The Secret Behind the Headlines (1952)

zay

A shocking story unfolds behind the headlines in The Secret Behind the Headlines (1952). Secrets, crime, and dangerous revelations collide as the truth slowly comes to light. Watch this classic mystery drama and discover what really happened behind the sensational news.

Transcript

00:00:00THE END

00:00:37THE END

00:01:12THE END

00:01:30THE END

00:01:36THE END

00:01:48THE END

00:01:50THE END

00:01:56THE END

00:01:57THE END

00:01:58THE END

00:02:07THE END

00:02:08THE END

00:02:29THE END

00:02:37THE END

00:02:38THE END

00:02:43THE END

00:02:46THE END

00:02:47THE END

00:02:48THE END

00:02:50THE END

00:02:55THE END

00:02:57THE END

00:02:59THE END

00:03:11THE END

00:03:12THE END

00:03:19THE END

00:03:26THE END

00:03:32THE END

00:03:34THE END

00:03:44THE END

00:03:48THE END

00:03:53THE END

00:03:55THE END

00:04:05THE END

00:04:08THE END

00:04:23THE END

00:04:26THE END

00:04:28THE END

00:04:29THE END

00:04:33THE END

00:04:37THE END

00:04:38THE END

00:04:39THE END

00:04:42Morons.

00:04:43I demand an explanation, Frank Madison.

00:04:49Well, Mrs. Raleigh, I, uh...

00:04:51In defense of Mark Chapman, I...

00:04:53Mr. Madison, I'd like to handle my own defense, if you don't mind.

00:04:56Just as you say, Mark.

00:05:00Mrs. Raleigh, I think you and the other stockholders should know

00:05:04that your publisher hired me as executive editor

00:05:06with full rights to transform this newspaper.

00:05:08He did this for a very simple reason.

00:05:10He was fed up with operating at a loss.

00:05:13Why did Mr. Madison hire me?

00:05:15Well, he felt it was time that the express buried its antiquated and negative approach,

00:05:19such as this.

00:05:22But who won?

00:05:24And become a positive newspaper.

00:05:27We're in a business, ladies and gentlemen,

00:05:28a business of satisfying the hunger of the public for thrills, escape, and news.

00:05:34Here's where I took over your highly respectable white elephant.

00:05:37Instead of headlining a U.N. story, we gave him a vice story.

00:05:40Obviously, they went for it.

00:05:42We played down the presidential appointments,

00:05:44concentrated on the guerrilla man killings.

00:05:47Here's what happened.

00:05:48Thirty or forty thousand new readers.

00:05:50Why, in a year, circulation's up over 110%.

00:05:52And when we reach 750,000, we'll have to pay you a big bonus.

00:05:57I'm not sure I like this at all.

00:05:59Did you like the dividend check you got last month for the first time in 12 years?

00:06:02And I don't like this, sir.

00:06:04What kind of journalism is this?

00:06:06A newspaper staging a cheap, vulgar display in order to attract the stupid slobs of the city.

00:06:12The thousands that will attend the Lonely Heart Dance tonight,

00:06:14these poor, friendly, unhappy people whom you call stupid slobs,

00:06:17buy and read this newspaper.

00:06:18Their loyalty helped put that dividend check in your pocket.

00:06:21And I suppose you think it's a public service

00:06:23when one of your reporters is arrested for withholding information from the police?

00:06:27Or whatever it was.

00:06:30This, what's his name, McCleary person,

00:06:32and the things he writes about.

00:06:34I think he should be fired.

00:06:35This McCleary person is the best young reporter I've seen in 25 years of newspapering.

00:06:39Before I'll fire him, I'll throw the express up for grabs

00:06:41and go to work for somebody who appreciates real talent on a paper.

00:06:44Oh, Mark, I'm sorry.

00:06:44One last thing.

00:06:45The only contract I have here is a handshake between Mr. Madison and myself.

00:06:49Now, unless you give me full rights to run this paper the way I want,

00:06:51I'll quit after the final edition today.

00:06:53Now, I'm sorry I can't stay with you any longer.

00:06:55I have a newspaper to get out.

00:07:04I have a newspaper to get out.

00:07:05Store ready, Miss Elsa?

00:07:06Have the rest in a minute, Joey.

00:07:10Oh, Mr. Chapman.

00:07:14Thanks.

00:07:23McCleary store are you going to get, Vex?

00:07:30How'd you make out in the torture chamber?

00:07:35This is good.

00:07:36Give it a big play.

00:07:37Mac will do a byline follow-up tomorrow.

00:07:39What are these?

00:07:39Picks for that lonely heart spread.

00:07:42Junk them.

00:07:43But I...

00:07:44Take Peters off the lonely hearts.

00:07:45He's photographing these slobs like they're lined up in a soup kitchen

00:07:47instead of panting for a red-hot romance.

00:07:48Okay, but I...

00:07:49Junk?

00:07:51Yes, Mr. Nelson.

00:07:56Get an axe, spirit with blood.

00:07:58Yeah?

00:07:58Whose?

00:07:59Yours.

00:07:59You can't spare any used chocolate syrup or something.

00:08:01Chocolate?

00:08:02Oh, goody.

00:08:02When I'm through, I can make a plate of fudge.

00:08:04Drop in.

00:08:07So you still insist a woman having 20 kids is worth a feature article?

00:08:10Hi, genius.

00:08:12I think it's worth a whole front page.

00:08:14It scares me this maternal instinct of yours.

00:08:16Decided where you're taking me to dinner tonight?

00:08:22If Chapman hasn't been canned,

00:08:24you're going to dine with the worst loser who ever paid off a bet.

00:08:27Then you better stash some bicarb of soda in your bag, princess.

00:08:30You're going to need it.

00:08:31Don't count your steaks before you hear the sizzle.

00:08:35Well, what's the word?

00:08:37Are you X or still?

00:08:38They're not dumb enough to throw out a winner.

00:08:40Congratulations.

00:08:41I knew you'd stick their stocks right back in their teeth.

00:08:43If I told them that they fired me,

00:08:44McCleary'd quit too,

00:08:45and then they'd be in real trouble.

00:08:47I wouldn't put it past them to try and dump you

00:08:49to get out of paying the bonuses

00:08:50to staring them right in their glassy eyes.

00:08:52I've got news for you.

00:08:53I'm going to cut you in for a piece of that bonus.

00:08:56What do you want me to do, retire?

00:08:57I thought we could make a deal with Madison

00:08:59to buy some of the company stock.

00:09:00You know, kid, we can end up owning this newspaper.

00:09:02Well, that's the best offer I've had all week.

00:09:04I'll make you another one.

00:09:04I'll take you to dinner tonight.

00:09:06You pick the spot.

00:09:08I'll make you a better offer.

00:09:10My date's buying.

00:09:11She lost a bet.

00:09:12The grand duchess from Vassar again, huh?

00:09:14The way I feel, I can put up with anything.

00:09:16I'm worried, can she put up with you?

00:09:17Get her ready.

00:09:18We've got to be at the ballroom with eight.

00:09:19There's no time for no spotter.

00:09:26Don't break your ears with that grin.

00:09:28I can see.

00:09:30He's still in.

00:09:30Well, no loud hoops of joy, baby.

