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Experience Strange Illusion (1945), a gripping psychological mystery that blends suspense, dreams, and deception into an unforgettable classic. As disturbing visions begin to mirror reality, a young man uncovers dark family secrets and faces a dangerous conspiracy. Inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, this classic film delivers compelling performances, atmospheric storytelling, and timeless noir-style suspense.
Rediscover one of Hollywood's hidden gems from the Golden Age of cinema and enjoy a captivating journey into mystery and intrigue.
Rediscover one of Hollywood's hidden gems from the Golden Age of cinema and enjoy a captivating journey into mystery and intrigue.
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00:02:02Albert, Albert, you've come back to me.
00:02:05I'm happy again.
00:02:07Mother, no.
00:02:08This man isn't father.
00:02:09I thought my happiness was gone forever, but you've come back to me.
00:02:13Mother, listen to me, Mother.
00:02:15Don't waste your breath, Paul.
00:02:16She can't hear you.
00:02:18I am your father now.
00:02:20You're not.
00:02:21You're not my father.
00:02:24Dorothy, Dorothy!
00:02:26What is it, Paul?
00:02:27Dorothy, speak to Mother.
00:02:29Tell her he isn't father.
00:02:30Tell her!
00:02:31Of course he is.
00:02:32Look at the lovely bracelet he gave me.
00:02:34Isn't it beautiful?
00:02:36It has a lion's head.
00:02:38Dear Father, thank you.
00:02:41Thank you so much.
00:02:45The train.
00:02:50Stop the train!
00:02:56That's what I've been waiting for.
00:03:03My father.
00:03:05The train!
00:03:07You!
00:03:09Mother!
00:03:10Mother!
00:03:12Mother!
00:03:13Paul.
00:03:15Paul, wake up!
00:03:20It's you, Doc.
00:03:21The way you were yelling, I thought a wildcat had broken in.
00:03:24What's the trouble?
00:03:25Nightmare?
00:03:26Yeah.
00:03:27What a nightmare.
00:03:29Well, you get up and dress.
00:03:30I'll go out and get breakfast started.
00:03:50Paul, too, Paul.
00:03:51Here's your breakfast.
00:04:03Doc, do you remember what you said once in psychology class about the phenomena of dreams foreshadowing future events?
00:04:10Yes, but to healthy-minded people, a dream is just a dream.
00:04:15Come on, Paul.
00:04:16There's nothing like an early start for good fishing.
00:04:23Doc, I'd like to go home today.
00:04:26Home?
00:04:27Why, Paul, what's the matter?
00:04:29I'm worried about Mother.
00:04:31Now, look, you're not going to let a dream spoil our outing, are you?
00:04:34Why do you suppose Mother didn't want me home for the holiday?
00:04:37Oh, she probably had some reason.
00:04:39Now, get on with your breakfast.
00:04:41I'd like to tell you about this nightmare I had, Doc.
00:04:44Well, all right, if it'll make you feel better.
00:04:46Let's finish our regs, and I'll get the tackle, and you can tell me on the way down.
00:04:50Hmm?
00:04:51He said, you have hallucinations.
00:04:53Come with me, I'll take care of you.
00:04:55And he held on to my arm.
00:04:57That was when you woke me up.
00:05:00Quite an extraordinary dream, it easily explained.
00:05:02At the inquest after your father's death, you remember,
00:05:05the engineer on the train testified that he caught a glimpse of the Acme Trucking Company's sign
00:05:10as the truck pulled away.
00:05:12Although nothing's been seen of it since, it still remains the only clue to the unsolved mystery.
00:05:17Naturally, it'll be impressed upon your mind.
00:05:19Oh, yes, but...
00:05:20And the Schumann Concerto was your father's favorite composition, if I recall correctly.
00:05:25But it all seems so real, and I remember every detail.
00:05:28The bracelet, the abandoned farm buildings, and the things this man said, like,
00:05:33it's just what I've been waiting for.
00:05:35And the terrible danger to Mother and Dorothy.
00:05:39Forget it, Paul.
00:05:40You've been working too hard at school.
00:05:43This is a perfect way to relax.
00:05:46Hey, they're jumping like crickets.
00:05:47Come on.
00:05:55Wow.
00:06:18Hiya, Mac.
00:06:20What are you doing down here?
00:06:21Spying on us, you old fox?
00:06:23Sure, that's my rocket.
00:06:25You better have your licenses.
00:06:27How are you biting?
00:06:28Great.
00:06:31Better for you, Paul.
00:06:33Okay.
00:06:47It's from the Waynesfield Trust.
00:06:49It's been forwarded up here from the school, and I figured it might be important, so I brought it up
00:06:52to you.
00:06:52Well, thanks, Mac.
00:06:53No trouble.
00:06:54If there's any answer, I can mail it for you over in the village.
00:06:56Well, there's no answer.
00:06:57It's a letter from my father.
00:06:59Huh?
00:07:00Say, you're not pulling my leg, are you, Paul?
00:07:02Oh, no, Mac.
00:07:03Dad left a series of letters with the office of his estate.
00:07:06I get one every few months.
00:07:07Well, I'll be done.
00:07:08Go.
00:07:09Leave it to the judge to think of something like that.
00:07:13Uncanny smart that man was.
00:07:15Well, you'll want to read that sort of private.
00:07:25Good fishing, huh?
00:07:27Fine, Mac.
00:07:28How long have you figured out staying up here?
00:07:30Oh, Doc.
00:07:31Yes, Paul.
00:07:34Would you mind coming over a minute, please?
00:07:36Not so long, boys.
00:07:37Bye, Mac.
00:07:42What is it, Paul?
00:07:44I received one of Dad's letters.
00:07:45I'd like to read part of it to you.
00:07:47Go ahead.
00:07:49It will be your responsibility as the man of the family
00:07:52to protect your mother and Dorothy
00:07:54by being constantly vigilant of their associates.
00:07:57I have always guarded your mother,
00:07:59who is so much younger than I,
00:08:01for in my experience, I've had ample opportunity
00:08:04to observe the cunning of unscrupulous imposters.
00:08:09It's right in with your dream, doesn't it?
00:08:11Curious coincidence.
00:08:14Oh, I hate to ruin your trip, Doc,
00:08:16but I'd really like to go home.
00:08:17All right, Paul.
00:08:18It wouldn't do you any good anyhow
00:08:20with this worry on your mind,
00:08:21and if everything's all right, we can come back.
00:08:24Meantime, I can have a nice little visit with my sister.
00:08:26Let's get our stuff.
00:08:39Thanks a lot, Doc.
00:08:40You're welcome, Paul.
00:08:42You can reach me at my sister's.
00:08:43Okay, so long, Doc.
00:08:45Hello, Ben.
00:08:46Mr. Paul, well, this is a surprise.
00:08:49Oh, I got kind of homesick.
00:08:50How's everything, Ben?
00:08:52Well, everything's about the same, so forth.
00:08:55Where's my mother?
00:08:56Mrs. Virginia, she went over to the club
00:08:58to have lunch with Mr. Curtis.
00:09:00Curtis?
00:09:01Well, who's he?
00:09:03Well, he's been coming around here
00:09:04every day for the past month.
00:09:06You mean he's been coming around to see Mother?
00:09:08He sure ain't been coming to see me, no, sir.
00:09:11What's he like, Ben?
00:09:13Well, he's a fine-looking man, nice talking, too.
00:09:17But it ain't exactly my place to venture an opinion, no, sir.
00:09:20You don't like him?
00:09:21Well, you see how it is.
00:09:23Being with the judge so many years,
00:09:25I got to know just what folks he like and don't like.
00:09:28And I kind of suspect this Mr. Curtis
00:09:30wouldn't be on the list, no, sir.
00:09:32I see.
00:09:36But don't you take no precongested ideas
00:09:39from me, Mr. Paul.
00:09:40Tain constitution, like the judge used to say,
00:09:43to exert undue influence on the bench, no, sir.
00:09:46That's right, Ben.
00:09:48I'd better take your bag upstairs.
00:09:50Should I run you a bath, sir?
00:09:51Well, never mind.
00:09:52I'll just take a shower.
00:09:56Yes, sir.
00:10:11Thanks, Ben.
00:10:24Hello, George.
00:10:25Yeah.
00:10:27Well, for a guy's sakes.
00:10:29Well, where are you?
00:10:31Well, why didn't you let me know?
00:10:34Come on over.
00:10:35I want to talk to you.
00:10:36It's confidential.
00:10:37It's confidential.
00:10:38Okay.
00:10:45Mr. Paul's home.
00:10:46Paul?
00:10:47What brought him home?
00:10:48Well, he said he got homesick.
00:10:50He's up in his room.
00:11:02Paul, darling.
00:11:03Hello, Francis.
00:11:06Didn't you like the fishing?
00:11:07Oh, it was all right, but I wanted to come home.
00:11:11Well, I had so many engagements, dear.
00:11:13Of course, if I'd realized that...
00:11:15I'm clean, Mrs. Cartwright.
00:11:16Who's the Romeo?
00:11:19Benjamin told you.
00:11:20Well, his name is Brett Curtis, and he's most charming.
