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Charlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.
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00:01:30How far ahead?
00:01:31Oh, a few hours.
00:01:32A few hours.
00:01:35You're not worried, are you, Mr. Chan?
00:01:38Oh, no. No.
00:01:39Well, statistics prove that you're far safer in a modern plane than you would be in your own bathtub.
00:01:43I'd rather be taking a bath.
00:01:46Tell me, how old are you?
00:01:4721.
00:01:4821, eh?
00:01:49If I reach my next birthday.
00:01:53Well, according to my insurance figures, you can expect 45.16 more years of life.
00:01:59Barring, of course, fatal accident.
00:02:01Oh.
00:02:05Hi, Jimmy.
00:02:07Give me a hand, will you?
00:02:07I'm on the last chapter of this, young.
00:02:09What would a fellow do, a fellow like you, faced with certain deaths?
00:02:14Oh.
00:02:15Pop.
00:02:17Pop.
00:02:18Before it's too late, I think there's something you ought to know.
00:02:21Number two's son resembled criminal, about to make confession.
00:02:24I don't know whether I've told you yet or not, but I think you're the swellest pop a fellow ever
00:02:28had.
00:02:30Humble parent thanks unsettled weather for expression of love from favorite offspring.
00:02:35Oh, but I mean it, Pop.
00:02:37Honest.
00:02:37Then do not let fair skies tomorrow change restless mind.
00:02:41Oh, I won't.
00:02:42I'll get right on the train and go back to school.
00:02:45Appreciate decision.
00:02:46One scholar in family better than two detectives.
00:02:49Well, Charlie, this will make a lot of people's hair stand on end.
00:02:53Don't tell my readers, but the real mystery in this whodunit is how I ever finished it.
00:02:58Only diligent workmen can survive Hawaiian hospitality.
00:03:02What a vacation.
00:03:03Stella was right.
00:03:04This trip blew the cobwebs out of my head.
00:03:06There's one wife and a million, Charlie.
00:03:08Correction, please.
00:03:10Also have excellent wife in same million.
00:03:13Wife?
00:03:13After giving you 13 kids?
00:03:15She's an institution.
00:03:20Sorry, Mr. Gregory.
00:03:22I don't want my manuscript mixed up.
00:03:24You can buy a copy after publication.
00:03:26It'll cost you $2.
00:03:27I go to a lending library.
00:03:31Friend?
00:03:33Pest.
00:03:34Says he's an insurance actuary.
00:03:36Had the bungalow next to mine at Waikiki.
00:03:38And when he wasn't annoying me, he was shooting little birds with a .22.
00:03:42Strange for a man who gambles on life for business to cause death for pastime.
00:03:47Well, can't anybody talk about anything but death?
00:03:50Don't worry, Jimmy.
00:03:52It'll so be over.
00:03:53Radiogram for you, Mr. Essex.
00:03:54Thanks.
00:04:00Oh, Papa, I feel silly.
00:04:03Most usual.
00:04:10Unhappy news sometimes corrects self next day.
00:04:15What month is Scorpio?
00:04:17Scorpio?
00:04:19Um, October.
00:04:21Tomorrow is first day of Scorpion symbol in Chinese calendar.
00:04:27You believe in astrology?
00:04:30No.
00:04:32No, this is something else.
00:04:35Paul, could old friend help relieve distress?
00:04:39No, thanks, Charlie.
00:04:41I've got to send a radio.
00:04:46Well, I hope that isn't bad news.
00:04:49Well, what is not bad news?
00:04:51That radiogram he just got.
00:04:54How did you know Mr. Essex received message?
00:04:57Well, the steward brought it to me by mistake.
00:05:03Why, Pop, he's a...
00:05:04Please.
00:05:09This is the only way to travel.
00:05:11Imagine San Francisco already.
00:05:12There's the World's Fair, Treasure Island.
00:05:14Oh, that's where we're going to land.
00:05:16Oh, it looks like a big wedding cake.
00:05:18What's that big tower out there?
00:05:19That's the Chinese pagoda.
00:05:20No, that's the Tower of the Sun.
00:05:22It is the Chinese pagoda.
00:05:24The smaller one's the Tower of the Sun.
00:05:26Oh, I see, but then...
00:05:27Gee, Pop, I hope Mr. Essex isn't missing any of this.
00:05:34Don't miss the view, Mr. Gregory.
00:05:36It's the fair.
00:05:36I'll wait and see the one in New York.
00:05:38If you would, I'll take California.
00:05:41Hey, Mr. Essex, come over on this side.
00:05:43Maybe you can see your wife from here.
00:05:46Hey, Mr. Essex, wake up.
00:05:50Paul.
00:05:51Paul.
00:05:53Pop.
00:05:54Hey, Pop.
00:05:55Something's wrong.
00:05:57Paul.
00:06:00He must be sick.
00:06:01Take your seats, please.
00:06:02We're landing.
00:06:02Your seats, please.
00:06:04Something wrong?
00:06:07Is he dead?
00:06:09Must have been his heart.
00:06:10What's the truth?
00:06:11Go back to your seats, please.
00:06:12We're about to land.
00:06:13Please be seated.
00:06:14I want to go ahead.
00:06:16Yes, sir.
00:06:20Look, Pop, the radiogram was on the floor.
00:06:24Sign of Scorpio indicates disaster if Zodiac obligations ignored.
00:06:29Unsigned.
00:06:32Zodiac?
00:06:33Isn't that the chart astrologers use to tell fortunes?
00:06:37And Scorpio, I believe, is the unfortunate symbol of death.
00:06:41Not correct, but thank you.
00:06:58All luggage to be inspected at customs.
00:07:00All luggage to be inspected at customs.
00:07:03All luggage to be inspected at customs.
00:07:06Say, Pop, have you seen Paul's briefcase?
00:07:09No.
00:07:09It was here a minute ago.
00:07:13Where's Gregory?
00:07:16Perhaps we'll find same holding briefcase in customs.
00:07:19Why, I'll take care of him.
00:07:21Say, Pop, I just thought, Paul's wife, if she's there to meet him, what are you going to tell her?
00:07:28Only that which comes from her.
00:07:31Hi, Ed.
00:07:32I don't see Paul yet.
00:07:35Hi, Ed.
00:07:35There's Charlie over there.
00:07:37Mr. Chan.
00:07:38Oh, Mr. Chan.
00:07:41I'd better go back to customs and try to find Gregory, Pop.
00:07:46Hello, Charlie.
00:07:47It's grand to see you again.
00:07:48Where's Paul?
00:07:49Oh, well, you don't know my uncle, Mr. Redley.
00:07:52I've heard a lot about you, Mr. Chan.
00:07:54Stella, wish Tom could find words to tell you.
00:07:58What's keeping Paul?
00:08:00Oh, you've no idea how I've missed him this past month.
00:08:02Impossible to miss someone who will always be in heart.
00:08:08Why, everybody's gone.
00:08:10I don't see him.
00:08:11Where is he, Charlie?
00:08:13Stella.
00:08:16Is that someone from the plane?
00:08:19Most unhappy accident.
00:08:23Something's happened to Paul.
00:08:25Strength of heart not equal to homecoming.
00:08:29Paul's dead?
00:08:34Oh, no.
00:08:37Oh, Paul.
00:08:39I knew there was something wrong.
00:08:40His strange radiogram.
00:08:42It came last night.
00:08:43We couldn't understand it.
00:08:45Can't escape Zodiac.
00:08:47Goodbye, my love.
00:08:48Paul.
00:08:50Merci, please.
00:08:51We don't know what he meant by that word Zodiac.
00:08:54Paul certainly didn't believe in astrology.
00:08:57Think best you take Mrs. Essex home now.
00:09:00We'll join you there.
00:09:02Oh, did he finish the manuscript?
00:09:04There's a check waiting for it from his publisher.
00:09:07Please.
00:09:08What is your interest in saying?
00:09:10Why, I handled his business affairs.
00:09:13Better to consider Mrs. Essex at this time.
00:09:17Yes.
00:09:20Cab, sir?
00:09:21Uh, thank you.
00:09:22May I reserve one, please?
00:09:24Number eight up.
00:09:28Get in.
00:09:29Uh, must wait for sun.
00:09:30That's all right, sir.
00:09:31You can wait in the cab.
00:09:32Oh.
00:09:41Excuse me, please.
00:09:43Have no wish to intrude.
00:09:44Wanted private cab.
00:09:46Never mind what you wanted.
00:09:48Stay put.
00:09:48And don't try anything funny.
00:09:50Something very funny in being taken prisoner in broad daylight in city renowned for hospitality.
00:09:56You're going to get plenty of hospitality.
00:10:02Hope hospitality will have same general size as shoes of brother policemen.
00:10:08I would go for the real much.
00:10:10We couldn't put anything over on you, Charlie.
