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00:00:34THE END
00:01:06Joseph Patterson, the jury have found you guilty of murder in the first degree.
00:01:10Have you anything to say before the court imposes sentence?
00:01:13Yeah, I got something to say.
00:01:17I just want to tell my friend, Mr. Stoll, that he's got something coming to him, and he's going to
00:01:24get it.
00:01:25The court will remind the prisoner the district attorney has but fulfilled the obligations of his office.
00:01:30It is therefore the sentence of this court that the defendant shall be put to death during the week beginning
00:01:35June 2, 1938,
00:01:37in the manner and place prescribed by law.
00:01:40You are remanded to the custody of the sheriff.
00:01:45Edward Hennessey, Associated Press.
00:01:48This letter will admit you to the execution as required by law of Joseph Patterson, the state's prison the night
00:01:52of June 4.
00:01:53Check.
00:01:54Okay.
00:01:55Okay, Hennessey. Move on in.
00:02:05Better save some of that till you come out.
00:02:07Well, boys, it looks like Patterson's going to get it, all right.
00:02:09Yep, he gets it this time.
00:02:10The DA sure killed the reprieve.
00:02:12Went to the governor himself.
00:02:14He's a tough hombre, all right, all right.
00:02:15Who, Patterson?
00:02:16No, Stoll, the district attorney.
00:02:18You said it.
00:02:19All right, boys.
00:02:20This way, please.
00:02:27Is it true that they smoke when they put...
00:02:29Don't think about it, Sonny.
00:03:15Don't think about it.
00:03:29Well, that's that.
00:03:31He thought of you right to the end, Mr. Stoll.
00:03:34Welsh, Sharpie, Welshers, they're all Welshers.
00:03:37You'd think life owed them something.
00:03:39This Patterson bumped off for himself, and how many others he's had knocked off I couldn't even guess.
00:03:44But when it comes time for him to pay off, look at the squawk he makes.
00:03:49Well, we can check off a leather on the old adding machine.
00:03:52Eleven and eighteen months.
00:03:55We're making progress, Sharpie, making progress.
00:03:57We'll have this town lily white the first thing you know.
00:04:00I wish you'd get rid of that hideous contraption.
00:04:02It gives me the willies.
00:04:03If I'm not being too impertinent.
00:04:05Just an old Chinese custom, Sharpie.
00:04:07Chinese?
00:04:09You sound more like an Indian, if you ask me.
00:04:11An Indian counting scalps.
00:04:13It's my job to count scalps.
00:04:16It's still a life for a life, so far as I'm concerned, and will be till they rewrite those law
00:04:21books over there.
00:04:22For you, Miss Sharp.
00:04:23Oh, thank you, Sonny.
00:04:24You're welcome, Sharpie.
00:04:28The governor returned the record of the Patterson's confession.
00:04:31I'd like to have seen his face when they listened to it.
00:04:34Patterson didn't have a chance.
00:04:36Through with it?
00:04:37I'll take it home and put it with the collection.
00:04:39I should think you'd have enough of them now.
00:04:41Don't be unkind to me this lovely morning, Sharpie.
00:04:43What about the mail?
00:04:45Oh, nothing much.
00:04:46Another clipping from the tattlers' column.
00:04:48Another one?
00:04:50Not a boost this time.
00:04:51Or maybe it is.
00:04:52I never can tell about those things.
00:04:53Read it to me.
00:04:55Not at all, you gossips.
00:04:57Not at all.
00:04:58The wife's boyfriend has the DA's okay.
00:05:02Are you suspicious, Sharpie?
00:05:04No.
00:05:05Oh, Phil's a nice youngster.
00:05:07And you wouldn't have me keep a lady chained up in a vault at home?
00:05:10Or would you?
00:05:11No.
00:05:11Except that I've heard that a husband should go home once in a while.
00:05:14And I've also heard there's more to life than crime.
00:05:17You certainly keep your ears to the ground.
00:05:20And I've also heard that tonight, if I'm not being too impertinent...
00:05:25Yes?
00:05:26Kirk and Murphy are here.
00:05:27Send them in.
00:05:29It's Kirk and Murphy.
00:05:30They've been working on that telephone threat.
00:05:33Yesterday's...
00:05:33We traced that call, Chief.
00:05:35Hello, Sharpie.
00:05:36Came from a drugstore over on Christopher Street, but there are no guesses.
00:05:38A lot of Patterson's boys hang out in the joint, but you can't pin it on any of them.
00:05:42It's a pay station.
00:05:44Everybody on the street uses it.
00:05:45Yeah, going all the time.
00:05:46Better forget it, Kirk.
00:05:48Probably cold now, anyway.
00:05:49I don't know.
00:05:50Patterson's boys are pretty much head up.
00:05:52I wouldn't worry.
00:05:53I figure they wanted to give me the business yesterday before I got to the governor.
00:05:56But it's too late now.
00:05:58They all want to get you, Murphy, when you first send them up.
00:06:01But prison cools them off.
00:06:03There'd be no prosecutors if it didn't.
00:06:06Burning doesn't cool off the relatives any, Mr. Stoll.
00:06:09I'd keep an eye out of how are you?
00:06:10Patterson's got no relatives.
00:06:12Only a kid cousin, and he's in Mexico.
00:06:15Thanks, boys.
00:06:16Thanks.
00:06:16Right.
00:06:16You'll forget it.
00:06:17Keep moving, Sharpie.
00:06:19Oh, Chief.
00:06:20You sitting in on that quiz tonight?
00:06:21You bet.
00:06:22I wouldn't miss that.
00:06:23Okay.
00:06:26Are you serious?
00:06:27If you're not being too impertinent?
00:06:29If you're not being too impertinent?
00:06:30Oh, serious about what?
00:06:32You're going to that quiz tonight.
00:06:34Of course I'm going.
00:06:35Yes?
00:06:36Oh, put her on.
00:06:37It's Mrs. Stoll.
00:06:39Hello, darling.
00:06:41Yes, this is a surprise.
00:06:43We were just talking about you, Sharpie and I.
00:06:45Of course it was nice.
00:06:47Today?
00:06:48Yes, this is the fifth.
00:06:50Yes, Lucy?
00:06:54I should say I do know.
00:06:57Of course, darling.
00:06:58It's your birthday.
00:06:59You thought I'd forgotten.
00:07:00I should say not.
00:07:03Certainly, darling.
00:07:03I'll be home early.
00:07:05We'll put on our good clothes and make a night of it.
00:07:07Dinner in the theater.
00:07:09That's right, Lucy.
00:07:11And, darling, there's a package on the way, but don't open it till I get there.
00:07:17Absolutely.
00:07:18I'll be home early.
00:07:23Thanks, Sharpie, thanks.
00:07:25I don't know what I'd have done.
00:07:26Just my ear to the ground again.
00:07:28I tried to tell you.
00:07:29That gift on the way idea was an inspiration.
00:07:31I'd never have been forgiven.
00:07:33I told Tregani's to send a tray down for selection.
00:07:36A pair of diamond clips would be nice.
00:07:38Small ones.
00:07:39I'd forgotten completely.
00:07:41I'm a fine husband, I am.
00:07:43I'll order the flowers.
00:07:45Orchids, don't you think?
00:07:47Yes, that would be fine.
00:07:48I'll telephone Mr. Kirk not to expect you at the quiz tonight.
00:07:52I suppose I'll have to miss that.
00:07:54Unless you plan to be in two places at once.
00:07:57Too bad, though.
00:07:58I should be in on that.
00:07:59Are you going home or not?
00:08:02Yes.
00:08:02Oh, yes, I'm going home.
00:08:04Don't worry, Sharpie.
00:08:06I'm glad of that.
00:08:06I don't know of anybody just now who could take your place.
00:08:11Five, ten, fifteen.
00:08:12Twenty-four left to go, Sharpie.
00:08:20I'm not getting fired.
00:08:23Oh, I'm not running my ice.
00:08:25I'm not getting fired.
00:08:28You want a drink, Bill?
00:08:32Yes, I need one.
00:08:33Me, too.
00:08:34I get worse every time I play.
00:08:35You couldn't?