00:11:24You know, I haven't even been slightly interested in any man since your father died.
00:11:28But I must admit I like this one.
00:11:30You'll meet him tonight at dinner, and I want you to like him, too.
00:11:38Are you sure he's all right?
00:11:40Of course he is.
00:11:42Everyone finds him fascinating.
00:11:43He's amusing and interesting.
00:11:45He's been everywhere, and he's most attractive.
00:11:47You know, in some ways, he reminds me of your father, except he's younger.
00:11:52Oh, don't look so worried.
00:11:55Well, you're my responsibility now, you know.
00:12:03Paul, you know how lonely I've been.
00:12:07Yes, I understand that.
00:12:08Darling, I've got to change.
00:12:12I hope you have a decent suit to wear.
00:12:14I've been bragging about how handsome you are.
00:12:16I'll probably slide down the banister in my pajamas.
00:12:19If you dare.
00:12:21Oh, excuse me, Mrs. Cartwright.
00:12:22Hello, George.
00:12:23How's Lydia?
00:12:24Poorly, ma'am, poorly.
00:12:25But she'll be all right when she finds out Paul's home.
00:12:29Hiya, Paul.
00:12:30The old guy.
00:12:30Gosh, I'm glad to see you.
00:12:31What's all this confidential business?
00:12:34How about this guy my mother's got in tow?
00:12:36Oh, him.
00:12:37Well, what gives?
00:12:39Does he rate?
00:12:39By me, strictly poison.
00:12:41Dorothy and I are washed up on account of that guy.
00:12:44Oh, George, says she, you're so crude and callow.
00:12:48Why can't you be more like Brett?
00:12:49Smooth and sophisticated.
00:12:51Women, they get on my nerves.
00:12:53Sounds like a purely personal reaction, George.
00:12:56I'm after facts.
00:12:58Is he solid?
00:12:59Well, all I know is what I hear at Keyhole's.
00:13:00Mom and Dad say he's a cosmopolitan.
00:13:03But for my dough, he's a first class.
00:13:04Oh.
00:13:05Hello, sis.
00:13:06Hiya, small fry.
00:13:07Hello.
00:13:08Well, what happened to the fishing trip, Paul?
00:13:11Canceled on account of family affection.
00:13:13What's with this Curtis I've been hearing about?
00:13:15You've been listening to George.
00:13:17You can just ignore it.
00:13:18Brett's positively out of this world.
00:13:20And the princess is mad about him.
00:13:22Yeah, and so am I.
00:13:23Well, at least he has manners,
00:13:25which is more than I can say for some people.
00:13:27Oh.
00:13:28Of course, it must be quite a shock to realize
00:13:30that one simply doesn't measure up to civilized standards.
00:13:37See what I mean?
00:13:38You know how we used to get along.
00:13:40Now, where am I?
00:13:41Oh, take it easy, George.
00:13:42It may blow over.
00:13:43Nah, she'll never be the same.
00:13:45And I'm too old to change.
00:13:47There he is now.
00:13:49Brett, how are you?
00:13:51For me?
00:13:53Oh, you're too divine, Brett, really.
00:13:55Brings a flower, so big droop.
00:13:58You'll simply turn my head.
00:14:00Turn her head?
00:14:01I'd like to wring her neck.
00:14:02She thinks he's a great wit.
00:14:03But nothing I see as funny anymore.
00:14:08How about staying to dinner, George?
00:14:10I don't feel like facing this alone.
00:14:12Okay.
00:14:13I'll call up home.
00:14:14You'll have to lend me a tie.
00:14:15Oh, sure.
00:14:23Gosh, do I look all right?
00:14:25Maybe I should have gone home and changed.
00:14:26You'll do.
00:14:28How nice you both look.
00:14:34Paul, this is Brett.
00:14:36How do you do?
00:14:37I'm glad to know you, Paul.
00:14:38Of course you know George Hanover.
00:14:40Hello, George.
00:14:43I've been hearing quite a lot about you.
00:14:45Mother and Dorothy have been giving you quite a build-up, too.
00:14:48Well, I hope you won't hold it against me.
00:14:51I feel as if I'd met you somewhere before.
00:14:53That's because Brett looks like father.
00:14:55Oh, I don't think so.
00:14:58Except maybe his nose a little.
00:15:00Thanks, Paul.
00:15:01I'd rather not look like anybody but myself.
00:15:04Paul is a great deal like his father.
00:15:06I understand you have his talent, too.
00:15:08Maybe.
00:15:09A speck of it.
00:15:10I've been reading one of his books on criminology.
00:15:13My friend, Professor Muehlbach, the psychiatrist,
00:15:15recommended it to me.
00:15:17The professor thinks your father had a brilliant mind.
00:15:20Well, father's best book was never completed.
00:15:22I hope I'll be able to finish it for him someday.
00:15:24I knew you two would like each other.
00:15:27Dinner, sir, ma'am.
00:15:30Dorothy?
00:15:32Paul, I have everything you want.
00:15:34Just enjoy these lines.
00:15:36They're really beautiful.
00:15:43You don't mean to tell me you like him.
00:15:45I didn't say I liked him.
00:15:46I just said I could see why mother likes him.
00:15:49Yeah, but does Dorothy have to drool over him like a goon?
00:15:51Oh, Dorothy's nothing but a child.
00:15:53Child nothing.
00:15:54She's a first-class flirt.
00:15:56The way she hangs on that guy's words.
00:15:58Honest, Paul, it sickens me.
00:16:00Pure jealousy.
00:16:02Me?
00:16:03Jealous?
00:16:03Yeah.
00:16:07Gosh, that's right.
00:16:09Maybe I am.
00:16:14Paul, look.
00:16:16It was in the box that the corsage Brett gave me.
00:16:18Isn't it beautiful?
00:16:19It's a lion's head from India.
00:16:22Brett has such divine taste.
00:16:24Well, don't you like it?
00:16:25Nice girls aren't supposed to take jewelry from strange men.
00:16:29He's not a strange man.
00:16:38Paul.
00:16:39What's wrong?
00:16:41You're as white as a sheet.
00:16:44I feel...
00:16:46kind of...
00:16:50Paul.
00:16:51Paul.
00:16:52You guys have to stay here.
00:16:54I'll get public.
00:16:55Mother!
00:16:57Oh, Martin.
00:16:58What's the matter, Virginia?
00:16:59What happened?
00:17:00I don't know.
00:17:01Dorothy said he simply keeled over.
00:17:03When he came to, he babbled something about a dream
00:17:05and wanting to see you.
00:17:06He seemed all right at dinner time.
00:17:08Let me see him.
00:17:11Feel better?
00:17:13Say, you know, I had an uncle once.
00:17:15He used to get fits.
00:17:16They had to put a spoon in his mouth.
00:17:20Hello, Doc.
00:17:22Well, young man, what's this all about?
00:17:24Darling, what is wrong?
00:17:25Nothing, Mother.
00:17:27If you don't mind, though, I'd like to talk to Dr. Benson alone.
00:17:31Well, I guess I'll barge along home then.
00:17:33Hope you feel better, chum.
00:17:34I'll be okay.
00:17:35See you tomorrow.
00:17:36Right.
00:17:38You look feverish.
00:17:39Oh, I just had kind of a mental shock.
00:17:44Remember the dream I told you about this morning, Doc?
00:17:47Yes.
00:17:48The part about Dorothy and the bracelet?
00:17:50Yes.
00:17:51Well, there's a man Mother's seriously interested in, and...
00:17:54Who was this man, Paul?
00:17:56Brett Curtis.
00:17:56And he did give Dorothy a bracelet.
00:17:58But, Paul...
00:17:59And it was in a corsage, and there was the music, the same music, the Schumann concerto.
00:18:03Well, this may sound kind of crazy, Doc, but that dream is beginning to happen.
00:18:13Now, wait a minute, Paul.
00:18:14Nothing has actually happened.
00:18:17The only similarity to the dream is the bracelet, and that could be a coincidence.
00:18:22You know, Dorothy's very fond of trinkets, and anybody who knew that might buy her a bracelet.
00:18:27As for the music, it's probably sitting on the piano.
00:18:31I wouldn't worry too much about it, son.
00:18:35Have you told your mother about this dream?
00:18:38No.
00:18:39Mother thinks I've got too much imagination.
00:18:43Besides, she's gone overboard for this Curtis, and...
00:18:47You can't talk to people when they feel like that about someone.
00:18:51You're pretty young to know that.
00:18:53Well, I felt the same way about a girl last year.
00:18:56Nobody could tell me anything until I found it out for myself.
00:18:58And you may be entirely wrong about this man.
00:19:02Now, the best thing to do is to find out all we can about him.
00:19:06Suppose you and I go down and see Bill Allen tomorrow.
00:19:08A banker doesn't usually take people at face value.
00:19:12We'll let him investigate.
00:19:14That's an idea.
00:19:16Oh, and, Doc, when you go downstairs, I wish you'd drop in and meet Curtis.
00:19:22I'd like to find out what you think about him.
00:19:25All right, Paul.
00:19:26Now, stop worrying.
00:19:34Come on, Paul.
00:19:35Mr. Allen's a busy man.
00:19:37Thank you, Mr. Allen.