00:10:13Well, good.
00:10:13Why, how'd you like the red?
00:10:15Some bitch, eh, Charlie?
00:10:16How was it?
00:10:17Recognize your hand in joke, Mr. Kilvane.
00:10:19Well, we just couldn't let you slip into town without a welcome, Charlie.
00:10:22I appreciate most hospitable welcome, but have matter of importance which need attention first.
00:10:28Oh, don't give me that.
00:10:29Come on into my office.
00:10:30It's been a long time since I've seen you, Charlie.
00:10:32You and I are going to have a good old-fashioned chin fest, Charlie.
00:10:34How's everything in Honolulu?
00:10:35Anybody stealing pineapples?
00:10:36What are you honing in for?
00:10:37Charlie doesn't want to be interviewed.
00:10:38Interview my eye.
00:10:39I've known Charlie ever since I started covering the police blotter at the old Tower Street station.
00:10:43Police reporter Pete Lewis, friend of many years.
00:10:46Well, I'm on time.
00:10:47Oh, it's you.
00:10:48Say, isn't that sign private on my door big enough for you?
00:10:50Forget it.
00:10:51I told him to meet me here.
00:10:52Fred, I want you to know...
00:10:53Don't tell me.
00:10:54Charlie Chan.
00:10:54I'd know that face anyplace.
00:10:56Can return compliment.
00:10:58You are a magician named Rodini.
00:11:00Cannot forget what you borrowed five years ago for a trick and returned in many pieces.
00:11:06You're lucky you got it back at all.
00:11:08Rodini's improved now, Charlie.
00:11:10He's a big shot.
00:11:10Has his own theater, the Temple of Magic on Treasure Island.
00:11:13And my paper's backing him in an expose of fake psychics.
00:11:16Would you like to see some of my press clippings?
00:11:18Pete's paper's offering a thousand dollars.
00:11:20Any psychic, phony or otherwise, whose stunts I can't duplicate on the stage of my theater.
00:11:24And so far, no one's collected.
00:11:26Not even the great Dr. Zodiac.
00:11:30Zodiac?
00:11:30Yeah, he's the big shot in the spook racket around here.
00:11:33The only trouble is, he won't fall for our challenge.
00:11:35He won't come out in the open where I can get at him.
00:11:37Now, listen, you two mugs.
00:11:39If you don't mind, I got Charlie up here for a little private conversation.
00:11:43He's heard all he wants about black magic.
00:11:45No, no, most interesting.
00:11:48Sometimes black magic, very close relative to blackmail.
00:11:52Now, who said anything about blackmail?
00:11:54Why, don't you get it?
00:11:56Those phony psychics dig up the dirt, hand it over to the customers in the seance, then hold them up.
00:12:00That might be the reason for those three suicides recently.
00:12:04Say, they all happen to be clients of Dr. Zodiac.
00:12:06Yeah, but they're dead.
00:12:08They can't help us prove anything.
00:12:09And the living ones won't talk because they're afraid of rattling the skeletons in the family closets.
00:12:13Ah, you're talking through your hat.
00:12:15If there was any evidence connecting Zodiac with those suicides, I'd...
00:12:19But what can I do without evidence?
00:12:21Uh, very little, perhaps.
00:12:22But we'll ask Coroner to perform autopsy on body of Paul Essex,
00:12:27who died most suddenly on China Clipper this morning.
00:12:30Essex, mystery writer?
00:12:32He took a trip to Honolulu about six weeks ago to write a story about the spook racket?
00:12:36Say, we were talking about Zodiac.
00:12:37Or does that connect up?
00:12:39It might, if Essex was a client of Dr. Zodiac's.
00:12:42Come on, Charlie, what are you holding back?
00:12:43Did you speak to Essex before he died?
00:12:44Did he tell you anything?
00:12:45Was he a client of Dr. Zodiac?
00:12:46Did he commit suicide?
00:12:47Please, please, cannot answer question now.
00:12:50But in humble opinion, suicide induced by blackmail is murder.
00:12:55So sorry.
00:12:56Must leave now to meet unfortunate widow, Mrs. Essex.
00:13:02Excuse, please.
00:13:03Excuse.
00:13:07Give me that telephone.
00:13:08Outside.
00:13:08This is for official business.
00:13:11Hey, Charlie said he was going to meet Paul Essex's wife.
00:13:13Why don't we get your tennis on his way to Zodiac's right now?
00:13:15And he'll get in.
00:13:16Come on.
00:13:17What are we waiting for?
00:13:18To give him a head start.
00:13:18Then we'll crash Zodiac's gate with him.
00:13:22Hey, Pop.
00:13:23The taxi starter at the airport told me a couple of fellas brought you here.
00:13:26What's up?
00:13:27They merely brought greetings from old friend Deputy Chief Kilvane.
00:13:31Oh, I didn't find Paul's briefcase.
00:13:33Gregory gave me the slip at customs.
00:13:34But if we could get a hold of that manuscript.
00:13:36Please remember.
00:13:37Have given trusting parent promise to apply mental ability to school books.
00:13:42Mr. Chan, I've got a message for you.
00:13:43Oh.
00:13:47What is it?
00:13:54What is it, Pop?
00:13:57Here.
00:13:58Engage rums at St. Francis Hotel.
00:14:00And when Mrs. Essex call, say will be delayed.
00:14:04But what's in the note?
00:14:05Ancient Chinese proverb.
00:14:08Badly misquoted.
00:14:09Should read.
00:14:10Do not challenge supernatural unless armed with sword of truth.
00:14:26Do not challenge supernatural unless armed with sword of truth.
00:14:44Wait for us.
00:14:45Nothing doing.
00:14:46I know the spook joint.
00:14:47Full of dead people talking their heads off.
00:14:51Well, Charlie, fancy meeting you here.
00:14:53I'd anticipated fancy.
00:14:55Surprised you did not arrive first.
00:14:57Oh, let me introduce Professor Bixby of Berkeley.
00:14:59Great psychologist.
00:15:00Mr. Chan.
00:15:01Most happy to meet eminent professor of magic hiding under psychological whiskers.
00:15:05Quiet, Charlie.
00:15:06I told you we couldn't fool him.
00:15:08If Zodiac finds out Rodini's with us, he'll never let us in.
00:15:10Yeah, he's thrown me out a dozen times.
00:15:12But I figured I could sneak in this time under the hair mattress.
00:15:15We'll make first test of Dr. Zodiac's mystic powers on penetrating false whiskers.
00:15:20Let's go.
00:15:26Excuse me, please.
00:15:28May I consult with Dr. Zodiac?
00:15:30Dr. Zodiac will be happy to receive the celebrated detective Charlie Chan and his friends.
00:15:37Thank you so much.
00:15:40It beats me, Charlie.
00:15:41That face of yours can open more doors than a passkey.
00:15:51Dr. Zodiac is native of San Francisco.
00:15:54Dr. Zodiac is a native of the universe.
00:15:57He knows all things about all people.
00:16:00Follow me, please.
00:16:06In this room, gentlemen.
00:16:11Make yourselves comfortable, please.
00:16:16I will announce you to Dr. Zodiac.
00:16:21Boy, what a layout.
00:16:23Say, I couldn't put on a better act myself.
00:16:25He's got all the props.
00:16:26Incense, music.
00:16:28Advise, caution.
00:16:29Even draperies may have ears.
00:16:31What a lot of phony junk.
00:16:34No, very genuine and valuable antiques.
00:16:37Table lamp of ancient Egypt.
00:16:39Rameses dynasty.
00:16:41This is Persian sacrificial knife.
00:16:45Also very, very old.
00:16:49Dr. Zodiac, the eye of Allah Mata.
00:16:59Mr. Chan, I am honored.
00:17:03Privilege is mine.
00:17:05It certainly is a privilege, Dr. Zodiac.
00:17:07I am Pete Lewis of the Chronicle.
00:17:09How do you do, Mr. Lewis?
00:17:11I have heard of your campaign to expose the charlatans who prey on a too susceptible public.
00:17:19I heartily agree with it.
00:17:20And I am Professor Bixby of Berkeley.
00:17:22I am profoundly interested in your work, Doctor.
00:17:26Be seated, gentlemen.
00:17:29You will make a most intelligent and unusual circle.
00:17:34How can I serve you?
00:17:37Humbley request, you penetrate beyond the mystic veil of life and communicate with friend recently departed.
00:17:45That is the supreme demonstration.
00:17:49Please join me in silent meditation while I seek my control.
00:17:54An Egyptian priestess who passed beyond 3,000 years ago.
00:18:21I am here.
00:18:26I am here.
00:18:29Do you have a message for Mr. Chan?
00:18:32There is someone newly arrived in the spirit world who wishes to get through to Mr. Chan.
00:18:41I will help him.