00:08:36Don't let him kid you, Liz.
00:08:38Thank you, Creole.
00:08:38I didn't know, Miss Stowell, if you wanted to ice melt it or not.
00:08:44Oh, no, Creole.
00:08:44I think it's better this way.
00:08:46Thank you, ma'am.
00:08:48I can't believe it.
00:08:50She's marvelous.
00:08:51She's my new maid, but you should taste her biscuits.
00:08:54They're wonderful.
00:08:55I'll taste a highball if it's all right for everybody.
00:08:56Two fingers, please.
00:08:58Don't make it too weak.
00:09:00Hello, Mr. Stowell.
00:09:02Hello.
00:09:03Why, hello, Jim.
00:09:04Hello.
00:09:05Jim, you're early.
00:09:06Hello, Jim.
00:09:06How are you?
00:09:07Just in time for a drink.
00:09:08Happy birthday, darling.
00:09:09It is now.
00:09:11I didn't know, Lucy.
00:09:12Why'd you keep it a secret?
00:09:14All the old girls do, Elizabeth.
00:09:16Hiya, Phil.
00:09:17Fine, Jim.
00:09:18Fine.
00:09:18Would you like a drink, darling?
00:09:19I'm ashamed of myself for getting.
00:09:21Me, a cousin, too.
00:09:22Thanks, darling.
00:09:23I'll fix my own.
00:09:24I almost forgot myself.
00:09:26And I am a husband.
00:09:28Hello.
00:09:28New glasses?
00:09:29The set's from Phil.
00:09:30Isn't it lovely?
00:09:32Birthday present?
00:09:33Oh, they're just replacements for the ones I break.
00:09:35Hmm.
00:09:36So you remembered.
00:09:37That was nice of you, Phil.
00:09:38Seems I saw something in the papers recently about Lucy and Phil, didn't I?
00:09:42Just sort of scandal.
00:09:43I can't get away with the thing.
00:09:44I saw that.
00:09:46I wish it hadn't gotten in the newspapers, though.
00:09:49Not that I care particularly, but, you know, a man in my position...
00:09:53You're joking, aren't you?
00:09:54It was a triple date, Jim, and I didn't show up.
00:09:56The young things took pity on me.
00:09:58You don't think I'm serious?
00:10:00You don't think I suspect Lucy, do you?
00:10:01I didn't know what to think.
00:10:03You know, when you're talking to a district attorney...
00:10:06Well, I hope I'm not bringing my job home with me, Elizabeth.
00:10:08Monster, though I'm supposed to be.
00:10:10Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
00:10:13To Caesar's wife?
00:10:14Wait a minute, John.
00:10:14Do you know what happened to Caesar's wife?
00:10:16Uh-uh.
00:10:16Something dreadful?
00:10:18He killed her.
00:10:19Deader than a doornail.
00:10:21Oh.
00:10:22Well, let's just drink to Lucy.
00:10:23Yeah, to Lucy.
00:10:24Thank you, darling.
00:10:29Hey, Mr. Storwell.
00:10:31Yes, Crayola?
00:10:33Telephone.
00:10:34Who is it, Crayola?
00:10:36Who is it?
00:10:36It's the gentleman who works in your office, Mr. Storwell.
00:10:39It's Mr. Cuddy.
00:10:41Oh.
00:10:41Oh, please, Jim.
00:10:42Oh, of course, darling, of course.
00:10:43What's the matter with me?
00:10:45Tell Mr. Kirk I'm not in.
00:10:47And Crayola, I'm into nobody from now on.
00:10:49Understand?
00:10:50Nobody.
00:10:50Yes, sir.
00:10:52I understand.
00:10:53You just ain't in.
00:10:56I still don't believe it.
00:10:58Sometimes I wonder if Jim is my husband or just district attorney.
00:11:01How good is it at the university, Phil?
00:11:03I'm on my last postgraduate course right now, political science.
00:11:06Do you know after this I'm afraid I'm going to have to go out and go to work?
00:11:10He hates to give up watching football practice.
00:11:12Come on, Einstein.
00:11:13We've got to go.
00:11:14I'm going to make him study tonight or bust.
00:11:16Let's bust.
00:11:17A great, big, beautiful bust all over town.
00:11:19What do you say?
00:11:19Oh, you ninny, come on.
00:11:20Thanks, Lucy, for the game and the drink.
00:11:22See you soon.
00:11:23Bye-bye.
00:11:23Happy birthday.
00:11:25Good-looking pair of kids.
00:11:27Nice, too.
00:11:28I wonder if they'll ever get married.
00:11:30Mr. Storwell, I told the gentleman you said you wasn't in, but he didn't believe me,
00:11:35Mr. Storwell.
00:11:36He says to tell you it was important, and to tell you that the cousin from Mexico was in town.
00:11:42But he didn't say what cousin, Mr. Storwell.
00:11:45That's all right, Crayola.
00:11:48You're welcome.
00:11:49Well, what does that mean, Jim, the cousin from Mexico?
00:11:51Nothing, nothing at all.
00:11:53Kirk shouldn't bother me here with details.
00:11:56Well, we'd better go along, then.
00:11:57We'll have to hurry if we're going to dress.
00:11:59There's no place to hurry to when I'm with you.
00:12:01Oh, darling.
00:12:08These clips are so lovely, Jim.
00:12:10Do you know I really hoped for them?
00:12:11Oh, smart girl.
00:12:13I bet you hoped me into them.
00:12:15Well, don't people say that if you hope hard enough or anything, it comes true?
00:12:17Only foolish people, darling.
00:12:19Hope's a cheat.
00:12:20I'm not a very kind one.
00:12:21Must you be cynical tonight?
00:12:22Oh, don't listen to me.
00:12:24Hope is fine, darling.
00:12:26But having is so much better.
00:12:28Nice, nice husband.
00:12:29Oh, now you make me feel uncomfortable.
00:12:32I've got a confession to make.
00:12:34The clips weren't really my idea.
00:12:36They weren't?
00:12:36No.
00:12:37Sharpie thought of them.
00:12:38In fact, Sharpie thought of your birthday.
00:12:40Oh, Jim.
00:12:41Oh, it's the awful truth.
00:12:43I forgot.
00:12:45Well, I wouldn't let it bother me.
00:12:46Sometimes I wonder how you manage to remember as many things as you do.
00:12:49And you're the only thing in the world really worth remembering.
00:12:53That's nicer than any present, Jim.
00:12:54Except I didn't remember.
00:12:56But someday I will.
00:12:57Well, someday I'll stack up all the things I've forgotten in one huge celebration for you.
00:13:03And will that be a day?
00:13:04This day, this nice small day is all right.
00:13:07Just having you home again like this is enough.
00:13:09I haven't been anywhere.
00:13:10I know, but it seems you're never home anymore.
00:13:13Never?
00:13:14Well, almost never.
00:13:15At first, I used to be able to console myself by saying,
00:13:18your husband's a great soldier.
00:13:19He must be off to his wars.
00:13:21But lately, it's been harder and harder making it work.
00:13:24I don't seem to be able to console myself that way anymore.
00:13:27I just want you with me, especially when it's getting dark.
00:13:30I suppose I'm just lonesome.
00:13:32Or maybe I'm afraid of ghosts.
00:13:35Just a minute, Alyssa.
00:13:51Just in case of ghosts.
00:13:54Jim, must you carry a gun even on our night out?
00:13:57It's nothing, darling.
00:13:58What the well-dressed man must wear.
00:14:00That doesn't sound like you, Jim.
00:14:01I know you're just trying to put my mind at ease,
00:14:04but you didn't used to joke about things like this.
00:14:06It's nothing, Lucy.
00:14:07I promise you.
00:14:07But it isn't nothing.
00:14:09When you scored at Liz this afternoon
00:14:10when she was joking about Phil and me,
00:14:12you said you didn't want to bring your job home with you.
00:14:14Now you are bringing it home with you.
00:14:16You really mean it, Lucy?
00:14:17Well, look, Jim.
00:14:18We can't even go out on a birthday celebration
00:14:20without you being armed.
00:14:22I'm sorry, Lucy.
