir.
00:18:00Oh, but I do mind.
00:18:01I'm sorry, sir, but my instructions were to turn the radio on at this particular time.
00:18:10Patience is such a sweet virtue.
00:18:12What do you think, doctor?
00:18:20I don't want to spoil your evening.
00:18:23You can't hurt me anymore, Jim.
00:18:25No matter what you do.
00:18:27When we were children, if you were angry with me, I thought the world was coming to an end.
00:18:33Now it doesn't matter in the least.
00:18:38We're not much for anybody to select for a party.
00:18:41Here's Dr. Reed.
00:18:42He thought so much of our society, he had me dismissed from the university.
00:18:45But he's bearing up very bravely.
00:18:49We'll all be the best friends after we've had a few drinks, won't we, Osgood?
00:18:53No.
00:18:54Oh, now, gentlemen, let's not begin calling each other names on Saturday night.
00:18:57There's only one name for you.
00:18:59And Miss Sylvia Inglesby.
00:19:00That's enough.
00:19:01Leave Miss Inglesby out of it.
00:19:02It's all right, Tim.
00:19:03Mr. Osgood's not a very good loser.
00:19:05It ain't all right.
00:19:06That mealy-mouthed hypocrite can't insult you and get away with it.
00:19:09Anymore than that citizen woman's going to get away with what she did to my daughter.
00:19:12That's enough, Conan.
00:19:13You've said enough.
00:19:14Please, Tim, please.
00:19:16Why pretend to be comfortable in a society of people we can't tolerate?
00:19:19Meaning me, of course.
00:19:28Please.
00:19:49Please.
00:19:50Please.
00:19:50Please.
00:19:52Please.
00:19:53This is becoming ridiculous.
00:19:55The kitchen.
00:20:00Go into the kitchen.
00:20:11Jason, will you take me home?
00:20:12Certainly.
00:20:16I'm going too.
00:20:18Are you coming, Doctor?
00:20:20Wait! Don't anyone leave.
00:20:23This is station WITS, W-I-T-S, broadcasting.
00:20:27I trust you have enjoyed the first part of the evening's entertainment.
00:20:31You are now listening to the voice of your host.
00:20:35Ladies and gentlemen, you are promised the most original party ever given in this city.
00:20:40Tonight, my friends, we are to play an amusing game
00:20:43in which each of you will have ample opportunity to use your brain.
00:20:49This may be fun after all.
00:20:51Now we'll clear up this mystery.
00:20:52He's very clever, whoever he is.
00:20:55It doesn't sound like any voice I've ever heard.
00:20:58But where can he be?
00:21:00Probably sitting in another room with one of those trick microphones hooked up to this thing.
00:21:04I warn you, however, the stakes will be high
00:21:07for tonight you are commanded to play an absorbing game,
00:21:11a game of death.
00:21:15You have been chosen with care,
00:21:18for only men and women of your exceptional intellectual ability
00:21:22will be worthy opponents.
00:21:24Until dawn, we will play a game of wits,
00:21:28yours against mine.
00:21:30Do you think you can frighten us with this kind of nonsense?
00:21:33Jason, I am frightened.
00:21:37Someone's having a joke.
00:21:38I warn you, it is not a joke.
00:21:41This is the voice of one you know well.
00:21:45One who has planned revenge because of deadly wrong.
00:21:49Give attention to the rules and try to win.
00:21:53He hears us.
00:21:56You will notice the telephone connections have been cut.
00:22:05This is ridiculous.
00:22:07To touch the radio means death.
00:22:09It's charged with enough electricity to kill you instantly.
00:22:13Well, I'm getting out of here.
00:22:14Come on, Kim.
00:22:16There is no escape.
00:22:17The gates by which you entered the garden
00:22:20are also charged with electricity.
00:22:22I want to get out of here.
00:22:23Margaret.
00:22:24Don't let this thing get the best out of you.
00:22:26Some ghastly brand of foolishness.
00:22:29But Jason, I...
00:22:30Just a minute.
00:22:31This may be only a joke,
00:22:32but I've had the feeling for the last few moments
00:22:34that someone in this room,
00:22:36one of us,
00:22:38may be behind it.
00:22:39You're crazy.
00:22:41There are people here I wouldn't be found dead with.
00:22:44But I don't think they're capable of this.
00:22:46Thanks.