00:18:44He is a man who was named Paul Essex.
00:18:51Ask the question that fills your mind, Mr. Chan.
00:18:56Paul, old friend, Charlie Chan most grieved.
00:19:01Cannot understand death which struck so suddenly.
00:19:06My heart.
00:19:07My heart was tired.
00:19:11Stopped.
00:19:12Who drove you to suicide?
00:19:15No suicide.
00:19:17Then you were not victim of blackmail?
00:19:22There was no blackmail.
00:19:25What was meaning of radiogram?
00:19:28Cannot escape zodiac.
00:19:31The stars were against me.
00:19:39Paul Essex is not strong enough yet to talk any longer.
00:19:47Do either of the other gentlemen care to ask a question?
00:19:52Yes, I'd like to know something about a girl.
00:19:54And she's not in the spirit world, either.
00:19:57You want to know about a girl named Eve Cairo.
00:20:03You must not think of marrying her.
00:20:06She is psychic.
00:20:08She is one of us.
00:20:10You must not interfere with her work.
00:20:14So that's what you've been telling Eve.
00:20:16Oh, I know she comes here.
00:20:17Well, you might have her buffalo, but you don't fool me.
00:20:18Oh, I've had enough of this, Faker.
00:20:20How can you sit there and insult our intelligence?
00:20:22I'm going to expose your tricks.
00:20:24Stay where you are, Mr. Rodini.
00:20:27So you thought that I would not see through your childish disguise.
00:20:30I would have let it pass in respect to Mr. Chan had you not shown your hand.
00:20:35Now leave this house.
00:20:36Why, you cheap far-flusher.
00:20:38I'll give you a blastin' print.
00:20:39I'll run you right out of this town with the rest of the jib fortune tellers.
00:20:41If you do, Mr. Lewis, your paper will pay me a large sum for damages.
00:20:47I do not predict the future.
00:20:49What you witnessed here was a scientific demonstration.
00:20:53Regret most sincerely unfortunate termination of science.
00:20:57I accept your apology, Mr. Chan.
00:20:59I know these two gentlemen forced their company on you when you entered my house.
00:21:06My servant will see you out.
00:21:08Good day.
00:21:10Are we going to let him get away with that?
00:21:12We ought to take the place apart.
00:21:13Would not recommend violence.
00:21:15Have no authority to intrude on privacy without search warrant.
00:21:19The fee for the consultation, gentlemen, will be $20.
00:21:24What?
00:21:25Try and get it.
00:21:26If request music, must be willing to pay for Fiddler.
00:21:30I could get you a whole orchestra for that price.
00:21:33Should not complain.
00:21:34Receive most enlightening message concerning lady friends.
00:21:38Well, Eve and I are going to get married.
00:21:39No matter what that faker had to say.
00:21:42Eve Cairo is part of my act, Charlie.
00:21:43Pete met her through me.
00:21:44She's tops and mind reading.
00:21:47Mind reading?
00:21:47She's on the level, Charlie.
00:21:48Her stuff's no gag.
00:21:49And I'm going to have a showdown with her tonight.
00:21:51She's not coming here anymore.
00:21:52Very wise.
00:21:53Dr. Zoriak, man of great ego, enjoys using power to dominate lives of others.
00:22:00Advise, caution.
00:22:01To destroy false prophet, must first unmask him before eyes of believers.
00:22:16Yes, please.
00:22:17Oh, hello, Mr. Calvane.
00:22:20You get autopsy report?
00:22:21You had a hunch, Charlie.
00:22:23There was enough poison in Paul Essek's stomach to have polished off ten men.
00:22:27Think it was plain suicide or fancy murder?
00:22:29Voice of crime still very faint.
00:22:32Think it best you tell newspapers coroner reports suicide.
00:22:35Pete tells me you've sprung the blackmail angle on Zodiac.
00:22:39What's up, Charlie?
00:22:40Was he squeezing Paul Essek's?
00:22:42Hunch say yes, but facts say maybe.
00:22:45We'll keep you informed.
00:22:47Goodbye.
00:22:52Good evening, Mr. Chan.
00:22:55May I have a minute of your time?
00:22:58Do you have a son named Jimmy Chan?
00:23:01Wearer of this guy's only fool chambermaid.
00:23:04Oh, gee, Pop.
00:23:07Father who depends on son is happy or foolish, according to son.
00:23:12Please, job.
00:23:18Hey, this is my tie.
00:23:19My best tie.
00:23:21Little mouse lucky.
00:23:22His clothes do not fit elephant.
00:23:24You haven't asked me where I've been.
00:23:27Looking for Mr. Gregory.
00:23:29Yeah.
00:23:30I checked at several hotels, and I found him, too.
00:23:33He's registered at the Walling, and he's got Paul's briefcase with him.
00:23:37But when he saw Busybody's son, he vanished.
00:23:40That's right.
00:23:41When he saw me, he ducked out of the lobby.
00:23:43And then I lost him.
00:23:44What time was this?
00:23:46Gee, Pop, I'm awfully sorry.
00:23:48I didn't look at the time.
00:23:50Was Gregory at Hotel Walling at four o'clock?
00:23:54Yes.
00:23:55No, earlier, I think.
00:23:58Yes, earlier.
00:24:00No, I'm not sure.
00:24:02But if it's important, I can check.
00:24:04Right now, check into dress clothes.
00:24:07Where are we going?
00:24:08Have invitation to a small party Mr. Radini gives on Treasure Island.
00:24:12You don't like parties.
00:24:13I'm anxious to make acquaintance of girlfriend of newspaper man.
00:24:18Girl who believes and obeys Dr. Zodiac.
00:24:21But I'd like to help out.
00:24:23We've got to find that briefcase.
00:24:25Can best help out by disguising self as obedient son for a few hours.
00:24:30Come.
00:24:44Don't wait for me, Pop.
00:24:46See you later.
00:24:48What you say?
00:25:03Hello, Emma.
00:25:04How are you?
00:25:05It's swell to be the calm.
00:25:06Glad to see you.
00:25:07Make us up at home, will you?
00:25:13Why aren't you serving?
00:25:14You told me to act like a guest, didn't you?
00:25:16Now, look, Elmer, I only asked you to be helpful.
00:25:18Now, leave the food alone.
00:25:20What's the matter?
00:25:20Ain't it any good?
00:25:26Okay, I can click it in.
00:25:35I've been anxious to meet you, Mr. Chand.
00:25:37Also happy to make future wife of old friend.
00:25:40Very future.
00:25:41I'll have a long white beard down to here if she keeps holding out.
00:25:44Pete told me what you're up to, Mr. Chand, and you're wrong.
00:25:47Dr. Zodiac's a genius.
00:25:49You'll never expose him as a fraud.
00:25:51Don't stop a fellow from trying.
00:25:53Pete, if I have any gift for reading minds...
00:25:55There's no argument about that.
00:25:57Then others can be gifted to read the future.
00:25:59Can't tell if anything is on mind of that young man.
00:26:19Oh, hello, darling.
00:26:20Hello, Mrs. Sibley.
00:26:21Still monopolizing Mr. Chand?
00:26:23Won't you give poor little me a chance to talk to him?
00:26:25Here he is. Talk your head off. Tell him what a great guy Zodiac is.
00:26:29Now, Pete, none of that.
00:26:30Sometimes I think she steers for him.
00:26:32What on earth do you mean?
00:26:33You got Eve to go to Zodiac. She was sane till then.
00:26:36Darling, she didn't make me go.
00:26:38We never had a rival you met him.
00:26:40You better get ready, Eve. You're on soon.
00:26:41Oh, yes. Excuse us, please.
00:26:45Well, Bessie, I see you've cornered Mr. Chan.
00:26:48You better watch out, Charlie.
00:26:49Mrs. Sibley thrives on scandal and husbands.
00:26:51Never let one go around with the must-up talk.
00:26:54Why?
00:26:54You better not let my wife catch you doing this.
00:26:57She knew she was marrying a popular man, didn't she?
00:27:00Yeah. She hasn't asked for a divorce yet, either.
00:27:03Well, let's sit down.
00:27:07Oh, hello, Myra, darling. Where have you been?
00:27:10Behaving myself.
00:27:11Do you know Mrs. Rodini?
00:27:12We met.
00:27:13Now, who on earth must you up?
00:27:15Huh? Oh.
00:27:16Does anybody want some of this stuff?
00:27:18It ain't bad.
00:27:18No, Elmer.
00:27:21Well, I just said it ain't bad, that's all.
00:27:22The people my husband picks up. Anything for all earth.
00:27:26Myra, darling, you're not looking a bit well.
00:27:28Hasn't Dr. Zodiac been able to cheer you up?
00:27:30I wouldn't believe that faker under oath.
00:27:32Then why go to him?
00:27:33It was Mrs. Sibley's idea.
