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"The Jade Mask" see eccentric scientist Harper seems to be murdered. Charlie Chan is on the case Charlie Chan.
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00:00:28You
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00:02:01Hello? Who's there?
00:02:06I see. Who's there?
00:02:08Who is at the gate? Please answer.
00:02:37Michael, where have you been?
00:02:41You hear that shot?
00:03:00Let's go.
00:03:11Harper, you're a suspicious fool.
00:03:14If it weren't for me, you'd have no notes at all.
00:03:16I like you, Mika.
00:03:18You do your job well.
00:03:20You're honest. That's why I like you.
00:03:22I like your work, Harper.
00:03:25But otherwise, I detest you as much as anyone else in this house.
00:03:29Absent-minded as usual. You forgot to make your notes.
00:03:36Yes, Ross?
00:03:37I must see you, sir. There's a letter about the place.
00:03:40One of your relatives, no doubt.
00:03:43Coming, Ross.
00:04:02What's this about a murderer?
00:04:03Well, uh, wait.
00:04:06Go on, Mika. We're through for the night.
00:04:08Subtle as a blast of TNT, isn't he?
00:04:15Well, what was it this time?
00:04:17Someone shot at me from the gate.
00:04:20Was everyone at home here?
00:04:22No, Mika was outside, working in the garage.
00:04:25Mika, huh?
00:04:27None of them are going to get what they're after.
00:04:31Let's go and see if anyone's been tampering.
00:04:51Strange safety, Walter, eh, Roth?
00:04:53Both doors wide open to anyone finding that panel in the hall.
00:04:56Like a spider's web, sir.
00:04:58Easy to get into, impossible to get out of.
00:05:01And I'm the spider, huh?
00:05:07Well, nobody's tried to steal it yet.
00:05:33What blazes is that new word combination?
00:05:36Roth!
00:05:36You hear me? Roth!
00:05:40Did you call, sir?
00:05:42Yes, of course. And you...
00:05:44Well, never mind. I remember.
00:05:56It works beautifully, Roth.
00:05:58Any thief who enters there will die within an hour.
00:06:00And if he has a gas mask,
00:06:02he'll die of salvation before I let him out.
00:06:05Of course, sir. You would.
00:06:09Only we know the word combination, Roth.
00:06:11And even you can't rob me,
00:06:13because these words have to be spoken in my voice.
00:06:16Yes, sir.
00:06:17You think of almost everything.
00:06:33What about the shot fired at me?
00:06:35Shall I call the police?
00:06:36I've told you before,
00:06:37I don't want any police around here.
00:06:38Yes, sir.
00:06:39But I like police.
00:06:40Especially when there's a murderer about.
00:06:42Well, uh,
00:06:43don't let them come into the house.
00:06:44I don't trust police anymore
00:06:46than I trust my own relatives.
00:06:48Or my servants.
00:07:13I don't know.
00:07:14Who's there, please?
00:07:15Police. Open the gate.
00:07:17Police?
00:07:19But no one called you here.
00:07:21No, but I...
00:07:22I want to see someone in there.
00:07:23Open up.
00:07:32Open up.
00:07:48Who's there? Hold on.
00:07:51Who are you?
00:07:51What are you doing in there?
00:08:02I don't know.
00:08:14Police, open the door.
00:08:17Why were you so long coming from the gun?
00:08:19I thought I saw a problem on the ground.
00:08:21Inside?
00:08:22But no one could get inside.
00:08:24However, there is someone outside with a gun.
00:08:26No one could get inside.
00:08:26Come on, open the door.
00:08:27Mr. Harper wants no one inside.
00:08:29You should look around outside the gates.
00:08:31OK, I'll do that.
00:08:56Ready to go?
00:08:57Yeah.
00:09:53Ready to go?
00:10:12Is that you, Rob?
00:10:17Who's there?
00:10:19Who's there?
00:10:21Answer me.
00:10:21Who's there?
00:10:30Bye!
00:10:45How's this?
00:10:46I'm sorry.
00:10:48If you were to take a break, you would not get out of my way.
00:10:49Oh, dear.
00:10:49You can't see a simple kickoff.
00:10:54I'm not going to take a break, but you're not going to come.
00:10:55I know you're not going to take a break.
00:10:55You're not going to take the break.
00:10:55You don't want to see a break.
00:10:55I don't know where you're going.
00:10:58Mr. Chan, it sure is good that you was a big detective.
00:11:01You sure carries a lot of weight.
00:11:03My personality always count in end.
00:11:12Your personality is all right, but just ain't enough of it to close this bag.
00:11:18Eddie, remove nose from book and come over here.
00:11:24Please call me Edward, Father. Eddie is so juvenile.
00:11:30Number four son Eddie is very expensively educated bookworm.
00:11:36Please, forget brain and use brawn.
00:11:41Very well, but your modus operandi is all wrong.
00:11:45According to the science of gravity, the pressure of the weight of a solid body is useless.
00:11:50Unless directed solely at a single point.
00:11:54His language is strictly stratospheric. Too half long for me.
00:11:59Allow me to demonstrate. Pardon me.
00:12:10There you are.
00:12:20Charlie Chan speaking.
00:12:22Oh, good evening, Inspector Godfrey.
00:12:25Charlie, I'll pick you up in five minutes. Murder case.
00:12:28Murder?
00:12:30I'm very sorry, Inspector, but I'm not interested in murder now.
00:12:35I second the motion. In a hurry.
00:12:37But please, I must be back in Washington, D.C. tomorrow.
00:12:42I've contacted Washington, Charlie. They want you on the case.
00:12:45Because the victim was working on something the government's interested in.
00:12:49Oh, that is new look on old business.
00:12:53We'll be ready to leave for Harper House on Cove Road immediately.
00:12:58Mr. Chan, you change your mind and ruin my piece of mind.
00:13:03Pardon my exuberance, Pop, but let's go.
00:13:06Excuse, please.
00:13:08Name on police invitation mine, not yours.
00:13:12Goodbye.
00:13:16Can you pick that?
00:13:18Boy, that's just what I want to do. Beat it.
00:13:20Why, he's on another one of them murder things.
