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00:02:22Now where's my breakfast in your desk.
00:02:24There's a Jim Lacey called this morning might seem terribly anxious to see you.
00:02:29Jim Lacey.
00:02:31Lacey said he just arrived from New York.
00:02:33Oh sure I remember him he used to be a private eye.
00:02:37Most of his work had a very peculiar odor.
00:03:02I'm.
00:03:18Lacey I.
00:03:20I drove by a small caliber bullet. I got you under his own power. I'll never know.
00:03:34Like a piece of a baggage check.
00:03:37Must be important or he wouldn't have hung on to it like that.
00:03:44Don't you think you better call the police.
00:03:46Wait a minute. I really love to catch me with an excellent body lying around you never listen to reason.
00:03:54Well there's nothing here that tells me anything.
00:03:59Except somebody paid him a big wad of dough for something private eyes don't carry that kind of money I
00:04:04know.
00:04:05Here under that is exhibit A in the Lacey case.
00:04:08They better call homicide now tell them what happened.
00:04:11But remember you haven't seen me this morning I haven't been in the office.
00:04:13But.
00:04:14Come on come on and you'll get busy I'll slip out the back way.
00:04:32The police.
00:04:34Homicide please.
00:04:35I just got a wire from Washington.
00:04:37They want to pick up on a guy named Jim Lacey for questioning.
00:04:44Hello Rafferty talking.
00:04:46Hello this is Michael this is Phyllis Mike.
00:04:49This is Phyllis Mike's secretary Phyllis.
00:04:52The corpse just walked in and fell down on the floor.
00:04:56What.
00:04:58You don't have to shout at me I said a corpse just walked in and fell down on the floor.
00:05:03That's what I thought you said keep him there I want to question him.
00:05:06What am I saying.
00:05:08She said a corpse walked in and curl up on the floor.
00:05:10If a guy is dead he should be in a moor not walking around.
00:05:29I'm going to get a prize balling out of this film that's when I show up late for work.
00:05:34The convention what's happened suppose you tell me I don't know that my crystal ball won't be give me a
00:05:39hint.
00:05:40She said he wanted in here and drop dead.
00:05:42Well that's what she said that's what happened.
00:05:44Don't give me that a guy is not going to walk for a walk with a slug in his chest
00:05:46like him.
00:05:50How about a dark pretty walk after he was shot.
00:05:52That depends upon a number of factors the man's constitution direction or location of the bullet.
00:05:57I'd see it's possible but not probable possible is good enough for me.
00:06:00I suppose you don't even know who he is.
00:06:02Do I have to be introduced to a man before he can walk in my office and drop dead.
00:06:06I'll tell you who he is his name is Jim Lacey he told your office just before you walked in
00:06:11here and drop dead.
00:06:13Could be Jim Lacey I haven't seen him in about 10 years he never was a pal of mine.
00:06:20Look can I help it if somebody plugs him on his way to my office.
00:06:23Take him away boys.
00:06:28Hey Phil you're hot news how about give me your impression of having a guy drop dead at your feet.
00:06:31How would you like an impression of the back of my hand.
00:06:35I'm sorry I was late this morning Angel it must have been pretty rugged.
00:06:39That's what I'd call an understatement.
00:06:41Listen to me Shane.
00:06:42The government is interested in this guy Jim Lacey.
00:06:44I got a wire from Washington to pick him up.
00:06:47Now if you're withholding any information you'll find yourself playing with a hot potato.
00:06:50Thanks for the tip Pete your interest in my welfare touches me deeply.
00:06:54My interest in your welfare I could stick in my eye and not even know it's there.
00:06:57And you you're a suspicion for knowing more than you've told.
00:07:06Don't worry Angel they can't pin a thing on you.
00:07:08Hey Mike what's this business about Washington.
00:07:10You already know as much about as I do.
00:07:12Mike don't you think that.
00:07:13No I don't I've been tossed right into the middle of something I'm going to play it my way I'll
00:07:16find out what the score is.
00:07:39I'm so what's this gimmick that Pete Rafferty's after that Mike won't talk about it Mike doesn't tell you Tim
00:07:44I can't.
00:07:45Of course not.
00:07:47Well I got to go write a story about a perambulating corpse.
00:07:51The city editor's going to think I'm nuts.
00:07:52I'll see you later.
00:07:57Oh hello.
00:08:00Are you Mr. Shane.
00:08:03Would it help any if I was.
00:08:05Not much.
00:08:10I'd like to Shane you have an appointment.
00:08:13Is that necessary.
00:08:14Definitely Mr. Shane doesn't see anyone unless they have an appointment it's very important that I see him right away
00:08:19Jim Lacey said he was a man I could depend upon you told the truth.
00:08:23Please help me Mr. Shane.
00:08:25You're in a jam why don't you have Jim Lacey isn't the business.
00:08:28He doesn't have a license to operate in this state.
00:08:30I'm nearly frantic Mr. Shane if you don't help me I don't know what I'll do.
00:08:35Well you tell me your troubles I'll see if I can take the case.
00:08:38Please see that we're not disturbed Miss Hamilton.
00:08:57I don't know Jim Lacey I met him through a friend of mine I was in the chorus of a
00:09:01New York show when you see him last yesterday I was surprised to have him look me up I didn't
00:09:08know he was in town what's he doing here.
00:09:14He said something about being on a big deal.
00:09:17That was all.
00:09:20What's this have to do with me.
00:09:22Sure story.
00:09:24What's the trouble.
00:09:31I was married to a man named Mace Morgan.
