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The Chinese detective (Warner Oland) visits New York with No. 1 son (Keye Luke) and solves murders by reading a gossip column.
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00:00:01The End
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00:01:13Gee, Pop, you sure missed a wonderful luncheon?
00:01:16Contradiction, please. Not having eaten, have missed nothing.
00:01:20I had turtle soup, chicken a la king, and three cream puffs.
00:01:24Then I had some ice cream.
00:01:25Please stop.
00:01:27Mention of food more painful than surgeon's knife without anesthetic.
00:01:32Shall I get you medicine, Pop?
00:01:35Good dose of land, only effective medicine.
00:01:38The bulletin board says we'll dock at four o'clock this afternoon.
00:01:41Only sight of dock can renew interest in life.
00:02:04Here we go.
00:02:07Oh, my God.
00:02:37Oh, my God.
00:03:07Open the door.
00:03:09Help!
00:03:10Do it!
00:03:11You hear that?
00:03:12Yeah.
00:03:12It sounded like somebody calling for help.
00:03:14Help somebody get me out of here!
00:03:17In there.
00:03:18Help!
00:03:19Help!
00:03:20Help!
00:03:22Help!
00:03:23Get out of here!
00:03:24Help!
00:03:26I'm so sorry to intrude, but etiquette ignored when lady in distress.
00:03:32I guess it must have locked accidentally.
00:03:35Chair under doorknob indicate purpose, not accident.
00:03:41Better check your belongings, miss.
00:03:42It looks like a robbery to me.
00:03:44Why, I can't imagine why anybody would want to rob my stateroom.
00:03:51After all, there's nothing of any value here.
00:03:57Absolutely nothing.
00:03:58Maybe you'd better take a look through that trunk anyway.
00:04:02Something might be stolen.
00:04:03I haven't lost anything.
00:04:05I'm quite sure of that.
00:04:08Evident thief not interested in diamonds.
00:04:11Note.
00:04:13Jewelry.
00:04:14Untouched.
00:04:15Oh, they're phonies.
00:04:16The real ones are in my bank, I hope.
00:04:19Well, thank you all for coming to my rescue, more or less.
00:04:22No trouble at all.
00:04:24Sorry I couldn't have done more.
00:04:26Thanks.
00:04:27Let us know if anything else happens.
00:04:29We're in the next cabin.
00:04:31This is my father, Mr. Chan.
00:04:32My name's Lee.
00:04:33Thank you both.
00:04:35So happy.
00:04:37Oh, by the way,
00:04:39if you don't mind,
00:04:41I just assume you didn't mention this to anyone.
00:04:43But don't you think if there's a thief on board,
00:04:44the purser ought to know about it?
00:04:46Oh, I don't want to answer a lot of useless questions.
00:04:48You see, I've been feeling perfectly miserable
00:04:50during this whole trip.
00:04:51But, Pop,
00:04:53I'm in identical boat with Fair Lady.
00:04:56We'll say nothing.
00:04:58Thanks a lot.
00:05:13Thanks a lot.
00:05:43Please put muffler on peanut whistle
00:05:46and explain motive for appropriating towel.
00:05:50You see, Pop,
00:05:51I've been sort of collecting souvenirs
00:05:52since I left Honolulu.
00:05:54Some people pick up soap or ashtrays,
00:05:56but I like towels best.
00:05:58Hmm.
00:06:03What are you looking for?
00:06:06Lifeboat.
00:06:06Make fine souvenirs also.
00:06:10Hotel Sheffield.
00:06:13Chateau Paris.
00:06:15Ryan Inn.
00:06:19Too late now to make restitution.
00:06:24But replace ship's property
00:06:26before Detective Father
00:06:27assigned to case of light-fingered son.
00:06:31Okay.
00:06:34Say, Pop,
00:06:34speaking of cases,
00:06:36what do you think of that girl
00:06:37in the next cabin?
00:06:38Very pretty girl.
00:06:40You know,
00:06:40she hasn't been out of her cabin
00:06:41on the whole trip.
00:06:42The steward told me
00:06:43when I was asking him
00:06:44for some fresh towels a while ago.
00:06:46I'll bet there's something funny
00:06:47going on there.
00:06:50What's the matter, Pop?
00:06:52One cabin too small
00:06:54for two detectives.
00:07:19I'm awfully sorry to bother you,
00:07:21but all that excitement
00:07:22has my head beating
00:07:23like a bass drum
00:07:24in a Harlem band.
00:07:25Have you any aspirin?
00:07:26Come in.
00:07:28I'll get some for you.
00:07:30Please sit down.
00:07:31Oh, thanks.
00:07:45Here you are.
00:07:54Thanks a lot.
00:07:55Not at all.
00:07:58Do you intend
00:07:59staying in New York
00:07:59very long?
00:08:00No, darn it.
00:08:02Pop's in a hurry
00:08:02to get home to Mom.
00:08:03We leave for San Francisco
00:08:05in the morning.
00:08:07Well, that's pretty fast traveling.
00:08:09Too bad you're not going
00:08:10to stick around
00:08:10and see the big town.
00:08:11Yeah, but unless Pop
00:08:13takes a nap,
00:08:14I'll never get past
00:08:15the hotel lobby.
00:08:16Well, thanks again.
00:08:17Perhaps we'll see each other
00:08:18before we dock.
00:08:20Goodbye.
00:08:20Goodbye.
00:08:21Goodbye.
00:08:33Let's go.
00:08:49Well, she's talking now.
00:08:51And between murders and suicides, I ain't got enough to do.
00:08:53So the commissioner says,
00:08:54get down to the dock and meet a detective.
00:08:56Who's got a cigarette?
00:08:57Hey, Smitty!
00:08:58So I said to the commissioner,
00:09:00I have already met a detective once,
00:09:01and he says to me,
00:09:02you just think you have.
00:09:03Thanks very much.
00:09:04Now get down to meet Charlie Chan.
00:09:05Look, Smitty, have the band blast out something oriental.
00:09:08Hey, what is the Chinese national anthem anyway?
00:09:11I don't know.
00:09:12Why don't you give them Chinatown my Chinatown?
00:09:15Okay, we'll play it.
00:09:18How are you, Nelson?
00:09:20I knew there was something fresh around here.
00:09:22I thought it was the ocean air.
00:09:24Looks like you got half the headquarters down here.
00:09:27What's up?
00:09:28Looking for the other half.
00:09:30Expect someone to steal the Atlantic?
00:09:31No.
00:09:32The boys are going waiting.
00:09:34Have you got a license?
00:09:36Hmm.
00:09:37Here comes the number one bloodhound of journalism.
00:09:40Your sarcasm isn't cutting into his salary much.
00:09:43I guess you're down here to interview Mr. Chan.
00:09:46Always the copper, aren't you?
00:09:47It's nice work if you can get it.
00:09:49Well, come on.
00:09:50We'll give you a police escort
00:09:51so you don't fall off the pier.
00:09:53Well, we'll be glad to get home again.
00:10:01There's a guy.
00:10:01Come on.
00:10:02Hit him in before the boys pout in.
00:10:04Look, Pop.
00:10:05They're going to snap our pictures.
00:10:08Oh, is it true you intend racing Indian King in Saratoga?
00:10:11How do you horses win all their races?
00:10:12They're rolling passes.
00:10:13How many wives have you?
00:10:14More than Alibaba had thieves.
00:10:15Oh, I stand back.
00:10:16You think you're going to like New York?
00:10:17It's one half as ridiculous as I've heard.
00:10:19I shall look.
00:10:20How long do you expect remaining in that case?
00:10:22I don't know.
00:10:22You bring all of your stable women.
00:10:25Look out.
00:10:27Thanks.
00:10:28Give me that camera.
00:10:29No one's taking any pictures of me.
00:10:31Okay, sue me.
00:10:38Well, if it isn't little Billy.
00:10:40What are you doing back in town?
00:10:45Mr. Chan?
00:10:47That is humble name.