00:22:48Every one of you has some secret
00:22:50which you hide from the world.
00:22:52Through these weaknesses,
00:22:54I will attack you.
00:22:56If one of my guests lacks the courage
00:22:58to play the game with me,
00:23:00I have provided a simple means of escape.
00:23:03If you will look on the shelf above the fireplace,
00:23:06you will find a small bottle.
00:23:26If one of you is doing this,
00:23:28won't you stop it, please?
00:23:30My friends,
00:23:31before the clock strikes eleven,
00:23:34one of you will be dead.
00:23:36The one who least deserves to live.
00:23:39This is absurd.
00:23:41For those of you who think it is a jest,
00:23:43permit me to direct you to the door
00:23:45at the right of the entrance.
00:23:47The key is in the hand on the table.
00:23:51Now we'll meet our host.
00:23:52He's been behind that door all the time.
00:23:54Why, of course.
00:23:54It couldn't be anything but a joke.
00:24:02Come on.
00:24:03Give him a reception.
00:24:16Is he... is he dead?
00:24:18Anybody know him?
00:24:22Electrician's tape.
00:24:23Here, lend me a hand.
00:24:29Gene!
00:24:32Gene, come back here!
00:24:35He's coming up until he'll be killed!
00:24:37What's that?
00:24:47You might have been killed.
00:25:02There, there!
00:25:07I guess the best thing for us to do is to stay in this room.
00:25:10Gentlemen, I've got an idea. Come on.
00:25:19That butler must know something.
00:25:26I think we'd better go in with the others.
00:25:28I think that's a good idea.
00:25:33Gee, I'm all right now.
00:25:44Yeah, then what? Come on, spill it.
00:25:47Then I came here, sir.
00:25:49I met the chef down below and we came up together.
00:25:51Since then I've been carrying out my instructions, sir.
00:25:54Ever been here before?
00:25:56No, sir.
00:25:57You're lying.
00:26:00Oh, you don't.
00:26:02Find some rope and we'll tie these fellas up.
00:26:12You're out of circulation for a while.
00:26:14Did your instructions tell you what to do now?
00:26:17We've got to find the man who hired them.
00:26:19If we're going to get out of here alive, we've got to find out who's back of this.
00:26:21I suggest we give this place as thorough an examination as we can.
00:26:24If you'll allow me, I'll divide you into searching parties.
00:26:26Shoot.
00:26:27Miss Inglesby, you go with Jean and Margaret.
00:26:29Examine the bedrooms thoroughly.
00:26:30Abbott and Cronin take the dining room on the floor beyond.
00:26:32Jim and the doctor can take the garden.
00:26:34What about the living room?
00:26:35I'll go through that myself.
00:26:36Let's go.
00:26:45Yes.
00:26:46Would you like me to go with you, Jean?
00:26:48Oh, no.
00:26:48It's all right, honey.
00:26:49I'm all right now.
00:26:50Abbott, you'd better come with me.
00:27:42Can you hear me?
00:27:43It's Jason Osgood.
00:27:47There's nobody else in here.
00:27:49You said you were going to kill me.
00:27:52I'll make it worth your while to let me out of this.
00:27:55Don't you understand?
00:27:56I'm not trying to threaten you.
00:27:57I'm trying to make a bargain.
00:27:58I'll give you $50,000.
00:28:00I won't try to find out who you are.
00:28:03I'll give you $100,000.
00:28:04More than that if you give me time to get it.
00:28:23I'm going to lie it.
00:28:29I'll give you $5,000.
00:28:30I'll give you $100,000 aay.
00:28:30Oh.
00:28:48I'll give you $ ax.
00:28:58One, two, three, four, five.
00:29:05One for each of us.
00:29:36One, two, three, four, five.
00:29:37One, two, three, four, five.
00:30:07One, two, three, four, five.
00:30:14Did you find anything?
00:30:15No, did you?
00:30:16No.
00:30:25Where's Mr. Osborne?
00:30:27Right here.
00:30:32I thought we might need something.
00:30:35Hey, you're not so bad after all.
00:30:37I'm good.
00:30:38Thanks.
00:30:47Look.
00:30:48It's 11.
00:30:50We're still all here.
00:30:51And nothing's happened.
00:30:53Then he's failed.
00:30:55You're of good health, everyone.
