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Step into a world of mystery, suspense, and crime in The Mystery of the Green Lights (1946), a captivating vintage detective film filled with hidden clues, dangerous secrets, and unexpected twists. Follow the investigation as detectives unravel a puzzling case connected to mysterious green lights that seem to hold the key to a criminal conspiracy. A classic crime thriller that showcases the intrigue and atmosphere of 1940s cinema.
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00:02:56I wish I could say as much for that rag of yours, Ames.
00:02:59Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:03:00Is this your first day on the police run, Johnny?
00:03:02Yeah.
00:03:03Gosh, I hope I don't pull any boners.
00:03:04You won't.
00:03:06Drop around and see me any time you feel like it.
00:03:08Maybe I'll come up with a scoop one of these days
00:03:10just to keep Ames and the rest of those Pelicans in line.
00:03:12Yeah, that'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:03:13Gee, I sure need one.
00:03:15Come on, Johnny, meet the rest of the gang.
00:03:16Okay, I'll see you later.
00:03:17Bye.
00:03:17Bye.
00:03:19That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:03:22Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:03:23Won't do us any harm, either.
00:03:24I'll go down to the Dutchman's for an egg sandwich.
00:03:26I'll go along with you.
00:03:57Come on, you take all day.
00:03:59Come on, whatever.
00:04:01Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:04:03This is what you tell me.
00:04:03I've got a city newsburst, Sergeant.
00:04:05Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:04:10What is this, a gang?
00:04:27It's Walter Bard.
00:04:29Runs a private detective agency in the Equitable building.
00:04:31They picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:04:33Looks like somebody's trying to give the department a business.
00:04:36Get going, up, Herman.
00:04:37Yeah.
00:04:47Precious sake of life.
00:04:49It's Mr. Bard.
00:04:51Do you know anything about this?
00:04:52Not me.
00:04:53Not me.
00:04:54I just sell him flowers.
00:04:56Of course.
00:05:04Take this into the desk.
00:05:05Right.
00:05:08Hey, Sam.
00:05:10What have you got?
00:05:11What do you think?
00:05:12Hey, Sam Carson's frisking a stiff on the sidewalk in front of the station.
00:05:16That's the name of the gang.
00:05:17Gin.
00:05:18Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:05:20Listen.
00:05:21Check this gun with ballistics as soon as you can.
00:05:23Then have the car gone over for fingerprints.
00:05:25Hey, Sam.
00:05:25Who's the...
00:05:26Hey, it's Walter Bard.
00:05:27Dumped right in front of the station.
00:05:29Couldn't get any closer.
00:05:29Boy, there's gonna be a stink about this.
00:05:32He was mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:05:34He was mixed up in everything.
00:05:36He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:05:39What's the matter, Johnny?
00:05:40I never saw a dead man before.
00:05:46Give me Charlie to make a snack.
00:05:48Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:05:50Walter Bard, the private eye, was just found shot to death in his car,
00:05:52right at the front door of the joint.
00:05:54Evidently a definite slap of the prison administration.
00:05:57You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum war that's been going on.
00:06:00Yeah.
00:06:01Say that it's gangland's despairing reply to the vigilance of the police.
00:06:05Huh?
00:06:06Sure, play it up big.
00:06:07Lay it on thick.
00:06:08Everybody's gonna be taking pot shots at the administration over this little deal,
00:06:11and the Express is its only friend.
00:06:15Oppenheimer, go up to Bard's apartment.
00:06:17Bring back any letters or photographs that might look hot.
00:06:20Yes, sir.
00:06:21See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:06:23Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:06:25Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:06:27Okay, Lieutenant.
00:06:28Harper, you chase up to Bard's office in the Equitable Building.
00:06:31Go through his desk and files.
00:06:32Check his appointment calendar.
00:06:33Yes.
00:06:34Well, Lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:06:36Bard used to hang out at Tony's on Second Street quite a lot.
00:06:38Good idea.
00:06:40Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony if Bard met anyone there tonight.
00:06:43Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs to.
00:06:45Right, sir.
00:06:47Yes?
00:06:48Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, Lieutenant.
00:06:49She's probably sleeping.
00:06:50Keep on trying.
00:06:52Okay.
00:06:58Hey, Dan.
00:07:00Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:07:02He covers police for The Sun.
00:07:04Also has the poesy corner on the side.
00:07:06Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:07:07Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:07:09I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast to the riffraff that infests this mortuary.
00:07:13When are you going to get rid of that moth-eating trophy you got on?
00:07:16Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather, Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:07:20Not an Indian fighter.
00:07:22Nothing would persuade me to part with it, except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:07:26Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:07:27Hey, lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:07:29On a hot day, that coat gets higher than the stockyards in the south wind.
00:07:40Come in, Doc.
00:07:42Well, here it is, Sam.
00:07:43The bullet went clean through him, smashed the fifth rib.
00:07:45Have you boys found it yet?
00:07:47In the front seat up Hole Street.
00:07:49Discharge from the gun that was in the car?
00:07:50Mm-hmm.
00:07:51His own.
00:07:52There were plenty of powder burns, Sam.
00:07:53Could have been suicide.
00:07:55Not a chance, Doc.
00:07:56The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:07:58The body was driven there in Bard's car and left there.
00:08:01Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:08:02Do you think someone's trying to discredit us in the administration?
00:08:05Could be.
00:08:09Holy mackerel.
00:08:14That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:08:16Well, this is very interesting.
00:08:19The daughter of Luther Bradley, the reform candidate for mayor.
00:08:22Boy, what the Express will do with this.
00:08:25Send Brewer in.
00:08:27Must be some of the Bradley.
00:08:28Somehow, I don't think it is.
00:08:30Why?
00:08:30The famous Calvert Luck, my boy.
00:08:33Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley house on Carlisle.
00:08:37Ask for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:08:39Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:08:41We want to ask her a few questions.
00:08:42Okay.
00:08:43Handle her carefully.
00:08:45All we want is her cooperation.
00:08:46Stress that, Brewer.
00:08:48Yes?
00:08:49Mrs. Byers still doesn't answer.
00:08:51Keep trying.
00:08:55Express, I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:08:57Very important.
00:08:58It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:09:01Hello.
00:09:03Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:09:05Oh, hello, Doc.
00:09:06What's on your mind?
00:09:08Walter Bard.
