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Charlie Chan searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists.
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00:00:08The End
00:00:37The End
00:01:27Mr. Bonner's inner self
00:01:29is nearing the other world
00:01:32Tonight we will try
00:01:34to contact the spirit
00:01:35of Mrs. Edward
00:02:01What kept you so long?
00:02:02I didn't expect you for hours.
00:02:03I had to finish my old job first.
00:02:06You know, Mr. Johnson,
00:02:08I sure do appreciate you
00:02:09letting me have your job yet.
00:02:10The appreciation is all mine,
00:02:11Mr. Brown.
00:02:13Mr. Johnson, you said something
00:02:14about some seances was here.
00:02:15What is them?
00:02:16You don't know what a seance?
00:02:17No, what is this?
00:02:18All men and women
00:02:18just sit around their table
00:02:19in the dark and hold hands.
00:02:21Does that make them happy,
00:02:22hold hands?
00:02:22Sort of raises the spirit, son.
00:02:24Oh, yeah?
00:02:25Oh.
00:02:26Oh.
00:02:27What was that?
00:02:28Oh, it's just someone moaning.
00:02:30Moaning?
00:02:31Moaning about the income tax,
00:02:32I mean.
00:02:34Good night, Mr. Brown.
00:02:35Uh, good night, Mr. Johnson.
00:02:37I won't need this now.
00:02:41How to disappear.
00:02:43Uh, Mr. Johnson,
00:02:44does this book really tell you
00:02:46how to disappear?
00:02:46I guarantee to make you go
00:02:48from where you is
00:02:49so you ain't where you was
00:02:50in a flash.
00:02:51Can you do it?
00:02:52I'm about to vanish right now.
00:02:54All I have to do
00:02:55is say the magic word
00:02:56and snap my finger like this,
00:02:58abacadabra, I'm gone.
00:03:00Oh, anybody could do this.
00:03:04Are we in a flash, he went?
00:03:10We are fortunate tonight.
00:03:13A spirit is about to join us.
00:03:15A spirit is about to join us.
00:03:38Who called me?
00:03:40Who wants me here?
00:03:42Is that you, Gert?
00:03:44Gertrude?
00:03:45My husband.
00:03:46Is that you, Mr. Edwards?
00:03:49That's her.
00:03:49My wife.
00:03:51She always called me Mr. Edwards.
00:04:03But you're dead, aren't you?
00:04:05I've been buried,
00:04:07but I'm not dead.
00:04:09I'm not dead.
00:04:10I'm not dead.
00:04:13Ghosts.
00:04:17Abacadabra.
00:04:19Still here, but not for long.
00:04:34Those with prepared questions
00:04:36will nod their heads.
00:04:45Miss Green?
00:04:51Mr. Hamlin?
00:04:53Mr. Hamlin?
00:04:58Miss Wood?
00:05:05Mr. Edwards?
00:05:12Mr. Edwards?
00:05:12Mr. Edwards?
00:05:13Now for the questions.
00:05:15While Mr. Bonner is still in contact with the spirit world.
00:05:18What happened in London the night of October 5th, 1935?
00:05:29What happened in London the night of October 5th, 1935?
00:05:34What was the question?
00:05:35What happened in London the night of October 5th, 1935?
00:05:39What happened in London the night of October 5th, 1935?
00:05:50No, he's hurting my hand, too.
00:05:53Mr. Bonner, wait him!
00:06:00Don't touch him while he's in his trance.
00:06:06He won't come out of this trance. He's dead.
00:06:08Dead? I thought only spirits were dead around here.
00:06:15Mr. Bonner has been shot.
00:06:17Shot? He's been murdered.
00:06:20Murder? It certainly looks like it.
00:06:22Murder? I simply won't have it.
00:06:25Oh, murder. Oh, dear.
00:06:30Bonner, murdered? What do we do, Tom?
00:06:32Keep your corpuscles cold, Vera. First we get dressed.
00:06:34And then skip town?
00:06:35And leave all our equipment here and up in that séance room. Not much.
00:06:38I wonder who killed him.
00:06:40Would you like me to bring back his ghost and ask him? Get dressed.
00:06:46Operator. Operator, get me the police.
00:06:52Operator.
00:06:53Matthew's talking.
00:06:54Yeah.
00:06:56Yeah?
00:06:57Where?
00:06:58349 Dexter Street.
00:07:00On by way.
00:07:03Get Smith and McCarthy. Homicide.
00:07:05Homicide.
00:07:06Homicide?
00:07:07Well, why didn't you say so?
00:07:15Well, we all searched each other. There was no gun.
00:07:18Thank you very much, ladies. In there, please.
00:07:26My dear sir, my lecture tour cannot be disrupted.
00:07:29Listen, I do all the lecture in here until this case is finished.
00:07:45Out!
00:07:46Abacadabba.
00:07:47Abacadabba.
00:07:49Abacadabba.
00:07:51Oh, you ain't no spook.
00:07:52What do you mean?
00:07:53Oh, mister, this place is creeping with ghosts.
00:07:56Why, I just seen a dead woman floating around right in there.
00:08:01Uh-oh. There she is. Still floating.
00:08:04What are you talking about?
00:08:05That's the murdered man.
00:08:07Have you got a gun?
00:08:09A witch?
00:08:11Stop a dick, Mr. Smith.
00:08:13Have you found that gun yet?
00:08:14There's no gun in here, sir.
00:08:15Well, keep searching.
00:08:16Yes, sir.
00:08:18Ah, the thousands of unfortunate people
00:08:21who will be prevented from hearing my lecture.
00:08:24Cigar, Mr. Edwards?
00:08:25Oh, thank you.
00:08:27Well, you're all going to headquarters.
00:08:30Everyone.
