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The Mystery Behind the Green Lights (1946) – Classic Crime Thriller is a gripping tale of crime, intrigue, and suspense. When a series of mysterious events unfolds under the glow of the green lights, investigators are drawn into a dangerous case filled with hidden motives, unexpected twists, and shocking revelations.
This classic crime thriller delivers vintage detective work, tense drama, and engaging storytelling that captures the spirit of golden-age cinema. Follow the investigation as clues emerge and the truth slowly comes to light.
A must-watch for fans of classic mysteries, crime dramas, and timeless black-and-white films.
This classic crime thriller delivers vintage detective work, tense drama, and engaging storytelling that captures the spirit of golden-age cinema. Follow the investigation as clues emerge and the truth slowly comes to light.
A must-watch for fans of classic mysteries, crime dramas, and timeless black-and-white films.
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00:01:18Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:01:21Make sure those negatives are in here, too.
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00:01:35The Herald stands pretty well on the police run, Johnny,
00:01:37so I don't think you'll have much difficulty contacting the various departments.
00:01:40These cops are good guys, but they got bellyaches like you and me,
00:01:43so name them and give them a break whenever you can.
00:01:45They pay cops off with peanuts the way they do newspaper men.
00:01:48No! I want you to get it off without breaking it.
00:01:51Your wife can't steal your car. That's community property.
00:01:55Yeah, I know, Chief, but she done took it out of the community.
00:02:00Come on, Johnny. I want you to meet the lieutenant.
00:02:02He's a good egg.
00:02:05What do you like to do? Dance? Harry James?
00:02:09Sure.
00:02:09Yes, sir.
00:02:10Well, why don't you turn on the radio in one of your homes?
00:02:13Fix yourself some doughnuts and coffee and stuff.
00:02:16Hanging out in a joint like the one Carrie pulled you out of,
00:02:18it'll buy you nothing but trouble.
00:02:20Carrie, see if these two girls get home, will you?
00:02:22Yes, sir.
00:02:26Hiya, Sam.
00:02:26Hello, Oppenheimer.
00:02:27Hi.
00:02:27Meet Johnny Williams, the herald's gift to the police department.
00:02:30This is Lieutenant Carson, Sergeant Oppenheimer.
00:02:32Hi, young fella.
00:02:33It's sure nice to meet you guys.
00:02:34You love him when you get to know him better.
00:02:36Johnny's fixing to clean up the department.
00:02:38I thought you ought to look him over.
00:02:39Oh, cut it out, Ames.
00:02:40The herald's a good paper, Johnny.
00:02:42That's the best paper in town, Lieutenant.
00:02:43The herald has ideals.
00:02:45Only the truth is fit to print.
00:02:46I wish I could say as much for that rag of yours, Ames.
00:02:49Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:02:50It's your first day on the police run, Johnny?
00:02:52Yeah.
00:02:52Gosh, I hope I don't pull any boners.
00:02:54You won't.
00:02:55Drop around and see me any time you feel like it.
00:02:58Maybe I'll come up with a scoop one of these days
00:02:59just to keep Ames and the rest of those pelicans in line.
00:03:02Yeah, that'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:03:03Gee, I sure need one.
00:03:04Come on, Johnny, meet the rest of the game.
00:03:06Okay, I'll see you later.
00:03:06Bye.
00:03:07Bye.
00:03:09That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:03:11Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:03:13Won't do us any harm, either.
00:03:14I'll go down to the Dutchman's for an exam.
00:03:16Stay with you.
00:03:16I'll go along with you.
00:03:47You take all day.
00:03:49Come on, would you?
00:03:50Don't hurry.
00:03:50Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:03:52This is what you tell me.
00:03:53I've got a city newsburst, Sergeant.
00:03:54Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:03:59What is this, a gag?
00:04:17It's Walter Bard.
00:04:18Runs a private detective agency in the Equitable building.
00:04:21Well, they picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:04:23Looks like somebody's trying to give the department of business.
00:04:25Get going, up there.
00:04:26Yeah.
00:04:37Precious things alive.
00:04:39It's Mr. Bard.
00:04:40Do you know anything about this?
00:04:42Not me.
00:04:43Not me.
00:04:44I just sell him flowers.
00:04:54Take this into the desk.
00:04:55Right.
00:04:58Hey, Sam.
00:04:59What have you got?
00:05:01What do you think?
00:05:02Hey, Sam Carson's frisking a stiff on the sidewalk in front of the station.
00:05:05That's the name of the game.
00:05:06Gin.
00:05:08Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:05:11Check this gun with ballistics as soon as you can,
00:05:13and then have the car gone over for fingerprints.
00:05:14Hey, Sam.
00:05:15Who's the...
00:05:15Hey, it's Walter Bard.
00:05:17Dumped right in front of the station.
00:05:18I couldn't get any closer.
00:05:19Boy, there's going to be a stink about this.
00:05:22He was mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:05:24He was mixed up in everything.
00:05:25He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:05:28What's the matter, Johnny?
00:05:30I never saw a dead man before.
00:05:34Come on, fellas.
00:05:36Give me Charlie.
00:05:37I'll make a snack.
00:05:38Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:05:39Walter Bard, the private eye, was just found shot to death in his car,
00:05:42right at the front door of the joint.
00:05:44Evidently a definite slap at the present administration.
00:05:46You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum war that's been going on.
00:05:49Yeah.
00:05:51Say that it's gangland's despairing reply to the vigilance of the police.
00:05:54Huh?
00:05:55Sure, play it up big.
00:05:56Lay it on thick.
00:05:58Everybody's going to be taking pot shots at the administration over this little deal,
00:06:01and the Express is its only friend.
00:06:04Oppenheimer, go up to Bard's apartment.
00:06:07Bring back any letters or photographs that might look hot.
00:06:11See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:06:13Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:06:15Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:06:16Okay, Lieutenant.
00:06:17Harper, you chase up to Bard's office in the equitable building.
00:06:20Go through his desk and files. Check his appointment calendar.
00:06:23Yes.
00:06:24Well, Lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:06:26Bard used to hang out at Tony's on Second Street quite a lot.
00:06:28Good idea.
00:06:30Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony if Bard met anyone there tonight.
00:06:33Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs to.
00:06:34Right, sir.
00:06:37Yes?
00:06:37Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, Lieutenant.
00:06:39She's probably sleeping. Keep on trying.
00:06:41Okay.
00:06:48Hey, Dan.