00:09:33But I left him when I found out he was a crook and I tried to start my life over
00:09:36again.
00:09:37I met a man named Charles Worthing and fell very much in love with him.
00:09:42He fell in love with me.
00:09:44Worthing know about Mace Morgan.
00:09:46No I was afraid to tell him.
00:09:48I wasn't to blame but it wasn't a very pretty story.
00:09:51I thought he might hold it against me.
00:09:56Go ahead.
00:09:58Well when I found out that Mace had been convicted of a robbery and sent to prison I I thought
00:10:02I could escape from the past.
00:10:04I came here intending to quietly get a divorce and thought everything would be all right.
00:10:09I was very happy.
00:10:18Mace.
00:10:19Hello baby.
00:10:21Surprised.
00:10:25Mace I thought you were.
00:10:27Yeah I know.
00:10:29You thought I was safely laid away on ice.
00:10:32But they haven't built the who's gal big enough to hold me.
00:10:35We were finished a long time ago.
00:10:38Why did you have to come here.
00:10:40I've been keeping tabs on you sweetheart.
00:10:43I know all about this big romance that's coming to your life.
00:10:47Is there any reason why I shouldn't be happy.
00:10:49Just because I wouldn't let you make a tramp out of me.
00:10:52Of course not baby.
00:10:56I want you to be happy.
00:10:58But.
00:11:01It should be worth something to you.
00:11:03What do you mean by that.
00:11:06Alice Worthing character.
00:11:08He's got plenty of blue chips.
00:11:12But I'll raise an awful smell if you try to get a divorce.
00:11:16Go ahead.
00:11:17Marry him.
00:11:19You and I can work on a deal.
00:11:24Blackmail.
00:11:26Must you be so crude.
00:11:30I've got something to sell.
00:11:33You can buy it or not.
00:11:35If you like.
00:11:38But you better not play around with any idea of turning me over to the police as an escaped con.
00:11:44Or I'll cook up a story about you that'll make you look like something that belongs on a garbage wagon.
00:11:52Good bye baby.
00:11:57Think it over.
00:11:59You see what a hopeless position I'm in.
00:12:02I can't keep paying blackmail the rest of my life.
00:12:06What do you want me to do.
00:12:08Well he's an escaped convict.
00:12:11If you try to arrest him and he should resist.
00:12:14You could.
00:12:16Knock him off.
00:12:18If that's what you want to call it.
00:12:21A little out of my line I haven't killed a husband in some time.
00:12:24Could be quite a business though.
00:12:27You will help me.
00:12:29Leave your name and address with my secretary.
00:12:34You won't let me down I know you won't.
00:12:37I'll let you know.
00:12:38Then I'll expect to see you soon.
00:12:42Yeah.
00:12:50Make a note of my name and address.
00:12:54Helen Brinstead.
00:12:56Glen Manor apartments.
00:12:58Will the key be under the mat?
00:13:00Remind me sometime to rearrange your face.
00:13:03It would be a pleasure.
00:13:14Mike did you.
00:13:16Yes you took the case all right.
00:13:18Oh Phil don't be like that we.
00:13:20Mike don't you get lipstick all over me.
00:13:23Oh.
00:13:25You know what happened.
00:13:26Sure.
00:13:27She put her arms around your neck and kissed you before you could fight her back.
00:13:30That's exactly what happened.
00:13:32Yeah and I'll bet you put up an awfully big struggle.
00:13:34What'd she want.
00:13:36She wanted me to kill her husband.
00:13:37Are you going to do it.
00:13:40What are you doing.
00:13:41I don't know that this piece of cardboard is going to be very important.
00:13:44Well if that important why don't you turn over the government.
00:13:47I think I'll hang on to it a while.
00:13:48See what develops.
00:13:49You know I don't know why I don't get a job in a nice quiet living establishment.
00:13:53At least I wouldn't have to look for my boss's name in the obituary column.
00:13:56Angel you'd be bored to death the second day.
00:14:07Jim Lacey's murdered on his way to my office.
00:14:09Cullen Brinstead wants Mace Morgan bumped off.
00:14:13That'll be a tie-up somewhere.
00:14:28I think we're being tailed.
00:14:29Might be one of Rafferty's men.
00:14:33Looks like they're coming closer too.
00:14:35Not be the police at all.
00:14:37I'll look at them when they come by.
00:14:54Run for it Bill.
00:15:25I'll look at them.
00:15:32Oh, my God.
00:16:01Oh, my God.
00:16:36He ain't got her on him.
00:16:37Well, he shouldn't have knocked him cold.
00:16:39We'll have to make him sing.
00:16:57Oh, my God.
00:17:13It's all very flattering, gentlemen.
00:17:15It's supposed to tell me what it's all about.
00:17:17Sure, we'll let you know.
00:17:19Why don't you do us a little favor, that's all.
00:17:22You have such a nice way of asking favors, I don't see how I can refuse.
00:17:26That's being smart.
00:17:27We want what you took from Jim Lacey.
00:17:32Lacey was a dead man when he got to my office.
00:17:34Cops beat me to him.
00:17:35Don't stall me.
00:17:36I read the papers.
00:17:37Lacey had plenty of jack on him, and the cops found less than ten bucks.
00:17:40Whoever lifted the jack lifted something else.
00:17:43I want that something else.
00:17:46You should wish I could help you out.
00:17:59Work on him, Trigger.
00:18:26Is your memory any better?
00:18:29I have a very good memory for faces.
00:18:32Tie him up.
00:18:43We'll stop being gentle with him.