00:19:38Goodbye, Paul.
00:19:39Goodbye, Bill.
00:19:40Doctor.
00:19:51Good morning, Curtis.
00:19:53Well, good morning, Doctor.
00:19:54Hello, Paul.
00:19:55How are you feeling?
00:19:56Well, I'm fine, thanks.
00:19:57You certainly gave us a scare last evening.
00:19:59I hope you've laid down the lot, Doctor.
00:20:01What he needs is more of fresh air and exercise.
00:20:04Well, you can't pass exams on fresh air.
00:20:06Not in my school.
00:20:08No, Paul takes his studies very seriously.
00:20:10Come along, Paul.
00:20:11Good morning, Curtis.
00:20:12Goodbye.
00:20:21You don't suppose he followed us here?
00:20:24Oh, come now, Paul.
00:20:25The man banks there.
00:20:27Aren't you convinced that Allen knows what he's talking about?
00:20:29My intuition isn't.
00:20:31I take it easy on that intuition business, son.
00:20:34It can become an obsession, you know.
00:20:35Well, if you don't mind, Doc, I think I'll walk home.
00:20:38Well, that's a splendid idea.
00:20:40Do some deep breathing and try and rid your mind of Curtis.
00:20:48Hi there, Doctor.
00:20:50Going anywhere near the club?
00:20:52I go right by there.
00:20:53Hop in.
00:20:54Oh, thanks.
00:20:55It's a nuisance to find a taxi when you want one.
00:20:57I don't drive myself.
00:21:00That's unusual.
00:21:00I thought everybody drove these days.
00:21:03Well, I was in rather a bad accident when I was a youngster,
00:21:05and it made such an impression on me that I never learned to drive.
00:21:09Where's Paul?
00:21:10Oh, he decided to walk home for the exercise.
00:21:25Hey, Thomas.
00:21:25Hiya, Paul.
00:21:26Are you looking okay?
00:21:27Sure.
00:21:27What gives?
00:21:28Well, the gang's here, and we're going down to the river to watch a boat race.
00:21:31I kind of thought you'd like to come along.
00:21:33Hello, Lydia.
00:21:34Oh, Cartwright!
00:21:35Well, if you aren't the absolute limit,
00:21:37not letting me know a thing about coming home.
00:21:46Ben, what are you doing with that picture?
00:21:48Miss Virginia wants it taken up to the study.
00:21:50Why?
00:21:51I couldn't say.
00:21:57Where's Mother?
00:21:58Downtown.
00:21:59She'll be back for lunch.
00:22:04Come on, let's go.
00:22:05We don't want to get down there after it's all over.
00:22:07Okay, come on.
00:22:08Come on, Lydia.
00:22:08Okay, gang, I guess we can all get in my car.
00:22:11Come on, let's go.
00:22:14Come on, Paul.
00:22:15I'll see you later.
00:22:20Paul.
00:22:23Are you deliberately trying to avoid me?
00:22:25Because if you are, I'd just as soon you come right out and say so.
00:22:29No, I'm not, Lydia.
00:22:31I just don't feel like going, that's all.
00:22:58Well, maybe this is where he'd rather be, Ben.
00:23:01Ben, he spent most of his time up here anyway.
00:23:04Yes, sir.
00:23:06He looks so alive.
00:23:09Almost as if he could speak.
00:23:11I wished he could.
00:23:20Ben, when is Curtis coming here again?
00:23:23He's coming to lunch.
00:23:25I want you to do something for me.
00:23:27Anything you say.
00:23:28When you take his glass off the table, don't touch it.
00:23:31Use a napkin and put it aside.
00:23:33You know what I want, Ben.
00:23:34Yes, sir.
00:23:35Oh, and Ben, I'd like a sandwich and a glass of milk up here, please.
00:23:39Yes, sir.
00:23:39Do you have the keys to the files?
00:23:45Thanks, Ben.
00:24:12Yes, sir.
00:24:14Yes, sir.
00:24:15Yes, sir.
00:24:23Yes, sir.
00:24:24Prominent in unsolved crimes is the record of Claude Barrington,
00:24:29an amazingly clever and dangerous individual.
00:24:32He was suspected of innumerable crimes,
00:24:35including attacks on young girls, even murder.
00:24:39Yet the police have never been able to find sufficient evidence
00:24:42to warrant his arrest.
00:24:44His quick disappearances, the failure of witnesses to identify him,
00:24:49the lack of fingerprints or photographs, indicated a marked talent for crime.
00:24:56Suspicion first fell upon Barrington when, in 1932, he married a wealthy young widow,
00:25:03Cecilia Gordon, who was drowned within six months of their marriage, leaving him a substantial legacy.
00:25:11However, no evidence could be found to prove that Barrington was in the vicinity at the time of her death.
00:25:21Well, I'm sorry.
00:25:37I'm sorry about moving the picture.
00:25:39I wanted to change things in the living room.
00:25:41It's so old-fashioned.
00:25:42I want to brighten it up a bit.
00:25:44It's all right, Mother.
00:25:49Paul, are you going to make things difficult?
00:25:52I haven't said anything.
00:25:53Even what you say, it's your attitude.
00:25:56Why don't you like Brett?
00:25:58I just don't want you to make a mistake, that's all.
00:26:03How much do you know about him?
00:26:05Everything. He's told me all about himself.
00:26:08Paul, why are you so mistrustful?
00:26:11I received one of Dad's letters yesterday.
00:26:14Maybe you'd better read it.
00:26:27Poor Albert.
00:26:29He saw so much of crime and wickedness, he was bound to become overcautious.
00:26:34Now I understand why you're so anxious, dear.
00:26:37What is it you want to know?
00:26:40Has Curtis ever been married before?
00:26:42You know, he's a bachelor.
00:26:44He was going to be married a few years ago, but the girl drowned shortly before the wedding.
00:26:49But it was terribly broken up about it, of course.
00:26:51She was drowned?
00:26:53It's quite a tragedy. She was so young.
00:26:59Well, Paul, anything else?
00:27:04Where does he get his income?
00:27:06Oh, he owns mines and things.
00:27:08I had Mr. Allen check into all that.
00:27:10You see, I'm not as irresponsible as you think I am.
00:27:14You're not going to marry him for a while yet, are you?
00:27:17I don't know, Paul.
00:27:19I think you should wait.
00:27:21Paul, I don't want to make you unhappy.
00:27:23But that's one thing I must decide for myself.
00:27:25You mean, you're going to marry him right away?
00:27:28I may.
00:27:29But you can't. You've got to give me time to...
00:27:31New time?
00:27:32For what?
00:27:33Well, to...
00:27:35To get better acquainted with him.
00:27:39Darling, you'll be going off to school soon.
00:27:41Your life will be occupied with other things for years.
00:27:44Paul, try to understand. Try to be fair.
00:27:48Please.
00:27:49For my sake.
00:27:52All right.
00:27:54That's better.
00:27:55You'll be down for lunch?
00:27:56No, Benjamin's bringing my lunch up here.
00:27:58I'll be down later.
00:27:59Maybe you can play some tennis with Brett.
00:28:00He plays an excellent game.
00:28:02If you'd just give him a chance to be himself,
00:28:04you two would probably be the best of friends in no time.
00:28:07I've got to go now.
00:28:09Don't work too hard, darling.
00:28:35Don't work too hard.
00:28:40Oh, my God.
00:28:45Don't work too hard.
00:28:46Don't work too hard.
00:28:49It's not a good night.
00:28:51Don't work too hard.
00:28:51I'll just bring him back.
00:28:51I'll just bring him back.
00:28:51Oh, my God.
00:28:55What?
00:29:13Oh, you wretch, that did it.
00:29:18Lucky I got two games.
00:29:20Play up, lady.
00:29:30Hello, Paul.
00:29:31How are you feeling?
00:29:32Okay, how was the boat race?
00:29:34Keen, the blue moon won.
00:29:36You should have come with us, Paul.
00:29:37Lydia's furious.
00:29:38Oh, she'll get over it.
00:29:39I've got too much on my mind.
00:29:45Any lunch left for me, Ben?
00:29:47There's sandwiches and milk in the breakfast room, Miss Dory.
00:29:50Oh, thanks, Ben.
00:30:01Hello, darling.
00:30:02Hello, Paul.
00:30:03Where have you been hiding?
00:30:04Well, I had some work to do.
00:30:06I hear you're taking law at college.
00:30:07Just the groundwork.
00:30:09My main interest is criminology.
00:30:11Mr. Curtis, do you believe there's such a thing as a perfect crime?
00:30:17It's possible.
00:30:18I've been reading about some perfect crimes in my father's files.
00:30:21He believed there were more undetected criminals at large than have ever been caught.
00:30:28Well, I shouldn't be surprised.
00:30:30The police have their limitations.
00:30:32What a morbid conversation.
00:30:34Brett, it's too bad you've changed.
00:30:35You could have played some more tennis with Paul.
00:30:37I wouldn't have time, darling.
00:30:39I promised to go up to Middleborough and look at some property for a friend of mine.
00:30:42Oh, Brett, why couldn't we drive you up?
00:30:44The ride would do poor good.