00:06:50Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:06:52He covers police for the sun.
00:06:53Also has the policy corner on the side.
00:06:55Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:06:57I...
00:06:57Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:06:58I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast to the riffraff that infests this mortuary.
00:07:02When are you going to get rid of that moth-eating trophy you got on?
00:07:06Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather, Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:07:10Not an Indian fighter.
00:07:11Nothing would persuade me to park with it except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:07:15Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:07:17Hey, lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:07:19On a hot day, that coat gets higher than the stockyards in the south wind.
00:07:30Come in, Doc.
00:07:31Well, here it is, Sam.
00:07:33The bullet went clean through him, smashed the fifth rib.
00:07:35Have you boys found it yet?
00:07:37In the front seat up Hole Street.
00:07:38Discharge from the gun that was in the car?
00:07:40Mm-hmm.
00:07:41His own.
00:07:42There were plenty of powder burns, Sam.
00:07:43Could have been suicide.
00:07:45Not a chance, Doc.
00:07:46The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:07:48The body was driven there in Bart's car and left there.
00:07:50Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:07:52Do you think someone's trying to discredit us in the administration?
00:07:55Could be.
00:07:58Holy mackerel.
00:08:04That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:08:06Well, this is very interesting.
00:08:09The daughter of Luther Bradley, the reform candidate for mayor.
00:08:12Boy, what the express will do with this.
00:08:15Send Brewer in.
00:08:16Must be some of the Bradley.
00:08:18Somehow, I don't think it is.
00:08:19Why?
00:08:20The famous Calvert Luck, my boy.
00:08:23Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley house on Carlisle.
00:08:26Ask for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:08:28Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:08:31We want to ask her a few questions.
00:08:32Okay.
00:08:33Handle her carefully.
00:08:34All we want is her cooperation.
00:08:36Stress that, Brewer.
00:08:38Yes?
00:08:39Mrs. Byers still doesn't answer.
00:08:41Keep trying.
00:08:45Express, I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:08:47Very important.
00:08:48It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:08:51Hello?
00:08:52Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:08:54Oh, hello, Doc.
00:08:55What's on your mind?
00:08:58Walter Bard.
00:08:59Sure I know him.
00:09:01Well, who shot him?
00:09:02I don't know.
00:09:03But his body was found in his own car right in front of the police station here.
00:09:07That's right.
00:09:08The police station.
00:09:10And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:11There was a notation in Bard's memorandum book that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley this evening.
00:09:17Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:09:18Are you sure?
00:09:19Are you sure?
00:09:24Oh, this is beautiful.
00:09:27Look, Doc.
00:09:28You stay there and keep your eyes open.
00:09:30I'll keep in touch with you.
00:09:31Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:09:33You can count on me.
00:09:34Goodbye.
00:09:53This is Miss Bradley, Lieutenant.
00:09:55Lieutenant Carson.
00:09:56How do you do?
00:09:57Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night, Mr. Bradley.
00:10:00Sit down, please.
00:10:06What do you know about a man named Walter Bard?
00:10:08You knew him?
00:10:11Knew him?
00:10:11He was murdered this evening.
00:10:14Oh.
00:10:16In his own car.
00:10:17Shot.
00:10:18I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:10:21You did know him?
00:10:23Yes, I knew him.
00:10:25Seen him recently?
00:10:28This evening.
00:10:29I had an appointment with him at his apartment.
00:10:31Were you a friend of his, Miss Bradley?
00:10:33No.
00:10:35Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:10:38I'm sorry, I can't.
00:10:40Private?
00:10:45That's not so good.
00:10:49Is your father still in Washington?
00:10:51Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:10:54This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father, Miss Bradley.
00:10:58A dead body on your doorstep could prove very embarrassing for the department too, Lieutenant Carson.
00:11:03Maybe.
00:11:05Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:11:07Is that necessary?
00:11:08Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course if you'd rather not.
00:11:13Very well.
00:11:15This way, please.
00:11:18Now, the right hand.
00:11:23That's fine.
00:11:25You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:11:27Oh, thank you.
00:11:29My, uh, photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:11:32Sitting's by appointment only.
00:11:33That's all there is to it.
00:11:40I'll be classified up, Herman.
00:11:45It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:11:47You don't mind waiting.
00:11:49Of course not.
00:11:50Right in there.
00:11:52You're being swell about this.
00:12:02Yes?
00:12:02Max Carver to see you, Lieutenant.
00:12:04Send him in.
00:12:06Thanks, Sam.
00:12:08I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:12:10I figured you'd be around.
00:12:12Well, I don't wonder.
00:12:12You're sore, Sam.
00:12:14Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:12:17The administration too.
00:12:19The administration's your problem.
00:12:21Ah, now that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:12:23Don't forget, we got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:12:26I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:12:28I know, but a politician sometimes could do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:12:33I understand you got the Bradley girl down here.
00:12:37So you know all about that, huh?
00:12:39Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:12:42She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:12:44I'm not making any statements.
00:12:46And when I do, the Express will get it, along with the other papers.
00:12:48Well, you're not letting a pretty face affect your better judgment, are you, Sam?
00:12:52I'm not letting that tabloid of yours spare that girl's reputation
00:12:54so you can stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:12:57Well, the public has the right to know the facts express Princeton.
00:13:00Yeah.
00:13:01Anything for a nickel.
00:13:05Look, Sam.
00:13:06How long have you had this job?
00:13:08Long enough.
00:13:10When you first came into this department, I was still on the police run for the Express.
00:13:14Now, I own it.
00:13:16While we're looking around, look at Mike Shea there.
00:13:20Now, Mike was your type of copier and he never played ball.
00:13:23So what did it get him?
00:13:25A load of lead in the belly.
00:13:27You ought to be smart, Sam.
00:13:33Look, is Bradley anything to you?
00:13:36No.
00:13:37Well, Jordan's on his way out.
00:13:40How'd you like to be chief?
00:13:42I'd like it.
00:13:43You know that, Calvert.
00:13:45Could be arranged.
00:13:46How?
00:13:47Well, if this Bradley girl were booked, it might please some very important people very much.
00:13:52And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:13:55There isn't a particle of evidence against her.
00:13:57Well, no one would criticize you if you'd book her anyway.
00:14:00Not suspicion or a material witness.
00:14:02Anything you like.
00:14:03Until after the election.
00:14:05Then let her go.
00:14:07She'd be all right.
00:14:09Do that and you'd have a grand jury investigation right in your lap.