00:14:24But it isn't as serious as you think.
00:14:25The gun has made everything sort of melodramatic.
00:14:28But I didn't realize that I was bringing the job home with me.
00:14:31Sharpie accused me of it, but I wouldn't listen.
00:14:33I've been wrong.
00:14:34I stand convicted.
00:14:36Pardon me, Governor, and I promise it won't happen again.
00:14:38But it isn't just the gun, Jim.
00:14:40I know, darling.
00:14:41It's me.
00:14:41It's the job.
00:14:43It's everything about me.
00:14:46Yes, Crayola?
00:14:48These just come.
00:14:49Oh, kids.
00:14:50Oh, this is my birthday.
00:14:52Jim, you're a darling.
00:14:53You're a considerate, impeccable husband.
00:14:55And I'm ashamed of myself for saying the things I did a few minutes ago.
00:14:58No, I'm caught again.
00:15:00Caught?
00:15:01Sharpie thought of the flowers, too.
00:15:03Oh, dear.
00:15:04Well, anyway, this is my birthday.
00:15:07I'll try to think of something original before the evening's over now.
00:15:23Nice evening, ma'am.
00:15:24Perfect, Cenk.
00:15:25Perfect.
00:15:25It's been some time, Cenk, since we've made an evening of it.
00:15:27But Mrs. Stowell with us it is, sir.
00:15:29Why, Cenk, you mean?
00:15:30Oh, no, ma'am.
00:15:31I didn't mean it.
00:15:58Oh, Cenk.
00:15:59Cenk, you take car on ambulance.
00:16:18Oh, what do you say, gentlemen?
00:16:25What about giving a dead man a break?
00:16:29And let it show on the front pages.
00:16:32You're marvelous, Jim.
00:16:33You couldn't have done it better if you'd planned it.
00:16:35It's a great break.
00:16:36And all for a nick in the elbow.
00:16:38That's luck, ma'am.
00:16:39And you deserve it.
00:16:40I'd like to have quizzed that kid before he died.
00:16:42Cigarette?
00:16:43I never use him.
00:16:44No, Jim, it's better the way it happened.
00:16:47It's a closed book.
00:16:48We've had enough passes.
00:16:50I'd like to have had those newspaper boys in here last night when they were operating.
00:16:54You'd look good and sick.
00:16:55The doc wouldn't stand for it.
00:16:56We'd have had a great break in the morning papers.
00:16:59The afternoon papers are not to be sneezed at in this town.
00:17:01No, sir.
00:17:02If this were election year, we could snap you right at the city hall.
00:17:06Easy.
00:17:06Just like that.
00:17:07Thanks, Dan.
00:17:08Thanks, nothing.
00:17:09I'm doing you no favors I'm not doing myself.
00:17:11Well, you've got this town with the ears.
00:17:13It's served by its long, hairy ears.
00:17:16You're a hero.
00:17:17That's what you are.
00:17:19Well, goodbye, Jim.
00:17:20I'll be in later with the papers.
00:17:21All right.
00:17:21See you later.
00:17:27We've all gone, darling.
00:17:28Enjoy your walk?
00:17:29Why, yes, Jim.
00:17:31While I was walking, I did a lot of thinking.
00:17:33An awful lot, Jim.
00:17:34Bad for your complexion, darling.
00:17:36I heard those reporters talking coming out of the elevator.
00:17:39I couldn't believe they were talking about you.
00:17:41I've heard one of them say the Inquisitor almost got it himself.
00:17:45Don't you think, Jim, that when things like this can happen,
00:17:49when people try to kill you in front of your own house,
00:17:51don't you think it's a hard time one of us started thinking?
00:17:53I've been thinking myself, Lizzie.
00:17:55Quite a lot, too.
00:17:56But I mean about us, Jim.
00:17:58We've got to do something.
00:18:00Hardly ever seen you as bad enough, but when...
00:18:02I know.
00:18:03I've become a regular headhunter, Sharpie says.
00:18:05Do Sharpie say that?
00:18:07All the time.
00:18:08It says I've become a maniac.
00:18:09It says everybody's a suspect of a man.
00:18:11Everybody's a potential criminal.
00:18:13It says all I live for is convictions and executions.
00:18:15I never had the nerve to tell you.
00:18:17You didn't have to tell me.
00:18:18I knew it.
00:18:19You're what you were thinking, too.
00:18:21Did you really?
00:18:21Really and truly.
00:18:25Yes?
00:18:27Who is it?
00:18:28Oh.
00:18:29It's Mr. Kirk.
00:18:30Do you want to talk?
00:18:31Yes, I'll take it.
00:18:33Yes, Kirk.
00:18:34Fine, fine.
00:18:36No, no, I'll tell you what you do.
00:18:37You handle the office yourself.
00:18:39That's right.
00:18:40No, no, it isn't that.
00:18:41I'm fine.
00:18:42Perfect.
00:18:43No, Mrs. Stoll and I are going away on a trip.
00:18:47Three or four weeks.
00:18:49We haven't worked it out yet.
00:18:51Maybe Canada, maybe California, maybe Europe.
00:18:53I've never had a vacation, and there's no telling where we'll end up.
00:18:57Thanks, Kirk.
00:18:58Thanks.
00:18:58Goodbye.
00:18:59Do you really mean that?
00:19:01Absolutely.
00:19:02We both need a vacation, Lucy.
00:19:04We both need to renew our old acquaintanceship.
00:19:06Oh, Jim.
00:19:07Yeah?
00:19:08You know, that trip we've been saving up for our old age.
00:19:11Or the one we were going to take for a honeymoon and dinner.
00:19:13Or any of those trips we should have taken and never did.
00:19:16All right, darling?
00:19:17I can't believe it, Jim.
00:19:18I really can't.
00:19:19Will you start believing right now?
00:19:23Land of the Midnight Sun, Morabia, Blue Mediterranean, and Old Quebec, Australia, the Riviera.
00:19:32Where would you like to go, Liz?
00:19:33Cairo looks pretty good to me.
00:19:35Why not two weeks of salmon fishing in Alaska?
00:19:37I think I'd like to go to Switzerland.
00:19:39Very aloof, Switzerland.
00:19:40It's so clean and quiet.
00:19:42Egypt where I want to go.
00:19:44It's dark and mysterious.
00:19:45Oh, no, no.
00:19:46Egypt's got no sense of humor.
00:19:48I don't want anything dark.
00:19:49I want sunshine and snow and everything white and blue and glistening.
00:19:56Listen to me, will you?
00:19:57I'll be happy if we ever get anywhere.
00:20:00I still have to pinch myself to make sure I'm awake.
00:20:02And I'm very careful not to pinch too hard.
00:20:05I really can't believe it.
00:20:08I really can't believe it.
00:20:10A bracelet to match the ladies' birthday clips.
00:20:12Your clip, Sharpie.
00:20:13How they've been gnawing at my conscience.
00:20:16I had to think of something myself or I wouldn't have enjoyed a moment of the trip.
00:20:19So you're really going.
00:20:21I have to, Sharpie.
00:20:22I have to.
00:20:22I haven't been myself lately.
00:20:23I've been somebody else.
00:20:25You're not telling me anything.
00:20:26I haven't got so lately I'm suspicious of everybody.
00:20:29Why, I'm suspicious of you, Sharpie.
00:20:31I'm even suspicious of myself.
00:20:33I third degree myself.
00:20:35I put myself on the stand.
00:20:37I find myself turning around quickly to see if I'm the man I think I am.
00:20:42What would you say to that, Sharpie?
00:20:44I'd say you weren't going away a moment too soon.
00:20:46Right, Sharpie.
00:20:47You're always right.
00:20:48So I'm going.
00:20:49The moment I go out of this office, I'm gone, you understand?
00:20:52And you don't know where to find me.
00:20:57Yes, Mr. Kirk.
00:20:58No, Mr. Kirk.
00:21:00He's not in the office.
00:21:01I see.
00:21:02A murder.
00:21:03But I'm a...
00:21:04I imagine it must be sensational.
00:21:06Of course.
00:21:07I know.
00:21:09Yes, Mr. Kirk.