00:30:45Well, that's a nice of you, Virginia, but it'll take hours to look at tracks and I'll be talking business.
00:30:51I'll phone you when I get back.
00:30:52I'll walk down to the gate with you.
00:30:54Do, Paul.
00:30:55Goodbye, Brett.
00:30:56See you later, darling.
00:31:02Understand you've traveled a lot.
00:31:03Well, yes, I've always been curious about what was beyond the next horizon.
00:31:07Ever been to Nevada?
00:31:09Yes.
00:31:11Magnificent country it is, too.
00:31:13Makes a man wish he could paint.
00:31:15You'd like it.
00:31:16What's Reno like?
00:31:17Oh, that's indescribable.
00:31:19It's a hodgepodge of Wild West and Wild East.
00:31:22Cowboys, divorcees, mink and mustangs, dude ranches and the real thing all shuffled together.
00:31:28I'd like to see some of those old ghost towns and a real silver mine.
00:31:32Well, I have an interest in several mines.
00:31:35Perhaps we'll take a trip someday.
00:31:38Do you know Colorado?
00:31:42Quite well.
00:31:43Waynefield must seem pretty tame after those places.
00:31:47I've seen pretty much everything worth seeing.
00:31:50I'll be glad to settle down right here.
00:31:54Well, goodbye, Paul.
00:31:56See you tomorrow.
00:31:58I hope we're going to hit it off together.
00:32:01So long.
00:32:28I hope we're going to hit it off.
00:32:32Hello, Charlotte.
00:32:33Hello, Mr. Curtis.
00:32:33Professor is expecting.
00:32:35Yes, sir.
00:32:36Mr. Curtis.
00:32:37Send him in.
00:32:38All right, in.
00:32:44Good afternoon, Professor.
00:32:45Hello, Curtis.
00:32:47Well, how does it go?
00:32:48There's a new development.
00:32:49The boy?
00:32:50Yes, he came home unexpectedly.
00:32:52Hostile?
00:32:53Definitely.
00:32:54A neurotic type.
00:32:56Interested in criminology.
00:32:59He asks a lot of questions.
00:33:01Remarkably intelligent for his age.
00:33:04I have a feeling he knows more than he should.
00:33:06Does his attitude affect her?
00:33:08It doesn't yet.
00:33:10But he's a persistent little devil.
00:33:14This morning, he made inquiries about me at the bank.
00:33:17Nothing to worry about there.
00:33:19Everything is in order.
00:33:21This afternoon, he was looking through his father's files.
00:33:23When he came downstairs, he asked me if I believed there was such a thing as a perfect crime.
00:33:29You'll bear watching.
00:33:31Has she accepted you?
00:33:32She hasn't yet, but she will.
00:33:34What's the girl's attitude?
00:33:36Oh, Dorothy.
00:33:38A complete conquest.
00:33:40A little beauty, too.
00:33:41Be careful.
00:33:42I warned you before.
00:33:43That weakness of yours will ruin all our plans.
00:33:45Don't worry.
00:33:46Nothing will ruin our plans.
00:33:49I waited a long time to get back at Cartwright.
00:33:52I'll make them pay for his meddling interference if it's the last thing I do.
00:33:56You'll do as I tell you.
00:33:58Don't forget, I'm in this, too.
00:34:00Perhaps I made a mistake.
00:34:02Perhaps I should have kept you as a patient instead of making you an associate.
00:34:06Don't forget, I'm concerned with the financial outcome in this case, not your personal revenge.
00:34:11You have nothing to complain of.
00:34:12Everything's working out.
00:34:14The boy is the first hitch.
00:34:15He sounds like a subject for mental analysis.
00:34:18He might suggest it to the mother.
00:34:22Sometimes these cases destroy themselves.
00:34:25The important thing is to get the wedding over with as quickly as possible.
00:34:28When you are illegally in possession, we can take care of him here.
00:34:31Funny, that thought was in my mind, too.
00:34:35But why wait till I'm in possession?
00:34:38As her husband, you would be in a position to comfort her.
00:34:41As her fiancée, such a tragedy might cause a revulsion against you.
00:34:44That's true.
00:34:45Therefore, you must lose no time.
00:34:47The stakes are high, and there's constant danger if the boy is following the Barrington trail.
00:34:51Barrington is legally dead.
00:34:53Fortunately, so is the judge.
00:34:56However, fools and children sometimes stumble upon details which even the most careful strategist is overlooked.
00:35:00I had better meet the lady as soon as possible.
00:35:04Meanwhile, you must impress her with my professional distinction.
00:35:07Understand?
00:35:08Perfectly.
00:35:09Now, be careful.
00:35:10If you can't accomplish this within the week, our relationship shall revert to that of doctor and patient.
00:35:16I'm spending the weekend with them.
00:35:18I'll have her consent before Monday.
00:35:29I'll give up.
00:35:30Brett, you bewitched the dice.
00:35:32I seem to be lucky in everything but love.
00:35:34You don't really mean that.
00:35:37Virginia, why do you keep putting me off?
00:35:40You promised me you'd give me time to think it over.
00:35:42You know how much I care for you.
00:35:45You've both been lonely.
00:35:47Why should we put off the happiness of being together?
00:35:50Brett, the white is wonderful.
00:36:00I'm not sure that I'm too, idiot.
00:36:20My answer is yes.
00:36:31When, Virginia?
00:36:32I'll give a dinner party and announce it.
00:36:34You're not going to put me through a formal wedding.
00:36:36I...
00:36:36No, just a dinner party.
00:36:38We'll slip away quietly and I'll send the announcements out later.
00:36:41Good, we'll elope.
00:36:42Elope?
00:36:43That sounds so young and reckless.
00:36:45It doesn't seem right with two grown children.
00:36:47Brett, you do like them, don't you?
00:36:50Like them?
00:36:51A handsome, full-grown family on a silver platter?
00:36:54And you?
00:36:55What more could a man ask?
00:36:57Darling, do you realize that you haven't kissed me since we've been engaged?
00:37:06Princess!
00:37:07Brett!
00:37:08Not much privacy around here, is there?
00:37:11Well, that's family life.
00:37:12Why don't you come in for a swim, Brett?
00:37:14The water's wonderful!
00:37:16How about a swim, Virginia?
00:37:18Oh, no, darling, you go.
00:37:19I want to write the dinner invitation.
00:37:21Is there anyone special you'd like to ask?
00:37:23Why, yes.
00:37:24My old friend, Professor Muehlback, you know, the psychiatrist.
00:37:28You'll enjoy meeting me.
00:37:30Enjoy your swim, darling.
00:37:34I wasn't supposed to tell you this, but I think it's only fair you should know.
00:37:39Oh, I kind of suspected.
00:37:42I guess they didn't tell me because they know I don't approve.
00:37:45No.
00:37:47I don't either.
00:37:48What?
00:37:49I thought all you girls were goofy about him.
00:37:52No, I was at first, but not anymore.
00:37:55Uh-huh.
00:37:57No, really, Paul, I mean it.
00:37:59Remember the other day by the pool here?
00:38:02Yeah.
00:38:03Well, Brett came for a swim.
00:38:06Once when I dived under, he...
00:38:09I don't know how to tell you this.
00:38:11I haven't told anyone.
00:38:13What happened?
00:38:14Well, he...
00:38:15He swam underwater.
00:38:18Got a stranglehold on me and started kissing me.
00:38:23I know it doesn't sound like very much, but...
00:38:27It was horrible.
00:38:28I can't describe it.
00:38:31I pulled away.
00:38:33He followed me and said he hadn't meant any harm.
00:38:38And asked me if I'd just forget about it and be friends.
00:38:42I felt sort of queer about him ever since.
00:38:48You won't mention this to him, will you?
00:38:50No.
00:38:51And don't you say anything about it.
00:38:53What you've told me adds up with other things.
00:38:56What other things?
00:38:57Oh, I can't tell you now.
00:38:58The trouble is I may be wrong.
00:39:00I haven't any proof.
00:39:02Just a hunch.
00:39:04Nobody wants to believe me.
00:39:06I'll believe you, Paul.
00:39:07Well, thanks, sugar.
00:39:09Well, there's Dr. Vincent.
00:39:10I've got to talk with him.
00:39:12You better run along, Lydia.
00:39:13Oh, but, Paul, are you...
00:39:15Well, what I mean to say is...
00:39:17You still like me, don't you?
00:39:20Oh, sure.
00:39:21But everything's on ice for a while.
00:39:22No dates.
00:39:23Yes, all right.
00:39:24Only, don't forget.
00:39:29Okay, funny face.
00:39:40Hello, Paul.
00:39:42They're announcing their engagement.
00:39:44I suspected as much.
00:39:46What have you found out?
00:39:48Nothing unfavorable to Curtis.
00:39:51Mr. Allen gave me these answers to some inquiries he made.
00:39:55After reading them, you'll probably agree it looks like a clean bill of health.
00:39:59Well, that may be so, but Lydia just told me something.
00:40:02Would you mind coming up to my room a minute, Doug?
00:40:04Not at all, Paul.
00:40:31Well, good evening, Professor.
00:40:32I'm glad to see you.
00:40:33Good evening, Curtis.