00:10:48I'm Inspector Nelson, Mr. Chan.
00:10:49Greetings from New York's finest.
00:10:51The bigwigs expect you to tear a duck apart with them tonight.
00:10:53So sorry.
00:10:55Come again, please.
00:10:56He'll have to excuse the inspector's broken English, Mr. Chan.
00:10:58He's a Brooklyn immigrant.
00:11:00He's trying to tell you that the police department's giving a banquet tonight in your honor.
00:11:03Thank you so much.
00:11:05I'm unworthy of so great honor.
00:11:07We'll feel like sparrow perched on limb with peacocks.
00:11:11I don't get you.
00:11:12He says he accepts.
00:11:13Your interpreter?
00:11:14In big city, yes.
00:11:17Otherwise, number one son, Lee.
00:11:19Oh, yeah.
00:11:20Well, I've got a much on, Mr. Chan.
00:11:21If there's anything you want, the bigwigs can't rustle up for you.
00:11:23Just toot your whistle.
00:11:24Speed pattern of the bullet.
00:11:27I wonder if that was a personal crack at me.
00:11:30New York English.
00:11:31Too baffling for humble detective.
00:11:33Oh, yeah.
00:11:34Those pencil pushers sure kick it around, don't they?
00:11:36Come on, Mr. Chan.
00:11:37We'll take care of your baggage.
00:11:38Is this all your baggage, Mr. Chan?
00:11:40All here.
00:11:41Open luggage for gentleman's inspection.
00:11:44That won't be necessary, Mr. Chan.
00:11:45The commissioner has extended you the freedom of the port.
00:11:48Oh.
00:11:49Much honored.
00:11:51Right this way, Mr. Chan.
00:11:54Good-bye.
00:11:54Good-bye.
00:11:56You know the little lady, Miss Bronson?
00:11:58Quite casually.
00:11:59Why, Inspector?
00:11:59A year ago, that little dame was so hot in this town, she had to skip the country.
00:12:03Grand jury wanted her as a key witness.
00:12:05She had enough info to blow the lid right off this island.
00:12:08Some of her boyfriends shipped her abroad till things cooled off.
00:12:10What did I tell you, Pop?
00:12:11A lot of funny things happen on the boat.
00:12:15Please keep eyes open and mouth shut.
00:12:22Oh, Porter.
00:12:23Yes, miss.
00:12:24Please have my baggage sent to the Carlton Hotel also.
00:12:27Certainly, miss.
00:12:28Your name, please.
00:12:51Your name, please.
00:13:01Carlton Hotel.
00:13:12Carlton Hotel.
00:13:17Still the freshest guy on Broadway, aren't you?
00:13:20Oh, no, Billy.
00:13:21Just the smartest.
00:13:22Sometimes you make it hard to tell where your brain ends and your nerve begins.
00:13:25Maybe.
00:13:26But while every other newspaper guy on that dock follows an Indian Maharaju who can't make anything but the sport
00:13:30page,
00:13:31I'm riding around with Billy Bronson, the gal who can make history.
00:13:35Look, Steve, just forget you ever saw me.
00:13:37I'm not here for publicity.
00:13:39What are you here for, honey?
00:13:42I want to see Grant's tune.
00:13:44And get a swell view of it from the river.
00:13:46What do you mean by that crack?
00:13:47I'm not hot anymore and you know it.
00:13:49Yeah.
00:13:50But does the D.A. know it?
00:13:51I didn't come back to see the D.A.
00:13:54I've got a date with somebody else.
00:13:57That wouldn't be a guy by the name of Burke at the Hottentot Club, would it?
00:14:01You get around, don't you?
00:14:03Yeah.
00:14:04And it's a big circle.
00:14:07So you're going to have a showdown with Burke, huh?
00:14:09If you print that, you better put on your diving suit.
00:14:12I'll take that chance if it's okay with you.
00:14:17Here's your hotel.
00:14:25Listen, Speed, if you can keep quiet for a while, I may slip you something.
00:14:29You'll have to print out asbestos.
00:14:30What's the deal?
00:14:31Meet me here at midnight.
00:14:32It's a date.
00:14:34Drive me to the bulletin.
00:14:39Don't get up, boys.
00:14:40I can make it.
00:14:41You just think you can make it.
00:14:42Better lay off, Joan.
00:14:43He's vicious.
00:14:44I just got tossed out.
00:14:46I've got the passkey.
00:14:47I want to see Murdoch.
00:14:49Just a moment, Miss Wendell.
00:14:51Save me an extra column on Sunday, will you, Chief?
00:14:54I got a swell human interest yarn on the Maharaja of Radford, eh?
00:14:57Do you think the subscribers can stand the excitement?
00:15:01Yes.
00:15:02Miss Wendell would like to see you, sir.
00:15:03I can't see her now.
00:15:05You can if you look up.
00:15:06Blow, Murdoch.
00:15:07High speed.
00:15:08What do you want, Miss Wendell?
00:15:09A hundred bucks.
00:15:11I think you'd better see a doctor.
00:15:13You're delirious.
00:15:13Yeah, and I'll drop in at the psychopathic ward and hold your hand later, sweetheart.
00:15:17Okay, have your little joke.
00:15:19But would you like to take a peek at this beautiful enlargement before I sell it to the Times?
00:15:23I got a dozen pictures of Charlie Chan.
00:15:25Maybe, but if you look close, she'll see a girl, and it isn't Chan's daughter.
00:15:30Billy Bronson, eh?
00:15:33I got a dozen pictures of her, too.
00:15:35Sure, and I've got a dozen editors who'd love to know that I took this picture today.
00:15:39I'll give you $50.
00:15:40It was awfully nice seeing you.
00:15:42Wait a minute.
00:15:43Give me that photo.
00:15:47Instructor cashier to pay Miss Wendell $100.
00:15:51I want you to forget that you ever took this picture.
00:15:54But mine's a complete blank.
00:15:55I suppose you remember the way to the cashier's office.
00:15:58And how.
00:15:59Thanks, Murdoch.
00:16:00So long, speed.
00:16:00See you later.
00:16:05You were down at that pier today's speed.
00:16:07Didn't you see Miss Bronson?
00:16:08Sure.
00:16:09I thought I was the only one who did.
00:16:10I even jumped in a cab and had a little chat with her.
00:16:13I don't want to pry into the affairs of this newspaper, but would you mind telling me why you kept
00:16:18it a secret?
00:16:18Because she didn't spill anything.
00:16:20I'm going to see her tonight and get the load out.
00:16:23Yes?
00:16:26Who?
00:16:29Put her on.
00:16:32Hello, Miss Bronson.
00:16:34Yes, I heard you were back in town.
00:16:37You remember that little deal we discussed about a year ago?
00:16:40That's right.
00:16:41Well, we may be able to do business now, but it's going to cost you twice what you offered last
00:16:46time.
00:16:46Why, that's insane.
00:16:48How do I know it's on the level?
00:16:49I haven't even read it.
00:16:51Fine.
00:16:53I'll be over at your hotel at 11.30 tonight.
00:16:56Goodbye.
00:16:59And call off your date for tonight, speed.
00:17:01I'm taking over the Bronson story.
00:17:03Now, look here, Chief.
00:17:04I started this thing.
00:17:05Yes, and I'll finish it.
00:17:07And I'll make it hotter than the Chicago fire.
00:17:12Okay.
00:17:13But look out.
00:17:14You don't get burned.
00:17:19Nice scoop, kid.
00:17:20Scooping you is getting monotonous, Mr. Patton.
00:17:23Well, how about marrying me?
00:17:24And kill a beautiful friendship?
00:17:26Nothing doing.
00:17:27I tell you what.
00:17:28You take me to the Hottentot Club tonight, and we'll blow some of this hush money.
00:17:32Why the Hottentot?
00:17:33Why not?
00:17:34You got me.
00:17:35Anyway, I'd better stick with you, or I'll be scooped on my own love story.
00:17:50I'll be sure you keep your mouth shut.
00:17:52Don't worry.