00:08:31I simply must have a lawyer.
00:08:34All right, folks, if you please.
00:09:07You go too, young lady.
00:09:08But I wanted to tell you something.
00:09:10You can tell me everything at headquarters.
00:09:11Go along.
00:09:14Uh-oh.
00:09:15What is your pop going to say?
00:09:16I don't know, but I sure need pop.
00:09:18I need pop, too.
00:09:20I mean your pop.
00:09:21Will you two stop popping and get going?
00:09:23You don't understand, Sergeant.
00:09:24I've been trying to tell you my pop is Charlie Chan.
00:09:27I don't care if your pop is...
00:09:29Huh?
00:09:30Charlie Chan?
00:09:31The detective from Honolulu?
00:09:34Where is he staying?
00:09:35At the Chateau Hotel.
00:09:37Rafferty.
00:09:37Here, Sarge.
00:09:38Get him.
00:09:55Come.
00:10:03Are you Mr. Charlie Chan?
00:10:06Yes.
00:10:09Are you sure?
00:10:13Oh, these toys.
00:10:17They are toys for my numerous family in Hawaii.
00:10:20I'm sure my arrival of humble self in Honolulu will be noisy success.
00:10:35Oh.
00:10:36You, uh, wish to speak with me?
00:10:39Uh, you're wanted at headquarters, Mr. Chan.
00:10:41We got a case of homicide and your daughter, Frances.
00:10:44My daughter involved in murder?
00:10:46Well, I don't know, Mr. Chan, but Sergeant Matthews thinks she is.
00:10:50Oh, suggest we travel quickly.
00:10:52Please, come.
00:10:56They tell the truth, Sergeant.
00:10:59Because I am leaving tomorrow for Hawaii, Birmingham got new job this afternoon.
00:11:04Got a new job this afternoon and quit tonight.
00:11:07When Birmingham told me that the house seance is at his new place, naturally I was interested.
00:11:12But you both got there in time to be in on a murder.
00:11:14Oh, could happen to anyone.
00:11:16You stop nodding, Rafferty.
00:11:21Yeah.
00:11:23Huh?
00:11:25Sure?
00:11:27Okay.
00:11:30Smith says there's no gun to be found anywhere in the Bonner house.
00:11:36Yeah.
00:11:39What?
00:11:41Man, you're crazy.
00:11:44Yes, but, but...
00:11:49Oh, all right.
00:11:51Bonner was killed by a bullet that entered his heart, but didn't pass entirely through his body.
00:11:57But there was no gun found on anyone present.
00:11:59No gun was found in the house.
00:12:01And now the coroner calls and says that there's no bullet in the body.
00:12:06Now, how are you gonna shoot a guy with a bullet without using a bullet?
00:12:09Spooks.
00:12:10Spooks.
00:12:13Perhaps, uh, invisible bullet.
00:12:16Invisible bullet.
00:12:18That's dying novel stuff.
00:12:23How about you helping us on this case, Chan?
00:12:26Oh, no.
00:12:28Must refuse, gracious offer.
00:12:31I'm on brief vacation from government work.
00:12:34Well, that's that.
00:12:37You can go, Charlie.
00:12:39But, of course, your daughter stays.
00:12:41Don't forget she's involved in a murder.
00:12:44Oh, Pop, do I really have to stay here?
00:12:48Not for long.
00:12:51Okay, I take case.
00:12:52All right.
00:12:54This is a tough proposition, Charlie.
00:12:57Murder at a seance.
00:12:59Unexplainable things happen at seances.
00:13:02Yes.
00:13:04Uh, may you use other offers for a few moments?
00:13:07Sure, sure.
00:13:09Thank you so much.
00:13:17Give me the coroner's office.
00:13:19Peters?
00:13:21Matthews.
00:13:22Say, has anybody invented an invisible bullet yet?
00:13:29Oh, all right, all right.
00:13:31I didn't think so, either.
00:13:36What are you, Granny and I?
00:13:38Hmm?
00:13:39Brown, you've been involved in three murder cases already.
00:13:42It ain't my fault, mister.
00:13:43It's the law.
00:13:44Always somebody taking me down the hall.
00:13:46Then something goes clang.
00:13:48Then, I'm in jail again.
00:13:50Uh, but by mistake.
00:13:52Mistake?
00:13:53Maybe the other cases were mistakes.
00:13:55But what about this Bonner murder?
00:13:56Commissioner, that was a strictly private murder
00:13:59to which I was not invited.
00:14:08Well, let's go.
00:14:09Sergeant, you say many strange things happen at seance.
00:14:13Without crystal ball, I can say you wear size nine and a half shoe.
00:14:18You should wear 11, but you prefer big corns to big shoes.
00:14:24Also, you changed your barber last week.
00:14:27Old barber cut your hair too short.
00:14:31Also, no.
00:14:33You think law too lenient in criminal cases today.
00:14:38Especially district attorney's office.
00:14:41You wish me to continue, Sergeant?
00:14:44No.
00:14:45I mean, how do you know what I think?
00:14:48It's very simple.
00:14:50I am psychic.
00:14:57Do you see what I see?
00:15:00Can even produce spirit wrappings.
00:15:09Do you hear what I hear?
00:15:12But that personal information about me.
00:15:15Oh.
00:15:16Merely telephone your wife in the next room.
00:15:19Oh, she talks too much.
00:15:22You, uh, question all suspects?
00:15:25Yes.
00:15:26Good.
00:15:27We'll examine their statements tomorrow.
00:15:30Framingham, you must, uh, go back to Bonner House.
00:15:34Oh, Mr. Chan, I'd rather stay in jail.
00:15:37No, I wish you for inside man, for police.
00:15:40But what about them spooks?