00:13:27You know, Charlie, it takes nature two million years to make coal.
00:13:30Scientists now perform the same process in two hours.
00:13:34Harper, working along similar lines, has a gas process that's been used to
00:13:37that hardens wood to the toughness and durability of metal.
00:13:41Such process, extremely valuable to any nation, in war or peace.
00:13:47That's why the government wants you on the scene.
00:13:50Harper's home's out of my jurisdiction.
00:13:53Sheriff Mack, in charge of the case, phoned me to bring him a good man.
00:14:02Evening, Sheriff.
00:14:02Evening, Inspector.
00:14:04Where's the body?
00:14:05Yeah, that's what keeps me worrying, too.
00:14:08Rolf here says it's murder.
00:14:09But so far, I ain't seen no victim.
00:14:11But, gentlemen, it must be murder.
00:14:13An hour ago, I was up in my room, ready to retire.
00:14:15Then the buzzer sounded.
00:14:16It was Mr. Harper calling me from the gas chamber.
00:14:18What'd he say?
00:14:19He was gasping, as if choked, and said,
00:14:20Rolf, I'd been murdered.
00:14:22It was...
00:14:23Then there was silence.
00:14:24I telephoned the Sheriff and got dressed again.
00:14:26When I was dressed and came down, Sheriff Mack had arrived.
00:14:29I let him in.
00:14:29We went into the gas chamber where Mr. Harper had called from.
00:14:32Who found nothing, not even Harper.
00:14:33Then we roused everyone and searched the entire house.
00:14:35Still nothing.
00:14:36Then we searched the grounds.
00:14:37Same thing, nothing.
00:14:39Seems as if questioned to be, was Mr. Harper alive or dead when he so strangely disappeared.
00:14:45Yeah, seems as if.
00:14:47Hmm.
00:14:55That is gas chamber?
00:14:56Yep, that's it.
00:15:00Wait.
00:15:01Be careful.
00:15:02Need a mass to go in there.
00:15:04Gas is deadly?
00:15:06No, but it causes painful nausea after half an hour.
00:15:11You are?
00:15:12Walter Meeker, laboratory assistant to Mr. Harper.
00:15:15Thank you so much.
00:15:19You, uh, have questioned all of these people, Sheriff?
00:15:23Well, uh, now that you mention it, that's just what I was gonna do.
00:15:30Well, now, wanna know who you are, what you are, what you're doing, and what you've been doing.
00:15:35Stands to reason we got to know.
00:15:38Does that cover the ground?
00:15:39Most thoroughly, Sheriff.
00:15:41You know me, Mack.
00:15:43Socially, yes.
00:15:44But this is business, so speak up.
00:15:47I'm Louise Harper, sister of the dead, the missing man.
00:15:52Sister?
00:15:53And yet you wear a uniform of housekeeper.
00:15:56Well, I'm his orphan niece, and he made me his housemaid.
00:15:59I'm Jean Kent.
00:16:00And you, you refuse to speak?
00:16:06Well, he can't speak, sir.
00:16:08He's Michael Strong.
00:16:09Chauffeur, handyman, and a mute.
00:16:12I'm Stella Graham.
00:16:14I was assisting Mr. Harper in experiments with puppets.
00:16:17Experiments with puppets?
00:16:19And ventriloquists and display dummies.
00:16:22Mr. Harper had an idea for a toy robot for children.
00:16:26Seems Mr. Harper have many irons in same fire.
00:16:31You are a butler, Mr. Roth?
00:16:33Yes, sir.
00:16:34I've been with Mr. Harper for 15 years.
00:16:42In serious moment, you think of something funny?
00:16:45If something has happened to Mr. Harper, Roth has just admitted he's your chief suspect.
00:16:51Explain, please.
00:16:52Anyone who had to be near Harper disliked him.
00:16:56Even hated him.
00:16:57Roth has been with him years longer than anyone else.
00:17:00So, Roth hated him more than any of us possibly could.
00:17:04Is what gentlemen say true, Mr. Roth?
00:17:07No one knows my opinion of Mr. Harper except myself.
00:17:10And no one else ever will know.
00:17:15When you arouse household, all inmates have retired?
00:17:21Everyone.
00:17:23Except Mr. Meeker.
00:17:26I was just retiring.
00:17:29When I went upstairs, I left Harper with Roth.
00:17:33And by the way, since you let everyone in and out of here, what about that policeman I saw upstairs?
00:17:39The policeman came up to the door, then he left the ground.
00:17:42Oh, no!
00:17:43He was inside.
00:17:44Gene and I saw him.
00:17:46No, Stella's wrong.
00:17:49I saw no policeman at all.
00:17:51But you did.
00:17:52We both saw him at the same time in the hall.
00:17:55I'm sorry, but Miss Graham must be mistaken.
00:17:58Policeman from City Force?
00:18:00Must have been. I got none.
00:18:02Must have been Jim Kimball, his nearest here.
00:18:05I'll check.
00:18:06You folks stay here until we want you again.
00:18:23Have a nice day, you guys.
00:18:25Have a nice day.
00:18:30Have a nice day.
00:18:36Come on,清水.
00:18:37Don't sit down.
00:18:37You're waiting for some time.
00:18:38You're waiting for some time for a second here.
00:18:38You're waiting for a second.
00:18:40To be myself.
00:18:41You're waiting for your second is to fill the way.
00:19:05You know, the way I pack, things liable to pop when I open this bag, so look out, you liable
00:19:10to see a barrage of haberdashers popping out. Hey, you didn't go and buy a new bag, you know
00:19:15I only got two hands. Well, these are for the people moving in. Moving in? But we haven't
00:19:20moved out. Oh, that's what you think. Mr. Chan checked out today. There's not another room
00:19:27in the whole hotel. Well, no matter what Pop says, he can't keep me from murder now. Murder?
00:19:35Murder? Hey, now wait, fellas. Wait a minute, it's not my fault you lost your rooms. Really,
00:19:39it isn't. Murder? Now, what do you suppose the matter with him? You said murder, didn't
00:19:49you? Sure. Don't use that word. You know what it does to me. Oh, don't be silly, Birmingham.