00:18:53Now we'll see just how tough you are.
00:18:56How tough do I have to be?
00:18:57Not so, Barry.
00:18:59Just give me that piece of package check Lacey had when he started for your office.
00:19:02It's no good to you.
00:19:11It's the cops.
00:19:12They're heading this way.
00:19:13Get out the back door.
00:19:20Never mind me.
00:19:21Get those two guys and one out the back door.
00:19:26Mike.
00:19:26Hello, Phil.
00:19:29Well, at least you're tied up with something else besides the block.
00:19:32How'd you do it?
00:19:33Well, thank you, my dear Mike.
00:19:34I trailed the car till I saw where they brought you, and then I called the police.
00:19:38I'll give you a gold star for this.
00:19:39You know, there's no longer any doubt about that piece of cardboard being important.
00:19:43Couldn't you have thought of an easier way to find that out?
00:19:45Oh, I don't know.
00:19:46I guess I always do things the hard way.
00:20:05Come on with your hands up.
00:20:10You, what's all the excitement, Pete?
00:20:12I got a report there was a kidnapping.
00:20:14Was somebody trying to be funny?
00:20:15Mike, what's kidnapped and brought here?
00:20:17A little misunderstanding.
00:20:18They were very sorry and left before you arrived.
00:20:20Sorry to have troubled you, Pete.
00:20:22Thanks anyway.
00:20:23Come on, Angel.
00:20:38What are you looking for?
00:20:39Bodies.
00:20:40Oh, the janitor probably swept them out this morning.
00:20:42You two certainly have a gruesome sense of humor.
00:20:48Shut up or I'll break your neck.
00:20:57You know, if this keeps up, they're going to cancel my insurance.
00:21:01Nice clients you have, Mr. Shane.
00:21:04Who was that?
00:21:05He didn't leave his name.
00:21:11Mike, come here.
00:21:17Well, someone was sure trying to find something.
00:21:28What was that?
00:21:30Bait.
00:21:30Catch a murderer.
00:21:32I think I'll go see a blonde about a man.
00:21:34Okay, let's go.
00:21:35Oh, I don't need you this time.
00:21:37Strictly business.
00:21:38Your definition of business can be very elastic.
00:21:40You're such a nice girl.
00:21:52What a mess.
00:21:54Yeah, Mike seems to be on the wrong end of this case.
00:21:56They're bringing the fight to him.
00:21:58I know, and I'm worried about him.
00:22:00I wish he'd turn the whole thing over to someone else.
00:22:04A government agent, perhaps.
00:22:06I didn't say that.
00:22:28I don't know.
00:22:56Stay where you are.
00:22:58Don't turn around.
00:23:05What are you doing here?
00:23:07I might ask you the same question.
00:23:08Yeah, you might, but I'm in a position to ask questions.
00:23:11I'd like to have an answer.
00:23:13Don't answer questions unless I can see who I'm talking to.
00:23:15I'm funny that way.
00:23:17All right, turn around.
00:23:18Don't try anything foolish.
00:23:21Sit down there.
00:23:25Well, Ellen didn't tell me she was going to have visitors.
00:23:29You're not here on a social visit.
00:23:30You better tell me just where you fit in.
00:23:32That's what I'd like to know.
00:23:48I've never seen that man before.
00:23:53Do you have any idea who might come here looking for information?
00:23:56He must have been a prowler.
00:23:58No one except Mace would have any reason for coming here.
00:24:01You better turn him into police.
00:24:02I'll see you later.
00:24:06Oh, nothing got a silence, Bob.
00:24:08Just a burglar.
00:24:15I don't see how it's possible for one man to be such a pain in the neck.
00:24:20What's the idea of having me picked up, Rafferty?
00:24:22Mr. Shane, I want you to meet Mr. Pearson, a special investigator from Washington.
00:24:27All right, it's a pleasure.
00:24:28Now, listen, Rafferty.
00:24:30Oh, hello.
00:24:32I can hardly call it a pleasure.
00:24:34Who do you think you are, Shane, going around slugging government men?
00:24:36How am I supposed to know he's a government man?
00:24:38When a man throws a gun on me, I slug him if I get a chance.
00:24:41Maybe you better tell us what you were doing in that apartment.
00:24:44I was there to see a client.
00:24:45Oh.
00:24:46What's the nature of your business with her?
00:24:48The nature of my business with all my clients is strictly confidential.
00:24:53Hey, what's this idea about Mike being arrested?
00:24:55He hasn't been arrested.
00:24:56He's merely being asked to cooperate with his government.
00:24:59Well, cooperation works two ways.
00:25:00I never play ball with my eyes closed.
00:25:04I'm not telling government secrets to the whole wide world.
00:25:07Well, what do you think I am, a heel?
00:25:09Tim's all right.
00:25:10You can trust him.
00:25:10I'll say that much for him.
00:25:12Very well.
00:25:14My job is to prevent the plans of a newly developed secret weapon
00:25:17from falling into the hands of a foreign power.
00:25:20A power not friendly to us, to say the least.
00:25:24I won't go into how we learned all the facts,
00:25:26but the plans were stolen by a hoodlum named Mace Morgan
00:25:30and by a crooked New York private detective named Jim Lacey.
00:25:35Morgan was wanted for robbery
00:25:36and was picked up the next day by the New York police.
00:25:38We had Lacey under constant surveillance,
00:25:41but we weren't able to locate the plans.
00:25:44When Lacey jumped out here,
00:25:45I was convinced those plans had been sent out here
00:25:47immediately after they were stolen.