00:09:09Sure I know him.
00:09:12Well, who shot him?
00:09:13I don't know.
00:09:14But his body was found in his own car right in front of the police station here.
00:09:18That's right.
00:09:19The police station.
00:09:20And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:22There was a notation in Bard's memorandum book that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley this evening.
00:09:27Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:09:29Are you sure?
00:09:34Oh, this is beautiful.
00:09:38Look, Doc, you stay there and keep your eyes open.
00:09:40I'll keep in touch with you.
00:09:41Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:43You can count on me.
00:09:44Goodbye.
00:10:04This is Miss Bradley, Lieutenant.
00:10:05Lieutenant Carson.
00:10:06How do you do?
00:10:07Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night, Mr. Bradley.
00:10:10Sit down, please.
00:10:16What do you know about a man named Walter Bard?
00:10:19You knew him?
00:10:21Knew him?
00:10:22He was murdered this evening.
00:10:26In his own car.
00:10:27Shot.
00:10:28I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:10:32You did know him?
00:10:34Yes, I knew him.
00:10:35Seen him recently?
00:10:38This evening.
00:10:39I had an appointment with him at his apartment.
00:10:42Were you a friend of his, Miss Bradley?
00:10:44No.
00:10:45Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:10:48I'm sorry, I can't.
00:10:51Private?
00:10:55That's not so good.
00:10:59Is your father still in Washington?
00:11:01Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:11:04This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father, Miss Bradley.
00:11:08A dead body on your doorstep could prove very embarrassing for the department too, Lieutenant Carson.
00:11:14Maybe.
00:11:15Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:11:17Is that necessary?
00:11:19Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course if you'd rather not.
00:11:21Well done.
00:11:23Very well.
00:11:25This way, please.
00:11:28Now, the right hand.
00:11:33That's fine.
00:11:35You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:11:37Oh, thank you.
00:11:39My, uh, photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:11:42Sitting's by appointment only.
00:11:44That's all there is to it.
00:11:50I'll be classified up, Herman.
00:11:55It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:11:57You don't mind waiting.
00:11:59Of course not.
00:12:00Right in there.
00:12:03You're being swell about this.
00:12:12Yes?
00:12:13Max Carver to see you, Lieutenant.
00:12:15Send him in.
00:12:16Thanks, Sam.
00:12:18I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:12:20I figured you'd be around.
00:12:22Well, I don't wonder you're sore, Sam.
00:12:24Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:12:27The administration too.
00:12:29The administration's your problem.
00:12:30Ah, now, that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:12:34Don't forget, we got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:12:36I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:12:39I know, but a politician sometimes could do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:12:44I understand you got the Bradley girl down here.
00:12:47So you know all about that, huh?
00:12:49Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:12:52She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:12:54I'm not making any statements.
00:12:56And when I do, the Express will get it, along with the other papers.
00:12:58Well, you're not letting a pretty face affect your better judgment, are you, Sam?
00:13:02I'm not letting that tabloid of yours spare that girl's reputation so you can stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:13:07Well, the public has the right to know the facts, Express Brinson.
00:13:10Yeah. Anything for a nickel.
00:13:15Look, Sam. How long have you had this job?
00:13:18Long enough.
00:13:20When you first came into this department, I was still on the police run for the Express.
00:13:25Now, I own it.
00:13:27While we're looking around, look at Mike Shea there.
00:13:30Now, Mike was your type of copier, and he never played ball.
00:13:33So what did it get him?
00:13:35A load of lead in the belly.
00:13:38You ought to be smart, Sam.
00:13:42Look, is Bradley anything to you?
00:13:46No.
00:13:48Well, Jordan's on his way out.
00:13:50How'd you like to be chief?
00:13:52I'd like it. You know that, Calvert.
00:13:55Could be arranged.
00:13:57How?
00:13:58Well, if this Bradley girl were booked, it might please some very important people very much.
00:14:03And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:14:05There isn't a particle of evidence against her.
00:14:07Well, no one would criticize you if you'd book her anyway.
00:14:10Not suspicion or material witness. Anything you like.
00:14:14Until after the election. Then let her go.
00:14:17She'd be all right.
00:14:19Do that, and you'd have a grand jury investigation right in your lap.
00:14:22Oh, Sam. Now, don't look at it that way.
00:14:25Why, a week after the election, the whole thing will be completely forgotten.
00:14:30Think it over.
00:14:33Don't forget, Sam. It always pays to cooperate.
00:14:38Always pays.
00:14:38Come on, please.
00:15:00Great guy wasn't in the town.
00:15:01He sure was.
00:15:03I guess he was just about the greatest cop the city ever had.
00:15:05Yeah, wanted to get him.
00:15:07Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:15:09See you, William.
00:15:14What'd you find at Bard's apartment?
00:15:16Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shades
00:15:18of lipstick, two glasses with prints on both.
00:15:22Prints on the gun, on one of the glasses,
00:15:25and Miss Bradley's fingerprints, all check.
00:15:31Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:15:36Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:15:42Well, Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:15:50All right, Oppenheimer.
00:15:55Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints
00:15:57on a highball glass in Bard's apartment.
00:15:59Oh, yes, he poured a drink for me,
00:16:01but I set it down without tasting it.
00:16:03We also found your fingerprints on the gun
00:16:05with which Bard was shot.
00:16:09All right.
00:16:10I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:16:18I went to see Bard on behalf of someone
00:16:20who was very close to me,
00:16:22someone whom he was trying to blackmail.
00:16:25He made a business of buying and selling information
00:16:28about people, especially about those
00:16:31who had built honest lives after making a bad start.
00:16:34The problem with people.
00:16:35He had come to me with certain information.
00:16:39He wanted $20,000 for it,
00:16:41but I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:16:53I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:16:53Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:17:02Won't you sit down?
00:17:03I'll fix you a drink.
00:17:04Oh, I really don't care for one.
00:17:06I have some very nice bourbon here.
00:17:25a cigarette?
00:17:27Oh, thank you.
00:17:32Well?
00:17:34I simply haven't been able to raise that much money, Mr. Bard.
00:17:37How much have you raised?
00:17:38$10,000.
00:17:40And I said $20,000.
00:17:42Well, that settles up.
00:17:44Oh, please.
00:17:44Won't you give me a little more time?
00:17:46Look, Miss Bradley, you're stalling.