00:21:10If you should come in, I'll have him call you immediately.
00:21:13Goodbye.
00:21:14And don't call me Sharpie.
00:21:16The sins you have on your soul, Sharpie.
00:21:19I'd run if I were you.
00:21:20I'm running.
00:21:21Thanks, Sharpie.
00:21:23Goodbye.
00:21:24Thanks.
00:21:25I didn't think you had that much sense.
00:21:27If I'm not being too...
00:21:29If you're not being too impertinent.
00:21:38Sorry, Mr. Stoll's not in the office and I don't know where to find him.
00:21:42Oh, it's the police headquarters.
00:21:45I'm sure it must be very important.
00:21:47But I have no idea where to find him.
00:21:50So sorry.
00:21:51So very sorry.
00:21:54Goodbye.
00:22:02Sorry, he's not here, Captain.
00:22:06Oh, the McAllen murder.
00:22:08That is important.
00:22:11But I don't know where to reach him.
00:22:13You see, Mr. Stoll's gone away on a vacation.
00:22:16I'm so sorry.
00:22:17So very sorry.
00:22:19Goodbye.
00:22:20Goodbye.
00:22:46Hello, Sharpie.
00:22:47You see, the Pittsburgh McAllen's millionaires.
00:22:48He teaches up at the university.
00:22:50I'm sorry, Mr. Kirk, but Mr. Stoll is away on a vacation.
00:22:53Well, he can't have gone very far.
00:22:54He was here a half hour ago.
00:22:56I know, but he was moving mighty fast.
00:22:58Yes, Lieutenant.
00:22:59What can I do for you?
00:23:00I wondered if you had located Mr. Stoll yet.
00:23:02He's gone.
00:23:02Sharpie says he's gone on a vacation.
00:23:03Oh, that's too bad.
00:23:05They're bringing McAllen over here.
00:23:06I figured Jim would want to question him.
00:23:07He won't open his mouth.
00:23:08Well, I'll question him.
00:23:09What did you pick up, Fred?
00:23:10Oh, the same old story.
00:23:11He was crazy about her and found her with another man.
00:23:14You know, I remember something about her.
00:23:16Didn't his family kick him out when he married her?
00:23:18Without a cent.
00:23:33I think I'll be going now if you gentlemen don't mind.
00:23:36See if he can locate the chief.
00:23:38Now, Mr. McAllen, spill it!
00:23:54Lock up when they're all through, Pinky.
00:23:57And put the cat out.
00:23:58Okay, Sharpie.
00:24:15I'll only be a moment, Joe.
00:24:16I left something in my office.
00:24:18And you remember nothing, Dr. McAllen.
00:24:21But you shot well enough to kill.
00:24:23A precise, deadly shot, Dr. McAllen.
00:24:26Are you sure you don't remember that?
00:24:28Your silence has no point, Dr. McAllen.
00:24:31When you shot to kill, when your gun spoke, you spoke.
00:24:34It's too late now for silence, Dr. McAllen.
00:24:36You're an educated man.
00:24:38You know men have been shooting faithless wives since time began.
00:24:42No, no, Mr. Kirk.
00:24:43Just a moment, if you please.
00:24:47Gentlemen, if you'll be kind enough, I'd like to be alone with Dr. McAllen for a moment.
00:24:52I can imagine the strain he's been under.
00:24:56Would you be kind enough to leave us alone for a moment?
00:24:58Okay, Chief.
00:25:06I'm sorry, Dr. McAllen.
00:25:07We've been so inconsiderate.
00:25:10Sometimes my men allow their ambitions to run away with them.
00:25:20You better sit down, honey, and rest your feet.
00:25:23I caught myself doing that once unaware.
00:25:26And I was worn out for a whole week.
00:25:29Now, that's bad.
00:25:30You may not never get over it.
00:25:34It'll do you good to get the whole thing off your chest.
00:25:39There's no use of talking, Mr. Stone.
00:25:42There's no use of anything now.
00:25:44Would you like a cigarette?
00:25:55Drink?
00:25:58I have some very good brandy.
00:26:04I don't want you to talk if you don't feel like it.
00:26:06I just want you to know we're not monsters here.
00:26:09We're just human beings like yourself.
00:26:12They can do what they want with me.
00:26:15It doesn't matter anymore.
00:26:17Nobody's going to do anything to you, Dr. McAllen.
00:26:20I'm not trying to hide anything.
00:26:22I shot my wife.
00:26:24I killed her.
00:26:29Are you sure you wouldn't like a drink?
00:26:33I suppose it all happened suddenly.
00:26:38Only this afternoon.
00:26:40Only a few hours ago.
00:26:43I was leaving home for class.
00:26:45When I realized it was raining,
00:26:46I went back for my raincoat.
00:26:49I saw her sitting in her room before the mirror.
00:26:55Never had she seemed so beautiful.
00:26:58Sitting there in the dark,
00:26:59with only the two small lights on her dressing table burning.
00:27:03Powdering on her neck and shoulders.
00:27:05Smiling and humming.
00:27:07Happy with herself.
00:27:10Now that she seemed so beautiful is at that moment.
00:27:14With a mirror light shining up on her face.
00:27:17And the rain beating on the window behind her.
00:27:23All husbands have moments like that?
00:27:25And at that moment I realized how terribly I neglected her.
00:27:29Well, I know it sounds horrible now,
00:27:31but it was for her sake I neglected her.
00:27:33For her sake I worked, studied.
00:27:35I wanted her to have good things.
00:27:38And we were poor.
00:27:39Very poor.
00:27:40I understand.
00:27:42You watched your wife before the mirror.
00:27:45And as I watched her,
00:27:46I said to myself,
00:27:47I would never neglect her again.
00:27:50And then I,
00:27:51then I tiptoed across the room to the dressing table.
00:27:54With her humming, she didn't hear me.
00:27:57I leaned down quickly and kissed her.
00:28:01Instantly.
00:28:02The moment I kissed her,
00:28:03she shivered.
00:28:05Her flesh became goose-pimpy as with cold.
00:28:10I saw a face in the mirror looking up at me.
00:28:13And all its happiness was gone.
00:28:16I found it was a look of revulsion.
00:28:18I was speechless, stunned.
00:28:21I see.
00:28:22I see.
00:28:23The Japanese have an expression.
00:28:25A woman tells the truth to her mirror.
00:28:28And then she recovered and looked up at me and laughed and said,
00:28:32you should know better than to ruin a lady's makeup.
00:28:35And she began to powder the spot on her neck where I'd kissed her.
00:28:39And she got to her feet and kissed me on the cheek.
00:28:43I've got to run along, she said.
00:28:45I'm playing bridge at Sonya's.
00:28:47I'll see you for dinner.
00:28:48She ran out.
00:28:51I stood still speechless and watched her go.
00:28:58I see.
00:29:02And that was how it began.
00:29:04My brain was on fire.
00:29:07I was sure there was only one explanation.
00:29:09She was making herself beautiful for some man.
00:29:12And she was going to him.
00:29:13She wasn't going to Sonya's.
00:29:15I followed her in the rain.
00:29:17And what finally happened, Dr. McGowan?
00:29:19I killed her.
00:29:20I know, but the circumstances.
00:29:22It's all unreal to me.
00:29:23All blood.
00:29:25I was blind, insane.
00:29:27I saw her enter her house.
00:29:29I went to a window.
00:29:31I saw her run into a man's arms.
00:29:34The fire in my brain became a fury.
00:29:37I didn't realize I'd drawn the gun.
00:29:39I didn't realize I'd fired her.
00:29:41Until I saw her body crumble to the floor.
00:29:45And then I knew I'd killed her.
00:29:48In that instant, I knew I'd lost forever the one thing in the world I love.
00:29:55It's my fault.
00:29:58My stupidity.
00:30:00My neglect.
00:30:12Kirk, better get him out of here.
00:30:14Lifts as if you'll have to give him a lift.
00:30:16Come on, let's get going.
00:30:19Better have the doctor give him a shot or something.
00:30:21Your sleep will do him good.
00:30:23Did you get it recorded?
00:30:24Yes, sir.
