A young attorney accepts what seems like the opportunity of a lifetime, only to discover he has been drawn into a dangerous web of lies, manipulation, and murder. As hidden motives begin to surface, every decision pushes him deeper into a deadly conspiracy where trust becomes impossible and survival depends on uncovering the truth before it's too late.
Released in 1947, *The Web* is a gripping film noir filled with suspense, sharp dialogue, memorable performances, and unexpected twists. Blending crime, mystery, and psychological tension, this classic keeps viewers guessing until its unforgettable conclusion.
If you enjoy classic noir films, courtroom thrillers, detective mysteries, and vintage Hollywood crime dramas, this timeless movie is a must-watch.
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Released in 1947, *The Web* is a gripping film noir filled with suspense, sharp dialogue, memorable performances, and unexpected twists. Blending crime, mystery, and psychological tension, this classic keeps viewers guessing until its unforgettable conclusion.
If you enjoy classic noir films, courtroom thrillers, detective mysteries, and vintage Hollywood crime dramas, this timeless movie is a must-watch.
All credit belongs to the original creators and copyright holders.
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00:05:06is Emilio Canepa doesn't think this is funny.
00:05:12Of course not.
00:05:14I'm sorry.
00:05:16Okay.
00:05:17I'll see that Mr. Canepa gets a check
00:05:20and a letter congratulating him on his choice of attorneys.
00:05:27Do you always attend to these matters personally, Mr. Regan?
00:05:31Well, I thought my client was getting pushed around.
00:05:34I didn't like that.
00:05:37Well, goodbye, Mr. Colby.
00:05:39Goodbye.
00:05:41Sorry if I got you in a jam.
00:05:43Anything for the cause of justice.
00:05:46Say, you know, you're a lot prettier than the girls out there.
00:05:50But obviously that's why you're in here.
00:05:53Obviously.
00:05:55What do you do Saturday nights?
00:05:57Oh, play marbles with the girls next door.
00:06:03Uh, look, uh, I know of a little place, uh...
00:06:06I'm sure you do.
00:06:08Well, the name's Regan.
00:06:10Robert Regan.
00:06:11I'll try to remember.
00:06:13I'm in the book.
00:06:14In case your push card ever gets pushed.
00:06:18It very rarely does.
00:06:20I don't anticipate any serious trouble on this loan, Andrew.
00:06:24Did you ring Mr. Colby?
00:06:25Oh, yes, Miss Faraday.
00:06:26Did Mr. Murdoch return?
00:06:28No, he hasn't.
00:06:29It is unfortunate that Krona should be getting out of prison at precisely this time.
00:06:33You can assure everyone concerned that Krona has absolutely no connection with my organization any longer.
00:06:37I think that's all we need.
00:06:39Goodbye.
00:06:39Goodbye.
00:06:41I'm sorry about the interruption, Andrew.
00:06:43You mean Regan?
00:06:44He was a welcome relief.
00:06:47How do things go?
00:06:48Beautifully.
00:06:50Beautifully.
00:06:51As a matter of fact, you can wire our Paris office that we'll be ready to leave in two weeks.
00:06:59I'm ready right now.
00:07:01Why?
00:07:06You're getting tired of New York?
00:07:07Oh, not particularly.
00:07:08It's just that, well, high finance isn't my idea, the most stimulating thing in the world.
00:07:15But the things you can do with the money.
00:07:17You can buy steamships and oil wells and head waders.
00:07:22Wouldn't you like an old stuffed major domo to use as a hat rack?
00:07:26Oh, come in, Charles.
00:07:27I've been waiting for you.
00:07:29Krona got in on the 10-12.
00:07:31Nobody met him but his daughter.
00:07:34Five years.
00:07:37It doesn't seem possible.
00:07:42How did he look, Charles?
00:07:43About the same.
00:07:44Thinner.
00:07:45A little bitter.
00:07:49I suppose I should see him.
00:07:51So I tried to reach him for you?
00:07:52No.
00:07:54No, we'll wait for him to call us.
00:07:59Noel, that young attorney who was here, what did you think of him?
00:08:04Well, I don't know.
00:08:06Brash, hot-headed.
00:08:08Fairly bright, I imagine.
00:08:11Have him come to see me tonight.
00:08:13Come to see him?
00:08:14Yes.
00:08:16Nine o'clock at home.
00:08:21Yes.
00:08:28Nine o'clock at home.
00:08:44Is Mr. Colby at home?
00:08:46Who shall I say his calling?
00:08:47Mr. Regan.
00:08:48Rather than Regan.
00:08:52Come in, please.
00:09:02Expecting someone?
00:09:05Come this way, Mr. Regan.
00:09:11May I take your things, please?
00:09:13Oh, thank you.
00:09:15Quite a place.
00:09:16Fell I could get lonesome.
00:09:17Good evening, Mr. Regan.
00:09:20My name is Noel Faraday.
00:09:23Well, hello.
00:09:24I'm representing Andrew Colby.
00:09:27This, in case you've never seen one, is not a summons.
00:09:32When I'm worth $40 million, I'm going to have a secretary who looks exactly like you.
00:09:36Oh, my taste is fairly simple.
00:09:38$20 million would be quite enough.
00:09:42How's Amelia Knieper?
00:09:45Expecting a check.
00:09:51I feel like a man of distinction.
00:09:54Are you?
00:09:55As distinctive as you can get at public school 45.
00:09:59What's the idea of this interview?
00:10:01Why don't you ask Mr. Colby?
00:10:03Oh, I thought you were his personal secretary.
00:10:06Oh, he keeps a few secrets from me.
00:10:09I couldn't.
00:10:11Say, uh...
00:10:13What kind of a guy is he, anyway?
00:10:15Attractive.
00:10:16Generous.
00:10:17Warm-hearted.
00:10:19Brilliant.
00:10:20Good shot, Mr. Colby.
00:10:22Won't you join me?
00:10:23I'm a little out of practice.
00:10:24Good.
00:10:26Thank you, Noel.
00:10:30Don't forget to save your nickels, Mr. Regan.
00:10:32$20 million will do it.
00:10:36That's a very attractive secretary you have there, Mr. Colby.
00:10:38I'm still young enough to notice that myself, Mr. Regan.
00:10:42Were you surprised to hear from me so soon?
00:10:44Sure, I was surprised.
00:10:45I was very much impressed with you this afternoon.
00:10:48That's funny.
00:10:48I didn't think you'd feel like that.
00:10:50I liked your aggressiveness, your loyalty to your client.
00:10:53It's a very rare thing to find these days, loyalty.
00:10:56You can buy it at any dog store in town.
00:10:59Unfortunately, that's about the only place.
00:11:04How would you like to come and work for me, Mr. Regan?
00:11:07Sounds fine.
00:11:08But considerably more money than I believe you're earning now.
00:11:11Sounds even better.
00:11:12And it's all settled?
00:11:13Not quite.
00:11:14What do I do for all this money?
00:11:16What have I got that Porter and Griswold haven't?
00:11:19You wouldn't believe me if I told you I needed another attorney.
00:11:24Not any more than if you told me you needed another million dollars.
00:11:27I didn't think you would.
00:11:31Regan, you understand, of course, that this is a professional rather than a social visit?
00:11:37You can talk freely if that's what you mean.
00:11:38I'll try to make it short.
00:11:41Up until five years ago, I had a business associate, a man named Leopold Croner.
00:11:46He became financially entangled and took nearly a million dollars' worth of bonds belonging to our firm.
00:11:53Had counterfeit duplicates made and then, using his position as an executive, sold those counterfeit bonds.
00:12:00Clever boy.
00:12:02Not so clever.
00:12:03He was discovered and sent to prison for five years.
00:12:06I did everything I could for him at the trial, but it was hopeless.
00:12:10He's been released from prison, but the long confinement seems to have unbalanced him seriously.
00:12:17How do you mean?
00:12:18He seems to hold me responsible for everything.
00:12:22I talked with him on the phone today, and he threatened my life.
00:12:29You better call the cops.
00:12:30If necessary, I will, but I'd prefer not to.
00:12:34Why?
00:12:36Well, the publicity involved.
00:12:39Just now, I'm negotiating a rather large loan, essential for expanding my operations.
00:12:46And if certain of my prospective backers were to hear that my life had been threatened, or I had hired
00:12:51someone to protect me...
00:12:53I see.
00:12:54But on the other hand, if I were to engage a bright young attorney to be constantly at my side...
00:12:59Nobody would think a thing about it.
00:13:00Exactly.