00:19:55Come on. Let's go. Well, move over, Trumpley. Here we come again. Ah, this looks like an excellent
00:20:05place for murder. That's what I thought. But now buy you a green with me. Don't make me
00:20:09happy. Oh, me. Hey, did you hear that echo? That wasn't an echo. It was a foghorn. Oh, a man
00:20:18can't
00:20:19blow no horn that loud. The horn blows itself. Oh, the horn blows itself. That's all. Hmm? I'm
00:20:25departing. No, no. We're going in this place. If I can open the gate. All right. Hold me.
00:20:33There's that echo again. Forget the echo. Come on. Look around. Radio dispatcher can't locate
00:20:39Officer Kimball. Says Kimball wasn't sent here. Being as how I'm unaccustomed to murder,
00:20:43Mr. Godfrey, I thought you'd bring me a good detective. But I did, Sheriff. This gentleman
00:20:48right here. Detective, you're awful quiet for one. I always reckon a homicide detective went
00:20:55around growling like a truck with a colic. Sheriff Mack, this is Inspector Charlie Chan, famous
00:21:01Honolulu detective. Very great pleasure. The pleasure is all mine. Seeing as how even the idea
00:21:07of solving a murder brings a misery into my mentality. But we're not sure it is murder. Why, Mr. Harper
00:21:13told Roth he was murdered. Seems to me if anybody knowed about a murder, be the victim. Well,
00:21:18I'm having my men make a thorough search of the grounds. Most excellent. In the meantime,
00:21:23we'll continue search of interior. I've done both them things already. No barber shaves
00:21:30so close, but another barber finds some work to do. Reckon what he says is what you might
00:21:38call a cutting remark. Well, ain't nobody home but the Echoes, thank goodness. Who's there, please?
00:22:00Who wants to know? Let me talk her off. What sort of a gadget is this? You asking me? Now,
00:22:22you
00:22:23I got more than one helper, Mr. Godfrey.
00:22:25That's tellin' them, Eddie.
00:22:27Beg pardon, I mean, Edward.
00:22:29Good chance, Mr. Rolfe.
00:22:30Yes, sir.
00:22:32Uh, you have, uh, come in.
00:22:34But the gate's locked.
00:22:36Press that other button, Inspector.
00:22:38Oh.
00:22:44Hey, look.
00:22:47Come in.
00:22:48Uh, yes.
00:22:49Yes, sir.
00:22:56You ain't hurt?
00:22:58Uh, why, I believe so, sir.
00:23:05Hmm.
00:23:06Did you see that?
00:23:07Now, ain't that somethin'?
00:23:09Echoes that ask questions.
00:23:10Boxers that talk.
00:23:11Open and shut and gates.
00:23:13Why, we should knock on wood faster than a woodpecker.
00:23:15Don't be absurd.
00:23:16By using forensic logic, we can explain everything away.
00:23:20Oh.
00:23:21Uh, do you see what I see?
00:23:23Go ahead now with your logic and explain this away from my nose.
00:23:27All right, boys.
00:23:28Get goin'.
00:23:29Yes, sir.
00:23:30Yes, sir.
00:23:30But gladly.
00:23:35Someone comin' to see you, Mr. Chan.
00:23:37See me?
00:23:38Must be a mistake.
00:23:43Ah, greetings, Father.
00:23:45I am right.
00:23:47It is mistake.
00:23:49Intruder is number four's son, Edward, who stopped becoming college student to become social problem.
00:23:56Also his assistant, Birmingham Brown.
00:24:00Uh, excuse, please.
00:24:02We'll see you gentlemen in puppet room in a few minutes.
00:24:07Now, will you explain why you butt in here like goat?
00:24:11Because you checked us all out at the hotel.
00:24:14We have no place to stay.
00:24:16Oh.
00:24:17My mistake.
00:24:18Very bad one.
00:24:21Now that I'm here, Pop, uh, what type of murder have we got?
00:24:24And how soon do you wish me to produce the murder?
00:24:28Every time you open your mouth, you put in more feet than centipede.
00:24:34Remain here and produce nothing but silence.
00:24:49Desire to ask question.
00:24:52Was there any place Mr. Harper might go when he wished to be alone?
00:24:58Where does Harper hide his process and formula notes?
00:25:01He disappears every so often.
00:25:03I bet he goes there.
00:25:04Ask Roth.
00:25:05Well, he should know if anyone does.
00:25:07I know of no such place.
00:25:10Oh.
00:25:12Yes?
00:25:14Oh, excuse me, please.
00:25:15I...
00:25:16I don't know why I said that.
00:25:18I...
00:25:19Very strange household.
00:25:21Head of house is missing, yet no one seems sorry.
00:25:26Believe someone pulled string to make Mr. Harper disappear?
00:25:31Charlie Chan will now pull string.
00:25:45Someone finally did it.
00:25:48Harper's dead at last.
00:25:58There is missing man.
00:26:01Must now find murderer.
00:26:10And remember notes so far?
00:26:14What?
00:26:15Yes, most of them.
00:26:17The important thing is to keep all data on the pieces tested today.
00:26:21Government will appreciate your efforts, Mr. Meeker.
00:26:24I only want to finish the job.
00:26:27But the supply of gas in the tanks downstairs will only last a month.
00:26:31You see, I know the process for the use of the stuff.
00:26:34But the whole thing will be a total loss unless you find Harper's formula for the composition of the gas.
00:26:39Once I find killer, we'll find formula.
00:26:44Good, good.
00:26:46No possible chance I might arrest you as murderer?
00:26:52Walter Meeker never did and never will kill a man.
00:26:57Not worth the trouble.
00:26:59Yet you say everyone in house, including yourself, hate Mr. Harper.
00:27:04Just one happy family with murderer in center.
00:27:10Law can't drop this case just because you've got your eyebrows.
00:27:13But I tell you, no one should be allowed in that gas chamber.
00:27:16That ain't what Mr. Chan thinks.
00:27:22Why were you in there?
00:27:25I've told Mr. Meeker to continue important work begun by Mr. Harper.
00:27:30You told him?
00:27:31What business is it of yours?
00:27:33It is government business.
00:27:35I am humble representative of government.
