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A haunting nightmare turns into a terrifying mystery when a man becomes convinced that he has witnessed a murder in his dreams. As reality and imagination begin to blur, he embarks on a desperate search for the truth. The Dream That Killed (1946) is a classic psychological mystery thriller filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected twists that keep viewers guessing until the very end.
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00:01:36At first, all I could see was this face coming toward me.
00:01:43Then I saw the room.
00:01:46A queer, mirrored room.
00:01:55And somehow, I was inside it.
00:02:03There was danger there.
00:02:05I knew that.
00:02:07I wanted to turn and run, but I couldn't.
00:02:10It seemed as if my brain was handcuffed.
00:02:13And I had to do what I'd come to do.
00:02:14I knew that.
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00:08:01Fremont National Bank, did you speaking?
00:08:04Oh, yes, Grayson.
00:08:08Mm-hmm.
00:08:09What seems to be the trouble?
00:08:13Oh?
00:08:15Well, it could be the flu.
00:08:17Mm-hmm.
00:08:19Yes.
00:08:20All right, all right.
00:08:22Good-bye.
00:08:24Good-bye.
00:08:25Good morning, Jill.
00:08:26Good morning, Mr. Jackson.
00:08:29Oh, isn't that a lovely morning?
00:08:31Lots of things I'd rather do than work today.
00:08:36Good morning, Mr. Vigneault.
00:08:37Good morning, Betty.
00:08:38Vince Grayson just called.
00:08:40He's not feeling well.
00:08:41Will you take his window today?
00:08:42Oh, is Vince sick?
00:08:44What did he say it was?
00:09:08Good morning, Mr. Vigneault.
00:09:09The more I tried to figure it out, the thicker I got.
00:09:13Suddenly, the room started spinning.
00:09:2140, 50.
00:09:31Federal 7-6-4-8.
00:09:38Hotel Commodore.
00:09:39Vince Grayson's room, please.
00:09:56He doesn't answer?
00:10:05Funny he shouldn't be there, isn't it?
00:10:07If he was sick, you know what I mean?
00:10:09No, I don't.
00:10:12I'd better check his books.
00:10:14Just to make safe.
00:10:16Miss, would you like to take this money or should I try another bank?
00:10:22I had to get out of my room.
00:10:24Out into the sunshine.
00:10:26I had to stay out of the shadows.
00:10:29And I knew that tonight...
00:10:31I'd be afraid of the dark.
00:10:33I had to talk to somebody about this crazy thing.
00:10:37Betty?
00:10:38I'd get sympathy from Betty.
00:10:41What I needed was an explanation.
00:10:44Cliff.
00:10:45My brother-in-law.
00:10:46He ought to be able to figure out something.
00:10:49I got to Cliff's place just before dinner.
00:10:52My sister, Lil, told me he was out in the garage.
00:10:58Hello, Cliff.
00:11:00Oh, hiya, Vince.
00:11:01How's the boy?
00:11:03Cliff, I... I want to talk to you.
00:11:05Do it as soon as I finish sanding it.
00:11:08Exact reproduction of Martha Washington's bed.
00:11:17What's the matter, kid? Something on your mind?
00:11:20I need your help.
00:11:21You and Betty have a fight or something?
00:11:24Cliff, this is gonna sound screwy.
00:11:27Last night, I dreamed I killed a man.
00:11:29I...
00:11:30I don't know who or where it was supposed to be.
00:11:33I stabbed him with a steel boar.
00:11:36During the fight, a button came off in my hand.
00:11:39When I'd kill him, I locked the body in a closet and took the key.
00:11:44And then when I woke up...
00:11:47Well, look.
00:11:51And this morning, there was blood on my wrist.
00:11:54I figured maybe I'd scratch myself in my sleep, my ear or my nose or someplace.
00:11:59So I just washed it off.
00:12:01That was before I saw the...
00:12:05You're all in pieces, aren't you?
00:12:07Cliff, you gotta help me.
00:12:08You don't know what I've been going through all day.
00:12:15Where'd you get this?
00:12:16I mean, where'd you first get it, before you dreamed about it?
00:12:19Don't you understand what I've been telling you?
00:12:21I didn't have it before I dreamed about it.
00:12:24I never saw it before then.
00:12:26Then when I wake up, it turns out real.
00:12:28Now look, Vince.
00:12:29I've warned you before.
00:12:31You're working too hard.
00:12:32Don't you understand?
00:12:34There's a door somewhere this very minute this key belongs to.
00:12:36There's a man propped up behind a dead.
00:12:39And I don't know where nor who he is or how or why it happened.
00:12:42Only that I must have been there.
00:12:43I must have done it.
00:12:44Or why would it come to me in my sleep like this?
00:12:46And these things...
00:12:47Now look.
00:12:48You had those things before.
00:12:50You picked them up somewhere.
00:12:51And you misplaced them a long time ago.
00:12:54And last night, you had a Welsh rabbit or one drink too many.
00:12:57So you dreamed up a nightmare.
00:12:59And in it, you remembered these old things and wove them in it.
00:13:02Oh, no.
00:13:03Now, don't say no.
00:13:05Either you dream a thing or it really happened.
00:13:08Don't worry.
00:13:09If you dreamed that you had a fight with a guy and rammed something in him...
00:13:13You'd wake up.
00:13:14It happened, Cliff.
00:13:15If I tell you it happened!
00:13:17You dreamed it.