00:15:42Oh, if spooks bother you, Sergeant will arrest them.
00:15:45Oh, well, that's all right if just...
00:15:47Hmm?
00:15:47Hmm?
00:15:56Evidence insufficient to arrest anyone, Sergeant.
00:16:00But would like interview with young lady...
00:16:03who calls herself Nancy Wood.
00:16:06Calls herself Nancy Wood?
00:16:09Get me the Brockton Apartments.
00:16:11You mean that's not her real name?
00:16:14The Brockton Apartments?
00:16:15I want to speak with Miss Nancy Wood.
00:16:19Huh?
00:16:20Well, just a minute.
00:16:21There's no one there by that name.
00:16:25This is police department speaking.
00:16:28You have young lady living there whose initials are N.D.?
00:16:34Yes.
00:16:35Oh, yes.
00:16:37Uh, thank you so much.
00:16:41N.D.?
00:16:43Initials of young lady's real name.
00:16:46Norma Duncan.
00:16:47How did you know that?
00:16:48When you didn't even see her?
00:16:50Initials on young lady's bag.
00:16:53Right under your nose all the time.
00:16:55I saw them until Pop.
00:16:56Hmm.
00:16:58Beauty of Chang family also have brains.
00:17:01Very fine combination.
00:17:04Well, I have a very busy day ahead.
00:17:07So, must be going.
00:17:09You remain here at hotel.
00:17:11Oh, Pop.
00:17:12You say I have brains that make me sit around and twiddle my thumb.
00:17:16Twiddling thumbs at hotel keep pretty nose out of trouble.
00:17:19Oh, Pop.
00:17:20You have to have one of your children along when you're on a case.
00:17:23I have 14 children.
00:17:25They all try to boss me.
00:17:26No.
00:17:27I know.
00:17:28We are my friends, right?
00:17:30Why do I want you to come here?
00:17:31You have to have someone to help you.
00:17:33You still twiddle at hotel.
00:17:41Abba cadaver.
00:17:45Abba cadaver.
00:17:51Abba cadaver.
00:17:53Hello.
00:17:55Where's Mr. Chang?
00:17:56Busy on this case.
00:17:57And so am I.
00:18:00Who do you think killed Mr. Bonner?
00:18:02Spooks.
00:18:03Silly.
00:18:04They can't hurt anyone.
00:18:05No.
00:18:06Well, how come Miss Gay and me to death?
00:18:10Miss Duncan.
00:18:11Will you please explain why you gave us a false name?
00:18:16Justine Bonner and the others knew me as Nancy Wood.
00:18:19I was afraid to give my true name.
00:18:21Why, please?
00:18:23Because William Bonner had just been killed.
00:18:25And if anyone had a motive for killing him, I had.
00:18:28My father was Charles Duncan, civil engineer.
00:18:31He committed suicide a year ago.
00:18:35After mother died, father started attending the Bonner seances.
00:18:39Quite understandable.
00:18:41At that time, father was in sole charge of the financial figures
00:18:44for a tremendous project.
00:18:45Those figures turned up in the hands of a rival company.
00:18:49Dad's firm was nearly ruined.
00:18:52He... he felt disgraced.
00:18:54He shot himself.
00:18:57The Bonners got those figures from dad.
00:18:59They caused his death.
00:19:01But why you attend seances?
00:19:04Well, I...
00:19:06I hope to learn enough to put them both in prison.
00:19:09You find anything?
00:19:13No.
00:19:15Well, my mind is made up.
00:19:18Young lady, you're going to...
00:19:20To return to your home, Miss Duncan, for the present and try to forget the past.
00:19:36Charlie, that's not what I was going to say.
00:19:38I know. I know. Relax. Relax.
00:19:41You know, I got gremlins galloping up and down my spine.
00:19:44We've got to look around.
00:20:06Yes?
00:20:07Are you both there?
00:20:11Yes. You want to see us?
00:20:12No.
00:20:13Stay where you are until I need you.
00:20:15That's all.
00:20:16We want to get away.
00:20:17Get away? Why?
00:20:19We're not mixed up in Bonner's murder.
00:20:22You will stay.
00:20:23Both of you were in this room when Bonner was shot.
00:20:25We both scram if you feel that way.
00:20:28Yeah, in a hurry, too.
00:20:29No. I didn't mean it. I'm... I'm upset. Worried.
00:20:34She's alone in there. Who's she talking to?
00:20:37Moe Spooks?
00:20:38I may have to disappear.
00:20:40I'll need your help.
00:20:44How do you like that?
00:20:45She's really scared, Tom.
00:20:47Yeah. I wonder why.
00:20:50I've got to hide this gun.
00:20:51Hide it? Why?
00:20:52Just in case she talks too much.
00:20:58You heard it. She's going to scram with a couple of spooks.
00:21:00I've got to tell Pop.
00:21:01Me, too.
00:21:02No. Pop wants you to stay here.
00:21:07Oh, my goodness.
00:21:10Abacadabra.
00:21:11I think you can pop my finger. Abacadabra.
00:21:20Come on. Get a hold of yourself, man.
00:21:22A scramble egg has got more spirit than you.
00:21:26Spirit?
00:21:27Spirit.
00:21:38What are you doing up there?
00:21:40I hit my gun.
00:21:41Now a lot of trying get me in trouble.
00:21:55I'm hearing things and there ain't nothing to hear.
00:22:02Second thought, ain't nobody here.
00:22:08I've never heard of such.
00:22:10She's got enough trouble without your doing that.
00:22:14I just got to make that way.
00:22:16Abacadabra.
00:22:17Oh, shout out.
00:22:19Yes, sir.
00:22:20Hmm?
00:22:23That did it.
00:22:34You are about to leave?
