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He Walked by Night (1948) – A Relentless Hunt for a Deadly Criminal follows a determined police investigation as officers track a dangerous and elusive criminal through the streets of Los Angeles. As the search intensifies, detectives use careful investigation and modern forensic techniques to uncover clues and bring the killer to justice. A gripping classic film filled with suspense, crime, mystery, and noir atmosphere.
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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.
00:04:52What 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.
00:05:10I've got to see some identification.
00:05:12How about my army discharge?
00:05:14I've got it right here.
00:05:15I've got it right here.
00:05:53Police Department.
00:05:55Operator 27.
00:05:56I want to report the shooting of a policeman.
00:05:58Hold 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 two.
00:06:13Operator 27, 5057 State Street, 5057 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, 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.
00:06:33Code 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 on the side to throw out a drag dip
00:07:02and pick up all suspicious characters in the area of the shooting.
00:07:05Also notify Sergeants Marty Brennan and Chuck Jones
00:07:07to report to me at the scene of the crime.
00:07:10Control 1 to 80K.
00:07:11Roger.
00:07:24I see.
00:07:25Well, what have you got so far?
00:07:26Well, not much, Captain Breen.
00:07:28A 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 captain...
00:07:42Did the officer say anything before he collapsed?
00:07:44Yeah, he gave a description of the fellow.
00:07:46On the shooting of the officer.
00:07:48Suspect is a white male American.
00:07:51Age 26 or 7.
00:07:535 feet 10 or 11.
00:07:55155 to 165 pounds.
00:07:58Brown hair.
00:08:00Regular features.
00:08:01Pencil mustache.
00:08:04Repeat broadcast.
00:08:06All units.
00:08:07Is that about it?
00:08:08Yes, sir.
00:08:08Exactly.
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.
00:14:56The End by Andrew.
00:14:58Oh, God.
00:15:09I'm so tired.
00:15:15Of a stranger.
00:15:24I'm so tired.
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.
00:29:50Go 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. I've got your money for it.
00:30:27Bring it out here.
00:30:31All right.
00:30:35Just a minute.
00:30:48All right.
00:30:48All right.
00:30:50Let's try some rest in here.
00:30:50What's wrong?
00:30:54What's wrong?
00:30:55All right.
00:31:06Give him up.
00:31:06No.
00:31:07No.
00:34:37I've told you all I know, all he ever told me.
00:34:40What about his friends?
00:34:41Didn't he have a girl?
00:34:44No.
00:34:44No, I don't think so.
00:34:46He had no interest in anything but electronics.
00:34:50Where do you pick up the subject?
00:34:53Books, magazines.
00:34:55Mostly from the signal core.
00:34:57He was attached to a radar unit.
00:35:00Got a teletype off of the War Department.
00:35:02That might help.
00:35:04Yes?
00:35:06Yes?
00:35:06Ready on your call to receiving hospital, Captain Breen.
00:35:08Hello.
00:35:09This is Captain Breen.
00:35:11What is the latest report on Sergeant Jones?
00:35:19Well, let me know if there's any change, will you?
00:35:20I see.
00:35:22Well, let me know if there's any change, will you?
00:35:27Thanks.
00:35:31Chuck's in the case.
00:35:32Chuck's in pretty bad shape, Marty.
00:35:33He's paralyzed.
00:35:35May never walk again.
00:35:43Oh, I'm sorry.
00:35:45It's funny that Martin showed up at 7 when he told you he wouldn't be there at 8.30.
00:35:49I don't know why.
00:35:51Except he was always unpredictable.
00:35:54I'll tell you why.
00:35:55Because you warned him.
00:35:56That's why he came early.
00:35:57That's why he came in the back way.
00:35:58But you heard me tell him the front door would be open.
00:36:00And the key didn't let him in the back way?
00:36:01He must have had one made.
00:36:02Why don't you tell us the truth?
00:36:03Marty.
00:36:13Now, look, Paul.
00:36:15You can make it a lot easier for us to believe your story if you'll just give us some facts.
00:36:20Something that might help us.
00:36:22I've told you all I know.
00:36:26I've been gullible, all right, letting him make a fool of me.
00:36:31But I'd do anything to make up for what he did to Detective Jones.
00:36:36Sure.
00:36:37Sure you will.
00:36:39You can go now.
00:36:41Oh, thanks.
00:36:44Thanks.
00:36:48My friend.
00:36:49Speak.
00:36:49Ouch.
00:36:50My character.
00:36:50That's good.
00:36:51We'll call you if we need you.
00:36:52Thank you very much.
00:36:55I think he's telling the truth, Marty.
00:36:56I think he's just gullible like he said.
00:36:58What about the stolen stuff he was trying to peddle for Martin?
00:37:01We'll use it for bait.
00:37:02Maybe Martin will come back for it.