00:14:12Oh, Sam.
00:14:13Now, don't look at it that way.
00:14:15Why, a week after the election, the whole thing will be completely forgotten.
00:14:19Think it over.
00:14:23Don't forget, Sam.
00:14:24It always pays to cooperate.
00:14:27Always pays.
00:14:28Come on, please.
00:14:49Great guy wasn't in Luton.
00:14:51Sure was.
00:14:52I guess he was just about the greatest cop this city ever had.
00:14:55Yeah.
00:14:56I wonder if he'd get him.
00:14:57Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:14:59See you, William.
00:15:03What'd you find in Bard's apartment?
00:15:05Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shades of lipstick.
00:15:08Two glasses with prints on both.
00:15:11Prints on the gun, on one of the glasses,
00:15:15and Miss Bradley's fingerprints, all check.
00:15:20Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:15:26Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:15:32Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:15:40All right, Oppenheimer.
00:15:45Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints on a highball glass in Bard's apartment.
00:15:49Oh, yes, he poured a drink for me, but I set it down without tasting it.
00:15:53We also found your fingerprints on the gun with which Bard was shot.
00:15:58All right.
00:16:00I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:16:07I went to see Bard on behalf of someone who was very close to me.
00:16:12Someone whom he was trying to blackmail.
00:16:15He made a business of buying and selling information about people.
00:16:19Especially about those who had built honest lives after making a bad start.
00:16:23The problem with people.
00:16:25He had come to me with certain information.
00:16:28He wanted $20,000 for it, but I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:16:43Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:16:51Won't you sit down?
00:16:53I'll fix you a drink.
00:16:54Oh, I really don't care for one, thank you.
00:16:56I have some very nice bourbon here.
00:17:15Cigarette?
00:17:17Oh, thank you.
00:17:21Well?
00:17:24I simply haven't been able to raise that much money, Mr. Bard.
00:17:27How much have you raised?
00:17:28$10,000.
00:17:29And I said $20.
00:17:31Well, that settles that.
00:17:33Oh, please.
00:17:34Won't you give me a little more time?
00:17:35Look, Miss Bradley, you're stalling.
00:17:37You either haven't got the money or you won't go to the one who has got it.
00:17:40Now, I'm holding a powerhouse.
00:17:42Newspaper clippings, letters, affidavits, photographs.
00:17:46Enough dynamite to blow the lid a mile high.
00:17:48And I've got a cash customer who'll pay $20,000 in the morning.
00:17:53I suppose it'd be useless to appeal to your sense of decency.
00:17:56Oh, completely.
00:17:57You see, I haven't any.
00:17:59Not since I put on long pants.
00:18:00And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:18:03I can believe that.
00:18:05But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:18:08Take it.
00:18:09You look shaky.
00:18:15Now, give me that envelope.
00:18:26Do find them all there.
00:18:28Don't move.
00:18:29I'd rather enjoy putting an end to your activities.
00:18:36Stay where you are.
00:18:40He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:18:44Miss Bradley, do you expect me to believe that chisel lets you take those papers away from him?
00:18:49But I've told you the exact truth.
00:18:52What happened to the gun?
00:18:53I threw it in this car when I left.
00:18:55What'd you do with the envelope?
00:18:57Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:18:58What was in it?
00:19:00I can't possibly tell you.
00:19:02It must have been hot if Bard wanted that kind of dough for her.
00:19:04Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:19:06What was it about? Your father?
00:19:09It's no use asking me.
00:19:10What was in it?
00:19:11Dirt Bard had dug up?
00:19:13Something Calvert could use?
00:19:16Let me help you.
00:19:18You couldn't make a deal with him.
00:19:19He said he'd take you home.
00:19:20It was raining.
00:19:21You go down to his car.
00:19:22He makes a pass at you.
00:19:23You grab his gun, let him have it and scram with the envelope.
00:19:26The brakes in the car come loose and the car starts rolling.
00:19:29Lieutenant, you...
00:19:31You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bard.
00:19:35Your prints are on the gun.
00:19:37You have motive. Plenty of it.
00:19:39What do you expect me to believe?
00:19:43I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:19:47What are you going to do with me?
00:19:49I ought to book you.
00:19:52You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:19:59I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.
00:20:01I've learned a great deal about the police department from father.
00:20:04Max Calvert could do a lot to help you if you could learn to do things his way.
00:20:09Leave Calvert out of this.
00:20:10I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:20:13I'm glad.
00:20:14I've always liked policemen.
00:20:18I should book you.
00:20:20Otherwise, I can't hold you.
00:20:22If you don't mind waiting a little longer...
00:20:25Well, something may turn up.
00:20:28You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:20:31Put it anywhere you like.
00:20:34In here, please.
00:20:45You guys mind if I win a hand?
00:20:46Nope.
00:20:49Hello, Doc.
00:20:51Anything new on the Bard killing?
00:20:52Well, he was shot with his own gun that was found in the car.
00:20:55Well, we know all about that.
00:20:56Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley, Luther's daughter, is mixed up in the case.
00:21:01No.
00:21:01That's right. Carson has her downstairs now.
00:21:04She had a date with Bard in his apartment this evening.
00:21:06Regular little mine of information, aren't you, Doc?
00:21:09Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:21:11That's nice of you.
00:21:12Well, I'm still running the night shift around here, and I'll give out the information.
00:21:16The express already has it. I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:21:19So you boys might as well have it, too.
00:21:21Miss Bradley is involved. To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:21:24She was in Bard's apartment this evening, but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:21:27Well, that's good enough for the front page.
00:21:28I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you fellas.
00:21:31Did you get that, Charlie? That was cost no sense.
00:21:34Yeah. Here's the latest dope on the Bard case.
00:21:37Miss Janet Bradley, junior league, active in everything.
00:21:40Oh, yes, Mr. Jones. I'm sticking right on the job.
00:21:42I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:21:45Janet Bradley, daughter of the Marilty candidate, is being questioned with regard to the Bard murder.
00:21:49Yes. And you leave those two tickets for the fellow Monica...
00:21:52You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:21:54We won't forget.
00:21:55Dr. G. F. Yeager?
00:22:03Now, which one of you was taking my scissors?
00:22:05I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:22:11If you moochers insist on playing childish pranks with my scissors, I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:22:21Well, it's about time.
00:22:23Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert. I didn't know you were here.
00:22:25I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:27Long enough. Where have you been?
00:22:28Oh, all over. It's been a very busy night.
