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Enter the shadowy world of Shadows in the Night, a gripping film noir classic inspired by true events. With its striking cinematography, tense manhunt, and unforgettable atmosphere, this timeless crime thriller remains a standout gem of the late 1940s.
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00:01:09This is Los Angeles, Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels, as the Spaniards named her.
00:01:13The fastest growing city in the nation.
00:01:15It's been called a bunch of suburbs in search of a city.
00:01:18And it's been called the glamour capital of the world.
00:01:21A mecca for tourists.
00:01:23A stopover for transients.
00:01:25A target for gangsters.
00:01:27A haven for those fleeing from winter.
00:01:29A home for the hard working.
00:01:31It is a city holding the hopes and dreams of over two million people.
00:01:35It sprawls out horizontally over 452 square miles of valleys and uplands.
00:01:41Of foothills and beaches.
00:01:44Because of that vast area, and because of a population made up of people from every state in the Union,
00:01:50Los Angeles is the largest police beat in the country.
00:01:53And one of the toughest.
00:01:56We're going to take you into the city hall where police headquarters are located.
00:02:00Here in communications are the ears and voice of the police.
00:02:04The lights on the complaint board flash 24 hours a day.
00:02:07Citizens reporting a prowler.
00:02:09A lost child.
00:02:10A man molesting a woman.
00:02:11An auto accident.
00:02:12A wild party.
00:02:14Spend an hour or two here and you will think the whole city has gone berserk.
00:02:18Minute by minute the orders go out to the radio cars in the far-flung divisions.
00:02:22Watts and Wilshire and West Los Angeles.
00:02:25Hollywood and Hollenbeck Heights in North Hollywood.
00:02:27The work of the police like that of woman is never done.
00:02:32This is the case history of a killer.
00:02:35Taken from the files of the detective division.
00:02:38The facts are told here as they happen.
00:02:40The story properly starts here in Hollywood Division headquarters
00:02:44at one o'clock of a June morning last year.
00:02:47Officer Robert Rollins had finished his tour of duty and signed out.
00:02:50It had been a tough day.
00:02:52He'd be glad to get home.
00:02:53His wife would be waiting up for him as she always did.
00:03:37He'd be glad to get home.
00:03:44He's glad to get home.
00:03:57He's glad to get home.
00:04:46Hey, fella.
00:04:47Come here.
00:04:52What were you doing back at that radio shop?
00:04:54Miss Logan.
00:04:55I was on my way home.
00:04:58Live around here?
00:04:59Yeah, a couple blocks down.
00:05:01Let me see some identification.
00:05:03Sure.
00:05:07Yeah, I guess I forgot my wallet.
00:05:10Look ahead.
00:05:11I've got to see some identification.
00:05:12How about my army discharge?
00:05:14I've got it right here.
00:05:16How about my army discharge?
00:05:32Come here.
00:05:36Come here.
00:05:38Come here.
00:05:41Come here.
00:05:41Come here.
00:05:43Come here.
00:05:43Come here.
00:05:53Police Department, Operator 27.
00:05:56I want to report the shooting of a policeman.
00:05:59Hold on, please.
00:06:01Give me that again, please.
00:06:02I'm calling to report the shooting of a policeman.
00:06:04What's the address?
00:06:055057 State Street, just west of Santa Monica.
00:06:08Just a minute.
00:06:10Receiving hospital, Operator 2.
00:06:13Operator 27.
00:06:155057 State Street.
00:06:175057 State Street.
00:06:18An officer has been shot.
00:06:19Send an ambulance.
00:06:20All units.
00:06:21All units in the vicinity of State Street and Santa Monica Boulevard.
00:06:25Proceed at once to 5057 State Street.
00:06:285057 State Street.
00:06:30An officer shot.
00:06:31Code 3.
00:06:5580K to Control 1.
00:06:56Control 1 to 80K.
00:06:58Go ahead.
00:06:58This is Breen.
00:07:00Instruct homicide to throw out a drag dip and pick up all suspicious characters in the area of the shooting.
00:07:05Also notify Sergeants Marty Brennan and Chuck Jones to report to me at the scene of the crime.
00:07:09Control 1 to 80K.
00:07:11Roger.
00:07:24I see.
00:07:25Well, what have you got so far?
00:07:27Well, not much, Captain.
00:07:28I'm going to bring a couple of cartridge cases.
00:07:31Hello, Marty, Chuck.
00:07:33Hi, Captain.
00:07:34Eyewitnesses?
00:07:35Who was first on the scene reported it?
00:07:37I was.
00:07:38I live here.
00:07:39I'm a light sleeper, but my hearing is good.
00:07:42My cat was...
00:07:42Did the officer say anything before he collapsed?
00:07:44Yeah, he gave a description of the fellow.
00:07:47He was...
00:08:04Is that about it?
00:08:07Yes, sir, exactly.
00:08:09And the officer kept saying, he looked like such a nice kid.
00:08:13He looked like such a nice kid.
00:08:15As if he couldn't believe what had happened to him.
00:08:19I see.
00:08:20Is that all?
00:08:21Yeah.
00:08:22Thank you very much.
00:08:23Yeah, well, anything else I can do, I'd be glad to help you.
00:08:25We may call you.
00:08:26Get his name and address for you, Bob.
00:08:31Is the door been checked, Lee?
00:08:33Yeah, it's okay, Captain.
00:08:38Find anything?
00:08:40Nothing but some smudges so far.
00:08:42Found this in the glove compartment.
00:08:44I think it's nitroglycerin.
00:08:47It doesn't look quite right.
00:08:49Well, check it down at the lab.