00:22:36Mr. Chan, I've been about to leave ever since I arrived here.
00:22:39Birmingham, you know Pop doesn't believe that.
00:22:41We heard Justine talking to Spooks.
00:22:43That's the truth, Mr. Chan.
00:22:45And not a Spooks is talking to me.
00:22:46You do not like being legal bloodhound?
00:22:49I just can't be one, Mr. Chan.
00:22:51I'm too anemic.
00:22:52I'm practically pale.
00:22:53That's me.
00:22:55Mrs. Bonner at home?
00:22:56No, sir.
00:22:57Good.
00:22:57We'll take a look around.
00:23:01You know, after being here, I could have an elegant time in the cemetery reading tombstones at midnight.
00:23:07Pop says Spooks can't hurt you if you cross your fingers and your eyes.
00:23:13Cross your fingers and your eyes.
00:23:15Fingers and your eyes.
00:23:17Where do you get that at?
00:23:18Cross your fingers and your eyes.
00:23:20I'm gonna try that.
00:23:21Cross your fingers and your eyes.
00:23:22I'm gonna cross town.
00:23:23I'm gonna cross your fingers and your eyes.
00:23:35Remain here on watch.
00:23:43Why am I going so fast and ain't going nowhere?
00:23:46I'm gonna be scared stiff when I get there.
00:23:47Shh.
00:24:20I'm gonna try that and
00:25:04Suppose spirit of Mrs. Edwards first appear where?
00:25:09From that cabinet.
00:25:18You care for a visit to spirit world?
00:25:21Step inside.
00:25:34Gosh, Pa, how'd you figure this out?
00:25:38I've had past experience with seance room cabinets.
00:25:42Let's see what's going on in the woods.
00:25:54Pop!
00:25:55What's the matter?
00:25:56That spirit's got too much spirit.
00:25:58It chased me.
00:26:00We'll chase him right back again.
00:26:10Look, Pop, it's Mrs. Edwards.
00:26:14Very low spirits in boner sciences.
00:26:17All come from basement.
00:26:21Mr. Chan?
00:26:23Better not stay in there too long.
00:26:31Mr. Chan, you?
00:26:39Spook's got him.
00:26:40Also, most modern spooks.
00:26:43They converse with Mrs. Bonner by microphone.
00:26:56Speaking from here, I am spook.
00:26:59You are? Hmm?
00:27:01Oh, Birmingham.
00:27:04Mr. Chan, if you is dead, stay wherever you are.
00:27:19You two disappeared from inside and did you say abacadabba or snap your fingers?
00:27:24No, merely use head.
00:27:28We are here uninvited guests.
00:27:30Keep watch for return of hostess.
00:27:41Here she comes.
00:27:42Yeah, go.
00:27:43Don't, Pop, she's back.
00:28:10END
00:28:30Chasing murderers is exciting, isn't it?
00:28:32It's the easiest way of being scared to death that I know of.
00:28:38Excellent deduction, Birmingham.
00:28:39There are spirits here.
00:28:45Hmm.
00:28:47What am I going to do?
00:28:51Abracadabra.
00:28:53Abracadabra.
00:28:55Abracadabra.
00:29:04Abracadabra.
00:29:05I'm going to cross my eyes.
00:29:09Spirits cannot kill.
00:29:11Mr. Bonner shot by someone at the seance table.
00:29:14No, no one could have.
00:29:16No?
00:29:16You need hands to shoot.
00:29:18And we were all holding each other's hands when Mr. Bonner was shot.
00:29:23That's the truth.
00:29:24No, it isn't.
00:29:25Justine's a fake.
00:29:26She had her hands free to work the lights.
00:29:28She could have used a gun.
00:29:29I will not have my husband and my profession insulted.
00:29:32Please.
00:29:33Please.
00:29:34Shady business do not make for sunny life.
00:29:37I believe time for everyone to cool off.
00:29:42No.
00:29:43Anyone here know who owned this fan?
00:29:46Let me see that fan.
00:29:50It's just like one of mine.
00:29:52Yours?
00:29:53Yes.
00:29:53You know, I make fans, trick fans, and magician supplies.
00:29:58Hmm.
00:29:58You not make this one?
00:30:00Let me have a look at that.
00:30:01I don't see what this fan's got to do with it.
00:30:05You recognize fan, Mrs. Bonner?
00:30:07No.
00:30:08No.
00:30:09I find same underneath seance table.
00:30:14And I'm stumped.
00:30:16For a moment, I'm in similar position.
00:30:19One murder, too many suspects.
00:30:22Too many people have motive.
00:30:24Mr. Hamlin have motive.
00:30:26Mr. Bonner tried to blackmail him.
00:30:28So I wasn't the only fool to be blackmailed.
00:30:30Miss Green.
00:30:32Mr. Bonner making love to Miss Green.
00:30:35Yes.
00:30:35And I fell for it and later got blackmailed.
00:30:38You, Mrs. Bonner, you threaten bodily harm to your husband
00:30:42if he not cease his attentions to Miss Green.
00:30:45That's not true.
00:30:46It is.
00:30:47I heard you.
00:30:48So did I.
00:30:49Your daughter was there.
00:30:50What about her?
00:30:51Beauty of Chan family.
00:30:53Merely innocent bystander.
00:30:54So was I.
00:30:58Magic.
00:30:58Black magic kill William Bonner.
00:31:02Seems most strange that you, Mr. Edwards, are maker of magician's supplies.
00:31:09That will be all for a moment.
00:31:16Mr. Chan.
00:31:17Yes?
00:31:18At the seance, someone asked me a question about London.
00:31:22What happened on night of October 5th, 1935?
00:31:25Yes.
00:31:25Well, I was in London then.
00:31:28You no answer to strange question?