00:40:34Well, I was afraid you wouldn't get here.
00:40:36You know how it is.
00:40:37Always something at the last minute.
00:40:38Of course.
00:40:39Virginia, this is Professor Mulebach.
00:40:41This is Cartwright.
00:40:42How do you do, Professor Mulebach?
00:40:43I'm honored, Madame.
00:40:44It was most gracious of you to invite me.
00:40:47Fred told me so much about you.
00:40:49I was anxious to meet you.
00:40:50Thank you, Madame.
00:40:51Happy occasion, they say.
00:40:53Curtis is a lucky fellow.
00:40:54Come in.
00:40:55Come in, Professor.
00:40:57Now I'll show you something in the Barrington record that ties in with what Lydia told me.
00:41:04That's funny.
00:41:05This drawer was locked.
00:41:07It's been opened.
00:41:08Maybe you just thought you locked it.
00:41:10No, I'm sure I locked it yesterday.
00:41:12I haven't opened it since.
00:41:14Curtis was here, too.
00:41:19May I come in?
00:41:21Or is this a private huddle?
00:41:22Hello, Doctor.
00:41:23Hello, Dorothy.
00:41:24The Princess wants you in the drawing room.
00:41:26There's a big psycho something or other that she wants you to meet.
00:41:29Friend of breath.
00:41:30You, too, Paul.
00:41:31Oh, I don't want to go down.
00:41:33But, Paul, you must.
00:41:34You can't spoil Mother's party.
00:41:36That's right, Paul.
00:41:37Come along.
00:41:38We can talk later.
00:41:45However, I must say that I think that we won that rubble.
00:41:52Why?
00:41:53Because Virginia was keeping score.
00:41:57Virginia's arithmetic is delightful.
00:42:00She subtracts by counting backwards on her fingers.
00:42:03Ten, nine, eight, seven, six.
00:42:07That means ten minus five equals six.
00:42:15Well, that's right, isn't it?
00:42:16Of course it's right.
00:42:26Well, tell me about psychiatry, Professor.
00:42:29It must be very interesting.
00:42:30I'd love to be psychoanalyzed sometime.
00:42:32I'd be delighted to do it.
00:42:34Anytime you say.
00:42:35Oh, Georgia.
00:42:35Just in.
00:42:36Now, look.
00:42:37I was just on the hate zone.
00:42:38It's a master's name.
00:42:40Mr. Cartwright.
00:42:42Benjamin.
00:42:43Mr. Curtis for cart.
00:42:45Now, my friend, here's a chance to display your domestic accomplishments.
00:42:49It's just what I've been waiting for.
00:42:56It's just what I've been waiting for.
00:43:06I'm sorry.
00:43:11I don't fear.
00:43:13Well, excuse me.
00:43:15Paul!
00:43:16You stay here, Virginia.
00:43:18I'll take care of you.
00:43:19Paul hasn't been himself lately.
00:43:21An extremely sensitive boy, madame.
00:43:23I would like to talk to him.
00:43:24I have been most successful with the juvenile neurosis.
00:43:27It's nothing serious, Professor.
00:43:29I'm sure.
00:43:32Paul.
00:43:34What is it now?
00:43:36The words in my dream.
00:43:39Curtis said,
00:43:41it's just what I've been waiting for.
00:43:44When he said that,
00:43:45I could hear the train coming,
00:43:47and then the crash.
00:43:49Gosh, Doc, it's spooky.
00:43:51It's got me.
00:43:53You've got to pull yourself together, Paul.
00:43:58Now, let's look at this thing realistically.
00:44:00I understand Bill Allen's going to announce the engagement.
00:44:03He's known your mother all her life.
00:44:05Do you think he'd sanction the match
00:44:07if he weren't sure of Curtis?
00:44:09I can't figure it out.
00:44:11Maybe I'm going wacky, Doc,
00:44:13but I could swear he's Barrington.
00:44:15Barrington's dead, Paul.
00:44:16I don't believe he is.
00:44:17But it's too fantastic.
00:44:26How is the young man feeling, Doctor?
00:44:28Oh, he's all right.
00:44:29He was just having a dizzy spell.
00:44:31Perhaps I can be of some assistance.
00:44:33Nerves are my specialty.
00:44:35May I come in?
00:44:35Well, it's just a reaction
00:44:37from overwork at school.
00:44:38Ah, yes.
00:44:39I was an intense student myself at his age.
00:44:42Do you mind if we have a little talk, young man?
00:44:45I feel all right.
00:44:46Perhaps the doctor had better go downstairs.
00:44:49Seems a pity to spoil Madame's party.
00:44:51I'd rather have Dr. Vincent stay.
00:44:53Of course, I have no objection.
00:44:55Let's sit down and be comfortable.
00:44:58I understand you are an unusual boy, Paul.
00:45:01Extremely talented.
00:45:03You intend to pursue your father's research
00:45:05into criminology?
00:45:06Yes.
00:45:07Interesting subject.
00:45:08But something must be done
00:45:10about these nervous attacks.
00:45:11They're not exactly normal at your age.
00:45:14I presume you are devoted to your mother?
00:45:17Of course.
00:45:19As one student of human nature to another,
00:45:22may I speak frankly?
00:45:23Go ahead.
00:45:25In some cases,
00:45:26filial devotion to a mother
00:45:27goes beyond the borderline of normality.
00:45:29It can frequently produce hallucinations.
00:45:33Did you say hallucinations?
00:45:36Do not be offended.
00:45:37I'm merely stating a theory.
00:45:39Well, go!
00:45:40Please don't agitate yourself.
00:45:41I'm only trying to help you.
00:45:43I don't need a psychiatrist.
00:45:44But you do.
00:45:46I believe it is your emotional aversion
00:45:48to your mother's remarriage
00:45:49which produces these neurotic symptoms.
00:45:51I'm sure I can cure you
00:45:53in a very short time.
00:45:54I would like you to place yourself
00:45:56under my care at Restview.
00:45:58Restview?
00:45:59That's a sanitarium for mental cases.
00:46:02Yes, but I wouldn't consider you a patient.
00:46:04Merely a guest.
00:46:05Guest?
00:46:06Well, that's right of you.
00:46:08Good night, Professor.
00:46:11I'm sorry.
00:46:12I assure you I meant no offense.
00:46:15May I see you a moment, Doctor?
00:46:19I'll be right back, Paul.
00:46:24The boy's agitation
00:46:25reveals an emotional influence
00:46:27which should be corrected immediately.
00:46:29I hope you can persuade him.
00:46:32I'll speak to him.
00:46:33Good.
00:46:43Well, the same words
00:46:45as your dream, weren't they?
00:46:47It's extraordinary.
00:46:55Those two are mixed up together somehow, Doc.
00:46:58Hallucinations.
00:46:59Do you believe that stuff?
00:47:01I've read about it in textbooks.
00:47:03And according to him,
00:47:04I've got them.
00:47:04He seems to think so.
00:47:06What else did he say, Doc?
00:47:09Well, he wanted me to ask you
00:47:10to go to his sanitarium
00:47:12and let him analyze you.
00:47:13You know, Doc,
00:47:14that might not be a bad idea.
00:47:16But I don't think it's necessary.
00:47:18But, Doc,
00:47:18I might find out something up there.
00:47:21Yes.
00:47:22Paul,
00:47:22if those two men
00:47:24are what you think they are,
00:47:25it'd be mighty dangerous.
00:47:26Well, you could come up every day
00:47:27and keep an eye on me,
00:47:28couldn't you?
00:47:29Yes.
00:47:29Besides,
00:47:30it might be a good way
00:47:30to stall for time.
00:47:31I'd make Mother promise
00:47:32not to marry Curtis
00:47:33until I got back.
00:47:34But, Paul...
00:47:34And meanwhile,
00:47:35you could take these to Armstrong
00:47:36and get them to analyze them
00:47:37and their fingerprints
00:47:38off a water glass.
00:47:40Curtis?
00:47:43I'll talk to Moolbach.
00:47:46Paul,
00:47:47you're a very clever boy.
00:47:48Thanks, Doc.
00:47:49I'd be in a tough spot
00:47:50without you.
00:47:51Maybe we're both crazy.
00:47:55Then again,
00:47:56maybe we're not.
00:48:04It's a lovely room.
00:48:05Isn't it, Paul?
00:48:06Very nice.
00:48:07I hope you'll find it comfortable.
00:48:09My routine is a simple one.
00:48:11A few heart-to-heart talks,
00:48:12plenty of food and rest.
00:48:14Believe me,
00:48:14Mrs. Cartwright,
00:48:15he will return home
00:48:16a healthier and happier boy.
00:48:17I'm sure you will.
00:48:19Goodbye, darling.
00:48:21Don't read too much.
00:48:23You'll take good care of him,
00:48:24won't you, Professor?
00:48:25Of course, madame.
00:48:27I'll drop in tomorrow
00:48:28and see how he's getting along.
00:48:29Please do, Doctor.
00:48:30I'm always happy
00:48:31to have the cooperation
00:48:31of my colleagues.
00:48:33Goodbye, Paul.
00:48:34I'll see you tomorrow.
00:48:35Goodbye, Doc.