00:27:38Reckon now you better answer our questions instead of upsetting yourself by making wild guesses as to why we're asking
00:27:45them.
00:27:45Desire to know where Mr. Harper keep gas formula, please.
00:27:50If anyone knew where the formula was kept, I would.
00:27:53But I know nothing about it at all.
00:27:55To get information from him is like putting empty bucket into empty well.
00:28:01Yeah, he is kind of dried up.
00:28:05Not many life masks of household about place. Why?
00:28:10Mr. Harper made them.
00:28:12If anyone here stole something, the masks would be of great assistance to the police in tracking down the criminals.
00:28:18We must remember that.
00:28:25Mr. Chan!
00:28:27Something has occurred, Birmingham?
00:28:29No, sir. There ain't nothing occurred at all, but something had happened.
00:28:31Yes, we just took our baggage upstairs, Pop.
00:28:33Only we didn't, sir.
00:28:35One moment. You take off. You will explain, please?
00:28:39You see, Mr. Chan, them four suitcases was awful heavy to lug upstairs.
00:28:42Oh, you have difficulty in carrying them.
00:28:45No, sir. No difficulty at all. We just couldn't do it.
00:28:47But Miss Graham came along and...
00:28:49Yes, sir. And she picked up not one, not two, but all four of them bags and carried them upstairs
00:28:54just like there wasn't nothing to it.
00:28:55Miss Graham. Seems like astounding feat of strength for a woman.
00:29:00Nothing astounding at all, sir.
00:29:02Besides being a puppeteer and ventriloquist, Miss Graham was also a strong woman in Verteville.
00:29:09I'll answer that.
00:29:14Yeah? Oh, hello, Doc.
00:29:19Dead?
00:29:21Huh?
00:29:26You sure, Doc?
00:29:28Hmm.
00:29:30You wait there. I'll be over with company.
00:29:34Bye.
00:29:38Doc Peabody, coroner. He just made a tour of the victim's interior.
00:29:42You know, autopsy. He says that Harper wasn't murdered at all.
00:29:47Coroner say victim not murdered?
00:29:49No, he says that Harper died for natural causes.
00:29:52Very sorry, but humble opinion is murder.
00:29:55Peabody's a good man. He says it ain't so.
00:29:58Mm-hmm.
00:29:59We'll visit, Doctor, but I'm certain it was murder. It must have been.
00:30:14Yeah?
00:30:16Oh, hello, Inspector Godfrey.
00:30:19Hmm?
00:30:20What?
00:30:22Oh, yeah, I see.
00:30:23No, no, I mean I don't see.
00:30:25But I'll ask Mr. Chan and see what he sees them.
00:30:27Yeah.
00:30:29This thing has got my brain running around like a scalded cat.
00:30:32Inspector Godfrey said Officer Kimball wasn't located last night, and today he's missing a tire.
00:30:39Seems like some motorist saw Kimball near the Harper house last night.
00:30:43Inspector Godfrey says how he thinks Kimball's mixed up in the Harper killing.
00:30:47Possibility to be considered.
00:30:50You're right, Mr. Chan.
00:30:51This poison dart killed Harper.
00:30:54Found it and vetted in the back of his throat.
00:30:56How can you shoot a man inside the mouth, huh?
00:31:00When mouth open, just like yours.
00:31:03Ever so often, and sometimes oftener, I get the feeling I ought to be in some other business.
00:31:08How did you know it was there, Mr. Chan? You study medicine?
00:31:12No, Dr. Peabody, but I study crime a great deal.
00:31:17This is beyond me.
00:31:18Glad to have your company in my misery, Doc.
00:31:21As my grandpa used to say, it's wonderful what doctors know.
00:31:24It's what they don't know that kill you.
00:31:26Oh, look ahead.
00:31:27Excuse, please.
00:31:30Come on, speak up.
00:31:33When it comes to talking, you people just don't enter into the spirit of the thing.
00:31:38But I've already told you, the policeman came to the door, then he left the grounds.
00:31:41The policeman was Mr. Kimball?
00:31:43I didn't know the officer, but he did not get in.
00:31:46But he did. I saw him.
00:31:48Please.
00:31:50All may go except Miss Graham and Miss Kent.
00:31:54I'll not leave this fracking girl alone with you men.
00:32:01Miss Graham, you see policemen inside the house last night?
00:32:06Yes, I did. In the hall.
00:32:08Jean saw him at the same time.
00:32:11Thank you. You may go.
00:32:17Officer Kimball was perhaps young, good-looking.
00:32:20Oh, my wife thinks he is.
00:32:22Your wife undoubtedly correct.
00:32:25Perhaps he come to see young, good-looking girl.
00:32:30Jim Kimball came to see me.
00:32:33What in the name of Tunkett would he want to see you for?
00:32:37Jim, Officer Kimball was coming to see me.
00:32:43Go on.
00:32:44He was to come to the gate at nine o'clock.
00:32:47I was to let him in and then we would meet in the grounds.
00:32:50But at nine o'clock, Roth was at the front door and I couldn't open the gate.
00:32:53Miss Graham and Mr. Meeker say policemen come later.
00:32:57Yes, that's right.
00:32:59I thought it was Jim, but now I'm not sure.
00:33:01You mean murder made you change your mind.
00:33:03Yes.
00:33:04Now I'm sure the policeman I saw was not Jim Kimball.
00:33:07Officer Kimball, only policeman near here.
00:33:10I don't care. Jim didn't come here last night.
00:33:12But there was a policeman here. Then why did you say you didn't see one for her?
00:33:15Because I was afraid for Jim.
00:33:18Excellent reason.
00:33:20You may go now.
00:33:33Hey, Pop, the police found a motorcycle in the bushes down by the gate.
00:33:37Officer Kimball machine?
00:33:38That's what the man said.
00:33:39What became a Kimball?
00:33:40Do you suppose he's a murderer?
00:33:42That is question deserving much thought.
00:33:45Gentlemen, in this matter of thought, I'm sure that I can assist the both of you.
00:33:50He reached oversized decision with undersized brain.
00:33:54Relax.
00:34:04You know what, Eddie? I got a theory on this murder.