00:08:51Right.
00:08:52Well.
00:08:59Open this up, Joe.
00:09:00No key, Captain.
00:09:02Try it open.
00:09:02Give me that bar, Frank.
00:09:20Hmm.
00:09:21Regular arsenal.
00:09:23Yeah, get a load of that.
00:09:24What is it?
00:09:26I don't know.
00:09:26It looks like some kind of an electrical device.
00:09:29United States Navy.
00:09:32It's either stolen or war surplus.
00:09:35Send all this stuff down to the lab and check the serial number on that Navy equipment.
00:09:39Yes, sir.
00:09:40Captain Breen.
00:09:41We found these in the weeds over by the radio store.
00:09:44Hmm.
00:09:45What do you got?
00:09:46A pair of cloth gloves, Captain.
00:09:48Well, he thought of everything, didn't he?
00:09:50All right.
00:09:51Give them to one of the technicians.
00:09:52Yes, sir.
00:09:53Marty, you and Chuck come along with me.
00:09:55Let's go downtown and see what they've picked up in the dragnet.
00:09:58Right.
00:10:12You know him, Marty?
00:10:14Yeah.
00:10:16I know his wife, too.
00:10:19Ever since high school.
00:10:24Captain, I wish you'd let Chuck and me handle this case.
00:10:30All right.
00:10:31I don't want any dead heroes.
00:10:34I just want the man who shot Rawlins.
00:10:39The suspects began to arrive at headquarters in droves.
00:10:42The police tossed every motel and hotel and many private homes in a four-square-mile area around the scene
00:10:48of the shooting.
00:10:49Every available radio car and patrolman and detective was out on the dragnet.
00:10:53The strings were being drawn tighter and tighter.
00:10:57Many a man returning from a date or a late party or a poker game surprisingly found himself in a
00:11:02squad car,
00:11:03its sirens screaming as it brought him to the detective bureau.
00:11:07The dragnet gathered in some strange fish and many ordinary ones.
00:11:12All the rest of that night, the detectives probed, needled, questioned, quizzed.
00:11:19Everything was checked.
00:11:20Fingerprints, names, addresses, stories.
00:11:24Every fish in the net was examined.
00:11:26Most of them thrown back into the sea, not worth keeping.
00:11:30Except a few parole violators and slightly shady characters whose stories needed a lot of verifying.
00:11:36I wasn't prowling no cars.
00:11:38Just taking a walk.
00:11:39You know, getting in condition.
00:11:40You were running when the radio car picked you up.
00:11:43Yeah?
00:11:44Maybe that's why the guys called me Punchy.
00:11:46He's got a point there.
00:11:48Two felony convictions, no warrant, no warrant.
00:11:50He's on parole.
00:11:51Book him, violation of parole.
00:11:53Let's have the next one, Joe.
00:11:55What were you doing in that vacant lot?
00:11:58The vacant lot?
00:12:00Lot?
00:12:01What were you doing with it at that time of night?
00:12:17You say your name is Ralph Henderson.
00:12:19So what?
00:12:20Well, you know, it's a funny thing, Ralph.
00:12:22There's a guy around this town that's been wearing your fingerprints.
00:12:25Only his name is Pete Hannon.
00:12:27Okay.
00:12:29So I'm dead.
00:12:31So what's one more confession in my life?
00:12:34Now you're talking, Hannon.
00:12:36Okay, Hannon.
00:12:39Hello, Harry.
00:12:40What have we got here?
00:12:41Oh, some robbery suspects.
00:12:43Candidates for Sam Clinton.
00:12:45Handsome here is the big shot.
00:12:47He runs the outfit.
00:12:50Avogander at his record.
00:12:52Car theft.
00:12:53Escape from reform school.
00:12:55Robbery.
00:12:56Assault with a deadly weapon.
00:12:58Not bad.
00:12:58Look at the heater we found on him.
00:13:01German Luger.
00:13:02Fully loaded.
00:13:03Redhead here tried to carve up one of the arresting officers with this pretty toy.
00:13:09Nice boys.
00:13:09By dawn, many minor wrongdoings had been uncovered and a few incipient felonies.
00:13:14The checking of the suspects had been thorough, painstaking and tedious, but all the work was for nothing.
00:13:21The man who had shot Officer Rollins was not among them.
00:13:24He remained no more than a description.
00:13:26A shadow of a man.
00:13:29Mysterious, elusive, deadly.
00:13:31Hidden away, hidden away, hidden away somewhere in the vast city.
00:13:37As for Rollins himself, he couldn't help.
00:13:40He was in a coma at receiving hospital.
00:13:44Mrs. Rollins waited out the long tense hours while her husband fought to live.
00:13:49Many another officer's wife had so waited.
00:13:51Many another will.
00:13:52The word came shortly after Sonna.
00:14:17A white male American.
00:14:1926 or 7.
00:14:215 feet 10 or 11.
00:14:24155 to 165 pounds.
00:14:27Brown hair.
00:14:28Regular features.
00:14:29Pencil mustache.
00:14:32This was no frightened fugitive.
00:14:35What went on in his mind?
00:14:37Why had he set his hand against his fellow men?
00:14:40Taken the life of another.
00:14:42Of a stranger.
00:14:43Of a man who is merely doing his duty.
00:14:46He must have some plan.
00:14:48Some goal that called for sudden death to anyone who got in his way.
00:14:56To the Expo.
00:15:08All right.
00:15:24Oh.
00:15:25Oh.
00:15:39Good morning, boys.
00:15:40Good morning, Lee.
00:15:42Hi, Professor.
00:15:45Well, I thought this was safe cracker soup.