00:31:30No, but the voice that asked it seemed familiar somehow.
00:31:34There's a name connected with that voice right on the tip of my tongue,
00:31:37but I, I simply can't remember it.
00:31:40Most important clue.
00:31:42Try please remember as soon as possible.
00:31:48Say, Charlie, how did you figure this out?
00:31:53You forget I am psychic.
00:32:02Excuse, please.
00:32:05Go on.
00:32:06I dare you to laugh.
00:32:18What are you looking for, Mr. Chan?
00:32:21Searching for bullets that killed Bonner.
00:32:30All we can do now, Mr. Chan, is wait for reactions.
00:32:32Then we'll make the final test.
00:32:34Tomorrow?
00:32:35By tomorrow, we should know if your theory concerning a bullet
00:32:37which kills and then disappears is correct.
00:32:40Thank you so much, Mr. Dawson.
00:32:42It's been a pleasure working with you, sir.
00:32:45Oh, Pa, I just called the hotel and the clerk said
00:32:48Miss Duncan is waiting to see you.
00:32:49Okay.
00:32:56It seems we arrived too late.
00:32:57Miss Duncan already gone.
00:32:59But the clerk said it was important that she see you.
00:33:04There are no lights.
00:33:06Is she dead, Pop?
00:33:08No.
00:33:09She's not asleep, is she?
00:33:11Impossible sleep in this...
00:33:21What's it all about, Pop?
00:33:22Seems we arrive in time after all.
00:33:26Miss Duncan's supposed to be dead when we get here.
00:33:29What happened?
00:33:31Get out.
00:34:08There's no one in the hall.
00:34:09The elevators are way down on the lower floor.
00:34:11No one on fire escape, no.
00:34:13Hall door opened to make us look that way.
00:34:16Pop, you mean to say the murderer was in the bedroom all the time?
00:34:19Open door is all trick a magician who never lets you follow what he is doing.
00:34:28She's like someone in a trance.
00:34:30Miss Duncan, wake up.
00:34:33Wake.
00:34:40Why, Mr. Chen, what a surprise I...
00:34:45What am I doing here?
00:34:46You came to see me, Miss Duncan.
00:34:49No, I didn't.
00:34:50But the clerk said you did.
00:34:52You told him you wanted to see Pop.
00:34:54But I didn't.
00:34:57You don't believe me.
00:34:59Oh, I believe you, Miss Duncan.
00:35:01Tell me.
00:35:02You remember anything more about strange question concerning London?
00:35:07Question?
00:35:08London?
00:35:11I can't remember anything right now.
00:35:14Never mind.
00:35:15You will return home with Mr. Rafferty.
00:35:18Well, why should he accompany me?
00:35:20To see that you should get home safely.
00:35:28Don't let her out of your sight.
00:35:31What do we do now?
00:35:33You go to bed.
00:35:35I must send cablegram to Scotland Yard.
00:35:37Good night.
00:35:39Good night, Pop.
00:35:43Mr. Bonner's bank statement showed no evidence that he blackmailed you people.
00:35:46That's what you say.
00:35:48Very well, Mrs. Bonner.
00:35:49You leave us no recourse with the law.
00:35:51Oh, all right.
00:35:52Meet me at the Berkeley building tomorrow at 11 o'clock.
00:35:55I'll see...
00:35:58Excuse, Mrs. Bonner.
00:36:00I would like to ask you a few questions.
00:36:04All surprised to see you, Miss Green and Mr. Hamlin.
00:36:07We are here on business alone, I assure you.
00:36:10Yes, we were just going.
00:36:11Oh, so sorry.
00:36:17Uh, Mrs. Bonner.
00:36:20On night of fatal science, someone asked what happened in London on night of October 5th, 1935.
00:36:29Do you know meaning of question?
00:36:32No, I have no idea what it meant.
00:36:34Why are you so nervous?
00:36:36I'm not nervous.
00:36:37I'm just upset.
00:36:39That voice was like one from the dead.
00:36:41That...
00:36:41You can explain?
00:36:43No.
00:36:43No, I mean I can't.
00:36:45Mr. Chan, those people upset me.
00:36:47Please, Mr. Chan, excuse me.
00:36:49Certainly.
00:36:49All right.
00:37:05Mr. Chan sure scared her, didn't he?
00:37:07She's got something on her conscience and pops after it.
00:37:12Uh-oh.
00:37:28I'm going out to do something very important to me, and to you and Vera.
00:37:32Yeah?
00:37:33What do you mean?
00:37:34When I return, I'm making a getaway.
00:37:36Go on.
00:37:37We're listening.
00:37:38You've got to help me.
00:37:39You'll be well paid.
00:37:41You hear that?
00:37:43She's gabbing with the ghosts again.
00:37:45That's all for now.
00:37:46I'll be back soon.
00:37:48Uh-oh.
00:37:54Tom, what do you think she's up to?
00:37:56I think I'll take a walk.
00:37:57What are you going to do?
00:37:58Now, dry up on the dramatics, Vera.
00:38:00You stay here, and I'll be back real soon.
00:38:13Come on.
00:38:14We've got to follow her.
00:38:15Oh, no.
00:38:15Where trouble's gone, I ain't chasing it.
00:38:17Stay here, then, with a spook.
00:38:19Oh, wait a minute.
00:38:20Wait till I get under my hat.
00:38:24Trouble, trouble, and more trouble.
00:38:26Where is my vitamins?
00:38:29Just let me get some of my vitamins.
00:38:32Oh, no.
00:38:33Come on.
00:38:38Now, let them spooks come on.
00:38:42Shut my mouth.
00:38:43If y'all heard me, I was only kidding.
00:38:45Do I need...
00:38:50Mr.
00:38:51It's sort of diverted down in his house.