00:30:24Every word of it.
00:30:25It's right there.
00:30:25We've got a written transcription, too.
00:30:27They'll send him to the chair.
00:30:29Did you ever hear such a fairy tale in your life?
00:30:33The kiss before the mirror.
00:30:35I don't know, Chief.
00:30:36You know, that's the way things like that sometimes start.
00:30:38Oh, you should be smarter, Kirk.
00:30:40His emotional upset fool you.
00:30:42Well, that was genuine enough.
00:30:43But the kiss before the mirror story, that's something else again.
00:30:47Wait till a jury hears it with the proper commentary of the prosecution, I mean.
00:30:51You want to transfer the cylinder?
00:30:53No, no, no, no.
00:30:53I'll lock it flat.
00:30:54I can play the whole thing through, then.
00:30:56I think I'll take it home and lock it up.
00:30:58Keep this quiet.
00:31:00The McGowan family will probably leap to the rescue with their millions now the wife is out of the way.
00:31:04And by tomorrow, they'll have all the legal brains in the country lined up against us.
00:31:09They'll repudiate the confession.
00:31:11Well, they'll repudiate it, all right.
00:31:12But if we don't mention it, they won't worry about it.
00:31:15That is until we spring it.
00:31:17And I have an idea.
00:31:19Something can be made of it at the right time.
00:31:21It's going to be a battle.
00:31:23I won't say a word.
00:31:24Oh, you wanted it.
00:31:28Oh, there's something else.
00:31:32I forgot this earlier.
00:31:34Oh, there we are.
00:31:43Oh, I don't know.
00:31:55Oh, my God.
00:32:40Did you get my message, darling?
00:32:41Yes, I got it, Jim.
00:32:43I'm sorry, terribly sorry, but I couldn't pass it up, Lucy.
00:32:46Yes, I imagine it'll be a sensational case, another conviction.
00:32:50Oh, it isn't that.
00:32:51I'd be shirking my job if I went away now, believe me.
00:32:55Huh, that's funny.
00:32:57The kiss before the mirror.
00:32:59What's funny?
00:33:00Nothing.
00:33:01Nothing for your pretty ears.
00:33:03I was just reminded of a little story I heard today.
00:33:14Dave Murrow to defend McGowan.
00:33:16Famous criminal lawyer engages family rallies to professor's aid.
00:33:21So, they've hired Dave Murrow.
00:33:23The McGowan millions begin to talk.
00:33:25Believe me, they'll have to talk pretty loud.
00:33:27Well, it's down the street this noon.
00:33:29They're saying he'll buy his way out.
00:33:30I'd like to see someone try it.
00:33:33This is one case I'm going through with to the limit.
00:33:36I can understand some bohunk full of booze on a Saturday night,
00:33:39cracking another mug's skull over a crap game.
00:33:41But these polite, sensitive murderers, these sophisticates like McGowan deserve no quarter.
00:33:47And they'll get none from me.
00:33:49Imagine a responsible, intelligent, educated man killing another man.
00:33:53Oh, I've known a lot of men I like killed.
00:33:55Oh, I'm serious, Dan.
00:33:57You wouldn't do it.
00:33:58I wouldn't do it.
00:33:59And the last thing either of us would ever think of doing is killing a woman.
00:34:03Crimes of passion, psychologists call them.
00:34:06Crimes of decadence, I call them.
00:34:08Luxuries, indulgences.
00:34:10Yes?
00:34:11Thank you, sir.
00:34:12Send him in.
00:34:13Well, Jim, I've got to run.
00:34:16One thing is such, and anyhow, this time you've got the people back of you.
00:34:20Up to now, you've been picking on the rank and file,
00:34:21those mugs and bohunks you mentioned, the masses.
00:34:25Now, you've bagged a highbrow, a millionaire,
00:34:28and it'll do you a lot of good, Jim.
00:34:29An awful lot of good.
00:34:31Hello, Eddie.
00:34:31Well, how do you do, sir?
00:34:32Come on in.
00:34:33I'm on the way out.
00:34:33Goodbye, Jim, and good luck.
00:34:35See you later.
00:34:36Goodbye, sir.
00:34:37Well, he had a permit for the gun, all right.
00:34:40Seems he used to walk back and forth to his classes,
00:34:42and there've been a lot of holdups along through there after dark,
00:34:44and he got the gun for protection.
00:34:46But I don't know what a guy like that would do with a gun if someone held him up.
00:34:49He could use a gun, all right.
00:34:51That's the late Mrs. McCallum.
00:34:53Any news of the other man?
00:34:55Vanished completely.
00:34:55Not a sign or a trace of him.
00:34:56He was just a lodger there.
00:34:58Suppose McCallum knew this man.
00:35:00Suppose the whole thing was framed.
00:35:01I don't believe McCallum could frame anything.
00:35:04I've had a rule all my life, Kirk.
00:35:05Never take any human being for granted.
00:35:10Just think what getting rid of his wife would mean.
00:35:14His family's forgiveness.
00:35:16Return to the security of millions.
00:35:19A chance to follow his studies and comfort.
00:35:20What is he professor of, anyway?
00:35:22Political science.
00:35:23Yes, I remember.
00:35:25See what an opportunity this man would offer?
00:35:27It's true.
00:35:28He neglected every said so himself.
00:35:29And why didn't he kill the man?
00:35:30That's what a man usually does.
00:35:32Kills both of them.
00:35:33But not a professor of political science.
00:35:35Hmm.
00:35:35I was just telling Dan Ellison.
00:35:38McCallum's one of those sensitive murderers.
00:35:41Consider that fancy tale of his.
00:35:43The kiss before the mirror.
00:35:44It's raining out.
00:35:46He comes back for his raincoat.
00:35:48Sees his wife.
00:35:49Kisses her.
00:35:50She laughs at him.
00:35:51Suddenly, he sees red.
00:35:55My brain was on fire.
00:35:57I was sure there was only one explanation.
00:36:00She was making herself beautiful for some man.
00:36:02And she was going to him.
00:36:03She wasn't going to Sonia's.
00:36:05I followed her in the rain.
00:36:07And what finally happened, Dr. McGowan?
00:36:09I killed her.
00:36:10I know, but the circumstances.
00:36:12It's all unreal to me.
00:36:13All blood.
00:36:15I was blind, insane.
00:36:17I saw her into the house.
00:36:19I went to a window.
00:36:21I saw her run into a man's arms.
00:36:24The fire of my brain became a fury.
00:36:27I didn't realize I'd drawn the gun.
00:36:29I didn't realize I'd fired it.
00:36:31Until I saw her body crumble to the floor.
00:36:34And then I knew I'd killed her.
00:36:37In that instant, I knew I'd lost forever the one thing in the world I love.
00:36:43It's my fault.
00:36:45My stupidity.
00:36:59Oh, hello, Phil.
00:37:00Hello, Lucy.
00:37:03Say, what's the matter with you?
00:37:05It looks as if you'd seen a ghost.
00:37:06A ghost?
00:37:07Well, maybe not a ghost, but a boogeyman, anyway.
00:37:09Oh, no.
00:37:10I've just been sort of moving around.
00:37:11No, only now.
00:37:12What's the matter?
00:37:13Nothing.
00:37:13Nothing, just these early summer evenings, I suppose.
00:37:16I'm afraid I'm a little weepy every now and then, Phil.
00:37:19I'm also afraid I enjoy it.
00:37:21In the first place, you shouldn't sit in the dark.
00:37:24And don't give me that sad business about these early summer evenings.
00:37:28Your trip's been called up.
00:37:30That's it, isn't it?
00:37:31That's it.
00:37:32Sit down, Phil.
00:37:34I know.
00:37:35It's a tough break all the way around.
00:37:37You know, Lucy, Dr. McGowan was my prof in political science at the university.
00:37:40He was a great little man.
00:37:41I imagine he was.
00:37:43He was like a child.
00:37:44So lovable and simple.
00:37:47Everybody at the university knew about his wife except him.
00:37:50I wonder how he came to find it out.
00:37:54Let's go out on the terrace.
00:37:55It's so close in here.
00:38:03It's fresh air is better.