00:17:53You'll cost me my job if I don't.
00:18:20I'll be sure you keep your mouth shut.
00:18:23I'll be sure you keep your mouth shut.
00:18:24Perspectives.
00:18:28Assistance very welcome.
00:18:31Unpresent difficult case.
00:18:33You'll find it if you go about it scientifically.
00:18:37Logic very good.
00:18:40Plainly saw fugitive sitting here.
00:18:43Turned back unsame while searching for trousers.
00:18:49Number one son passed by trunk while parent descend body into trousers.
00:18:56Return here and collar button absconded.
00:19:03Also number one son.
00:19:09Thank you so much.
00:19:13One room still too small for two detectives.
00:19:20Say, Pop, can I have a couple of weeks allowance in advance?
00:19:22I only have one buck to see the town on.
00:19:26New York, like mouth of great river.
00:19:30Many reefs in channel to wreck small sightseeing boat from Honolulu.
00:19:36Oh boy, 20 bucks. Thanks, Pop.
00:19:40Don't worry. I can take care of myself.
00:19:42New York's no different from any other town.
00:19:44It's just a little bigger.
00:19:47Sorry, buddy.
00:19:48Well, that's all right.
00:19:50Cab, sir?
00:19:51Please.
00:19:52Me too.
00:19:54Pop, my money's gone.
00:19:56I know. The man who just bumped into me, he must have taken it.
00:20:00Save breath for lamentations.
00:20:02Your cab, sir.
00:20:03Thank you so much.
00:20:05Suggest you return to room and lock self in
00:20:08before dinner suit snatched from body.
00:20:11But gee, Pop.
00:20:13Good night. Ask the hotel, please.
00:20:25Mr. Chan's room, please.
00:20:31There's no answer.
00:20:32Thanks.
00:20:33.
00:20:36.
00:20:52.
00:21:05Hello.
00:21:07Hello, Miss Bronson.
00:21:08Well, I'm in trouble again.
00:21:10I can't unlock my door.
00:21:11But that's our room.
00:21:14Well, how do you like that?
00:21:16I've got the right location, but they let me over the wrong floor.
00:21:19I'm in 413.
00:21:24Well, you look like you're all dressed up to do the town tonight.
00:21:27No, not exactly.
00:21:30I'm waiting for Dad to get back from the banquet so I can show him the town.
00:21:34Well, I hope you have a good time.
00:21:36Good night.
00:21:37Good night.
00:22:05The Hottentot Club.
00:22:12The young lady that just left.
00:22:13Did you hear her say where she was going?
00:22:15She mentioned the Hottentot Club.
00:22:16Well, thanks.
00:22:18The Hottentot Club.
00:22:42Flashlights, balls, film.
00:22:44Give me a roll of film.
00:22:45Yes, sir.
00:22:45How much is the flashlight?
00:22:47This is it.
00:22:47Boy, what pictures I've got.
00:23:18Hello, Gloria.
00:23:20Gee, this is a surprise, Mr. Moran.
00:23:22You haven't been around for quite a while.
00:23:24Oh, I've been around.
00:23:38Wait a minute.
00:23:41When did you get back in town?
00:23:43This afternoon.
00:23:45Did Burke send for you?
00:23:46Well, what if he did?
00:23:48I just wanted to know.
00:23:49Listen, Buzz, I've got a good reason for coming back.
00:23:53You've got a better reason for staying away.
00:23:56You'll get out of town before morning.
00:23:58I mean that.
00:24:00Okay.
00:24:01I will.
00:24:04Sure you will.
00:24:16I'm sorry, boss.
00:24:17You all can't go in there.
00:24:18What's the idea?
00:24:19There's someone inside I've got to see.
00:24:20The rules of the house say no gentleman allowed in without a lady friend.
00:24:38You can't button that one.
00:24:39It's a freckle.
00:24:40My mistake, honey.
00:24:51Hello, Burke.
00:24:51Good evening, Mr. Mack.
00:24:53Mr. Burke.
00:24:53This guy signed his check.
00:24:54Is it okay?
00:24:55He's a phony.
00:24:56Get his dog.
00:24:57Hiya, Johnny.
00:24:58Hello.
00:24:59Evening, Johnny.
00:25:00Hiya, Speed.
00:25:01Hello, Miss Wendell.
00:25:02Hello, Mr. Burke.
00:25:02You got a lot of competition around here tonight, kid?
00:25:04I can't complain.
00:25:06Their pictures make the family album.
00:25:07Mine make the front page.
00:25:09Say, did you ever figure on this camera night idea of yours causing a lot of beefs?
00:25:12About what?
00:25:13It's a known fact that somebody's wife will go out with somebody else's husband.
00:25:16Where are they?
00:25:19You know, I haven't seen you here in months.
00:25:21Any special reason for tonight's visit?
00:25:23No, just slumming.
00:25:25That's right.
00:25:26And you can be the perfect host by supplying me with a nice, juicy story.
00:25:30A murder, for instance.
00:25:31That always goes good in a nightclub yarn.
00:25:33Sure, and I'll even take your picture standing next to the body.
00:25:35And if they're good, I'll buy a dozen.
00:27:18Don't yell like that. I'm not going to hurt you. Gosh, I'm sorry I scared you.
00:27:24What do you want?
00:27:26I'm here on something awful important. Maybe you can help me. You see, I'm sort of a detective. That is,
00:27:32my dad is Charlie Chan, and I work with him on big cases.
00:27:35Charlie Chan? Well, I know who he is.
00:27:38Then, will you help me?
00:27:39What can I do?
00:27:40Get me in the club. I've got to see somebody.
00:27:42All right. As soon as I get some more film, I'll take you down the back stairs.
00:27:46Swell. Oh, let me help.
00:28:07You kind of go for our ballerina, don't you, Mr. Burke?
00:28:10I like her dancing.
00:28:12That dame could appear in a wheelchair, and he'd call it dancing.
00:28:15It's a Bentley.
00:28:29Oh, little boy.
00:28:34Oh, little boy.
00:28:37Oh, little boy.
00:28:39Anyway...
00:28:39Oh, little boy.
00:28:40Oh.
00:28:41Ty.
00:28:42Oh, little boy.
00:28:47Come on, Moran.
00:28:48What's the idea, Johnny?
00:28:50I don't get you.
00:28:52I told you to keep Billy Brunson out of town.
00:28:55She's in Europe.
00:28:57She's upstairs in your office.
00:28:59I didn't know that.
00:29:00You know it now.
00:29:02She comes back when I say so.
00:29:04Sure, sure.
00:29:06I'll take care of that dame.
00:29:09Waiter, bring me some more milk.
00:29:11Yes, Mr. Moran.
00:29:39You're doing alcohol, baby.
00:29:41Okay.
00:29:45Wait here, Joan.
00:29:46Say, you're not holding anything out of me, are you?
00:29:48Take it easy, honey.
00:29:49I'll be right back.
00:29:57Hello, Johnny.
00:29:59What are you doing in town?
00:30:01I got lonesome.
00:30:02Aren't you glad to see me?
00:30:04Sure I am, but it's risky.
00:30:05You know, you're still hot enough to blister.
00:30:06I'll take my chances.
00:30:08How's everything with you?
00:30:09Not so good.
00:30:11Yeah, that's what you wrote me.
00:30:13But I saw an awful lot of comfort charges when I came in tonight.
00:30:17What's on your mind, Billy?
00:30:18Why did you lie to me?
00:30:20I don't get you.
00:30:21Oh, yes, you do.
00:30:22You didn't want me back in New York.
00:30:24I told you I wasn't safe.
00:30:25Oh, skip it.
00:30:26I walked through the whole police force today, and all they did was tip their hats.
00:30:30No, Johnny.
00:30:31You fooled me long enough.
00:30:32Cutting down my dough so I didn't have enough money to buy a ticket back home.
00:30:35Saying the club was failing.
00:30:36Lying about everything.
00:30:37You talk too much, Billy.