00:37:04Then we can ask him.
00:37:07Here.
00:37:08Nevertheless, I want a 24-hour tail put on Reeves, and I want to watch on his home and his
00:37:12factory.
00:37:13Right.
00:37:15You can keep those.
00:37:17Okay, Captain.
00:37:23And now the killer changed his tactics, his modus operandi.
00:37:28It would baffle the police.
00:37:29They always expected burglars to remain burglars, not go in for stick-ups.
00:37:34They never tie this up with him.
00:37:37So wearing a variety of disguises, coming and going like a shadow, ready to kill of cornered,
00:37:43he struck the bottle stores in a one-man blitz that had the robbery detail dizzy.
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 built to siphon off the
00:38:20flash 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.
00:38:34Ideal as a hiding place for guns and supplies in case of emergency.
00:38:42What is it, Lee?
00:38:43Well, 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.
00:39:13This deep gouge.
00:39:15The same on all three.
00:39:19Hmm.
00:39:22In other words, the man who killed Rawlins,
00:39:24and 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 in 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.
00:39:59Thanks, Steve.
00:40:03Hmm.
00:40:04That'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?
00:40:10Are you ready for the night?
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, remembered something about it.
00:40:55And we want you to tell us exactly what you remembered, whether 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, it was parted on the side.
00:41:57Oh, that's more like it.
00:41:58Except 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.
00:42:38Yeah.
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 matter.
00:42:56He had a patch over one eye when he come into 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.
00:43:13Well, so much for the eyes.
00:43:16Go ahead.
00:43:33Señor Capitán.
00:43:35Yes, Miss Montalvo.
00:43:37Ay, ¿cómo se dice en inglés?
00:43:40A su orden, señorita.
00:43:41Ah, qué bien.
00:43:42En este bandido, la nariz fue chata, como aquella, pero 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, casi 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.
00:44:19I think his lower lip stuck out more.
00:44:21The mouth was thin and mean, like it never laughed.
00:44:27Go 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.
00:44:38Now hold that right there, Lee.
00:44:41Oh, come in, Mr. Reeves.
00:44:45Good evening, Captain.
00:44:47Did you ever see that face before?
00:44:52Why, it's Roy.
00:44:53Why, 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 and give 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, was sent out all over the
00:45:33country.
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.
00:46:08Many wanted to help.
00:46:10Nobody could.
00:46:11No one in the underworld recognized that mysterious face.
00:46:15He was as unknown as if he had lived in the 16th century.
00:46:47He was as unknown as if he had lived in the history.
00:46:48assignments and Antonin are together.
00:46:59So he didn't know me.
00:47:00No one in the боль.
00:47:02He didn't know.
00:47:03He didn't know you.
00:47:03Jeannie'sRI.
00:47:04He was as unknown as if there was a man.
00:47:04That ship was password.
00:47:04And folks knew you would have died coached.
00:47:07동안 names in the streets that were small as if he had lived in the illegally filled train.
00:47:07No one in the rise.
00:47:09That boat memang has probably been telling me about me.
00:47:12Someone doğ退birth, which侯 질문 must have nighted her.
00:47:12I'll go try and find this Joe and the wall in the middle.
00:47:13And it's a man away with him.
00:47:14That's a man who swallows him.
00:47:53Please.
00:47:56Roy.
00:47:58Listen carefully, Reeves.
00:48:01Control yourself.
00:48:04I know you're alone in the house.
00:48:06I'd like you're alone.
00:48:08Cops are watching every move you make.
00:48:11The police here?
00:48:12I got you staked out like a muskrat hide, watching you around the clock.
00:48:16Here at your plant, tailing your car.
00:48:21Sit in that chair.
00:48:26Pick up three books.
00:48:32Don't look up and don't answer me.
00:48:36All right.
00:48:39We're going to the book.
00:48:46Pick one of them.
00:48:52Okay.
00:48:54Now that's the book you want to read before you go to bed.
00:48:59Now, get up and turn off the lamp.
00:49:07Come here.
00:49:09Come here.
00:49:10Come here.
00:49:19Go in the den.
00:49:27Pull those bigsack.
00:49:30Pull those bigsack.
00:49:38Pull those bigsack.
00:49:40Pull those bigsack.
00:49:40Pull those bigsack.
00:49:40Pull those bigsack.
00:49:40Pull those bigsack.
00:49:42Pull those bigsack.
00:49:43Pull those bigsack.
00:49:44Pull those bigsack.
00:49:53I'll get away from them.
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 from 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?
00:50:42What do you mean?
00:50:43Nothing.
00:50:44There's two officers.
00:50:45They said one of them might die.
00:50:48But he's still alive, isn't he?
00:50:53Reeves?
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 don't think it makes sense.
00:51:18I know there's only here.
00:51:20What is it?
00:51:20Don't worry.