00:38:05Are you sure you feel all right?
00:38:06Oh, yes, I'm all right.
00:38:12It was Dr. McGowan I came over to talk about, but perhaps I'd better let it go.
00:38:15You seem to have enough bother.
00:38:17Oh, go ahead, Phil.
00:38:17I'm fine now.
00:38:19Well, Lucy, it's just that I'd like to see the poor gent get some sort of a break.
00:38:22I guess there's no doubt he shot her, but, well, I thought if Jim knew what a terrible woman she
00:38:29was
00:38:29and what a sweet little man he is, it might help.
00:38:32He might be lenient anyway.
00:38:34And I thought if you could...
00:38:36If I could speak to Jim.
00:38:37Yes, Lucy, if you could, because I could never do it.
00:38:40It'd be a waste of time, Phil.
00:38:41Well, I thought knowing Dr. McGowan...
00:38:43I know, but there's nothing you can do nor we can do.
00:38:46When Jim gets on a case like this, he's different.
00:38:49He's a stranger.
00:38:50His job becomes a mania with him.
00:38:52I don't know him.
00:38:54I don't understand him.
00:38:56I'm even afraid of him.
00:38:57I'm really sorry I mentioned this.
00:38:59Oh, I guess it isn't as bad as it sounds, Phil.
00:39:02Jim's always thoughtful and gracious with me.
00:39:04It's just that other side of it.
00:39:05I understand perfectly.
00:39:06That's a tough racket he's in.
00:39:08I'm sorry I bothered you.
00:39:10I wish I could be of help.
00:39:11Well, I wish I could be of some help to you, Lucy.
00:39:14And when Jim is off on one of those cases...
00:39:16You know, I mean, whenever you need some laughs,
00:39:18why, give me a ring, will you?
00:39:20Thanks, Phil.
00:39:21If I feel like I need some laughs, I'll do that.
00:39:24Well...
00:39:25How's Liz?
00:39:25Oh, fine, fine.
00:39:27But she's ambitious as the devil.
00:39:28She wants me to get a job right now.
00:39:30How disgusting.
00:39:32It's terrible.
00:39:32She wants me to give up my boyhood.
00:39:35Well, I've got to go.
00:39:36Good night, Phil.
00:39:37Good night, Lucy.
00:39:48Oh, I didn't know you were here, Jim.
00:39:50How long have you been home?
00:39:51Just a few minutes.
00:39:52Out for a walk.
00:39:53No, Phil dropped over.
00:39:54We've been out on the terrace talking.
00:39:55Phil likes the dark, too.
00:39:58Writing poetry, I suppose.
00:39:59Oh, no.
00:40:00Phil's one of our young realists.
00:40:02He lives a sort of poetry, though.
00:40:04Limericks, I imagine.
00:40:05No, popular songs.
00:40:06Gay ones.
00:40:07Bright ones.
00:40:11How's Elizabeth?
00:40:12Oh, she's fine.
00:40:13Phil says she's ambitious as the devil.
00:40:15She wants him to give up his boyhood.
00:40:17He couldn't mean his childhood, could he?
00:40:19What's the matter with you, Jim?
00:40:22Nothing.
00:40:22Why?
00:40:23Talking like that, you like Phil, don't you?
00:40:26You always have.
00:40:28Of course I like Phil.
00:40:30It's just my evil nature, darling.
00:40:32I was so disappointed not to find you here.
00:40:35I'm afraid I'm old-fashioned.
00:40:37I want my woman in the house when I come home.
00:40:40What's got into you, Jim?
00:40:41I was here.
00:40:42Yes, I know.
00:40:43I guess it was just when I found you here with Phil, I was...
00:40:47You don't mean jealous to you.
00:40:48No, not jealous.
00:40:50Envious.
00:40:52I envy him.
00:40:54I envy anybody who has a single moment of your time.
00:40:58I envy them your eyes, your voice, your presence.
00:41:01I even envy them your shadow.
00:41:04Do you know the other morning when you told me of some wild dream you had that night?
00:41:08How you'd gone to a masquerade and I wasn't there?
00:41:10Do you know I was furious?
00:41:12Furious because I wasn't there in your dream?
00:41:14Furious with all the people who were?
00:41:17I didn't say anything about it, but it wasn't until I got to the office that I was myself again.
00:41:23Chop is right, Jim.
00:41:24You are going crazy.
00:41:26With the worship of you, darling.
00:41:28I'm sorry.
00:42:07I'll bet they had some idea like that.
00:42:10More coffee?
00:42:10Like what?
00:42:11No, darling.
00:42:13Bradbread.
00:42:14Using the family millions on me.
00:42:16I'm sure they know you better than that.
00:42:17Well, they're spending plenty as it is.
00:42:20You want another waffle, Mr. Storwell?
00:42:22No, thanks.
00:42:23You, Ms. Storwell?
00:42:24If I eat another waffle Creole, I'd turn into one.
00:42:26You eat them.
00:42:27Oh, I can't.
00:42:28I was dyin'.
00:42:29A waffle or two won't make any difference.
00:42:31Oh, I ain't dyin' for my figure.
00:42:34I was dyin' for my mind.
00:42:36The doctor said if I didn't eat no more starch,
00:42:39it would take the fat off my head and I'd improve my mind.
00:42:45That's the telephone, Creole.
00:42:47Yes, ma'am, I'll get it.
00:42:50Well, she certainly can cook.
00:42:51That's more than most of them can do.
00:42:53Hello.
00:42:54Yes, sir.
00:42:55Oh, I'm fine.
00:42:57Oh, that ain't no trouble at all.
00:42:58She's right here.
00:43:00It's Mr. Phil for you, ma'am.
00:43:02He called for you last night, but you wasn't in.
00:43:05Yes, Phil?
00:43:07Oh, what, you idiot.
00:43:08You didn't bother me at all.
00:43:10Yes.
00:43:12Oh, yes.
00:43:14We'll drop over later.
00:43:16I'll see you then.
00:43:18Bye-bye.
00:43:20Oh, excuse me, ma'am.
00:43:23Liz and Phil had another quarrel.
00:43:25I've seen it coming for quite some time.
00:43:30Lucy, I wonder if you'd do something for me.
00:43:33Oh, it's nothing, but it might be exaggerated into something.
00:43:36Phil is chairman of the university committee to help McAllen, isn't he?
00:43:39Yes, that's one of the things he and Liz quarrel about.
00:43:41She said it took up too much of his time.
00:43:43Well, you can see with rumors about like, like this, bribery and so on.
00:43:48It might be just as well to keep away from Phil until after the trial.
00:43:52You understand, don't you?
00:43:54It seems a little silly somehow.
00:43:56Appearances can be awfully important.
00:43:59If I sound like, uh, one of those husbands, you'll have to forgive me.
00:44:04Goodbye, darling.
00:44:06Goodbye, Jim.
00:44:14Now, Dave, the job was premeditated, and I'm pretty sure I can prove it in court.
00:44:19Aren't you going just a little bit out of your way, Jim?
00:44:21I'm not just talking as his attorney when I say that he was not in his right mind.
00:44:25I know.
00:44:25You're just talking as an old friend.
00:44:27Now, I've defended many a criminal, and if McAllen's one, I'm giving up the profession.
00:44:31Believe me, if ever a man was insane, he was.
00:44:34So, it's insanity again, Dave.
00:44:36I suppose you've got your battery of psychologists and experts all lined up.
00:44:41And when they get through, you'll have McAllen fixed up so mad,
00:44:45you'll be asking us to believe that it was his wife who shot him.
00:44:48Cigarette?
00:44:49No.
00:44:50But I tell you, the man was really crazy.
00:44:51It's the only possible explanation.
00:44:53If you keep on, none of us will be responsible for anything.
00:44:56We'll do what we like.
00:44:57We'll steal, kill, anything.
00:44:59And if the police catch up with us, we'll just go out and hire someone as smart as you to
00:45:03prove us crazy.
00:45:04That is, if we have the money.
00:45:06Now, look here, Jim.
00:45:07I'll give up my fee in this case if you'll play ball.