00:09:33Well, I tried everything.

00:09:34I crossed my fingers, said prayers, burned candles.

00:09:38Who's your tailor, princess?

00:09:40Let's get out of here.

00:09:42I've had to look at that Chapman face all day.

00:09:45I've got to cover his fiasco tonight and suffer some more.

00:09:49At least just looking at you for an hour will be a welcome change.

00:09:52You're taking me to dinner?

00:09:53Let's go.

00:09:54Taking him?

00:09:56Oh, wait a minute.

00:09:57Our bet was between you and me.

00:09:58Our bet was loser buys dinner.

00:10:00We didn't say for how many.

00:10:01Well, you double-crossing...

00:10:03I knew you'd be a good loser.

00:10:06Someday remind me to tell you about the girls.

00:10:16You talk a couple of these suckers into getting married.

00:10:18These lonely hard slabs got the gimmick.

00:10:20We've got plenty to give them from the advertisers.

00:10:22You talk one couple into getting married by 9 o'clock,

00:10:23by 12 o'clock we'll have a dozen lined up for wedded bliss.

00:10:26McCleary, that's Brooklyn Cupid.

00:10:27McCleary, the human yesterday.

00:10:29Julie!

00:10:31Hello, Charlie.

00:10:31Charlie.

00:10:32How are you, Barnes?

00:10:33Fine, Mark.

00:10:34You're looking fit.

00:10:35McCleary?

00:10:37Oh, thank you.

00:10:38What goes on?

00:10:38Are you ghosting Allison's features, Charlie?

00:10:40No, he's helping me with research for that series

00:10:42on historical monuments in New York.

00:10:44You couldn't pick a better man.

00:10:45I ought to know.

00:10:46Remember those old days, Mark?

00:10:48Like the time I cut the phone cables at the Lindbergh trial?

00:10:52He scooped me.

00:10:53You almost cost me my job.

00:10:54Scooped you.

00:10:55The wire services scooped everybody.

00:10:57That was the year that I...

00:10:58Yeah, that was the year you won the Pulitzer Prize.

00:11:01Listen, Mark.

00:11:02This stuff I've been doing for Julie, it's a...

00:11:06Mark, I think I'm...

00:11:08I'm ready to go back to work.

00:11:09Oh, that's fine.

00:11:10I'm glad to hear it, Charlie.

00:11:11Yeah.

00:11:12How about it, Mark?

00:11:13How about a job?

00:11:18Why not?

00:11:18Oh, thanks.

00:11:20Charlie, I'm so proud of you.

00:11:22This is going to take a little juggling.

00:11:24I won't be able to do anything right away.

00:11:25Look, Charlie, I'll call you.

00:11:26We're late.

00:11:27We've got to rush.

00:11:27Sure, Mark.

00:11:28I know how it is.

00:11:28Always on the go.

00:11:30Coffee in the morning?

00:11:31Skinner's?

00:11:32Sure thing, Julie.

00:11:38All the time I thought you were...

00:11:39How much did you give him?

00:11:40Ten dollars.

00:11:41He earned it.

00:11:42Ten bucks.

00:11:43Buy a lot of whiskey.

00:11:44If you see that rum-dum come midnight, he'll be in the gutter.

00:11:47Oh, no, wait a minute.

00:11:48He's an alky, Julie.

00:11:49You shouldn't give an alky more than a buck at a time.

00:11:50You're liable to kill him.

00:11:51Ten bucks, he can take a bath in it.

00:11:53Oh, but with his job, we'll change everything for him.

00:11:56Job?

00:11:57I wouldn't have him in my office, let alone on my staff.

00:11:59In you go, sucker.

00:12:01Where are you going?

00:12:02I'm not going to let him go off believing this.

00:12:05Do you want to break his heart?

00:12:07Do I?

00:12:07What do you think you're doing?

00:12:09I'm giving him hopes and dreams.

00:12:10A rummy like that lives on dreams.

00:12:11He's happy.

00:12:12Why spoil it?

00:12:13Happy?

00:12:14Happy like your lonely heart's looking forward to those big romances they've been promised?

00:12:18Only Charlie's romance is with a bottle.

00:12:20Get in.

00:12:44Don't leave that camera at half, may I stop gold-breaking on the other guys?

00:12:46I must have got a hundred shots already, Mr. Chapman.

00:12:49My arm's giving out.

00:12:50You've only started.

00:12:51I want shots of people from every state.

00:12:52I'll start shooting.

00:12:57How are you doing, Princess?

00:12:59Well, it's an effort, but I'm trying to keep from screaming.

00:13:02You're a real bundle of laughs during dinner, too.

00:13:05Why don't you simmer down now?

00:13:07You're not so pretty when your feathers are all ruffled.

00:13:09Don't, Steve.

00:13:09I'm in no mood for levity.

00:13:11Do you feel like dancing?

00:13:13You figure that'll smooth my feathers?

00:13:16I've got a great idea for you.

00:13:18Grab yourself one of these lonely heart boys.

00:13:20Tell them you're a club dame.

00:13:21Connor.

00:13:21Get his life history.

00:13:23And there's your feature for tomorrow.

00:13:25Mark Chapman, Jr.

00:13:26It'll sell papers.

00:13:28You left that out.

00:13:30Happy hunting, Cupid.

00:13:31Must let the boss down.

00:13:33Save at least one dance for me, Princess.

00:13:53Every time I aim my lens at one of these walking zombies, I think of the time I covered the

00:13:58Miss America contest.

00:13:59The tears almost start to flow.

00:14:04McFerry, you get nothing but service.

00:14:0610 news day 4-9 and couple number one.

00:14:09Mary and Joe met in front of the Arkansas booth.

00:14:11You would love at first sight.

00:14:13Almost.

00:14:14Right.

00:14:14Well, sure.

00:14:15I'm from Texas.

00:14:16But I sure love that Arkansas cook.

00:14:18You love her, don't you?

00:14:20Well, sure.

00:14:21I reckon so.

00:14:22Mary, you love him?

00:14:23Yes.

00:14:25See, they're crazy about each other.

00:14:26Yeah, that's fine.

00:14:27Hey, Edwards.

00:14:29We've got a romance going here.

00:14:30They're ready for the orange blossoms.

00:14:32Well, howdy, dog.

00:14:34Save the teeth for the fans, Dan.

00:14:35Get up there and make the big announcements.

00:14:36Yes, sir, Mr. Chapman.

00:14:38Come with me, you lucky, lucky people.

00:14:41Hey, you ain't going to forget about the bed with the built-in television set.

00:14:45You'll spend your honeymoon in front of it.

00:14:50Nice going, Steve.

00:14:50Keep punching.

00:14:51I'll get the camera boys up to cover.

00:14:55Do you find a feature to write about yet?

00:14:58I haven't, and I don't intend to.

00:15:00This bribing of poor, ignorant dopes into a public wedding is cheap, cruel, and disgusting.

00:15:06This whole Wild West show is ridiculous, and I want no part of it.

00:15:09Miss Allison, your contract has six months to run.

00:15:11My contract was made with Mr. Madison before you took over the express.

00:15:15If you don't like the way I run the paper, I have an agreement that might be satisfactory to both

00:15:18of us.