00:30:56Stop.
00:30:57Stop.
00:30:58Don't drink.
00:30:59You are about to meet my guest of honor, the ninth guest.
00:31:03The ninth guest?
00:31:05His name is Death.
00:31:09It pleases me greatly, my friends, to tell you Mr. Jason Osgood will be dead in a few seconds.
00:31:21Let me get his pulse.
00:31:39Let me get his pulse.
00:31:44I'll leave my heads.
00:31:45My friends, none of you is guilty of the death of this man.
00:31:49He was the agent of his own death.
00:31:52The drinks he offered you were poisoned.
00:31:55When he opened the bottle of prussic acid, he cut himself on the poisoned cap.
00:32:01Stop it!
00:32:23I can't stand it.
00:32:25I can't stand it any longer.
00:32:26Oh, please, dear.
00:32:27Control yourself.
00:32:28You must.
00:32:29For all of us.
00:32:31It's that clock.
00:32:33Won't someone stop it?
00:32:35That won't do any good, Mr. Chisholm.
00:32:36Oh, but it's that picking.
00:32:38He said another one of us would be gone at 12.
00:32:40Now listen.
00:32:41We've all been told we're going to die.
00:32:42The next one in 15 minutes.
00:32:44Osgood weakened.
00:32:45He's dead.
00:32:46All we've got to do is keep our heads and nothing can happen to us.
00:32:49You want us to sit here like a lot of sheep waiting to be killed?
00:32:52Can't we do anything to fight back?
00:32:54Don't you see that's just what he wants us to do?
00:32:56Suppose we should fight back.
00:32:57What would we be fighting?
00:32:58Shadow.
00:33:01There must be some hiding place.
00:33:03He's here somewhere.
00:33:05Search the apartment.
00:33:07This is not a game of slaughter.
00:33:09It is a game of skill.
00:33:11We're trapped by a maniac.
00:33:14You posted you have the whole police force in your hands.
00:33:16Can't you do something?
00:33:17What can I do?
00:33:17When the wire is cut, how can I reach them?
00:33:19Kill.
00:33:20My friends, this is a game in which you take one side and I the other with death as the
00:33:27referee.
00:33:28If I lose, I will appear and die before you all.
00:33:33That butler hasn't heard a word of this.
00:33:35I'm going to take him to the gate and tell him to get out.
00:33:38If he hesitates, we'll know he's in on this.
00:33:40Come on.
00:33:40If he's killed, that's murdered.
00:33:42Murdered.
00:33:43We're fighting for our lives.
00:33:58He heard you.
00:33:59He's taking care of the servants.
00:34:01Then they are part of it.
00:34:02I was right.
00:34:03There is a hiding place.
00:34:04Somebody untied them.
00:34:05They couldn't just float away.
00:34:07Somebody untied them, all right.
00:34:08That's somebody who's one of us.
00:34:10I want a showdown.
00:34:13Do you dare to imply that I would...
00:34:14Dare?
00:34:15Me?
00:34:16Caught like a rat?
00:34:17You bet I dare.
00:34:18If you're not doing this, one of the others is.
00:34:21Why, you can't talk to decent people that way.
00:34:22Tim, Dr. Reed.
00:34:23Stop it, you hear?
00:34:24You're acting like a couple of caged animals.
00:34:26That's what we are, caged.
00:34:27Can't you realize we've got to stick together?
00:34:29If we don't, we'll all be dead before morning.
00:34:31Get back in that living room.
00:34:32Sit still and don't answer a single challenge the voice offers.
00:34:35I tell you, nothing can happen.
00:34:36Sit still, nothing.
00:34:37I've got to find those servants.
00:34:38I'm going with you.
00:34:39Well, go ahead.
00:34:40It's your funeral.
00:34:40We'd better keep an eye out.
00:34:48Come, Margaret.
00:34:52Wait.
00:34:54I don't want you to go.
00:34:56What right of you to tell me what to do?
00:34:57My Jean, please.
00:34:59My Jean, please.
00:34:59And please, stop pretending.
00:35:01Pretending?
00:35:02Yes.
00:35:03Your sudden anxiety for me is a little absurd.
00:35:06You won't listen?
00:35:07No.
00:35:08I know.
00:35:08I know.
00:35:09I know.
00:35:18I know.
00:35:24I know.
00:35:30But no.