00:13:18You had those things before.
00:13:23You've just been stretching your nerves thin, kid.
00:13:25Bless your hands.
00:13:27That's all you can tell me, huh?
00:13:29Cliff!
00:13:30Finn!
00:13:31Dinner's ready!
00:13:31If I tell you I didn't have these things before...
00:13:33Throw those things away.
00:13:35And look.
00:13:36Not a word of this to live.
00:13:39You understand?
00:13:40She's been worrying about you enough already.
00:13:46You haven't helped me a bit.
00:13:49I need one of the knuckles to work.
00:13:51Come on.
00:13:51Naturally not.
00:13:52You expect me to arrest you for murdering a man in your dream.
00:13:56The rest will have to happen in a dream, too.
00:13:59Because...
00:14:01I'm off duty when I'm dreaming.
00:14:03Come on, kid.
00:14:05Let's get some dinner.
00:14:06And smile for Lil, will you?
00:14:14You men coming in or not?
00:14:16You want your soup to get cold?
00:14:20I keep cracking the polish off of that one male.
00:14:23Are you lucky?
00:14:23Lil's got a rib roast tonight.
00:14:25You know I'm getting jealous of that butcher.
00:14:27Vince, why did you tell me you've been working hard at the bank all day?
00:14:30Because I did.
00:14:33How are you feeling, Vince?
00:14:35Thought you were sick.
00:14:36I was.
00:14:36I just didn't feel well.
00:14:38I kept calling your room all day.
00:14:40No one was there.
00:14:41Mr. Billio got suspicious.
00:14:42Can a guy take a day off?
00:14:44I just didn't feel like going to work.
00:14:45And I wasn't sick enough to stay in my room.
00:14:47Now, why does everybody have to make such a big thing of it?
00:14:51Hmm.
00:14:55Blood.
00:14:56I washed it off.
00:15:19I don't know how long I was blacked out.
00:15:22I hazily remembered coming to for a moment and falling asleep again.
00:15:27It was some time past midnight when something awakened me.
00:15:30It is.
00:15:43How could a fight this fight...
00:15:45Fight out?
00:15:47You definitely did.
00:15:49The truth?
00:15:50No, not what you think.
00:15:52Not that green of his name...
00:15:54The real truth.
00:15:55You've been wearing yourself out.
00:15:57Why are you passed out like any neurotic?
00:15:59Take the key to the button.
00:16:01You must have often had less in that to start out on.
00:16:04Find out where they came from and find out what they were doing on me.
00:16:09Find out where that mirrored room is.
00:16:11Forget them once and for all. Forget them.
00:16:13I can't. They're my only clue to what happened.
00:16:15Nothing happened.
00:16:16Just selling yourself a phony bill of goods.
00:16:18Just as phony as that idea that the nail polish was blood.
00:16:22That's the kind of trick your mind's been playing on you.
00:16:24Oh, it can't be bad.
00:16:26And don't crack to Lill about this nonsense or I'll...
00:16:30I'll just don't crack.
00:16:32She's fretted about you for years, ever since your mother died.
00:16:35And right now would be the worst time of all.
00:16:38Now? What do you mean?
00:16:42Well, I wasn't going to tell you until later.
00:16:45Lill's going to have a kid.
00:16:48Oh, that's fine. That's great, Clip.
00:16:51Okay. So now you know, so forget it.
00:16:54And if you'll hop on that spooky business that will help me, I'll drag you off to a doctor.
00:17:02Now go on. Try and get some sleep.
00:17:16Sleep?
00:17:17I felt I'd never sleep again, until I knew the answer.
00:17:23I had to find the house where the nightmare took place.
00:17:26I had to know.
00:17:46I have a lovely house with a mirror-lined powder room on the second floor.
00:17:52Autagonal?
00:17:53No, it's only four squares.
00:17:56However, Mr. Grayson, if you'll come and look at it, I'm certain...
00:17:59No, thanks. I'm sorry. That's not what I'm looking for.
00:18:04Six days went by without a lead.
00:18:07I scoured the papers.
00:18:09Not one line about the murder.
00:18:11And all week I've been avoiding Betty.
00:18:13I just couldn't face her with this thing gnawing at my brain.
00:18:24Who is it?
00:18:25Clip.
00:18:29Hello, Clip.
00:18:29Hiya, boy.
00:18:30We'll just see what I've got downstairs.
00:18:32Come on.
00:18:33Put it on.
00:18:35Let's go.
00:18:36I don't want to go anywhere.
00:18:37I want you to see my new second-hand car that I just got in exchange for my old second
00:18:41-hand car.
00:18:42Please, Clip. I don't want to go anywhere.
00:18:44What are you trying to be, a groundhog?
00:18:45Lil and I are taking a ride in the country.
00:18:47A little picnic.
00:18:48Listen, I'm all right.
00:18:49I don't need any fresh air jaunts to shake the devils out of me, if that's what you're doing.
00:18:52Now, look, do you want Lil to worry any more than she is, after what I told you about her?
00:18:59Come on.
00:19:10Now, look, Clip, if you think this is going to do any good...
00:19:12Don't be a drip.
00:19:13Come on.
00:19:18Hello, Betty.
00:19:19Hello, Vince.
00:19:20How are you, Lil?
00:19:20I'm fine.
00:19:21Vince, I want you to know this wasn't my idea.
00:19:23What do you mean?
00:19:24I'm glad you picked me up.