00:17:48You either haven't got the money
00:17:49or you won't go to the one who has got it.
00:17:50Now, I'm holding a powerhouse.
00:17:53Newspaper clippings, letters, affidavits, photographs.
00:17:56Enough dynamite to blow the lid a mile high.
00:17:59And I've got a cash customer
00:18:00who'll pay $20,000 in the morning.
00:18:03I suppose it'd be useless to appeal to your sense of decency.
00:18:07Oh, completely.
00:18:08You see, I haven't any.
00:18:09Not since I put on long pants.
00:18:11And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:18:13I can believe that.
00:18:15But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:18:18Take it.
00:18:19You look shaky.
00:18:26Now, give me that envelope.
00:18:37You'll find them all there.
00:18:38Don't believe it.
00:18:40I'd rather enjoy putting an end to your activities.
00:18:47Stay where you are.
00:18:51He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:18:55Miss Bradley,
00:18:56Do you expect me to believe that chisel
00:18:58lets you take those papers away from him?
00:19:00But I've told you the exact truth.
00:19:02What happened to the gun?
00:19:04I threw it in this car when I left.
00:19:06What'd you do with the envelope?
00:19:07Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:19:09What was in it?
00:19:10I can't possibly tell you.
00:19:12It must have been hot if Bard wanted that kind of dough for her.
00:19:15Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:19:17What was it about? Your father?
00:19:19It's no use asking me.
00:19:21What was in it?
00:19:22Dirt Bard had dug up?
00:19:24Something Calvert could use?
00:19:26Let me help you.
00:19:28You couldn't make a deal with him.
00:19:29He said he'd take you home.
00:19:30It was raining.
00:19:31You go down to his car.
00:19:32He makes a pass at you.
00:19:33You grab his gun, let him have it,
00:19:35and scram with the envelope.
00:19:36The brakes in the car come loose,
00:19:37the car starts rolling.
00:19:39Lieutenant, you...
00:19:41You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bard.
00:19:45Your prints are on the gun.
00:19:47You have motive, plenty of it.
00:19:50What do you expect me to believe?
00:19:53I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:19:57What are you going to do with me?
00:19:59I ought to book you.
00:20:02You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:20:09I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.
00:20:12I've learned a great deal about the police department from father.
00:20:15Max Calvert could do a lot to help you if you could learn to do things his way.
00:20:19Leave Calvert out of this.
00:20:21I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:20:23I'm glad.
00:20:25I've always liked policemen.
00:20:29I should book you.
00:20:30Otherwise, I can't hold you.
00:20:32If you don't mind waiting a little longer,
00:20:36something may turn up.
00:20:38You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:20:41Put it anywhere you like.
00:20:44In here, please.
00:20:55Do you guys mind if I win a hand?
00:20:57No.
00:21:00Hello, Doc.
00:21:01Anything new on the board, Kelly?
00:21:02Well, he was shot with his own gun that was found in the car.
00:21:05Well, we know all about that.
00:21:07Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley, Luther's daughter, is mixed up in the case.
00:21:11No.
00:21:12That's right. Carson has her downstairs now.
00:21:14She had a date with Bard in his apartment this evening.
00:21:17Regular little mine of information, aren't you, Doc?
00:21:19Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:21:21That's nice of you.
00:21:22Well, I'm still running the night shift around here, and I'll give out the information.
00:21:26The express already has it.
00:21:28I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:21:29You boys might as well have it, too.
00:21:31Miss Bradley is involved.
00:21:32To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:21:34She was in Bard's apartment this evening, but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:21:38Well, that's good enough for the front page.
00:21:39I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you fellas.
00:21:42Did you get that, Charlie?
00:21:43That was cost no sale.
00:21:45Here's the latest dope on the Bard case.
00:21:47Miss Janet Bradley, junior league, active in everything.
00:21:50Oh, yes, Mr. Jones, I'm sticking right on the job.
00:21:52I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:21:55Janet Bradley, daughter of the maritalty candidate, is being questioned with regard to the Bard murder.
00:22:00Yes.
00:22:01And you leave those two tickets for the fellow Armonica...
00:22:03You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:22:05We won't forget.
00:22:06Dr. G. F. Yeager.
00:22:13Now, which one of you is taking my scissors?
00:22:15I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:22:21If you moochers insist on playing childish pranks with my sisters, I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:22:32Well, it's about time.
00:22:33Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert. I didn't know you were here.
00:22:36I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:37Long enough. Where have you been?
00:22:39Oh, all over. It's been a very busy night.
00:22:41Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:22:43Not yet. He's stalling, Mr. Calvert.
00:22:45I don't trust Carson. He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:22:48Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:22:52I want her charged with murder and I want it spread all over the front page of every paper in
00:22:55town.
00:22:56Sooner the better.
00:22:57Oh, thank you. I'll save this one later.
00:23:00I'm gonna give this murder the biggest coverage any local papers had in years.
00:23:05I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:23:08Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:23:10Diagrams of Bard's apartment. Pictures of the murder car.
00:23:13I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance at the inquest.
00:23:16Every appearance in court.
00:23:18I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone.
00:23:21How she looks.
00:23:23With the inference that she's frightened that she's hiding something that her back's against the wall.
00:23:27Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert, is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:23:34What did you say?
00:23:35He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:23:37Who did it?
00:23:38I don't know.
00:23:39You cut him open?
00:23:40I didn't have to.
00:23:41I found traces of poison in his mouth.
00:23:44Well, have you told Carson?
00:23:46Not yet.
00:23:47Well, don't.
00:23:48The trouble is, if Carson ever takes a good look at the body, he'll notice that there was practically no
00:23:53bleeding.
00:23:53And he'll know what that means.
00:23:56Then we gotta get rid of the body. Get it out of here, fast, tonight.
00:23:59Before the inquest, I can't.
00:24:01You can and you're going to.
00:24:03But, Mr. Calvert, you can't just pick up a body and drag it out of the morgue
00:24:06before the chief medical examiner's had a whack at it.
00:24:10Look, have you got any John Doe's in the icebox?
00:24:13One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:24:16Well, there's a floater that we fished out of the bay a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:19All right, now, you go down to the morgue and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Doe's slab.
00:24:23Then make out commitment papers for John Doe. Cremation.
00:24:26And ship it out tonight.