00:13:01That is, nobody except me, because I'd think about it a lot, and I wouldn't like it.
00:13:07Why not?
00:13:08Because I'm a lawyer, not a bodyguard.
00:13:11Yes, I understand.
00:13:13I have a career.
00:13:14Someday, I'd like to have an office of my own.
00:13:16Someday, I'd like to be able to sue people like you and Porter and Griswold.
00:13:22I'll be leaving the country in two weeks.
00:13:24That's all the time it would involve.
00:13:26I don't like to make a detour for even two weeks.
00:13:29This might not prove to be such a detour.
00:13:33Five thousand dollars should go a long way towards opening that office.
00:13:41I've heard of that kind of money.
00:13:43Well, what do you say?
00:13:48If you think I'm going to turn it down, you're crazy.
00:13:54But then, you act a little bit crazy anyway.
00:14:01Believe me, it's worth it to me.
00:14:04Well, believe me, it's worth it to me, too.
00:14:07Okay.
00:14:08You've got yourself a bodyguard at five thousand dollars a body.
00:14:11When do I start?
00:14:12You're working right now.
00:14:15I'm a little bit short of the tools of my tray.
00:14:17Help yourself.
00:14:26Can you get a permit for that?
00:14:29I have a friend.
00:14:35All right, Regan.
00:14:37Thanks, Mark.
00:14:38Morning for a precinct.
00:14:40Hi, D'Amico.
00:14:41How are the kids?
00:14:42Kids are fine.
00:14:48What's this about a gun permit?
00:14:49Oh.
00:14:50Yeah, they passed the law, you know.
00:14:52You have to have one to carry one of these things.
00:14:55You're not supposed to carry it until after you have the permit.
00:14:58Oh.
00:15:00Where'd you get it?
00:15:02Oh, the store brought it.
00:15:05Some of your satisfied clients after you?
00:15:07No.
00:15:08No, it's the man shortage.
00:15:09The guy just isn't safe in the streets nowadays.
00:15:14Why do you want to carry a gun?
00:15:16Well, it makes me feel two feet tall.
00:15:18Come on, come on.
00:15:19Well, there have been prowlers around my place lately.
00:15:21Yesterday, I was held up and robbed of fifty thousand dollars.
00:15:24An old girlfriend of mine has threatened my life.
00:15:26Personally, I don't like guys walking around with guns on them.
00:15:29A lot of screwballs playing cops and robbers.
00:15:32Man thinks twice before he strangles somebody or sticks a knife in him, but if he's got a gun...
00:15:36Oh, come on, Lieutenant.
00:15:37Give me a letter to the captain.
00:15:38Don't point that thing at me.
00:15:40But it...
00:15:41And don't tell me it isn't loaded.
00:15:44Look, D'Amico, I can't wait around for months for this permit.
00:15:47You and my old man used to play hopscotch together.
00:15:51First thing we teach a man in my department is it's bad manners to point a gun unless you're going
00:15:55to use it.
00:15:57For Pop Regan's little boy?
00:15:59How about it?
00:16:04All right, get out of here.
00:16:07Get yourself fingerprinted, photographed, and questioned.
00:16:09I'll call the captain.
00:16:11You're not welcome.
00:16:35Look, chum.
00:16:37That you and I have an understanding right now.
00:16:40You don't creep around dark rooms.
00:16:42I don't fire this in your direction.
00:16:44I was just checking up.
00:16:45You better wear a taillight.
00:16:47I hope if the occasion arises you'll know how to use that thing.
00:16:50You keep on playing Frankenstein and you'll find out.
00:17:07Well, the drawbridge is up, the house is locked, barbed wire is strung, and Murdoch just scared the pants off
00:17:13me.
00:17:15Ah, well, a day in the life of a bodyguard.
00:17:18I never even knew there were bodies worth $5,000.
00:17:23Nothing personal, of course.
00:17:27Say, now that the boss is safely upstairs, what do you say if you and I cut up a little
00:17:32bit?
00:17:33You'd better get out your little tattered black book and make other arrangements.
00:17:37Why?
00:17:39I'm going to get myself safely upstairs.
00:17:43I was merely suggesting changing the radio and having a dance.
00:17:48You could be lynched for the way you suggested.
00:17:57I was locked out, I'm sorry.
00:18:01Did you finish checking?
00:18:03Everything's tight.
00:18:04All right.
00:18:06Good night.
00:18:07Good night, Charles.
00:18:11What does he do for a living except turn up unexpectedly from time to time?
00:18:15Charles?
00:18:16Oh, lots of things.
00:18:18He's been with Mr. Colby for years.
00:18:21Nice, compact little group, Murdoch.
00:18:24You and Colby.
00:18:26There are lots of double meanings in that remark.
00:18:29No, I just like to keep things straight.
00:18:31What pigeon belongs in what pigeonhole, who belongs to who.
00:18:36Why should you care?
00:18:37Well, we're all hired help together.
00:18:39Maybe I have visions of asking you for a date sometime.
00:18:43With what in mind?
00:18:44Oh, dancing, drinking, catch-as-catch-can.
00:18:49Thanks for warning me.
00:18:50I'll bring along my police whistle.
00:18:52Oh, no.
00:18:53No, you have nothing to fear from me.
00:18:54My early years in reform school left a lasting impression.
00:18:58Problem, Charles?
00:18:59Just average.
00:19:00Used to set fire to my kid brother occasionally, but then, who doesn't?
00:19:04Well, that's very encouraging.
00:19:13Ask me nicely and you can have this dance.
00:19:19You've been asked.
00:19:46You won't need that.
00:19:48He's dead.
00:19:51Kroner?
00:19:52Yes.
00:19:53How did he get in?
00:19:54I don't know.
00:19:56I'd better call the police.
00:20:03I got up from my desk to put some papers away.
00:20:08When I turned back, there he was, holding the gun on me.
00:20:11His hands were trembling.
00:20:12His eyes were wild.
00:20:14It was horrible.
00:20:16Yes, go on, please.
00:20:18He called me every name imaginable.
00:20:21Swore that he was going to kill me and then himself, because I had ruined his life.
00:20:27I, who had tried everything.
00:20:30What happened then, Mr. Colby?
00:20:31I was afraid to call for help, but then when he came closer to me, I threw the papers in
00:20:37his face and made a grab for the gun.
00:20:40He fired one shot that went into the floor.
00:20:44I couldn't get his gun away from him, but I couldn't get his gun away from him, but I did
00:20:46manage to push him back.
00:20:49That's when Regan rushed into the room.
00:20:54He turned on me with the gun, but he was off balance, I guess.
00:20:59Anyway, I was able to fire first.
00:21:04Lieutenant, does this testimony agree with the reports of your department?
00:21:07It does.
00:21:09The absence of any evidence or presumption, counter to the testimony heard here, makes it unnecessary for this office to
00:21:15pursue this hearing any further.
00:21:17Thank you, gentlemen, for your cooperation.
00:21:24Let's you and me have a little talk in my office alone.
00:21:29When?
00:21:32Now.
00:21:33You haven't heard anything from Mr. Croner's daughter?
00:21:36No.
00:21:36We've been trying to locate her.
00:21:38When you find her, would you please let me know?
00:21:40I'd like to make some provision for her.
00:21:42Certainly, I will.
00:21:46You ready to leave?
00:21:49Well, I have a couple of things to do, Mr. Colby.
00:21:52I'll see you at the house later.
00:21:55All right, Bob.
00:22:06That made sense what I said yesterday, didn't it, about people carrying guns.
00:22:11Personally, I stuck my neck out a mile to get you that permit.
00:22:16Well, I would have looked great in there without it.
00:22:18Guy takes a shot at your boss while you're downstairs romancing a dame and listening to a symphony.
00:22:23You're a great bodyguard.
00:22:25You, uh...
00:22:26Why'd he come to the police if he'd been threatened?
00:22:28Ah, he didn't want the publicity.
00:22:30Well, he's got plenty of it now.
00:22:32We knew where Kroner was all the time.
00:22:34We could have picked him up without a sound.
00:22:36You better ask Colby about that.
00:22:38Maybe I will.
00:22:42What was the payoff, Bob?
00:22:44Look.
00:22:46Are you holding me?
00:22:47No.
00:22:48No, but there's a couple of things I don't like about this case.
00:22:51Like what?
00:22:55I, uh...
00:22:56Been looking over the Kroner case of five years ago.
00:23:01Guy counterfeits some bonds.
00:23:03Sells him for a million dollars and then pleads guilty.