00:19:25Well, where should we go, kid?
00:19:27Anywhere.
00:19:28I don't care.
00:19:29How about Zalanda Canyon?
00:19:30All right.
00:19:39Zalanda Canyon.
00:19:40It just popped into my head.
00:19:42Why?
00:19:44Betty and I always preferred the beach.
00:19:46But something made me say Zalanda.
00:19:49Somehow, it seemed important.
00:20:06You know where you're going?
00:20:08Nope.
00:20:09But I got a hunch further down this road, we'll find just the right spot.
00:20:12You ever see anything so stubborn?
00:20:14I'm sure that the ants here are just as friendly as the ants farther down.
00:20:18Now, what's wrong with that place over there?
00:20:20Nothing, but, uh...
00:20:21Well, stop then.
00:20:22It's getting late, and besides, I'm hungry.
00:20:24Okay, okay, my love.
00:20:26That's just what I was going to do.
00:20:40Ah, this is the life.
00:20:42Toss me another one of those marshmallows, will you, beloved?
00:20:46As I wish, Martha.
00:20:48Plop!
00:20:52Mommy, you're wonderful.
00:20:54Uh-huh.
00:20:54Just as long as the marshmallows last.
00:20:56Uh-huh.
00:21:03Vince, are you coming back to work tomorrow?
00:21:07I don't think so.
00:21:10Mr. Billio asked me to go out with him yesterday.
00:21:13Well, why didn't you go?
00:21:14Why tell me?
00:21:15Vince.
00:21:17What is it?
00:21:18What's the matter?
00:21:33I don't think so.
00:21:33Just forget about me, will you?
00:21:34What is it?
00:21:36Did I do something?
00:21:38No, it's not your fault.
00:21:39It's just that...
00:21:42Look, we're through.
00:21:43There's nothing we can do about it.
00:21:46Don't call me out.
00:21:47Don't pay any attention to me.
00:21:48Get somebody else.
00:21:49Get anybody.
00:21:53Be better for you.
00:22:02Bill, Bill, you're a big girl now.
00:22:05I can't help it.
00:22:06You know what lightning does to me.
00:22:08We better go.
00:22:09Hey, kids.
00:22:10It's going to rain.
00:22:12Oh!
00:22:14Holy smoke.
00:22:15You didn't have to take me seriously.
00:22:16Yes, Benny.
00:22:17Come on.
00:22:18Let's go.
00:22:21Oh!
00:22:23Oh!
00:22:28Oh!
00:22:45Oh!
00:22:46Don, the wipers won't work.
00:22:47You should've tried them before you bought it, dear.
00:22:49All right.
00:22:50All right.
00:22:51All right.
00:23:10I can't stand anymore.
00:23:12Stop at the first place you come to and let's get out of this.
00:23:15All right, baby.
00:23:15Now, calm down.
00:23:19No houses around here.
00:23:28That bridge.
00:23:30I've seen it before.
00:23:31But when?
00:23:33I've seen it before.
00:23:34But when?
00:23:35There's a cutoff a little ways ahead, just around the turn.
00:23:39There's a big house up there, I think.
00:23:42Do you know this section?
00:23:43Have you been here before?
00:23:46There's a cutoff.
00:23:55Are you going to get us more lost than ever?
00:23:57No, keep going.
00:23:58You'll come to it.
00:23:59Two big posts and then turn the car between them.
00:24:02I didn't know myself how I knew that.
00:24:05But the closer we came, the harder my heart pounded.
00:24:08And the more frightened I got.
00:24:18There they are.
00:24:19Turn, Cliff, between those posts like you told you.
00:24:31You...
00:24:40THE END
00:25:09Let's make a dash for it.
00:25:32There doesn't seem to be anybody home.
00:25:34Well, I wish we could get in.
00:25:56I thought there'd be a key someplace.
00:26:13Vince, are you going to stay out there all day?
00:26:15Come on in.
00:26:20Let's have some light.
00:26:22Not that one.
00:26:26What is this, a room?
00:26:27A rib?
00:26:28How do you know so much about this place?
00:26:29It's a rib.
00:26:30Your brother Vince, the great joker.
00:26:39Hello.
00:26:40Anybody home?
00:26:41Don't do that.
00:26:43It's cold.
00:26:44He's shaking.
00:26:44So are you.
00:26:46Let's find a place to dry out before you catch cold.
00:27:15It looks like they've been away a long time.
00:27:19Your being a detective comes in handy.
00:27:21In case anybody shows up, we won't get into trouble for crashing in like this.
00:27:24Yeah, yeah.
00:27:26Let's see what it gives with the fireplace.
00:27:33That's a break.
00:27:34It's a gas log.
00:27:45Get out.
00:27:45Put yourself down.
00:27:46Dry out.
00:27:47Before you catch a chill.
00:27:50Oh, I am tired.
00:27:53Come on, Betty, share the warmth.
00:27:56I'll scout the kitchen.
00:27:57Some hot tea wouldn't hurt you a bit.
00:28:04I feel better already.
00:28:12Vince, why don't you come over here by the fire?
00:28:37The End
00:29:48This is the place.
00:29:50This is the place, all right.
00:29:53Yeah.
00:29:58Wipe your brow.
00:30:03Have you got it?
00:30:11What are you two doing up there?
00:30:13Keep her downstairs.
00:30:14Keep her downstairs.
00:30:16Down in a minute, Lil.