00:34:08That's something I'd like to hear.
00:34:09Yeah?
00:34:10Well, listen. Now, the way I figure this thing out, the murderer must be on the inside.
00:34:14So, what we got to do is...
00:34:16What?
00:34:16Stay outside.
00:34:18No.
00:34:18We stay here till the case is finished.
00:34:21Stay here?
00:34:22I thought you'd say that.
00:34:29Oh, me.
00:34:33Find anything more, Sheriff?
00:34:35Nope. Motorcycles all I found.
00:34:38Kimball's still missing.
00:34:39Very strange.
00:34:42Miss Graham, Miss Kent, Mr. Meeker say policemen inside house last night.
00:34:48Yet, Mr. Roth...
00:34:52Mr. Roth.
00:34:54One moment.
00:34:59Believe you have not told us all you know.
00:35:03I'm sure of that, sir.
00:35:04Oh, you are?
00:35:05Hmm.
00:35:06Well, you better speak up right now.
00:35:08No, no. Not yet.
00:35:09Give me five minutes.
00:35:11Why do you wish time?
00:35:13In five minutes, I'll tell you who murdered Mr. Harper.
00:35:16Whom you suspect?
00:35:17That's my affair.
00:35:19Someone here tried to make me out a killer.
00:35:21I'll clear myself with suspicion and do it alone.
00:35:24We go with you.
00:35:25No.
00:35:26I do this myself or not at all.
00:35:29Five minutes.
00:35:37Five minutes.
00:35:38Five minutes already up.
00:35:39And Roth ain't back yet.
00:35:40We see what happened to mysterious gentlemen.
00:35:47Uh, Mr. Chan.
00:35:48There's Mr. Roth down there.
00:35:50But Roth went upstairs and there's only one way up or down.
00:35:53Well, all the same.
00:35:54There he is down there.
00:35:58There he is.
00:35:58Uh-oh.
00:35:59Something happened to him.
00:36:00Yes.
00:36:23Mr. Roth is dead.
00:36:26Dead?
00:36:27Hmm.
00:36:30Now he can't tell us who he suspected.
00:36:40You know, Mr. Chan, I can't figure out how Roth got downstairs and got his feet wet.
00:36:46Strange part is how men with wet feet make tracks beginning only in middle of passageway.
00:37:04No.
00:37:06Don't touch.
00:37:26Any of you see Mr. Roth lately?
00:37:28Roth?
00:37:29Why, no.
00:37:33What's the congregation for?
00:37:35To find a murderer.
00:37:37You won't find Harper's killer by questioning.
00:37:40Now seek murderer of Mr. Roth.
00:37:48Questions will begin immediately in living room.
00:37:52All right, everybody.
00:37:53Inside, please.
00:38:03You will telephone Dr. Peabody to perform immediate autopsy.
00:38:09You see?
00:38:10That's the way to solve crimes.
00:38:12Fast work.
00:38:13Especially fast questioning.
00:38:14If anybody want to live around here, they got to do some fast running.
00:38:19Two men.
00:38:20Two men are murdered.
00:38:21Yet everyone here have perfect alibi.
00:38:25Is that strange?
00:38:27Sounds strange to me, but maybe I'm a little particular.
00:38:31Remain where you are for present.
00:38:33All of you.
00:38:37You telephone doctor?
00:38:39Yes.
00:38:40He's on his way here, Pop.
00:38:41Good.
00:38:41Stay here.
00:38:42Watch door.
00:38:42Let doctor in when he comes.
00:38:46Birmingham.
00:38:47You remain here and watch body.
00:38:50Yes, sir.
00:38:51Hmm?
00:38:52Ain't that something?
00:38:54This place is jumping with live people, and I got to stay here and keep company with her body.
00:38:59Oh, me.
00:39:30Well, Miss Harper, what did you do here?
00:39:33Well, I thought that, uh...
00:39:36Something wrong?
00:39:36What?
00:39:37Oh, yes.
00:39:38I...
00:39:39I came to get the vase.
00:39:40Vase?
00:39:41Mr. Roth always liked flowers.
00:39:43Why, it's gone.
00:39:50This missing vase?
00:39:52Yes.
00:39:56Things misplaced sometimes furnish very good clues.
00:40:00Return downstairs, Miss Harper.
00:40:02I'm the head of the house now, and I've a right to know what you do.
00:40:06You think perhaps Mr. Hoffer and his well leave you house and gas formula?
00:40:13Well, I don't know, but I am his sister.
00:40:18Please return downstairs.
00:40:19Yes.
00:40:27You don't think she killed him.
00:40:29Her own brother?
00:40:30Murder, no.
00:40:31No law of relativity.
00:40:39Recording dictaphone.
00:40:40What's that got to do with us?
00:40:43Why is machine still running?
00:40:52And let no one else.
00:40:54Not even my sister Louise or my niece Jean.
00:40:58Murder.
00:41:00Here.
00:41:02Here.
00:41:04Here.
00:41:05Here.
00:41:06Here.
00:41:07What did Roth mean?
00:41:19Soak and wet.
00:41:22Roth in falling, knock over a vase of flowers and get shoes wet.
00:41:28Roth die right here.
00:41:30But he was downstairs walking around.
00:41:33Both the boys saw him.
00:41:35Roth dead when he walked downstairs.
00:41:38But dead men don't walk.
00:41:41This dead man both walk and talk.
00:41:44This is a way beyond me.
00:41:46Seems to me when folks ask me to run for sheriff, I missed a fine chance to keep quiet.
00:41:53Strange combination of light and bell.
00:42:02Must find how same works.
00:42:05Yep.
00:42:06I missed an elegant chance to keep my mouth shut.
00:42:12Same type murder.
00:42:14Except this dog got Roth in the back of the neck.
00:42:22He arrived a few minutes ago, Pop.
00:42:24It's the Harper.
00:42:31Where's Harper?
00:42:32I want to talk to him.
00:42:33Why, please?
00:42:34What'd he get back this house?
00:42:36The gas formula he stole from my father.
00:42:37He stole from your father?
00:42:39What's your name?
00:42:40Lloyd Archer.