00:38:56But I never want to strike her.
00:39:00If so, I'll get a clue.
00:39:14It'll take a few days later.
00:39:15When close the door was gone.
00:39:16Excuse.
00:39:22Good news, Mr. Chan?
00:39:24Excellent news.
00:39:26All right, what's going on now?
00:39:28Merely discover what kind of bullet killed Mr. Bonner.
00:39:31What?
00:39:34Will someone explain what's going on?
00:39:36This doesn't tell what kind of a bullet it was.
00:39:40Yeah.
00:39:41Huh?
00:39:43Say that again.
00:39:44And I just saw Mr. Edwards.
00:39:45He was acting very strangely.
00:39:47Oh, yes.
00:39:48Yes, thanks.
00:39:49We'll attend to it.
00:39:51That was Norma Duncan.
00:39:53She says that Edwards is on the seventh floor of the Berkeley building acting strangely.
00:39:56Let's go.
00:40:02Charlie.
00:40:04About that bullet.
00:40:05You can keep secret?
00:40:07Of course.
00:40:08So can I.
00:40:22How is it?
00:40:28You can keep secret?
00:40:28Goal.
00:40:29That's right.
00:40:31Remember?
00:40:32Is there anything else you could do?
00:40:38Can I see?
00:40:38Good morning.
00:40:45I want to see you there.
00:40:46Down, please.
00:40:54Well, she ain't on the slope, thank goodness.
00:40:58Uh-oh.
00:40:59Charlie, that's funny.
00:41:00Miss Duncan phones and says that Edwards is here acting strangely.
00:41:03Then why should his secretary say that he hasn't been here all morning?
00:41:05You think Miss Duncan tell on truth?
00:41:08Why, I...
00:41:09Ha!
00:41:09We followed Mrs. Bonner to this building and lost her.
00:41:13Oh, stop. One moment.
00:41:18Pop, that's Mrs. Bonner's glove.
00:41:55Come on.
00:41:56Not there now.
00:41:57Pop, she said she was making a getaway when she got back.
00:42:00With the spooks.
00:42:10Come forward, Mrs. Bonner.
00:42:18Paper, paper, boxes.
00:42:22Hey, look!
00:42:24Come a little closer, Mrs. Bonner.
00:42:28All right.
00:42:29All right.
00:42:29It must be crazy.
00:42:31More this way.
00:42:35Just a little more.
00:42:37Pop.
00:42:40I think she's gonna jump.
00:42:42Don't jump!
00:42:47Pop!
00:42:48So close.
00:42:49That's Mrs. Bonner.
00:42:55What happened?
00:42:56Come on.
00:42:57Keep moving.
00:42:58Everybody out.
00:43:00Everybody out.
00:43:01Go ahead.
00:43:01Get out.
00:43:02Go ahead.
00:43:08Well, I guess that closes the Bonner case.
00:43:11Wish Lady's coat removed immediately.
00:43:14What for?
00:43:15Large stain on same must be analyzed at once.
00:43:18All right, Rafferty.
00:43:50It's what we figured, Mr. Chan.
00:43:53Menazderol.
00:43:53Absolutely.
00:43:54It's a derivative of the powerful shock drug.
00:43:57I've never heard of antidote for such drug.
00:44:00Oh, there is one.
00:44:01Just a moment.
00:44:11One of these pills will reduce the effects of menazderol to impotency.
00:44:15How long will it take antidote to work?
00:44:18I haven't had a chance to make any tests, but I should say it would work within 10 to 15
00:44:23minutes.
00:44:24What is the effect of this new drug?
00:44:26A few minutes after taking it, there would seem to be no effects whatever.
00:44:29But actually, the drug leaves a person with no mental or physical resistance.
00:44:33Such person could be easily hypnotized?
00:44:36I should say such a person would be the most easily controlled subject a hypnotist ever had.
00:44:41A normal person can resist any hypnotist.
00:44:44But after taking menazderol, they haven't a chance.
00:44:48Thank you so much, Mr. Dawson.
00:44:56Hello, Charlie.
00:44:57Hello.
00:44:58You, uh, questioned Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Edwards, and Miss Green?
00:45:02Yes.
00:45:03And they all had solid alibis.
00:45:05Anyway, this case has ended without any of your fancy detecting.
00:45:09Case ended?
00:45:10Sure.
00:45:11Mrs. Bonner killed her husband.
00:45:12And then when she found that I, uh, we were getting too close, she committed suicide.
00:45:18So sorry.
00:45:19Your suicide, most excellent case of murder.
00:45:22Murder?
00:45:23Mrs. Bonner killed by same person who killed her husband.
00:45:27What?
00:45:27Huh?
00:45:31Well, Pop, I went shopping this afternoon.
00:45:35Huh?
00:45:35Wait till the folks back home see me.
00:45:37I'll knock their eyes out.
00:45:39You are perhaps pugilist?
00:45:41Silly.
00:45:42I mean my clothes.
00:45:43I bought a crownless hat and a backless dress and some toeless shoes.
00:45:48Stores have no clothes which are complete?
00:45:51That's the style.
00:45:52Just wait till the boys see me.
00:45:54Can you imagine what happened?
00:45:58Why, Pop, what was that?
00:46:01New tooth out of old horn.
00:46:07What are you taking pills for?
00:46:10Oh, uh, bring same by mistake from police station.
00:46:14Should have left in laboratory.
00:46:17Will you get me police station, please?
00:46:20You know, Pop, I got an idea about this Bonner case.
00:46:23Water on brain now leaking, huh?
00:46:27Uh, hello.
00:46:28This is Charlie Chan speaking.
00:46:30Have cablegram arrived for me from Scotland Yard?
00:46:34No?
00:46:36Oh, thank you very much.