00:24:28But it's sure to be found out sooner or later.
00:24:30If you have to, make the morgue attend to the fall guy.
00:24:32These squawks, you send them to me, you understand?
00:24:35Well, I'll do my best, Mr. Calvert.
00:24:38Your best is to get that body out of here, fast.
00:24:53Yes?
00:24:54Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:25:01Hello?
00:25:02Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:25:05Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:25:07You've been ringing for some time, haven't you? I'm sorry.
00:25:10I was sound asleep.
00:25:12I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:16That is impossible. He wasn't at...
00:25:18I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:22We don't know yet.
00:25:24I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:25:26I know it'll be difficult, but you may be able to help us.
00:25:30Of course, but...
00:25:31But I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:25:33We haven't been living together.
00:25:37Yes.
00:25:39As soon as I've dressed.
00:25:57Yes?
00:25:58Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:26:00It's Walter.
00:26:02Did the police say how it happened, Nora?
00:26:05No, Arthur.
00:26:07No.
00:26:08They've asked me to come down to the station now.
00:26:12Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:26:16I'll go with you.
00:26:18Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:21Don't worry, darling. Everything will be all right.
00:26:24Yes.
00:26:25Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:26:27In about 20 minutes.
00:26:29It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:35Oh, here's the lab report on the lipstick on the cigarette stuff.
00:26:38Any calls?
00:26:39No, sir.
00:26:41One of them is Janet Bradley's.
00:26:42The other is a shade called Rochelle, used mostly by brunettes.
00:26:45Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:26:46Oh, send her in.
00:26:47Will you come in, please?
00:26:50Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:26:52I understand, Lieutenant.
00:26:53This is Mr. Templeton, my attorney.
00:26:56Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:26:58I'm handling all of Mrs. Bard's business affairs.
00:26:59So I asked Mr. Templeton to come with me.
00:27:02Sit down, please.
00:27:07You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:27:10Bard was shot through the heart.
00:27:12We found his car parked in front of this building, his body in it.
00:27:15But that's fantastic.
00:27:16Who did it?
00:27:17We're not prepared to say it yet.
00:27:20Mrs. Bard, I think you told me that you and Bard hadn't lived together for quite some time.
00:27:23Not for over a year.
00:27:25Have you seen him recently?
00:27:27I saw him in a nightclub one evening several weeks ago.
00:27:30I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:27:32We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:27:34Well, I hope you will be.
00:27:36Nora and I are going to be married.
00:27:38We've been waiting for her divorce from Bard.
00:27:40Had the proceedings begun?
00:27:41No.
00:27:42The papers were ready, but they hadn't been served yet.
00:27:44Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:27:48Repeatedly.
00:27:49He was my husband, and even though he's dead...
00:27:51Nora!
00:27:52I'm going to say it, Arthur.
00:27:53He was mean and cruel.
00:27:54He liked to hurt people.
00:27:55He did it deliberately.
00:27:57I studied for two years.
00:28:00Mrs. Bard has had a very difficult time, Lieutenant.
00:28:02Yes, I know.
00:28:04Mrs. Bard, you were home all evening?
00:28:07Yes.
00:28:09I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:28:12You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time during the course of the evening.
00:28:15Mrs. Bard has already answered that question twice before, Carson.
00:28:17I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question a third time, Arthur.
00:28:22I was not in Walter's apartment this evening, Lieutenant.
00:28:26Were you?
00:28:27No.
00:28:30I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard to identify the remains.
00:28:34Naturally.
00:28:35Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:28:37Yes, sure.
00:28:38This way, please.
00:28:42Listen, pal.
00:28:43I didn't bust that mirror.
00:28:45Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:28:47Name?
00:28:48I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:28:50Never heard of you.
00:28:51What's your address?
00:28:52You can't book me, copper.
00:28:54I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:28:56The annual smoker, see?
00:28:57I go on at one o'clock.
00:28:59What's your address?
00:29:01But what about the Elks?
00:29:03You ain't gonna let the Elks down, are you?
00:29:06I'm an odd fellow.
00:29:08The address, Zachary.
00:29:09You can't do it to me, pal.
00:29:11It's my professional reputation.
00:29:13Visit the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:29:14Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:29:16You'll see the judge in the morning.
00:29:18But I gotta go on at one a.m.
00:29:20I'll come back.
00:29:21Honest, I will.
00:29:22Take him away.
00:29:22But...
00:29:53Good evening, Linda.
00:29:53Come back.
00:30:09Come back.
00:30:13Time to walk.
00:30:13If you leave Yong, как по就ki,
00:30:29I vote for Louis. He has the best beard.
00:30:31What's the best dish in the joint?
00:30:33The blonde behind the counter.
00:31:21What's the best dish in the front of the front of the front of the front of the front?
00:31:47Oh, my God.
00:32:02Oh, my God.
00:32:36Here, that's all you need.
00:32:37Now, get going.
00:32:37Oh, my God.
00:32:52Oh, my God.
00:33:00Oh, my God.
00:33:00Oh, my God.
00:33:05This one burns, huh?
00:33:07Yep.
00:33:07Give him an easy ride.
00:33:08It's his last one.
00:33:09Oh, my God.
00:33:25Oh, my God.
00:33:29Oh, my God.
00:33:37gone. Are you sure you ever had one? Gosh, Bill, I put him in there myself. Let me use your
00:33:42phone.
00:33:44Yeah, Doc. The body must have walked right out of the ambulance. Well, go back over your route.
00:33:49Keep your eyes open and your trap shut. If you can't find the body, report to me as soon as
00:33:53you
00:33:53get here. Well... Hello. What?
00:34:08Oh, so somebody else wants Bard's body, huh? Ah, that crew must be double-crossing you.
00:34:15They must know how that body was taken out of the ambulance. Well, I don't believe it.
00:34:20You make them cough up the truth. I want to know who else wants that body.
00:34:25Listen, Yeager, this is a pretty serious matter, both for the administration and for the police
00:34:29department, and incidentally, for you. But I did everything I could, Mr. Calvert. Everything
00:34:34you ask me to. You find that body and get rid of it.