00:42:41Harper's my stepfather.
00:42:44Very sorry.
00:42:45Mr. Harper dead.
00:42:46Yep.
00:42:47Murdered.
00:42:49Really?
00:42:50Too bad someone else had the pleasure of killing him.
00:42:52Because I meant to do it the first time I got close enough to him.
00:42:56Where's Harper's will and the gas formula?
00:43:00Government also looking for same.
00:43:02The government.
00:43:03I represent government.
00:43:05Well, I'm staying right here to protect my interests.
00:43:08Certainly.
00:43:09Would not think of allowing you to depart, Mr. Archer.
00:43:50before you or not.
00:43:59Let's go.
00:43:59Yeah.
00:44:00Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
00:44:02I must destroy investigating forever.
00:44:05Because you fall asleep, forget to watch.
00:44:07Something happened?
00:44:09Someone tried to kill me.
00:44:10Well, why don't we pursue whoever it was?
00:44:12No, no. Cannot run with poison dart in clothing.
00:44:16One scratch in skin and I'm a very dead man.
00:44:19Wait. I see it, Pop.
00:44:28Who did it, Pop?
00:44:29Might know if you are awake.
00:44:31But now everyone in house will be in bed with slumber alibi.
00:44:35Just like you.
00:44:37I'm sorry, Pop, but the association of ideas.
00:44:40Well, you know, wearing pajamas made one sleepy.
00:44:43Um, please.
00:44:45Eliminate scientific analysis.
00:44:48In future, when I put you on job to watch something,
00:44:51you associate ideas with job at hand.
00:44:55Understand?
00:45:11Miss Harper.
00:45:12Oh! Oh, I... I thought you were...
00:45:15You thought I was dead?
00:45:17No, I... I meant I... I thought you were asleep.
00:45:21Unfortunately, the only one asleep was Lazy Assistant.
00:45:23You frightened, Miss Harper?
00:45:26Well...
00:45:27Who wouldn't be?
00:45:28Knowing there's a murderer in the house.
00:45:31Strange architecture here.
00:45:33Yes, I noticed that also.
00:45:35Please.
00:45:35Pajamas loud enough without you make extra noise.
00:45:39Large surface.
00:45:41Contained four walls with no opening.
00:45:43My brother...
00:45:46They built this part of the house.
00:45:47He...
00:45:47He had it done while he was alone here.
00:45:50You know why?
00:45:51My brother never told people why he did things.
00:45:54Perhaps excellent place to contain secret papers.
00:45:58That is possible.
00:46:01Wall, space, panel.
00:46:03Perhaps panel contains secret door.
00:46:06Is that why you came?
00:46:08I was making my usual last minute rounds of the house.
00:46:11May I go now?
00:46:16Pop.
00:46:17If there is a secret panel here, you just relax.
00:46:20I'll find it for you.
00:46:22My boy, if silence is golden, you are bankrupt.
00:46:35You want to talk with Archer, too?
00:46:38I'm curious to learn how Mr. Roth walked downstairs...
00:46:42after being killed upstairs.
00:46:44Well, speaking wide and flung and unrestrained...
00:46:46I can't see how it was done unless Roth was a zombie.
00:46:49You know, one of them corpses that don't know enough...
00:46:51to stay parked in their coffin.
00:46:53Think we find simpler solution.
00:46:55I sure hope so.
00:46:56Because right now my mind is as uneasy as corn in a popper.
00:47:04A zombie.
00:47:05Now we're cooking with spirit oil.
00:47:07Come on.
00:47:07We've got to see what happens.
00:47:08Mm-mm.
00:47:09I ain't curious about seeing those zombies.
00:47:11Oh, come on.
00:47:12Curiosity never killed a Chan.
00:47:13No, but the Chan's curiosity almost killed me.
00:47:20Ain't that something?
00:47:21I don't know how I get into all of this trouble.
00:47:23I get a job.
00:47:24I must... I got to have my brains examined.
00:47:27Oh, Birmingham.
00:47:28Wait a minute.
00:47:28Where are you going?
00:47:33You know, I'm interested in how you're going to figure on...
00:47:36Ross walking around.
00:47:38Mr. Roth say he knew identity of killer.
00:47:42Unfortunately, Mr. Roth speak truth so he die.
00:47:46Here.
00:47:48Possibly we find solution of both murders here.
00:47:54Now what do you suppose this is?
00:47:56Electric light, I reckon.
00:48:01Who turned on strange lamp?
00:48:02No one.
00:48:03It just lit up and rang when I picked it up.
00:48:08That is alarm lamp.
00:48:10Alarm?
00:48:10What for?
00:48:12Alarm for...
00:48:16Downstairs.
00:48:16Quick.
00:48:17Hurry.
00:48:25Birmingham.
00:48:27You see anyone go through that passageway recently?
00:48:30The housekeeper lady, she went through that a few minutes ago.
00:48:42Look, Pop.
00:48:43There is a secret panel.
00:48:48There is someone in there.
00:48:50I heard it.
00:48:52Who is there?
00:48:53I don't know.
00:48:55Excuse me.
00:48:57Who is inside?
00:49:00I hear sound like gas escaping.
00:49:03How do you open this?
00:49:05Only my brother and Roth knew how to open that panel.
00:49:07Maybe the killer is in there.
00:49:09If killer is there, gas will kill him.
00:49:11Don't want that.
00:49:12You know nothing of mechanism?
00:49:14Roth told me it could be opened only by a combination of spoken words.
00:49:18You mean the door will open if you speak to it?
00:49:20There is an electrical microphone in the panel.
00:49:23Microphone changes sound into vibration which work lock?
00:49:27Yes, but only if...
00:49:28Oh!
00:49:29Something wrong?
00:49:31That panel opens only if the right words are spoken.
00:49:33By my brother's voice.
00:49:35And Harper's dead.
00:49:37One moment, please.
00:49:38Your brother, very absent-minded.
00:49:40Perhaps Mr. Roth might know his secrets.
00:49:43Oh, I'm sure he did.
00:49:44My brother had to have someone to remember things for him.
00:49:48Eddie, go to Mr. Roth's room.
00:49:50Bring down recording dictaphone and all records.