00:15:47You gonna drink it, I hope?
00:15:49I'm really a nice guy.
00:15:51Stick around.
00:15:52I'll prove it.
00:15:53Come over here.
00:16:15Hold this for me, will you, Chuck?
00:16:23Now, if you'll hand me that hammer, Marty.
00:16:37Yeah?
00:16:39Nitroglycerin.
00:16:40I didn't ask for a collection of fingers, just fingerprints.
00:16:44All those nice fingerprints on the car belong to the man who was stolen from, Captain.
00:16:48Nothing on the guns, the pick locks.
00:16:50Not even an interesting smudge.
00:16:52They're gloves.
00:16:53Common type, worn by undertakers.
00:16:57I'll check on them.
00:16:58They won't show anything.
00:16:59What did your scientific test show?
00:17:01A couple of little things.
00:17:03Tool identification on these pick locks.
00:17:05I got one under the scope.
00:17:07You wanna take a look?
00:17:07Yeah.
00:17:18Take a look.
00:17:23I see.
00:17:25Well, it seems to tie the tool up with a lock.
00:17:29That microscope could only tell us who did it.
00:17:32I'm working on it.
00:17:34You know, only an amateur would carry that liquid dynamite in a car.
00:17:38This boy's no amateur.
00:17:40Took the precaution of desensitizing it so it'll take normal shock.
00:17:44Took a lot of other precautions, too.
00:17:45No fingerprints, no identification.
00:17:48Nothing definite.
00:17:49Except he's scientific.
00:17:52Knows electricity.
00:17:54He's invented.
00:17:56Yeah.
00:17:57Happy on the trigger.
00:18:03This is Captain Breen.
00:18:04Get me Captain Stevens a burglary, will you?
00:18:07I hate to disappoint you, Lee, but I think you've come up with something.
00:18:11Uh, hello, Steve?
00:18:13How are you?
00:18:15Did your daughter's marriage come off all right?
00:18:18Good.
00:18:19Look, Steve, on those burglaries of electrical equipment lately,
00:18:24were there any where pick locks were used to gain entry?
00:18:30Thank you, Lee.
00:18:30Good.
00:18:31Well, let me know if there's another report of one, will you?
00:18:34I've got an idea the Rawlins killer may be tied in with those.
00:18:39Fine.
00:18:39Uh, and, uh, give my regards to the newlyweds, too.
00:18:43So long, Steve.
00:18:46Well, what are you waiting for?
00:18:48You've got a job, haven't you?
00:18:49Get going.
00:18:50Yeah, let's go, Junior.
00:18:52Hold this for me, will you, Lee?
00:18:54Thanks.
00:18:58And so, with no fingerprints and only a vague description to go by,
00:19:01Sergeant Brennan turned to the modus operandi file.
00:19:04A criminal, like any human being, has his own habit patterns,
00:19:07unconscious traits that can lead to his downfall.
00:19:16Oh, there you are, Junior.
00:19:18A list of burglars that use pick locks for entry.
00:19:20Oh, great.
00:19:22This narrows it down to just a couple of hundred suspects in this area.
00:19:25Give me a match, will you?
00:19:29That may not be so bad.
00:19:31This guy's improved on the system.
00:19:32Maybe he's left his trademark on some other job.
00:19:35Well, here we go, legging it all over town, asking a million questions.
00:19:39What you paid for, isn't it?
00:19:40Am I paid to associate with you, too, Junior?
00:19:43You could do worse.
00:19:44Not this year.
00:19:45Come on.
00:20:00Car 12, car 1-2, in the 10,000 block on Mississippi.
00:20:05A 394-15 disturbance.
00:20:13Car 80-K, code 1.
00:20:47All units, on the broadcast of the suspect arrested in the shooting of patrolman Rawlins.
00:20:52Cancel the cancellation.
00:20:54Suspect released from custody.
00:21:12Oh, hello, Mr. Martin.
00:21:14You'll find Mr. Reeves in the machine shop.
00:21:32Hello, Roy.
00:21:34Glad to see you.
00:21:36How are you, Mr. Reeves?
00:21:36Hi.
00:21:37I was hoping you'd drop in.
00:21:39I wanted to thank you for showing us how to handle that repair job.
00:21:43That was a lot.
00:21:52Oh, what have we got this time?
00:21:55Oh, a sewer grab.
00:22:05There are plenty of these around, Roy.
00:22:08Not like this one.
00:22:11Yes, I see.
00:22:12I suppose, as usual, you've added your own improvements.
00:22:17You know, it seems wrong that a man of your talents should bother consigning equipment for rental.
00:22:24I'd like to see you devote yourself entirely to experimental electronics.
00:22:30It'll come one day.
00:22:32I'll live a place like this.
00:22:34Why wait?
00:22:36I've got a pretty good setup here.
00:22:38I'd have modern equipment to work with, a lab, and my confidence.
00:22:44Thanks, Mr. Reeves.
00:22:46I have other plans.
00:22:47But, Roy, you can't tell where it'll lead.
00:22:49Might even work your way around to a percentage of the business.
00:22:54I like it this way.
00:22:57You just rent out my equipment.
00:22:59All right, Roy.
00:23:00All right.
00:23:01What if you should change your mind?
00:23:03I'm not likely to change my mind.
00:23:06I suppose you want me to set this up for rental, too.
00:23:11Mr. Reeves, you've already got five pieces of my equipment.
00:23:16You'd like to know what results I've had from the rental so far, hmm?
00:23:20Well, I can't say as I blame you.
00:23:23I think you'll find this satisfactory.
00:23:28Satisfactory.