00:23:07But nobody ever finds the million dollars.
00:23:10He stashed it away someplace.
00:23:11Great.
00:23:12And what's he sore about?
00:23:14A man with a million dollars is not sore at anybody.
00:23:17What's that got to do with me?
00:23:19Everything's got to do with you.
00:23:21You killed him.
00:23:23In self-defense.
00:23:24The guy had a gun in his hand.
00:23:25He'd already fired once.
00:23:26Anybody can shove a gun in a dead man's hand.
00:23:29Kroner's prints weren't the only ones we found on that gun, you know.
00:23:32Colby picked it up after Kroner was dead.
00:23:33We told you that.
00:23:34You told me a lot of things.
00:23:35I still don't like it.
00:23:41Yesterday morning, you get your permit approved.
00:23:44Last night, you kill a guy.
00:23:46In self-defense.
00:23:48Kroner gets out of prison one day
00:23:49and gets bumped off the next.
00:23:53All the time, there's a million bucks in cash
00:23:55laying around loose someplace.
00:23:59Couldn't be that you've got a line on that money, could it?
00:24:02Now, lay off, D'Amico.
00:24:03You know me better than that.
00:24:05I knew Benny Parsons all his life.
00:24:07And two weeks ago, he did a job on his uncle with a meat cleaver.
00:24:14This case is a long ways from settled, as far as I'm concerned.
00:24:17Remember that, Regan?
00:24:19If I forget, you remind me.
00:24:22I will.
00:24:35You really think there's something phony?
00:24:38You heard me.
00:24:46No, I'm really terribly sorry you had to be mixed up in all of this.
00:24:50Maybe you'd like to go on to Paris ahead of me.
00:24:52No.
00:24:55I'll wait for you.
00:24:57But let's go soon, Andrew.
00:24:59I'm beginning to hate New York.
00:25:01Fell outside, said I could get a drink in here.
00:25:03Well, help yourself.
00:25:10We've begun to wonder what had happened to you, Bob.
00:25:13I haven't had a chance to really thank you for last night.
00:25:16Oh, forget it.
00:25:17I don't want to forget it.
00:25:18I want to show my appreciation.
00:25:21Would a check for 20 million be asking too much?
00:25:24Yes.
00:25:26But here's the amount that we agreed on.
00:25:32Well, another day, another 5,000.
00:25:35Well, Bob, if you'd like to stay on with me...
00:25:37I'm afraid I couldn't stand the strain.
00:25:39You know, try as I will, I just can't get used to killing people.
00:25:43What's the matter, Bob?
00:25:45Anything that police lieutenant said?
00:25:48No, he just wanted to talk.
00:25:51Trouble with D'Amico is he reads too many detective stories.
00:25:55Spoils them for routine police work.
00:25:58What's the matter with you?
00:26:00Me?
00:26:01Nothing.
00:26:02She's a little depressed.
00:26:04That he didn't get me first, is that nice?
00:26:06You know, you and I had a tentative date, remember?
00:26:09You were going to wear your police whistle.
00:26:11Let's make it for dinner tonight.
00:26:13With both of us in the dumps, we shouldn't inflict our company on anyone but each other.
00:26:18Why don't you?
00:26:20I'll pick you up at 8.
00:26:22Dress up real pretty, and I'll wear my graduation suit.
00:26:24But tonight I want to feel respectable.
00:26:28You better call me in an hour, Regan.
00:26:34Okay.
00:26:40I'm checking in my gun, coach.
00:26:41It was a great fight.
00:26:42I'm glad I won.
00:26:45I know it isn't easy, Bob.
00:26:47But don't let yourself start brooding about this.
00:26:51I'm okay.
00:26:55And I haven't forgotten.
00:26:57You still owe Emilio Knieper $68.72.
00:27:15I'm glad Regan suggested dinner tonight.
00:27:18Are you?
00:27:19Why?
00:27:20Well, I thought you might enjoy it.
00:27:23Maybe I will.
00:27:25Well, you don't have to go, Noel.
00:27:27I know I don't.
00:27:28Maybe you could cheer him up.
00:27:30Oh, yes, Andrew.
00:27:32I'm just the girl to do it.
00:27:34Especially tonight.
00:27:38Seriously, Noel.
00:27:39He denied it, of course.
00:27:42But that lieutenant must have said something to disturb him so deeply.
00:27:46And you'd like to know what it was?
00:27:47I didn't say that.
00:27:49You didn't say it, but that's what you meant.
00:27:52A few minutes ago, you were sorry because I was mixed up in all this.
00:27:56I'm still sorry.
00:27:57I don't know what's come over you, Noel.
00:28:00It isn't like you to suggest that I go out with someone else.
00:28:04I can't ever remember suggesting that you shouldn't.
00:28:10Regan has done us a great service.
00:28:12It seems to me like the least we could do for him.
00:28:14The least?
00:28:17Oh, of course.
00:28:19I'll dig up some light, bright table talk and a low-cut dress.
00:28:24Anything else?
00:28:27No.
00:28:28Good.
00:28:47Good.
00:29:21More coffee?
00:29:22Please.
00:29:24I couldn't have been more surprised when Colby let you out tonight.
00:29:28What do you mean by that?
00:29:30Oh, if I were in charge of something like you, I'd be a little careful about how I passed it
00:29:33around.
00:29:35I'd be passing around if he died. I'd do it myself.
00:29:38Nobody else.
00:29:40I saw the look you threw him before he gave you the nod.
00:29:43I really wanted to know if he had anything for me to do tonight.
00:29:46That's what I mean.
00:29:53What's happened to the masculine ego?
00:29:55Or do girls usually go out with you just on orders from someone else?
00:30:00You know, I don't kid myself that the president of three corporations isn't a little competition.
00:30:04This is America.
00:30:06You too can be competition.
00:30:09That's a stirring thought.
00:30:11I was just trying to figure if I needed three corporations or if I could do it on my own.
00:30:18Why don't you ask me?
00:30:24Well, first of all, I'd like to find how you stand with Colby.
00:30:27Why? What does that matter?
00:30:29Maybe I've already made a few plans.
00:30:33Well, if you have, they certainly don't include him, so why worry?
00:30:37I'm just naturally a worry.
00:30:42How long have you worked for him?
00:30:43A little over six years.
00:30:46You must know him pretty well.
00:30:49I, um, recognize him when I see him.
00:30:53Any more questions?
00:30:55No.
00:30:57No questions.
00:30:59Uh, what's the use?
00:31:03Tonight, I sit making awkward passes at a beautiful girl.
00:31:06Last night, I killed a man.
00:31:08Tomorrow?
00:31:11You're not to blame for what happened.
00:31:13I'm to blame for getting in a spot like that in the first place.
00:31:16Who am I to be carrying a gun, playing around with people's lives?
00:31:19I ought to have my head examined.
00:31:20But last night, Bob, there was nothing else you could do.
00:31:23I could have shot him in the shoulder, couldn't I?
00:31:24Or in the leg.
00:31:25I could have kept my head and not have killed him.
00:31:28Isn't that what they said at the police station?
00:31:33What do you mean?
00:31:34Well, you seemed so disturbed when you got back.
00:31:38Uh-huh.
00:31:39Mr. Colby rips his ugly head.
00:31:42And after I tell you, do you have to leave right away,
00:31:44or can you stick around a while and report later?
00:31:47Let's go home.
00:31:48Quit kidding.
00:31:49He asked you to find out what happened down there.
00:31:52I had dinner with you tonight because I wanted to.
00:31:55And up until now, I've been having a very nice time.
00:31:57You're rude, but you're upset, so I'll forgive that.
00:32:01But if you want us really to know each other,
00:32:04why don't you stop acting like a schoolboy asking grown-up questions?
00:32:10I'm sorry.
00:32:14So am I.
00:32:18Remember,
00:32:20if we ever go out again,
00:32:23I do what I want because I want to do it.
00:32:27Now take me home.
00:32:35Good night, Regan.
00:32:36Wait a minute.
00:32:38I...
00:32:39I don't like to leave things like this.
00:32:41Why not?
00:32:43I'll be gone in a week anyway.
00:32:44A lot of things can happen in a week.
00:32:46France fell in 18 days,
00:32:47and you're not as tough as France.
00:32:49Don't be so sure.
00:32:51Look,
00:32:53about tonight,
00:32:55I'm a warm-hearted, impulsive boy.
00:32:57Sometimes I say things I don't mean.
00:32:58It's all right, Bob.
00:33:00Don't worry about it.