00:34:44Yes? Sam, a John Doe that was being transported to the Woodbury crematorium has disappeared from
00:34:50the ambulance. What do you mean, disappeared? The boys say that they loaded it into the ambulance,
00:34:55and when they got there, it was gone. Well, what am I supposed to do? Pull your rabbits out of
00:34:58my
00:34:58hat? The doors must have fallen open. Tell Riley to send a patrol car over the route the ambulance
00:35:03took. I've already told the crew to retrace their route. Well, find that body before the
00:35:08papers find it for you.
00:35:21Holy smoke!
00:35:26Hello. Hello, this is Johnny Williams. Let me speak to Mr. Jones, quick.
00:35:32I'll call you right back. You're new around here, ain't you? What's your name?
00:35:37Williams, the Herald. And I'm pretty busy. Sure you're busy. You bricklayers is always
00:35:42busy. Unless it's a bouquet, you're wanting on the cuff until Saturday night. And then it's
00:35:46Flossie, my darling. Flossie, be a pal. And give us a kiss, Flossie. But I'm on to your
00:35:53banana oil. Look, Flossie, I gotta phone my paper. There's been a murder.
00:35:57Sure there's been a murder. Didn't he get himself killed with one of me carnations in
00:36:02his buttonhole? And owing me a dollar six bits. Seven of them he died owing me for.
00:36:07Oh, that's a shame, Flossie. But you'll get your money back.
00:36:10And when I ask the cops for me due, what do I get? Birdseed.
00:36:15I'll tell you what you do, Flossie. You go down to the desk.
00:36:18When all I want is me dollar six bits out of the money he died in his pants with.
00:36:23I've been to the desk. And what do I get? Birdseed, sure. But this time you tell a lieutenant
00:36:28that I sent you. Johnny Williams of the Herald. Tell him to give you your dollar six bits and
00:36:31the Herald will pay it. Tell him I personally guarantee it.
00:36:38Hello, give me Mr. Jones. Wait.
00:36:42Birdseed.
00:36:44Hello, Mr. Jones. Williams.
00:36:48I got a lulu on that Walter Bard killing. An exclusive.
00:36:51Yeah.
00:36:52In the press room clothes closet.
00:36:55Hey, wait a minute.
00:36:58I'll call you back, Mr. Jones.
00:37:03Now, where are my scissors? I never seem to be able to find them.
00:37:09Last time I found them in my overcoat pocket.
00:37:14Here they are, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:17Oh, I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:21I wish people would leave my scissors alone.
00:37:24This time, I'll nail them down.
00:37:37Milk!
00:37:38How many, you guys?
00:37:40That's Mr. Ruszynski. Get a bottle for me, will you?
00:37:43Yeah.
00:37:48Make it one for Wintergreen.
00:37:52Hey, is Wintergreen up there?
00:37:54Yeah, he's here.
00:37:56Tell him I want to buy his buffalo coat. I'll be right up.
00:37:59Hey, no dice. He doesn't want to sell.
00:38:02I never heard of such impertinence.
00:38:04As if I didn't have the right to dispose of my own property.
00:38:08Look, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:38:09You can't sell that overcoat.
00:38:11I hoped you'd bring a chastening influence to this menagerie.
00:38:14Why, it'd be an insult to your grandfather and to the grand old name of Boone.
00:38:17It'd be unpatriotic.
00:38:18I'm dreadfully disappointed in you, Williams.
00:38:20Why, that overcoat's made history.
00:38:22It's practically a national monument.
00:38:24You can't have a big lug like Brzezinski delivering milk in it.
00:38:27Why don't you get wise to what you've got?
00:38:29Why, that overcoat ought to be in the Smithsonian Institute.
00:38:31They pay real dough for it.
00:38:33Smithsonian?
00:38:34Uh-huh.
00:38:35But do you really think?
00:38:37No, Williams.
00:38:39No, my mind is made up.
00:38:43Oh!
00:38:44Oh!
00:38:46Get out of here!
00:38:47Get out of here!
00:38:48Get out of here!
00:38:49Get out of here!
00:38:51Get out of here!
00:38:52Give me Mr. Jones, quick!
00:38:57Sure, Mr. Jones.
00:38:58That's what I said.
00:38:59Walter Bard's body in a press room clothes closet.
00:39:02Hey, there's somebody in there.
00:39:03I know it sounds crazy, Mr. Jones, and I'm not drunk.
00:39:06It's true.
00:39:07There's a guy in there, I tell you.
00:39:08Listen to him holler his head off!
00:39:10Yeah, and I'm the only one that knows except Wintergreen,
00:39:12and I got him spiked.
00:39:14Absolutely, Mr. Jones.
00:39:18Oh, my.
00:39:24Oh, my.
00:39:27Yes?
00:39:27Mr. Haggerty, City Editor of the Herald, Lieutenant.
00:39:30That's right.
00:39:32Hello, Haggerty.
00:39:36What did you say?
00:39:37In the press room?
00:39:39Here?
00:39:41What?
00:39:43As soon as I've nailed the guy that sold you that one,
00:39:45I'll be over personally to tell you what kind of a joint
00:39:47I'm running around here.
00:39:49One of those tosspot reporters phoned Haggerty and said that
00:39:51Bard's body is hanging in the press room clothes closet.
00:39:57Say, you don't think he was talking about the John Doe that
00:40:00Jaeger lost?
00:40:01There's only one way to find out.
00:40:08That's what I said, you dope all wrapped up in somebody's overcoat
00:40:11in the press room closet.
00:40:11My overcoat, please.
00:40:13Credit where credit is due.
00:40:14Hey, look, you guys.
00:40:15A perfect fit.
00:40:16Hey, what goes on?
00:40:17I found Bard all wrapped up in Wintergreen's overcoat in the clothes closet.
00:40:20Now, Harold's printing it.
00:40:22So relax, fellas, and save paper.
00:40:24Don't you think this is best for your lady?
00:40:26Give me a rewrite, sweetheart.
00:40:27Hurry up.
00:40:28Haggerty was right.
00:40:29It is Bard.
00:40:32Say, this guy didn't believe much.
00:40:34You can't say anything about that?
00:40:36Not to me.
00:40:38I haven't taken back, Sergeant.
00:40:40Tell the iron out, Lieutenant.
00:40:43Mr. Jones again.
00:40:44Okay, you'll get it, Mr. Jones.
00:40:46All right.
00:40:47Lieutenant Carson's examining the body now.
00:40:49Yeah.
00:40:5230 years, Lieutenant.