00:35:31How long, we'll be getting at home from a while.
00:35:32No?
00:35:33I know.
00:35:33I know.
00:35:33I know.
00:35:34I know.
00:36:19But we've been in there.
00:36:21I know, but I want to look again.
00:36:45Did you find anything?
00:36:49Did you find anything?
00:36:50No.
00:36:52Come along then.
00:36:54The others will be wondering where we are.
00:37:08Cigarette?
00:37:11It's good for the nerves.
00:37:21No, thanks.
00:37:23I'll smoke my own.
00:37:35What's going on here?
00:37:36Well, I tried to attract attention by burning some newspapers on the parapet, but I don't
00:37:40suppose anybody could see the blaze.
00:37:41Fifty stories up, you might as well wave a lighted match.
00:37:43Well, the setbacks begin ten stories down.
00:37:46I couldn't throw a message beyond them.
00:37:47I tried.
00:37:48You might have set the place on fire.
00:37:49It's like a cheap movie.
00:37:50Now, perhaps you'll listen to me.
00:37:51We've got to fight this thing with common sense.
00:37:53If we all stay inside and keep quiet, we'll be safe.
00:37:56Now, come on.
00:37:56If I thought that you...
00:37:58Oh, please, gentlemen.
00:37:58Let's go inside.
00:38:04Find anything, Mrs. Chisholm?
00:38:05No.
00:38:10Well?
00:38:11Are you going to tell them, or must I?
00:38:13I don't know what you mean.
00:38:14Oh, yes, you do.
00:38:16We were searching the front bedroom.
00:38:19You didn't know I saw you, but I did.
00:38:20Jean, please.
00:38:21Well, there's a table by the bed.
00:38:22There was nothing on it when we went there first.
00:38:25But when we went back, there was an envelope there.
00:38:28I saw Margaret pick it up and read it.
00:38:31And then she hid it in her dress.
00:38:33Margaret.
00:38:34Margaret, what was it?
00:38:35Let's see that letter.
00:38:36It isn't true.
00:38:37Jean, you're sure?
00:38:38Well, yes, of course.
00:38:39Sylvia, you and Jean take her to another room and search her.
00:38:42You wouldn't dare.
00:38:43Will you let us have that letter?
00:39:00Margaret.
00:39:00Before the night is over, Margaret Chisholm,
00:39:02I will expose you for what you are, your host.
00:39:06What does it mean?
00:39:08I don't know.
00:39:09I was ready to answer for her as for myself.
00:39:11There's no mystery in her life.
00:39:12No secrets.
00:39:13This letter may have something to do with our predicament.
00:39:15You've got to tell us what it means.
00:39:16She'll tell, all right.
00:39:18The time draws near when the second of our company is to leave us.
00:39:23I'm sure you will agree that the second, like the first,
00:39:26is unworthy of such a distinguished company.
00:39:29Before our guest departs,
00:39:31some details of her life may be of interest to you.
00:39:35Who am I?
00:39:36I have selected for my next opponent our brilliant society leader,
00:39:41Mrs. Margaret Chisholm.
00:39:43Stop it, stop it.
00:39:45This woman has no right to the name you know her by.
00:39:49The only name to which she has legal right is that of her first husband,
00:39:53Jimmy Vickers,
00:39:56from whom she was never divorced.
00:39:58Oh, that's not true.
00:39:59Margaret Chisholm's sins have overtaken her at last.
00:40:04Jimmy Vickers is locked up in an insane asylum.
00:40:07But I am prepared to expose this society leader as a bigamist.
00:40:12Oh, that's a lie.
00:40:13He's dead, I tell you.
00:40:15Bigamist?
00:40:15And my daughter wasn't good enough for your crowd.
00:40:18Every dollar Margaret Chisholm possesses
00:40:20was stolen from the husband she had committed to an institution.
00:40:23No, no, no!
00:40:32Margaret!
00:40:53Fifteen minutes more.
00:40:55Stop it, please.
00:40:57Fifteen minutes more.
00:41:00Can't somebody stop her?
00:41:03I can't.
00:41:04None of you will listen to me.
00:41:08You told us to sit still.
00:41:10Nothing would happen.
00:41:14Now Margaret's dead.
00:41:21Put that down!
00:41:30She killed herself.
00:41:32They were both killed by their own weakness.