00:46:37Good night.
00:46:40Good night.
00:46:46Good night.
00:46:53Good night.
00:46:57Good night.
00:46:58Good night.
00:46:59Good night.
00:48:28Okay, Mr. Dawson. Thanks.
00:48:30Pop not at the laboratory?
00:48:31No, and he's nowhere in the building.
00:48:33I know he's not with Matthews or out at the Bonner place.
00:48:35I'm getting scared.
00:48:36We've got to find him.
00:48:37Well, I'll help it.
00:48:38Where can we go?
00:48:40Wait a minute.
00:48:42When Mr. Chan was here, he said something about hypnotism.
00:48:44Does that mean anything?
00:48:46He said something about going to where she started from.
00:48:49Who is she?
00:48:50Mrs. Bonner.
00:48:51Maybe Pop that's office she went to.
00:48:53Come on.
00:48:59Relax, Mr. Chan.
00:49:01Relax.
00:49:02My heart.
00:49:04Pill.
00:49:06Do you have the pill, Mr. Chan?
00:49:11Pocket.
00:49:13You may take a pill, Mr. Chan.
00:49:15But do not try anything to do.
00:49:19There is water at your hand.
00:49:38There was mesmerol in that water.
00:49:55Now we can go to work, Mr. Chan.
00:50:19Relax, Mr. Chan.
00:50:21Remember nothing but what you have been told.
00:50:25Remember, you go to the roof of the Chalmont building.
00:50:32And when you hear my voice, you know what you ought to do?
00:50:40Come forward to you.
00:50:48Have no fear, Mr. Chan.
00:50:50No one will touch you.
00:50:53You will start on your journey now.
00:51:00Your hat, Mr. Chan.
00:51:17You made that fast, Mr. Chan.
00:51:18It's only 10.30.
00:51:21It's open.
00:51:28Somebody's been here, but I don't think Mr. Chan did this.
00:51:40I don't think so.
00:51:49Down, please.
00:51:53I guess Pop didn't come here.
00:51:58Look!
00:52:00Pop was here!
00:52:01Come on. We'll check with the elevator operators.
00:52:23Come on.
00:52:23Did you take a Chinese gentleman down lately?
00:52:24Just now.
00:52:25He acted funny.
00:52:26Like he was walking asleep.
00:52:27That Mrs. Bonner that killed herself
00:52:28rode down me and acted the same way.
00:52:30All right.
00:52:30Down.
00:52:31Fast.
00:52:38Come forward, Mr. Chan.
00:52:44Other way up.
00:52:45Police!
00:52:48More this way, Mr. Chan.
00:52:54Come a little closer, Mr. Chan.
00:53:01Come here quietly.
00:53:17Oh, Pop!
00:53:18Keep back.
00:53:19Murderer on roof.
00:53:24We leave too late now to catch Killer.
00:53:27Oh, Pop!
00:53:31Must remember to tell Dawson his timing for antidote all wrong.
00:53:37Come.
00:53:40Looks like a magician has this place.
00:53:42Edwards, across the hall.
00:53:43He sells magician supplies.
00:53:45Could look for fingerprints, but I'm afraid magician killer too smart to leave any.
00:54:04What do we do next?
00:54:05Oh, Mr. Chan, I almost forgot.
00:54:07This came this morning.
00:54:09Oh, perhaps Cablegram report from Scotland Yard.
00:54:18Tonight, Charlie Chan holds sea ants.
00:54:21You, Pop?
00:54:22We'll bring to earth ghosts which kill Justine and William Bonner.
00:54:27Come.
00:54:28Come.
00:54:29Come.
00:54:35I knew he'd get in bad hanging around here.
00:54:38Now, sit on your blood pressure and keep it down.
00:54:40Don't let the cops in Justine's place worry you.
00:54:42In her place?
00:54:43Tom, there's a cop on our front steps and one in the back too.
00:54:46What are we going to do?
00:54:47Take it easy, Vera.
00:54:48Get into your outfit.
00:54:49What?
00:54:50Sure.
00:54:51We'll slip through the seance room and hide in Justine's place right under the noses.
00:54:54Come on.
00:54:56Here.
00:54:59Sergeant, you will sit there, please.
00:55:04Special seance about to proceed.
00:55:07We'll be very short.
00:55:08What's the meaning of all this foolishness?
00:55:11Very soon, we'll bring forth most exclusive spirits.
00:55:15Your spirits are a long time coming, Mr. Chan.
00:55:19Spirits always have a very long way to come.
00:55:50What do we do now?
00:55:52I heard Rafferty.
00:55:54Huh?
00:55:59Is that you, Saulage?
00:56:01You find any spirits, Mr. Rafferty?
00:56:04Not at home now, Mr. Chan.
00:56:07Remain where you are a few moments longer.
00:56:10Excuse, please.
00:56:21Please.
00:56:22Oh, no, you don't.
00:56:37Come out.
00:56:40You.
00:56:43Outside.
00:56:46No.
00:56:47Please.
00:56:54Wow!
00:57:00Wish to converse with elusive spooks.
00:57:03Remove hoods, please.
00:57:11Officer, the spooks has done stopped knocking, and now they don't come all the way in.
00:57:15No one goes out.
00:57:16It's just got to work this time.
00:57:19Abacadabra.
00:57:20Disappear.
00:57:22Abacadabra.
00:57:23Disappear.
00:57:24You can't make anything disappear by snapping your fingers.
00:57:26No.
00:57:27Well, how come every time I snap my fingers and say, come seven, all my money disappears?
00:57:35You are Vera and Tom Stocky.
00:57:37Yes, that's the truth, Mr. Chan.
00:57:39We were assistants to magicians before Vardifle died.
00:57:43Know any people in this room?