00:40:53I've been putting him on ice.
00:40:54Nobody ever done this to me before.
00:40:56Where was he?
00:40:57In here.
00:40:58Pull it out.
00:41:05That's the John Doe we fished out of the bay.
00:41:07The one Doc Yager committed tonight for cremation.
00:41:10How'd it get in there?
00:41:11I don't know, Lieutenant.
00:41:12I put him on number seven myself.
00:41:13There's been a switch.
00:41:14It's Doc Yager now.
00:41:15What's this all about, Sam?
00:41:17It looks as if someone went outside
00:41:18as that John Doe you lost.
00:41:20Only it wasn't John Doe.
00:41:21It was Walter Bard.
00:41:22John Doe was here in Bard's place.
00:41:25Well, this is absurd, Sam.
00:41:26A lot of things are tonight.
00:41:28You signed a commitment paper, didn't you?
00:41:29Yes, for John Doe.
00:41:32Well, Bard's body must have been picked up by mistake.
00:41:34That's the only way it could have happened.
00:41:36Well, so long as it turned out all right.
00:41:38O'Malley, get that John Doe out of here.
00:41:40Put Bard back in the right place.
00:41:42And see that he stays there until the chief medical examiner's
00:41:44through with him.
00:41:44Yes, sir.
00:41:54Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:41:57Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:41:58This is Ames of the Express.
00:42:00The Express?
00:42:03Oh, I haven't the slightest idea of what connection
00:42:05Mrs. Bradley has with the case.
00:42:07Oh, sshh.
00:42:08In fact, I didn't know she was even
00:42:11acquainted with my husband.
00:42:14You're welcome.
00:42:15What was it, Norman?
00:42:16A report on Express.
00:42:18The police have found out Janet Bradley was in Walter's
00:42:20apartment tonight.
00:42:26Arthur, we've got to go to the police station
00:42:28and tell them the truth.
00:42:29No, we've got to sit tight.
00:42:31If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur.
00:42:33There'd always be that doubt.
00:42:35It'd grow and keep on growing.
00:42:37In the end, it'd break us apart.
00:42:39We'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives.
00:42:42At this moment, Arthur, there's a voice inside me saying,
00:42:47I'm not sure of him.
00:42:49Do you really mean that, Nora?
00:42:51Yes, I do.
00:42:52And maybe there's a voice inside you saying,
00:42:54I'm not sure of her.
00:42:56Don't you see how right I am, Arthur?
00:42:58We couldn't live together like that.
00:43:02You ought to be the lawyer, Nora.
00:43:05We'll go down to Carson's office right now.
00:43:07Darling.
00:43:14Hello.
00:43:15Yes.
00:43:17I'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy.
00:43:20Sure, I know I've got Jaeger.
00:43:22I want someone else.
00:43:24Uh, Bard.
00:43:25For a very particular reason.
00:43:27Or how about Doc Hastings?
00:43:29As soon as you can get him down here.
00:43:34I'll see Mrs. Bard now.
00:43:41We've come to make certain orations in our statement, Lieutenant.
00:43:45What's happening?
00:43:47We told you we weren't at Bard's apartment this evening.
00:43:50Well, we were.
00:43:51Nora was there when Bard died.
00:43:53I was there later.
00:43:54Go on.
00:43:56I didn't tell Arthur I was going.
00:43:58But I went to ask Walter once more to give me a divorce.
00:44:04There's no use being angry with me, Nora.
00:44:06Take off your things and stay a while.
00:44:08Have a drink?
00:44:10It's a rainy evening.
00:44:11That's finished, Walter.
00:44:12I'm in love with Arthur Templeton.
00:44:14We want to get married.
00:44:15So you can make it legitimate, huh?
00:44:16You've no right to say that.
00:44:18You've absolutely no grounds whatsoever.
00:44:20Spass, but I'm not going to turn you loose so Templeton can put you on his income tax.
00:44:25Besides, this arrangement suits me fine.
00:44:27So long as I'm married, no woman can make a sucker out of me.
00:44:30But, Walter, I...
00:44:32Don't worry.
00:44:33Go into the bedroom.
00:44:35I'll talk with you as soon as I'm through with this party.
00:44:45Well, well.
00:44:47Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:44:48Did you listen?
00:44:49I heard a little.
00:44:50Walter seemed to have some papers that Miss Bradley wanted to buy.
00:44:53But he was holding out for more money.
00:44:55And then?
00:44:56Then there was some sort of scuffle.
00:44:58I don't know what happened.
00:44:59Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.
00:45:01I got the impression she was covering Walter with a gun.
00:45:04Then a door slammed.
00:45:06Yes?
00:45:07I waited a few minutes, then I went in.
00:45:12Walter had just taken a drink.
00:45:14He took a step toward me.
00:45:16I'll never forget the way he looked.
00:45:18The muscles of his face were all drawn up as if they were knotted.
00:45:22Then he fell into a chair.
00:45:24When I got to him, he was dead.
00:45:26I was terrified.
00:45:27I rushed out of the place.
00:45:29Why didn't you call the police?
00:45:30I was afraid to.
00:45:35Did you take a drink with Bard?
00:45:37No.
00:45:40Do you remember if Bard's gun was still in the holster?
00:45:43I'm sure it wasn't.
00:45:45But I do remember seeing it there when I first went in.
00:45:48Then who shot Bard?
00:45:50I shot Bard.
00:45:54I went to see Bard for the same reason Nora did.
00:45:57I thought perhaps I could get him to change his mind about the divorce.
00:45:59I just pulled up with a curb opposite his apartment house.
00:46:02Door opened and Nora came running out.
00:46:04She looked frightened.
00:46:05Before I could get around to calling after her, she had jumped into her car and started off.
00:46:09I noticed that the car in front of the apartment was Bard's.
00:46:13I'd asked her never to go to Bard's apartment again.
00:46:15The more I thought about Nora being there, the less I liked it.
00:46:46The notion that Bard's callousness had driven Nora to killing him took hold of me.
00:46:51That would be murder.
00:46:55It looked like poison to me.
00:46:58All I could think of was that Nora might be traced to the apartment.
00:47:01There was only one thing to do.
00:47:03Get the body out of the place.
00:47:05I knew the risk I was running, but I had to do it.
00:47:24Someone was coming up.