00:30:17Watch the tea in the kitchen.
00:30:18I got some water boiling.
00:30:19All right, but I wish you'd stop poking around.
00:30:38Look.
00:30:41That's what he was crossed in front of that night.
00:30:44He must have been using a blowtorch.
00:30:47That's what made that bluish light.
00:30:51Made her face stand out in the reflections like a mask.
00:30:59That must be the one I propped him up in after I...
00:31:02That must be the one I propped him up in after I was in here.
00:31:09No, don't.
00:31:10No, don't.
00:31:10Yeah.
00:31:11Give me a chance.
00:31:12Cut it out.
00:31:13Cut it out.
00:31:13Cut it out.
00:31:27Dried blood.
00:31:30Someone who was hurt was in here.
00:31:32Somebody who is dead.
00:31:52Ben, Claire, come on down and have some tea.
00:32:26I'll take these back to the kitchen.
00:32:28I'll take them.
00:32:30The rain ought to let up soon.
00:32:31Meanwhile, get yourselves a nap.
00:32:46Close it.
00:32:47I want them to hear this.
00:33:02Now let's hear about another dream.
00:33:04You think I lied, don't you?
00:33:07You know how to get here from a dream, didn't you?
00:33:09You knew where the key was from a dream, didn't you?
00:33:13Oh, that fumbling around didn't fool me.
00:33:15You even knew where the light switch was.
00:33:16From a dream?
00:33:17If you weren't Lil's brother, I'd push a lion's face out to the back of your head.
00:33:21But I tell you, Cliff, I tried...
00:33:22Right-handed me for help.
00:33:23She didn't have guts enough to come clean.
00:33:25Just say, Cliff, I went out to such-and-such a place in the canyon last night and killed a
00:33:29guy.
00:33:29Such-and-such a guy for such-and-such a reason.
00:33:31But I tell you...
00:33:32No, you had to cook up a dream.
00:33:34I can respect a guy no matter how rotten a crime he's committed who'll own up to it.
00:33:37I can understand a guy who'll deny it flatly.
00:33:39But a guy that'll come to someone trading on the fact he's married to his sister abuses common sense
00:33:43and make a fool out of him like you did to me.
00:33:45But I didn't...
00:33:45I got no use for him.
00:33:46He's lower than the lowest rat we ever brought in for knifing somebody in an alley.
00:33:50Look, I found this key in my pocket when I woke up.
00:33:54I found this button playing on my sympathy, getting me to think in terms of doctors and medical observation.
00:33:59Was that it?
00:34:00Was it?
00:34:00No, I...
00:34:01Cliff, I swear to you, I...
00:34:03Some dream, that was.
00:34:04Well, that dream's over with.
00:34:06The baby's awake now.
00:34:07I'm gonna get the packs out of you, and whether they go any further than me or not, that's my
00:34:10business.
00:34:10But at least I'm gonna have them.
00:34:12How can I tell you what I don't know?
00:34:13What were you doing here that night?
00:34:14What brought you here?
00:34:15I was never here before.
00:34:16I never saw the place till the day when I came here with you and Lil.
00:34:19Who was the guy you killed?
00:34:20What was his name?
00:34:21I'm in agony already without...
00:34:22Are you gonna answer me?
00:34:23Are you?
00:34:24I can't.
00:34:24You're asking me things I can't answer.
00:34:26That's the almighty of whoever watches over us at night when we're unconscious.
00:34:30Who was the guy?
00:34:31Why did you kill him?
00:34:32Why?
00:34:33I've handled close-mouthed guys before.
00:34:35You're gonna tell me or I'm gonna have to kill you with my own hands.
00:34:42Get over there.
00:34:43What is this?
00:34:44I'll ask the questions.
00:34:45What are you two doing in here?
00:34:47You came in out of the rain.
00:34:48That suits you?
00:34:49Not yet.
00:34:51Identify yourselves and be quick about it.
00:34:55Help yourself.
00:35:05Thanks, Early.
00:35:08Headquarters Homicide Division, huh?
00:35:09How about doing a little identifying yourself?
00:35:11Oh, I'm a deputy attached to the county sheriff's office out this way.
00:35:15Torrens is the name.
00:35:16My brother-in-law, Vince Grayson.
00:35:17How do you deal?
00:35:18I'm detailed to keep an eye on this place.
00:35:20I was home having a little bite to eat, then I'm on my way back to the station.
00:35:23Say, how'd you get in here?
00:35:24I thought I had it locked up.
00:35:25The key was under a flower box on the porch.
00:35:26It was?
00:35:27Must have been a spare.
00:35:28I have the original.
00:35:29We didn't know there was a second one.
00:35:30What do you mean, you're detailed to keep an eye on this place?
00:35:33Didn't you know?
00:35:34There was a murder committed here last week.
00:35:36There was?
00:35:38I'd like to hear more about that.
00:35:40Sounds interesting.
00:35:43Oh?
00:35:44No, thanks.
00:35:45I cut them on about a month ago.
00:35:48I always carry a pack of these now.
00:35:51Nothing.
00:35:53This place belonged to a wealthy couple named Belknap.
00:35:56Husband frequently goes on long business trips.
00:35:58He was away when it happened.
00:36:00Mexico.
00:36:01In fact, we haven't been able to notify him yet.
00:36:05His wife was a pretty little thing.
00:36:07Was.
00:36:08Kind of flirty.
00:36:09There was a young duck she used to run around with.