00:30:38Yeah, well, I haven't even started yet.
00:30:40And I don't think I would if I were you.
00:30:42I'm afraid the boys wouldn't like it.
00:30:43You mean Marie wouldn't like it.
00:30:45Leave her out of this.
00:30:45Why should I?
00:30:46You've been giving me the runaround because of her.
00:30:48That's why I came back.
00:30:49Things have been too perfect for you.
00:30:52Okay, Johnny.
00:30:53You're a smart boy.
00:30:55And you've bluffed a lot of people.
00:30:58But you can't bluff your way out of what I'm going to spill.
00:31:00You little double crosser, I'll slap you.
00:31:01Stay away from me.
00:31:05Where are you going, Marie?
00:31:06Johnny's office.
00:31:06Listen, he's busy right now.
00:31:08I think you'd better wait.
00:31:09Oh, yeah?
00:31:10Maybe you can order the busboys around, but not me.
00:31:12Now, listen.
00:31:19Police of New York and Honolulu have one thing in common.
00:31:23They both live on a very small island.
00:31:34Some day hope to greet honorable brothers in Hawaii, where roar of surf replaced noise of subway and hot rhythm
00:31:45of Broadway cooled by strains of aloha.
00:31:52There goes my fishing trip, and I was all set to get away in the morning.
00:31:57I've just been called on a little case uptown, Charlie.
00:31:59I think you'd better come along.
00:32:00Now, what's the idea of taking our guest of honor away?
00:32:03Can't you handle it alone?
00:32:04Maybe not.
00:32:05Billy Brunson was just murdered at the Hottentot Club.
00:32:08And Mr. Chan's son is being held as a suspect.
00:32:11I may go right away.
00:32:13Excuse, please.
00:32:14Of course, Charlie.
00:32:15Excuse.
00:32:30Where's the trouble?
00:32:30Upstairs.
00:32:31Have you got a cigarette?
00:32:32I don't smoke.
00:32:33Metropolitan newspaper people more prompt than police, and also more numerous.
00:32:39Oh, those.
00:32:39Those ain't reporters.
00:32:40They're worse.
00:32:41Camera hounds.
00:32:42This is candid camera night.
00:32:43They're all shooting for prizes.
00:32:44They've even got a dark room for them, so they can develop and enlarge their pictures right here.
00:32:49Very interesting.
00:32:51Camera.
00:32:52Remember many things human eye forget.
00:32:55You're right.
00:32:56Don't let anyone out of here with a camera.
00:32:58I want every roll of film in the place.
00:32:59Yes, sir.
00:33:05I'll carry it.
00:33:07Good night, Mr. Moran.
00:33:08Good night.
00:33:11Hi, Nelson.
00:33:12Hello, Mr. Chan.
00:33:13Well, you didn't waste any time getting here, did you?
00:33:16Somebody has to protect the taxpayers.
00:33:17All the policemen I know were at a banquet tonight.
00:33:19When you gotta eat, you gotta eat.
00:33:21Have you seen the body?
00:33:21Seen it?
00:33:22I found it.
00:33:23Good.
00:33:23That makes you a suspect.
00:33:25Flatterer.
00:33:26Over there, Doc.
00:33:28I knew I'd be seeing you on business sooner or later.
00:33:31Pop, tell him who I am.
00:33:33What is charge against young men?
00:33:36We found him hanging around in the hall outside.
00:33:38He says he's your son.
00:33:40Reluctantly confess, he is potion of posterity.
00:33:43Oh, yeah?
00:33:45Then what was he doing peeking through a keyhole?
00:33:48Public suggests murderer not likely to go outside and contemplate victim through keyhole.
00:33:57But please explain embarrassing presence here.
00:34:00She was trying to get into our room at the hotel.
00:34:03So I followed her.
00:34:04That kid's okay releasing.
00:34:06Lay off that phone.
00:34:07Don't touch anything in this office.
00:34:08I got a right to call my lawyer.
00:34:10What makes you think you'll need one?
00:34:11He'll need one with you handling the case.
00:34:13You and your funny ideas.
00:34:14I got an idea right now, and believe me, it's far from funny.
00:34:17Where'd you find, Doc?
00:34:18The bullet entered the back just below the left shoulder blade.
00:34:20Passed through the right ventricle and was probably stopped by a bone.
00:34:25We can't get the bullet until the autopsy.
00:34:27Yeah, okay.
00:34:30Excuse me.
00:34:31Can give approximate time of death?
00:34:34About half an hour ago.
00:34:36Half an hour ago, I was thinking of bass instead of bullets.
00:34:40Anybody find the gun?
00:34:41I did, sir.
00:34:42It was .25 caliber automatic.
00:34:43The sergeant sent it down to headquarters to check the number and any fingerprint.
00:34:46Good.
00:34:46I want this whole room going over for fingerprints.
00:34:49I've had headquarters.
00:34:49Send a man up.
00:34:50Yes, sir.
00:34:50May I ask a question, please?
00:34:52Sure.
00:34:52Go ahead.
00:34:54Understand you were first to discover Bobby.
00:34:56That's right.
00:34:57Well, go ahead, Nelson.
00:34:58Give me the third degree.
00:34:59But I warn you.
00:35:00If anybody slugs me across the Adam's apple with a rubber hose...
00:35:03Ah, you talk too much as it is.
00:35:05Bobby in the same position now as when discovered?
00:35:09Sure.
00:35:10I didn't touch it.
00:35:11I had to leave something for him to do.
00:35:12Thank you so much.
00:35:15Position of body sometimes gives solution of murder.
00:35:20So sorry to intrude.
00:35:21But like number one, son, keep forgetting this not my affair.
00:35:25Gee, Pop, I was only trying to find out what she was doing.
00:35:28Well, obviously, she kept appointment with murder.
00:35:32And that brings us around to you.
00:35:34I ain't saying a thing without my lawyer.
00:35:35Maybe we got different ideas about that.
00:35:37Billy Brunson come up here to see you, didn't she?
00:35:39So do a lot of other people.
00:35:40But they don't all get murdered.
00:35:42Stop me if I'm wrong.
00:35:43She could come up to visit Johnny without him killing her, couldn't she?
00:35:46You ought to know.
00:35:46What do you mean by that crack?
00:35:47You and Billy were friends until she had a blow town.
00:35:49Then, like a good little pal, you move in on her boyfriend here just to keep him from getting lonesome.
00:35:53After a year, he gets fed up with you and he sends for Billy.
00:35:55Is that on the level?
00:35:56No, he's just fishing.
00:35:57I wish I was.
00:35:59Well, anyhow, Billy hits town, beats it up to see you, and you bump her off.
00:36:02That's a lie.
00:36:02She was all right when we left the room.
00:36:03Then you were in this room with her, both of you.
00:36:05Tell him, Johnny.
00:36:06I ain't talking.
00:36:07No, you see, he could alibi you if he wanted her, but he won't.
00:36:09He'll let you take the rap.
00:36:10That's what happens to his dames when he gets in a jam.
00:36:12It won't happen to me.
00:36:13Shut up.
00:36:13You killed her with his gun.
00:36:15You're crazy.
00:36:15He put me out of the room.
00:36:16Then he killed her.
00:36:17Oh, no, he didn't.
00:36:17I waited in the hall.
00:36:18You couldn't have dragged me away from that door.
00:36:20He only stayed inside a minute, and I saw her when he came out.
00:36:21And she was still alive?
00:36:22I'll say she was, and mad.
00:36:24Now, wait a minute.
00:36:25In other words, you both leave the room.
00:36:27She's all alone.
00:36:28She gets so mad, she shoots herself in the back and then hides the gun.
00:36:31Now, don't tell me that.
00:36:32We ain't telling you anything until we get a lawyer.
00:36:35Interruption, please.
00:36:37Perhaps keyhole observation made by number one son.
00:36:40Can prove if ladies speak truth?
00:36:43No.
00:36:44She was dead when I looked in.
00:36:46Say, how did you know she was up here?