00:27:35Oh, but you were so worried about Rodini and his popularity with the girls.
00:27:40Darling, let me worry about him.
00:27:42You worry about that husband of yours who died.
00:27:46What do you mean?
00:27:47Didn't his sudden exit have the district attorney bothered?
00:27:50Oh, now, Myra.
00:27:51It's awfully stuffy here.
00:27:53Excuse me, please.
00:27:55Why, that jealous gutter's knife.
00:27:57Don't ever pick a knife drawer for a wife, Mr. Chan.
00:28:00Sharp words from sharp tongue?
00:28:02No, I mean real knives.
00:28:04She used to be in Vaudeville.
00:28:05Thinks she's an actress.
00:28:07Dr. Zodiac can't help her.
00:28:09She's too conceited.
00:28:10I beg your pardon.
00:28:11Are you Mr. Rodini?
00:28:12No.
00:28:12There's Mr. Rodini over there.
00:28:14Oh, thank you.
00:28:14Excuse me.
00:28:16What?
00:28:17Uh, excuse, please.
00:28:18I said she's too conceited.
00:28:21Good evening, Mr. Rodini.
00:28:22It's awfully nice of you to invite me here tonight.
00:28:24Oh, I'm glad to have you.
00:28:25Make yourself at home.
00:28:26Give the house a good name.
00:28:27I'll do my best.
00:28:34Say, Besser, you know everybody.
00:28:36Who's that fellow over there?
00:28:40Well, he's a new one to me.
00:28:42But he looks interesting.
00:28:44You do not know own guests?
00:28:46I never laid eyes on him before.
00:28:48Pardon me, Mr. Chan.
00:28:49You're running on the telephone.
00:28:50I'll show you the way, Charlie.
00:28:52Excuse, please.
00:28:53Hurry back, Mr. Chan.
00:28:55I want all the news about Honolulu.
00:28:59Oh, excuse me a minute, Charlie.
00:29:00The phone's right over there.
00:29:01You can't miss it.
00:29:05How many times do I have to tell you?
00:29:07Didn't you say I could be a guest?
00:29:09Well, I didn't tell you to make a pig out of yourself.
00:29:11Well, if you invite me, you've got to invite my tapeworm.
00:29:16Yes, who, please?
00:29:18Who?
00:29:19It's only me, Pop.
00:29:21Jimmy.
00:29:22I've located Gregory, and he's registered right here in our hotel.
00:29:25Mr. Gregory here at party now.
00:29:28I know it.
00:29:29I sent him a fake invitation so that he'd leave his room and I could search him.
00:29:33You invite Gregory?
00:29:35Keep an eye on him, will you?
00:29:37Goodbye.
00:29:40Uh...
00:29:43Mr. Chan, I thought I recognized you.
00:29:45Good evening.
00:29:46Strange we should meet again so soon.
00:29:48Ours are about 40 to 1 against travel mates meeting within 48 hours.
00:29:52I did a study of it.
00:29:53Even here, you pursue art of statistics?
00:29:56Everywhere.
00:29:57Even in my sleep.
00:30:01Charlie, Eve's just about to go on and I don't want you to miss her.
00:30:06Now, look, if you folks will bring your chairs up a little closer, we're going to have a
00:30:08little entertainment for you.
00:30:10By one of the finest percentages...
00:30:12Uh...
00:30:13He's a magician.
00:30:14I know you all know him.
00:30:15Needs no introduction to you.
00:30:17The great Rodini.
00:30:19Ta-da!
00:30:20Thank you, thank you.
00:30:22Now, before we go any further, I...
00:30:23Uh, Irma, would you mind holding this cage for me, please?
00:30:27Oh...
00:30:27Just a sample.
00:30:28As you all know, I give two performances a day at the Temple of Magic.
00:30:31I didn't ask you to come here tonight to watch me perform.
00:30:34I want to introduce a little lady from my show,
00:30:37whom I consider the world's greatest living mind reader.
00:30:40It gives me great pleasure to present Miss Eve Cairo.
00:30:48Would you mind putting out the lights, please?
00:30:52Now, ladies and gentlemen, I must ask for absolute quiet.
00:30:56Under hypnosis, Miss Cairo becomes a delicate radio-receiving apparatus,
00:30:59tuned to every forceful mind.
00:31:08Your eyes close.
00:31:10You will sleep.
00:31:13I am your control.
00:31:17You will seek the mind I name.
00:31:21I will seek the mind you name.
00:31:26All right, give me something. Anything.
00:31:29What have I in my hand?
00:31:31It is a ring.
00:31:34A gold wedding ring.
00:31:37In it are engraved words.
00:31:40Bopsy loves toots.
00:31:43Okay, toots.
00:31:44Oh, why, it's simply incredible.
00:31:46All right, how about you? No?
00:31:48Very clever.
00:31:50How does he give her signals?
00:31:51I tell you, it's real. They don't use any code.
00:31:54Would you care to try it?
00:31:55I would.
00:31:59What again?
00:32:01I've been asked a question.
00:32:02What is it?
00:32:04The lady wishes to know if...
00:32:07if she will marry again this year.
00:32:11Oh, that's wonderful. That's right.
00:32:13Will I?
00:32:14I'm sorry she cannot predict the future.
00:32:16There's nothing supernatural about Miss Cairo's powers.
00:32:19They've been recognized by scientists as extrasensory perception.
00:32:22Or the sixth sense, which we call mental telepathy.
00:32:26Go on, Charlie. Test her.
00:32:38What have I in my hand?
00:32:41A card.
00:32:43There are Chinese characters on it.
00:32:47Possible to read characters?
00:32:48I tell you what you do, Charlie.
00:32:51You concentrate on the translation,
00:32:53and Eve will read it from your mind.
00:32:57The Chinese words mean,
00:33:00great happiness follows great pain.
00:33:06Is mine still open book to young lady?
00:33:10Can you tell us what else Mr. Chan is thinking?
00:33:13Dr. Zodiac.
00:33:15I hear the name Dr. Zodiac in his thoughts.
00:33:20Most uncanny.
00:33:22All right, now. Let's have something real hard.
00:33:25This last demonstration proves that she doesn't read my mind alone.
00:33:28She can read any strong, dominant thought.
00:33:30Would anyone else care to try it?
00:33:32I would.
00:33:33Will you please concentrate, Miss Cairo?
00:33:35What do I hold in my hand?
00:33:39It is...
00:33:41You...
00:33:42There's someone else.
00:33:45I can't go on.
00:33:47I can't.
00:33:49I hear death among us.
00:33:51I'm frightened.
00:33:53There's evil here.
00:33:55Someone here is thinking murder.
00:34:37I can't really do nothing but.
00:34:38I can't do anything...
00:34:39Mr. Zodiac, if you know you have my mind.
00:34:42Across the screen...
00:34:43I've never heard the bad—
00:34:44I haven't read it.
00:34:44Charlie, don't do that.
00:34:45You're left in such a hurry like a bloodhound on the trail.
00:34:47I knew you were up to no good.
00:34:48He had a hunch you were coming this way.
00:34:50Do not need brass band to commit simple burglary.
00:34:53Burglary? Which window do we use?
00:34:56Better to ring bell like law-abiding citizen
00:34:58to make sure house is empty.
00:35:01Suppose the Turk's here.
00:35:03That'd be a break.
00:35:04He'd either talk or take a punch in the nose.
00:35:06I think we ought to try a back window.
00:35:07No, try bell first.
00:35:20Oh, only Honorable Sprout.
00:35:23Gee, Pop, I wasn't expecting you.
00:35:26Surprised mutual.
00:35:28You scared the daylights out of me.
00:35:30Can I explain presents here?
00:35:32I wanted to find out who the doctor is for you.
00:35:34How'd you get in?
00:35:35Through an open window, upstairs.
00:35:37Where's the light switch?
00:35:38No, no lights.
00:35:40Please, remove disguise.
00:35:54Gee, nothing but black curtains.
00:35:57This must be the spook room.
00:36:08What was that?
00:36:10Shh!
00:36:12Uh, Pop!
00:36:16Hey, look!
00:36:22Whoa!
00:36:26Ectoplasm most interesting.
00:36:28Ghost filled with hot air.
00:36:31Well, what about Paul Essex's voice?
00:36:33Proof Dr. Zodiac knew Paul Essex.
00:36:35Dr. Excellent Ventriloquist.
00:36:38Uncle, maybe, to Charlie McCarthy.
00:36:41Yeah?
00:36:41What makes all this operate?
00:36:43Mechanical spirits respond to buttons concealed in floor.
00:36:48Dr. Zodiac sit here with feet hidden underneath table and conduct spook show like leader of orchestra.
00:36:56Observe.
00:36:59Boy, oh, boy, whoever rigged this up is a mechanical genius.