00:36:11His name was Bob Clune.
00:36:13Was?
00:36:14Milkman found Mrs. Belknap about daybreak Monday, near a road that leads over here.
00:36:19Did?
00:36:20Dying.
00:36:20Unconscious.
00:36:21Both legs broken.
00:36:22Skull fractured.
00:36:22Insides all busted up.
00:36:27Kind of gets him, doesn't it?
00:36:29Things like this are new to him, I guess.
00:36:31What had happened?
00:36:32The car did it to her.
00:36:33He found the car.
00:36:35Blood and hair in the tires.
00:36:39Bob Clune's car.
00:36:40Well, then Warner, that's my chief, he'd come over here to have a look around.
00:36:44He finds a safe busted in the married room upstairs.
00:36:47Take care for sure if you want.
00:36:48Weird room, huh?
00:36:52Well, that gave us a case.
00:36:54Clune knew that Belknap had a lot of doing in the safe way left for Mexico.
00:36:57He came here, started to heist it, and Mrs. Belknap caught him.
00:37:00She ran out afraid he'd kill her.
00:37:01He got his car, chased her down the road, and ran over.
00:37:03Pretty brutal.
00:37:05All of a sudden, life was swell again.
00:37:07I don't know how to drive, I kept thinking.
00:37:10Cliff knew that too.
00:37:13Not a smoke, kid.
00:37:16Anyway, that's a case we thought we had until Wednesday morning.
00:37:19Thought you had.
00:37:19We sent out an alarm for Clune.
00:37:21Then Wednesday, Mrs. Belknap came too.
00:37:23The first thing she asked was, is Bob all right?
00:37:25He didn't kill Bob Clune, did he?
00:37:27He?
00:37:27Yeah.
00:37:28What she told us sent us hot pudding right back here.
00:37:30We find Clune's body proper behind one of those mirrored doors upstairs.
00:37:34Been stabbed with an awl.
00:37:35She died that night.
00:37:36Well, it went our case.
00:37:40Did you get anything on the real killer?
00:37:42Practically everything, except the guy himself.
00:37:45All the dope's over at my chief's office.
00:37:47I was just on the way over there.
00:37:49You interested?
00:37:49Oh, it's right up my alley.
00:37:51Might be able to even help you find the killer.
00:37:53Glad to have you come along.
00:37:55I'll have to tell the girls.
00:37:56We'll be gone for a while.
00:38:02Shouldn't let it get you, kid.
00:38:04This is just routine with us.
00:38:06I know.
00:38:07It's just that I'm not used to this kind of discussion, I guess.
00:38:10Yeah, I can understand that.
00:38:12I was a little bit squeamish myself when I first started on the job.
00:38:17They're both asleep.
00:38:17I left the note.
00:38:19Come on, Vince.
00:38:23Uh, I'll stay here.
00:38:25Come on, Vince.
00:38:38Funny I didn't see anything in the L.A. papers about it, Captain Warner.
00:38:41They've been playing ball with us.
00:38:44We had an idea that if the killer didn't read about us finding the bodies,
00:38:47he might come back to take a look.
00:38:49Maybe to find out what happened to Mrs. Bell now.
00:38:53Here's a description she gave us before she died.
00:38:58The killer was about 24.
00:39:01Medium build.
00:39:02White brown, wavy hair.
00:39:04Worn rather long.
00:39:07His eyes were fixed and glassy as though he was mentally unbalanced.
00:39:12You got any pictures on them?
00:39:13Mrs. Belknap.
00:39:15Clune, I mean.
00:39:16We had some photographs taken in the morgue.
00:39:18Let's have a look.
00:39:21Got any ideas?
00:39:22Nothing in particular.
00:39:24Just thought it might tie in with something at our office.
00:39:28Take a look, Vince.
00:39:30Oh, no.
00:39:30You might even know these people.
00:39:34It was them all right.
00:39:35The faces and the dream.
00:39:37That woman and the man I killed.
00:39:40No, I knew there was no escape.
00:39:43I was a murderer.
00:39:45I...
00:39:47I...
00:39:47I...
00:40:03Outlight the light.
00:40:04What are you supposed to do?
00:40:05Those death pictures?
00:40:06Things like this sure get him.
00:40:07I noticed that before.
00:40:08He's not well.
00:40:10He gets these dizzy spells now and then.
00:40:12It's only since I started...
00:40:14Shut up.
00:40:17Man, that's better.
00:40:19He'll be all right.
00:40:21As soon as I get him home.
00:40:25Thanks, Warner.
00:40:26I'll be seeing you.
00:40:27Okay.
00:40:55Thanks, Lil.
00:40:56I'm sorry.
00:40:57The rain spoiled a picnic.
00:40:58Will you take care of yourself?
00:40:59I'll call you.
00:41:02I'm going up with Vince for a while.
00:41:04I bet you happen to be in the loading zone.
00:41:06Well, Smiley's on this beat.
00:41:07If he says anything, just tell him whose car it is.
00:41:44Lil's waiting downstairs.
00:41:46I'm going to take her home first before I do anything.
00:41:50I love Lil.
00:41:52I think you love Betty, but that's your business.
00:41:55All I know is, I love Lil.
00:42:00It's bad enough what this is going to do to her when she finds out.
00:42:04I'm going to see that she gets at least one good night's sleep...
00:42:08before she does.
00:42:10What am I going to do, Cleo?