00:47:26I didn't dare go back and wait.
00:47:29I'd have to carry him down.
00:47:31He was taking a big chance, but it was late and Luck was with me.
00:47:35No one saw me.
00:47:56I was going to pay him back in the crafts.
00:47:58He's going to his HOW to fly!
00:47:58I lied to him.
00:47:59Not scared me!
00:48:00He died!
00:48:03You'll be I Terazan!
00:48:13Then I saw the gun.
00:48:15If I could fake a suicide,
00:48:17Nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun.
00:48:19It would swing suspicion away from her.
00:48:22I held the gun close to him to muffle the shot.
00:48:26It occurred to me then,
00:48:27if Barb's body was found as far as possible
00:48:29from his apartment house,
00:48:31Nora's danger would be still less.
00:48:33I released the brake.
00:48:37It started the car rolling down the hill
00:48:39away from the apartment house.
00:48:44And that's our story.
00:48:46Nora's and mine.
00:48:49Templeton, do you believe Mrs. Bart's story?
00:48:51Yes, I do.
00:48:53And you believe his?
00:48:54Of course I do.
00:48:56You really came down here to convince each other
00:48:58that you were each telling the truth, didn't you?
00:49:00Partly.
00:49:01We had to speak for Johnny and Bradley too, Lieutenant.
00:49:05I'll need a detailed statement from both of you later.
00:49:07Certainly, Lieutenant.
00:49:08You can wait in the outer office.
00:49:15I'm sorry, Flossie,
00:49:17but you'll have to see Lieutenant Carson.
00:49:19See the Lieutenant, he says.
00:49:21A dollar six bits.
00:49:23That stiff died owing me,
00:49:25and he tells me to see the Lieutenant.
00:49:28Listen.
00:49:30I will see the Lieutenant,
00:49:32and the Chief,
00:49:33and the Mayor,
00:49:34and the Governor if I have to.
00:49:35I'll have me dollar six bits
00:49:37if I have to see the President himself.
00:49:41Sure, Flossie, sure.
00:49:43You're right.
00:49:44I don't blame you a bit.
00:49:47Okay, Maloy.
00:49:49All right, see you, Doc.
00:49:51What have you got?
00:50:11What have you got?
00:50:26Smoke?
00:50:27No, thanks.
00:50:29We've turned up some new evidence.
00:50:32Does it help me?
00:50:34No.
00:50:35Oh.
00:50:38What is it?
00:50:39Bard didn't die of a gunshot.
00:50:41He was poisoned.
00:50:43Really?
00:50:44Someone slipped the stuff
00:50:45in his whiskey decanter.
00:50:48Oh, wait a minute.
00:50:50You don't think I put the poison
00:50:51in his decanter.
00:50:53Why didn't you drink your highball?
00:50:55Well, I...
00:50:56I didn't want it.
00:50:58How do you think
00:50:58that'll sound in court?
00:51:02Any way you want it to sound,
00:51:04I suppose.
00:51:06Are you going to book me?
00:51:09If you could give me
00:51:10just one solid reason
00:51:11why I shouldn't.
00:51:14I'm sorry for you,
00:51:15Lieutenant Carson.
00:51:16I'm in a bad spot,
00:51:18but so are you.
00:51:19You have to decide
00:51:21whether I'm guilty
00:51:21because I really am guilty
00:51:23or because I'm
00:51:24Luther Bradley's daughter.
00:51:26If you book me now,
00:51:27you'll never be sure
00:51:28whether you did it
00:51:29because you really believe
00:51:30I killed Walter Bard
00:51:31or because Max Calvert
00:51:32told you to.
00:51:36That's one of the things
00:51:37I'm trying to get
00:51:37straight in my mind.
00:51:39If Calvert wasn't
00:51:40turning on the heat
00:51:42and another reason,
00:51:44it would have been easy.
00:51:46I'd have booked you,
00:51:47but fast.
00:51:48What other reason?
00:51:51It wouldn't make sense
00:51:52to you or to anyone else.
00:51:54In my kind of job,
00:51:56your reasons have
00:51:56got to make sense.
00:51:59I suppose so.
00:52:01And that means
00:52:03I'll have to book you
00:52:04the way things stand.
00:52:59Yes, sir.
00:52:59Say, is that nutty woman
00:53:01that sells flowers
00:53:02still in the building?
00:53:03In the building?
00:53:04She's practically in my lap.
00:53:05But don't worry, Lieutenant.
00:53:07I'll get rid of her.
00:53:08Don't get rid of her.
00:53:09I want to see her.
00:53:09Send her in.
00:53:10Then see if you can
00:53:11locate Oppenheimer.
00:53:12Okay, Lieutenant.
00:53:14All right, Flossie.
00:53:15The Lieutenant
00:53:15will see you now.
00:53:18Maybe now I'll get
00:53:19me dollar six bits.
00:53:21Sit down, darling.
00:53:22None of that.
00:53:23All I want
00:53:24is the money
00:53:25that Stiff owes me.
00:53:26You mean Bard?
00:53:27He must have died
00:53:28with some assets
00:53:29in his pants, Lieutenant.
00:53:31Don't worry about that.
00:53:32You'll get your dollar six bits.
00:53:34Tell me,
00:53:35did you sell this to Bard?
00:53:36Sure I did.
00:53:37When?
00:53:38Six o'clock this evening,
00:53:39just as he was coming
00:53:40out of Simi's bail bond office.
00:53:42Didn't he pay you for it?
00:53:43He did not.
00:53:44He never pays you.
00:53:46You've always got to chase him.
00:53:47Up to the present moment,
00:53:49that slicker owes me
00:53:50a dollar six bits.
00:53:52Did you see him after that?
00:53:53I went to his apartment
00:53:54to collect,
00:53:54but I didn't see him.
00:53:56He must have been out
00:53:56to dinner,
00:53:56so I stuck around.
00:53:58Did you see anyone else
00:53:59when you were up there?
00:54:00Nobody but Doc Yeager.
00:54:01Do I get my money
00:54:03or don't I?
00:54:04Yeager?
00:54:04He was up there?
00:54:06Bard was out
00:54:07to the both of us.
00:54:08What time was this?
00:54:09Oh, I don't know.
00:54:10A past eight, maybe.