00:25:49But I couldn't believe that Lacey and Morgan
00:25:51would trust any Confederate.
00:25:53What was the robbery of the hang on Morgan?
00:25:54Oh, he held up the messenger of a Wall Street brokerage firm,
00:25:57Gross-Earnstein and Barton.
00:25:59They ever recover the money?
00:26:00No, but that was a police case.
00:26:02We weren't interested in that angle of it.
00:26:04Then when Lacey came out here,
00:26:05Morgan managed to crash out of Starrer.
00:26:07Yeah, that's right.
00:26:08Which is further proof of the plans must be here.
00:26:12I don't know how you managed to be so well-informed.
00:26:16What did Rafferty tell you?
00:26:17I make a living as a private eye.
00:26:20Yeah, one of the best, mister.
00:26:21When you got him batting on your team, you can rest at ease.
00:26:23Only I'm not sure it's my turn to come to bat.
00:26:26You better come clean and tell us all you know about this case.
00:26:28Remember your blood pressure, Pete.
00:26:29Be calm.
00:26:30I'll be calm when I see a bunch of lilies on your chest.
00:26:33That all you want with me?
00:26:35Yeah.
00:26:36Mike, I haven't you anything more to say?
00:26:39No, I think that's all at the moment, Angel.
00:26:41Come on, let's go.
00:26:47How does Shane rape?
00:26:49Does he hope to sell his information?
00:26:50I don't know what he hopes.
00:26:51But I could be arrested for what I hope about him.
00:27:01Okay, so I'm something the cat dragged in.
00:27:03What are we supposed to think?
00:27:04If it's a matter vitally important to your government,
00:27:06you hold out information.
00:27:08You trying to chisel a payoff?
00:27:09Mike, I was terribly disappointed.
00:27:11I should think you'd be glad to aid the government.
00:27:13I don't know what's the matter.
00:27:15There's a lot of pieces here that don't fit together like they should.
00:27:17But I'll wait and see what happens.
00:27:26I'm going to be honest.
00:27:51Maybe Pearson a fad to lose one of them named trigger.
00:28:00Strags foreign agent.
00:28:07This card.
00:28:12Mike Shane.
00:28:14It floors me.
00:28:16I can understand Mike giving Pete Rafferty the brush off.
00:28:18You can't blame him for that.
00:28:20But why should he get caught with the government.
00:28:24Hello Michael Shane private investigator.
00:28:27I'll see if he's in who's calling.
00:28:30Oh it's you again.
00:28:38Mike your repulsive blonde is on the phone.
00:28:42You mean impulsive.
00:28:52Hello Mike Shane talking.
00:29:05Well you know where my office is.
00:29:06Been here before.
00:29:07It would be dangerous for both of us if I were seen coming to your office.
00:29:11Why can't you meet me here.
00:29:12Where are you.
00:29:13Hunter's Lodge on 12th street.
00:29:16Okay.
00:29:17I'll be over in 10 or 15 minutes.
00:29:40Well I'll leave you two to your sorrow.
00:29:43I hope you both enjoy a good trial.
00:29:47At least he could feel the shame of himself.
00:29:52Well let's not hang Mike without a trial.
00:29:55He always comes through somehow.
00:29:57Right side up.
00:29:58Makes me so mad.
00:29:59I bet he's always right.
00:30:19I just learned about Jim Lacey.
00:30:21I'm sure Mace Morgan killed him.
00:30:23Relax.
00:30:24Why should that worry you.
00:30:25Mace probably learned that I saw Lacey.
00:30:28He must have been suspicious.
00:30:29Suspicious that you and Lacey were going to bump him off.
00:30:32Can't blame a fellow for getting a little sore about a thing like that.
00:30:38Now tell me why the government is interested in you.
00:30:42The government has no reason to be interested in me.
00:30:44Why do you say that.
00:30:46That character I met up in your apartment was a special investigator from Washington.
00:30:50You didn't know that did you.
00:30:52No I didn't know who he was.
00:30:54The police came and he wanted to know who knocked him out.
00:30:57That's all I know.
00:30:58And it's hard to believe the government's interested in your romantic difficulties.
00:31:02But I want the whole story before I get mixed up with the government.
00:31:06They have no reason to be snooping around my apartment.
00:31:09Mace Morgan's only one I'm worried about.
00:31:11Mace is a killer and I can't go to the police.
00:31:13I know my life is in danger please help me.
00:31:21Mace.
00:31:25Mace.
00:31:26What are you cooking up with this private cop.
00:31:30Trying to put me on the spot.
00:31:32You're the guy who turned my office upside down.
00:31:35I owe you something.
00:31:37So what.
00:31:41All right smart guy.
00:31:44Take that piece of cardboard you lifted from Lacey.
00:31:48And I want it right now.
00:31:49I don't like guessing games.
00:31:51What cardboard are you talking about.
00:31:52Don't give me that.
00:31:53You know what I mean.
00:31:56If you're smart you'll hand it over and bow out before you get hurt.
00:32:00I've been double crossed.
00:32:02I've been played for a sucker.
00:32:05But it'll be tough on anyone who stands in my way from now on.
00:32:09And I've got no time to fool around with you.
00:32:27Up with him.
00:32:32Why did you kill him.
00:32:33Who says I did.
00:32:35You were fighting with him and now he's dead.
00:32:37That pins it on you for my money.
00:32:38Hey.
00:32:39There was a woman in here.
00:32:40That might give us a motive.
00:32:42Tell it to the homicide boys when they get here call headquarters.