00:33:00I'm not only warm-hearted,
00:33:02I'm shy.
00:33:03I...
00:33:03I need a lot of encouragement.
00:33:07Well,
00:33:10I'm not really as tough as France,
00:33:12if that's any help.
00:33:13That's fine.
00:33:14That shows you thinking in the right direction.
00:33:18I'm a great admirer of the resistance movement,
00:33:20but I...
00:33:21I don't like to see things carried too far.
00:33:24Kiss him goodnight, Noel,
00:33:25or we'll have him here for breakfast.
00:33:27You must have rubber soles.
00:33:29It was such a nice night,
00:33:31I decided to walk.
00:33:32Did you tiptoe the whole way?
00:33:35Why don't you come in for a while, Bob?
00:33:37It's still early.
00:33:39All right, I will.
00:33:49Well, what did you two do tonight?
00:33:51Oh, not much.
00:33:52We sat around,
00:33:53threw a few rocks at each other.
00:33:55You boys can burn the candle at both ends
00:33:57if you want to,
00:33:58but my dangerous beauty
00:33:59depends upon eight hours of sleep.
00:34:02Goodnight.
00:34:02Goodnight, Noel.
00:34:08Drink, Bob?
00:34:10Uh...
00:34:10No.
00:34:12How much do you owe me
00:34:13for the billiards the other night?
00:34:14Twenty bucks, even.
00:34:16Well, I'll give you a chance
00:34:17to get it back.
00:34:18How about, uh,
00:34:19showdown poker at a dollar a hand?
00:34:21Oh, you must be interested
00:34:22in my five thousand dollars.
00:34:24I'm interested in everybody's five thousand dollars.
00:34:27Aren't you?
00:34:28Well, it's worth thinking about.
00:34:30Of course,
00:34:31Lieutenant D'Amico
00:34:32doesn't settle so cheaply.
00:34:34He's interested in a million dollars.
00:34:38Ambition is a dangerous thing
00:34:40in policemen.
00:34:43Kroner's million.
00:34:45He thinks I know
00:34:46where it's buried.
00:34:47Do you?
00:34:50Until this afternoon,
00:34:51I had to save up the way myself.
00:34:54What else does the lieutenant think?
00:34:56Oh, I told you,
00:34:57he reads too many detective stories.
00:35:00He's always figuring out plots.
00:35:03Oh, what's his plot this time?
00:35:06Well, it's,
00:35:07it's not bad.
00:35:11A wealthy industrialist
00:35:12has somebody he's anxious to get rid of.
00:35:15He hires a not-too-bright,
00:35:17eager young man
00:35:18as a bodyguard.
00:35:19Frames a situation
00:35:20where the bodyguard
00:35:22has to kill the guy
00:35:23in self-defense.
00:35:25The industrialist
00:35:26has rid of the guy,
00:35:27he's in the clear,
00:35:28and the not-too-bright-young man
00:35:31never tumbles.
00:35:32The lieutenant seems
00:35:33to have more imagination
00:35:34than most lieutenants.
00:35:37It's an interesting legal point,
00:35:39because even if our dull boy
00:35:40should tumble,
00:35:42there's nothing he could do about it.
00:35:43Why should he want to?
00:35:46Why shouldn't he?
00:35:48The man is already dead.
00:35:50There isn't anything
00:35:51your young friend
00:35:51can do about that.
00:35:53The district attorney
00:35:54has exonerated him,
00:35:56so there's no danger there.
00:35:58On the other hand,
00:35:59he may have made himself
00:36:00a powerful and influential friend.
00:36:03You forget he's not too bright.
00:36:04He may feel
00:36:06some twinges of conscience.
00:36:07Why?
00:36:08There was no intent
00:36:09of murder on his part.
00:36:11Morally,
00:36:11he's as pure
00:36:12as the driven snow.
00:36:14That's true enough.
00:36:16So why should he
00:36:17jeopardize himself?
00:36:18He can only cause trouble
00:36:20by refusing
00:36:21to accept his position.
00:36:23First, with the police,
00:36:24who'd never believe his story.
00:36:26Secondly, with the industrialist,
00:36:27who, if he's as ruthless
00:36:29as he sounds,
00:36:31might prove to be
00:36:32dangerous himself.
00:36:34Well,
00:36:37it's Lieutenant Tomiko's plot.
00:36:40Let him worry about it.
00:36:42Of course.
00:36:43Bob,
00:36:44Bob, I honestly wish
00:36:45you'd change your mind
00:36:45and come to Paris with me.
00:36:47We're in for an exciting time.
00:36:49Tremendous expansion.
00:36:50You'd like it.
00:36:51Maybe I would.
00:36:53Change your mind?
00:36:54I might.
00:36:56Maybe I'd end up
00:36:57with as much dough
00:36:58as you had.
00:36:59Not unless you
00:37:00improved your billiards.
00:37:01That was last time.
00:37:04Pair of kings?
00:37:06Sorry.
00:37:07Eights over fives.
00:37:11There must be some way
00:37:12of eating you.
00:37:14Not while I'm holding
00:37:15all the cards.
00:37:39You're Krona's daughter.
00:37:43Come away from the door.
00:37:50I know how you must feel,
00:37:52Miss Krona.
00:37:54How you must hate me.
00:37:56Do you?
00:37:57How much hate
00:37:58does it take
00:37:59to kill a man?
00:38:00You should know.
00:38:01I didn't hate your father.
00:38:03I didn't even know it.
00:38:04And yet you murdered him.
00:38:05For what?
00:38:06For money?
00:38:08I could have waited
00:38:09for you outside
00:38:10and killed you.
00:38:11But I wanted
00:38:12to look at you.
00:38:13To talk to you.
00:38:15To see for myself
00:38:17what kind of a man
00:38:17takes money.
00:38:19To murder someone
00:38:20he never even knew.
00:38:21There was nothing else
00:38:22I could do.
00:38:23He had a gun in his hand
00:38:24he'd already fired once.
00:38:26You've got to believe me.
00:38:28Believe you?
00:38:29A hired gunman?
00:38:31No.
00:38:32You murdered my father
00:38:33because you were paid
00:38:34to do it.
00:38:34No other reason.
00:38:35One dead body.
00:38:37Cash on delivery.
00:38:38He isn't a person.
00:38:40He isn't anyone's father.
00:38:43He's just a new car
00:38:45you can buy
00:38:45when he stops breathing.
00:38:47Your father
00:38:47would have killed Colby.
00:38:49He wasn't himself.
00:38:51Don't lie.
00:38:52It won't help you.
00:38:54I never dreamed
00:38:55I could hate enough
00:38:55to want to kill him.
00:38:57But I've reason enough
00:38:58to kill you
00:38:59and I...
00:39:19I'm sorry
00:39:20I had to do that.
00:39:31Why don't you kill me too?
00:39:33You have the gun.
00:39:38I don't want to kill you
00:39:39Miss Croner
00:39:40any more than I wanted
00:39:41to kill your father.
00:39:43I was hired
00:39:44to protect Mr. Colby.
00:39:47protect him
00:39:49from what?
00:39:52My father
00:39:53wouldn't have hurt anyone.
00:39:56It isn't easy
00:39:57to believe all this
00:39:58about someone you love
00:39:59but
00:40:00when a man is
00:40:01out of his mind...
00:40:05He wasn't
00:40:06out of his mind.
00:40:08A rational person
00:40:09doesn't threaten
00:40:10another man's life
00:40:11or break into
00:40:12his house
00:40:12with a gun.
00:40:14He didn't threaten
00:40:15Colby.
00:40:17And he never
00:40:17owned a gun.
00:40:18How do you know?
00:40:21I knew my father.
00:40:23You didn't.
00:40:26Shall I tell you
00:40:27about him?
00:40:29Do you really want
00:40:30to know about
00:40:30the man you killed?
00:40:33My father was a man
00:40:35who sprinkled
00:40:36breadcrumbs
00:40:37on the windowsill
00:40:37every morning
00:40:39for the birds.
00:40:41A man who'd
00:40:42grow faint
00:40:43if I cut a finger
00:40:44or picked up
00:40:45a splinter.
00:40:49Leopold Croner.
00:40:51A man whose child
00:40:52was never taken
00:40:53to the zoo
00:40:53because
00:40:54it was cruel
00:40:55to coop up
00:40:57animals in cages.
00:41:01Is that the picture
00:41:02of a housebreaker
00:41:03or a murderer?
00:41:04But he did
00:41:05break into the house.
00:41:06All the doors
00:41:07were locked.
00:41:07I checked them myself.