00:36:48I didn't.
00:36:49I was just looking in all the keyholes.
00:36:54Say, what's the idea?
00:36:55I can't get out of this joint.
00:36:56You can after I've seen your pictures.
00:36:58Give.
00:36:58I only enlarged one, but it's a honey.
00:37:01You see, I came up here and found the body.
00:37:03He says he did.
00:37:04It was my turn to do the scooping, darling.
00:37:07Well, as Mr. Chan would say, one picture was 10,000 words.
00:37:11Thank you so much.
00:37:13Say, Mr. Chan, take a look at this.
00:37:19That napkin isn't in the picture.
00:37:22Also interesting to note, telephone jumped back on hook since picture taken.
00:37:29You're right.
00:37:30Was that phone on or off the hook when you found the body?
00:37:33It was off.
00:37:34I put it back on.
00:37:35Well, that's just ducky.
00:37:36You know, there might have been some fingerprints on there.
00:37:38I'm sorry, Nelson.
00:37:39But when I saw it was off the hook, I thought Billy might have been talking to someone.
00:37:43When nobody answered, I went ahead and phoned in my story.
00:37:46Do you use a napkin when you phone?
00:37:48Why?
00:37:50Should I?
00:37:50Don't evade the issue.
00:37:51When did you pick up that napkin and put it on the tray?
00:37:54I never touched it.
00:37:56If it isn't asking too much, can I have a picture back now so I can get out of here?
00:37:59One moment, please.
00:38:02Observe the picture more closely.
00:38:09Look out, Pop!
00:38:13Let go of your little...
00:38:15Back in that light.
00:38:17I got him, Chief!
00:38:18You got me, you dummy!
00:38:21Where's Burke?
00:38:22I got him, Mr. Nelson.
00:38:30What happened to you?
00:38:31Someone slugged me.
00:38:32But I'm all right now, sir.
00:38:34I'll have to take your word for it.
00:38:35Get headquarters.
00:38:36Send out an alarm for Johnny Burke.
00:38:38I want him picked up before morning.
00:38:39Yes, sir.
00:38:46I'm going to get you ten years for putting out those lights.
00:38:48Who, me?
00:38:49Yes, you.
00:38:50Did Burke get away clean?
00:38:51Well, what do you think?
00:38:52Hey, come here!
00:38:53Stop yelling, will you?
00:38:54I've got to pull that story into the office.
00:38:55It puts the finger right on Burke.
00:38:56If you touch that phone again, I'm going to put five fingers on you.
00:38:59Now get out of here and use the one downstairs.
00:39:01Now, Lance, take that dame with you.
00:39:02And the picture?
00:39:03That's evidence.
00:39:04Beat it.
00:39:04Come on, honey.
00:39:05They want to be alone.
00:39:08Speaking of pictures, Charlie, what were you going to show me when Burke took a powder?
00:39:11First, must point to fact that napkin on tray also take powder.
00:39:16Well, I'll be.
00:39:21Now, why would Burke take that napkin?
00:39:24Picture may hold answer to same riddle.
00:39:28Observe carefully.
00:39:30Contents of unfortunate ladies' purse scattered on floor.
00:39:35Yeah.
00:39:37Compare articles now on floor with those shown in picture.
00:39:40Say, wait a minute.
00:39:42There's no key there, but there's one in the picture.
00:39:46Missing key may fit door to solution.
00:39:50Looks like a hotel key.
00:39:51There's a tag on it.
00:39:52Perhaps can decipher number?
00:39:54Yeah.
00:39:55It says Carlton Hotel 313.
00:40:00Gee, Pop, that's our room.
00:40:02Yes.
00:40:03What?
00:40:04Who's got a cigarette?
00:40:06Never mind.
00:40:07We'll get some at your hotel.
00:40:08Come on.
00:40:09Come on.
00:40:10Even if I knew where Burke went, I wouldn't tell you.
00:40:12And you can't hold me.
00:40:14Pipe down.
00:40:15You stay out here with her.
00:40:16Key, please.
00:40:40Stabbed through the ribs not over a couple of minutes ago, either.
00:40:43Get the coroner.
00:40:47Pop, it's the man we met this morning on the boat when someone tried to rob Miss Bronson's stateroom.
00:40:52You know this guy?
00:40:53Encountered him once only on board steamship.
00:40:57Take him to the bed and search him.
00:40:59I wonder where he fits in.
00:41:02Hey, Mac, anything out there?
00:41:03Nothing, sir.
00:41:04Well, that's not good enough.
00:41:06Climb out and take a look in every window as you go below.
00:41:08And no matter what you see, remember, it's Burke you're looking for.
00:41:12I wish the fishing season was as open as the one for murder.
00:41:15Excuse, please.
00:41:17I would suggest Key undergo fingerprint examination.
00:41:22Right, Charlie.
00:41:23That may be the one from Billy Bronson's purse.
00:41:25Anything on him?
00:41:26No, sir.
00:41:27Maybe the steamship company would have his name.
00:41:29Oh, chances are he'd be listed under a phony title, but we'll check that later.
00:41:32Take this down to the Bureau of Identification.
00:41:34I can check any fingerprints they may find against Johnny Burke's.
00:41:36His are on file.
00:41:37Yes, sir.
00:41:38This whole thing is getting me a little bit screwy.
00:41:40What would that mug want in your room?
00:41:42Oh, mud of bewilderment now beginning to clear from pool of thought.
00:41:48This man followed Miss Bronson on boat to secure unknown objects she possess.
00:41:55To safeguard, same, she used my baggage as hiding place.
00:42:00I remember, Pop.
00:42:01That's when she came in for the aspirin.
00:42:03Huh?
00:42:03Have hit tack on cranium.
00:42:07Tonight, Miss Bronson, try to regain secret possession here.
00:42:12But number one, son, proves stumbling block.
00:42:16Then Burke gets your key when it drops from Billy's purse.
00:42:19Comes up here.
00:42:20In time to catch that guy in the room.
00:42:23The rest is easy.
00:42:24He stabs him and makes a getaway with whatever they were all after.
00:42:27Quite possible.
00:42:28But what were they after?
00:42:30You can't go in there.
00:42:31Listen, Nelson, you're going to let me out of your...
00:42:39You know this man?
00:42:42He's my husband.
00:42:44Your husband, hey?
00:42:44What's his name?
00:42:45Tom Mitchell.
00:42:46Now we're getting somewhere.
00:42:48Were you living with him?
00:42:49No.
00:42:49You left him for Burke, didn't you?
00:42:51I'm not talking.
00:42:52You don't have to.
00:42:53I get the whole setup.
00:42:54Well, why don't you deny it?
00:42:55Please.
00:42:58Perhaps kinder to question lady later.
00:43:01Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:43:01Okay, gentlemen.
00:43:02Take her down to headquarters.
00:43:04Come on, lady.
00:43:06Keep her in my office.
00:43:08I'll see you later.
00:43:10Now, what I want to know, Chop...
00:43:18What have you got now?
00:43:20Most interesting reading found on torn paper.
00:43:27This is something.
00:43:30So Billy kept a diary, too.
00:43:32Pop, that's what they were after.
00:43:34No poison more deadly than ink.
00:43:37I'd give up that fishing trip to see the rest of these pages.
00:43:44Hey, hey, Pop.
00:43:47Gee, I thought you were someone else.
00:43:50Put that thing away.
00:43:51Did you find anything?
00:43:52No, sir, and I went all the way down at the bottom.
00:43:54Say, do you think he might have gone up?
00:43:57Why?
00:43:57Well, I just remembered.
00:43:59Miss Bronson said her room was 413, and that's right above us.
00:44:02What?
00:44:03Regret, slow progress at fault.
00:44:06But rejoice at final arrival.
00:44:08Get out on that fire escape and keep your eye on the window above.
00:44:11Come on.
00:44:23Hello, Nelson.
00:44:24This is a surprise.
00:44:26I'll say it is.
00:44:27What are you doing here?
00:44:29What would I be doing here?