00:32:45Okay.
00:32:58There's the body nothing has been touched.
00:33:03Well don't tell me this one walked in and drop dead.
00:33:06All right Pete I won't if you don't want me to.
00:33:08Okay funny man I'll book you from murder.
00:33:10Try and get a laugh out of that.
00:33:11Was it murder to shoot an escape convict when he comes waving a gun at you.
00:33:15What are you trying to pull.
00:33:17I'll make it simple.
00:33:18That's Mace Morgan he's an escape convict.
00:33:21Well she's got lying over there on the floor.
00:33:47Hey there was a woman around here a while back but she disappeared.
00:33:50Hey.
00:33:51Who was the woman.
00:33:52What woman.
00:33:53He said there was a woman here.
00:33:55Well ask him is it any of my business if a woman comes in here.
00:33:59Well that was Morgan all right.
00:34:01You take anything out of his pocket.
00:34:03Looking for anything in particular.
00:34:05Search him.
00:34:06He may be concealing evidence.
00:34:07Just a minute you've got no right to search me.
00:34:10I think different.
00:34:11How do you want it rough or gentle.
00:34:15Gentle.
00:34:36That's all.
00:34:38Satisfied.
00:34:39I'm satisfied you're in contact with people wanted by the government.
00:34:43And that can lead to serious trouble.
00:34:45And you know how unhappy I'd be to see you in trouble.
00:34:48You know I wake nights worrying about making you unhappy.
00:35:03Hello chum.
00:35:05You seem to be a pretty bright boy.
00:35:08That's what my friends tell me.
00:35:11A thousand bucks.
00:35:12That's right.
00:35:13Wouldn't you rather have that in a broken neck.
00:35:16Something to think about.
00:35:17Give it a thought.
00:35:18You've got something that isn't worth a dime to you.
00:35:20Lay it on the line and take the grand.
00:35:24What's the matter.
00:35:24Don't you play rough anymore.
00:35:26I can play rough if that's the way you want it.
00:35:27But I'm willing to buy if you're a gravel.
00:35:31Well.
00:35:32What do you say.
00:35:34I said I'd think it over.
00:35:35Think fast because this offer won't stay open very long.
00:36:10Shane, you better walk soft. Pete Rappet is pretty sore.
00:36:14Thanks for the tip. Remind me to send you a Christmas car.
00:36:18Goodbye, chum.
00:36:44I beg your pardon?
00:36:50Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't see you coming in.
00:36:53Oh. That's all right. I've had nearly everything thrown at me anyway, except the guy had the glamour.
00:37:00Mr. Shane in? No, I haven't seen him this afternoon.
00:37:04Oh.
00:37:08Inspector Rappet tells me that Shane has a pretty high regard for your opinion.
00:37:11Well, I don't see that that's anything to get hysterically happy about.
00:37:15Well, I'm not trying to make you happy. I need your help.
00:37:19You know, I'm here to recover a vitally important government secret that was stolen.
00:37:24Now, with Lacey and Morgan both dead, I... well, I find myself in a blind alley.
00:37:28I'm not a detective. How can I help you?
00:37:31Well, I'm convinced that Shane has evidence that would be a great help to us.
00:37:35But I'm afraid a woman's convinced him to throw in with the other side.
00:37:38I wouldn't believe that about Mike.
00:37:40Well, there was a woman with him in that cocktail lounge when Morgan was killed.
00:37:44He let her get away. He covered up for her.
00:37:46It all adds up to one answer as far as I can see.
00:37:49You could be wrong. And I'll do my own arithmetic.
00:37:51I hope I am wrong. I need his help.
00:37:53Well, I came here hoping you might be able to persuade him that it would be to his advantage to
00:37:58cooperate with this government.
00:37:59I can agree with you on that a hundred percent.
00:38:02Thanks.
00:38:05I'd like to know more about that meeting in that cocktail lounge.
00:38:08Yes, I'm slightly curious myself.
00:38:11Yes, that might answer a number of questions.
00:38:14Well, I'll see you again. So long.
00:38:19Oh, and may I suggest that you don't need any guide to glamour?
00:39:08We're getting no place fast.
00:39:11We can't stall around forever.
00:39:13I was surprised to see Barton in town.
00:39:16I'd like to know what he has up his sleeve.
00:39:21Barton's nothing to worry about.
00:39:23He's in no position to shoot off his face.
00:39:26I know that.
00:39:26But he didn't come out here just for the ride.
00:39:29Shane's our headache, not Barton.
00:39:31With Lacey and my dear departed husband Mace Morgan on ice,
00:39:35we would have been sitting pretty if Shane hadn't stepped into the parade.
00:39:38Yeah, Shane's plenty tough.
00:39:39He won't buy and he won't scare.
00:39:41But there must be some way to make him crack.
00:39:45See who it is.
00:39:51Hello.
00:39:52What do you want?
00:39:53I'd really like to take you apart and see what makes you tick.
00:39:56But I'll restrain that impulse.
00:39:59I'm giving you formal notice that Mike Shane is no longer interested in you or your problems.
00:40:08Maybe you're talking out of turn.
00:40:09Think so?
00:40:11When a case leads to murder, it's time for him to give it up.
00:40:15Just how do you plan to do that?
00:40:17That, my dear, is a professional secret.
00:40:20Let me tell you a little secret, Bright Eyes.
00:40:22Just keep your nose in the typewriter if you care about staying healthy.
00:40:25You're in no position to make any threats.
00:40:28The police would like to know your part in the death of Mace Morgan.