00:41:09He didn't break in.
00:41:10He was invited.
00:41:13Invited?
00:41:14He was asked
00:41:15to be there
00:41:16at ten o'clock.
00:41:17I was there
00:41:18when he phoned.
00:41:20As though
00:41:21you didn't know
00:41:22all that.
00:41:24Are you sure of this?
00:41:26Do you have any proof?
00:41:29If I had proof,
00:41:30do you think
00:41:31I'd be here now?
00:41:32Or you would?
00:41:34No, Mr. Regan.
00:41:37If I could prove
00:41:38what I know,
00:41:40you and Colby
00:41:41would be where you belong.
00:41:43In a death cell.
00:41:51Give me my gun.
00:41:59I didn't murder
00:42:01your father.
00:42:04I don't believe you.
00:42:28I don't believe in it.
00:42:53Yes, sir.
00:43:18I'm sorry, how are you talking about this?
00:43:32I think you're absolutely right about people carrying guns.
00:43:37Where'd you get that?
00:43:39Surplus war materials smuggled into my apartment by a girl named Cronin.
00:43:45Arthur Cronin? Where did you find her?
00:43:49From the last scene, she was trying to kill me.
00:43:53You, uh, asking for protection?
00:43:56Mm-mm, information.
00:43:59I'd like to find out how near you are to pinning this thing on me.
00:44:03You, uh, just keep yourself handy.
00:44:06I'll let you know when the time arrives.
00:44:09Supposing I were to tell you that I agreed with you.
00:44:13That I think it was murder.
00:44:18In that case, I'd dig out a little piece of paper and a pencil
00:44:21and have you sign a confession.
00:44:24That's not exactly what I meant.
00:44:26Why not?
00:44:27You could turn state's evidence and see daylight again when you're about 95.
00:44:30I don't have any evidence.
00:44:31Everything I told you was the truth.
00:44:32I was hired as a bodyguard.
00:44:34I killed Cronin in self-defense.
00:44:35Well, what are you worried about?
00:44:37Finally occurred to me I might have been a patsy in this thing.
00:44:43Frame up?
00:44:44You must have heard of him in your profession.
00:44:47Not as often as you think.
00:44:51What's the matter?
00:44:52Does Cronin damn know something that scared you?
00:44:56Nothing you could arrest me on.
00:44:57That's your opinion.
00:45:00Just what do you want, Regan?
00:45:03I want to work with you on this case.
00:45:06What makes you think I need any help?
00:45:08I'm on the inside.
00:45:09I might be able to dig up something.
00:45:11Yeah, and cover it right up again.
00:45:13You seem to forget you're the one I'm after.
00:45:15No, D'Amico.
00:45:17I'm not the one you want.
00:45:19You pulled the trigger.
00:45:21It was your bullet that killed the guy.
00:45:23If it's murder, you did it.
00:45:24What's the motive?
00:45:27$5,000 you deposited in the bank this afternoon.
00:45:35Any more questions?
00:45:36You don't believe I could have been framed?
00:45:39If you were, you're too stupid to be running around loose anyway.
00:45:42In other words, I'd better get out of town.
00:45:44You wouldn't get three feet.
00:45:45What do I do then?
00:45:49Well, if I were in your shoes, I'd go to church every morning.
00:45:53Prayed that a certain cop named D'Amico was running himself right up a blind alley.
00:45:58That's great, except for a couple of little things.
00:46:00What?
00:46:02I'm not a guy that goes around killing people.
00:46:04I like to be able to sleep at night.
00:46:06I just talked with the daughter of the man I killed.
00:46:11Personally, you're in a tough spot.
00:46:14I didn't have to stay up this late to find that out.
00:46:19Isn't there some way we can get together on this?
00:46:22Well, sure.
00:46:23You confess and I'll arrest you.
00:46:26All right.
00:46:28I just start digging around on my own, that's all.
00:46:34Regan, for a lawyer, you're not very smart.
00:46:38Like I said, if you prove that it's murder, you prove that you're a murderer.
00:46:42If it's a frame there's only one guy can clear you, call me.
00:46:47And I don't think he'd be too anxious to run to the rescue.
00:46:50Do you?
00:47:00Thanks for nothing.
00:47:02Anytime.
00:47:04Anytime at all.
00:47:19Well, here's all we got on the Kroner case.
00:47:22Ah, this won't help.
00:47:24You might try one of the other papers.
00:47:26Already have.
00:47:32Is this guy Nolan still on the paper?
00:47:34James, Timothy Nolan on a newspaper.
00:47:36Did you read that famous bestseller,
00:47:39Wither Away Mankind?
00:47:41No.
00:47:42Nolan wrote it.
00:47:43He told you, whither.
00:47:44Oh, that's great.
00:47:46Where can I reach him now?
00:47:47These days he lives and insults people at the Barclay Tower.
00:47:51Barclay Tower, yeah.
00:47:56Oh, thanks for the help.
00:47:58Have fun.
00:47:58Thanks.
00:48:02I want to see Mr. James Nolan, please.
00:48:04My name's Regan.
00:48:05Yes, sir.
00:48:09512, please.
00:48:12Never mind, operator.
00:48:13There's Mr. Nolan coming out of the elevator now, sir.
00:48:17Yes, sir.
00:48:19Mr. Nolan?
00:48:20See my business manager.
00:48:21He'll pay you whatever I owe you.
00:48:23You don't owe me anything, Mr. Nolan.
00:48:24My name's Bob Regan.
00:48:25I want to buy you a drink.
00:48:26I don't care what your name is.
00:48:27I've got ulcers.
00:48:29One minute, please.
00:48:30Oh, boy.
00:48:31Ulcers, huh?
00:48:33Will you send two glasses of milk up to room 512?
00:48:36Yes, sir.
00:48:37Mr. Nolan, I've been looking forward to meeting you for a long time.
00:48:40I'm a great admirer of yours.
00:48:42Suppose we have a little talk.
00:48:44Well, of course, I don't remember very much about my newspaper days,
00:48:48but I do recall the Kroner case.
00:48:51It was a pretty open and shut affair.
00:48:53Kroner pleaded guilty and they took him away.
00:48:56Do you remember Colby at the trial?
00:48:58Oh, yes.
00:48:59He acted very decent about the whole thing.
00:49:01Tried to do everything he could for Kroner.
00:49:03Oh, come on, Nolan.
00:49:04Earn your milk.
00:49:06I'm looking for angles that weren't reported in the papers.
00:49:09What angles?
00:49:11If I didn't write it in my stories, it wasn't worth mentioning.
00:49:14Well, you let me decide that.
00:49:16What about other people connected with the case?
00:49:19You know, surprise witnesses.
00:49:22What do you think it was?
00:49:22A pulp story?
00:49:24A man pleaded guilty.
00:49:25There were no witnesses.
00:49:28Well, I can't make any money around here.
00:49:33Wait a minute.
00:49:35Come to think of it.
00:49:37There was a guy.
00:49:39Name of Bruno.
00:49:43Victor Bruno.
00:49:44Who was he?
00:49:45Oh, the cops figured there were only three men in the country who could do the engraving job on those
00:49:50counterfeit bonds.
00:49:51One was in the jug, another gone straight, and the third one was this Bruno.
00:49:56What did he say at the trial?
00:49:57He wasn't at the trial.
00:49:58They never called him.
00:50:00Victor Bruno, huh?
00:50:02Say, you don't mind finishing your milk alone, do you?
00:50:04Oh, I thought you wanted to talk about my book.
00:50:08Well, what's there to talk about?
00:50:09You wrote it.
00:50:09You sold it.
00:50:10But, wouldn't you like to hear how I happened to write it?
00:50:14I'm afraid not.
00:50:15No.
00:50:15Not while I'm buying the milk.
00:50:19Someday you give a party and we'll talk about anything you like.
00:50:23Wither away mankind.
00:50:27Hello?
00:50:28Hello, I'm trying to locate a certain Mr. Victor Bruno, an engraver.
00:50:33What?
00:50:33Well, I know this is Theodore Bruno.
00:50:36I...
00:50:37Well, I was just...
00:50:38Well, do you know Victor Bruno?
00:50:41Well, do you know any Bruno that might know a Bruno that would know Victor...
00:50:47Oh, never mind.
00:50:48Well done.
00:51:01Fastest pickup I ever made.
00:51:03Don't get the idea that a telephone call gets me running any time of the day or night.
00:51:07It's a nice idea.
00:51:08You've been looking terrible lately.
00:51:09I've got some fresh air to do you good.