00:44:30I'm waiting for Miss Bronson, of course.
00:44:32And you got an awful long wait.
00:44:35She's not coming back.
00:44:37She's dead?
00:44:38Murdered.
00:44:41I'm not surprised.
00:44:43Wait a minute.
00:44:44You've got some explaining to do.
00:44:46What about, may I ask?
00:44:48Billy Bronson was shot an hour ago at the Hottentot Club.
00:44:50The key to room 313, which is directly below this one, was stolen from her purse.
00:44:54We just went in down there and found a man stabbed to death.
00:44:58Go on.
00:44:59You go on.
00:45:00That window there is open.
00:45:01So is the one downstairs.
00:45:02So I could have killed that man down there, then come up with the fire escape into this room.
00:45:06Right.
00:45:07Wrong.
00:45:07I didn't.
00:45:08I had an appointment to meet Miss Bronson here at 10.30.
00:45:11It's now 20 minutes of 11.
00:45:15Excuse, please.
00:45:17Would object to revealing nature of appointment?
00:45:21Not at all.
00:45:23I came up here to buy her diary.
00:45:26Diary, eh?
00:45:27What were you going to do with it?
00:45:28I'd have to read it first to answer that question.
00:45:31But no doubt can produce money intended for purchase of diary?
00:45:43Gee, Pop, look at that.
00:45:47There's enough dough here to buy the city hall.
00:45:49Then cheap at that.
00:45:51Miss Bronson's diary contains enough information on rackets and politics to blow this whole city
00:45:56higher than a kite.
00:45:59Well, well, what's this?
00:46:01The pay-all?
00:46:02Always a wise guy, aren't you?
00:46:04I have to be to keep up with you boys.
00:46:05Why don't you like some place where you can be found?
00:46:07Hey, get a load of this.
00:46:11We scooped the others?
00:46:12Sure.
00:46:13You know, you ought to drop in at the office once in a while, Chief.
00:46:15You were out when I phoned that story in.
00:46:17You knew I was coming here.
00:46:18Yeah, but you crossed me up.
00:46:19You weren't due here till 11.30.
00:46:21Just a minute.
00:46:22You told us 10.30.
00:46:24Please don't attempt any unwieldy deductions, Nelson.
00:46:26The original appointment was for 11.30.
00:46:29The sponsor telephoned and changed it.
00:46:31Most unfortunate.
00:46:32Proof of alibi now locked.
00:46:35Behind dead lips of murdered girl.
00:46:38Yeah, and I'm not so sure you didn't get that diary without paying for it.
00:46:41You wouldn't mind being searched, would you, Murdoch?
00:46:45Am I under arrest?
00:46:47No.
00:46:48Then I'm afraid that technically you'll have to keep your hands in your own pockets.
00:46:52Am I right?
00:47:00Hello?
00:47:01Yeah.
00:47:03Yeah.
00:47:03Yeah, go ahead.
00:47:05Come on, let's have it.
00:47:08Swell.
00:47:10Swell!
00:47:11Now let Marie Collins go and trailer.
00:47:13She'll lead you to Burke, all right.
00:47:15The key didn't show anything, Charlie, but the gun we found in Burke's office was sold to Billy Brunson a
00:47:19year ago.
00:47:19There are two sets of fingerprints on it, a woman's and Johnny Burke's.
00:47:23We'll pick up Burke tonight and I'll be fishing in the morning.
00:47:25Then I presume that my part in this case is closed.
00:47:28Perhaps, but murder case like revolving door.
00:47:33When one side close, other side open.
00:47:37Well, good luck, gentlemen.
00:47:41So much.
00:47:46I wish you hadn't moved us up here, Pop.
00:47:49I bet there's some clue in our old room that would clinch the case.
00:47:53What are you reading, Pop?
00:47:55Murder case of Miss Billy Brunson.
00:47:58Gee, I should think you know enough about it already.
00:48:01Still much to learn.
00:48:03Mr. Speed Patton, very good reporter.
00:48:06Is my name in his write-up?
00:48:08As suspect, yes.
00:48:13Good night.
00:48:17The whole case looks perfectly clear to me, Pop.
00:48:20They found Burke's fingerprints on the gun, didn't they?
00:48:23Evident to forget the disappearance of a napkin.
00:48:28You know, I've been thinking about that napkin, too.
00:48:32Burke probably stole it because Marie Collins' fingerprints were on it.
00:48:35Have you thought of that angle?
00:48:37For the time being, only consider which angle to arrange self on matters.
00:48:44Now, please, turn out lights and extinguish conversation.
00:49:04Hello.
00:49:05Hello, Mika?
00:49:06Did you get my message?
00:49:07Yeah, yeah, I'm in a jam.
00:49:09I'll say it's bad.
00:49:10You get up here as quick as you can and see if you're not tailed.
00:49:12What?
00:49:12Yeah, I'm expecting, Maurice.
00:49:13You ought to be up here right away.
00:49:14Uh-huh.
00:49:15Step on it.
00:49:25Hello, Hot Fingers.
00:49:28What do you mean, Hot Fingers?
00:49:29If you'd kept Billy out of town, like I said, we'd have been okay.
00:49:34Too bad it had to happen in your office, Johnny.
00:49:36Oh, no, you don't.
00:49:37They'll never burn me for that.
00:49:39I'll say they won't.
00:49:40You watch your step, Buzz.
00:49:41I will.
00:49:42Oh.
00:50:06And though almost 24 hours have elapsed since Billy Bronson and Thomas Mitchell were murdered,
00:50:10the police have discovered nothing tangible enough to justify an arrest.
00:50:14All they have is a torn diary page found by Charlie Chan, which they consider an excellent
00:50:19clue.
00:50:19But in the opinion of this observer, it only indicates the work of a perfect criminal,
00:50:23so clever and daring that he has deliberately planted it to obtain free publicity for a terrific
00:50:28blackmailing scheme.
00:50:29This may be a subtle way of warning certain people in New York that he has this dynamite
00:50:33diary and is ready to light the feud.
00:50:35I wonder if Johnny Burke is the only racketeer whose blood pressure will remain high as long
00:50:39as the Bronson diary and its unknown possessor are in circulation.
00:50:43Well, how's that for a journalistic gem?
00:50:46Is that what you call it?
00:50:48Why not?
00:50:49A boy.
00:50:50And wait till you see tomorrow's story.
00:50:51It'll top this one.
00:50:52Take that to Mr. Murdoch, will you?
00:50:54Just stick around me, honey, and you'll get the latest lowdown.
00:50:57You know old speed never misses.
00:50:59Neither does Johnny Burke or Moran.
00:51:00You're going to crack wise once too often on that typewriter of yours, and I'll be sending
00:51:04you posies.
00:51:05Now stand still and look healthy.
00:51:07How's this?
00:51:07Fine.
00:51:08I want to shoot you before somebody else does.
00:51:10You're just sore because I scooped you on that Bronson murder.
00:51:12Well, I'm warning you right now.
00:51:14I'm going to scoop you on the rest of the case, too.
00:51:15Want a bet?
00:51:16Sure.
00:51:17A week's pay.
00:51:18Make it something worthwhile and you're on.
00:51:19There's one time you both scooped.
00:51:22Johnny Burke just walked into police headquarters and gave himself up.
00:51:26Five will get you 50.
00:51:27He's got a smart mouthpiece with him.
00:51:29Now wait a minute.
00:51:29You haven't a thing on Johnny except the fingerprints on the gun.
00:51:32Oh, yeah, that's all.
00:51:33And the fact that Mitchell was rubbed out a couple of minutes after Bert took it on the
00:51:36lamb from the Hottentot.
00:51:37I didn't shoot Billy or Mitchell either.
00:51:39May I humbly remind Mr. Mitchell stabbed, not shot?
00:51:44Now don't you try to trick Johnny into admitting one thing by suggesting another.
00:51:47I demand the right to...
00:51:48Have you got a cigarette?
00:51:49Yes, there.