00:23:30Goodbye, Mr. Reeves.
00:23:31And you'll come back again soon, won't you?
00:23:33Sure.
00:23:34Oh, incidentally.
00:23:37How's that television projector coming along?
00:23:39The one you said would reflect a 12-foot image.
00:23:41Still working on it.
00:23:42I just wanted you to know I've already set up a rental on it.
00:23:45In fact, I think they'd like to buy.
00:23:49It'll come pretty high.
00:23:50Oh.
00:23:51Money is no consideration with this customer.
00:23:58Tell them they can pick it up tomorrow.
00:24:00I thought you said it wasn't finished yet.
00:24:01It'll be finished.
00:24:11It uses an image fixer and then projects by ordinary incandescent.
00:24:16Roy?
00:24:19This is the best television projector I've ever seen.
00:24:22Let's hope that your customer thinks so.
00:24:24He will.
00:24:32Send him right in, Charlotte.
00:24:35There.
00:24:36You see, our customer is here.
00:24:38Begging for the privilege of buying.
00:24:40Better be running along.
00:24:42I'm not much good at business.
00:24:43Oh, but Roy, he'll want to congratulate you.
00:24:47Just see that the price is right.
00:24:50All right, Roy.
00:24:51I'll get you a good deal.
00:24:53So long.
00:24:54See you.
00:24:59Well, Mr. Dunning, come in.
00:25:05Isn't it a beauty?
00:25:19It's a beauty, all right.
00:25:20You like it?
00:25:21I certainly do like it.
00:25:23You see, it's mine.
00:25:24What do you mean?
00:25:25Let me have the police.
00:25:27I built it.
00:25:28Spent years on it.
00:25:29Oh, you must be crazy.
00:25:31Roy built this machine himself.
00:25:32Your friend's a crook, Paul.
00:25:34You've been taken in.
00:25:35Hello.
00:25:36Give me the burglary detail.
00:25:39Dear Jim, regarding your inquiry on a .38 caliber Smith and Western Barbas,
00:25:45Oh, come in, boys.
00:25:47Burglary detail just sent this report through.
00:25:50It's a man named Dunning who reports tracing a stolen television projector to the Reeves Electronics Lab.
00:25:57Think it's a tie-in with the Rollins case?
00:25:58Well, take a look at this fellow Reeves and see what gives.
00:26:01I'll notify burglary when we're following up on it.
00:26:04Right.
00:26:05Come on, Junior.
00:26:08What else did he place with you for rental?
00:26:11Oh, a number of things.
00:26:13All war surplus that he bought on his veteran's rating.
00:26:16Oh, is this more of his equipment?
00:26:17Yes.
00:26:17Yes, he left it here on consignment.
00:26:21I'm sure that Roy can explain everything.
00:26:24Well, maybe he can, Mr. Reeves, if you'll tell us where he lives.
00:26:27But I don't know.
00:26:28Mr. Martin's on the phone, sir.
00:26:32I'd better talk to him.
00:26:33I think so, Mr. Reeves.
00:26:35I'll take it in the superintendent's office.
00:26:45Tell him that you sold the set.
00:26:47And his money's waiting for him here.
00:26:48Find out what time he's coming by.
00:26:54Put Mr. Martin on.
00:27:00Hello, Roy.
00:27:04Yes, yes, I've sold it.
00:27:06Your money is waiting here for you.
00:27:10Yes, I'll be working late tonight.
00:27:12What time will you be by?
00:27:14First thing in the morning.
00:27:16Well, maybe you better come in tonight, Roy.
00:27:18A couple of things I want cleared up.
00:27:21Like what?
00:27:22Oh, technical things.
00:27:25Besides, I don't like to leave the money in the plant overnight.
00:27:32How about 8.30?
00:27:33Fine, fine.
00:27:35I'll see you then.
00:27:36I'll leave the front door unlocked.
00:27:44He'll be here at 8.30.
00:27:54Well, I'll just run along home and get some dinner.
00:27:57Uh, we'd like you to stay, too, Mr. Reeves.
00:28:00Why?
00:28:01For company.
00:28:02You want to cooperate, don't you, Mr. Reeves?
00:28:04Certainly.
00:28:05Good.
00:28:05Now, you just wait in your office.
00:28:07We'll be around.
00:28:09Very well.
00:28:11This way, gentlemen.
00:29:36Reeves.
00:29:41Is that you, Roy?
00:29:50Let's go outside and block that alley door.
00:30:07Where are you, Roy?
00:30:14Who's in here?
00:30:16No one.
00:30:17I'm alone.
00:30:24Come on in.
00:30:25I've got your money for it.
00:30:27Bring it out here.
00:30:31All right.
00:30:35Just a minute.
00:30:50All right.
00:38:04This man is up with him.
00:38:06The killer, always resourceful, always thinking along lines that would baffle his hunters,
00:38:11had discovered an ideal avenue of escape.
00:38:14Under Los Angeles is a vast and intricate system of huge storm drains
00:38:18built to siphon off the flash floods of the rainy season.
00:38:22Many of the tunnels are large enough for two cars to drive abreast.
00:38:25Here were 700 miles of hidden highways.
00:38:29Ideal for the use of someone who needed to hurry from place to place without being seen.
00:38:35Ideal is a hiding place for guns and supplies in case of emergency.
00:38:42Well, the reason I asked you to come over is I think I've hit on something.
00:38:45An identification?
00:38:46No, not quite, but a tie-up.
00:38:49Now, these are the shells from the gun that killed Rawlins.
00:38:53These were fired in the liquor store holdup in which the bandit got away.