00:51:11You said it was important.
00:51:13Well, I feel like seeing you, that's important.
00:51:17Where are we going?
00:51:19To a little parking spot I used to use when I was in high school.
00:51:23Well, I'll have to apologize for the time of day.
00:51:25I used to hit it a lot later in the evening.
00:51:28I'm just as happy with the time of day, thank you.
00:51:31Uh-huh.
00:51:44Boy, oh boy.
00:51:45How I used to operate from this part.
00:51:47Public School 45 must have been a progressive school.
00:51:51What do you want to see me about, Bob?
00:51:55Well, I made up my mind about a lot of things last night and today.
00:51:58For one thing, I decided I'm not going to Paris with Colby.
00:52:02And another thing I've decided.
00:52:05I don't want you to go to Paris.
00:52:07Really?
00:52:09What do you want me to do?
00:52:11Stick around, see America first.
00:52:13You might get to meet someone you'd like.
00:52:14I might.
00:52:15With Colby, what have you got?
00:52:17Money, influence, travel, yachts.
00:52:21Why don't you let me take you out of all that?
00:52:23That's an offer if I've ever heard one.
00:52:26I'm really very serious.
00:52:29I know you are.
00:52:42What's the matter, Bob?
00:52:44I don't know.
00:52:45Maybe today's not the day.
00:52:48I spent the whole morning going over the newspaper accounts of the Corona trial.
00:52:51But why?
00:52:53You just naturally get curious about somebody killed.
00:52:57I kept running across the name of Bruno.
00:53:01Who is he?
00:53:02A little engraver that counterfeited the bonds for Corona.
00:53:05Funny.
00:53:06Corona didn't look like the type to get away with a million dollars.
00:53:10Neither did Bruno.
00:53:13He was a strange little man.
00:53:16Tremendous inferiority he was always trying to hide.
00:53:18We never managed to look like anything but a $12 a week bookkeeper.
00:53:22Glasses two feet thick, not a hair in his head.
00:53:25Bruno.
00:53:26The foreigner?
00:53:28Originally.
00:53:29He spoke with a marked accent.
00:53:33Is Colby going to be at home tonight?
00:53:36I think so, why?
00:53:39Maybe I could get him to throw some legal business my way.
00:53:42I'll keep him at home for you.
00:53:57You better get me back to the office.
00:54:00One of us has to keep her job.
00:54:04Well, well.
00:54:06Little did I think when I first met Emilio Knieper that you'd be the mother of my children.
00:54:11Why, is there some connection between the two?
00:54:13No, Emilio, no summons.
00:54:14No summons, no children.
00:54:16We'll name our first one Emilio.
00:54:18Over my beautiful muscular dead body.
00:54:30Look out!
00:54:39You're not hurt, are you?
00:54:41Just been a mild case of shattered nerves.
00:54:44Well, feeling that thing slipping didn't do mine any good either.
00:54:46Have I?
00:54:47Thanks.
00:54:48Better to hit you that felt like Hiroshima.
00:54:53Much obliged.
00:54:55Forget it.
00:54:58I think maybe you've given me a very good idea.
00:55:02Well, just as long as it wasn't a busted head.
00:55:05I may get one yet unless my luck hoes out.
00:55:22Hello, Murdoch.
00:55:23Good evening.
00:55:23Much killing going on around the place tonight?
00:55:26I think Mr. Kolb is expecting you.
00:55:29Ask a dull question, you get a dull answer.
00:55:33Oh, hello, Bob.
00:55:35Don't be glad to see me until you find out what I want.
00:55:37Yes, Noel has already told me.
00:55:39I'm sorry you changed your mind about Paris.
00:55:41Have you told him about the services our new firm is prepared to offer?
00:55:44I thought I'd better save that for you.
00:55:46Well, we're offering everything in the legal line.
00:55:48Ambulance chasing and grave subpoenas.
00:55:50Sounds like an up-and-coming outfit.
00:55:52We'll sympathize with our clients' troubles and charge only $500 for the sympathy.
00:55:56That's cheaper than the sympathy I'm getting from Porter and Griswold.
00:55:59Your proposition sounds very attractive.
00:56:02Count me in.
00:56:02One call, one client.
00:56:05Must be my personality.
00:56:07Oh.
00:56:08Did you know your house was being watched?
00:56:10Watched?
00:56:11Yes.
00:56:12Some little bald-headed guy, not a hair on his head, stopped me outside by the lamppost.
00:56:16I don't understand.
00:56:18Well, it was hard to tell just what he wanted.
00:56:19He spoke with an accent.
00:56:21Kept blinking at me through glasses two feet thick.
00:56:24Seemed like he was a little bookkeeper trying to act important.
00:56:28Bruno.
00:56:38You say he stopped you?
00:56:39Yes.
00:56:40He asked me for a light and wanted to know if I was coming in here.
00:56:43Yes?
00:56:44When I told him I was, he said something about being a friend of Croner's and that you'd hear from
00:56:49him.
00:56:50He must have gone. He's not there now.
00:56:55Is there anything I can do?
00:56:58I don't know, Bob.
00:56:59There isn't any danger, is there?
00:57:01I don't think so.
00:57:01Bob.
00:57:03Because if, if you'd like me to talk to him, possibly I will.
00:57:07But there's no hurry.
00:57:08If we want Bruno, we can always reach him.
00:57:11If he's any threat to us, I could see him tonight.
00:57:14No. We'll wait to hear from him.
00:57:17Thanks anyway.
00:57:18Maybe I'll call on you later.
00:57:20I, I hope this news isn't too bad.
00:57:23It isn't good, but we can handle it.
00:57:26Thank you for the information, Bob. I'm glad you dropped around tonight.
00:57:30Thank you for the business.
00:57:36Good night, Norm.
00:57:39Good night.
00:57:41Good night.
00:57:44I wonder where Bruno's been all these years.
00:57:47And what brought him back?
00:57:48The newspaper stories, I imagine.
00:57:53He never impressed me as being the sort of fellow who would make threats.
00:57:58He was such a meek little man.
00:58:02Did you ever meet him, Noel?
00:58:06Probably.
00:58:06Oh, of course you did.
00:58:08Sometimes I forget how long you've been with me.
00:58:11How long we've been together.
00:58:12Andrew, do you mind...
00:58:13What was it you once said that he reminded you of a $12 a week bookkeeper, wasn't it?
00:58:19Do you have anything else for me to do this evening?
00:58:22I don't think so.
00:58:24Then I'll say good night.
00:58:26Good night, Norm.
00:58:37Well, hello.
00:58:48This could give me a pretty bad name with my landlady.
00:58:51I'd like to know what you meant by that little performance tonight.
00:58:55Was I convincing?
00:58:57You're not a very nice person, are you, Regan?
00:59:00Your high school parking spot came through beautifully.
00:59:03Now, wait a minute, Noel.
00:59:05No, you wait.
00:59:07I admit I'm a little ashamed at what an easy target I was this afternoon.
00:59:13But primarily I came here to find out just what you were up to tonight.
00:59:17What's your guess?
00:59:19Blackmail.
00:59:21That's a nice business if you have the right connections.
00:59:25I think I deserve a better answer than that, Bob.
00:59:29You do.
00:59:32Sit down.
00:59:38There are several people in key positions in this town who believe that Crona was deliberately murdered.
00:59:45That's ridiculous.
00:59:47Is it?
00:59:50Would have been comparatively easy for Colby to frame.
00:59:53He invites Crona to the house.
00:59:56In the middle of a conversation, he pulls the gun.
00:59:58He fires one shot into the floor, shoves the gun into Crona's hands, starts wrestling with him and yelling for
01:00:03help.
01:00:03I rush in, Crona turns startled, bang, bang, and it's all over.
01:00:07You must be out of your mind.
01:00:09The police don't think so.
01:00:11In fact, they gave me the idea.
01:00:13Why should Andrew want to kill Crona?
01:00:18Suppose Colby dreamed up this whole counterfeit deal himself.
01:00:22He promises Crona a share of the profits if he'll take the rap, while Colby takes the million and builds
01:00:26up the business.
01:00:28Crona gets out, expecting a share of the gravy.
01:00:31Instead, the lights go out.
01:00:35If I use that kind of reasoning, I could think of at least 50 motives while you killed Crona.
01:00:39The police have 5,000.
01:00:42What were you trying to do tonight?
01:00:45I wanted to see Bruno.
01:00:47I thought I could startle Colby to give me his address, but he doesn't startle so easily.