00:51:50Thanks very much.
00:51:52Now what were you saying?
00:51:53I want to know what time Mitchell was rubbed out.
00:51:55Why don't you ask Johnny?
00:51:56If it was after 10 o'clock, he was with me.
00:51:58Now try and break that alibi.
00:52:00Excuse, please.
00:52:01Perhaps paraffin test better alibi if proved negative.
00:52:05You're right.
00:52:06How about it, Johnny?
00:52:08You're not afraid of a little scientific test, are you?
00:52:11No.
00:52:12Let's go.
00:52:13Wait a minute.
00:52:13You can't get away with this.
00:52:14My client is a respectable citizen.
00:52:15Let's go.
00:52:16Johnny, please, wait a minute.
00:52:18Hey.
00:52:19Say, just what is this paraffin test?
00:52:22A new method to reveal powder marks on hand that fires gun.
00:52:28Well, that's silly.
00:52:29He washes his hands, you know.
00:52:31Undoubtedly.
00:52:32But even most vigorous scrubbing will not remove powder stains for 72 hours.
00:52:4172 hours?
00:52:43Nelson can't get away with this.
00:52:44It's a direct violation of...
00:52:54Keep your hand under that water.
00:52:56It's okay now.
00:52:58Paraffin's hard enough.
00:53:04Take it easy.
00:53:05You're pulling the skin out of my hand.
00:53:06Skin isn't all this will pull off.
00:53:09If there's any gunpowder there, it'll be on the wax too.
00:53:19Hey, what's that stuff?
00:53:20A solution of diphenylamine and sulfuric acid, which reacts instantly to nitrates.
00:53:26Watch those chemicals, Burke.
00:53:28If they don't blow, your goose is cooked.
00:53:41It's negative.
00:53:43Then you didn't shoot him.
00:53:44I told you I didn't.
00:53:46Get out of here, Burke, and take that shister with you.
00:53:48Okay, don't get excited.
00:53:50Thanks a lot, Mr. Chan, for suggesting that test.
00:53:52Drop up to the club sometime.
00:53:54Thank you so much.
00:53:55May accept generous invitation as case progress.
00:54:06Well, that lets Burke out.
00:54:08Maybe.
00:54:09But this one case where a murderer could have clean hands.
00:54:15Huh?
00:54:16Remember napkin that disappeared at nightclub?
00:54:19Yeah.
00:54:19Possibly used to cover a hand that fire a murder gun.
00:54:24Hey, here they go.
00:54:24What happened?
00:54:27Come on.
00:54:27Give us one of the time.
00:54:28Give us one of the time.
00:54:29Hey, Johnny, how did you clear yourself?
00:54:31I keep my hands clean.
00:54:32How about a picture, Mr. Burke?
00:54:33Why not?
00:54:34Now make sure you get that sign in with me.
00:54:35I want to prove I'm going out of here instead of coming in.
00:54:37We'll get it in, all right.
00:54:38Okay.
00:54:40Hey, where are you going?
00:54:41I want to sell this picture of Burke's release before he's arrested again.
00:54:43Come on, let's go see what the inspector's got.
00:54:45Good idea.
00:54:46Okay.
00:54:49What happened, Inspector?
00:54:50Yeah, did you give Burke a clean bill?
00:54:51What's your next move?
00:54:52Come on, Nelson.
00:54:53Give us a lowdown.
00:54:54I've got nothing to say yet.
00:54:56What about you, Mr. Chan?
00:54:57Looks like Burke pulled a nifty on you.
00:54:59Perhaps.
00:55:00But release of Mr. Burke suggests other nifty.
00:55:04What have you got up your sleeve, Mr. Chan?
00:55:06Yeah, what's the new angle?
00:55:06Give us a lowdown.
00:55:07Now, just a minute, boys.
00:55:08If there is a new angle on this case, we'll try it out before you report as advertised.
00:55:12Come on, Ola.
00:55:14Now, wait a minute, Nelson.
00:55:16I'm entitled to a break.
00:55:17I've been on this case since it started.
00:55:19So long.
00:55:19Out.
00:55:22Give us a chance here, will you?
00:55:25Now, what was on your mind, Charlie?
00:55:27You have candid camera photos taken last night at Hottentop Club?
00:55:32Yeah, they're in the department files, but...
00:55:34Please do.
00:55:35Send for same right away.
00:55:38Yeah, sure, yeah.
00:55:41Now, let's see.
00:55:44Burke and Miss Collins were standing there.
00:55:47Pop was right back here.
00:55:50I'm getting awfully tired, Lee.
00:55:52We've been going over this for more than an hour.
00:55:55But doesn't your intuition tell you anything?
00:55:57Pop says one woman's intuition better than ten scientists.
00:56:00I don't know anything about intuition.
00:56:02But I've got a feeling we ought to get out of here.
00:56:05Let's try it once again.
00:56:06Put yourself in the place of the murderer.
00:56:09Now.
00:56:10When the lights went out, he grabbed the napkin off the desk here and ran to the door.
00:56:18What are you doing up here?
00:56:19Why, why, nothing.
00:56:21Beat it.
00:56:24Your old man sent you here, didn't he?
00:56:26No, sir.
00:56:26It was my own idea.
00:56:36Throw him out.
00:56:38Hey, let it go.
00:56:40Hey.
00:56:41Hey, come on.
00:56:42Hey, let it go.
00:56:44We're getting out of town, kid.
00:56:45What's the idea?
00:56:46You've got nothing to worry about now.
00:56:47Yeah, that's what you think.
00:56:48Remember the crack the Chinese dick made about seeing us later?
00:56:50Yeah.
00:56:50Now we catch this kid up here monkeying around?
00:56:51Well, that's enough for me.
00:56:53We'll hop a plane for Chicago tonight and lay low all the heat's off.
00:56:56But, Johnny, don't you think that...
00:57:12There he is.
00:57:15Let's go.
00:57:15Not so fast, Burke.
00:57:16Leave me alone.
00:57:17Take it easy, sister.
00:57:19What's the idea?
00:57:19It ain't my idea.
00:57:21It's Inspector Nelson's.
00:57:22Come on.
00:57:29Special delivery, Mr. Murdoch.
00:57:31Oh, thanks.
00:57:33Mr. Murdoch?
00:57:52Who are you?
00:57:55Central Bureau.
00:57:56Inspector Nelson, won't you?
00:58:05I'm ready.
00:58:08What do you think of them letting Burke go?
00:58:11Says they couldn't prove anything on him.
00:58:14Everybody but the cops knows he pulled the job.
00:58:18That's right, Buzz.
00:58:22Move over.
00:58:25Where do you think you're going?
00:58:27With you.
00:58:27This is a pinch.
00:58:41Lee.
00:58:43Yes, Pop.
00:58:44Have already consumed own steak?
00:58:46No.
00:58:48I've got it here.
00:58:49On my eye.
00:58:51Has the swelling gone down any?
00:58:53Cannot see through gravy.
00:58:56Puppy detective perhaps now realize snooping very dangerous business.
00:59:09Hello, Mr. Patton.
00:59:10Hello.
00:59:11Hey, what did you run into?
00:59:13Mr. Burke.
00:59:15That's what I came up to warn you about, Mr. Chan.
00:59:18There's a rumor around town that certain people are out to get you, and they wouldn't be as easy on
00:59:21you as they were on your son.
00:59:24Very good omen.
00:59:26Prove suspects getting worried.
00:59:28You've got a lot of nerve.
00:59:30But just the same, I'm sticking with you tonight.
00:59:32Why, anything might happen.
00:59:33Well, my dear kid.
00:59:35Excuse me for not knocking, Charlie, but the door was open.
00:59:38Well, Speed, here's your chance for another scoop.
00:59:40We'll all take a run down to the Hutton Tut Club, and as you just said, anything might happen.
00:59:44You mean it's a payoff?
00:59:44Maybe.
00:59:45Have you got a cigarette?
00:59:47Gosh, can I go too, Pop?