00:38:57And these were fired at Chuck.
00:38:59Now, as you know, every ejector, even in guns of the same model and caliber, is different.
00:39:05Each one leaves its own markings on the cartridge casing.
00:39:09Now, look at these fine striations.
00:39:12This deep gouge.
00:39:15The same on all three.
00:39:22In other words, the man who killed Rawlins and the man who shot at Jones and Brennan,
00:39:27the stick-up who's blitzing the liquor stores are all the same man.
00:39:30Right.
00:39:31All we need to know is what that man looks like.
00:39:37Get me Chandler and robbery, will you?
00:39:40I've got an idea about that.
00:39:43Also, it'll give us a chance to see if Reeves is on the level with us.
00:39:47Uh, Steve.
00:39:48Green.
00:39:49About those blitz holdups you're on.
00:39:52Round up all the victims and have them down here tonight, will you?
00:39:56Oh, it's just a little scheme.
00:39:58Thanks, Steve.
00:40:03Oh, that's good.
00:40:05Now, sketch another one of the same type, only this time thin it out a little, huh?
00:40:08All right.
00:40:09Hi, Lee.
00:40:09How's it coming?
00:40:10You ready for tonight?
00:40:11We'll be ready.
00:40:12Think it'll work?
00:40:13It should.
00:40:14What'd you get the idea?
00:40:16From a kidnapping case in Chicago.
00:40:18I thought these slides might be an improvement over the method they used.
00:40:22Could be.
00:40:23Captain thinks so.
00:40:28Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:40:30May I have your attention for a moment, please?
00:40:33You've all been asked to sit in on a little experiment tonight.
00:40:37We're going to try to build a picture of a face.
00:40:40A face of a man who's cunning, resourceful, and deadly.
00:40:45He's a man who killed a police officer.
00:40:48Now, some of you, he held up at the point of a gun.
00:40:51You may have seen his face.
00:40:53He's remembered something about it.
00:40:55And we want you to tell us exactly what you remembered.
00:40:59Whether it's his hair, eyes, nose, or mouth.
00:41:04And we're going to try to put those pieces together so that they add up into a picture of the
00:41:09face of the man we want.
00:41:12Now, you can see how we're depending on him.
00:41:15Lights.
00:41:17Now, first, we're going to concentrate on the type of hair our man had.
00:41:22And if the picture looks anything like his hair, I want you to speak right up.
00:41:27All right, the first slide, Lee.
00:41:36His hair had waves in it.
00:41:37Well-groomed.
00:41:38That's the idea, Miss Smith.
00:41:47Is that any closer?
00:41:49No.
00:41:50It was parted on the side.
00:41:57Oh, that's more like it, except it was thicker.
00:42:07Oh, that's very close.
00:42:10Yes, that's the way his forehead looked.
00:42:12It was broad and high.
00:42:14All right, hold that slide.
00:42:16Now, the next series of slides will take into account his eyes.
00:42:28Oh, one minute, please.
00:42:29Wait, one minute.
00:42:30His eyes were a little like that.
00:42:33Maybe a little smaller.
00:42:35Like bees.
00:42:37Go on, Lee.
00:42:45Now, now you've got it.
00:42:48Now, hold that slide, Lee.
00:42:50Anyone else?
00:42:53That looks like him, only a little madder.
00:42:55He had a patch over one eye when he come into my dive, my place of business.
00:42:59I remember noticing that the one showing was blue.
00:43:02Well, the guy that stuck me up had on horn-rimmed glasses.
00:43:05He was wearing a Band-Aid across his nose when he knocked me over.
00:43:08Uh-huh.
00:43:10All right, hold that, Lee.
00:43:12Well, so much for the eyes.
00:43:17Go ahead.
00:43:33Señor Capitán.
00:43:35Yes, Miss Montalvo.
00:43:37Ay, ¿cómo usted dice en inglés?
00:43:40Asusordena, señorita.
00:43:41Ah, qué bien.
00:43:42En este bandido, la nariz fue chata.
00:43:45Como aquella.
00:43:46Pero un poco más chata y más ancha.
00:43:49Like that, Captain, but more snub, wider.
00:43:52Try another one, Lee.
00:43:57Como aquella.
00:43:59Casi la misma.
00:44:00She says that's about it.
00:44:02Thank you very much, Miss Montalvo.
00:44:05It reads.
00:44:07All right, any more comments?
00:44:09That's pretty close, all right.
00:44:10Pretty close.
00:44:11Perfect.
00:44:12All right, now we'll start on the mouth and chin.
00:44:14The next series, Lee.
00:44:16Yeah.
00:44:19I think his lower lip stuck out more.
00:44:21The mouth was thin and mean, like it never laughed.
00:44:26Go ahead.
00:44:29Something like that.
00:44:30But thicker lips.
00:44:35There.
00:44:36That's it.
00:44:37That's him.
00:44:38All right, now hold that right there, Lee.
00:44:41Oh, come in, Mr. Reeves.
00:44:44Good evening, Captain.
00:44:46Did you ever see that face before?
00:44:52Why, it's Roy.
00:44:54Except for the hair being a little lighter and the eyebrows heavier.
00:44:58It's Roy.
00:45:00You're sure?
00:45:01I'm positive I'd know him anywhere.
00:45:05Lee, I want to retouch the photograph.
00:45:08Now lighten the hair.
00:45:09Give more body to the eyebrows.
00:45:11Right.
00:45:12Lights.
00:45:16That's all.
00:45:17Thank you very much.
00:45:18You've been a great help.
00:45:18It's positively amazing how you found out what he looked like.
00:45:22Well, we're looking for an amazing criminal, Mrs. Johnson.