00:22:31Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:22:32Not yet. He's stalling, Mr. Calvert. I don't trust Carson. He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:22:38Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:22:41I want her charged with murder and I want it spread all over the front page of every paper in
00:22:45town. Sooner the better.
00:22:46Oh, thank you. I'll save this one later.
00:22:50I'm gonna give this murder the biggest coverage any local papers had in years.
00:22:54I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:22:57Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:23:00Diagrams of Bard's apartment. Pictures of the murder car.
00:23:03I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance at the inquest. Every appearance in court.
00:23:08I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone. How she looks.
00:23:12With the inference that she's frightened that she's hiding something that her back's against the wall.
00:23:17Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert, is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:23:24What did you say?
00:23:25He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:23:27Who did it?
00:23:28I don't know.
00:23:29You cut him open?
00:23:30I didn't have to. I found traces of poison in his mouth.
00:23:34Well, have you told Carson?
00:23:36Not yet.
00:23:37Well, don't.
00:23:38The trouble is, if Carson ever takes a good look at the body, he'll notice that there was practically no
00:23:42bleeding.
00:23:43And he'll know what that means.
00:23:45Yeah, we gotta get rid of the body. Get it out of here, fast, tonight.
00:23:49Before the inquest, I can't.
00:23:50You can and you're going to.
00:23:53But, Mr. Calvert, you can't just pick up a body and drag it out of the morgue before the chief
00:23:56medical examiner's had a whack at it.
00:24:00Look, have you got any John Doe's in the icebox?
00:24:02One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:24:05Well, there's a floater that we fished out of the bay a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:08All right, now you go down to the morgue and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Doe slab.
00:24:13Then make out commitment papers for John Doe. Cremation.
00:24:16And ship it out tonight.
00:24:17But it's sure to be found out sooner or later.
00:24:20If you have to, make the morgue attend to the fall guy.
00:24:22V. Squawks, you send him to me, you understand?
00:24:25Well, I'll do my best, Mr. Calvert.
00:24:27Your best is to get that body out of here fast.
00:24:42Yes?
00:24:43Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:24:52Hello? Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:24:54Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:24:56You've been ringing for some time, haven't you? I'm sorry.
00:24:59I was sound asleep.
00:25:01I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:05That is impossible. He wasn't at...
00:25:08I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:11We don't know yet.
00:25:14I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:25:15I know it'll be difficult, but you may be able to help us.
00:25:19Of course, but...
00:25:21But I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:25:23We haven't been living together.
00:25:27Yes.
00:25:29As soon as I've dressed.
00:25:47Yes?
00:25:48Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:25:50It's Walter.
00:25:52Did the police say how it happened, Nora?
00:25:54Or where?
00:25:54No, Arthur.
00:25:56No.
00:25:58They've asked me to come down to the station.
00:26:00Now.
00:26:02Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:26:05I'll go with you.
00:26:07Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:10Don't worry, darling. Everything will be all right.
00:26:13Yes.
00:26:15Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:26:17In about 20 minutes.
00:26:19It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:24Oh, here's the lab report on the lipstick on the cigarette stuff.
00:26:28Any calls?
00:26:29No, sir.
00:26:30One of them is Janet Bradleys.
00:26:32The other is a shade called Rochelle, used mostly by brunettes.
00:26:34Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:26:36Oh, send her in.
00:26:37Will you come in, please?
00:26:39Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:26:41I understand, Lieutenant.
00:26:43This is Mr. Templeton, my attorney.
00:26:45Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:26:47I'm handling all of Mrs. Bard's business affairs.
00:26:49So I asked Mr. Templeton to come with me.
00:26:51Sit down, please.
00:26:57You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:27:00Well, Bard was shot through the heart.
00:27:01We found his car parked in front of this building.
00:27:03His body in it.
00:27:04But that's fantastic.
00:27:06Who did it?
00:27:07Well, we're not prepared to say it yet.
00:27:09Mrs. Bard, I think you told me that you and Bard hadn't lived together for quite some time.
00:27:13Not for over a year.
00:27:15Have you seen him recently?
00:27:17I saw him at a nightclub one evening several weeks ago.
00:27:20I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:27:22We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:27:24Well, I hope you will be.
00:27:26Nora and I are going to be married.
00:27:27We've been waiting for her divorce from Bard.
00:27:30Had the proceedings begun?
00:27:31No.
00:27:32The papers were ready, but they hadn't been served yet.
00:27:34Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:27:38Repeatedly.
00:27:39He was my husband, and even though he's dead...
00:27:41Nora.
00:27:41I'm going to say it, Arthur.
00:27:42He was mean and cruel.
00:27:44He liked to hate people.
00:27:45He did it deliberately.
00:27:47I studied for two years.
00:27:49Mrs. Bard has had a very difficult time, Lieutenant.
00:27:52Yes, I know.
00:27:54Mrs. Bard, you were home all evening?
00:27:57Yes.
00:27:58I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:28:01You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time during the course of the evening.
00:28:04Mrs. Bard has already answered that question twice before, Carson.
00:28:07I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question a third time, Arthur.
00:28:11I was not in Walter's apartment this evening, Lieutenant.
00:28:16Were you?
00:28:17No.
00:28:20I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard to identify the remains.
00:28:24Naturally.
00:28:25Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:28:26Yeah, sure.
00:28:28This way, please.
00:28:31Listen, pal.
00:28:33I didn't bust that mirror.
00:28:34Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:28:37Name?
00:28:37I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:28:40Never heard of you.
00:28:41What's your address?
00:28:42You can't book me, copper.
00:28:44I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:28:46The annual smoker, see?
00:28:47I go on at one o'clock.
00:28:49What's your address?
00:28:51But what about the Elks?
00:28:53You ain't gonna let the Elks down, are you?
00:28:56I'm an odd fellow.
00:28:57The address, Zachary.
00:28:59You can't do it to me, pal.
00:29:00It's my professional reputation.
00:29:02This is at the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:29:04Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:29:06You'll see the judge in the morning.
00:29:07But I gotta go on at one a.m.
00:29:10I'll come back.
00:29:11Honest, I will.
00:29:11Take him away.
00:30:05Yeah, thank you.
00:30:19I vote for Louis. He has the best beard.
00:30:21What's the best dish in the joint?
00:30:23The blonde behind the counter.
00:30:54I vote for Louis.
00:31:19I vote for Louis.
00:32:00I vote for Louis.
00:32:25That's all you need. Now get going.