00:45:10Change the indictment to manslaughter with a recommendation for clemency, and we'll close the case.
00:45:16No, Dave.
00:45:16Can't do it.
00:45:17Not and run this job as I see it.
00:45:20A man who murders, regardless of the circumstances, is already a criminal at heart.
00:45:25Oh, forget the job this time.
00:45:27McAllen's a human being and the most helpless human being I've ever come across.
00:45:31You ought to go over there and take a look at it.
00:45:33I get it now, Dave.
00:45:34You're just giving me the human interest business.
00:45:36Oh, no, no, no, Jim.
00:45:38This is no trick.
00:45:39Lieutenant McAllen is just a man like the rest of us.
00:45:42A man who is madly in love with his wife and blind with jealousy.
00:45:46Why, what's happened to him might have happened to any of us.
00:45:48Might have happened to me or to you.
00:45:50Ha, ha, stop your kidding, Dave.
00:45:53See you in court.
00:45:56He looks as if you'd pin these ears back.
00:45:59Well, that looks fool, you're correct.
00:46:00Ma is a tough and wily gentleman.
00:46:02We've got a fight on our hands.
00:46:04Chop it.
00:46:06Will you send two dozen long stem roses to Mrs. Stowell right away?
00:46:09White ones.
00:46:10Any card?
00:46:11Any special sentiment?
00:46:12No, just for me.
00:46:13They're conscience flowers.
00:46:15Are you sure two dozen will be enough?
00:46:17Two dozen will be plenty.
00:46:21Yes, Kirk.
00:46:22Tomorrow's going to be tough.
00:46:25Well, I'll send his psychologist and expert screaming back to Vienna when I get through with him.
00:46:29Wait till I spring that confession.
00:46:33A kiss before the mirror.
00:47:06Do you admit, then, that you neglected your wife?
00:47:08You saw a little of her.
00:47:10You were too busy with your humanitarian studies.
00:47:13Your plans for a better world.
00:47:16I must ask you again to answer yes or no.
00:47:20Yes.
00:47:23Did your plans for a better world include, by any chance, better consideration for your wife?
00:47:28I object, your honor.
00:47:30The question is here, Adam, and then I carry.
00:47:32Objection sustained.
00:47:33The district attorney will please control his sarcasm.
00:47:37You are a professor of political science at the university.
00:47:39Is that right?
00:47:40Yes.
00:47:41Your students loved you, liked your courses.
00:47:45I think so.
00:47:46You spent a great deal of your time with them.
00:47:48Long hours after class and in the evenings.
00:47:51Yes.
00:47:52And when your students were not with you, your work was with you, night and day.
00:47:57Is that not right, Dr. McCallum?
00:47:59Yes.
00:48:00How long would you say, Dr. McCallum, how long was it before your wife's death that you took her out,
00:48:07say, to dinner, to a party, to the theater?
00:48:10I object, your honor.
00:48:11The question is irrelevant.
00:48:13Objection overruled.
00:48:14The district attorney may continue.
00:48:16How long, doctor?
00:48:17A month?
00:48:18Two months?
00:48:19Three months?
00:48:21About three months.
00:48:23This, then, is the woman you loved.
00:48:25This woman you did not think enough of to be a companion to in her ordinary life.
00:48:30This woman you left to weep her heart out in her own loneliness.
00:48:34This is the woman you say you love with a passion, with a madness that drove you to kill.
00:48:39I object, I object, order, order, order, ladies and gentlemen, you have a piece of it, order.
00:48:46You're in paper, ma'am.
00:48:48Mac Allen collapsed with on the witness stand.
00:48:50Thank you, Creole.
00:48:51You're welcome.
00:48:53Cracks after two hours grilled by a district attorney stole.
00:49:02Hello.
00:49:04It's the telephone, ma'am.
00:49:06Who is it, Creole?
00:49:08It's for you, ma'am.
00:49:18Yes?
00:49:19Oh, yes.
00:49:20Oh, yes, yes.
00:49:21I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:23I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:23I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:23I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:28I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:30I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:35I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:36I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:38I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:39I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:41I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:42I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:43I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:45I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:47I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:49:51I'll be over as soon as I can.
00:50:13I didn't expect you also any I've had one of those days yes I know I read it in the
00:50:19paper
00:50:20sort of a Roman holiday wasn't it you shouldn't read the papers Lucy and not for your pretty eyes
00:50:32Jim what's the matter Lucy nothing Jim I have to go to Elizabeth's for a few minutes
00:50:39I wish you didn't have to go out tonight Lucy I'm sorry Jim but I have to I'll be back
00:50:45before dinner
00:50:59I'll be back
00:51:01I'll be back
00:51:02I'll be back
00:51:19I'll be back
00:51:50I leaned down quickly and kissed him instantly the moment I kissed her she shivered her flesh became goose
00:51:59minty as with cold I saw her face in the mirror looking up at me and all its happiness was
00:52:07gone
00:52:09on it was a look of revulsion
00:52:10I'll be back
00:52:28I'll be back
00:52:31I'll be back
00:52:34I'll be back
00:52:42I'll be back
00:52:43Why Jim
00:52:43Hello Elizabeth is Lucy here
00:52:45No Jim why is something the matter
00:52:47No I just wanted to speak to her
00:52:50I'm sorry to have bothered you Liz it's nothing
00:52:53Well come on in Jim I expect her I'm waiting for her now
00:52:56No thank you Elizabeth
00:52:58I better go along I just wanted to say something to her
00:53:02See you later
00:53:03See you later
00:53:12406 Maple Drive
00:53:13Yes
00:53:26Want me to wait here for you mister?
00:53:29No
00:53:30You better not wait
00:54:05She was making herself beautiful for some man, and she was going to him, and she wasn't
00:54:09going to Sonya's.
00:54:10I followed her in the rain.
00:54:12It's all unreal to me.
00:54:14All blood.
00:54:15It was blind.
00:54:17Insane.
00:54:18I saw her enter the house.
00:54:20I went to a window.
00:54:22I saw her run into a man's arms.
00:54:25The fire in my brain became a fury.
00:54:28I didn't realize I'd drawn the gun.
00:54:30I didn't realize I'd fired it.
00:54:32Until I saw her body crumble to the floor.
00:54:36And then I knew I'd killed her.
00:54:39In that instant, I knew I'd lost forever the one thing in the world I love.
00:54:46It's my fault.
00:54:48My stupidity.
00:54:51My neglect.
00:55:08My weakness.
00:55:10I needed to know that you'll know that you hid all the way.
00:55:10You're a安全's face.
00:55:10I was a good one.
00:55:11I got the one.
00:55:12I'm a good one.
00:55:18You're good.
00:55:18I'm a good one.
00:55:19You're good.
00:55:20I'm a good one.
00:55:22I'm a good one.
00:55:22I'm a good one.
00:56:26Jim.
00:56:40It was a stupid record.
00:56:42I should have bought some new ones.
00:56:44Liz said you were looking for me.
00:56:46What is it, Jim?
00:56:48Nothing.
00:56:48Nothing much.
00:56:50I guess the case is about getting on my nerves.
00:56:53I simply wanted to tell you that I wouldn't be at home tonight.
00:56:57I'm staying in town.
00:56:59Oh, I see.
00:57:00It's much better if I'm near the office.
00:57:03Yes, I suppose it is.
00:57:05The office is terribly important.
00:57:07I can get someone to stay with me here.
00:57:10Yes, I'm sure you can.
00:57:15See you tomorrow.
00:57:16THE END
00:57:55THE END
00:58:16THE END
00:58:22Hello? Hello, is that you, Phil?
00:58:35Hello, is that you, Phil?
00:58:52Hello, Phil?
00:59:22Hello, Phil?
00:59:40Hello, Phil?
00:59:47Hello, Phil?
00:59:49Hello, Phil?
00:59:54Chief?
01:00:05I would like the permission of the court to request a change of the present indictment.
01:00:10In the form in which it was returned?
01:00:12In its form and in its intention.
01:00:16This request is quite unusual.
01:00:19But I beg your honor to believe it has nonetheless been most carefully considered.
01:00:24The jury will please retire.
01:00:33What's the matter with the stall today?