00:48:36Goodbye, Francis.
00:48:37Goodbye, darling.
00:48:39I'll see you later.
00:49:14I'll see you later.
00:49:15Bye, guys.
00:49:16Bye, guys.
00:49:16Bye, guys.
00:49:18Bye, guys.
00:49:22Bye, guys.
00:49:22Bye, guys.
00:49:22Bye, guys.
00:49:22Bye, guys.
00:49:22Bye, guys.
00:49:26Bye, guys.
00:49:52Let's go.
00:50:02Let's go.
00:50:18Office.
00:50:19Could I call outside, please?
00:50:21I'll get the number for you.
00:50:24Well, I forgot my tennis shoes.
00:50:27Do you happen to know where I could get a pair?
00:50:29I'm sure Professor Muehlbach can lend you some.
00:50:31Thanks.
00:51:01Let's go.
00:51:02Let's go.
00:51:03Let's go.
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00:54:27Oh, my God.
00:55:22Oh, my God.
00:55:32Oh, my God.
00:56:07Nine, three, four, nine, six.
00:56:13Nine, three, four.
00:56:14What are you doing here?
00:56:16Well, I can't sleep.
00:56:18Nightmares.
00:56:19I'll get you a sedative.
00:56:20Go to your room.
00:56:21We don't permit the patients to wander through the corridors at night.
00:56:23Well, I'm not a patient.
00:56:24I'm a guest.
00:56:29I must admit, the boy puzzles me.
00:56:31I can learn nothing from him except that he suspects you.
00:56:34I'm sure he knows you're Barrington.
00:56:36How he arrived at that conjecture, I don't know.
00:56:38From his father's files, I found the Barrington folder in his desk.
00:56:42The boy's as persistent as his father was.
00:56:45I won't be in a clearance until I get squared with the entire family.
00:56:50It'll be quite ironic, won't it?
00:56:52The elusive Barrington married to the widow of the Honorable Judge Albert Cartwright.
00:56:56He won't be a Paul can help it.
00:56:58Right now, his main idea is to delay the marriage.
00:57:00He's managed that already.
00:57:02He promised him not to marry me until he returns.
00:57:05There must be some way to overcome that.
00:57:07Find some pretext to leave town, then persuade her to join you.
00:57:10You should have sufficient influence to overcome what promised to the boy.
00:57:13I will detain him here as long as possible.
00:57:15As soon as I have word from you that the ceremony has been performed,
00:57:19this troublesome opposition can be eliminated.
00:57:22How do you propose to do it?
00:57:25I will attend to it.
00:57:30Come in.
00:57:32Mr. Curtis, ma'am.
00:57:33Oh, Brett.
00:57:36I didn't expect you so early.
00:57:37I had to see you, dear.
00:57:39I have to go to Washington on business.
00:57:41Oh, darling, what a shame.
00:57:43I want you to come with me.
00:57:44We can stop off at Richmond and be married.
00:57:46I couldn't do that, Brett.
00:57:47I promised Paul.
00:57:50Are you going to let Paul spoil things between us, Virginia?
00:57:52Oh, darling, don't even think such a thing.
00:57:54Then come with me.
00:57:56We'll turn the trip into a honeymoon.
00:57:58Couldn't we wait till Paul gets back?
00:58:00I'd feel so much better about it.
00:58:03Virginia, from the first moment we met, everything went perfectly between us.
00:58:06Then Paul came home and you began to change.
00:58:10Oh, nonsense.
00:58:11We announced our engagement.
00:58:12Everything will go as we planned.
00:58:14Let's go down and get the license and have it over with today.
00:58:17Right now.
00:58:18I couldn't.
00:58:20Very well, then.
00:58:22Just as your wish.
00:58:23I'll be leaving this afternoon.
00:58:25I'll be gone for several weeks.
00:58:28Brett, do you really have to go?
00:58:30Perhaps it'll be just as well if you have time to think this out alone.
00:58:33I want you to be sure of your feelings, Virginia.
00:58:36But I am sure.
00:58:37You know that.
00:58:38Then why not marry me and stop worrying about Paul?
00:58:41I can't help being concerned about him, Brett.
00:58:44He's my own boy.
00:58:45But he's getting the best of care.
00:58:48Muleback will have him well again in no time.
00:58:51Let's call him up and find out who he's getting along.
00:58:58Of course, he's doing splendidly, madame.
00:59:01You have no cause to worry.
00:59:02No need to delay your marriage.
00:59:05Allow me to offer my felicitations.
00:59:09Goodbye.
00:59:16How long will it take you to check some fingerprints?
00:59:19Whose are they?
00:59:20Curtis.
00:59:20Paul got them.
00:59:21He asked me to turn them over to you.
00:59:23He's a chip off the old block, all right.
00:59:25The judge hung on like a bulldog whenever he got his teeth into anything.
00:59:28That's right.
00:59:29I'll have these checked just to prove there's nothing to it.
00:59:32Let me see.
00:59:33Where does Curtis hail from?
00:59:35Oh, he's lived in Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, California.
00:59:40California's good.
00:59:41They get thumbprints on driver's licenses.
00:59:43Curtis says he doesn't drive.
00:59:45Well, we won't take his word for that.
00:59:47Check those with Washington, Tom, and try the California License Bureau.
00:59:50Okay, Chief.
00:59:51So long, Doc.
00:59:52I'll let you know, Doctor, if anything develops.
00:59:54Goodbye, Mr. Armstrong.
01:00:29Mr. Farber notes here that you complained of having a nightmare.
01:00:33Can you tell me about it?
01:00:34Only that something dangerous was going to happen.
01:00:37Do you have such dreams often?
01:00:38Yes.
01:00:40Can you remember anything definite about them?
01:00:43The train, my father's death.
01:00:45I dream of that often.
01:00:47I understand, of course.
01:00:49Shocking accident.
01:00:50It preys on your mind.
01:00:52It wasn't an accident, Professor.
01:00:55It was murder.
01:00:57That was never proven.
01:00:58Do you have some theories on the subject?
01:01:00Yes.
01:01:00Indeed.
01:01:01I should be interested in hearing them.
01:01:03I'd rather not talk about them now, Professor.
01:01:05It gives me a headache.
01:01:06Very well, Paul.
01:01:08What would you like to do by way of diversion?
01:01:10Oh, I see you have some binoculars.
01:01:12They must be good ones.
01:01:13They are excellent.
01:01:14Would you like to examine them?
01:01:15Could I?
01:01:16Of course.
01:01:16Go right ahead.
01:01:30Oh, they're swell.
01:01:31I'd like to take a good look.
01:01:33Come along.
01:01:34You can see Waynefield through them from the roof.
01:01:42There's the county seat down there.
01:01:44From here, you can see Waynefield.
01:01:58Over here, Paul, you can see the ferry crossing the river.
01:02:05What's that building down there?
01:02:10Just an abandoned farm.
01:02:12Over this way, Paul.
01:02:13See the ferry?
01:02:14You can almost distinguish the people's faces on the deck.
01:02:27Nice binoculars.
01:02:28Yes, they are.
01:02:30Well, there's Dr. Vincent.
01:02:32We'd better go down.
01:02:33Yes, sir.
01:02:34Would you mind going to your room?
01:02:35I'd like to have a talk with the doctor.
01:02:37Then I shall send him to you.
01:03:03I'm very glad you came, doctor.
01:03:05I'm having a little difficulty.
01:03:07I feel there's something on Paul's mind which he does not confide to me.
01:03:10If there's something you know, you may speak freely.
01:03:13All I know is he has nightmares about his father.
01:03:16That he's told me, but he will not say anymore.
01:03:18His reticence hinders my diagnosis.
01:03:21If you could persuade him to discuss these matters more fully, it would be of great assistance.
01:03:27I'll see what I can do.
01:03:28Where is Paul?
01:03:29In his room.
01:03:34If you show Dr. Vincent to Cartwright's room, please.
01:03:50Come in.
01:03:55Hello, Doc.
01:03:56How are you, Paul?
01:03:56Sure glad to see you.
01:03:58How's mother?
01:03:58A little worried about you.
01:03:59Otherwise, all right.
01:04:00I saw her this morning.
01:04:01Well, Professor Mulebox, a good host.
01:04:03I'm enjoying it here.
01:04:04That's fine.
01:04:05Oh, look, Doc.
01:04:06I found something in Plato I'd like to show you.
01:04:19Oh, yes, yeah.
01:04:23Great chap, Plato.
01:04:25Modern today as he was in his own time.
01:04:30Paul, how'd you like to take a little ride with me?
01:04:32Well, that depends on Professor Mulebox.
01:04:34We'll have to ask him.
01:04:35Let's do that.
01:04:41Well, how do you find your patient, Doctor?
01:04:43He looks rested, but I'd like to take him for a drive in the fresh air so he won't feel
01:04:46shut in here.
01:04:47That is, if you have no objections.
01:04:49Not at all.
01:04:50Provided you don't keep him out too long.
01:04:52Oh, a half hour or so.
01:04:53We'll take a drive through the hills.
01:04:54This is beautiful country.
01:04:55I trust you will urge Paul to relax and talk more freely.