00:41:35Just as that radio voice said all of us would be.
00:41:41It's one of us.
00:41:42It must be.
00:41:44We've looked everywhere.
00:41:46Yet the servants disappeared.
00:41:49Somebody help them.
00:41:50And that letter.
00:41:52Somebody put it where Margaret would find it.
00:41:55Fifteen minutes more.
00:41:57He just said another would go.
00:42:00You're the only one here who would like to kill me.
00:42:02Now Osgood's gone.
00:42:05I never earned the reputation of a killer.
00:42:07You have.
00:42:07Are you a yellow school teacher?
00:42:09Tim, please.
00:42:11We're playing right into their hands.
00:42:12Just as we did both times before.
00:42:15You said it was one of us.
00:42:17How do we know it isn't you, Doctor?
00:42:25Oh, you.
00:42:27You're in league with half the crooks and racketeers in the city.
00:42:37There are six of us left.
00:42:40And everyone has something against somebody here.
00:42:42I never harmed anyone.
00:42:44You kicked me out of the university without a chance to defend myself.
00:42:48I had to put you out because I, well, I didn't like your opinions, nor your, your sneering, arrogant vanity.
00:42:54How do we know it isn't Abbott?
00:42:57You have reason to hate Doctor Reed.
00:42:59How do we know you're having something against all of us?
00:43:01Why do you leave yourself out?
00:43:02Wait.
00:43:03Please don't.
00:43:04Yes, why?
00:43:05There's only one person I know who'd be happy to see me dead, and that's you, Jim.
00:43:09Well, that isn't true, Jean.
00:43:11I think you're a little snob.
00:43:12Eaten up with self-importance.
00:43:14But I wouldn't kill you.
00:43:15Oh, yes, you would.
00:43:19I'll tell you all something you don't know about us.
00:43:21Jim and I were brought up together.
00:43:24Our fathers were friends.
00:43:26We were in love.
00:43:28But I soon got over it when I found out Jim hadn't denied a deal in the world but money.
00:43:32Our fathers between them owned the Chetwood estate.
00:43:35They left it to us with a proviso that it couldn't be sold unless we both agreed.
00:43:39Because they thought we'd be married and live there.
00:43:42When Jim found out there was oil on the land, he wanted to sell it.
00:43:45But I refused.
00:43:47That's when he turned against me in this newspaper column and tried to ruin my career.
00:43:53That's why I think you'd like to see me dead.
00:43:56You'd be a millionaire if you could sell Chetwood.
00:44:10Have you finished?
00:44:13Yes.
00:44:15Gene, I'll tell you the truth.
00:44:17I've loved you ever since you were a little girl.
00:44:20There's never been anyone else.
00:44:22I know you're vain and shallow.
00:44:24But as long as I live, I'll go on loving you.
00:44:29Because I can't help myself.
00:44:36Now you've heard all about us.
00:44:38And Abbott and the doctor.
00:44:42What about you, Cronin?
00:44:44And Sylvia?
00:44:45Well, what about us?
00:44:47You both have reasons to want to see each other dead.
00:44:50Sylvia is the best friend I've got.
00:44:53Her husband filed suit for divorce yesterday and she made him withdraw it.
00:44:56How did you know that?
00:44:58How does a newspaper man know anything?
00:45:00There's plenty of reason for you wanting to get rid of her.
00:45:03Everyone knows you're insanely jealous of her.
00:45:07And she has a much better reason for wanting to see you dead.
00:45:10You left her $250,000 in your will.
00:45:13Ask me how I know that.
00:45:15It's true, isn't it?
00:45:16Yes, it's true.
00:45:17Don't let him find you, Tim.
00:45:19But Sylvia wouldn't kill me for that.
00:45:22There are men within a dozen blocks of here who'd kill you for much less.
00:45:28Now you've heard the whole works.
00:45:30What's your murder?
00:45:35Which one of us wants to kill the other five?
00:45:47Don't all speak at once.
00:46:01Why don't you search us?
00:46:03Margaret Chisholm had something hidden.
00:46:05We'd never have known it if Gene hadn't told.
00:46:07Maybe some of the others had something in his clothes that'll give the show away.
00:46:10Nobody's going to put a hand on me.
00:46:12Well, why should you object if you've nothing to hide?
00:46:21Well?
00:46:22Tim!