00:15:19Take six months vacation with pay.

00:15:23No, thank you, Mr. Chapman.

00:15:25I'll work it out.

00:15:27I like my feature writing.

00:15:29Thinking people like it, too.

00:15:31Even though there aren't many of them buying the express anymore.

00:15:34Good night.

00:15:40That's it.

00:15:46That's it.

00:15:48Friends, brothers and sisters in the Lonely Hearts Club, I have wonderful news for you.

00:15:54Living proof that this magnificent club is more than just a name.

00:15:57But first, how would you like to meet the great man who created your club?

00:16:06Mr. Mark Chapman, editor of the New York Express.

00:16:10Put the spotlight on him.

00:16:11Over there.

00:16:27Now, here's the wonderful news.

00:16:30Meet Mary and Joe.

00:16:31Two happy people who came here tonight as total strangers.

00:16:35They met.

00:16:36They danced.

00:16:37They found love.

00:16:39They're going to get married.

00:16:53George.

00:16:56George Grant.

00:16:59It is you.

00:17:01Charlotte.

00:17:03Finding you here.

00:17:05I was so sure that you must be dead.

00:17:08George Grant is dead.

00:17:09Machine and clothes dryer.

00:17:10Yes, I just heard.

00:17:12You're the...

00:17:13We can't talk here.

00:17:15We can talk in my place, George.

00:17:19We've got a lot to talk about.

00:17:22Go on out.

00:17:23I'll meet you at the side entrance.

00:17:30The years have been kinder to you.

00:17:33What is it?

00:17:3419?

00:17:3520?

00:17:35I used to keep track, but I...

00:17:37What's the difference?

00:17:37Now that you've found me, what do you want?

00:17:54Mary?

00:18:02Come on, quit stalling around.

00:18:04What was it they called you at the ball, Mark?

00:18:06Chapman.

00:18:10When did you change your name, George?

00:18:12Right after you left me?

00:18:15So I wouldn't find you?

00:18:17You knew I was so crazy about you, I'd look and look and look.

00:18:21Didn't you, George?

00:18:22Come on, get to it.

00:18:23What do you want?

00:18:25You're still in a hurry, aren't you?

00:18:28That's the thing I remember best about you.

00:18:31The fellow who always ran and never walked.

00:18:34Had to get places fast.

00:18:39And you got places, didn't you, George?

00:18:42Do you need some money?

00:18:43Here's some for now.

00:18:45Money.

00:18:46The payoff, George?

00:18:50How much?

00:18:51How much for each year?

00:18:53How much for the agony and the heartbreak and the fear?

00:18:57Oh, Charlotte, cut the ham act.

00:18:58This could be for the doctor, Bill.

00:19:01See?

00:19:04I was 20 years younger then.

00:19:07I think it's more seriously.

00:19:10I can't imagine how much.

00:19:13You're boring me now like you always did.

00:19:17People always bored you when you didn't have any more use for them, didn't they, George?

00:19:21Bores and nuisances, I get rid of them.

00:19:23Yeah, the same gentle way you got rid of me.

00:19:26My lawyer will get in touch with you.

00:19:27He'll arrange a quiet divorce and generous alimony.

00:19:30You're an important man now, aren't you, George?

00:19:33Editor of the New York Express.

00:19:37I never thought I'd be the wife of the editor of a big New York newspaper.

00:19:41You're not, and don't get any ideas about forcing yourself.

00:19:45You've got nothing to gain by refusing me a divorce now like you did 20 years ago.

00:19:50I was young then and so foolishly in love.

00:19:53I wanted so much to hold on to you.

00:19:55I made all of my mistakes when I was young, and you were the biggest one.

00:19:58I fell for an attractive hunk of flesh.

00:20:02Hold me.

00:20:03You didn't try to hang on.

00:20:05You strangled me.

00:20:06I smothered to death with you.

00:20:14Turnabout's fair play.

00:20:15When you walked out of me, I died inside.

00:20:18When I walk out of here, you're gonna die.

00:20:21Everything you worked for, grabbed for, ruined people to get, it's all gonna die.

00:20:26You're a neurotic screwball.

00:20:27I'm gonna spread your story all over town.

00:20:30Mark Chapman, the great editor.

00:20:32Wife deserter.

00:20:33Living under a false name for 20 years.

00:20:37What else did you cover up living under a phony name?

00:20:40Your publishers are gonna love this.

00:20:43And the other papers, they'll cut you to ribbons with this information.

00:20:49You!

00:20:50You!

00:20:53You!

00:20:58You!

00:21:05You!

00:21:15You!

00:21:18You!

00:21:25THE END

00:22:00THE END

00:22:27THE END

00:23:01THE END

00:23:19THE END

00:23:20THE END

00:23:21THE END

00:23:31THE END

00:23:38THE END

00:23:39THE END

00:24:02THE END

00:24:04THE END

00:24:11THE END

00:24:14THE END

00:24:15THE END

00:24:24THE END

00:24:27THE END

00:24:34THE END

00:24:35THE END

00:24:36THE END

00:24:37THE END

00:24:38THE END

00:24:40THE END

00:24:41THE END

00:24:42THE END

00:24:43THE END

00:24:46THE END

00:24:49THE END

00:24:50THE END

00:24:56THE END

00:25:01THE END

00:25:03THE END

00:25:05THE END

00:25:06THE END

00:25:07THE END

00:25:13THE END

00:25:20THE END

00:25:32THE END

00:25:33THE END

00:25:34THE END

00:25:37THE END

00:25:45THE END

00:25:48THE END

00:26:02THE END

00:26:04THE END

00:26:08RECOVERY

00:26:09THE END

00:26:09YOU FEEL

00:26:11IN THE GNY

00:26:11THAT BLOL doll

00:26:11ON

00:26:12FREE GAS STOVES

00:26:13AND

00:26:32I'M NOT

00:26:34THE END

00:26:34OF THE

00:26:35With them scarecrows I shot last night, I figure my luck's got to change, even dead, this dame's bound to

00:26:40have more glamour.

00:26:41Let's give her a look.

00:26:44Thanks for the coffee, kitten.

00:26:59Another scarecrow. I'm batting goose eggs.

00:27:03Dames have got to make trouble even when they die, don't they, pal?

00:27:06Yeah, water downstairs and water upstairs.

00:27:10Really want a room with a swimming pool.

00:27:13Hey, Davis, what are you doing here?

00:27:15I just wanted to see if I couldn't get to one of our calls before you did.

00:27:19This isn't a homicide.

00:27:20We got a new man on the beach here, McCleary. He's built like you between the ears.

00:27:24He saw a hole in the back of the dame's head and figured she was slugged.

00:27:28What's your guess, Lieutenant? She put the hole in the back of her head herself?

00:27:32Yeah, wise eyes, that's it. That's it exactly.

00:27:35She slipped in the tub and opened her skull on a faucet.

00:27:38What was the lady's name, Sherlock?

00:27:40The landlady says Jane Jones. You believe it?

00:27:43Yeah, I believe it. I'm fresh out of nursery school.

00:27:46Jane Jones, alias Jane Doe.

00:27:49Say, Dave, you're really young.