01:00:52How can you be stupid enough to believe all this?
01:00:56Andrew's one of the finest men I've ever known, and he's certainly been decent enough to you.
01:01:01He may have carried his friendship a little too far for my own good.
01:01:05So you take out the little Cron-fed secretary, prime her up with some fake sincerity, and she spills over
01:01:11with everything you want to know.
01:01:12I know it's not going to be easy to convince you that the things I said today was sincere.
01:01:16It's just about the most hopeless proposition you've ever faced.
01:01:20Things are a lot more desperate than you know. I had to do something.
01:01:24I must have looked like the easiest way.
01:01:30Look.
01:01:32I'm going to have to make another try for Bruno's address tomorrow.
01:01:35If you give me away, I'll be sunk in more ways than one.
01:01:39Don't ask me for any promises.
01:01:45She went straight to Regan's apartment.
01:01:48I don't know how long she stayed. I didn't wait.
01:01:51I was afraid she had.
01:01:53Why don't you forget that girl and start thinking about Bruno?
01:01:56She's not easy to forget.
01:01:59I think a great deal of Noel, Charles.
01:02:02If Bruno's back, you'll have something else to worry about besides her.
01:02:05The police might be very interested in a statement from him.
01:02:09It isn't like Noel to do anything behind my back.
01:02:11What are you going to do about Bruno?
01:02:14We don't have to do anything yet.
01:02:18I rather suspect he'll telephone us tomorrow.
01:02:23That'll be plenty of time to decide.
01:02:31Hello?
01:02:32Mr. Andrew Colby, please. Victor Bruno calling.
01:02:36Just a minute, please.
01:02:47You sure this ain't illegal?
01:02:49Look, Emilio, haven't I always been your friend?
01:02:52Sure.
01:02:52Didn't I graduate from law school?
01:02:54Sure.
01:02:55Didn't I get you $68.72 for your push card?
01:02:58Not yet.
01:02:59Don't be so greedy.
01:03:01Anyhow, if it hadn't been for your push card, we wouldn't be doing this in the first place.
01:03:05Yes?
01:03:06Colby?
01:03:07This is Victor Bruno.
01:03:09Oh, yes.
01:03:12I heard you were around here last night.
01:03:14I didn't like what I read in the paper about Corona.
01:03:17That was unfortunate.
01:03:19Yeah, it will be maybe unfortunate for you if the police all of a sudden find out where I am.
01:03:26Yes, it was.
01:03:28For $10,000, they don't find out.
01:03:31$10,000?
01:03:33That's a lot of money.
01:03:35I've got a lot I could say.
01:03:37The moment I don't have that much money available.
01:03:40I figure you will know where to get it.
01:03:43Possibly.
01:03:45Stop by at my home tonight at 9 o'clock.
01:03:49Oh, no.
01:03:50Bruno, I don't make the same mistake that the crone made.
01:03:54You send it to me.
01:03:56Where?
01:03:58You know the place.
01:04:01You remember the address?
01:04:03Yes.
01:04:04You sure you know?
01:04:06Yes, of course.
01:04:07I remember perfectly.
01:04:09Now, listen, Bruno.
01:04:09I'll give you the money on one condition.
01:04:11I want you out of the country.
01:04:13You and your wife.
01:04:15With the money tonight, there'll be two tickets to Mexico City.
01:04:18Use them.
01:04:19Okay.
01:04:21And be sure to have the money there tonight, 8.30.
01:04:24All right.
01:04:25This is the last, Bruno.
01:04:27Remember.
01:04:29If we're going to start paying, Bruno, you'll never let us stop.
01:04:33Don't be absurd, Charles.
01:04:34That wasn't Bruno on the telephone.
01:04:37What are you talking about?
01:04:38Who was it?
01:04:43Regan?
01:04:45Or one of his friends.
01:04:47How do you know?
01:04:47I know these things, Charles.
01:04:50That's why I'm such an enormous success.
01:04:52Yes.
01:04:53Bruno was here last night.
01:04:54He wasn't here last night.
01:04:55Which are you so sure?
01:04:56Bruno has been dead for five years.
01:04:59How did Regan know what he looked like?
01:05:02No, of course.
01:05:05She's the only one who could have given him that description.
01:05:12You never told me Bruno was dead.
01:05:14I thought you'd be happier not knowing.
01:05:16How did he die?
01:05:18Protesting his innocence.
01:05:23What was Regan after?
01:05:25Bruno's whereabouts.
01:05:26Either he's worrying too much about this Kroner business,
01:05:30or he's trying a little blackmail.
01:05:33Regan's no blackmailer.
01:05:38Did you have Bruno killed?
01:05:40Don't be so inquisitive, Charles.
01:05:42I'm not inquisitive.
01:05:44I don't want you to get the idea that anything like that could happen to me.
01:05:48What a curious thing to say.
01:05:50I'm no Kroner.
01:05:51I'm no Bruno.
01:05:52I don't disappear so easily.
01:05:54I hope we'll have you here for some time, Charles.
01:05:58It's my plan exactly, Andrew.
01:06:02What are you going to do about it, Regan?
01:06:05I've been thinking about that.
01:06:08I want you to go to the bank, Charles, and get that $10,000.
01:06:13Right.
01:06:14After that.
01:06:16Yes.
01:06:17But I have to do something I'm not going to like at all.
01:06:24What about the girl?
01:06:27What about her?
01:06:28She's involved in this as much as Regan.
01:06:33It looks that way.
01:06:36You don't like the idea of getting rid of her, do you?
01:06:39I don't like it at all.
01:06:43But if I have to, I'll do it.
01:06:47You know that, Charles.
01:06:50Yes, I know that.
01:06:52Silly of me to doubt it for a moment.
01:07:13All the way, old man.
01:07:14You didn't wanna smoke it here, too.
01:07:17She only closed topics today.
01:07:17So, if I left my desk hole in the door.
01:07:20Scripture is always a little over with her.
01:07:20You must know it.
01:07:27She's always a little over here.
01:07:28A mental man is almost no more.
01:07:29oh no there's something i'd like you to do for me this evening if you're not busy
01:07:35all right in the safe there's a large manila envelope with ten thousand dollars in it
01:07:40will you get it for me please sure
01:07:51then i'd like you to go down to the station and get two tickets for mexico city and deliver
01:07:56them with the money to an address that i'll give you
01:08:04oh no leave it open there are a few other things i want to get
01:08:13thanks
01:08:17it's for victor broom
01:08:20you know it's strange no
01:08:22all my life i've worked for only one thing
01:08:26money and the power that goes with it right now i'm on the verge of getting everything i ever
01:08:32wanted to have yet when i look around me i find there's only one person i know i can really
01:08:38trust
01:08:39andrew please even that's remarkable no very few people have anyone i wonder if you know how much
01:08:45i appreciate it
01:08:49well it'll be nice to get back to paris again won't it no
01:08:52we've always had a lot of fun there yes andrew you know
01:08:59that telephone call from bruno
01:09:03yes
01:09:05what about it no
01:09:10nothing it's not important
01:09:15be sure and get the tickets no
01:09:16i will
01:09:18i'm going right away
01:09:19i'm going right away
01:10:00she'll meet him someplace and then they'll go on together
01:10:06why do you suppose she did it charles did she fall in love with him was that the reason
01:10:10what difference does it make
01:10:15for a moment i thought she was going to tell me
01:10:18if she had i would have forgiven her charles that would have been a mistake perhaps
01:10:22perhaps but i would have forgiven her wouldn't you better call the police yes i guess i'd better
01:10:32andrew i'm not so sure this is such a clever idea aren't you charles why well granted we can
01:10:38have them picked up for stealing the money but that doesn't really get them out of the way
01:10:43they'll find our fingerprints on the safe they'll be arrested buying two tickets to mexico city
01:10:51you're mistaken charles i think it's very clever and then what if they're arrested not merely for
01:10:58death what if they're arrested for murder you're talking about
01:11:08who's murder yours charles
01:11:30who doesn't make a homicide
01:11:34when
01:11:38i see
01:11:41right all right
01:11:45round up the homicide crew yes and i need three extra men for grand central station
01:11:50yes
01:11:50uh
01:12:03uh
01:12:05uh
01:12:05uh
01:12:06uh
01:12:20The End
01:12:36Train number 8 arriving on track 3 from Rochester, Syracuse, home, Utica, Schenectady, and Albany.
01:12:59Train number 21, the Ontario, Lake Erie, leaving on track 10, the Hallway, Sanctuary, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo.
01:13:13Homicide.
