A skip tracer repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang has stashed stolen diamonds inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
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00:00:00The End
00:01:10I want to congratulate you on your record for locating lost accounts, Hanover.
00:01:14You can be proud of it.
00:01:15Thank you, Mr. Lennigan.
00:01:16I do my best.
00:01:18Well, there are some others around here that could take a lesson from you.
00:01:22Send Jimmy Parker in here.
00:01:25This is terrible.
00:01:27Hello, boss.
00:01:28What's a good word?
00:01:29The word isn't good.
00:01:30Set it on.
00:01:36What makes you think you're a skip tracer?
00:01:39Well, because I spend my time chasing skip accounts again.
00:01:42But you don't find them.
00:01:4320 accounts last month, and you locate only three of them.
00:01:46But they're a tough one.
00:01:47All skip accounts are tough.
00:01:49That's right.
00:01:49If they weren't, we wouldn't get them.
00:01:51The stores would collect them themselves.
00:01:53Look at Hanover here.
00:01:54You never hear him squawking about tough ones.
00:01:57Out of 20 accounts last month, he locate 18 of them.
00:02:00Repossessed the merchandise in 15 cases and got cash in the other three.
00:02:04He's what I call a skip tracer.
00:02:06Yeah, I guess you'd call him that, among other things.
00:02:08What was that crack?
00:02:10I said, uh, uh, uh, I just, uh, talking out loud.
00:02:14It was a nasty habit, what?
00:02:15Well, keep your remarks to yourself.
00:02:17There's only one thing that counts around here.
00:02:19Results.
00:02:20And you better show me some in the next 30 days, or the firm will try and struggle along
00:02:24without you.
00:02:24You understand?
00:02:25Yes, sir.
00:02:26Say, uh, it's almost 6 o'clock.
00:02:28Is there anything else you want?
00:02:29Oh, yes, yes, there is, if you don't mind.
00:02:32Here are a couple of calls you can make on your way home.
00:02:34They're right in your neighborhood.
00:02:36You mean you want me to do this this evening?
00:02:37Yeah, sure.
00:02:39Now, one of these skips has a redhead named Lulu Driscoll.
00:02:41She's been dodging us for three months.
00:02:43When you talk to her, keep your mind on your work.
00:02:46Bring in her radio, or we lose this account, and that's one of our biggest.
00:02:49But I got a date.
00:02:50So what?
00:02:51You got a date with me 30 days from today to show me why I shouldn't fire you.
00:02:55Try mixing a little business with pleasure once in a while.
00:02:57It'll help your record.
00:02:59I'll expect a complete report on these two calls in the morning.
00:03:02Okay.
00:03:03Good night, boys.
00:03:04Good night.
00:03:05Good night, rodent.
00:03:10Hello, Pop.
00:03:11Oh, hello, sir.
00:03:19Hey, shut that thing off.
00:03:23I get enough of that all day in the police car without listening to it at night.
00:03:26Oh, gee, Pop.
00:03:27I want to tune in on Gangland.
00:03:29He was swell last night.
00:03:31He had the mobster on him.
00:03:33I want to see if they got away.
00:03:34Turn off that radio.
00:03:36And is it enough that your father is a cop-chasing criminal all day without you tuning in a gangster
00:03:41program?
00:03:42Now shut it off this minute.
00:03:45What's all the fuss about?
00:03:47Oh, gee, Pop won't let me tune in on Gangland.
00:03:50No, you're right, I won't.
00:03:52I get enough of that all day on a short wave.
00:03:55I want to read my paper in peace.
00:03:57Your father's right, Michael.
00:03:59Oh, yeah?
00:04:01I bet he's reading about crime right now.
00:04:03See what I tell you.
00:04:05Movie star robbed a jewel.
00:04:08You were reading that, weren't you, Pop?
00:04:10Then I guess you got me, son.
00:04:13I just can't seem to keep away from crime.
00:04:16Who was the movie star, John?
00:04:18Corrine Hill.
00:04:19Now listen to this.
00:04:21Corrine Hill robbed while sleeping.
00:04:23Wall safe is looted.
00:04:25Jewels valued at $100,000 were stolen last night from a wood-roar wall safe in the mansion of glamorous
00:04:30Corrine Hill motion picture star.