00:27:51Look, nuisance, if you so much as make these bed springs squeak once again, I'll throw you in the tub

00:27:55with a dame.

00:27:57Lieutenant, please.

00:28:02You're wrong, Dave. She was murdered. Clear as your head. Murdered for her money.

00:28:08Why, this lady must have spent easily six or seven dollars a year on clothes.

00:28:11Why don't you go home, McCleary? There's nothing around here to interest a big newsman like you.

00:28:22Look, Junior. Keep your nose in your own business or I'll run you in for obstruction, suspicion and vagrancy.

00:28:28Sure, Dave. I just thought there might be something in here to help identify her.

00:28:31No suitcase, huh?

00:28:36In there, boys.

00:28:38Okay, Steve. I got all I need.

00:28:43Thanks, Dave.

00:28:47No, not you two again.

00:28:49What do you guys do? Smell these things before the police call is even in?

00:28:53Try to forget your mugs. There's a lady in the bathroom.

00:28:55They're so knocked before entering.

00:29:08What did you pinch that for?

00:29:10Looks familiar?

00:29:10I had them in front of me all night, didn't I?

00:29:15Hey, that's awful lonely hearts badge.

00:29:17How many pictures did you and the boys take at the ball?

00:29:20Three, maybe four hundred, I don't know.

00:29:23Rush the print of his bathtub through the lab and check it against the others.

00:29:27See if you can match them up, okay?

00:29:28Oh, sure.

00:29:29Shouldn't take more than a week.

00:29:31Yeah, but I want it done in an hour.

00:29:33I'll see you at the office.

00:29:34Where are you going?

00:29:35I'm gonna hit you right to the morgue.

00:29:36If you match them, call me.

00:29:40How about a ride to the morgue, Pete?

00:30:03Hey, Needle Nellie, anybody home?

00:30:05Hey, handsome.

00:30:07How are you doing, sweetheart?

00:30:08Doing all right, handsome.

00:30:09Come here and give us a kiss.

00:30:14How's business at the morgue, Nellie?

00:30:15Dead.

00:30:17Business is dead.

00:30:21It's good to see you, handsome.

00:30:23Likewise, sweetheart.

00:30:24Long time between dates.

00:30:25But right now I come seeking your expert female advice.

00:30:29Anybody that's lived as long as me can give it.

00:30:31Shoot.

00:30:33Nellie, if you had just one dress to your name and you'd fasten something onto it with a safety pin,

00:30:38and maybe you were in a hurry, would you take time to undo the pin or would you rip the

00:30:41whole thing off?

00:30:42This is a riddle?

00:30:43No, seriously.

00:30:44Well, if I had ten dresses and the house was burning down, I'd still undo the pin.

00:30:49Any lady would.

00:30:51That's what I figured.

00:30:52I just wanted a woman to confirm it.

00:30:53I love you, Nellie, I love you.

00:30:55Where are you going, handsome?

00:30:56Oh, I gotta see the doc.

00:30:58Maybe I can get you some business, Nellie.

00:31:07Did you get those ringside tickets I sent you?

00:31:09Steve.

00:31:10Yeah, it was a great fight.

00:31:11Mischke really tore that hay belly apart, didn't he?

00:31:13Had so much blood splattered on my glasses, I missed the knockout punch.

00:31:18Look, Doc.

00:31:20They just brought in an accidental death.

00:31:22They're putting her in the freezer right now.

00:31:24So?

00:31:25So, I'd like you to give her the once-over for me.

00:31:27An autopsy.

00:31:28Accidents are out of my province, you know that, Steve.

00:31:32It's gonna be a great World Series this year.

00:31:33Yeah, that it is.

00:31:35I don't suppose you'd be interested in viewing the festivities from a box seat.

00:31:42Are you trying to bribe a city official?

00:31:47Right behind first base, Doc.

00:32:04Yeah.

00:32:06Yeah, get some prints ready.

00:32:08I think we've got a front page.

00:32:09Well, it's your lucky day.

00:32:10Drop back.

00:32:11I want you to mark my racing form.

00:32:13Get the doorway.

00:32:15Yeah, and don't forget, I smoke cigars.

00:32:19Hey, Steve, let me wipe those off a little.

00:32:21Wipe them tomorrow.

00:32:28Will you smile again if I take you to dinner tonight?

00:32:30A little celebration coming up.

00:32:31What's the celebration?

00:32:33Another McCleary scoop.

00:32:34Getting monotonous, isn't it?

00:32:35Um, that dinner.

00:32:37A two-party celebration?

00:32:38Or are you bringing a friend?

00:32:41Just you and me alone.

00:32:42I'll smile again.

00:32:44What are the fragile treasures?

00:32:46Very rare items.

00:32:47Pictures of a dame with her mouth shut.

00:32:51Joey, catch the door, will you?

00:32:52All right.

00:32:57I've been waiting a long time for a chance to say this.

00:32:59Stop the presses.

00:33:00Did you get a morning after story in any of those couples we married last night?

00:33:03I got a story from one of the lonely heart ball guests, all right.

00:33:05But she didn't get married last night.

00:33:08She got murdered.

00:33:18Who is she?

00:33:19Jane Doe.

00:33:20Nobody knows her real name.

00:33:21The police think she slipped in the bathtub and bashed her head in.

00:33:24Or they didn't a little while ago.

00:33:26But you know better all the time.

00:33:28After Doc O'Hanlon got through cutting her up for me.

00:33:31She died between 9 and 12 last night.

00:33:33Before she went under in the tub.

00:33:34No water in her lungs.

00:33:37Did he find anything else?

00:33:38Yeah, her killer was a man.

00:33:40Middle age, fair complexion.

00:33:42That brown hair.

00:33:43Well, Hanlon found that scraping under her fingernails.

00:33:46You ran into this just by playing a hunch, huh?

00:33:48Oh, a string from her lonely heart badge was on her dress in the closet.

00:33:52The badge had been torn off.

00:33:54I followed through from there.

00:33:58Well, is this a story?

00:34:00This lonely heart murdered after the ball?

00:34:02Can you sell papers with this?

00:34:08Baxter, Jordan, Allison, get in here right away.

00:34:12They didn't know her name, you said.

00:34:13Well, she told herself Jane Jones.

00:34:15How funny can you get?

00:34:17We've just been struck by lightning.

00:34:18It's a great follow up of the lonely heart's ball.

00:34:20Tell them about it, Steve.

00:34:24We'll call her Miss Lonely Heart.

00:34:26No other name.

00:34:27Alone in the city.

00:34:28Friendless.

00:34:29She went to our shindig last night hunting for a soul mate.

00:34:33Maybe she found one.

00:34:34The wrong one.

00:34:35Anyway, she left early.

00:34:37Sometime before midnight she was beaten to death in her room.

00:34:39By a brown-haired, middle-aged man of fair complexion.

00:34:42A smash follow up is right.

00:34:44The killer had a head full of brains.

00:34:46Good nerves.

00:34:47He lugged her to the bathroom.

00:34:49Stripped her.

00:34:49Tossed the body in the tub.

00:34:52No.

00:34:54No, he stood the body in the tub.

00:34:55Aimed, let go.

00:34:57Bang, her head cracked the faucet.

00:34:58Almost perfect crime.

00:34:59Ordinary accident.