00:49:52Hurry.
00:49:52Yes, father.
00:49:54Introduce Mr. Harper's voice.
00:49:56That's right.
00:49:57We heard it on the machine upstairs.
00:49:59But you must have only the correct words.
00:50:01If correct words not on record,
00:50:04the person in there must die.
00:50:06See any more records?
00:50:08Not inside.
00:50:09We'll take this down.
00:50:10Then come back and look around.
00:50:11Yeah, let's hurry up and get out of here.
00:50:20Okay, Doc.
00:50:29We're gonna look for more records upstairs, Pop.
00:50:32Okay.
00:50:34Rod.
00:50:35Right, Huntry.
00:50:36That rubber dissolves under my gas process.
00:50:38Won't work.
00:50:40From now on, Rod.
00:50:41I want house and grounds locked up every night at seven.
00:50:44And let no one out.
00:50:45Not even my sister Louise or my niece Jean.
00:50:50Murder.
00:50:51Yeah.
00:50:53Yeah.
00:50:58That's all on that one.
00:51:05Hold, please.
00:51:11These two blank.
00:51:12No good.
00:51:19Hold our records up there, Pop.
00:51:21Nothing.
00:51:22These are the last two.
00:51:24Hold, please.
00:51:43Ron.
00:51:44Check gas gauges on the chamber and vault.
00:51:46Do it today.
00:51:48Let me have other records.
00:51:51You do that on purpose?
00:51:53No.
00:51:54No, I...
00:51:55I was nervous.
00:51:56I...
00:51:56What?
00:51:57I'm changing the word combination.
00:51:58Tell it to you later.
00:52:02Here's a new word.
00:52:03Combo, Ron.
00:52:05Don't forget it.
00:52:07Thirty days have September, July, and August.
00:52:14Mr. Jane.
00:52:15It's a woman.
00:52:16Jane!
00:52:25It's Miss Graham.
00:52:26She's not dead.
00:52:27Get a doctor.
00:52:28Yes.
00:52:28Eddie.
00:52:30Jennifer.
00:52:43Now, please.
00:52:45You will go with others.
00:52:46But my brother, don't you?
00:52:47All those things are in there.
00:52:47They belong to me.
00:52:49Government will decide that.
00:52:50But...
00:52:51Please.
00:52:52If you have a complaint to make, you will refer to Secret Service, Washington, D.C.
00:52:58Outside.
00:53:17Home.
00:53:29In the coming...
00:53:30The job.
00:53:32Of many...
00:53:33Uh-uh...
00:53:38Who?
00:53:39Who?
00:53:40Who?
00:53:40Who?
00:54:01Do you insist you saw a wall panel open in rear hall?
00:54:05Yes, I told you and told you.
00:54:07All the doors were open to that horrible room where the desk is.
00:54:12Then why did you go back there in the first place?
00:54:14Because I thought I heard someone back there.
00:54:18You were looking for Mr. Harper's formula.
00:54:20No. I saw the desk and lifted the top.
00:54:24Then I was locked in and gas pouring on me.
00:54:26I didn't touch a thing inside that desk.
00:54:29You may go now.
00:54:37She seems fully recovered.
00:54:40But another ten minutes in that gas and nothing could have saved her.
00:54:44And she didn't even say thanks.
00:54:46Bet you she's our murderer.
00:55:05Hey Pop, we've solved the case.
00:55:09You've solved case?
00:55:10Yes, we've been talking to Michael and he wrote notes.
00:55:13He says he's bringing something that will expose the murder.
00:55:18Michael, you have something to show me?
00:55:32Doctor!
00:55:43Looks like he's dead.
00:55:45Murder?
00:55:45We'll soon find out.
00:55:54You'll notice all light masks strangely missing from walls?
00:55:59Say, that's so too.
00:56:02While we with Dr. Peabody, someone enter this house and remove masks.
00:56:06Why'd anyone do that?
00:56:08To prevent us from knowing which mask Michael had.
00:56:12Because that mask would convict killer.
00:56:16Then Archer wasn't the killer.
00:56:19Them masks were from people inside the house.
00:56:25This is ear from broken mask which Michael possessed.
00:56:29Good.
00:56:30We'll match it up with the ears of the people in the house.
00:56:33But this ear is from masks made from dead men.
00:56:38Dead?
00:56:41Don't know which way to turn.
00:56:43Like the fellow with the short blanket.
00:56:45Stayed awake all night wondering whether to pull it up and freeze his feet
00:56:48or pull it down and die of pneumonia.
00:56:51We'll soon end suspense.
00:56:53Bring all suspects down to living room.
00:56:55See if anyone in gas chamber.
00:57:10Three men killed already.
00:57:12If he keeps up, there won't be none of us left.
00:57:15Sir, why don't we stay in here?
00:57:16We're supposed to look around.
00:57:17So come on, let's look around.
00:57:19Look around.
00:57:21Look around.
00:57:21That's all you're always talking about.
00:57:23Look around.
00:57:23See something.
00:57:24Watch me.
00:57:25Why don't you get a C9 dog or something for somebody to hear?
00:57:28I don't know what it is.
00:57:30This is a cabinet.
00:57:34I'm always telling somebody to watch the look of something.
00:57:39Good evening, officer.
00:57:41Yeah, Eddie.
00:57:43I ain't nervous no more now.
00:57:46Why not?
00:57:46Well, I just saw officer in there.
00:57:48And any time officer is around, I ain't nervous.
00:57:51Good.
00:57:54It is a policeman.
00:57:56Yeah, but he's dead.
00:57:59Mr. Chinner.
00:58:00Mr. Chinner, come quick.
00:58:04In there.
00:58:14It's Jim.
00:58:15Jim Kimball.
00:58:23I've been dead for many hours.
00:58:33I've been dead.
00:58:36I've been dead.
00:58:37At last, pieces of murder puzzle begin to fit in place.
00:58:41Where's Archer?
00:58:42He's your killer.
00:58:44We'll locate Mr. Archer when I require him.
00:58:48Three men are murdered by poison darts.
00:58:51They are fired by some strange kind of air gun.
00:58:55Air gun?