01:13:19Leading on track 7, train number 29, the Niagara, Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls.
01:13:42I'd like to make connections to Mexico City.
01:13:44Two fleas, leave them tonight if possible.
01:13:51309-78.
01:13:53Excuse me.
01:13:54No, Faraday?
01:13:55Yes.
01:13:58You're under arrest.
01:14:00Steady's arrest.
01:14:01You don't track 6 below.
01:14:03Come along, Pastor.
01:14:10You're not going anyplace, Regan.
01:14:11You're under arrest.
01:14:12Wait a minute.
01:14:12What are they doing with that girl?
01:14:15Sit me down, buddy.
01:14:15You don't cause any trouble.
01:14:19Look at me.
01:14:22Make them look pretty.
01:14:28How's it coming, Mike?
01:14:30What do you think?
01:14:31Well, I'm having some photographs in large.
01:14:33But the prints and the gun look pretty much like Regan's.
01:14:36What about the prints on the safe?
01:14:37They're working on them now.
01:14:38The medical examiner just came in, Lieutenant.
01:14:40Good.
01:14:44Hello, Diego.
01:14:45How's business?
01:14:46There's your buddy over there, Doc.
01:14:48Oh, Lieutenant.
01:14:49We've got Regan and the girl outside.
01:14:51Keep in the hall until I call him in, Joe.
01:14:53Okay.
01:14:54Doc.
01:15:01Okay.
01:15:02You men all through here?
01:15:03You finished your pictures?
01:15:05I'm set.
01:15:06Well, let's get this buddy into the next room.
01:15:08Call the boys in.
01:15:09Right.
01:15:11Let me know when you get those prints on the safe, Mike.
01:15:15Well, Mr. Colby, looks like you guessed right.
01:15:17We picked up the boy and girl at the station.
01:15:19I hope you'll be able to get this over with as quickly as possible.
01:15:22I'm not anxious to hang around.
01:15:31Regan, that was Charles.
01:15:33Was his right.
01:15:34You may as well relax.
01:15:35D'Amico will call you when he wants you.
01:15:38What happened to him?
01:15:46Why are they holding us?
01:15:48Because I'm the biggest lunkhead of the year.
01:15:51Never occurred to me he'd take it out on you.
01:15:53Andrew?
01:15:54No lame brain, our Andrew.
01:15:56He's gotten rid of the last guy to do anything about the phony bond deal and he stuck us with
01:15:59a rap.
01:16:01I go walking around in the clouds.
01:16:02This guy builds a hole under me.
01:16:04Oh, but he couldn't possibly hope to get away with this.
01:16:08No.
01:16:09Why would we want to kill Charles?
01:16:11Don't worry.
01:16:11With Colby tailoring the evidence, he'll fit like a bathing suit.
01:16:15He must have figured you were in with me.
01:16:19I'm sorry, Noel.
01:16:22If I could get loose for five minutes, I'd kick myself around the block.
01:16:27All right, you two.
01:16:29D'Amico's ready for you now.
01:16:34Come along.
01:16:48Get the lady's fingerprints.
01:16:54Well, Laughing Boy, I thought I told you not to leave town.
01:16:57Get out, D'Amico.
01:16:58What are the details?
01:16:59Murder and grand theft.
01:17:01And you have an assured prayer of getting out of it.
01:17:05How does she figure in?
01:17:08Oh, come now, Regan.
01:17:10Let's not be ridiculous.
01:17:13Did you find the money?
01:17:14She had it on her.
01:17:15She was buying two tickets to Mexico City.
01:17:19I suppose she wanted a change of scenery.
01:17:24You want to identify this, Mr. Colby?
01:17:27Yes, that's the envelope.
01:17:29I assume the $10,000 is the same.
01:17:35Get me a stenographer in here.
01:17:37She's right here, Lieutenant.
01:17:38Fine.
01:17:42Got anything to say yet, Regan?
01:17:44I'm speechless with your efficiency.
01:17:53Let's have it, Mr. Colby.
01:17:57You understand that this is very difficult for me.
01:18:00Miss Faraday has been my secretary for over six years.
01:18:04Her father was one of my dearest friends.
01:18:06I understand.
01:18:08Well, I was up in my room doing some work about an hour ago.
01:18:14And I heard a shot.
01:18:17At first, I thought it was my imagination.
01:18:20But then I decided to investigate.
01:18:23I found Charles dead on the floor.
01:18:27With Regan's gun beside him.
01:18:30And the safe was open.
01:18:32But D'Amico, that was his gun!
01:18:33You can't keep quiet.
01:18:34We'll do this without you.
01:18:35I gave it back to him two days ago.
01:18:37Who saw you?
01:18:37Miss Faraday, she...
01:18:43Go ahead, Mr. Colby.
01:18:45Well, I realized that Miss Faraday was the only person,
01:18:47besides Charles and myself,
01:18:49who knew the combination to the safe.
01:18:51Andrew, you had me open the safe yourself.
01:18:53A couple of nights ago,
01:18:55I happened to overhear a conversation
01:18:57between Mr. Regan and Miss Faraday
01:18:59in which Mexico City was mentioned.
01:19:03So when I called the police,
01:19:04I told them that.
01:19:07Okay, thanks.
01:19:08She was buying two tickets to Mexico City
01:19:09when we picked them up.
01:19:10You already told me that.
01:19:12What are you looking for, a promotion?
01:19:14Lieutenant, he knows why I had the money.
01:19:16He sent me for the tickets.
01:19:17You'll get your chance to talk later, Miss Faraday.
01:19:22What are you trying to do, Andrew?
01:19:25Everyone that's ever meant anything to you.
01:19:30Kroner, Charles, and now me.
01:19:34Lieutenant, this is very awkward for me.
01:19:36We're nearly finished, Mr. Colby.
01:19:37Why do you believe him, D'Amico?
01:19:38Only yesterday.
01:19:39That was yesterday.
01:19:40I'm not interested in that case anymore.
01:19:42Personally, I got one right here
01:19:44that suits me fine.
01:19:45Look, what do you want,
01:19:46the truth or a quick arrest?
01:19:47What's your story?
01:19:48This is a frame.
01:19:50You get framed more than any guy I ever met.
01:19:53You're supposed to be a lawyer.
01:19:54Take a look at the evidence.
01:19:55Oh, D'Amico.
01:19:58You'd better change your charge.
01:19:59The corpse is still alive.
01:20:01Alive?
01:20:02Well, you won't have him forever,
01:20:04but I may be able to string him along
01:20:05through the night.
01:20:07Any chance of him coming, too?
01:20:09If we don't love him.
01:20:11Let me know the minute he comes around.
01:20:14Is it all right if we leave him here, Mr. Colby?
01:20:15Of course.
01:20:17Charles is my very dear friend.
01:20:18I'll see about having him moved upstairs.
01:20:20Don't let him near that room.
01:20:21Are you still running this case?
01:20:23I'm telling you, D'Amico,
01:20:25don't let this guy near him.
01:20:26Just a minute, Regan.
01:20:27You're under arrest.
01:20:28You're not giving any advice around here.
01:20:29Just get that through your head.
01:20:30He's been one of my closest friends for years.
01:20:32Naturally, I'd want to see him before he dies.
01:20:34The doctor says he can't be moved.
01:20:36With him liable to pop off any minute,
01:20:38I'd better wait around and have a talk with him.
01:20:40Maybe we all better wait around.
01:21:15Well, D'Amico's in his glory.
01:21:18Two new suspects,
01:21:19fresh blood on the floor.
01:21:27The End
01:21:39THE END
01:22:08Regan
01:22:11Why couldn't we tell them about Bruno?
01:22:14How do you think that would sound from the witness stand?
01:22:18I was trying to find a man named Victor Bruno
01:22:20because I was convinced that the other killing I'd done was murder.
01:22:27Coldly figured on that one.
01:22:30If only somebody could find it.
01:22:32Bruno was probably dead too.
01:22:34Otherwise, how could Coldly be sure it wasn't Bruno on the phone?
01:22:37Yes, I suppose so.
01:22:40How could I be such a dope?
01:22:42You?
01:22:45I've been second-guessing the whole way.
01:22:48Regan, the boy detective.
01:22:51You couldn't have put your life in worse hands.
01:22:56Come on in, Regan.
01:22:57I want to ask you a couple of questions.
01:23:00What about Charles?
01:23:02He's still out.
01:23:04I'm stop.
01:23:26That's right.
01:23:27I can't wait.
01:23:28I have to wait.
01:23:28Goodbye.