00:35:02He's working smartly.

00:35:03A gal with imagination.

00:35:05He takes her slip, stockings, washes them.

00:35:08Hangs them up to dry.

00:35:09He wipes his prints off everywhere.

00:35:11Starts getting rid of anything that could identify her.

00:35:14He took a ring off her.

00:35:15Probably a wedding or engagement ring.

00:35:17How do you know that?

00:35:18Oh, a whitey circle, third finger left hand.

00:35:20Well, Hamlet spotted it at the morgue.

00:35:22All right, go on.

00:35:23Well, he grabs any other personal items that might identify her

00:35:26and throws them in her suitcase and blows.

00:35:28How do you know she's got a suitcase?

00:35:29Every dame's got a suitcase.

00:35:30But there wasn't one in Miss Lonely Heart's room.

00:35:32This'll kick up the circulation.

00:35:34We can make the 5 o'clock edition exclusive.

00:35:37Steve can do the lead story.

00:35:38Jordan, I won three column cuts of the dame's picture at the ball

00:35:40and the murder photo.

00:35:41Allison, write me a sob story.

00:35:43Miss Lonely Heart won't be lonely anymore.

00:35:45Fine job, Steve.

00:35:46Sure, it's a great job, but we're gonna top it.

00:35:48How?

00:35:51Bury her.

00:35:53Bury her?

00:35:55The best story I ever dug up and he tops it.

00:35:58By 5 o'clock tonight, Miss Lonely Heart will be selling newspapers for us

00:36:00in every street corner in Manhattan.

00:36:02Now go on, get going.

00:36:25A poem.

00:36:40Then, the third.

00:36:42The third.

00:36:44The third.

00:36:45The third.

00:36:47The third.

00:36:49It's the third.

00:36:50The third.

00:36:52The fourth.

00:37:00THE END

00:37:23THE END

00:38:02THE END

00:38:26THE END

00:38:38THE END

00:38:40THE END

00:39:06THE END

00:39:08THE END

00:39:26THE END

00:39:31THE END

00:39:33THE END

00:39:34THE END

00:39:36THE END

00:39:38THE END

00:39:47THE END

00:39:48THE END

00:39:49THE END

00:39:53THE END

00:39:54THE END

00:39:56THE END

00:40:00THE END

00:40:01THE END

00:40:13THE END

00:40:16THE END

00:40:23THE END

00:40:24THE END

00:40:33THE END

00:40:35THE END

00:40:37THE END

00:40:45THE END

00:40:50THE END

00:40:51THE END

00:40:52THE END

00:40:54THE END

00:40:55THE END

00:40:56THE END

00:40:57THE END

00:40:58THE END

00:41:02THE END

00:41:03THE END

00:41:04THE END

00:41:05THE END

00:41:06THE END

00:41:07THE END

00:41:08THE END

00:41:09THE END

00:41:10THE END

00:41:12THE END

00:41:15THE END

00:41:18People who have to buy something cheap.

00:41:22I don't like cheap things.

00:41:24I never did, and I never will.

00:41:28I should have been a big fur man, maybe.

00:41:31Or a big jewelry man.

00:41:34Then I could deal with rich people.

00:41:37That's the kind of people I really prefer to deal with.

00:41:41Hey!

00:41:43How much is on this ticket?

00:41:45Two bucks.

00:41:56Here.

00:41:57Here, sign here.

00:42:02You know, sometimes they say even the rich people aren't happy.

00:42:06But how that could be, I don't know.

00:42:10Thank you, Peter.

00:42:12Thank you for being in business.

00:42:17Thank you very much.

00:42:31Thank you very much.

00:42:32A shot, Hini.

00:42:34Looks like your blood pressure's violating Charlie.

00:42:36What's the matter?

00:42:36The classic irony of the A genie.

00:42:39Charlie Barnes, a stew bum.

00:42:40Rocking the newspaper world like he never did in all his sober days.

00:42:58I'm posing.

00:42:59Yes, sir.

00:43:02Yes.

00:43:03Yes, madam.

00:43:04I have two answers for you.

00:43:06First, you shouldn't talk to strange men in bars.

00:43:09Second, because he asked you to marry him and hit you with a pretzel dish when you refused,

00:43:14isn't conclusive proof he's our lonely heart killer.

00:43:16But thanks for calling late.

00:43:19Bye.

00:43:21Only or not, those tips belong to the police.

00:43:25When are you going to get rid of the idea you're wearing an invisible badge?

00:43:28Julie Allison.

00:43:30Hello, Charlie. How are you?

00:43:34The lonely heart murder.

00:43:36And you've got to meet me right away.

00:43:38We have to figure out how to handle this.

00:43:41I know the killer.

00:43:42And it's dynamite.

00:43:44Well, Charlie, that story is really Steve McCleary's.

00:43:47I think you'd better talk to...

00:43:48No, no, Julie. I want you to have this.

00:43:51Now I can repay you, Julie, child, for everything.

00:43:53Julie, this is so...

00:43:54It's so tremendous.

00:43:56It'll put both of us on top.

00:44:00What?

00:44:01What, Julie?

00:44:05What?

00:44:05Okay, okay, both of you meet me.

00:44:07Maybe we will need somebody like McCleary.

00:44:09Steve, Charlie says he has information on the murder.

00:44:12He's awfully excited about something.

00:44:15About two quarts full, probably.

00:44:18Yeah, Charlie.

00:44:19What's up?

00:44:20I wanted Julie to have this, but she insists you be owning it.

00:44:24I mean, you be in on it.

00:44:26What's the matter, Charlie?

00:44:28No.

00:44:29What?

00:44:30You're not sure, I ain't local.

00:44:34What have I got?

00:44:36I've got the lonely heart killer for you, that's what.

00:44:39Gee, Charlie, that's great.

00:44:41You're getting them crocs so he'll confess?

00:44:43I haven't got him.

00:44:45I know who he is.

00:44:48You're still alive.

00:44:49Born like a baby in the summer.

00:44:53Happy as the daisies are dancing away.

00:44:57Many are the wild white ones.

00:44:58Yes, I'm in a saloon.

00:44:59I'm in Hoeney's.

00:45:00But I'm not drunk.

00:45:02I've just taken the hottest story of the century out of hock.

00:45:05And I'm going to...

00:45:05He's really flying tonight.

00:45:07See what your ten bucks did?

00:45:09Stop treating him like some weak-minded child.

00:45:12Listen to what he's got.

00:45:13He's not this excited for nothing.

00:45:15You know what he's got.

00:45:16The D.T.'s.

00:45:18Charlie Barnes.

00:45:19Dank to the eyeball.

00:45:20Says he just took the lonely heart murder solution out of Hawk.

00:45:24So, Charlie?

00:45:25Still there?

00:45:26Let's start all over again.

00:45:28Now, listen, you metal midget.

00:45:30The only reason I'm calling the Express is Julie Allison.

00:45:33Before I give this story to an insolent young pup like you,

00:45:36I take it to the Daily Leader.

00:45:38Charlie's mad now.

00:45:39Gonna sell it to the Leader.

00:45:40Hang up on the drunken slob.

00:45:42Julie, when she just left,

00:45:44I guess we'll just have to read your story in the Leader tomorrow.