00:40:32That makes you think I had anything to do with it.
00:40:35Oh, I'm not bad at putting two and two together.
00:40:38You called Mike to meet you at a certain place.
00:40:41There was a woman present when Mace Morgan was killed.
00:40:45Now, who do you suppose that woman was?
00:40:49I don't believe you're very eager to get in a cozy little chat with the police.
00:40:54Why don't you ask our charming visitor to sit down and make herself at home?
00:40:58She'll be here quite a while.
00:41:00What's the idea?
00:41:03Maybe we've found a way to make Shane be reasonable.
00:41:06I don't get it.
00:41:08Maybe he cares more for her than he does for a little piece of cardboard.
00:41:11Could be.
00:41:12You'll never force Mike to do anything he doesn't believe is right.
00:41:15We'll let Mr. Shane answer that.
00:41:29What's the matter?
00:41:31Nothing now. I saw a mouse.
00:41:37Screaming about a little mouse.
00:41:40If you see all the animals I've seen, you'd have something scrimmed.
00:41:49Phil?
00:41:55Angel?
00:42:01That's funny.
00:42:04Hey, where have you been, Angel?
00:42:06Angel?
00:42:07Hello, Pete. I thought you were fellas. What's on your mind?
00:42:10Plenty.
00:42:10I want to know the name of the girl whose fingerprints are on the gun that bumped Mace Morgan.
00:42:14OK, he's an ex-con, but I want to know who killed him and why.
00:42:17You got the wrong number, Pete.
00:42:18I'm not running an information bureau.
00:42:20You're going to have to wake up and find out you're not running anything in this state.
00:42:23I'll make it my business to see that your license gets revoked.
00:42:27Obstructing justice in a federal investigation is grouse enough to get you thrown out on your ear.
00:42:34You can save yourself a lot of trouble if you'll tell me what Shane did with that piece of baggage
00:42:38check he took from Lacey.
00:42:40Nod your head if you feel like calling.
00:42:43You may change your mind after a while.
00:42:46Why not call Trigger?
00:42:47He's a genius at making people change their mind.
00:42:50I hope that won't be necessary.
00:42:53Oh, I'm fed up with you trying to give me the run around.
00:42:56I have a good mind to take you down to headquarters and let you meditate for a while.
00:43:00You know what's a good thing to have before you throw anybody in jail?
00:43:03What?
00:43:03Proof.
00:43:04Why didn't you know there was a law against false arrest?
00:43:06I can hold John's suspicion.
00:43:08Suspicion of what?
00:43:09Being smarter than you are.
00:43:11Guilty.
00:43:13You know Pete.
00:43:13Some day you're going to stick your neck out so far you'll never be able to get it back in
00:43:16your collar again.
00:43:19Shane.
00:43:21Some day I'm going to forget I'm a cop.
00:43:23And I'm going to take you apart with these hands just for the fun of it.
00:43:29And I don't know if anything will give me any more pleasure.
00:43:33Peanuts.
00:44:00Yes?
00:44:02Mr. Shane.
00:44:03I'm terribly afraid.
00:44:05What am I going to do?
00:44:06Answer a few questions.
00:44:12You know the police are kind of interested in the woman whose fingerprints were found on that gun.
00:44:17I didn't pick it up when you dropped it.
00:44:18Did you tell them anything?
00:44:21Not yet.
00:44:21I had to kill him to save your life.
00:44:23He might have killed you.
00:44:25Maybe.
00:44:27It would be too awful that story got in the papers.
00:44:29It would destroy all my hopes for happiness.
00:44:32Please Mr. Shane keep me out of it.
00:44:35How did Morgan happen to be so Johnny on the spot?
00:44:37You uh.
00:44:38You weren't expecting him were you?
00:44:40No of course not.
00:44:41He must have followed me.
00:44:49Can I get you a drink?
00:44:51No thanks.
00:44:59It could be you put Morgan on the spot and used me as a front to cover up when you
00:45:02knocked him off.
00:45:05Don't think out of me it isn't true.
00:45:07I was desperately afraid of him.
00:45:09When I saw that gun in his hand I shot him.
00:45:13Then I became panic stricken and ran away.
00:45:15I didn't know what I was doing.
00:45:17You seen my secretary?
00:45:19Why no.
00:45:21Was I supposed to have seen her?
00:45:23Maybe.
00:45:26I don't know.
00:45:27You will protect me won't you?
00:45:29They can't charge you with murder and it won't do any good to get my name into it.
00:45:34I won't spill anything I don't have to.
00:45:43By the way what happened to the money Morgan took from that brokerage firm.
00:45:46I don't know anything about it.
00:45:48That all happened after I left him.
00:45:50I see.
00:45:51Well you don't need my protection from him anymore.
00:45:54I guess that washes the case up.
00:46:01You'll send your bill Mr. Shane.
00:46:03I'll have to think about that.
00:46:05After all you did all the work all I did was stand around with.
00:46:30I was picking up pieces of paper.
00:46:32Someday I'll find a million bucks.
00:46:38And.
00:46:53Looked pretty rough for a minute.
00:46:55It wasn't funny.
00:46:56I never want to sweat out anything like that again.
00:46:59I don't know whether Shane suspected anything or not.
00:47:02We're getting out of here right away call Trigger and have him bring the car.
00:47:04Keep your eye on her.
00:47:17Don't let her know.
00:47:20Don't let her know.
00:47:24Don't let her know.
00:47:26Don't let her know.
00:47:27I don't know.
00:47:33You can't go see it anymore.