00:46:23Tim, please!
00:46:24Tim!
00:46:26Don't make you feel any more secure.
00:46:29Here it is.
00:46:31I'll take it.
00:46:33I've got enemies enough.
00:46:34I always carry a gun.
00:46:36Sergeant, take him.
00:46:37You'll be sorry.
00:46:39What's this?
00:46:40A radio tube.
00:46:41It was you.
00:46:42Where did that thing come from?
00:46:44There's a stream of that sort of...
00:46:47Let it go, do you hear?
00:46:48Let it go.
00:46:49Sylvia!
00:46:50Put the gun down!
00:46:51Put it down!
00:47:01I...
00:47:02Tim!
00:47:04Tim!
00:47:06Tim!
00:47:06I killed him!
00:47:08Tim!
00:47:09Oh, Tim, Tim!
00:47:10I didn't mean to do it!
00:47:12Tim, Tim!
00:47:17Tim!
00:47:37Julia!
00:47:38Ah!
00:47:39Sir, host, Sylvia!
00:47:40Come back!
00:47:40Sylvia!分配分配
00:49:24No.
00:49:25Well, Jean, you don't think that I...
00:49:28I don't know what to think anymore.
00:49:36So we're all right, Jean.
00:49:42We're going to get out of this place.
00:49:45I know I'm going to die.
00:49:46You're not.
00:49:48The others all did something.
00:49:50They brought it on themselves.
00:49:51We won't.
00:49:56I love you, Jean.
00:50:03You told them all about me.
00:50:05Oh, you shouldn't have done that.
00:50:07You made me feel so cheap and mean.
00:50:10You're not.
00:50:15Oh, yes, I am.
00:50:18Oh, yes, I am.
00:50:24Ever since, ever since that awful thing happened to Sylvia, I've been thinking, I've been seeing myself as others see
00:50:35me for the first time.
00:50:38And you've seen me.
00:50:41You're adorable.
00:50:42You've tried to help a selfish, arrogant girl.
00:50:47And she just thought you were greedy.
00:50:49Well, what difference does that make?
00:50:51You're a success now.
00:50:55Oh, no, I'm not.
00:51:01I'm just lucky, that's all.
00:51:05I got the breaks that other girls didn't get.
00:51:10But I, I haven't really lived yet.
00:51:14I don't want to die.
00:51:16We'll find some way out of this.
00:51:18There must be some way.
00:51:28Here, drink this.
00:51:33Yes, Jean.
00:51:47Why are you looking at me so queerly?
00:51:52What have you done to me?
00:51:54Nothing.
00:52:01Are you satisfied?
00:52:09One minute, you admit that you're spoiled.
00:52:12And the next, you accuse me of trying to poison you.
00:52:16Oh, I'm sorry, darling.
00:52:17I don't know what I'm saying.
00:52:20Oh, darling, don't let anything happen to me.
00:52:24I want to live.
00:52:26I want you.
00:52:28Oh, Jim, I'm afraid.
00:52:31I'm afraid.
00:52:48I want you to be.
00:52:48Hold yourself together, Abbott.
00:52:50I'm all right.
00:52:51Stop trying to take care of me.
00:52:52Let's go inside.
00:52:53I don't feel safe out here.
00:52:55Safe?
00:52:55Do you feel safe in there where three of them died already?
00:52:57Oh, come along.
00:52:58Come on, let's go inside.
00:52:59I'm all right.
00:52:59Leave me alone.
00:53:00Take your hands off me.
00:53:01Come on.
00:53:01Come away from there.
00:53:02Will you leave me alone?
00:53:04Come on.
00:53:25Come on.
00:53:28What are you doing down there?
00:53:32What are you doing down there?
00:53:35Where have you been?
00:53:37There's a door back at this refrigerator.
00:53:40Did you find my pencil?
00:53:52I've got it here.
00:53:53Let me a hand.
00:54:03It's locked on our side.
00:54:04Open it.
00:54:21They're locked.
00:54:25For goodness sake.
00:54:28From my pencil.
00:54:32I found my pencil.
00:54:34What do you know about this?
00:54:36Please.
00:54:38What an architecture.
00:54:40Boy, oh boy.
00:54:42Eeny, meeny, mmm.
00:54:47Miney, moe.
00:54:49I think that was for you.
00:54:50He's drunk.