00:04:33Police stabbed the robbery at inside job and immediately questioned Stephen Brady, popular man about town, a badminton expert, said
00:04:41to be Miss Hill's fiancée.
00:04:43Brady later was released.
00:04:46John Lawrence, the star's business manager, has posted a reward of $10,000 for the return of the gems.
00:04:52Gee, Pop, why don't you catch the robbers and get the $10,000?
00:04:56Why don't you, huh?
00:04:58It's not as easy as that, son.
00:05:00Why not?
00:05:01That if I was a cop, I'd have those criminals in jail in no time.
00:05:05Say, how's about burying your badge and your gun?
00:05:09Well, I mean, I could start hunting the criminals tonight, and I'd probably have that $10,000 in the morning.
00:05:15Then I could buy a radio of my own, and I could listen to any program I wanted to.
00:05:19Say, you better stop hunting criminals and get to your homework.
00:05:22You know, if you don't get an education, you'll grow up to be a policeman, just like your father.
00:05:29Well, then I won't do my homework at all.
00:05:31Hey, don't argue with your mother.
00:05:33Get to your studies.
00:05:34All right.
00:05:35But you're just costing $10,000 right out the window.
00:05:38I could catch those criminals.
00:05:42Jesus, you're almost pretty.
00:05:44Oh, thank you, Michael.
00:05:45That's very sweet of you.
00:05:47Ow, let go of my ear.
00:05:49How do I look?
00:05:51Oh, you look lovely, dear.
00:05:53Yeah, too pretty to be going out of that Jimmy Parker.
00:05:56Now, Jimmy's a nice boy, John.
00:05:58Yes.
00:05:58And you better be putting your shoes on before he gets here.
00:06:01Me?
00:06:02Put my shoes on for a skip tracer?
00:06:04How does he rate so much?
00:06:06Hounding widders and wash women and poor working men when they can't pay their bills.
00:06:11What about yourself?
00:06:12You do a little hounding being a policeman.
00:06:14Besides, Jimmy isn't always going to be a skip tracer.
00:06:16It's only thing that you find something better.
00:06:18Then we're going to get married.
00:06:20I always said love was like a bee.
00:06:22It was just as soon light on a skunk cabbage as the sweetest rose.
00:06:26John, don't you dare call Jimmy a skunk cabbage.
00:06:29Oh, all right, all right.
00:06:30I'll take back the cabbage.
00:06:32Dad, you're terrible.
00:06:34Oh, there's Jimmy now.
00:06:36And John, you better be putting on your shoes before he gets here.
00:06:39Put them on.
00:06:40Oh, all right, sir.
00:06:42But no coat.
00:06:45Hello, honey.
00:06:47Gee, you look beautiful.
00:06:48You don't look so bad yourself.
00:06:49Here's a posy for you.
00:06:50Hope it matches that dress.
00:06:52Let's go ahead and see the folks.
00:06:54Oh, Mom.
00:06:54Hello, Jimmy.
00:06:56You looking younger every day.
00:06:58Blarney.
00:06:59You know I'm an old woman.
00:07:00No, no kidding.
00:07:01You're as young and beautiful as your daughter.
00:07:02And believe me, that's something.
00:07:05Oh, hello, Pop.
00:07:06How's crying?
00:07:07There's too much of it.
00:07:08Don't you dare kiss my hand.
00:07:11Greg said to you, my Pop.
00:07:13He ought to be on the radio.
00:07:15Oh, Pop, you shouldn't go to all that trouble just for me.
00:07:17What trouble?
00:07:18Putting on your shoes.
00:07:18That's too much formality.
00:07:21Just treat me like one of the family.
00:07:23You ready, honey?
00:07:24Good night, Mom.
00:07:25Good night, children.
00:07:26Good night.
00:07:27I'll be seeing you.
00:07:27What for?
00:07:30He kills me.
00:07:39Take off your coat.
00:07:40What is this?
00:07:41Don't ask so many questions.
00:07:42Take off your coat.
00:07:53Jimmy, where'd you get it?
00:07:54Oh, just a little thing I picked up on the way home.
00:07:56Here, put it on.
00:07:59Look.
00:08:02Genuine Japanese weasel.
00:08:03And it's yours.
00:08:04For tonight, anyway.
00:08:05I don't have to turn it in at the office till the first thing in the morning.
00:08:09Gee, it fits you, doesn't it?