00:47:34Don't let her know.
00:47:34Don't let her know.
00:47:36That's the name of the people first.
00:47:37Don't let her know!!
00:47:37Okay, they can't see, you know.
00:47:58Just like Metro.
00:48:19What's the matter, mister?
00:48:20You hurt?
00:48:20No.
00:48:21A girl was just kidnapped.
00:48:22A green Plymouth sedan.
00:48:23Got a general alarm.
00:48:24Right.
00:48:45I heard a scream, so I stopped to find out what was wrong.
00:48:50And she told me, saw a little mouse and slammed my door out of my face.
00:48:55All right.
00:48:55Thanks for your information.
00:48:56You're welcome.
00:48:57Any time.
00:49:04Any report on the kidnap car?
00:49:06Not a murmur.
00:49:08Well, Shane, you fooled around trying to be a smart boy and wanted to get you.
00:49:12Phyllis takes a rap for you.
00:49:13Maybe you got her killed.
00:49:15Okay, Pete.
00:49:15Pour it on.
00:49:16I'm on the ropes.
00:49:16But when it comes down to you and me, no holes are barred.
00:49:21If you hope ever again to see her alive, you better stop trying to play a lone hand and give
00:49:25us all the information you have.
00:49:26I've given the police all the information I have that'll help them find her.
00:49:29You haven't turned over all the information you have.
00:49:32Are you concerned with Miss Hamilton or with grabbing something from that gang?
00:49:36I hope to accomplish both at the same time, but naturally the interests of the government are of primary importance.
00:49:43Okay, Pete.
00:49:44It's in your lap.
00:49:45Organizations what counts in a kidnapping case.
00:49:47Come on, Tim, let's go.
00:49:51How could I have been so stupid?
00:49:52Well, you couldn't tell Phil was going to walk into a deal like this.
00:49:58Hey, I didn't know I was living next door to a den of criminals.
00:50:02He was mighty cute, though.
00:50:04I tried to get better acquainted.
00:50:05Yeah, you're lucky you didn't make the grade.
00:50:07You might have wound up in the morgue.
00:50:09Hey, Mike.
00:50:12You're still holding out.
00:50:13Why?
00:50:14Don't you trust a federal agent?
00:50:17Are you gambling with Phil's life to cut yourself in on the deal?
00:50:20That the way it looks to you?
00:50:22Yeah.
00:50:23You better get yourself a pair of glasses.
00:50:28You know what does that do the chain standing in the way of recovering those plans?
00:50:31You better sweat it out of them before it's too late.
00:50:34You may be dickering with them on a sellout price.
00:50:36Yeah, but how does that fit in with them snatching his secretary?
00:50:38Ah, that could have been a phony stunt just to throw us off the track.
00:50:42Or even to put the pressure on him.
00:50:45I wonder.
00:50:47That Shane is pretty good at pulling fast ones.
00:50:51Maybe I should hold him for a while.
00:50:54Yeah, that's what I'll do.
00:50:56This is part of a baggage check.
00:50:58Whoever has the whole check can claim a piece of baggage.
00:51:01Two murders have already been committed for whatever's in there.
00:51:05You mean that little piece of cardboard stands between a foreign power and a government secret?
00:51:08It also stands between Phil and sudden death.
00:51:11What do you mean?
00:51:13If Pearson had this, they'd know they couldn't make a deal.
00:51:15This way, they know they've got to come to me.
00:51:17Yeah, but supposing they don't come.
00:51:20See what I mean?
00:51:23Hello.
00:51:24Mike Shane talking.
00:51:26It's about time you got back to your office.
00:51:28Shane, you have something I want, and I have something you want.
00:51:31How about a tray?
00:51:33Put it on the phone.
00:51:38You're wanted on the phone.
00:51:47Tell them you're okay.
00:51:49Come along, Trigger.
00:51:56Hello, Mike.
00:51:57Hello, Angel.
00:51:58I suppose you're talking with a gun in your back.
00:52:00Answer yes or no. Are you all right?
00:52:02Yes, they've treated me all right.
00:52:05Mike, I'm sorry I was such a fool and caused all this trouble.
00:52:09Take her back to the car.
00:52:14Well, what do you say, Shane?
00:52:16Do we trade?
00:52:17Yeah, we trade.
00:52:19Plus one grand.
00:52:20Why make things tough on the girl?
00:52:22I offered you the grand once, but I don't have to kick in with it now.
00:52:25We trade even or not at all.
00:52:27Then we don't trade.
00:52:31Mike, that's the lowest thing I ever heard of.
00:52:33Trying to get yourself a thousand bucks.
00:52:34Blow your top.
00:52:36I gave up too easy to think I was a pushover and Mike tried to cross me.
00:52:40I'll call back.
00:52:49I'll call back.
00:52:50Calling all cars.
00:52:51Calling all cars.
00:52:52Attention all patrol cars.
00:52:54Pick up Michael Shady, detective.
00:52:56Bring him to headquarters for questioning.
00:52:57That is all.
00:52:59Harmon.
00:52:59Supposing you're wrong.
00:53:01Supposing they don't call back, then what?
00:53:02You've lost contact.
00:53:11Hello, Shane talking.
00:53:13Okay, Shane, you win.
00:53:15We trade plus one grand.
00:53:16But be satisfied with that, because if you try to pull a fast one, someone will get badly hurt.
00:53:21All right, I'll meet the telephone booth in the station.
00:53:23As soon as Miss Hamilton phone, she's okay, we trade.
00:53:25And if you don't try to cross me, no one will get hurt.