01:04:59I'm very anxious for him to get straightened out so he can go back to school.
01:05:03If he falls any further behind, I'm afraid he'll overwork again.
01:05:07Of course.
01:05:08Well, come along, Paul.
01:05:09We won't be long.
01:05:18If that was luck, I didn't think he'd let me go.
01:05:21He couldn't very well refuse.
01:05:23I saw Armstrong.
01:05:24He's having the prints checked.
01:05:26And Paul, while I was at the city hall, I saw your mother and Curtis go into the marriage
01:05:31license bureau.
01:05:32But, Doc, she promised me.
01:05:34I know how you feel.
01:05:35It hasn't been easy for me to accept this situation either.
01:05:37Maybe you won't have to.
01:05:39What do you mean?
01:05:40There's an abandoned farm building near here, exactly like in my dream.
01:05:44I saw it from the roof.
01:05:45Paul, one ramshackle old building looks much like another.
01:05:48Maybe.
01:05:49But something very strange happened on that roof this afternoon.
01:05:53I had a feeling that Mule Bach was going to shove me off when you drove up.
01:05:58Are you sure you're not just imagining these things, Paul?
01:06:01Sure, I'm sure.
01:06:01And I'll tell you something else, too.
01:06:03Curtis drove himself up here last night.
01:06:05Curtis driving?
01:06:06That's strange.
01:06:07She told me he couldn't drive.
01:06:09I know.
01:06:09That's why I got the license number.
01:06:11I thought maybe you could find out who owns the car.
01:06:44I thought maybe you'd find out who owns the car.
01:06:52I thought I'd sell one.
01:06:52I thought maybe you could find out who owns the car, maybe don't know what kinds of things have.
01:06:57I thought I would sell one.
01:06:58I thought maybe you wanted to put it in the car.
01:06:58But I knew you'd find out who owns the car.
01:06:58And that's why I found out who owns the car.
01:07:00I thought I was losing my car by now.
01:07:00What happened?
01:07:00What happened?
01:07:01It looks like...
01:07:02It looks like...
01:07:03Oh, Jimmy, you're part of a motor.
01:07:05Give me a hand.
01:07:05Give me a hand.
01:07:05Is that?
01:07:18That's the sign from the truck.
01:07:25Son, you certainly call a turn on this one.
01:07:55I'll go here back.
01:07:55That sign will certainly be an eye open at Armstrong.
01:07:57We'd better take it right over to his office.
01:07:59You'd better.
01:08:00I'll have to go back.
01:08:01A mule buckle can get suspicious.
01:08:03It better stop here, Doc.
01:08:04I'll walk the rest of the way.
01:08:05No use taking any chances with that evidence.
01:08:16I don't like to see you go back in there
01:08:18feeling the way you do about that place.
01:08:20Oh, I'll be all right.
01:08:21I've got to go in and stall for time.
01:08:23If things get too hot, I'll phone Lydia and say I'm lonesome.
01:08:26That'll mean get here quick.
01:08:28All right, Paul, but take it easy.
01:08:30I'd better go home and clean up a bit,
01:08:31then I'll go right over to Armstrong.
01:08:33So long, Doc.
01:08:36Darling, don't be angry.
01:08:39Surely one day doesn't make that much difference.
01:08:41I've promised Dr. Stone he could marry us.
01:08:44You wouldn't want me to hurt his feelings, would you?
01:08:46Why can't we go over there now?
01:08:47Why wait?
01:08:49We can spend tonight and tomorrow at the lake
01:08:51and then go on to Washington.
01:08:54After all, I must think of that contract, Virginia.
01:08:57Even a man in love has to think of business.
01:09:00All right.
01:09:01I'll call Dr. Stone and see if he can't find some time free.
01:09:05He ought to be able to work us in somewhere.
01:09:07A ceremony doesn't take long.
01:09:08Do you want me to call him?
01:09:09No, I'll do it.
01:09:31Oh, Dorothy.
01:09:34Hello, Lydia.
01:09:37Oh, hello.
01:09:39Is Dorothy home?
01:09:40No.
01:09:41Well, I'd better come back later.
01:09:43Oh, don't go away.
01:09:44Mr. Brett?
01:09:45Oh, Brett, where are you?
01:09:47Out here.
01:09:48We have a visitor.
01:09:49Hello, Lydia.
01:09:50Hello, Mrs. Cartwright.
01:09:52Well, goodbye.
01:09:56That's strange.
01:09:57What on earth happened?
01:09:59Nothing.
01:09:59She just came looking for Dorothy.
01:10:01What did, uh, do you see Dorothy?
01:10:03Dr. Stone say?
01:10:04Dr. Stone?
01:10:05Oh, yes.
01:10:06He's busy all day today and the same thing.
01:10:09But I made an appointment for noon tomorrow.
01:10:11Oh, good.
01:10:12Now, where shall we go to celebrate?
01:10:15Why not go to that little inn where we first had dinner together?
01:10:20Brett, I'd rather not show out tonight.
01:10:22I've got packing to do and a few letters to write.
01:10:25I'll just have dinner on a tray in my room with Dorothy and tell her the news.
01:10:28She goes back to school on Monday and I won't have another chance to see her.
01:10:33I hope I may look forward to your exclusive attention on our honeymoon, Mrs. Curtis.
01:10:37Well, you shouldn't call me that, not yet.
01:10:39It's very unlucky, though.
01:10:41With all the luck I have, I can afford to be reckless.
01:10:46I'll phone you later, darling.
01:11:03Come in.
01:11:04Come in.
01:11:06Hello, darling.
01:11:09Is anything wrong?
01:11:10No, dear.
01:11:11You've been crying.
01:11:12It's just my nerves, that's all.
01:11:14Benjamin's going to bring supper up here.
01:11:16I thought it'd be nice and cozy, just the two of us.
01:11:18Come on, sit down, darling.
01:11:21Something is wrong.
01:11:23You're packing.
01:11:25Dorothy.
01:11:26You're happy.
01:11:27Brett and I are going to be married tomorrow.
01:11:29Married tomorrow?
01:11:31Oh.
01:11:33For a minute I thought you'd ground with him.
01:11:35Brett has to go to Washington on business.
01:11:37We decided to make it a honeymoon.
01:11:39It means breaking my word to Paul.
01:11:42That's what has me upset, I guess.
01:11:44I'm worried about him.
01:11:46Now, don't be foolish.
01:11:48After all, it's your life.
01:11:50Paul won't mind as long as you're happy.
01:11:53Where's it going to be?
01:11:54What are you going to wear?
01:11:56I'm going to be there, of course.
01:11:58Of course you are, dear.
01:11:59You're going to be my bridesmaid.
01:12:00Oh, darling, that's marvelous.
01:12:03What'll I wear?
01:12:04Oh, just something simple.
01:12:05Your blue dress.
01:12:06We're going to be married at the minister's house.
01:12:08And then we'll leave you at the Allens.
01:12:09Brett and I'll go up the cottage for a day or two
01:12:11before we go to Washington.
01:12:12What did he say?
01:12:13Did he kneel down?
01:12:14Of course not silly.
01:12:15But he was very determined about not leaving me here.
01:12:18Oh, Brett is so masterful.
01:12:21You'll write to me, won't you?
01:12:23Of course.
01:12:24Every day.
01:12:26That's the story, Mr. Armstrong.
01:12:28And strange as it sounds, you must admit
01:12:30it's not just a figment of Paul's imagination.
01:12:32Well, I've run across some strange disclosures in my career,
01:12:34but the stream detection beats anything I've ever heard.
01:12:39Want me?
01:12:40Yes, take a look at that.
01:12:43Hey, where did this come from?
01:12:44Paul Cartwright dug it up on an abandoned farm at Middleborough,
01:12:47near the Mulebach place.
01:12:48Well, I'll be doggone.
01:12:50All we need now is the truck that goes with it.
01:12:52Better start a search up there.
01:12:54Send the car out.
01:12:55Any news on the fingerprints?
01:12:56No, not yet.
01:12:57Put in the car and speed it up.
01:12:59Miss Farber, didn't you get that number yet?
01:13:01It must answer.
01:13:03Lydia's waiting to hear from me.
01:13:05Hello?
01:13:06Hello?
01:13:17What do you mean by distance?
01:13:18I'm disconnecting the phone when I'm trying to get a call through.
01:13:21I want you to be absolutely quiet.
01:13:23You are agitated.
01:13:25I was afraid your outing today would be too much for you.
01:13:27I'm getting out of this place, but quick.
01:13:29Not in your present condition, my boy.
01:13:32You are hysterical.
01:13:33I couldn't possibly allow you to leave in such a state.
01:13:36Allow me?
01:13:37You don't think you can keep me here if I want to go, do you?
01:13:40I'm afraid that may be necessary.
01:13:43You seem to be forgetting that I'm a guest.
01:13:45All my patients are guests.
01:13:48Sit down, my dear boy, and calm yourself.
01:13:51Tell me, what has upset you?
01:13:54Was it something you found at that farm where you went this afternoon?
01:13:59You followed us.
01:14:00I observed you from the roof with the binoculars.
01:14:03All right, since you know so much.
01:14:05We found the truck that killed my father.