00:37:03I could use him to design some illusions for my show.
00:37:05So this is how he fools his customers.
00:37:07Favorite pastime of man is fooling himself.
00:37:11Pop!
00:37:16Get beside door.
00:37:43You will please drop a revolver to floor.
00:37:46Mr. Chan makes empty command.
00:37:49Man with guns stand behind you.
00:37:51Drop it.
00:37:54Search it.
00:37:55Now, don't try to put anything over on my Pop.
00:38:00Please lock the door.
00:38:02Go ahead, Pop.
00:38:03Ask him anything you want.
00:38:11Finger of death fit love perfectly.
00:38:13What are you getting at, Charlie?
00:38:14This weapon sought my life at party tonight.
00:38:17Did he try to kill you?
00:38:19Believe, gentlemen, to be same.
00:38:21Gee, Pop, you got him for attempted murder.
00:38:23Lights!
00:38:24Hey, turn on the lights!
00:38:25Turn on the lights!
00:38:27Come on, turn on the lights!
00:38:27I can't see the button.
00:38:28Well, wheel around there.
00:38:29You had it, then, Olaf.
00:38:30Hold on.
00:38:31Turn on the table.
00:38:33Hold on.
00:38:35Where's that light button?
00:38:38Where's the church?
00:38:40Where's my Pop?
00:38:41Now, wait a minute.
00:38:42People can't vanish into thin air.
00:38:44Come on.
00:38:44We've got to find them.
00:38:46That door's still locked.
00:38:48Wait a minute.
00:38:49Wait a minute.
00:38:49Shh.
00:38:49Look.
00:38:56Gentlemen, what are you doing in my house?
00:39:01What have you done to my Pop?
00:39:04You have search warrant?
00:39:06Come on, Zodiac.
00:39:07Open up and talk fast.
00:39:09Thank you so much.
00:39:10Appreciate bravery.
00:39:13Why, it's Charlie.
00:39:14Pop.
00:39:16Pop, don't ever do that again.
00:39:19What have you got there?
00:39:21Face rubber.
00:39:22Beard false.
00:39:25Massive body, an illusion.
00:39:28Elaborate disguise indicate Dr. Zodiac.
00:39:31Two other people.
00:39:33Wait a minute.
00:39:33Do you mean to say that wire framework is used to make a person appear taller?
00:39:37Exactly.
00:39:38Then Zodiac could be a woman.
00:39:39Or the Turk.
00:39:41Anything possible.
00:39:42But where is the Turk?
00:39:44Make disappearance like ghosts.
00:39:46Ran into closet.
00:39:48Found blank wall, but no Turk.
00:39:51Zodiac disguise hang here.
00:39:54One of these walls must be false.
00:40:03That's it.
00:40:14That's it.
00:40:18This is the office.
00:40:20He certainly did a good job of concealing this place.
00:40:22Did you find something, Charlie?
00:40:24I found elusive manuscript of Paul Essex.
00:40:27One taken by Gregory.
00:40:28Oh, that.
00:40:29I brought that here.
00:40:30I got it out of Gregory's room at the hotel and left it here when I broke in tonight.
00:40:34You brought it here?
00:40:36Yeah.
00:40:36You didn't give me a chance to tell you before.
00:40:39If befriend donkey, expect to be kicked.
00:40:43How you get in here?
00:40:45Through here.
00:40:47I couldn't find my way out of this place, so I went back out through here.
00:40:51Same way I came in.
00:40:52Then I saw you from the window and let you in.
00:40:55Get a look at the size of this safe.
00:40:57I wonder what a fortune teller's doing with a safe this big.
00:41:01Wish we could open it.
00:41:04Suggest you start zero.
00:41:07Are you kidding?
00:41:08No.
00:41:11Make two turn to left, two five.
00:41:15One turn to right, to 18.
00:41:19Two turn back to left, to 21.
00:41:22Back to zero.
00:41:26It works.
00:41:27How did you get the combination?
00:41:29Found same among possessions of Turkish gentlemen.
00:41:34Oh, it's dark in here.
00:41:35There must be a switch someplace.
00:41:37Here's one.
00:41:40Boy, what a setup.
00:41:42It's a fireproof room.
00:41:46What kind of a business is Zodiac in, anyway?
00:41:50Reason for presence here.
00:41:52All kinds of dope about all kinds of people.
00:41:59Please, do not touch.
00:42:07Suspicion confirmed.
00:42:09Unfortunate and illegal experiences of many people hidden in these boxes.
00:42:15Information collected from false psychics in many cities.
00:42:19Organized blackmail.
00:42:21We'll get Covane to seize that stuff.
00:42:23Gee, Pop, here's one on Honolulu.
00:42:25People who've lived there.
00:42:29Here's something on somebody named Bessie Sibley.
00:42:36Mrs. Sibley doubtless supply information on many others.
00:42:40To buy Dr. Zodiac's silence.
00:42:43I bet he had plenty on her.
00:42:45What have you got there, Charlie?
00:42:48Envelope on Paul Effett.
00:43:04This letter written by Paul Essex.
00:43:06Positive proof Dr. Zodiac demand money under threat of exposing past misdeeds.
00:43:12Now we can nail them.
00:43:13Must punish Dr. Zodiac without betraying Paul Essex's secret.
00:43:17The widow.
00:43:19Uh, suggest the research of office first.
00:43:22Dr. Zodiac's desk.
00:43:24Okay.
00:43:25What a yarn.
00:43:26This dynamite will blow the whole town wide open.
00:43:27We ought to phone Covane.
00:43:29I'll yell if I find anything, Pop.
00:43:46How to tell fortunes by cards.
00:43:49Maybe that's how we got to start.
00:43:51Almanacs, horoscopes, astrological charts.
00:43:54Oh, what a lot of trash.
00:43:55Say, we'd better get out of here before the church comes back.
00:43:57We are about ready to leave.
00:44:00Hey, something's burning.
00:44:02I'm asking flames to keep secrets of many unfortunate people.
00:44:06But, Charlie, the evidence.
00:44:07It is best.
00:44:08We are destroying web of spider.
00:44:11Now let us find spider.
00:44:27Oh, good morning, Pop.
00:44:29Your bed's still made up.
00:44:30Didn't you turn in at all?
00:44:31I've just read most interesting story.
00:44:34Paul's book?
00:44:35Yeah.
00:44:35Any clues in it?
00:44:36Possible truth disguised as fiction.
00:44:39Secret of Pygmy Arrow is story of fake psychic who blackmail clients.
00:44:44Swell, how does that help us?
00:44:46No help.
00:44:47Last page containing crime solution missing.
00:44:50Yet we know Paul finished same.
00:44:52Then Gregory must have it.
00:44:54Say, I can't understand why you don't arrest that guy.
00:44:57Please, do not ignore telephone.
00:45:00Hello.
00:45:01Who?
00:45:03Gregory wants to see you.
00:45:05Well, what you wait for?
00:45:07Here is man ready for arrest.
00:45:10Please come up, Mr. Gregory.
00:45:12Boy, am I going to pin it on him.
00:45:15Would favorite son like to make personal pinch?
00:45:19Oh, you're kidding, Pop.
00:45:21Say, we'd better have a gun.
00:45:29Good morning, Mr. Chan.
00:45:31Good morning.
00:45:33Say, didn't I see you yesterday, the Hotel Walling, wearing glasses and a false mustache?
00:45:38Oh, that.
00:45:39Good morning, sir.
00:45:41Please accept Humble Hospitality.
00:45:43Thank you very much.
00:45:43Have a cup of coffee?
00:45:44No, thanks.
00:45:46Mr. Chan, I've come to lay my cards on the table.
00:45:48Yes?
00:45:48First of all, I'm not an insurance actuary.
00:45:51Please continue.
00:45:52I'm a private investigator for the Granville Insurance Company.
00:45:55A detective?
00:45:56That's right.
00:45:57Gee, Pop, he's one of us.
00:45:58If I were one of Mr. Chan, I shouldn't be so worried.
00:46:02Modesty forbids acknowledgment.
00:46:04Mr. Chan, I need help.
00:46:06Cooperation possible, Mr. Gregory, if you will answer one question.
00:46:10With pleasure.
00:46:11Why did you remove Paul Essex's briefcase from Clipper?
00:46:14I thought it might furnish me with some leads.
00:46:17I was unable to make head or tail of it.
00:46:19Somebody took it from my room last night.
00:46:23You follow Paul Essex to Honolulu?
00:46:25Yes.
00:46:27Why?
00:46:28My company's already had three suicides down there.
00:46:30I thought the islands might furnish the motives.
00:46:32It was a blind alley.
00:46:34The only thing I discovered was that Dr. Zodiac had told Mr. Essex that he would die this month.
00:46:39Dr. Zodiac predict Paul Essex's death?