00:08:10Oh, it's lovely.
00:08:12But do you think I ought to wear it tonight?
00:08:13Sure, it's perfectly okay.
00:08:14Nobody will know the difference.
00:08:16And if you like it, maybe you'll be owning it.
00:08:17If it isn't redeemed in five days, I can buy it for the balance due.
00:08:21Nothing too good for the future of Mrs. James Parker.
00:08:24How do you like that?
00:08:25I'm afraid I'm going to like it very much.
00:08:27Well, that's better.
00:08:28Come on.
00:08:33Gee, I feel sorry for the girl who lost his coat.
00:08:36So do I, but it can't be helped.
00:08:38Too many people buy things on the nothing down dollar when you're catching plans.
00:08:42Encourages dead beats and makes liars out of honest people.
00:08:44Don't you feel sorry when you take things away from people who can't pay?
00:08:47We've been all over that before.
00:08:49It's a job until I get something better.
00:08:52Speaking of jobs, I may not have this one very long if I don't get some action.
00:08:55Where are you going?
00:08:56This isn't the way to the Coconut Grove.
00:08:58I've got a business call first.
00:09:00A business call?
00:09:02Can't we ever have an evening together's auto business call?
00:09:05Now, don't you bore me out.
00:09:06The boss did enough of that this afternoon.
00:09:08Besides, I'll have this washed up in five minutes flat.
00:09:11Then we'll be on our way to fun and frivolity.
00:09:13Oh, I'm sorry, Jimmy.
00:09:14I didn't mean to snap at you.
00:09:15Oh, that's all right.
00:09:16I like to hear you pop off like that once in a while.
00:09:18It means we won't battle so much after a marriage.
00:09:20That's what you think.
00:09:22Here it goes!
00:09:35Be back in a minute, honey.
00:09:36In the meantime, have some music.
00:09:40There you are, Coconut Grove.
00:09:42Yeah, let's try and get there tonight.
00:09:43And don't let me come back here and catch you dancing with some other guy, either.
00:09:46You're a little cramp, don't you think?
00:09:58Sure, I get it, Miss Driscoll.
00:10:00You don't want to see anybody but Ronnie Cartwright.
00:10:04Okay, nobody else will get past me.
00:10:08Cheerio.
00:10:11Three Cheerios to you, handsome.
00:10:14What's on your mind?
00:10:15Would you mind giving Miss Driscoll a bit of a jingle for me?
00:10:18Tell her that Ronald is here?
00:10:20Any last names?
00:10:22Well, quite naturally.
00:10:23My father's.
00:10:24See, Miss Driscoll and myself are on, uh, shall we say, intimate hailing acquaintanceship?
00:10:29Ha, ha, ha, she calls me Ronnie.
00:10:32I get it.
00:10:33I'll tell her you're here.
00:10:35Uh, no, I, I just, another thought just occurred to me.
00:10:38Uh, I'd rather call again if Miss Driscoll has a bit of a crowd about her.
00:10:43She's alone.
00:10:44Fact is, she's expecting you.
00:10:46Then I shall jolly well go right up.
00:10:48Huh, did they?
00:10:49Cheerio.
00:10:50Cheerio.
00:10:52Cheerio.
00:10:53Cheerio.
00:10:58Cheerio.
00:11:01Come in, Ronnie.
00:11:02The door's unlocked.
00:11:22Sorry to keep you waiting, Ronnie.
00:11:24What are you doing in my apartment?
00:11:26Oh, hello.
00:11:30Just, what was the idea?
00:11:31Now, don't get sore, Miss Driscoll.
00:11:33I knocked on the door and you invited me in.
00:11:34Don't flatter yourself.
00:11:36What do you want?
00:11:37That, or the balance do on it.
00:11:39I'm from Skip Traces Limited.
00:11:42Oh, I thought you were a burglar at first.
00:11:45No, just an honest worker, man.
00:11:47Come to take your radio.
00:11:48Unless you want to pay up on it.
00:11:49Oh, I'm sorry.
00:11:50I, I'm afraid I can't pay just now.
00:11:52You see, I lost my job about four months ago and I haven't worked since.
00:11:56I should be able to make a payment very soon, though.
00:11:58I'm sorry, but the radio still has to go.
00:12:01We'll keep it in the warehouse for five days.
00:12:03If you want to redeem it, pay up.