00:42:12I don't have to ask you if you kill them.
00:42:15You passed out cold when you saw that photograph of some death.
00:42:20In the morning, I'm going to take you down...
00:42:22and turn in what I know at my own precinct house...
00:42:25and make them pass it on to Warner.
00:42:31And then I'm going to turn in my badge.
00:42:35I'm scared stiff.
00:42:38Killers always are.
00:42:40Afterwards.
00:42:42I'll be back in the morning.
00:43:03Gladys?
00:43:05Well done.
00:43:19Here we go.
00:43:24notify
00:43:36THE END
00:44:18I beg your pardon.
00:44:26Look, he's trying to make up his mind.
00:44:50Don't you go any faster?
00:44:52Got it wide open.
00:45:14Let's go!
00:45:18Oh!
00:45:21Oh!
00:45:29Oh!
00:45:33Oh!
00:45:39That's a great deal!
00:45:44Oh!
00:45:45I didn't think it that way out.
00:45:51Vince!
00:45:52Oh, Vince!
00:45:54I didn't want to drag you into this.
00:45:56What is it?
00:45:57If you were in trouble so horrible that you wanted to...
00:46:00Darling, don't.
00:46:04He won't try it again, Betty.
00:46:06Just keep that thought.
00:46:08But why, Cliff? Why?
00:46:10Never mind now.
00:46:11You go on down.
00:46:13Take Lil home.
00:46:14But don't tell him anything about that.
00:46:17Just say that I thought it would be better if I stayed here with Vince tonight.
00:46:21He's not feeling well.
00:46:22Okay.
00:46:26Cliff, whatever it is that's come between us, promise me you'll help him.
00:46:30You go on now.
00:46:31And take care of Lil.
00:47:14Clif, I wake you up?
00:47:18No, I can't sleep.
00:47:20Have a smoke.
00:47:30What about the arrest, Clif?
00:47:33Cancel for now.
00:47:35The guy's willing to die like you were.
00:47:36There must be something to his story.
00:47:38I tried to tell you.
00:47:40I don't think you really knew what you were doing that night.
00:47:43I think you're telling the truth to the best of your ability.
00:47:48I'm licked.
00:47:49I'd rather not even talk about it.
00:47:51You might as well have let me jump.
00:47:54I'm dead inside already.
00:47:57Still, I can't figure why you picked that way.
00:48:00Most of them try the bridge or poison or even gas.
00:48:04Thought of that, but this place hasn't any gas.
00:48:06Yeah, good thing, too.
00:48:08More houses didn't have gas, there'd be less.
00:48:10Yeah?
00:48:11It'd be darned inconvenient if an electric light bulb burns out unexpectedly.
00:48:15Happened to a fellow in the next room the other night.
00:48:17Yeah?
00:48:18Yeah, I had to use a candle.
00:48:19Same night I had the dream.
00:48:21Use a candle?
00:48:22How did you know?
00:48:23Were you in there with him?
00:48:24Hmm?
00:48:26No, he rapped, stuck his head in the door.
00:48:29Wanted to know if my light had gone out, too.
00:48:32What'd you have to come in here for?
00:48:34Couldn't you have told by the hall?
00:48:35I don't know.
00:48:36There's a little night light around the bin in the hall.
00:48:39Maybe that's on a different circuit.
00:48:41Still no reason for him to barge in on you.
00:48:50I'd like to hear the rest of this.
00:48:53There isn't an arrest of it.
00:48:54I've told you all there is.
00:48:56Never mind.
00:48:57Now, who was he?
00:48:59Did you know him?
00:49:00Now, tell it to me step by step.
00:49:02Like, to a six-year-old kid.
00:49:04Okay.
00:49:06Well, the guy's name was Berg.
00:49:08He'd been living in the room about, uh,
00:49:11four weeks or ten days before that.
00:49:14Used to see him in the elevator.
00:49:16Chatted with him a couple of times in the lobby.
00:49:18All right.
00:49:20Now, tell me what happened the night his light went out.
00:49:23Well, I'd been in bed for some time.
00:49:25Reading the paper like I do every night.
00:49:34Just put the lamp out and got in sleep
00:49:37when I heard this knock on the door.
00:49:42Who is it?
00:49:43Harry Berg from next door.
00:49:55Arch, did I wake you?
00:49:57No, I just turned out the light.
00:49:59Oh, you did?
00:50:00The light in my room just went out.
00:50:03That's why I wanted to see you.
00:50:05I thought maybe the circuit was on.
00:50:08Your light working?
00:50:10Trying.
00:50:18Yes.
00:50:19It must have been the globe that burned out.
00:50:22Sorry I troubled you.
00:50:24Not at all.
00:50:26You're tired, aren't you?
00:50:28I can see you're pretty tired.
00:50:31I'm sorry.
00:50:33Oh, really, it's all right.
00:50:35You're tired.
00:50:36And I woke you up.
00:50:38It's all right.
00:50:45I guess he kind of had a one-track mind.
00:50:49Used to mumbling to himself, maybe.
00:50:51Anyway, he finally closed the door and went away,
00:50:53and I dropped off to sleep.
00:50:56Now, wait a minute.
00:50:57Are you sure the door closed after him?
00:51:00Did you see it closed?
00:51:01Did you hear it closed?
00:51:06Did it go like this?
00:51:08Did it make a click?
00:51:10Or did it go like this?
00:51:12Without a click.