00:46:42Certainly.
00:46:43You knew I read that radio that came to Mr. Essex.
00:46:46I've been trying to see Zodiac.
00:46:47I can't even get an appointment.
00:46:49Please, what can I do?
00:46:51You get to Zodiac and make him talk and my company will take care of you.
00:46:55Always willing to cooperate with the insurance company.
00:46:58We'll keep you informed of developments.
00:47:00Oh, that's fine.
00:47:01I'll let you know if anything turns up.
00:47:03And I'm awfully glad I came to see you.
00:47:05Pleasure is mutual.
00:47:06Thank you very much.
00:47:07Goodbye.
00:47:09Oh, not at all.
00:47:12Gee, Pop, I certainly had him pegged wrong.
00:47:14You did?
00:47:16The manuscript.
00:47:17He's taken it again.
00:47:18Hey!
00:47:22Wanting practice for the track team?
00:47:24Young man imitate puppy dog chasing bumblebee.
00:47:27Well, Charlie, where do we stand?
00:47:28Did you read that mystery story?
00:47:29Get any leads?
00:47:30Crime never solved by books.
00:47:32I lost him.
00:47:33But the chambermaid said he checked out this morning.
00:47:35Gee, now that manuscript's gone again.
00:47:42Gee, Pop, you're a magician.
00:47:44What was in the briefcase?
00:47:46Very comprehensive San Francisco telephone directory.
00:47:50Gee, nice going, Pop.
00:47:51Hey, what's this all about?
00:47:53Say, I've got an idea.
00:47:54Let's call up the Granville Insurance Company
00:47:55and find out if Gregory's on the level.
00:47:57Telephone all insurance companies yesterday.
00:47:59No one ever heard of Mr. Gregory.
00:48:02I knew it.
00:48:03I knew he was a phony.
00:48:05Say, he might even be Zodiac.
00:48:07One will get your ten will never see Zodiac
00:48:09with his whiskers on again.
00:48:10Not after the way we went through his place last night.
00:48:12It is possible.
00:48:18But Dr. Zodiac, not ordinary criminal.
00:48:21He is man of great ego
00:48:23with disease known to science as
00:48:25Pseudo-logia fantastica.
00:48:30Is it serious?
00:48:31Listen.
00:48:33Pathological liars and swindlers
00:48:35suffer from exaggerated fantasy,
00:48:37unleashed vanity,
00:48:39and great ambition
00:48:40which robs them of caution
00:48:41known to say no man.
00:48:43Or as Pop would put it,
00:48:45Swellhead gives owner more trouble
00:48:47than indigestion.
00:48:48Correction, please.
00:48:49Swellhead sometimes give police
00:48:51more cooperation than criminal mistake.
00:48:54Say, I'll buy that.
00:48:55We might trip Zodiac through his vanity.
00:48:58Criminal egotists find pleasure
00:48:59in laughing at police.
00:49:01Say, if we could only give him
00:49:02a chance to laugh at us,
00:49:03that might bring him out in the open,
00:49:04and then...
00:49:05But how are we going to work it?
00:49:07Suggest artful flattery
00:49:08in form of special challenge from Rodini
00:49:11to demonstrate powers
00:49:13before men of science.
00:49:14That's great, Charlie,
00:49:16and I know my paper will go for it.
00:49:18The door will be open.
00:49:25Say, my door's on Rodini.
00:49:27Who do you like?
00:49:27Well, I like Zodiac,
00:49:28because Zodiac's very nice, man.
00:49:31He's the door that's got a thing
00:49:33for a long time.
00:49:34Yes, but...
00:49:35That Dr. Zodiac certainly has his nerves.
00:49:37Say, well, my door's on Rodini.
00:49:39I'm on Rodini.
00:49:40I'm on Rodini.
00:49:40I'm on Rodini.
00:49:41I'm on Rodini.
00:49:42I'm on Rodini.
00:49:42I'm on Rodini.
00:49:43I'm on Rodini.
00:49:45Anytime.
00:49:48Tali, you were right. It's happened.
00:49:49Zodiac took it. Hook, line, and sinker. Come on.
00:49:55Please, folks, step aside.
00:50:05Gee, that's a funny-looking knife.
00:50:08Balance weapon used by knife throwers.
00:50:14What is it, a P.S.?
00:50:27This is missing last page of Paul Essek's manuscript.
00:50:31Note was written on back of it.
00:50:33What do you mean? Say, then Gregory must be Zodiac.
00:50:36Unless you dropped same in Zodiac House last night.
00:50:39Gee, Pop, maybe I did.
00:50:42Carelessness may prove blessing in disguise.
00:50:45Hey, I'll bet you we'll have a full house tonight, I'll bet you.
00:50:48What does it say, Charlie? Does it help us?
00:50:49No. Merely that murder was not caused by sword cane, as suspected,
00:50:54but by poisoned pygmy arrow.
00:50:56Pygmy arrow? We got a pygmy arrow.
00:51:00Where?
00:51:00Over here. I'll show you.
00:51:07The bone arrow's gone.
00:51:09I know it was here this morning.
00:51:10Of course, when I was sweeping up, I went by it, and it stopped me.
00:51:13Maybe some souvenir hunter took them.
00:51:15If Zodiac left the note, then he probably took the arrow.
00:51:18At least we know where to find it.
00:51:33Hello, Charlie. What a house. I socked Zodiac's acceptance across the front page,
00:51:38and look at that sellout.
00:51:51We've got every door in the place covered. Good.
00:51:53Now, when Zodiac gets here, seal the place up.
00:51:56Don't let anyone out until after the show is over.
00:51:58And be ready for trouble.
00:52:01If we don't see a show tonight, we'll never see one.
00:52:03What's your plan, Pop?
00:52:05Expect to witness most interesting performance.
00:52:08With attention not distracted by too much conversation.
00:52:12Well, we're all set, Charlie.
00:52:18Well, is Dr. Zodiac here yet?
00:52:20No, I don't see him.
00:52:21But a fine spot I'll be in if he doesn't show up.
00:52:23But a fine spot he'll be in if he does.
00:52:25And you don't show him up.
00:52:26No, don't even think it.
00:52:27Places, everybody.
00:52:29All set, Mr. Audini?
00:52:30Yeah, okay.
00:52:30My clearest stage, fellas.
00:52:32I'll kill your house, ladies.
00:52:45Ladies and gentlemen.
00:52:46As you all know, the famous Dr. Zodiac has accepted a challenge to meet me here tonight.
00:52:52Is Dr. Zodiac in the house?
00:52:57Not even the ghost of a whisper.
00:52:58Or the whisper of a ghost.
00:53:01So, while we're waiting for the renowned doctor of the occult to materialize, I will endeavor to entertain you.
00:53:06Professor, please.
00:53:08Of course, I'm just an ordinary magician myself.
00:53:11One of the old-fashioned kind whose hand is quicker than the eye.
00:53:14Now, watch very closely, ladies and gentlemen.
00:53:16Empty.
00:53:17Empty.
00:53:19That's what you thought.
00:53:23Flowers for madame.
00:53:29Nothing in here.
00:53:30Nothing in here.
00:53:32Nothing in here.
00:53:37Empty.
00:53:39Empty.
00:53:41What a fix for a sphinx.
00:53:43Elmer, if you please.
00:53:45Rotate.
00:53:54Well, there's life in the old sphinx yet.
00:53:59Receive Cairo, ladies and gentlemen.
00:54:01A very charming and mysterious young lady who will assist me in deceiving you.
00:54:06Excuse me, please.
00:54:07Now, ladies and gentlemen, for our first delusion, I will require some witnesses here on the stage.
00:54:12Are there a couple of good witnesses in the house?
00:54:14You know, the kind you like to have when you bump into the other fellow's car?
00:54:17How about you, sir?
00:54:18Oh, no, thank you.
00:54:19Come on.
00:54:19Don't be bashful.
00:54:20Leave your watch and wallet with your wife.
00:54:22Oh, she's not your wife.
00:54:25Well.
00:54:27Spotlight.
00:54:28Charlie, stand up.
00:54:29Come on.
00:54:29I'll take a bottle.
00:54:31Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to meet Mr. Charlie Chan.
00:54:33The world's foremost whodunit celebrity.
00:54:39I'm going to ask Mr. Chan to honor my performance by acting as a witness of my illusions.
00:54:44And if I can trick him, I'm good.
00:54:47This will give you a chance to watch Zodiac when he works.
00:54:49Hey, pass.
00:54:50And you too, Jimmy.
00:54:51And Jimmy Chan, ladies and gentlemen, a chip off the old chopstick.
00:54:55And this gentleman completes our gold panel jury.
00:54:59Deputy Chief Kilbane of the San Francisco Police Department.
00:55:07Now stand wherever you wish.