00:32:57Give him an easy ride. It's his last one.
00:33:25It's his last one.
00:33:27Are you sure you ever had one?
00:33:29Gosh, Bill, I put him in there myself.
00:33:31Let me use your phone.
00:33:34Yeah, Doc.
00:33:35The body must have walked right out of the ambulance.
00:33:38Well, go back over your route.
00:33:39Keep your eyes open and your trap shut.
00:33:41If you can't find the body, report to me as soon as you get here.
00:33:45Well...
00:33:51Hello.
00:33:54What?
00:33:57Oh, so somebody else wants Bard's body, huh?
00:34:03Ah, that crew must be double-crossing you.
00:34:05They must know how that body was taken out of the ambulance.
00:34:08Well, I don't believe it.
00:34:09You make them cough up the truth.
00:34:11I want to know who else wants that body.
00:34:14Listen, Yeager, this is a pretty serious matter.
00:34:16Both for the administration and for the police department, and incidentally, for you.
00:34:20But I did everything I could, Mr. Calvert.
00:34:23Everything you asked me to.
00:34:25You find that body and get rid of it.
00:34:34Yes?
00:34:35Sam, a John Doe that was being transported to the Woodbury crematorium has disappeared from the ambulance.
00:34:40What do you mean, disappeared?
00:34:42The boys say that they loaded it into the ambulance, and when they got there, it was gone.
00:34:46Well, what am I supposed to do, pull your rabbits out of my hat?
00:34:48The doors must have fallen open.
00:34:50Tell Riley to send a patrol car over the route the ambulance took.
00:34:53I've already told the crew to retrace their route.
00:34:56Well, find that body before the papers find it for you.
00:35:10Holy smoke!
00:35:16Hello.
00:35:17Hello, this is Johnny Williams.
00:35:18Let me speak to Mr. Jones, quick.
00:35:22I'll call you right back.
00:35:24You're new around here, ain't you?
00:35:26What's your name?
00:35:27Williams, the Herald.
00:35:28And I'm pretty busy.
00:35:29Sure you're busy.
00:35:30You bricklayers is always busy.
00:35:32Unless it's a bouquet you're wanting on the cuff until Saturday night.
00:35:35And then it's, Flossie, my darling.
00:35:38Flossie, be a pal.
00:35:40And give us a kiss, Flossie.
00:35:42But I'm on to your banana oil.
00:35:44Look, Flossie, I gotta phone my paper.
00:35:46There's been a murder.
00:35:47Sure there's been a murder.
00:35:49Didn't he get himself killed with one of me carnations in his buttonhole?
00:35:52And owing me a dollar six bits.
00:35:55Seven of them he died owing me for.
00:35:57Oh, that's a shame, Flossie.
00:35:58But you'll get your money back.
00:35:59And when I ask the cops for me, dude, what do I get?
00:36:04Birdseed.
00:36:05I'll tell you what you do, Flossie.
00:36:06You go down to the desk.
00:36:07When all I want is me dollar six bits out of the money he died in his pants with.
00:36:13I've been to the desk.
00:36:14And what do I get?
00:36:15Birdseed, sure.
00:36:16But this time you tell a lieutenant that I sent you.
00:36:18Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:36:19Tell him to give you your dollar six bits and the Herald will pay it.
00:36:22Tell him I personally guarantee it.
00:36:27Hello, give me Mr. Jones.
00:36:30Wait.
00:36:32Birdseed.
00:36:33Hello, Mr. Jones.
00:36:35Williams.
00:36:37I got a Lulu on that Walter Bard killing.
00:36:40An exclusive.
00:36:41Yeah.
00:36:42In the press room clothes closet.
00:36:45Hey, wait a minute.
00:36:47I'll call you back, Mr. Jones.
00:36:53Now, where are my scissors?
00:36:54I never seem to be able to find them.
00:36:58Last time I found them in my overcoat pocket.
00:37:03Here they are, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:07I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:10I wish people would leave my scissors alone.
00:37:14This time, I'll nail them down.
00:37:26Milk!
00:37:28How many, you guys?
00:37:29That's Mr. Ruszynski.
00:37:31Get a bottle for me, will you?
00:37:32Yeah.
00:37:37Make it one for Wintergreen.
00:37:42Hey, is Wintergreen up there?
00:37:44Yeah, he's here.
00:37:46Tell him I want to buy his buffalo coat.
00:37:48I'll be right up.
00:37:49Hey, no dice.
00:37:50He doesn't want to sell.
00:37:52I never heard of such impertinence.
00:37:53As if I didn't have the right to dispose of my own property.
00:37:58Mr. Wintergreen, you can't sell that overcoat.
00:38:01I hoped you'd bring a chastening influence to this menagerie.
00:38:04Why, it'd be an insult to your grandfather and to the grand old name of Boone.
00:38:07It'd be unpatriotic.
00:38:08I'm dreadfully disappointed in you, Williams.
00:38:10Why, that overcoat's made history.
00:38:11It's practically a national monument.
00:38:13You can't have a big lug like Ruszynski delivering milk in it.
00:38:16Why don't you get wise to what you've got?
00:38:18Why, that overcoat ought to be in the Smithsonian Institute.
00:38:21They'd pay real dough for it.
00:38:23Smithsonian?
00:38:24Uh-huh.
00:38:25But do you really think?
00:38:27No, Williams.
00:38:28No, my mind is made up.
00:38:41Give me a Mr. Jones, quick.
00:38:47Sure, Mr. Jones.
00:38:48That's what I said.
00:38:49Walter Bard's body in a press room clothes closet.
00:38:52Hey, there's somebody in there.
00:38:53I know it sounds crazy, Mr. Jones, and I'm not drunk.
00:38:56It's true.
00:38:57There's a guy in there, I tell you.
00:38:58Listen to him holler his head off.
00:39:00Yeah, and I'm the only one that knows except Wintergreen, and I got him spiked.
00:39:03Absolutely, Mr. Jones.
00:39:05No.
00:39:12Oh, my, oh, my.
00:39:16Yes?
00:39:17Mr. Haggerty, city editor of the Herald, Lieutenant.
00:39:20Right.
00:39:21Hello, Haggerty.
00:39:25What did you say?
00:39:27In the press room?
00:39:29Here?
00:39:30What?
00:39:32As soon as I've nailed the guy that sold you that one,
00:39:34I'll be over personally to tell you what kind of a joint I'm running around here.