00:51:15I can see you're having trouble giving me a definite answer.
00:51:18You don't remember it either way.
00:51:20Oh, what difference does it make?
00:51:22The door must have closed.
00:51:23He went away, and I went to sleep.
00:51:25He was standing there with a candle in his hand,
00:51:28and he kept saying, you're tired.
00:51:31So what?
00:51:32Eyes fixed and glassy, as though he were mentally unbalanced.
00:51:38What?
00:51:40I was just remembering something in the deathbed statement
00:51:43Mrs. Belknap gave to Warner.
00:51:45You, uh, you say you've chatted with this fellow once in a while.
00:51:50What about?
00:51:51Oh, sports, politics.
00:51:55Going down the elevator one time,
00:51:57he had a box of methylated cough drops in his pocket.
00:52:00Go ahead, have one.
00:52:02No, thanks.
00:52:02I don't like them.
00:52:05Oh, go on.
00:52:06They're good for you.
00:52:07No, thanks, really.
00:52:10You should have one.
00:52:12Your voice sounds kind of hoarse.
00:52:19I took one because I kind of felt sorry for him.
00:52:23I really hate those cough drops.
00:52:26Testing willpower.
00:52:29You seem to make something out of this silly thing.
00:52:31What is it?
00:52:34Just guessing.
00:52:35That's all.
00:52:39You get some sleep, kid.
00:52:41Where are you going?
00:52:43Hey, I thought you were going to stay here tonight.
00:52:50You're going to have to take one of your hats.
00:52:53I'm going out to the Belknap home
00:52:55in the Warner's headquarters while I'm out there.
00:52:58Now?
00:52:59All the way out there?
00:53:00This hour of the morning?
00:53:02I don't know what I've got yet.
00:53:03If anything.
00:53:05And Vince, don't try any more shortcuts.
00:53:20That clock is always a little slow.
00:53:22It's like the horse I had yesterday.
00:53:24I don't know what I'm going to be.
00:53:29Hello, kid.
00:53:30Come on up to your room.
00:53:36A little called a while ago.
00:53:37She's been worried.
00:53:38Married to a cop for 15 years,
00:53:40she's still worried.
00:53:41You didn't tell her anything?
00:53:42No.
00:53:43Good.
00:53:56Have you been out there all this time till now?
00:53:58I'll go back to the town once in between
00:54:00and get something I needed
00:54:01and get a leave of absence.
00:54:02What for?
00:54:04I'll tell you later.
00:54:26Well, who is it?
00:54:29Who is it?
00:54:52It's a bird.
00:54:53The man I had the room next door.
00:54:55Where'd you get this?
00:54:56I didn't have to ask you who it was.
00:54:58I already know it from the desk clerk.
00:55:01A couple of others I showed it to.
00:55:03I stopped back here earlier this morning.
00:55:06He's also Dorothy Belknap's husband,
00:55:10Louis Belknap.
00:55:12What about me?
00:55:12Does this mean...
00:55:13Was he the one who...
00:55:16There's no out in this for you, Vince.
00:55:18Not yet.
00:55:19I checked your fingerprints
00:55:20with the ones Warner got from the mirrored door.
00:55:22You found your way into Belknap's home.
00:55:25You punctured Bob Clone's heart with a bore
00:55:27and shoved his body into a closet.
00:55:30And Mrs. Belknap?
00:55:32You didn't kill her.
00:55:33You can't drive.
00:55:35We think Belknap drove you up there.
00:55:37Was waiting for you outside.
00:55:38Mrs. Belknap ran out and her husband,
00:55:40using Clone's cord,
00:55:42deliberately ran over her.
00:55:44Why didn't I know what I was doing?
00:55:46We think we know why, Vince.
00:55:50There's only one way to prove it.
00:55:52Show that it could have happened in the first place
00:55:54by making it happen all over again.
00:55:56You mean go back and commit the crime over again?
00:56:00Not exactly.
00:56:01You've killed a man, Vince.
00:56:02Right now, you're guilty.
00:56:04We've got to prove you didn't know what you were doing
00:56:06and why you didn't know.
00:56:07What do you mean?
00:56:08We haven't got much time.
00:56:10They located Belknap yesterday.
00:56:12He's flying back from Mexico this afternoon.
00:56:14He wired Warner to have his wife reburied
00:56:16in the family plot today.
00:56:17He'll be back in time for the funeral.
00:56:19Get your coat on.
00:56:19Where we're going.
00:56:20Where's the place you'd rather not go
00:56:22than all other places right now?
00:56:26There was room where I...
00:56:27I know, kid.
00:56:29It's not going to be easy.
00:56:30You've got to go back there and stay tonight
00:56:32and wait for Belknap.
00:56:34He may be a dangerous killer,
00:56:36but it's your one chance to save yourself
00:56:37from paying for a murder.
00:56:39Think he can make it?
00:56:53I was scared sick,
00:56:55but I got back into that house
00:56:56before Belknap returned from the funeral.
00:56:58A couple of friends drove back with him.
00:57:01I waited upstairs,
00:57:02looking down into the living room
00:57:04as they said goodbye.
00:57:06Why don't you come and stay at our place tonight?
00:57:09Yes, we'd love to have you.
00:57:10Don't worry yourselves about me.
00:57:12Oh, bye.
00:57:14Good night.
00:57:15Good night.
00:57:17He was coming up.
00:57:19My blood turned to water.