00:55:10Steps, please.
00:55:14Oh.
00:55:20Oh.
00:55:31Dr. Zodiac, I believe.
00:55:33Spotlight.
00:55:35Would you care to come up on the stage, doctor?
00:55:38I was just about to toss off one of my best illusions.
00:55:41I'll give you a chance to unmask me, doctor, before I unmask you.
00:55:46That would be a pleasure, Mr. Ardini.
00:55:49That's the spirit.
00:55:54Stand wherever you wish, doctor.
00:55:57Now, ladies and gentlemen, before I continue,
00:55:59I want to say in fairness to our distinguished guest
00:56:01that I do not intend in any way to ridicule his faith in the supernatural.
00:56:05But I will prove that I can duplicate anything he does
00:56:09with the same old bag of tricks that have been mystifying gullible humanity
00:56:13since the first magician laid an egg.
00:56:16My initial endeavor will be to nullify the law of gravity through levitation.
00:56:20An art practiced by the holy men of Tibet who are credited with being able to project their bodies through
00:56:26space.
00:56:29Now watch, Miss Cairo, and particularly the table.
00:56:32We are under observation by a supercritical jury of witnesses.
00:56:37Nothing below, a beautiful lady above, no wires connected to the table, no mechanical devices.
00:56:44Yet, unless your eyes deceive you, the table and the young lady are rising into the fourth dimension of space,
00:56:49deported by nothing but ten air.
00:56:52Levitation was a religious rite of the ancient world, known to the priests of Chaldea,
00:56:57a guarded secret in the temples of Babylon.
00:57:02A fearsome ceremony of the pagan gods who cried for sacrifice
00:57:05and before whom victims vanish and disappear.
00:57:25A narrow.
00:57:27Struck directly in heart.
00:57:29Death instantaneous.
00:57:31Boy, what a finish for Dr. Zodiac.
00:57:33Who is he, Pop?
00:57:39It's the Turk.
00:57:40Wait a minute.
00:57:41House lights.
00:57:43Everybody stay right where you are.
00:57:45No one's to leave this theater.
00:57:49Have everybody go back to their seats.
00:57:52Please.
00:57:53Remote body.
00:57:54Out there.
00:57:56Back to your seat, lady.
00:57:57You have no right to keep me here.
00:57:58Let me by.
00:57:59Sit down.
00:58:01Look.
00:58:02Somebody threw this bow in here.
00:58:05Get bow, please.
00:58:10This is what he was shot with, all right.
00:58:13Gee, Pop, I didn't mean to do that.
00:58:15No matter.
00:58:17Accident proves arrow not shot from bow.
00:58:20Weather beaten wood too old to put driving force behind bowstring.
00:58:23Well, that's from my exhibit in the lobby.
00:58:25It's the pygmy bow.
00:58:26Problem number one, then.
00:58:27How was arrow, which killed Turkish gentleman, projected into his body?
00:58:32Someone must have been close enough to stab him.
00:58:34It must have been done from the stage.
00:58:36Maybe, maybe not.
00:58:37The lights were out long enough for anyone to come up on the stage and then gotten back to the
00:58:40seat.
00:58:41Makes problem more difficult.
00:58:43Takes in entire audience.
00:58:46Suggest confining selves to one who could have been within striking distance of victim.
00:58:52When did you leave stage, Mr. Radini?
00:58:54As soon as the lights changed.
00:58:55I follow the table down the aisle.
00:58:57I'm at the back of the house when Eve makes her entrance.
00:58:59Radini must have been in the aisle.
00:59:01He dropped this wand beside my seat in the second row.
00:59:04Hello, Stuart.
00:59:05What are you doing here?
00:59:07Gilvane.
00:59:08Say, do you know him too?
00:59:10Sure.
00:59:11Charlie, I want you to meet Stuart Salisbury, the investigator for the Granville Insurance Company.
00:59:15Then he is a detective?
00:59:16But now his name's Salisbury.
00:59:18That's why the insurance company didn't know anyone named Gregory.
00:59:22May chalk up one error against blundering pennant.
00:59:25Mr. Salisbury, you were sitting in second row?
00:59:29I was interested in watching you work, Mr. Chan.
00:59:31I knew you were on the stage for a purpose.
00:59:33I wanted to be nearer to you and Dr. Zodiac.
00:59:36Thank you so much.
00:59:37May see wand, please?
00:59:41This is wand used in floating table illusion?
00:59:44Yes, I guess I dropped it in the aisle as I ran back to the stage.
00:59:49Silver tip wand, more prolific than silkworm.
00:59:52You're stealing my act, Charlie.
00:59:54Perhaps have extra wand handy?
00:59:57Upsleeve, maybe?
00:59:58Say, I shouldn't have let you watch me so closely.
01:00:00An orchid for you, Charlie.
01:00:02Thank you so much.
01:00:05Miss Cairo, please, just when you cease to float on flying table.
01:00:10I wasn't on the table, Mr. Chan.
01:00:12I was in the wings, waiting for my entrance.
01:00:14Not on table?
01:00:16Very mysterious?
01:00:17Just a minute, Charlie.
01:00:19You don't mean to say that Eve had anything to do with this.
01:00:21Please.
01:00:22I'm merely trying to place positions of people on stage
01:00:25to get clear picture of crime.
01:00:27Well, I don't quite get you, Charlie.
01:00:30But let's place them all in the positions they were in before the lights went out.
01:00:32Very excellent suggestion.
01:00:35Would request, Mr. Verdini, you start act all over again
01:00:38from point where Miss Cairo is placed on table.
01:00:42Right.
01:00:44Now, you people in the audience, please settle down and be patient.
01:00:48They're going to stage Verdini's act again.
01:00:51We want all the cooperation you can give us.
01:00:56The person sitting next to you might be the murderer we're looking for.
01:01:00Ooh.
01:01:03We'll need volunteer to take place a victim.
01:01:07You will oblige.
01:01:08What?
01:01:09Me be the murdered man?
01:01:10But I ain't a good subject, Mr. Chan.
01:01:12I ain't.
01:01:13No.
01:01:14Can request you assume humble position, Mr. Lewis?
01:01:18To break a story, I'd do anything, Charlie.
01:01:20Thank you so much.
01:01:21Miss Cairo, it will be necessary for you again to take place on table.
01:01:26No, no, I can't do it.
01:01:27What's the matter, honey?
01:01:28No, I wouldn't advise you to use Eve, Mr. Chan.
01:01:30She's different from the rest of us.
01:01:31High-strung, nervous temperament, sensitive to things like this.
01:01:34One moment, please.
01:01:35Have thought.
01:01:36Will not be necessary to use, young lady.
01:01:39Let everyone assume original positions.
01:01:42You, Miss Cairo, were in wings.
01:01:45Mr. Ardini, you were on platform, please.
01:01:49Who's going to ride on the table?
01:01:52Number two son.
01:01:53He long have weakness for displaying histrionic ability.
01:01:57Here is opportunity to disguise self as sleeping beauty.
01:02:01Who, me?
01:02:02Take a ride on that table?
01:02:03Oh, but flying makes me seasick, Pop.
01:02:05Go.
01:02:06All right, Jimmy, come on.
01:02:07Come on, hop up.
01:02:09You're going to get a lot of surprises.
01:02:11Okay, Charlie.
01:02:14Lights.
01:02:17Watch, Miss Cairo, and particularly the table.
01:02:20We are under observation by a supercritical jury of witnesses.
01:02:25Nothing below.
01:02:27No wires are left to the table.
01:02:29No room for the devices.
01:02:33Yet unless your eyes deceive you, the table and the lady arising into the fourth dimension of space.
01:02:38Supported by nothing but thin air.
01:02:41Levitation was a religious rite of the ancient world, known as the Peace of Chaldea.
01:02:45A guarded secret of the ancient temples of...
01:02:50James, nothing's wrong.
01:02:51Bedini didn't finish his speech.
01:02:53Lights, lights, turn on the lights.
01:02:56Help!
01:03:00How did I have to do something?
01:03:02All right, folks.
01:03:02All right, take it, take it, be quiet.
01:03:04All right.
01:03:05Andrew is missing.
01:03:06Now, why, he's wounded.
01:03:08Get him to his dressing room.
01:03:09Call a doctor.
01:03:12Now, keep calm, folks.
01:03:14Go.
01:03:15Get everybody out of that aisle.
01:03:17Lady, lady, sit down.
01:03:18Lady, be calm, be collected.
01:03:20Don't get excited.
01:03:21That won't get you anything.
01:03:26Take his coat off.
01:03:27He's bleeding.
01:03:28Come on, come on.
01:03:29Get him to his dressing room.
01:03:35Well, Charlie, if this don't send me back to Billy Goat Hill Pounding Pavement, I'm an Eskimo.
01:03:39Not necessary to take such icy view of situation.