00:51:22I'll get it.
00:51:43It's not enough.
00:51:44Except you've got a mine that's worth thousands.
00:51:47I'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.
00:52:08I don't want policemen outside my house following me around.
00:52:12That's what made Roy suspicious.
00:52:15I'm leaving him warning.
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.
00:52:28Until we find this killer.
00:52:31I asked you to keep a sharp lookout on this house, Marty.
00:52:35I 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?
00:52:42Are you tired?
00:52:45Are you 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 Rawlings killer than you knew the first week?
00:53:07Yeah.
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 and wanted to know why the case
00:53:16hadn't been broken.
00:53:18Look, Captain.
00:53:20Rawlings was a friend of mine.
00:53:22So's Chuck.
00:53:24I'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.
00:53:53Anything 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.
00:54:34Well, 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?
00:54:43How'd you know?
00:54:44Green was in to see me this morning.
00:54:46Oh.
00:54:47Suppose he also told her they'd put a new team on the case.
00:54:50He told me everything.
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 shop?
00:55:01That he's intelligent and works alone?
00:55:03That he has no record?
00:55:04Never leaves a fingerprint in those every move we make?
00:55:06Sure, plenty of facts, only they add up to nothing.
00:55:08Sure, forget 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, that's a tough case, Chuck.
00:55:47Not an angle, nothing 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, just 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.
00:56:06As if he were right there with us every time he'd 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, start at him.
00:56:21One, he's unknown to the underworld.
00:56:23Two, he beats you to the punch, right?
00:56:26And three, it's almost as if he were with you.
00:56:28Isn't that what you said?
00:56:29Yes.
00:56:29We'll tie that up with a lot of other little things,
00:56:31like the fact that he uses a police gun and 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, those things happen.
00:56:51Yeah.
00:56:52Now, if I were still in the case, I'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 going 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,
00:57:49of tedious probing,
00:57:51of 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 I 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.
00:58:38There'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.
00:59:02Never 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.
00:59:25Here 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.
00:59:49Remember, he was a civilian employee.
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...
01:00:22And yet that face...
01:00:24I wonder...
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.
01:00:43What?
01:00:45Just thinking.
01:01:00You got any chocolate milk?
01:01:02Sure have, buddy.
01:01:04Hey, off.
01:01:05Thanks.
01:01:07Which apartment?
01:01:10Straight down back.
01:01:14Second and a yell.
01:01:16Number seven.
01:01:18Right.
01:01:19Kind of 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 stuff?
01:01:36Sick.
01:01:36Oh, what's the matter, Rudy?
01:01:38I don't know.
01:01:40I can't care for you.
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.
01:01:47The regular fellow always stops and talks to you.
01:01:49Sorry, Eddie.
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, I was scared to go to the police.
01:02:00I thought maybe I might be poisoned.
01:02:03What?
01:02:04Yeah.
01:02:05For the manager.
01:02:07She'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.
01:02:17You switch the bottles when she isn't looking, see?
01:02:20Drink our milk.
01:02:21Then you'll be safe, right?
01:02:51Then you'll be safe.
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.
01:03:03Okay, mister.
01:03:04Whoa.
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.
01:03:51All right.
01:03:52Now, there are five cottages in this area,
01:03:54and two, number six and seven,
01:03:56in the L at the end of the row.
01:03:57Our man lives in number seven.
01:04:00This building department plan
01:04:01will show you the whole layout.
01:04:02It's founded on three sides,
01:04:04by Fuller, Santa Monica, and Poinsettia.
01:04:07Now, the court is partly surrounded by a high wall.
01:04:21All right, you all have your instructions.
01:04:23Let's go.
01:06:03We'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.
01:10:02He's loose.
01:10:02I want a radio car in a hurry.
01:10:32All units, all units in the vicinity of Santa Monica and Fuller, the murder suspect in the Rawlins killing is
01:10:38at large.
01:11:10I want a map covering the storm drain system in this area.
01:11:13Get it.
01:11:13Get it, meet me at Venice 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 got to come up somewhere.
01:11:24Come on, Marty.
01:11:25Come on, Marty.
01:11:25Come on, Marty.
01:11:50Keep this drain.
01:11:51Keep this drain.
01:11:51Keep this drain covered.
01:12:20I want to come up with you.
01:12:29I want to come up with you.
01:12:34And I want to come up with you.
01:12:36I want to come up with you, too.
01:12:46Go ahead.
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.
01:13:09He balls 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 searched every foot, but couldn't get in the Rio Hondo outlet.
01:13:33Then he must be up ahead.
01:13:35Let's go.
01:13:35Let's go.
01:13:36Let's go.
01:13:52Let's go.
01:14:03Let's go.
01:14:04Let's go.
01:14:07Let's go.
01:14:13Let's go.
01:14:16Let's go.
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