00:57:45No, no.
00:57:46We've only seen them in the dark.
00:57:48That's the truth.
00:57:49Come.
00:57:54Stand there, please.
00:57:59Mr. Rafferty may leave now.
00:58:02Coming up, Mr. Chan.
00:58:06Abacadabra.
00:58:07That don't work.
00:58:10Come seven.
00:58:15I made it!
00:58:20Where did I go?
00:58:39Abacadabra, Abacadabra, uh, oh, my goodness, I haven't forgot the magic word.
00:58:42Birmingham.
00:58:45Oh, Mr. Chan, you sure did lose some weight.
00:58:48Birmingham, remain still and silent.
00:58:54Yes, sir.
00:58:58Science begin with word association test.
00:59:02When you hear me speak word, person at rest will reply with first word which comes to mind.
00:59:07Person upon whom, like balls, will speak.
00:59:15Magician.
00:59:16Supplies.
00:59:17Five-eighteen.
00:59:19Uh, uh, train.
00:59:23Honor.
00:59:25Dead.
00:59:27Revenge?
00:59:28No.
00:59:30Magician.
00:59:32Trickster.
00:59:32October.
00:59:34October.
00:59:35Month.
00:59:37Bullet.
00:59:39Gun.
00:59:41London.
00:59:42City.
00:59:431935.
00:59:44Year.
00:59:45London.
00:59:46England.
00:59:49Cigar.
00:59:50Cold.
00:59:51Case.
00:59:53Icy.
00:59:53Charlie, what is all this?
00:59:57Almost solved.
00:59:58Killer made slip.
01:00:01Something wrong with lights.
01:00:04What was that?
01:00:09It was a bullet hole in this chair.
01:00:18But bullet did not go entirely through, chair.
01:00:22You work lights very well.
01:00:25For helping me illuminate dark mystery, I now make you junior member of the firm.
01:00:33Motive for murder is explained in this cablegram which I received from Scotland Yard.
01:00:40During automobile accidents which occur in London, on night of October 5th, 1935, famous magician known as Shardo the Great
01:00:51is horribly injured.
01:00:53Shardo?
01:00:54That was the name of the voice.
01:00:56Exactly.
01:00:57He tried to kill you because he feared you remember his name.
01:01:02Shardo was pursuing his wife, Justine, who was running away with his assistant, William Bonner.
01:01:10Then accident occurred.
01:01:13Shardo remained in hospital for over a year.
01:01:16I heard he died, Mr. Chan.
01:01:17No, Shardo recover.
01:01:19But now through plastic surgery, he is utterly unrecognizable.
01:01:25So he determined to find and kill Justine and William Bonner.
01:01:30And Shardo succeeds.
01:01:32Look, Charlie, now there's blood on the chair.
01:01:39Explanation of why no bullet found in body of William Bonner.
01:01:43Bullet made of frozen blood.
01:01:46Shardo the Great was very clever.
01:01:49He was magician, ventriloquist, actor, and hypnotist.
01:01:54But he could hardly expect to fool the police forever.
01:01:59Could he, Mr. Hamlin?
01:02:00What?
01:02:01Huh?
01:02:02Why?
01:02:03How should I know?
01:02:05That's it.
01:02:06He touched my hand with that case, and the thing nearly froze me.
01:02:09Mr. Shardo, you are wanted for murder.
01:02:12I'm not being taken, Chan.
01:02:14It is unavoidable, Shardo.
01:02:18Look out, Charlie.
01:02:23Cigar case contains spring gun.
01:02:26My own make.
01:02:27Clever, hmm?
01:02:28I carry it in an insulated pocket.
01:02:31Take him away, Sergeant.
01:02:32Come on.
01:02:38Thank you so much for your patience.
01:02:41Thank goodness.
01:02:42Seance over.
01:02:44All may depart.
01:02:47What about me?
01:02:49Oh, Birmingham.
01:02:51You may come up now.
01:02:54Which way is up?
01:03:03Charlie, if Shardo or Hamlin was holding hands at the seance,
01:03:07how did he shoot Bonner?
01:03:10Old trick of third hand.
01:03:12One moment.
01:03:13I'll show you.
01:03:21You see?
01:03:24Hamlin let other person hold this hand,
01:03:28while he have one hand free now to fire a strange gun.
01:03:31Then to get rid of it, he just hung it on the drape.
01:03:33And to get rid of it, he just hung it on the drape.
01:03:34Exactly.
01:03:35Like magician, he make it disappear before your very eyes.
01:03:40Where am I now?
01:03:43Oh, oh, excuse, please.
01:03:54Uh, is the police gone now?
01:03:56Yes.
01:03:58What's the matter, Birmingham?
01:04:00Don't you feel good?
01:04:01Oh, I feel fine now.
01:04:02Uh, I took some of my vitamin pills.
01:04:05What vitamin pills?
01:04:07Oh, these here.
01:04:08Why, there's a lot of pep in these pills, Mr. Chance.
01:04:12You eat those pills and still feel good?
01:04:15Feel good.
01:04:16Ha, nothing about it with me.
01:04:18Of course, I got a little permanent wave in my stomach,
01:04:20but I don't, I don't hear the spooks rapping no more.
01:04:31You are fooling me.
01:04:32You're not psychic at all.
01:04:34You're sure?
01:04:35Well, Charlie, there's another one.
01:04:42Beauty of Chan family.
01:04:44Also a junior member with the brain.
01:04:47What?
01:05:07Beauty of Chan family.
01:05:08Beauty of Chan family.
01:05:10Beauty of Chan family.
01:05:12Beauty of Chan family.
01:05:13Beauty of Chan family.
01:05:14Beauty of Chan family.
01:05:14Beauty of Chan family.
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