00:45:47So long, pal.

00:45:47Give me that.

00:45:50Don't be silly, Julie.

00:45:51He'll just keep you up all night listening to his fairy tale.

00:45:53Where was he calling from?

00:45:55Bellevue Psych Award, I think he said.

00:45:58You're ten bucks.

00:46:28Well, you're ten bucks.

00:46:37THE END

00:47:12Keep this for me, Hedy.

00:47:13I should, for a couple hours.

00:47:16One more, Hedy.

00:47:17One for the road.

00:47:38One for the road.

00:47:42One for the road.

00:47:50One for the road.

00:47:54One for the road.

00:47:56One for the road.

00:48:13One for the road.

00:48:32One for the road.

00:48:41One for the road.

00:48:45One for the road.

00:49:11One for the road.

00:49:16One for the road.

00:49:26One for the road.

00:49:29One for the road.

00:49:57One for the road.

00:50:44One for the road.

00:50:47One for the road.

00:51:00One for the road.

00:51:29One for the road.

00:51:35One for the road.

00:51:51One for the road.

00:51:53One for the road.

00:51:56One for the road.

00:51:57One for the road.

00:52:03One for the road.

00:52:04One for the road.

00:52:09One for the road.

00:52:38One for the road.

00:52:48One for the road.

00:52:50One for the road.

00:52:53One for the road.

00:52:54One for the road.

00:53:27One for the road.

00:53:34One for the road.

00:53:36One for the road.

00:53:38And the killer strikes again.

00:53:41When you write the story, say that Barnes is working on this case

00:53:43undercover for the Express, he got too close to the killer

00:53:45and died in the line of duty.

00:53:48Mark, I don't know.

00:53:49Nobody can deny it, it'll help sell papers.

00:53:51We'll offer $1,000.

00:53:53Look, kid.

00:53:55Don't pin your hopes on anybody being able to spot the guy from this.

00:53:58Unless they got X-ray eyes.

00:54:00I'm sure Charlie connected the guy in the picture

00:54:02with the bird who gave him the pawn ticket.

00:54:05I'm gonna find Truth of Bowery myself.

00:54:06Even money, that's where Charlie ran into our man.

00:54:09Good luck, kid.

00:54:42Well, I got them for you, McCleary.

00:54:44Good work, Heaney.

00:55:03Well, this does it.

00:55:04I'll never touch another drop the rest of my life.

00:55:15Some of them have been sucking on the bottle already,

00:55:18but they can still stand up.

00:55:19They all knew Charlie?

00:55:20Yeah, they all knew him.

00:55:23If you give McCleary here any bum information,

00:55:26I'll brain you.

00:55:28And I might even do worse.

00:55:30No more free shots when you're seeing little red spiders.

00:55:34How many of you boys saw Charlie Barnes the day he was killed?

00:55:37Raise your hands.

00:55:38All right, raise your mitts.

00:55:39Them that seen Charlie day before yesterday.

00:55:42Good.

00:55:46Where did you see him?

00:55:47See who?

00:55:48This guy must be used to talking to mirrors.

00:55:51Charlie Barnes.

00:55:52I seen him come out of the joint where he flopped in the morning.

00:55:58You.

00:56:00Where'd you see him?

00:56:01Come to the saloon.

00:56:03What time?

00:56:04In the afternoon.

00:56:05Late in the afternoon.

00:56:07Charlie had a nice little bun on me.

00:56:09Was he with anybody?

00:56:10With anybody.

00:56:11Sure he was with somebody.

00:56:12Charlie never drank by himself if he had a little cash on him.

00:56:15Well, do you know the guy he was with?

00:56:16Certainly I know who he was with.

00:56:18Who was it?

00:56:19Me.

00:56:20He sprung me three slugs.

00:56:27When did you see him?

00:56:30When did you see him?

00:56:34This morning.

00:56:35Throw him out of here.

00:56:37Come on.

00:56:39Now is there any more jokers in the crowd?

00:56:42I seen him.

00:56:44Yeah?

00:56:45Oh, go on.

00:56:46Where'd you see him?

00:56:49On the street near Pete's Hock Shop.

00:56:52Go on, go on.

00:56:53Nothing.

00:56:54He was working a sucker.

00:56:56Giving them the palliac, that's all.

00:56:58Now think hard.

00:56:59Do you remember the sucker?

00:57:00Do you remember what he looks like?

00:57:02Maybe.

00:57:03What do you mean, maybe?

00:57:05Maybe for...

00:57:07For fifty bucks?

00:57:08Why, yeah.

00:57:10Do you think you could remember?

00:57:11For a thousand bucks?

00:57:15Who could tell who he is?

00:57:17Can you describe the man you saw Charlie with?

00:57:20Do I get a thousand dollars if I do?

00:57:24You do.

00:57:25If and when we find the guy.

00:57:27Sure.

00:57:28I can describe him.

00:57:29Go ahead.

00:57:33You paying the reward?

00:57:34No, but my boss is.

00:57:36And I'll describe him to him.

00:57:38Okay, come on.

00:57:40Rush this over here to the closing room.

00:57:43Kenny, see if you can figure out a heading for that rubbish.

00:57:56Wait here.

00:58:11Look, Lieutenant, just refer the captain to me.

00:58:14I'll tell him he's the best homicide man he ever had on the force.

00:58:16If he doesn't know that, he's deaf, dumb and blind.

00:58:19Never mind the malaki, Chapman.

00:58:21The next time you people pull a stunt like this,

00:58:23I'll throw both you and McCleary in the can.

00:58:26Okay, Lieutenant, okay.

00:58:27I'll give you my word.

00:58:29Goodbye, pal.

00:58:31Davis is screaming because we gave him the suitcase

00:58:33only a half hour before he read it in the Express.

00:58:35Well, I've got something that ought to make him happy again.

00:58:37Not another suitcase.

00:58:39The guy who can identify the man Charlie got the pawn ticket from.

00:58:47Hey, Bailey.

00:58:48Come in here.

00:58:58You wouldn't describe the guy to me.

00:59:00He needed the boss.

00:59:05You...

00:59:05Boss?

00:59:07Yeah, don't waste my time.

00:59:09Where did you see this guy with Charlie?

00:59:14Down the street near...

00:59:15Pete's Hock Shop.

00:59:18You say you can describe him?

00:59:40Well, go on. What did he look like?

00:59:51What did he look like?

00:59:52Stand up, will you?

01:00:02Yeah.

01:00:04Just how I figured.

01:00:06You figured what?

01:00:09He...

01:00:11Was your size...

01:00:16Your build...

01:00:17Could have been as old as you.

01:00:20Is that all?

01:00:22All you asked me was to describe him.

01:00:25That was no description.

01:00:26That could fit a million guys in this town.

01:00:29Even me.

01:00:30Well, how about the reward?

01:00:32Here, take this down to cashier and pick yourself up five bucks.

01:00:36Show him where it is, Steve.

01:00:38Come on, Bailey.

01:00:50Here, come on.

01:00:50That's all.

01:00:57In the house, aren't you?

01:01:01Come on, Bailey!

01:01:06We're not the only ones in this town.

01:01:06I didn't care about you.

01:01:08Maybe he needs to go.