00:45:25Thank you and good night.
00:45:26Good night, Captain.
00:45:28And so the face of the unknown killer, built up from fragments of evidence,
00:45:32was sent out all over the country.
00:45:34To chiefs of police, to sheriffs, to county constables and county jailers.
00:45:40To the wardens of prisons.
00:45:43To all postmasters and postal inspectors.
00:45:47To the agents of the Treasury Department.
00:45:51To the FBI.
00:45:53They showed that picture to the inmates of jails and prisons.
00:45:57To men with a wide acquaintance among the cat burglars and the violence boys.
00:46:01Informers and conmen and sharpshooters were quizzed.
00:46:05Those on the fringe of crime and those deep in the rackets.
00:46:07Many wanted to help.
00:46:10Nobody could.
00:46:11No one in the underworld recognized that mysterious face.
00:46:14He was as unknown as if he had lived in the 16th century.
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00:49:07Come here.
00:49:09Come here.
00:49:19Go in the den.
00:49:27Pull those glibsack.
00:49:53Let's get away from him.
00:50:00What do the cops know about me?
00:50:03Not very much, Roy.
00:50:06No fingerprints.
00:50:06They haven't even got a picture of you.
00:50:08They're trying to make one.
00:50:14How much cash you got in the house?
00:50:18None.
00:50:18I never keep any cash in the house.
00:50:20It isn't good business.
00:50:22I suppose you think it was good business
00:50:24letting me walk into that trap.
00:50:25No, I know.
00:50:26Don't do anything you'll regret.
00:50:27Now listen to me.
00:50:28It isn't too late.
00:50:29Give yourself up.
00:50:30Come to your senses before you kill someone else.
00:50:40What do you mean, someone else?
00:50:43What do you mean?
00:50:43Nothing.
00:50:44I...
00:50:44There's two officers.
00:50:45They said one of them might die.
00:50:49He's still alive, isn't he?
00:50:53Breeze?
00:50:54I never thought you'd stooge for the police.
00:50:59You almost got me killed.
00:51:00Roy, you know the police are right outside.
00:51:02You'd never get away with it.
00:51:10That's right.
00:51:12I know you're being sensible.
00:51:18I know there's money here.
00:51:20What is it?
00:51:20Don't worry.
00:51:22I'll get it.
00:51:38I'll get it.
00:51:43It's not enough.
00:51:44Except you've got a minus worth thousands.
00:51:46I'll get more.
00:51:49And get it.
00:51:50Keep it handy.
00:51:51I'll be back next week and next month.
00:51:54But get it.
00:51:54And have it ready.
00:51:56Just give me time.
00:52:04Oh!
00:52:07Look, I don't want policemen outside my house following me around.
00:52:13That's what made Roy suspicious.
00:52:15I'm leaving in the morning.
00:52:17I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you, Paul.
00:52:20Unfortunately, you're our bait.
00:52:23I won't do it.
00:52:24I've done enough.
00:52:26Look, no one's done enough until we find this killer.
00:52:31I asked you to keep a sharp lookout on this house, Marty.
00:52:34I did.
00:52:36Two of the best undercover men of an apartment were assigned here.
00:52:39That didn't keep Martin from getting in.
00:52:41What's the matter?
00:52:42You're tired?
00:52:53You got any idea how long you've been on this case, Marty?
00:52:56A month.
00:52:58Long enough to have come up with something by this time.
00:53:03Do you know any more about the Rawlins killer than you knew the first week?
00:53:06Yeah.
00:53:08He's about the toughest nut I've ever had to crack.
00:53:12That's what I told the chief when he called me in this afternoon
00:53:15and wanted to know why the case hadn't been broken.
00:53:18Look, Captain.
00:53:20Rawlins was a friend of mine.
00:53:22So's Chuck.
00:53:23Look, I've got a biggest thing in this than the chief knows.
00:53:28I'm doing everything I can.
00:53:32I'm afraid it's not enough, Marty.
00:53:37Maybe you're too close to it to see it clearly.
00:53:40Maybe it needs a fresh team, a new viewpoint.
00:53:45I think you've got to take a couple of weeks off, Marty.
00:53:49Starting tomorrow.
00:53:52Anything you say, Captain?
00:54:11Hiya, Marty.
00:54:12Hiya, Chuck.
00:54:13Meet Miss Scanlon, my new bodyguard.
00:54:15He's the one I've been telling you about.
00:54:16Oh, you mean the one with the steel-trap brain?
00:54:19How do you do?
00:54:19Hello.
00:54:20Has this guy been behaving?
00:54:21After a fashion.
00:54:22See, she takes me out in my go-kart, puts me to bed, wakes me up, dresses me.
00:54:26You're perfectly capable of dressing yourself now, Mr. Jones.
00:54:30I'll be back in a few minutes.
00:54:35Well, how's it been going, Junior?
00:54:37Oh, pretty good, Chuck.
00:54:39Pretty good.
00:54:41Is that why you're off the case?
00:54:42Yes.
00:54:43How'd you know?
00:54:44Green was in to see me this morning.
00:54:46Oh.
00:54:47Suppose he also told you they'd put a new team on the case.
00:54:50He told me everything.
00:54:52Yeah.
00:54:52Let's see what his new boys dig up.
00:54:54Well, maybe they'll examine the facts of the case a little more carefully.
00:54:58What facts?
00:54:59That our man's sharp?
00:55:01That he's intelligent and works alone?
00:55:02That he has no record?
00:55:04It never leaves a finger print in those every move we make.
00:55:06Sure.
00:55:06Plenty of facts.