00:58:57Then the case is solved.
00:58:58Miss Kent had that air pump in her hand when Michael was killed.
00:59:01Yes, but I didn't kill Michael.
00:59:04You use air pump for slow leak in tire.
00:59:09Please forget fast leak from there.
00:59:11Tire pump, not deadly weapon.
00:59:14Then what was used?
00:59:15Something else was carried in hands among those present.
00:59:20This.
00:59:21Oh yes, Archer had that.
00:59:24Ventriloquist dummy.
00:59:26When dummy's mouth opens, ventriloquist voice usually issues forth.
00:59:32But when this dummy's mouth open, something more deadly emerge.
00:59:39Observe.
00:59:44Very fine air gun concealed within mechanism of this figure.
00:59:49That's why we can't find Archer.
00:59:51He's the killer.
00:59:52Excuse please.
01:00:05Mr. Roth dying tried to leave important clue.
01:00:09Yeah. He said into that dictaphone thing murder.
01:00:12Here. Here.
01:00:14No.
01:00:15Believe Mr. Roth trying to say murderer.
01:00:19Ear.
01:00:20Ear.
01:00:21Ear.
01:00:21Meaning this ear.
01:00:25Well, that's from the mask Michael had.
01:00:28Michael like Roth.
01:00:31For she in this important clue.
01:00:34Well, well, whose life mask is the ear from?
01:00:37From mask of murdered men.
01:00:41We'll now demonstrate how dead men can walk.
01:00:45Come this way, please.
01:00:54Come this way.
01:00:56Does he mean Archer is the murderer?
01:00:58Of course.
01:01:00I ain't saying.
01:01:02But any gent with notions on the subject can't speak up too quick.
01:01:06The ladies are walking talk too.
01:01:08Oh, look.
01:01:27As Pop says, that proves dead men can walk only when they have lots of help.
01:01:32So Roth's corpse had to have crutches to walk.
01:01:34Which proves that Cham was right when he said it was an inside job.
01:01:39But, uh, Archer was an outsider.
01:01:53Mr. Roth now dead.
01:01:55Made to appear to walk downstairs by someone upstairs who need alibi.
01:02:01Must have been a strong person to do the trick.
01:02:03Also someone familiar with handling puppets by means of strings.
01:02:09Then she did it.
01:02:10She's a master puppeteer and she's stronger than a man.
01:02:14It's not true.
01:02:16I didn't kill Roth.
01:02:17I killed no one.
01:02:18You commit no murder.
01:02:20But you do make dead men appear to walk.
01:02:24No, you're wrong.
01:02:25You are accomplice of murderer.
01:02:28This ear will convict killer.
01:02:31Both Roth and Michael recognize what police already know.
01:02:35That, like fingerprints, no two human ears are exactly alike.
01:02:41This ear taken from mask of murdered man.
01:02:45Man named...
01:02:49Meeker.
01:02:51He murdered?
01:02:53You're crazy.
01:02:55Will prove sanity by comparing this ear with your own.
01:03:00If you are Meeker, this will exactly match your right ear.
01:03:05I got him! I got him!
01:03:08I got him!
01:03:09Will now prove, Mr. Meeker, you are not even yourself!
01:03:20What? It's Archer!
01:03:22Mr. Archer has been in this house ever since he killed Mr. Harper.
01:03:26Where's the real Meeker?
01:03:27Try and find out, farmer.
01:03:29Don't tempt me.
01:03:30Might be a pleasure.
01:03:32Where's Meeker?
01:03:33Perhaps Miss Graham could tell us.
01:03:36I? I know nothing.
01:03:38Roth died by accident.
01:03:41Excuse, please.
01:03:42This mask prove all murders in this house premeditated.
01:03:47I know nothing.
01:03:51You do not know he tried to murder you?
01:03:54Me?
01:03:55He show you way into secret vault?
01:03:57He not tell you secret vault is death trap, which he knew?
01:04:02You knew that.
01:04:04Stop talking.
01:04:05Why, you're insane.
01:04:06Insane?
01:04:07I'm the only sane person in this house.
01:04:10Meeker's body is in the basement.
01:04:12He died right after Harper.
01:04:14You know him before you come here?
01:04:16We were in Vaudeville together.
01:04:18He was a quick change artist and impersonator.
01:04:21He can imitate anyone.
01:04:22That's right.
01:04:24Haven't I been fooling you all along?
01:04:26Do I sound like Meeker now?
01:04:30You see?
01:04:32He got me the job here somehow.
01:04:35Why you continue to help him after murders began?
01:04:39He's my husband.
01:04:40I'll hand these two over to the police at the gate.
01:04:43See you later, Mr. Chan.
01:04:44Your office, Sheriff.
01:04:50Fog of murder will soon lift and household be happy again.
01:04:54Thanks to you, Mr. Chan.
01:04:56You know, at first I didn't like you.
01:04:58But I've changed my mind.
01:05:02This is gas formula.
01:05:05Government very interested in same.
01:05:07You take charge of it.
01:05:09You staying till morning?
01:05:11If you will permit.
01:05:13Glad to have you.
01:05:20Well, Pop, that's another case we solved.
01:05:23You have been a very great assistance.
01:05:27At the moment I cannot remember how, but it was excellent.
01:05:31However, case not finished.
01:05:34Must visit basement to locate body of final victim.
01:05:38Uh, Mr. Meeker.
01:05:40Uh, Mr. Chan.
01:05:41Yeah.
01:05:41Is you all going that way?
01:05:43Yes.
01:05:44I'm going this way.
01:05:45Good night.
01:05:51Hey, Sheriff.
01:05:53Is this the right road to the city?
01:05:55Yes, it is.
01:05:56About three miles straight ahead.
01:06:00Well, I didn't know my car would stop.
01:06:03You didn't.
01:06:03I just slowed down.
01:06:05Goodbye.
01:06:05Goodbye.
01:06:07I don't have to go back.
01:06:10I don't have to go back.
01:06:12I hope you are.
01:06:19I'm not going back...
01:06:31You have to stay about the city.
01:06:32We'll have to go back.
01:06:32Bye, we'll have to go back.
01:06:34You can't go back.
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