00:59:49Unfortunately, yes.
00:59:51Only way to save other eye.
00:59:56Hello, everybody.
00:59:57Well, Mr. Murdoch.
00:59:59Can I sell you a picture of yourself as a murder suspect?
01:00:01Don't be ridiculous.
01:00:03Where's Nelson?
01:00:04I can't waste all night here.
01:00:06I've got a newspaper to get out.
01:00:08It can wait.
01:00:14Now, look here, Nelson.
01:00:16You've gone too far with this.
01:00:17All right, all right.
01:00:18Keep quiet.
01:00:20Now, Mr. Chan has a few words to say to all of you, and I advise you to listen closely.
01:00:24Thank you so much.
01:00:27Excuse abrupt invitation here tonight, but all present seriously involved in death of Miss Billy Bronson and Thomas Mitchell.
01:00:38Mr. Mitchell, follow Miss Bronson from Europe to secure diary.
01:00:44Which contain much scandal.
01:00:47Plan using the same to ruin Mr. Burke, who stole love of wife, Marie.
01:00:53That's plain, downright collusion.
01:00:55I'm a respectable girl.
01:00:57Pardon, please.
01:00:58I'm not questioning respectability.
01:01:00I merely offer proof of intimacy.
01:01:05Candid camera photo taken on night of crime.
01:01:10Triangle, very ancient motive for murder.
01:01:13But not only angled to present case.
01:01:18Sudden appearance of late Miss Bronson caused perspiration on brow of another gentleman.
01:01:26Name, Buzz Moran.
01:01:28Wait a minute.
01:01:30I didn't even know she was in town.
01:01:33Contradiction, please.
01:01:40All right.
01:01:41I admit I talked to her.
01:01:43When I heard she was murdered, I didn't want to get mixed up in it, so I kept my mouth
01:01:46shut.
01:01:47Sure, they had Johnny on the spot, so you had nothing to worry about.
01:01:50Shut up, Marie.
01:01:51Go ahead, Johnny.
01:01:53Miss Bronson came to this office last night.
01:01:56Mr. Burke and then Miss Collins talked with her.
01:02:01Testimonies state, both people leave her alone for a few minutes.
01:02:05In the same few minutes, someone murdered her with gun wrapped in napkin to hide fingerprints.
01:02:15Arrival of the inquisitive girl photographer now create interruption.
01:02:22Murderer hide while girl photograph body with napkin off tray.
01:02:27Girl then leave, and murderer return napkin to tray, after which Mr. Patton enter, fine body, and telephone story to
01:02:38Mr. Murdoch.
01:02:40By strange coincidence, Mr. Murdoch absent on trail of diary.
01:02:48Mr. Chan, may I ask if you have a picture of me in your invaluable collection?
01:02:54Regret. Distinguished features, only ones missing.
01:02:59Under the circumstances, I believe that exonerates me from having murdered Miss Bronson.
01:03:04Oh, yeah? How about Mitchell?
01:03:07Now, look here, Nelson. I've been very tolerant with you, but unless I'm released from this room instantly...
01:03:12Excuse me, please.
01:03:14Before you remove honorable presence, would request letter received through mail tonight.
01:03:21What letter?
01:03:23My mail is very heavy.
01:03:25We're wasting time. You got a special delivery letter tonight.
01:03:28We've had your mail watched since yesterday.
01:03:30Hand it over.
01:03:39It's a page from Billy's diary.
01:03:41I wouldn't have printed it without your permission, Nelson.
01:03:45After all, it just arrived when your man came to pick me up.
01:03:48I haven't even read it through.
01:03:50Who? Who sent it to you?
01:03:53How should I know?
01:03:54You know what I think, Murdoch?
01:03:55I think you sent it to yourself.
01:03:56Why, that's absolute...
01:03:57You've got that diary. You've always been after it.
01:03:59I charge you with the...
01:04:00Police.
01:04:02Perhaps better to read contents of page before making a rest.
01:04:06Oh, all right.
01:04:09May 7th.
01:04:10May 7th.
01:04:10Was up all night on a big party.
01:04:12Johnny swung for Lieutenant R of the Central Bureau when...
01:04:16You officers better wait outside.
01:04:22He's retiring from the force because the commissioner got wise to him.
01:04:25The big dummy showed everybody a diamond watch Buzz Moran gave him for certain important tip-offs that Johnny told
01:04:31me about.
01:04:32Been shooting your mouth off again, huh?
01:04:33I don't know how she found out, Buzz. I never told her anything.
01:04:36All right, all right. Take it easy.
01:04:39It was sure funny to see everybody kowtow to Johnny and Buzz.
01:04:43I guess they don't know that the double-crosser who uses his newspaper job as a cover-up for the
01:04:47blackmailing he pulls...
01:04:49...is Speed Patton.
01:04:50The smoothest guy in the rackets.
01:04:53Just a minute.
01:04:54Let me see that.
01:04:56This is a phony.
01:04:58Can prove?
01:04:58Certainly. Why, even the paper it's written on...
01:05:02Go ahead.
01:05:04Hey, what is this?
01:05:06You are murderer of Billy Bronson and Thomas Mitchell.
01:05:10You're crazy!
01:05:11Beg to differ, Mr. Patton.
01:05:14First suspicion arrive after reading your newspaper story of Billy Bronson crime.
01:05:20You state victims shot in back.
01:05:23Quite true.
01:05:24Yet photographs show body face upward.
01:05:28Only murderer could know location of hidden wound.
01:05:32Then, fearing discovery of all fingerprints on napkin, when attention called to it through photo taken by young lady,
01:05:41you remove same as lights go out and Mr. Burke escape.
01:05:45You are, indeed, clever man, but not smart enough to avoid ancient trap set tonight.
01:05:52Inspector Nelson and humble self, plant bogus diary page on Mr. Murdoch.
01:05:58And you were the only one who swallowed the bait.
01:06:00You'll never convict me on that.
01:06:01Contradiction, please.
01:06:03To know forgery, one must have original.
01:06:08Well, come on.
01:06:10Why don't you deny it?
01:06:11All right.
01:06:14I did it.
01:06:15I killed them both.
01:06:17I overheard Billy tell Burke that she was going to the D.A. and blow the lid off this town.
01:06:22Well, that would have meant me, too.
01:06:25I offered her plenty to keep quiet, but she wouldn't take it.
01:06:28So I killed her.
01:06:30You almost caught me, Joan, when you walked in and found Billy dead.
01:06:33If you had, I guess I'd have killed you, too.
01:06:36Just as I did Mitchell when I caught him in that hotel room.
01:06:38He already had found the diary and I had to get it.
01:06:42Well, that's the story.
01:06:44Nelson wouldn't have caught me in a million years.
01:06:47I was sitting pretty until you got too smart for me, Mr. Chan.
01:06:51You're the one I can thank for being in this spot.
01:06:53And here's how I'm going to show my gratitude.
01:07:04All right, boys.
01:07:05Take him down to headquarters.
01:07:06You okay, son?
01:07:07I'm all right.
01:07:08Charlie, Billy's diary is somewhere in Patton's apartment.
01:07:10And that's all I need to put that guy on ice.
01:07:13Come on.
01:07:14Well, thanks to you, Charlie.
01:07:16There's the baby that's going to sweep Broadway cleaner than it's been since the Indians sold it.
01:07:19I'm most happy to have placed a new broom in hands of Father Nickerbock.
01:07:23Yeah.
01:07:24Say, I'm sorry you're going home, Charlie.
01:07:26How about staying an extra week as guests of the commissioner and myself?
01:07:29Gee, Pop, let's do it.
01:07:30I never did get to see Broadway.
01:07:32Oh, holy mackerel.
01:07:33Look, another mouse.
01:07:36Perhaps better to return to Honolulu.
01:07:39Evidently, Broadway very hard on eyes.
01:07:42I think you got something there, Charlie.
01:07:46I think you got something there, Charlie.
01:08:12Oh, my God.
01:08:14Yeah, Tom.
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