00:54:51Yes, right, mister.
00:54:52He's drunk.
00:54:53Come on, let's get out of here.
00:54:55That's a good idea.
00:54:56Let's get out of here.
00:55:11Oh, sit down, can't you?
00:55:13There's nothing to be gained by being a coward.
00:55:15You can't talk to me like that.
00:55:16If you're brave, it's because you've got nothing to be afraid of.
00:55:19I think you've planned this whole thing yourself.
00:55:21Stop it.
00:55:22Can't you see what you're doing?
00:55:24You're fighting just as the others did before they were killed.
00:55:26Jean's right.
00:55:27It's what I've told you all along.
00:55:29For heaven's sake, keep still.
00:55:41Why did you turn those lights out?
00:55:43Because I don't want to be any more conspicuous than I have to.
00:55:46Only four of my guests are left.
00:55:50Dr. Reed, the well-known educator.
00:55:53Jean Trent, of The Honeyed Voice and The Golden Charm.
00:55:57Jim Daly, brilliant journalist.
00:56:00And Henry Abbott.
00:56:02Just four opponents.
00:56:07Are we cowards?
00:56:11Let's do something.
00:56:17Let's die fighting.
00:56:19My friends, permit me to remind you that there is but one danger in this room.
00:56:24The danger that you may not outwit me.
00:56:27Ha!
00:56:28You haven't the courage to fight this through.
00:56:31He hears us.
00:56:32Oh, where is he hidden?
00:56:34You have her, Mother.
00:56:34Okay.
00:56:43Okay.
00:57:03Have you?
00:57:15Oh
00:57:39He's dead
00:57:46Someone's out on the roof
00:57:47He fired through this window
00:57:54Jim
00:57:58Jim
00:58:04Jim
00:58:05Henry
00:58:07What's happened
00:58:10Looks like someone's a bad shot
00:58:12Oh Henry
00:58:13Are you hurt badly
00:58:16No
00:58:18No I don't think so
00:58:23Jean
00:58:26I've got to tell you
00:58:28We may never get out of here alive
00:58:30Any of us
00:58:33I love you Jean
00:58:36Oh Henry
00:58:39Please don't
00:58:42Not now
00:58:43I may never have another chance dear
00:58:47I want you to know
00:58:48I love you more than anything else in the world
00:58:52I have forever so long
00:58:55I wouldn't have dared tell you except
00:59:02It doesn't make any difference whether I love you or not does it
00:59:06Oh Henry yes of course
00:59:09Only
00:59:12Only just now we've got to find Jim
00:59:28Jim
00:59:28Jim
00:59:30Jim where are you
00:59:34Jim
00:59:37Jim where are you
00:59:39Jim
00:59:39Jim
00:59:39Jim
00:59:39Jim
00:59:39Jim
00:59:39Jim
00:59:41Jim
00:59:41Jim
00:59:44Jim
00:59:48Jim
00:59:48Jim
00:59:49Jim
00:59:49Jim
00:59:49Jim
00:59:53Jim
01:00:10What are you doing?
01:00:27Jim!
01:00:27Take this tape off my eyes.
01:00:29Do you want to kill me the way you did all the others?
01:00:30Why have you got him tied up like that?
01:00:31Come to your senses, Jean.
01:00:32Do you realize this man has killed five of your friends here tonight?
01:00:35He's done nothing.
01:00:35He knew he couldn't get me the way he got all the others.
01:00:37He wanted us to think that Dr. Reed was killed by someone outside in the garden, but he wasn't.
01:00:42He killed Dr. Reed with a gun from this room.
01:00:44Then he fired a second shot at me, but he almost missed me in the dark.
01:00:47That hole in the glass wasn't made by a bullet.
01:00:49It was made when he threw the gun through the window.
01:00:51If you look lower down, you'll find a hole where the second bullet went through.
01:01:08Take that strip off his eyes.
01:01:09Jean, you don't understand.
01:01:11Take that tape off his eyes, quick!
01:01:12Jean, put that gun down!
01:01:13I mean it!
01:01:24Now listen to me.
01:01:26I'm going to prove that Abbott and nobody else did this.
01:01:28He planned the whole ghastly party.
01:01:30For a long time I couldn't see that any of our crowd could be guilty.
01:01:33Then suddenly it dawned on me.