00:39:38One of those toss-pot reporters phoned Haggerty and said that Bard's body is hanging in the
00:39:42press room clothes closet.
00:39:47Say, you don't think he was talking about the John Doe that Yeager lost?
00:39:51There's only one way to find out.
00:39:58That's what I said, you dope all wrapped up in somebody's overcoat in the press room closet.
00:40:01My overcoat, please.
00:40:02Credit where credit is due.
00:40:03Hey, look, you guys, a perfect fit.
00:40:06Hey, what goes on?
00:40:07I found Bard.
00:40:08All wrapped up in Wintergreen's overcoat in the clothes closet.
00:40:10Now, Herald's printing it, so relax, fellas, and save paper.
00:40:13Don't you think this is best for you later?
00:40:15Give me a rewrite, sweetheart.
00:40:17Hurry up.
00:40:18Haggerty was right.
00:40:19It is Bard.
00:40:22Say, this guy didn't bleed much.
00:40:24Did Yeager say anything about that?
00:40:25Not to me.
00:40:28I haven't taken back, Sergeant.
00:40:29Tell the other now, Lieutenant.
00:40:33Mr. Jones again.
00:40:34Okay, you'll get it.
00:40:35Mr. Jones.
00:40:37Lieutenant Carson's examining the body now.
00:40:38Yeah.
00:40:4130 years, Lieutenant.
00:40:42I've been putting him on ice.
00:40:44Nobody ever done this to me before.
00:40:46Where was he?
00:40:46In here.
00:40:48Pull it out.
00:40:55That's the John Doe we fished out of the bay.
00:40:57The one Doc Yeager committed tonight for cremation.
00:41:00How'd it get in there?
00:41:01I don't know, Lieutenant.
00:41:02I put him on number seven myself.
00:41:03There's been a switch.
00:41:04Here's Doc Yeager now.
00:41:05What's this all about, Sam?
00:41:06It looks as if someone went outside as that John Doe you lost.
00:41:10Only it wasn't John Doe.
00:41:11It was Walter Bard.
00:41:12John Doe is here in Bard's place.
00:41:14Boy, this is absurd, Sam.
00:41:16A lot of things are tonight.
00:41:17You signed a commitment paper, didn't you?
00:41:19Yes, for John Doe.
00:41:21Well, Bard's body must have been picked up by mistake.
00:41:24That's the only way it could have happened.
00:41:26Well, so long as it turned out all right.
00:41:28O'Malley, get that John Doe out of here.
00:41:30Put Bard back in the right place.
00:41:31And see that he stays there until the chief medical examiner's through with him.
00:41:34Yes, sir.
00:41:44Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:41:46Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:41:47This is Ames of the Express.
00:41:49The Express?
00:41:52Oh, I haven't the slightest idea of what connection Miss Bradley has with the case.
00:41:57Oh, shh.
00:41:58In fact, I didn't know she was even acquainted with my husband.
00:42:04You're welcome.
00:42:05What was it, Harold?
00:42:05A report on Express.
00:42:07The police have found out Janet Bradley was in Walter's apartment tonight.
00:42:16Arthur, we've got to go to the police station and tell them the truth.
00:42:19No, we've got to sit tight.
00:42:20If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur.
00:42:23There'd always be that doubt.
00:42:25It'd grow and keep on growing.
00:42:27In the end, it'd break us apart.
00:42:28We'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives.
00:42:32At this moment, Arthur, there's a voice inside me saying,
00:42:36I'm not sure of him.
00:42:39Do you really mean that, Nora?
00:42:40Yes, I do.
00:42:41And maybe there's a voice inside you saying,
00:42:44I'm not sure of her.
00:42:46Don't you see how right I am, Arthur?
00:42:48We couldn't live together like that.
00:42:52You ought to be the lawyer, Nora.
00:42:54We'll go down to Carson's office right now.
00:42:57Darling.
00:43:03Hello.
00:43:05Yes.
00:43:06I'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy.
00:43:10Sure, I know I got Jaeger.
00:43:12I want someone else.
00:43:13Uh, Bard.
00:43:15For a very particular reason.
00:43:17Or how about Doc Hastings?
00:43:19As soon as you can get him down here.
00:43:24I'll see Mrs. Bard now.
00:43:31We've come to make certain orations in our statement, Lieutenant.
00:43:34What's happening?
00:43:37We told you we weren't at Bard's apartment this evening.
00:43:39Well, we were.
00:43:40Nora was there when Bard died.
00:43:42I was there later.
00:43:44Go on.
00:43:46I didn't tell Arthur I was going, but I went to ask Walter once more to give me a divorce.
00:43:53There's no use being angry with me, Nora.
00:43:56Take off your fingers and stay a while.
00:43:58Have a drink?
00:43:59It's a rainy evening.
00:44:00That's finished, Walter.
00:44:02I'm in love with Arthur Templeton.
00:44:04We want to get married.
00:44:05So you can make it legitimate, huh?
00:44:06You have no right to say that.
00:44:07You have absolutely no grounds whatsoever.
00:44:11But I'm not going to turn you loose so Templeton can put you on his income tax.
00:44:14Besides, this arrangement suits me fine.
00:44:17So long as I'm married, no woman can make a sucker out of me.
00:44:20But, Walter.
00:44:22Don't worry.
00:44:23Go into the bedroom.
00:44:25I'll talk with you as soon as I'm through with this party.
00:44:35Well, well.
00:44:36Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:44:38Did you listen?
00:44:39I heard a little.
00:44:40Walter seemed to have some papers that Miss Bradley wanted to buy.
00:44:43But he was holding out for more money.
00:44:45And then?
00:44:46Then there was some sort of scuffle.
00:44:47I don't know what happened.
00:44:49Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.
00:44:51I got the impression she was covering Walter with a gun.
00:44:54Then a door slammed.
00:44:56Yes?
00:44:57I waited a few minutes.
00:44:58Then I went in.
00:45:02Walter just taken a drink.
00:45:04He took a step toward me.
00:45:06I'll never forget the way he looked.
00:45:08The muscles of his face were all drawn up as if they were knotted.
00:45:12Then he fell into a chair.
00:45:13When I got to him, he was dead.
00:45:15I was terrified.
00:45:16I rushed out of the place.
00:45:18Why didn't you call the police?
00:45:20I was afraid to.
00:45:25Did you take a drink with Bard?
00:45:26No.
00:45:30Do you remember if Bard's gun was still in the holster?