00:55:07Only they add up to nothing.
00:55:08Sure.
00:55:08Forget it.
00:55:09You got yourself a ten-day vacation.
00:55:11Go on down to the beach, get a suntan.
00:55:13By the time you get back, the case will be broken.
00:55:16Isn't that what you want?
00:55:17You know better than that.
00:55:18All I know is what I hear.
00:55:19You sit there batting your gums about how the old man let you down.
00:55:23Maybe he's trying to wake you up.
00:55:24He's got a funny way of showing it.
00:55:26There you go, flying off the handle, always taking things for granted.
00:55:29I wish I could get up and boot some sense into you.
00:55:32He knew what this case meant to me.
00:55:33He still does.
00:55:34That's why he's trying to get you mad enough to do something about it.
00:55:40You don't really figure that's his idea, do you?
00:55:42I know it is.
00:55:45Ah, it's a tough case, Chuck.
00:55:47Not an angle.
00:55:47Nothing to go on.
00:55:49You'd know what I meant if you were out working with me.
00:55:51I have been working with you.
00:55:53That's all I've had to do lately.
00:55:55Just sit around studying what little facts we have.
00:55:57Trying to figure out who we might be.
00:55:59You know the kind of a guy we're up against, then.
00:56:02I tell you, Chuck, this guy's a genius the way he operates.
00:56:06It's as if you were right there with us every time you go out after a lead.
00:56:08Oh, sure.
00:56:09Breen's been tipping him off just to make you look bad.
00:56:12They almost like that.
00:56:14Well, he beats us to the punch every time.
00:56:16There's your angle.
00:56:17You just hit it on the head, but you don't see it.
00:56:19Look.
00:56:20Start at him.
00:56:21One.
00:56:21He's unknown to the underworld.
00:56:23Two.
00:56:24He beats you to the punch, right?
00:56:26And three.
00:56:26It's almost as if he were with you.
00:56:28Isn't that what you said?
00:56:29Yes.
00:56:30Well, tie that up with a lot of other little things,
00:56:31like the fact that he uses a police gun
00:56:33and the accuracy of the shooting.
00:56:36Anybody could buy a police gun or the army could have taught him how to shoot.
00:56:39Yeah, but who taught him how the police operate?
00:56:44Oh, I know what you're driving at, Chuck.
00:56:47But a cop.
00:56:48Those things happen.
00:56:51Yeah.
00:56:52Now, if I were still in the case,
00:56:53I'd start with our own department first.
00:56:54Then Santa Monica, Culver City, Burbank, Pasadena.
00:56:57See you later, Junior.
00:56:58Hey, don't let him out of your sight, beautiful.
00:57:01It's the first time in years he's used his head.
00:57:12But you get a print of every mug we take.
00:57:14We always send L.A. a copy, Sergeant.
00:57:15It's personnel photos I want.
00:57:17You mean of our boys?
00:57:22That's Roland's killer, isn't it?
00:57:23That's right.
00:57:25You've checked your own department.
00:57:26We did that first.
00:57:32And so the tedious quest went on.
00:57:35Sergeant Brennan wore out his shoes and his patients,
00:57:38going from police station to police station,
00:57:41checking photos until his eyes were blurry.
00:57:43For police work is not all glamour and excitement and glory.
00:57:47There are days and days of routine,
00:57:50of tedious probing,
00:57:52of tireless searching,
00:57:54fruitless days,
00:57:55days when nothing goes right,
00:57:57when it seems as if no one could ever think his way
00:58:00through the maze of battling trails of criminal leads.
00:58:03But the answer to that is persistence,
00:58:06and the hope that sooner or later something will turn up,
00:58:10some tiny lead that can grow into a warm trail
00:58:13and point to the cracking of a tough case.
00:58:29Well, that does it, boys.
00:58:31Can't say I'm sorry you didn't find him in here.
00:58:33I'd hate to think it was a cop.
00:58:36Doesn't seem to be anybody.
00:58:38It's a lot of pieces of a face that never existed.
00:58:41Would you mind if I see that again?
00:58:43Sure, Raymond.
00:58:45Put it on your dresser.
00:58:46Wait a minute.
00:58:48He wasn't a cop.
00:58:49He was a radio technician right here in our dispatch office.
00:58:53What did you say?
00:58:54I'm saying he worked here in 42.
00:58:57Well, come on, give.
00:58:58I remember the kid well.
00:59:00He was sort of strange.
00:59:01Never bothered with anyone in the department.
00:59:03Just kept to himself.
00:59:05He was in line for promotion when he was drafted.
00:59:08Where was he living at the time?
00:59:10I don't remember.
00:59:13Try the dead files.
00:59:18I never asked for his job back after the war.
00:59:21I remember writing to him about it, though.
00:59:23He's an excellent worker.
00:59:24Oh, yeah, here we are.
00:59:26Yeah, this is it.
00:59:28It took a while before he answered, but like he says in the letter, he wasn't interested.
00:59:41Postmarked Hollywood.
00:59:42A return address.
00:59:44What do you want us to do?
00:59:45All the work?
00:59:46Oh, thanks a lot, Freddy.
00:59:49You remember, he was a civilian employee.
00:59:51Okay.
01:00:01Well, how about it?
01:00:02Anybody recognize him?
01:00:05Not on my route.
01:00:07I never saw him before.
01:00:10Yeah?
01:00:11Okay, fella.
01:00:11Thanks very much.
01:00:16I thought for a minute...
01:00:20Yeah.
01:00:22And he had that face.
01:00:24One minute.
01:00:25Yeah?
01:00:26Well, this may not mean anything, but he looks like a guy that's on my route.