01:01:09Maybe he's the only one in the house for me.

01:01:11I thought you said he would be a full of the caviar...

01:01:11You mean that you don't have to go.

01:01:13Get the waiting on what's going on for you.

01:01:13I thought he was gonna be right in the house.

01:01:28Baxter, where's Julie?

01:01:29She came in this morning, banged this out on her typewriter and told me to give it to Chapman.

01:01:34What is it?

01:01:35Her resignation.

01:01:36I figured I'd hang on to her today or so, maybe she'd cool off.

01:01:41I'm sure glad you did.

01:01:42I'll take care of it for you, okay?

01:01:47Baxter.

01:01:48Thanks.

01:01:59Hello, Mrs. Allison.

01:02:00Well, hello, Steve.

01:02:01Come in.

01:02:08I have a pot of coffee in the kitchen.

01:02:10I'd better see to it.

01:02:13Can I say a few words to you without getting hit with a table or something?

01:02:17Speak your piece and get it over with.

01:02:20I just got rocked with a bad piece of news, Julie.

01:02:23I heard about your resignation.

01:02:26Well, I can't imagine why you shed any tears over it.

01:02:29Well, for what it's worth.

01:02:31The resigning knocks the props out of a lot of things for me.

01:02:36That couldn't have come from Steve McCleary.

01:02:40Okay, pass it.

01:02:41But I didn't figure your burn at Chapman and me would be bigger than your wanting to do something

01:02:44about Charlie's murder.

01:02:47Don't start playing me for a hollow-headed female now, Steve.

01:02:51Your only interest in Chapman's.

01:02:53And Charlie's death is exploiting it for all the circulation jumping it's worth.

01:02:56Julie, I'm not digging on a story now just for the schoolboy bang of seeing my name over a sensational

01:03:00yarn.

01:03:01Yeah, that's right.

01:03:02I had to get hit pretty hard before I smartened up.

01:03:04But now I'm leveling on the Charlie Barnes business.

01:03:11Well, if I can believe what I'm hearing, this certainly is a different McCleary.

01:03:17I've been working night and day.

01:03:19All I've done is run the local leads to a dead end.

01:03:22There's only one gimmick left to follow.

01:03:24This picture.

01:03:25A marriage in Connecticut.

01:03:27It's odd the person who married them hasn't recognized it.

01:03:31Unless he's dead or hasn't seen the picture.

01:03:34Yeah, I thought of that angle, too.

01:03:37It's a million to one shot.

01:03:38A guy would have to be an elephant to remember a face after 21 years.

01:03:42Tell him about the elephant we met on Fifth Avenue about four years ago.

01:03:46We were walking along the street when right out of the blue a complete stranger stopped me.

01:03:51It turned out to be the little preacher who married Julie's father and me in Portland, Maine,

01:03:5623 years before.

01:03:59And he actually was able to recognize you.

01:04:02And I'd put on a little weight since then.

01:04:05They say a New Englander seldom forgets a face.

01:04:09Crazy odds.

01:04:11What can we lose?

01:04:13Yeah, get this picture to every churchman, judge, and justice of the peace in Connecticut.

01:04:18It's certainly worth trying.

01:04:20It's a big job.

01:04:21Compiling lists, checking out leads.

01:04:24Oh, it can be done.

01:04:25The two of us can handle it, Julie.

01:04:27Well, I'd like to, Steve, but I've resigned.

01:04:31I'd sooner drop dead than ask Mark Chapman for my job back.

01:04:41Oh, you dog.

01:04:42Never got past Baxter.

01:04:45A list of churches in each town is no problem.

01:04:47The judges and JPs we can get from the state legal directory in Hartford.

01:04:50Yeah, you start packing.

01:04:52Enough for a couple of weeks.

01:04:53I'm going to the office and get the lab boy started on knocking out a few hundred circulars.

01:04:56But suppose Chapman says no to my working with you on it.

01:04:58Why should he?

01:04:59Anyway, I'm not going to tell him anything until we're ready to go.

01:05:02Tonight sometime.

01:05:03Mom, you think it's safe for me to travel out of stage at night with this young man?

01:05:07Just so he doesn't misconstrue the meaning of freedom of the press.

01:05:11You wonderful woman.

01:05:12I'll check with you for dinner.

01:05:19Steve, this is shot in the dark stuff.

01:05:22Mark, more rabbit-brained ideas than this have paid off.

01:05:24Your hottest lead is right here in town where the murders were committed.

01:05:27Yeah, our hottest lead was in town.

01:05:28But it dried up like a puddle in July.

01:05:30You're looking for a mental marvel.

01:05:32Well, a guy who can recognize somebody he's seen for 15 or 20 minutes

01:05:34at a wedding ceremony he performed 21 years ago.

01:05:37How do we know he only saw him for 15 or 20 minutes?

01:05:39Maybe they were members of his church or were married by a judge

01:05:42or a justice in their own town.

01:05:44Steve, you're off on a needle in a haystack hunt.

01:05:46You can find a needle in a haystack if you look long enough.

01:05:49You don't think I'm going to let you hang around up there indefinitely, do you?

01:05:52You won't have to.

01:05:52A week, probably.

01:05:54Julie Allison's coming along to help me.

01:05:56It's all arranged.

01:05:57Oh, it's all arranged.

01:05:58And that five grand reward, you arrange that too?

01:06:00No, you did.

01:06:01Or will.

01:06:04Mark, what's eating you?

01:06:05I'm only checking out every possible angle.

01:06:07Kid, I don't want you to beat your brains out.

01:06:09We can get just so much out of this lonely heart story

01:06:11then we'll start easing it off and let it die a natural death.

01:06:14Let it die?

01:06:16Mark, we let Charlie Barnes die.

01:06:18At least we can do now is to find his killer.

01:06:22You're the guy who pounded into me.

01:06:23Never give up till you've got the story.

01:06:24I'm not quitting on this one until I've licked it.

01:06:26You can reach me at the Lenox Hotel in Hartford.

01:06:54Long distance.

01:06:56I want some information.

01:06:58A telephone number in Middlebury, Connecticut.

01:07:00The name is Hacker.

01:07:01He's a judge.

01:07:01I don't remember his first name.

01:07:03You wish to place a call at this party?

01:07:05No, no.

01:07:06Not yet, that is.

01:07:07I just want to get his telephone number.

01:07:08One moment, please.

01:07:15Hello.

01:07:15The Middlebury operator has no listing for anyone by that name.

01:07:19Oh, there isn't.

01:07:20I don't know.

01:07:21Middlebury is a small town.

01:07:23Will you ask the operator if she knows anything about Judge Hacker at all?

01:07:25Is he deceased, moved away, or what?

01:07:27One moment, please.

01:07:33Hello.

01:07:34The local operator has been in Middlebury for five years

01:07:36and knows no one by the name of Judge Hacker.

01:07:39That's all the information she can give us.

01:07:42Thanks.

01:08:00THE END

01:08:31No, Reverend, I'm afraid that's not our couple.

01:08:34You may be positive, Reverend, but you're mistaken.

01:08:37The woman in the photo we sent you is dead.

01:08:39Thank you for calling, Reverend.

01:08:44You don't have to tell me.