00:45:33I'm sure it wasn't.
00:45:35But I do remember seeing it there when I first went in.
00:45:38Then who shot Bard?
00:45:39I shot Bard.
00:45:44I went to see Bard for the same reason Nora did.
00:45:46I thought perhaps I could get him to change his mind about the divorce.
00:45:49I just pulled up with a curb opposite his apartment house.
00:45:51Door opened.
00:45:53Nora came running out.
00:45:54She looked frightened.
00:45:55Before I could get around to calling after her, she had jumped into her car and started off.
00:45:58I noticed that the car in front of the apartment was Bard's.
00:46:02I'd asked her never to go to Bard's apartment again.
00:46:05The more I thought about Nora being there, the less I liked it.
00:46:36The notion that Bard's callousness had driven Nora to killing him took hold of me.
00:46:40That would be murder.
00:46:45It looked like poison to me.
00:46:48All I could think of was that Nora might be traced to the apartment.
00:46:51There was only one thing to do.
00:46:53Get the body out of the place.
00:46:55I knew the risk I was running, but I had to do it.
00:47:14Someone was coming up.
00:47:16I didn't dare go back and wait.
00:47:19I'd have to carry him down.
00:47:21He was taking a big chance, but it was late and luck was with me.
00:47:24No one saw me.
00:47:40Come alive.
00:47:46He didn't do that.
00:47:47All right, boy.
00:47:50All right, everybody.
00:47:52Come on.
00:47:54Come on.
00:48:03Then I saw the gun.
00:48:04If I could fake a suicide,
00:48:07Nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun.
00:48:09It would swing suspicion away from her.
00:48:12I held the gun close to him to muffle the shot.
00:48:16It occurred to me then,
00:48:17if Barb's body was found as far as possible
00:48:19from his apartment house,
00:48:20Nora's danger would be still less.
00:48:23I released the brake.
00:48:27It started the car rolling down the hill
00:48:29away from the apartment house.
00:48:34And that's our story.
00:48:36Nora's and mine.
00:48:39Templeton, do you believe Mrs. Bard's story?
00:48:41Yes, I do.
00:48:43And you believe his?
00:48:44Of course I do.
00:48:46You really came down here to convince each other
00:48:48that you were each telling the truth, didn't you?
00:48:50Partly.
00:48:50We had to speak for Johnny and Bradley too, Lieutenant.
00:48:54I'll need a detailed statement from both of you later.
00:48:57Certainly, Lieutenant.
00:48:57You can wait in the outer office.
00:49:05I'm sorry, Flossie,
00:49:06but you'll have to see Lieutenant Carson.
00:49:09See the Lieutenant, he says.
00:49:11A dollar six bits.
00:49:13That stiff dino in me,
00:49:14and he tells me to see the Lieutenant.
00:49:18Listen.
00:49:20I'll see the Lieutenant
00:49:21and the Chief
00:49:22and the Mayor
00:49:23and the Governor if I have to.
00:49:25I'll have me dollar six bits
00:49:27if I have to see the
00:49:29President himself.
00:49:31Sure, Flossie, sure.
00:49:32You're right.
00:49:34I don't blame you a bit.
00:49:37Okay, Malloy.
00:49:39Bird seed.
00:49:40What have you got?
00:49:41Do you?
00:49:44Come on.
00:49:46Come on.
00:49:50Come on.
00:49:52Come on.
00:50:00Come on.
00:50:06Come on.
00:50:15Do you have any smoke?
00:50:17No, thanks.
00:50:19We have some new evidence.
00:50:21Does it help me?
00:50:23No.
00:50:25Oh.
00:50:27What is it?
00:50:29Bard didn't die of a gunshot.
00:50:29Bard didn't die of a gunshot.
00:50:31He was poisoned.
00:50:32Really?
00:50:33Someone slipped the stuff in his whiskey to Cantor.
00:50:37Oh, wait a minute.
00:50:39You don't think I put the poison in his decanter.
00:50:43Why didn't you drink your highball?
00:50:45Well, I didn't want it.
00:50:47How do you think that will sound in court?
00:50:52Any way you want it to sound, I suppose.
00:50:56Are you going to book me?
00:50:58If you could give me just one solid reason why I shouldn't.
00:51:03I'm sorry for you, Lieutenant Carson.
00:51:05Listen, I'm in a bad spot, but so are you.
00:51:09You have to decide whether I'm guilty because I really am guilty
00:51:12or because I'm Luther Bradley's daughter.
00:51:16If you book me now, you'll never be sure whether you did it
00:51:18because you really believe I killed Walter Bard
00:51:20or because Max Calvert told you to.
00:51:25That's one of the things I'm trying to get straight in my mind.
00:51:29If Calvert wasn't turning on the heat,
00:51:32and another reason,
00:51:34it would have been easy.
00:51:35I'd have booked you, but fast.
00:51:37What other reason?
00:51:41It wouldn't make sense to you or to anyone else.
00:51:44In my kind of job,
00:51:45your reasons have got to make sense.
00:51:48I suppose so.
00:51:51And that means?
00:51:53I'll have to book you the way things stand.
00:52:22I'll have to go.
00:52:22I'll have to go.
00:52:24I'll have to go.
00:52:29I'll have to go.
00:52:36It's not.
00:52:43I'll have to look at it.
00:52:44I'll have to look at it.
00:52:44I'll have to go.
00:52:48Yes, sir.
00:52:50Say, is that nutty woman that sells flowers still in the building?
00:52:52In the building?
00:52:53She's practically in my lap.
00:52:55But don't worry, Lieutenant.
00:52:56I'll get rid of her.
00:52:57Don't get rid of her.
00:52:58I want to see her.
00:52:59Send her in.
00:53:00Then see if you can locate Oppenheimer.
00:53:02Okay, Lieutenant.
00:53:04All right, Flossie.
00:53:05The Lieutenant will see you now.
00:53:08Maybe now I'll get me dollar six bits.
00:53:11Sit down, darling.
00:53:12None of that.
00:53:13All I want is the money that Stiff owes me.
00:53:16You mean Bard?
00:53:17He must have died with some assets in his pants, Lieutenant.
00:53:21Don't worry about that.
00:53:22You'll get your dollar six bits.
00:53:23Tell me, did you sell this to Bard?
00:53:26Sure I did.
00:53:27When?
00:53:27Six o'clock this evening.
00:53:29Just as he was coming out of Simi's bail bond office.