00:54:12I knocked on Bard's door
00:54:13and he didn't answer,
00:54:14so I stuck around
00:54:16in the corridor.
00:54:17It was raining out
00:54:17and I was wet to my pelt.
00:54:19Then Doc Yeager came.
00:54:20Did Yeager see you?
00:54:21No, he never seen me,
00:54:22but he was there.
00:54:23You ask him.
00:54:24Tell me about Yeager.
00:54:25What happened?
00:54:26I was drying myself
00:54:27with the radiator
00:54:28on the stairway landing.
00:54:30I was down half a flight,
00:54:32so he didn't see me.
00:54:39Never seen a man so scared,
00:54:41the way he kept looking around.
00:54:53He could hardly find the keyhole.
00:54:55His hand was shaking, so.
00:54:59I don't know how many keys
00:55:00he tried before he got
00:55:02the one that fitted.
00:55:11He shut the door behind him
00:55:13so quiet I could hardly hear it.
00:55:16He couldn't have been in there
00:55:18more than a minute
00:55:18and he still acted
00:55:20like he was scared
00:55:20of his own shadow.
00:55:30He never seen me,
00:55:32but he was there.
00:55:32You ask him.
00:55:37Doc, come into my office again,
00:55:38will you?
00:55:39Okay.
00:55:39And now do I get
00:55:41my financial reimbursement?
00:55:43There you are.
00:55:45You can always tell a gentleman
00:55:47by the way he treats a lady.
00:55:49Just a minute.
00:55:50I want you to wait in here.
00:56:06Come in, Doc.
00:56:10You don't look well, Doc.
00:56:12Sit down.
00:56:13Oh, I'm all right.
00:56:14Tired, that's all.
00:56:16Too much night work, I guess.
00:56:17I'm not as young as I was.
00:56:20What's up, Sam?
00:56:22Bard's death is a lucky break
00:56:23for you, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:25I don't get you.
00:56:26This malpractice case
00:56:27the grand jury's got on you.
00:56:29Bard did some investigating
00:56:30for the medical association,
00:56:31didn't he?
00:56:32Oh, he's got nothing on me.
00:56:33I wonder what happened
00:56:34to the evidence he dug up.
00:56:36It isn't in either his apartment
00:56:38or his office.
00:56:39Because there never was any.
00:56:40I heard different.
00:56:42Funny how it disappeared,
00:56:44isn't it, Doc?
00:56:45Oh, you're not insinuating
00:56:46that I...
00:56:47That you got a hold of it?
00:56:48Yes, I am, Doc.
00:56:50Boy, that's ridiculous.
00:56:52I haven't been out of the building
00:56:53since the body was found.
00:56:54Maybe you were out
00:56:55before it was found.
00:56:57I was not.
00:56:58You weren't in Bard's apartment
00:57:00earlier this evening?
00:57:01Certainly not.
00:57:02Along about 8.30?
00:57:03No.
00:57:04Suppose I told you
00:57:05you were seen going
00:57:06into Bard's apartment
00:57:07with one of your keys.
00:57:08You stayed there a few minutes,
00:57:09then left,
00:57:10locking the door after you.
00:57:11Whoever said that's a liar?
00:57:13Who's calling me a liar?
00:57:15It's yourself that's the liar.
00:57:17I seen you,
00:57:18a-sneaking into the poor,
00:57:19murdered boy's apartment
00:57:20and sneaking out again
00:57:21with the mark of can
00:57:23all over your face.
00:57:24And that's how the poison
00:57:25got in Bard's whiskey.
00:57:27Help!
00:57:28Help!
00:57:29Help!
00:57:30Help!
00:57:30Help!
00:57:31Police!
00:57:32Police!
00:57:33Help!
00:57:43I'm a hammer!
00:58:24There it is!
00:58:25The garbage!
00:58:27Where are they?
00:58:28Where are they?
00:58:30The garbage!
00:58:30Where are they?
00:58:40Take him away.
00:58:41All right, come on.
00:58:42Thanks.
00:58:43Who are you?
00:58:44I'm Zachary.
00:58:44Hey, that's the guy broke jail.
00:58:46Yeah, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:58:48I won my fight by a knockout, so now I'm back.
00:58:51You got back just in time.
00:58:52Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh?
00:58:55Not exactly.
00:58:56You're still under arrest.
00:58:57Well, if that ain't gratitude.
00:58:58Don't worry, Zachary.
00:58:59I'll be in your corner when your case comes up.
00:59:01Thanks, pal.
00:59:04You can count on both of us.
00:59:05I think Yeager's confession will be sufficient.
00:59:08Much obliged, Lieutenant.
00:59:10There's still a misdemeanor charge against you, Mr. Templeton,
00:59:12but I don't think it will interfere with your wedding plans.
00:59:14You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant.
00:59:16Fine.
00:59:17I'll be there to kiss the bride.
00:59:20Good luck to both of you.
00:59:26Now, why couldn't something like that happen to me?
00:59:29Oh, nobody loves her copper.
00:59:31Why don't you ask her?
00:59:33Ask her?
00:59:34Ask who?
00:59:36What?
00:59:37Yeah, ask her out to breakfast with you.
00:59:39She'll be pretty hungry by now.
00:59:40You're nuts.
00:59:41It's been done.
00:59:43After the going-over I gave her?
00:59:44I still say it's been done.
00:59:50Maybe you've got something there.
00:59:54You're free to go now.
00:59:57We have the confession of a Dr. Yeager.
00:59:59Oh.
01:00:00I'm glad you didn't touch that drink.
01:00:02So am I.
01:00:03I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert
01:00:06and informing him that his stooge murdered Walter Bard.
01:00:09Which, of course, ruins his front page on Janet Bradley.
01:00:13And that's about all.
01:00:15Unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard.
01:00:17Between ourselves, of course.
01:00:19I feel I can tell you now.
01:00:22I didn't trust you before.
01:00:24You didn't seem to be yourself.
01:00:25But now you do.
01:00:27Thanks.
01:00:28It's quite a story.
01:00:30Suppose I tell you about it some evening.
01:00:32Soon.
01:00:34Suppose you do.
01:00:40Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones.
01:00:42He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet,
01:00:45the case might never have been solved.
01:00:47Hey, fellas, look at this.
01:00:49I'll call you back.
01:01:31And we'll take a date.
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