01:01:35Abbott was the only one in the room that the voice answered directly.
01:01:38It never answered anybody else.
01:01:39Don't you believe him, Jean?
01:01:41Now I know who was in that closet.
01:01:43You introduced me to him months ago.
01:01:44He was a young electrical engineer.
01:01:46You brought him here to wire this place and then you killed him.
01:01:48He's lying, Jean.
01:01:50Killed him in cold blood just like he did the others.
01:01:52You killed him to keep your secret.
01:01:54Didn't you?
01:01:55Wait!
01:01:56Don't anyone leave.
01:02:01What is this?
01:02:06This is Station Wits, W-I-T-S broadcasting.
01:02:10I trust you have enjoyed the first part of the evening's entertainment.
01:02:14You are now listening to the voice of your host.
01:02:17Now do you believe me?
01:02:19Abbott sat in his chair every chance he could get tonight.
01:02:21He was in it every time the radio voice started to speak.
01:02:24Listen to another.
01:02:41You are about to meet my guest of honor, the ninth guest.
01:02:46His name is Death.
01:02:48I have selected for my next opponent our brilliant society leader, Mrs. Marl...
01:02:53No, you don't!
01:02:55Don't move, Henry.
01:03:02A microphone.
01:03:04Now we know why the radio voice could follow our every move.
01:03:07When he couldn't count on those records, he had this.
01:03:10There are probably a dozen places in the house where he could plug it in.
01:03:13He killed Dr. Reed and then wounded himself in some way to fool us
01:03:16before he threw the gun through the window.
01:03:20All right.
01:03:22I promised I'd play fairly if you outwitted me.
01:03:26Well, I've lost.
01:03:32You think I'm mad, don't you?
01:03:34I can see it in your eyes.
01:03:37Me, mad?
01:03:38I'm not mad.
01:03:39Is a man mad because he kills his enemies?
01:03:42I saved every cent for years to get you together like this.
01:03:45I rented this place under an assumed name so I could kill you.
01:03:48What have we done that you should want to murder us?
01:03:51Osgood ruined my father in the market and he shot himself.
01:03:54My mother died in poverty.
01:03:55But I didn't kill Osgood.
01:03:57I didn't have to.
01:03:59I knew he'd do anything to save his own skin.
01:04:01That's why I poisoned the cap of that prussic acid bottle.
01:04:04His own greed killed him.
01:04:06That doesn't account for Margaret and the rest of them.
01:04:09Margaret Chisholm's real husband was my brother, Jimmy Vickers.
01:04:13Yes, my real name's Vickers.
01:04:17You remember, don't you, Jim?
01:04:19The Vickers' disgrace made fine copy for your paper.
01:04:21It got you your first real break.
01:04:23Margaret Chisholm bred my brother for every cent
01:04:25and left him to die in an insane asylum.
01:04:28But I didn't kill her either.
01:04:29I didn't have to.
01:04:30I knew she'd take the coward's way out and she did.
01:04:33Sylvia Inglesby handled Margaret Chisholm's case against my brother
01:04:36and Cronin pulled political strings to help her do it.
01:04:39He's known for years she was an imposter.
01:04:41But he kept still because he was counting on her
01:04:42to have his daughter socially set.
01:04:44Then why did you struggle with Sylvia over the gun?
01:04:46You tried to save Cronin's life.
01:04:49I struggled to fool the rest of you.
01:04:51But while I struggled, I made Sylvia point that gun at Cronin and kill him.
01:04:57A life for a life.
01:04:59Isn't that what the Bible says?
01:05:00Oh, Jim, I can't stand any more.
01:05:04You think I shouldn't have killed Dr. Reed, don't you?
01:05:07Well, he killed me, my future, when he had me thrown out of the university.
01:05:10What have you got against Gene?
01:05:12I always loved Gene.
01:05:15I wanted you, Gene. I wanted to take you with me.
01:05:18It was the only way I could have you.
01:05:19He's mad.
01:05:23I promised if you'd win the game, I'd die in front of you.
01:05:37It's your last trick, Abbott.
01:05:39If I get us out of here, I'll kill you.
01:05:54Where's the switch?
01:06:17What are you doing?
01:06:19You needn't worry about me.
01:06:21Trials are such messy things.
01:06:41Diamonds.
01:06:49Turn on Trump.
01:07:10D
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