00:57:21I wanted to scream out,
00:57:22to run away from there.
00:57:24But I had to stay.
00:57:26It was my only chance to save myself.
00:58:06I want to be Him.
00:58:18I want to be one choice.
00:58:31How'd you get here you showed me the way didn't you you remembered coming here you didn't think I would
00:58:37did you
00:58:39You couldn't have then how'd I get here you explain it how long have you been in here like this
00:58:46Since shortly before dark. I got in while you were at the funeral. Who'd you bring with you?
00:58:53Just this
00:58:56You remember the drive-up you couldn't have you had the look
00:59:02the typical look of the hypnotized subject I faked it I was holding a thumbtack pressed into each palm the
00:59:08whole
00:59:09way so I wouldn't go under no matter how good you were at it then why did you do everything
00:59:12I directed
00:59:13When I put the knife in your hand and told you what to do you took it and I thought
00:59:16maybe you'd pay off to keep me quiet
00:59:18And then if I bought I figured I'd get a knife in my back, but what happened what went wrong
00:59:23inside?
00:59:25I let you out of the car told you what to do I dropped the knife somewhere in the dark,
00:59:29but I came up anyway
00:59:32Clone was stealing your dough and about to run out with your wife wasn't that it yes
00:59:38but how I would have been killed by Clone only your wife handed me a boar by mistake and I
00:59:43had to use it to save myself
00:59:45Oh that explains how she got out of the house. I had to finish her with his car. I
00:59:52might have known you were under imperfect control
00:59:54Oh your control is perfect enough now don't let that worry you still have the knack, but you just said
01:00:01yeah, and you fell for it
01:00:02I didn't know what I was doing when I came up here to do your dirty job
01:00:06I'd have never found you but I saw your picture in the paper as a husband of the murdered woman
01:00:09and recognized your bird
01:00:10I didn't come here to be paid off for what I did
01:00:14Even though your will is stronger than mine, you know you couldn't make me commit murder. I killed that man
01:00:20in self-defense
01:00:22But I'll never be able to clear myself in the eyes of the law ever. I'm going to make you
01:00:27pay for doing that to me
01:00:29now
01:00:31This way wait, don't do that
01:00:34Alive, maybe I can do something for you. I'll give you money. I'll get you out of the country. No
01:00:39one will know my conscience will know
01:00:41I've got an honest man's conscience in the murderer's body
01:00:45You should have let me alone don't have that was your mistake wait one minute give me one minute
01:00:50To make you see just 60 seconds
01:00:53You don't want to kill me those two were plotting against me for months. I knew it
01:00:58That's why I planned the whole thing. I had to do it. Don't you understand?
01:01:02You can understand that stop it down now just a few seconds please you don't want to kill me
01:01:09Look up look up please see
01:01:13Just 30 seconds and I'm sure I can make you understand
01:01:19Just a few seconds
01:01:21So we take him now
01:01:23You gotta let him finish we've got to have proof for a jury that he can actually put him under
01:01:27just 15 seconds
01:01:29That's all that isn't much is it?
01:01:3315 seconds killing me won't calm your conscience
01:01:37You don't really want to kill me Grayson
01:01:41Drop your gun
01:01:42It's too heavy
01:01:44Drop the gun Grayson
01:01:47Drop it
01:01:49You're too tired to hold it up
01:01:52Just drop it
01:01:53You'll feel so much better
01:01:55Just let go of it
01:01:58Better still
01:01:59Give the gun to me Grayson
01:02:03You're tired
01:02:06Tired
01:02:07Tired
01:02:12I need a small test
01:02:13That horrible curtain closed over me again
01:02:16I couldn't find it
01:02:18I knew he was taking me somewhere
01:02:21I didn't want to go
01:02:22But my brain was hand cocked
01:02:28And I was walking through another nightmare
01:02:57Right here, you have been doing it.
01:03:11He's got him out in the car by the garage.
01:03:42He's got him out.
01:04:00He's got him out.
01:04:30Of those two people at the Belknap house, I have no chance.
01:04:45I see no other way out.
01:04:51Sign it, Vincent Grayson.
01:04:56I see no other way out.
01:05:43I see no other way out.
01:05:46Look down there.
01:06:10I see no other way out.
01:06:37Take off your coat.
01:06:53This way you'll find peace.
01:06:55I see no other way out.
01:07:43I see no other way out.
01:07:43I see no other way out.
01:07:45I see no other way out.
01:07:49I see no other way out.
01:08:19I see no other way out.
01:08:26The End
01:08:55The End
01:09:44Are you all right now, kid?
01:09:47Yeah.
01:09:49Yeah.
01:09:52All of a sudden, I'm all right.
01:10:10I'll see you inside.
01:10:12Too bad you have to go through the arraignment, Grayson, but good luck.
01:10:15Thanks a lot for everything.
01:10:17What?
01:10:20Vince, it must have been horrible.
01:10:21It was.
01:10:22If I didn't read the newspapers, I'd never know what my wonderful husband's doing.
01:10:26If you knew, you'd never have let me do it.
01:10:29Vince, we'd better go face the judge.
01:10:32Don't worry. You've got a perfect plea of self-defense.
01:10:35Come on.
01:10:36Come on.
01:10:41Scared, darling?
01:10:42I'll be glad when it's over.
01:10:44I'll be right there with you all the time.
01:11:05I'll be right there with you all the time.
01:11:06I'll be right back.
01:11:06Yeah.
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