01:00:30He never gets any mail, but I see him around there all the time.
01:00:33He lives in one of the courts.
01:00:34Where?
01:00:35Come on, I'll show you.
01:00:37It's not that easy.
01:00:39What time does your route take you past those courts?
01:00:42About nine o'clock.
01:00:43Why?
01:00:45Just thinking.
01:00:46Okay.
01:00:46Okay.
01:00:50Okay.
01:01:00You got any chocolate milk?
01:01:02Sure have, buddy.
01:01:04Hey, yeah.
01:01:05Thanks.
01:01:07Which apartment?
01:01:09Straight down back.
01:01:13Second in the yellow.
01:01:16Number seven.
01:01:18Right.
01:01:19Got a warm today, huh?
01:01:21Oh, it's not too bad for this time of year.
01:01:28Good morning.
01:01:30Morning.
01:01:31You're new and you're out, aren't you?
01:01:33We had a substitute.
01:01:34What happened to the other thing?
01:01:36Sick.
01:01:37Oh, what's the matter, buddy?
01:01:38I don't know.
01:01:40I catch everything.
01:01:41Hear about it on the radio, and next morning I got it.
01:01:44Too bad.
01:01:45You aren't very social.
01:01:46The regular fellow always stops me talking to you.
01:01:49Sorry, Betty.
01:01:50I'm a little late this morning.
01:01:51I was hoping maybe you could help me.
01:01:55There's something very funny going on in this court.
01:01:58Yeah?
01:01:58Yeah.
01:01:59I was scared to go to the police.
01:02:00I thought maybe I might be poisoned.
01:02:03What?
01:02:04Yeah.
01:02:05But the manager, she's a witch.
01:02:08She's a what?
01:02:09A witch.
01:02:10She puts poison in my milk.
01:02:13Oh, I see.
01:02:16Look.
01:02:17Switch the bottles once she isn't looking, see?
01:02:20Drink our milk.
01:02:21Then you'll be safe, right?
01:02:23Right?
01:02:30I'll be right back.
01:02:31I'll be right back.
01:02:36I'll be right back.
01:02:38I'll be right back.
01:02:39I'll be right back.
01:02:41I'll be right back.
01:02:42I'll be right back.
01:02:43I'll be right back.
01:02:43I'll be right back.
01:02:43I'll be right back.
01:02:43I'll be right back.
01:02:44I'll be right back.
01:02:44I'll be right back.
01:02:44I'll be right back.
01:02:46I'll be right back.
01:02:49I'll be right back.
01:02:54Well, I had a little accident.
01:02:56Got a mop.
01:02:57I'll clean it up.
01:02:59Leave it be.
01:03:00I'll clean it up myself.
01:03:03OK, mister.
01:03:33The place is called Bellevue Court.
01:03:35I drew this to memory, but it's pretty close.
01:03:37That's where he's hiding out, right there.
01:03:40Are you sure he's our man, Martin?
01:03:42Captain, I couldn't go wrong on that face.
01:03:44He's our man.
01:03:51Now, there are five cottages in this area, and two, number six and seven, in the L at
01:03:56the end of the row.
01:03:57Our man lives in number seven.
01:04:00The building department plan will show you the whole layout.
01:04:03It's founded on three sides by Fuller, Santa Monica, and Poinsettia.
01:04:07Now, the court is partly surrounded by a high wall.
01:04:11Green, homicide.
01:04:14Good.
01:04:15You keep your eyes open until we get there.
01:04:17Morgan has just gone into his bungalow alone.
01:04:20Any questions?
01:04:21All right.
01:04:22You all have the instructions.
01:04:23Let's go.
01:06:04We're out on time.
01:06:05Wait five minutes.
01:06:07Go around and block the side entrance.
01:06:09Keep your lights off.
01:06:15Go around and block the side entrance.
01:06:21Go around and block the side entrance.
01:06:26Go around and block the side entrance.
01:10:01He's loose.
01:10:02I want a radio car in a hurry.
01:10:22I want a radio car in a hurry.
01:10:32All units.
01:10:33All units in the vicinity of Santa Monica and Fuller.
01:10:36The murder suspect in the Rawlins killing is at large.
01:11:10I want a map covering the storm drain system in this area.
01:11:13Get it and meet me at Finnis and Garfield.
01:11:15Jones, Miller, you stay here in case he comes up for air.
01:11:18I want a man at every other drain entrance along this line.
01:11:22You've got to come up somewhere.
01:11:24Come on, Marty. You're driving.
01:11:50Keep this drain covered. It's liable to pop out anywhere.
01:12:14I want a man.
01:12:23This is an emergency.
01:12:24Control-1 to all cars on frequency 7. Stand by.
01:12:28Control-1 to 80K. Go ahead.
01:12:30Notify homicide. Send the following to Finnis and Garfield.
01:12:33Four squads, battle lanterns, gas mask, tear gas. Urgent.
01:12:38This is a code 3. Control-1 to 80K. Roger.
01:13:04And he'll probably head down this main drain to where it comes out of the Rio Hondo.
01:13:07Now, you take your squad and cover that exit.
01:13:09Right.
01:13:09Keep all spare radio cars cruising back and forth along this main street.
01:13:13Watch the curb inlet.
01:13:14We'll go in here.
01:13:28Any sign of him?
01:13:29No.
01:13:30We've searched every foot between here in the Rio Hondo outlet.
01:13:33Then he must be up ahead.
01:13:34Let's go.
01:13:36Let's go.
01:13:42Take your sauve.
01:13:54Take your sauve.
01:13:58Let's go.
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