00:53:31Didn't he pay you for it?
00:53:32He did not.
00:53:34He never pays you.
00:53:35You've always got to chase him.
00:53:37Up to the present moment, that slicker owes me a dollar six bits.
00:53:41Did you see him after that?
00:53:43I went to his apartment to collect, but I didn't see him.
00:53:45He must have been out to dinner.
00:53:46So I stuck around.
00:53:48Did you see anyone else when you were up there?
00:53:49Nobody but Doc Yeager.
00:53:51Do I get my money or don't I?
00:53:53Yeager?
00:53:54He was up there?
00:53:55Bard was out to the both of us.
00:53:58What time was this?
00:53:58Oh, I don't know.
00:54:00Half past eight, maybe.
00:54:01I knocked on Bard's door and he didn't answer.
00:54:04So I stuck around in the corridor.
00:54:06It was raining out and I was wet to my pelt.
00:54:09Then Doc Yeager came up.
00:54:10Did Yeager see you?
00:54:11No, he never seen me, but he was there.
00:54:13You ask him.
00:54:14Tell me about Yeager.
00:54:15What happened?
00:54:16I was drying myself with the radiator on the stairway landing.
00:54:20I was down half a flight, so he didn't see me.
00:54:29Never seen a man so scared.
00:54:31The way he kept looking around.
00:54:43I could hardly find the keyhole.
00:54:45His hand was shaking so.
00:54:48I don't know how many keys he tried before he got the one that fit it.
00:55:00He shut the door behind him so quiet I could hardly hear it.
00:55:06He couldn't have been in there more than a minute and he still acted like he was scared of his
00:55:10own shadow.
00:55:20He never seen me, but he was there.
00:55:22You ask him.
00:55:27Doc, come into my office again, will you?
00:55:29Okay.
00:55:30And now do I get my financial reimbursement?
00:55:33There you are.
00:55:35You can always tell a gentleman by the way he treats a lady.
00:55:39Just a minute.
00:55:40I want you to wait in here.
00:55:56Come in, Doc.
00:56:00You don't look well, Doc.
00:56:02Sit down.
00:56:02Oh, I'm all right.
00:56:04Tired, that's all.
00:56:05Too much night work, I guess.
00:56:07I'm not as young as I was.
00:56:10What's up, Sam?
00:56:12Bard's death is a lucky break for you, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:14I don't get you.
00:56:16This malpractice case the grand jury's got on you.
00:56:19Bard did some investigating for the medical association, didn't he?
00:56:21Oh, he's got nothing on me.
00:56:23I wonder what happened to the evidence he dug up.
00:56:26It isn't in either his apartment or his office.
00:56:28Because there never was any.
00:56:30I heard different.
00:56:32Funny how it disappeared, isn't it, Doc?
00:56:34Oh, you're not insinuating that I...
00:56:36that you got a hold of it?
00:56:38Yes, I am, Doc.
00:56:40Boy, that's ridiculous.
00:56:41I haven't been out of the building since the body was found.
00:56:44Maybe you were out before it was found.
00:56:46I was not.
00:56:48You weren't in Bard's apartment early this evening?
00:56:50Certainly not.
00:56:51Along about 8.30?
00:56:53No.
00:56:54Suppose I told you you were seen going into Bard's apartment with one of your keys.
00:56:58You stayed there a few minutes, then left, locking the door after you.
00:57:01Whoever said that's a liar?
00:57:02Who's calling me a liar?
00:57:04It's yourself that's the liar.
00:57:06I seen you.
00:57:07Sneaking into the poor murdered boy's apartment and sneaking out again.
00:57:11With the mark of can all over your face.
00:57:13And that's how the poison got in Bard's whiskey.
00:57:17Help! Help!
00:57:19Help! Help!
00:57:21Police!
00:57:22Police!
00:57:23Help!
00:57:25Help!
00:57:28Help!
00:57:32Help!
00:57:38Help!
00:57:43Help!
00:58:13There it is!
00:58:14Stop it!
00:58:17Where the hell?
00:58:21Take him away!
00:58:21Hey, come on, come on.
00:58:23Come on, come on, come on!
00:58:30Take him away.
00:58:31Come on, come on!
00:58:32Thanks who are you? I'm Zachary. Hey, that's the guy broke jail. Yeah, the Philadelphia phantom. I won my fight
00:58:38by a knockout
00:58:39So now I'm back
00:58:40You got back just in time. Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh? Not exactly. You're still
00:58:45under arrest
00:58:46Well, if that ain't gratitude. Don't worry, Zachary. I'll be in your corner when the case comes up. Thanks, pal
00:58:53You can count on both of us. I think Yeager's confession will be sufficient
00:58:58Much obliged, Lieutenant. There's still a misdemeanor charge against you, Mr. Templeton, but I don't think it will interfere with
00:59:03your wedding plans
00:59:04You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant. Why I'll be there to kiss the bride
00:59:09Good luck to both of you. Thank you
00:59:15Now why couldn't something like that happen to me? Oh, nobody loves a copper. Why don't you ask her?
00:59:22Ask her? Ask who?
00:59:26What? Yeah, ask her out to breakfast with you. Sure, I'll be pretty hungry by now. You're nuts
00:59:31It's been done
00:59:32After the going-over I gave her? I still say it's been done
00:59:39Maybe you got something there
00:59:44You're free to go now
00:59:45Well, we have the confession of a Dr. Yeager
00:59:48Oh
00:59:49I'm glad you didn't touch that drink
00:59:52So am I
00:59:52I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert and informing him that his stooge murdered Walter Bard
00:59:59Which, of course, ruins his front page on Janet Bradley
01:00:02And that's about all
01:00:04Unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard, between ourselves, of course
01:00:09I feel I can tell you now
01:00:11I didn't trust you before. You didn't seem to be yourself
01:00:15But now you do
01:00:17Thanks
01:00:17Thanks
01:00:18It's quite a story
01:00:20Suppose I tell you about it some evening
01:00:21Soon
01:00:24Suppose you do
01:00:27Thank you
01:00:29Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones
01:00:32He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet, the case might never have been solved
01:00:36Hey fellas, look at this
01:00:39I'll call you back
01:01:08Lieutenant Bradley
01:01:09Thank you
01:01:10Tis
01:01:11Tis
01:01:11Tis
01:01:12Playa
01:01:12Tis
01:01:13Tis
01:01:13Tis
01:01:13Tis
01:01:16Tis
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