01:00:34Can't figure it out unless he's got a new act.
01:00:37He looks as if he's ill.
01:00:38I do hope nothing's happened to him.
01:00:40This is the only day I can come.
01:00:41Here's where he pulls something out of his sleeve.
01:00:46The state has come to the belief that the indictment of murder brought against the defendant in this case was
01:00:52not fairly and justly conceived.
01:00:56The attorney for the state has come to the belief that he acted without premeditation.
01:01:04If it please the court, the state recommends that this indictment of murder be amended to a charge of manslaughter.
01:01:15Order.
01:01:16Order.
01:01:18Order.
01:01:20Order.
01:01:21Order.
01:01:21Order.
01:01:23This is a serious recommendation.
01:01:26May the court ask what consideration led the attorney for the state so to change his conviction?
01:01:31An unusual consideration.
01:01:34Since the adjournment of court yesterday, he has had experience with a case that to a great extent parallels this.
01:01:41In fact, is extraordinarily similar to it.
01:01:46And his findings in that case have urged him to reconsider this.
01:01:52He realizes, especially in view of rumors that have been afoot, the grave charges he leaves himself open to in
01:01:59making this recommendation, but he implores the court to believe that there are unimaginable moments when a man,
01:02:06a poor, weak man, jealous, blind, frantic, may kill the one he loves more than anyone, more than anything on
01:02:17earth, may kill her by some strange, tragic perversity,
01:02:23and in killing her, and in killing her condemn himself to a life of sorrow and regret, and that, not
01:02:31death, is his punishment, and believe him, your honor, it can be a terrible one.
01:02:45I see.
01:02:47I see.
01:02:50Please have the jury return.
01:02:55The MacAllen murder trial was startled into an uproar today by District Attorney Stowell.
01:02:59In a scene of unprecedented excitement, the MacAllen trial came to an abrupt and dramatic close today.
01:03:05District Attorney Stowell asked the court that the first-degree murder charge be withdrawn.
01:03:15Well, it looks as if you're finally getting away on that trip, Mr. Stowell.
01:03:17Something like that, Jenks.
01:03:25Miss Stowell!
01:03:26Miss Stowell!
01:03:27You should hear, Miss Stowell!
01:03:28That's a Criola.
01:03:28Mr. Stowell just let that MacAllen man go.
01:03:31You let him go?
01:03:31Yeah, something like that.
01:03:32You just come on in and listen, Miss Stowell.
01:03:34The penalty for the alleged white slayer surprised the spectators and the court by asking that the first-degree murder
01:03:39charge be dismissed.
01:03:41The jury, following Judge Forbes' instructions, immediately returned a verdict of manslaughter with a recommendation for clemency.
01:03:46The penalty calls for from 10 to 20 years.
01:03:49District Attorney Stowell has blankly refused all further discussion of the case.
01:03:54We will now continue with our regular program.
01:03:56I thought sure they was going to electrify him.
01:03:59Thank you, Criola.
01:04:00I learned a lot just sitting here on my day off, improving my mind.
01:04:04I think I can get this.
01:04:33I need to know.
01:04:38I saw a jinx outside.
01:04:42I know it's too late for regrets, Lucy.
01:04:44I've been mad.
01:04:46Mad?
01:04:47There's no other word for it.
01:04:49No other explanation of my selfishness and stupidity.
01:04:53You've always been generous, Lucy.
01:04:56And before you go, I'm going to ask you one last great kindness.
01:05:02Won't you let me start all over again?
01:05:04Not here in this house.
01:05:06Not as your husband.
01:05:08Not even as an old friend.
01:05:10But just as if we'd only met.
01:05:13Strangers.
01:05:14Meeting for the first time.
01:05:18Like that first snowy day in New Haven.
01:05:21And let me try to win you.
01:05:23To win you back.
01:05:25I don't know, Jim.
01:05:27When you walked out last night, it seemed that your job...
01:05:31the prosecutor had won.
01:05:33Believe me, Lucy, I didn't know.
01:05:36I didn't realize what had happened between us until...
01:05:40yesterday when I saw you sitting before the mirror.
01:05:43When you kissed me?
01:05:44Yes, when I came home.
01:05:46I hated you then.
01:05:48I just read your cross-examination of MacAllen and...
01:05:51how he collapsed on the witness stand.
01:05:54and you seemed to be more of an executioner than an attorney.
01:05:58I know.
01:06:00I understand, Lucy.
01:06:04And afterwards, when you left the room, I realized the truth for the first time.
01:06:10Hello, folks.
01:06:11I want you all to meet the young lady's husband.
01:06:12We were married before breakfast.
01:06:14Oh, Liz, I'm so happy.
01:06:15I don't know what I'm crying for.
01:06:17Come here, bride.
01:06:18Kiss Mr. Stoll.
01:06:19After all, it was his wife that did it.
01:06:20That's right, Jim.
01:06:21He was really going to run out.
01:06:22Don't I know?
01:06:23When I was over there last night, he had his bags all packed.
01:06:25My bag?
01:06:26Give me all the happiness in the world, Elizabeth.
01:06:28Thanks, Jim.
01:06:29I don't have to wish you happiness, Phil.
01:06:30You have it.
01:06:31Thank you, Jim.
01:06:32I hate to admit it in front of two women, but I think you're right.
01:06:34Thank you, sir.
01:06:35Well, Jim, isn't there a bottle of wine on ice?
01:06:37Not now, Jim.
01:06:37Save it until we get back.
01:06:38Come on, victim.
01:06:39We've got to run.
01:06:39On to Niagara Falls.
01:06:41On to Niagara Falls?
01:06:42Phil insists.
01:06:43He wants to be different.
01:06:44We're going to drive up in the pliver, and I tie the tin can and ribbons out all by myself.
01:06:47And he's made one of those just married signs, too.
01:06:50Didn't I read somewhere about the bridge over the falls being down?
01:06:52Oh, we can still send postcards.
01:06:54That was a marvelous thing you did today.
01:06:56You're a great man, Jim.
01:06:58Hardly.
01:06:58I just came to my senses, that's all, Phil.
01:07:00Come on, Liz.
01:07:01We've got to be moving.
01:07:02Well, goodbye, Phil.
01:07:03Goodbye, Jim.
01:07:04Goodbye, Lucy.
01:07:04Goodbye.
01:07:05Good luck.
01:07:05Thanks again, darling.
01:07:06We'll get it.
01:07:07Ring us up when you get back.
01:07:08Come on, Mama.
01:07:09We've got to go.
01:07:09Don't call me, Mama.
01:07:10I don't like it.
01:07:11You better get used to it.
01:07:14Hello?
01:07:16It's the telephone, Mr. Stowell.
01:07:18Who is it, Crayola?
01:07:19It's that Mr. Allison from the office that he said it was most urgent.
01:07:25No, Dan.
01:07:26Well, I've had enough of the job.
01:07:28Enough for a while, anyway.
01:07:30That's right.
01:07:31No, I won't do it.
01:07:33No, I'm not resigning, Dan.
01:07:36The job's all right.
01:07:37The trouble's with me.
01:07:39I've just got to wise to myself.
01:07:41But, Jim, the newspaper boys are packed outside and there's some pretty nasty talk going around.
01:07:47Yes, bribery.
01:07:49The McAllen Millions, you know what I mean.
01:07:51Let them talk.
01:07:52Let them investigate.
01:07:53Let them do what they like.
01:07:54I'll take care of them all when I get back.
01:07:56Let me talk to, uh, Sharpie.
01:08:01Yes, Mr. Stowell.
01:08:04With the greatest of pleasure.
01:08:15That's my little good deed for the day.
01:08:19Never mind that, James.
01:08:20Please bring the other bags back.
01:08:22I won't be going for a few days.
01:08:23Yes, ma'am.
01:08:25At first, I couldn't believe my ears.
01:08:28Someday, darling, I'll tell you a story and you won't believe your ears.
01:08:31About us?
01:08:32About me.
01:08:33About my great reformation.
01:08:35It happened last night.
01:08:37Tell me.
01:08:39I'll tell you on the board for Europe, darling.
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