01:14:07The police ought to have the evidence by now,
01:14:09and I know you and Curtis were mixed up in it.
01:14:11Again, you were having hallucinations.
01:14:22Hello.
01:14:23Oh, hello, Professor.
01:14:25Where have you been?
01:14:25I've been trying to reach you for the past hour.
01:14:27I went to the station for tickets.
01:14:29We'll be married tomorrow noon.
01:14:31That's impossible now.
01:14:32I'll explain when I see you.
01:14:33Maybe in half an hour at the east end of the golf course.
01:14:36I'll be there.
01:14:44I don't like to exaggerate Paul's danger, Mr. Armstrong,
01:14:47but that place up there gives me the creeps.
01:14:49I'm uneasy about the boy.
01:14:51Why does everything take so long?
01:14:53The machinery of the law, Doctor.
01:14:54It's much better than it used to be.
01:14:58Armstrong?
01:15:00Farber?
01:15:02The car driven by Curtis is registered under the name of Charlotte Farber.
01:15:06Does that name mean anything to you, Doctor?
01:15:08Why, yes.
01:15:09She's Moobock's secretary.
01:15:10Yeah?
01:15:11Put a blanket out for it.
01:15:12Get going.
01:15:13Chief.
01:15:15The California Motor Vehicles has a thumbprint on Brett Curtis.
01:15:18It matches the print taken from the body in the mine identified as Barrington.
01:15:22That means Curtis was killed in the mine, not Barrington.
01:15:25Paul was right.
01:15:26And Barrington is just cunning enough to pull something like that, too.
01:15:29Then it is unlikely that Curtis...
01:15:30Could be Barrington.
01:15:33Well, Chief.
01:15:34We got west left of the truck.
01:15:36Buried under a ton of hay.
01:15:37Any fingerprints?
01:15:38Yep.
01:15:38In the tool compartment.
01:15:39Compare those.
01:15:46They match, alright.
01:15:48They match the Curtis prints, Paul Guff, and the water glass.
01:15:50Well, are you satisfied?
01:15:52Go to the country club.
01:15:53Pick up Brett Curtis.
01:15:54Suspicion of murder.
01:15:55Cartwright case.
01:15:56I see.
01:15:59We'd better get to that boy Armstrong.
01:16:01Newback and Curtis are working together and there's no telling what may have happened
01:16:03to him by this time.
01:16:05They're in the Millback Place at Middleburg.
01:16:09Well, don't worry, Doctor.
01:16:11We'll find out in a few minutes.
01:16:20Brett.
01:16:22Hello, Dorothy.
01:16:23What are you doing here?
01:16:25Princess told me about tomorrow.
01:16:27Oh, Brett, I'm so thrilled.
01:16:29Mother's going to let me be a bridesmaid.
01:16:30Isn't that wonderful?
01:16:31I thought we might drive down to the florist and get dozens of roses and take them to the
01:16:35cottage.
01:16:36I want to do something special and I'm sure the princess would love her.
01:16:40That's a charming idea, Dorothy.
01:16:42I should have thought of that myself.
01:16:44Well, then let's go.
01:16:45Just a moment.
01:16:46I was going to meet somebody here.
01:16:50I'll leave a note for them.
01:16:51Don't be long.
01:16:53That's strange.
01:16:55Come on, Doctor.
01:16:56My car is downstairs.
01:17:09...
01:17:31Sir Neilback.
01:17:32Yes?
01:17:32Mr. Curtis asked me toicio you.
01:17:35Your Byrdle.
01:17:45Oh, my God.
01:18:19Open up.
01:18:23What's the meaning of this?
01:18:24How dare you break in?
01:18:25This is private property.
01:18:26Sure, we know.
01:18:27We're just nuts looking for a padded cell.
01:18:29Where's the Cartwright boys?
01:18:30I know nothing.
01:18:31I'm just an employee here.
01:18:32Well, we'll just have to go around breaking down doors.
01:18:34You have no right to search this place.
01:18:36You have no warrant.
01:18:37The district attorney wants Paul Cartwright,
01:18:40and he wants him alive.
01:18:41Of course he's alive.
01:18:42He's in his room.
01:18:42Which room?
01:18:43The first one down the hall, but it's locked.
01:18:45Have you a key?
01:18:45No, Professor Muehlbach has the key.
01:18:47He's out for the evening.
01:18:49Slade, take this woman in custody.
01:18:51Hold her as a material witness.
01:18:53Come on, Langdon.
01:19:10I'm afraid we're too late.
01:19:12I'm not so sure.
01:19:12Look at this.
01:19:14Good boy.
01:19:15He got away.
01:19:16I hope.
01:19:19There's no connection here.
01:19:20We can call from the switchboard.
01:19:31Calling his home?
01:19:32No, I'm calling Liddy.
01:19:33I don't want to go along Virginia just yet.
01:19:34Curtis may be there.
01:19:35That's right.
01:19:36I'd better have the Cartwright house covered.
01:19:39Hello, Liddy.
01:19:40Yes, this is Dr. Vincent.
01:19:41I'm up at Muehlbach's.
01:19:43We've been trying to get you to Mr. Armstrong's office.
01:19:45Paul's here.
01:19:47Hello, Doc.
01:19:48Oh, sure, I got out.
01:19:50What?
01:19:51I knew it.
01:19:52Boy, this is really it.
01:19:53What is it?
01:19:53Hello, Liddy.
01:19:54Paul come home for the wedding?
01:19:56What do you mean wedding?
01:19:57Well, don't you know?
01:19:58Mrs. Cartwright's marrying that Drew Curtis the first thing tomorrow.
01:20:01How do you know?
01:20:01Well, I saw Dorothy and Curtis come out of the florist with a big box, and they drove off in
01:20:05her car.
01:20:06Mike Peppis told me they were going to have to decorate the cottage on account of Mrs. Cartwright.
01:20:09Curtis and Dorothy have gone up to the cottage alone?
01:20:11Yes.
01:20:11Listen, Paul.
01:20:12Just a minute, Doc.
01:20:13Curtis and Dorothy have gone up to the cottage together alone.
01:20:16What?
01:20:17Doc, my sister and Curtis went up to Lakewood.
01:20:20She's alone with them.
01:20:21Mulebach knows the police.
01:20:22It happened, anything can happen.
01:20:23We're getting out there.
01:20:23So long.
01:20:24Come on, where's the car?
01:20:25Outside.
01:20:26Lydia, you better stay here.
01:20:26Not me.
01:20:27I'm coming with you.
01:20:28Well, why doesn't somebody tell me something?
01:20:54I'm coming with you.
01:20:59I'm coming with you.
01:21:00I'm coming with you.
01:21:12He must have turned off. I don't see him.
01:21:15Better backtrack.
01:21:40Put up your hands and get up.
01:21:44What's the meaning of this?
01:21:45You're under arrest.
01:21:46This is an outrage. You must be mistaking me for someone else.
01:21:49Come along.
01:21:52The princess will arrange them all over again.
01:21:55She can make flowers look as if they just grew out of a vase.
01:21:59Well, we'd better be starting back, Fred.
01:22:02What about a ride and a lunch?
01:22:04It's perfect out on the lake.
01:22:07There are a million stars floating on the water,
01:22:10and the crescent moon looks like something out of Omar Khayyam.
01:22:14Fred, you are the most romantic person.
01:22:18Most men around here never even heard of Omar Khayyam.
01:22:21If they did, they think he's a Turkish wrestler or something.
01:22:24Mother's really lucky.
01:22:25I'm glad you think so.
01:22:27Why are you looking at me like that?
01:22:30Because you're very lovely in the moonlight.
01:22:33Oh, everybody is.
01:22:34But I adore compliments.
01:22:36The best I ever got from George was,
01:22:38oh, come on, you look all right.
01:22:41You know, Brett, I've grown out of that crowd.
01:22:43I don't know what I ever saw in them.
01:22:45I'm really quite poetic at all.
01:22:47Only it's positively lethal to let anybody know about it in our crowd.
01:22:51They simply jeer.
01:22:55I heard a call, didn't you?
01:22:57Probably out on the main highway.
01:23:03Don't hold on, I'm so tight.
01:23:05Oh, I'm sorry.
01:23:06Steps are so uneven, I was afraid you might fall.
01:23:09Really, Brett, I think we better not.
01:23:11I must be getting back.
01:23:13Mother will be worried.
01:23:13Where is your spirit of adventure?
01:23:16I thought you were romantic.
01:23:18All right.
01:23:19But we won't stay long.
01:23:31You're here, all right.
01:23:33There's no lights on in the house.
01:23:37There's a light in the boathouse.
01:23:56They're in here.
01:23:57Come on, Heath.
01:24:01Oh, Dorothy.
01:24:02All right, Barrington.
01:24:03You meckling fool.
01:24:29It's clearing now.
01:24:33Look, Mother, we can see ahead.
01:24:38No, Virginia.
01:24:39Don't look back.
01:24:41It's all over.
01:25:04It's all over.
01:25:08It's all over.
01:25:10It's all over.
01:25:12It's all over.
01:25:13It's all over.
01:25:16It's all over.
01:25:18It's all over.
01:25:19It's all over.
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