01:03:43Matters progressing most interestingly.
01:03:45Interestingly for who, Ladini?
01:03:47Fortunately, only wound in shoulder.
01:03:50Induced by this knife.
01:03:52Where did you get that?
01:03:53On step.
01:03:54It is brother to one used to pin Dr. Zodiac's note to door of theater.
01:03:59It's a cinch whoever threw that knife is the same one who knocked off the Turk.
01:04:01That's right, and we're through plain theater.
01:04:03If I can only figure the angle that knife was thrown from, it'll give me a clue to where the
01:04:07killer was standing.
01:04:07Position of killer not so important to anxious parent as position of number two son who took trip on mysterious
01:04:14flying table.
01:04:16Boy, he's in the cell.
01:04:17All he has to do is come upstairs from downstairs.
01:04:19Oh, show away, please.
01:04:20Surely, come on.
01:04:20I've got an idea.
01:04:24I've been trying to figure out the angle this knife was thrown from.
01:04:27I figured...
01:04:33Captain Kilvane, will you tell your stupid cops that they must let me be with my husband?
01:04:37No, just a minute, young lady.
01:04:39Nobody can talk to him until after I've questioned them.
01:04:41And I have a few questions for you, too.
01:04:43You're a fine detective.
01:04:45Letting one man be murdered right under your eyes.
01:04:47And then setting the stage so they can try to kill my husband.
01:04:49I've tried to be calm.
01:04:52Come out of there!
01:04:53Come out of there!
01:04:54Jimmy!
01:05:00Did not know theater provided elevator service.
01:05:03That comes from inside this face.
01:05:05Mr. Chan, I want to go to my husband.
01:05:07The detectives won't let me see him.
01:05:08Thought Rodini's dressing room was on stage.
01:05:11It is, but there's an entrance room down here, too.
01:05:13Son seems to have disappeared as completely as flying table.
01:05:17Maybe he went up into the boss's dressing room.
01:05:19Come with me, Mr. Chan.
01:05:20We'll see.
01:05:22I hope somebody sees something around here pretty soon.
01:05:25I wish I was back with my trained seals.
01:05:28You could try a cross stitch, the kind we use in appendix operations.
01:05:37Please explain absence of pants and self.
01:05:41Gee, Papa, I had an accident.
01:05:43Get dressed quickly.
01:05:45Disappearance takes one year off father's life.
01:05:47You, our doctor?
01:05:49How is Mr. Rodini's shoulder?
01:05:51Not too bad.
01:05:52It's only a flesh wound.
01:05:54He's suffering from shock right now.
01:05:55I fixed him up, and I think we'd better let him go home as quickly as possible.
01:06:00Most fortunate escape.
01:06:02Can offer no solution as to who make attempt on life?
01:06:06I haven't the slightest idea, Charlie.
01:06:08I just reached the bottom of the steps, and I felt a blow.
01:06:10And my shoulders seemed to be on fire.
01:06:12That's all I remember.
01:06:13It must have been thrown from the audience.
01:06:15And if it was, I...
01:06:16I recommend we remove selves from dressing room.
01:06:18And allow Mr. Rodini needed rest.
01:06:22Excuse, please.
01:06:23Now, look here, young woman, you knew all about this even before the lights came up.
01:06:26And before anyone else knew that Rodini had been clipped with a knife.
01:06:29How did you know it?
01:06:30I've told you before, I can sense things like that.
01:06:33I had a mental vision of him lying there with a knife stuck in his shoulder.
01:06:36Mental telepathy confirmed by scientific investigation.
01:06:40I'm convinced, young lady, strange power can be of utmost assistance to us in apprehending murderer.
01:06:46Better to probe through penetrating mind of one girl than try to sift contents of whole theater.
01:06:53All right, then, go ahead.
01:06:54I'm in this with you.
01:06:55I might as well stick.
01:06:56I'll tell the audience, Pop.
01:06:58One moment.
01:07:01Refrain from showing to audience seat of pants, please.
01:07:05Oh, I'll take care of that.
01:07:07I'll wear this coat.
01:07:10Ladies and gentlemen, my father has requested me to...
01:07:18My father has requested that I call your...
01:07:25My father has requested that I call your...
01:07:46Oh, gee, Pop, this isn't my fault.
01:07:49Recommend you imitate excellent example of sphinx and keep silent.
01:07:53Ask you will please excuse amateur exhibition of magic by ambitious offspring and request you will again lend most necessary
01:08:04cooperation.
01:08:05With assistance of Miss Cairo, we'll try to find solution of most perplexing crime.
01:08:12Can assure you will witness most scientific and remarkable demonstration of mental telepathy.
01:08:19Electrician, you will turn off all lights except one on mirror, please.
01:08:28You will read thoughts in my mind until dominant thought of killer comes to you.
01:08:43Concentrate.
01:08:47Close eyes, please.
01:08:56I am now your control.
01:08:58You are my control.
01:09:01Your lips will speak my thoughts as they come to you.
01:09:05I will speak your thoughts.
01:09:12I get the impression of a strange, mysterious room.
01:09:17There is a man.
01:09:19It is Dr. Zodiac.
01:09:20He has learned secrets of people's lives and uses his information to blackmail them.
01:09:26I see one of his victims.
01:09:29He is in an airplane.
01:09:31He commits suicide because Dr. Zodiac threatens him with disgrace.
01:09:36That man's wife is here in the theater.
01:09:39Her heart is filled with bitterness.
01:09:43There is another woman here who is helping Dr. Zodiac.
01:09:47But she fears him.
01:09:50Only his death can bring her freedom.
01:09:53I see another man here.
01:09:56A rival who has staked his reputation on unmasking Dr. Zodiac tonight.
01:10:02There is another who fears the loss of his position and prestige because Dr. Zodiac has outwitted him.
01:10:10And a young man who believes Dr. Zodiac is interfering with his romance.
01:10:16Trying to separate him from the girl he loves.
01:10:22There is someone confusing our contact, Mr. Chan.
01:10:25Go on, please.
01:10:28Yes, I have your control again.
01:10:32There is a woman who is filled with jealousy and hatred.
01:10:36Dr. Zodiac is trying to influence her.
01:10:42Mr. Chan, there is a mind here that is fighting me.
01:10:46Trying to keep your thoughts from me.
01:10:48Continue, please.
01:10:50He is frightened.
01:10:52Desperate.
01:10:52It is Dr. Zodiac.
01:10:56He is not dead.
01:10:58He is here in this theater.
01:11:01Zodiac here?
01:11:03Then who was the jerk?
01:11:04We'll soon learn.
01:11:07Concentrate, please.
01:11:09The man who was murdered was Dr. Zodiac's servant.
01:11:12Who is impersonating him here tonight to throw the police off the trail.
01:11:16What was motive for murder, please?
01:11:19The servant was the only one who knew his master's secret.
01:11:23Zodiac killed him to silence him and make the world believe that Dr. Zodiac was dead.
01:11:28Who is Dr. Zodiac?
01:11:31It is...
01:11:32It is...
01:11:34Something is keeping it from me.
01:11:37A control stronger than yours.
01:11:39Killer is trying to prevent you from reading my thoughts.
01:11:43Make effort, please.
01:11:44I'm trying.
01:11:46It's coming closer.
01:11:48It's filled with evil.
01:11:50With thoughts of murder.
01:11:52It's Dr. Zodiac.
01:11:54He's ready to strike again.
01:11:57Lights, lights.
01:12:01It's my genius.
01:12:03Fred.
01:12:03My boss.
01:12:04Otherwise known as Dr. Zodiac.
01:12:07Very clever to have Turk impersonate you at science and thus avoid suspicion.
01:12:13Nice work.
01:12:14But you'll never convict me of killing the Turk.
01:12:17Contradiction, please.
01:12:19We'll demonstrate.
01:12:22Silver tip wand used in floating table illusion, not same as this one, which you carry up sleeve, from which
01:12:28you produce orchid.
01:12:31Mechanism.
01:12:32Make most potent murder weapon.
01:12:34Observe.
01:12:40Easy for magician to confuse picture of crime.
01:12:43Even to inflicting wound in own shoulder to avert suspicion.
01:12:48All right, men.
01:12:49Take them out.
01:12:54So sorry.
01:12:55I didn't know, Mr. Chan.
01:12:57I never even suspected.
01:12:59Rodini sure was covered up.
01:13:01But we licked this case.
01:13:03Appreciate valuable assistance.
01:13:04But please remember, obvious clues like tricks in magic usually prove deceptive.
01:13:10You bet.
01:13:10From now on, I'll be just like you.
01:13:12I'll keep both feet right on the ground.
01:13:43I'll keep both feet right on.
01:13:48I'll keep both feet right on.
01:13:49Good luck.
01:13:50THE END
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