01:08:46It's written all over your bright and shining face.

01:08:49A hundred and ninety mile drive to have a whack hit.

01:08:52Tell me that both the people in our circular die a year ago.

01:08:55New Englanders remember all right.

01:08:58Every face is familiar to them.

01:09:02Hello.

01:09:04Oh, just a minute. Here's Steve.

01:09:06It's that man again, every day.

01:09:08Does he think we'll keep it a big fat secret if we find something?

01:09:13Yeah, Mark.

01:09:16Nothing but an aching back.

01:09:18Some interesting meetings with jelly-brained screwballs.

01:09:21You've had enough time, Steve.

01:09:22Ten days. Admit it's a dud. Come on home.

01:09:24Two more days, Mark.

01:09:26We'll stick it out to the end of the week.

01:09:28Get out of the haystack.

01:09:29It's easier to find the needles at the scene of the crime.

01:09:31I'll see you.

01:09:34Two more days.

01:09:35I don't even know myself what we're sticking around for.

01:09:39Anything there that sounds good?

01:09:42I'll read you a fair sample.

01:09:44From a J.P. Waterbury.

01:09:47Send me 5,000 and I will tell you names of people.

01:09:51New head, I'll send him.

01:09:53I've got a headache. I think I'll lie down for a while.

01:09:57Why don't you lie down here?

01:10:04Uh-uh. I'll go to my room.

01:10:13McLeary.

01:10:15Okay, put him on.

01:10:16Guy calling from Franklin.

01:10:19Hello?

01:10:20Yeah, that's right.

01:10:24You do, huh?

01:10:27You've got what?

01:10:29What is it?

01:10:30Just a minute.

01:10:31I have the other picture right before me.

01:10:34Yes, I married them July 19, 1931.

01:10:38Over in Middlebury.

01:10:40Ah, funny thing.

01:10:42What's that?

01:10:44Oh, oh.

01:10:46Judge Elroy Hacker.

01:10:48We'll be there in two hours, Judge.

01:10:50Sit tight and keep your mouth shut about this.

01:10:52Bye.

01:10:53Go on, get packed.

01:10:55He's liable to drop dead on us or something.

01:11:02No one will be there.

01:11:03Oh, hi.

01:11:09THE END

01:11:53For a man who can sit there and watch his success increasing daily, you're looking much too troubled, Mark.

01:11:58It's just that these minor problems always seem to require a major thinking.

01:12:01Perhaps we can balance the unpleasant with the pleasant.

01:12:04That conversation we had the other day about your buying company stock?

01:12:07Yeah.

01:12:08I just thought I'd tell you, I think we can swing that.

01:12:11Oh, that's fine, Mr. Madison, just great.

01:12:13Well, it doesn't seem to be any doubt you've reached that bonus figure.

01:12:16It'd be pleasant having you as a partner, so to speak, in the paper, Mark.

01:12:18Thanks.

01:12:19Good night.

01:12:20Good night.

01:12:21Good night.

01:12:29Good night.

01:12:34Good night.

01:12:43THE END

01:13:15THE END

01:13:45THE END

01:14:16THE END

01:14:19THE END

01:14:20THE END

01:14:24THE END

01:14:33THE END

01:14:35THE END

01:14:36THE END

01:15:03THE END

01:15:05THE END

01:15:06THE END

01:15:12THE END

01:15:14THE END

01:15:16THE END

01:15:18THE END

01:15:19THE END

01:15:28THE END

01:15:30THE END

01:15:31THE END

01:15:38THE END

01:15:39THE END

01:15:40THE END

01:15:42THE END

01:15:43THE END

01:15:44THE END

01:15:47THE END

01:15:49THE END

01:15:52THE END

01:16:00THE END

01:16:05THE END

01:16:06THE END

01:16:10THE END

01:16:11THE END

01:16:12THE END

01:16:13THE END

01:16:16THE END

01:16:22THE END

01:16:27THE END

01:16:28THE END

01:16:31THE END

01:16:37THE END

01:16:46CREDIT

01:16:52I'll just wait for Mr. McCleary

01:17:03He was going to put me up at his place.

01:17:05That's the first place the wolves will start paying.

01:17:07You better come with me, Judge.

01:17:09No, I don't think it would be wise for me to go with you, Mr. Grant.

01:17:14Mr. Chapman, Judge, not Grant.

01:17:17You better give your brain a rest.

01:17:18You're going to need it.

01:17:19He may be Chapman now, but 21 years ago, when I married him,

01:17:24he was George Grant, and he was a newspaper man.

01:17:28I remember now.

01:17:29He said he worked on the paper over in Waterford.

01:17:32Waterford, Connecticut, was that town I couldn't think of.

01:17:35But I knew I'd remember that voice.

01:17:38His face, you've changed.

01:17:41That it's the same man.

01:17:43You remember that $5,000 reward, though, don't you, Judge?

01:17:46Judge, this is impossible.

01:17:48You're getting confused.

01:17:49He sounds to me as though he knows exactly what he's saying.

01:17:53This is idiotic, screwball, crack-brain lunacy.

01:17:56And that's just the kind of a witness the judge is going to make, too, Steve.

01:17:59The police have that specimen of hair and flesh found under Mrs. Grant's fingernails.

01:18:04I think we'd better get in touch with Davis.

01:18:07No phone, Allison.

01:18:20No phone, Allison.

01:18:24Clary, I went for the sleigh ride.

01:18:27I practically built the pedestal for Chaplin, the great newspaper man, the great guy.

01:18:35There ought to be a special Pulitzer Prize for the world's biggest sucker.

01:18:38The Clary, just another one of your stupid slobs.

01:18:42Things happen, Steve, and then there's just no end.

01:18:44Killing my wife was an accident.

01:18:46Charlie.

01:18:47Charlie Barnes, who never hurt a fly in his life.

01:18:50A washed-up, drunken runaway who had nothing to live for against a career that was just reaching his prime.

01:18:54It wasn't an even exchange.

01:18:55You've got a great career ahead of you now.

01:18:57That's all down the drain.

01:18:58I've got to make different plans now.

01:19:00You should have started running when you got my wire, sucker.

01:19:03I gambled.

01:19:03The stakes are big enough you don't run unless there's nothing else left to do.

01:19:07Don't try it, kid.

01:19:49We're just too close, kid.

01:19:55I figured I'd find you birds here.

01:19:57You're still playing me for a pushover, aren't you?

01:20:03Steve, you remember how I told you that someday you'd run into a really great story?

01:20:08Well, this one ought to do it, huh?

01:20:10Yeah, this one will do.

01:20:13I'll give you the lead on it.

01:20:16The elusive, lonely, hard killer object of a nationwide search for the past two weeks was last night trapped in

01:20:20the office of the New York Express.

01:20:23He was apprehended due to the persistence of a reporter who learned his trade from the killer himself.

01:20:29The murderer was revealed to be Mark Chapman, managing editor of the New York Express.

01:20:36Write it up, big kid.

01:20:37It'll sell a lot of papers.

01:20:39All right, drop it, Chapman.

01:20:57All right.

01:20:59All right.

01:21:08All right.

01:21:11All right.

01:21:16THE END

01:21:43THE END

Category

Transcript

Recommended