00:53:38Mike, you can't do this.
00:53:40Do what?
00:53:40Sell out your country.
00:53:41Don't you realize what those plans mean in the hands of an enemy?
00:53:43I realize they're a matter of life and death to fellas.
00:53:46I don't think fellas would want to buy a life at that price.
00:53:49What are you going to do?
00:53:50I'm going to turn you into piss and anything to stop you.
00:53:52Oh, Tim, I hate to do this.
00:53:53Hello?
00:54:07Yes, please.
00:54:10Hello?
00:54:22Hello?
00:54:23Hi, sir.
00:54:29Let's go.
00:55:01Remember Shane there'll be two guns on you all the time call your office.
00:55:33There's no answer what are you trying to do there will be.
00:55:44I hope we're not too late to take my advice in the first place we wouldn't have run into a
00:55:49situation like this.
00:55:50I've got to have proof why you throw a guy in jail.
00:56:03Answer the phone.
00:56:08Hello Michael Shane private investigator.
00:56:10Hello Phil.
00:56:11Are you all right.
00:56:13Everything's all right so far.
00:56:15Let me talk to Helen.
00:56:20Your boyfriend wants to talk to you.
00:56:24Hello Helen.
00:56:25Hold the phone until Shane delivers.
00:56:28All right Shane give.
00:56:29What about the.
00:56:35What you want in the sweat band in my head.
00:56:46That's it go ahead Helen as we plan.
00:56:54Jane you stay with us for a while.
00:57:03Let's have that right away we have to catch a train.
00:57:06Yes sir.
00:57:16What's the matter with that guy.
00:57:17Does he have to take a trip out of town to find that bag.
00:57:19Take it easy.
00:57:20You waited a long time for this couple of minutes more if I don't make much difference.
00:57:24Come on you too Shane.
00:57:38Cops.
00:57:57You waited a long time for three minutes.
00:57:59No.
00:58:11No.
00:58:12No.
00:58:13No.
00:58:14No.
00:58:15No.
00:58:16No.
00:58:17No.
00:58:17No.
00:58:18No.
00:58:18No.
00:58:18No.
00:58:19No.
00:58:19No.
00:58:19No.
00:58:19No.
00:58:20No.
00:58:21No.
00:58:23We'll miss you around here Shane you stuck your neck into a federal rap this time you're right to me
00:58:28won't you Pete?
00:58:29Oh thanks. Thank you. Nice work Rafferty. You save the plans and I'll see that you get full recognition from
00:58:36Washington.
00:58:40Hello Tim. I see you got here. I'm sorry if I got you in trouble Mike but I just couldn't
00:58:43see it the other way.
00:58:44Oh it's all right. No harm done. Train for Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington leaving on track four.
00:58:52Well gentlemen that's my train. Well I'll see you later fellas. So long. Just a minute.
00:58:57I'll take that. Shane have you lost your mind? Hold on to your half teeth.
00:59:01You've been very busy helping one crook cross up some other crooks. Pearson is a federal agent.
00:59:06These are more federal agents than I am. I got a wire from Washington. A telegraph operator could be bribed
00:59:10to send a fake wire.
00:59:11I did what you should have done. I wired the bureau in Washington. Here read what they say.
00:59:17No federal agent by the name of Pearson in your. You'll notice it's signed by a very important person.
00:59:25All right Bob. Take him away.
00:59:31Well Peter. Here you are. You won't find any secret plans in there but you'll find a lot of money
00:59:35stolen from a brokerage firm.
00:59:38Holy mackerel I forgot about Phil. She may still be in danger.
00:59:52He may still be in danger.
00:59:53Angel. Phil.
00:59:58Stop it. You old blonde hussy. I'll let you.
01:00:02Let me out.
01:00:03It's about time you got here. Take this while or get off of me.
01:00:10Why don't you teach your secretary better manners just a minute Helen
01:00:13How about telling us a little story
01:00:14Your two pals are dead and the stolen money is recovered
01:00:18Why not
01:00:20Lacey Morgan and Barton junior members of the firm
01:00:23Frame the hold up
01:00:24Then they check the stuff out here
01:00:27Each one holding a third of the baggage check
01:00:29And the cops grabbed Morgan
01:00:31That's right
01:00:33Lacey made a deal with Leroy and Trigger
01:00:36They cracked Barton safe and took his third of the check
01:00:39Mace Morgan was on his way to the pen
01:00:40So I threw in with Lacey and Leroy
01:00:42And murdered Lacey at his share
01:00:44You can't prove that
01:00:45Ballistics can
01:00:46The same gunshot Lacey and Morgan and your fingerprints were all over it
01:00:51You had to get Morgan or he would have killed you for double crossing him
01:00:53Wait a minute Mike
01:00:55Who is Pearson?
01:00:57I think you'll find his real name is Barton
01:00:59You know you did a nice job in solving that Lacey murder Pete
01:01:02I'll bet Tim writes a swell story about it
01:01:04Oh thanks
01:01:06I wouldn't be surprised if the bonding company offered some kind of a reward
01:01:10It's all yours Mike
01:01:11I wouldn't touch a penny of it
01:01:12What's very generous of you Pete
01:01:14That's all right
01:01:15I'm glad to see you get it
01:01:16Come on
01:01:21Well that's one more blonde out of my life
01:01:24Mike
01:01:26Tim
01:01:28I hated to do that Mike
01:01:31It's all right
01:01:31They're coming
01:01:32They're coming
01:01:33They're coming
01:01:47They're coming
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