00:12:04You're not going to take my radio.
00:12:06Now, listen, sister.
00:12:07I try to be a gentleman with you, but it looks like you want to make things tough for yourself.
00:12:11You never intended to pay us the balance anyway.
00:12:13And you changed your address five times to throw us off the trail.
00:12:16Now that we got you, the radio goes.
00:12:18You can't get away from the law.
00:12:21Oh, so you're John Law.
00:12:23Listen, four-flusher, I know my rights.
00:12:26Now, you get out of here before I call some real law on you.
00:12:28Sing it, sister, but the radio still goes.
00:12:30We'll see about that.
00:12:32Oh, please.
00:12:34Call the police.
00:12:35There's a burglar in my apartment.
00:12:37Hurry up.
00:12:39You come back here.
00:12:41Stop.
00:12:41You've got my radio.
00:12:42You come back here.
00:12:43Help, boys.
00:12:44He's got my radio.
00:12:45Help.
00:12:46Somebody stop him.
00:12:47He's got my radio.
00:12:49Stop him.
00:12:50Stop that thing.
00:12:50He's got my radio.
00:12:52Wait a minute.
00:12:52Wait a minute here.
00:12:53I'm not a thief.
00:12:54I'm an authorized agent who skipped Trace's Limited.
00:12:57I'm repossessing her radio.
00:12:58Oh, yeah?
00:12:59Where's your accent?
00:13:00The cops are coming, Miss Driscoll.
00:13:02They'll take care of this imposter.
00:13:04Let's see you cheerio your way out of this one, big boy.
00:13:07Do you know what the rules are about this thing?
00:13:09Just a minute, you.
00:13:10It's vital battery.
00:13:11I can explain everything after this.
00:13:12I was dressing, officer, and the doorbell rang.
00:13:14I thought it was a friend of mine, so I called him in.
00:13:16I can explain this whole thing, officer.
00:13:17Shut up.
00:13:18Let the lady talk.
00:13:19Well, imagine my surprise.
00:13:20When I walked into my drawing room to find this creature stealing my radio,
00:13:25I tried to stop him, but he overpowered me.
00:13:29You're not going to fall for that, are you, officer?
00:13:31She wouldn't know a drawing room if it jumped up and bit her in the ankle.
00:13:34Besides, I wasn't stealing her radio.
00:13:35Here.
00:13:36I'm James Parker of Skip Traces Limited.
00:13:38That's my card.
00:13:39This woman has been ducking us for months.
00:13:41Officer, I demand that you arrest this man.
00:13:43I'll be delighted to prefer charges.
00:13:45That's okay with me, kid, but the radio goes right on down to the police station.
00:13:48Oh, no, it don't.
00:13:49The radio stays in the lady's apartment until the judge decides who's writing Miss Branigan.
00:13:54Give it to her.
00:13:54Oh, gee, officer, I got it.
00:13:56Give the lady the radio.
00:13:59Thank you, officer.
00:14:00Now, if you'll just give me a few moments to dress, I'll be happy to accompany the headquarters
00:14:04and prefer charges against this, this boot.
00:14:07Okay, we'll wait.
00:14:08All right, bring it up.
00:14:10Hello.
00:14:11Sister, see you in jail, Ronnie.
00:14:14Come on.
00:14:14But, officer, you'll make a mistake pinching me.
00:14:17Besides, I got a date.
00:14:18You've got a date with the judge.
00:14:19Sit down.
00:14:26Steve.
00:14:27Hold that door.
00:14:32What's the idea of getting mixed up with the cops?
00:14:34Well, I was expecting Ronnie with some money and his skip tracer busted in.
00:14:38Why didn't you let him have the radio?
00:14:39No good anyhow.
00:14:40That's what you think.
00:14:41I'll show you why I didn't let him have it.
00:14:52Listen, brainless.
00:14:53It's a good thing he didn't get away with this.
00:14:55I know.
00:14:56That's why I gave him an argument.
00:14:57I figured that if he...
00:14:58Shut up and get dressed.
00:14:59You got yourself tangled with the cops.
00:15:01Now you have to go down and sign the complaint.
00:15:03But as soon as you get back, we're getting out of this place.
00:15:06Quick.
00:15:07That'll make the landlord happy.
00:15:08He asked me for the rent again today.
00:15:10Don't worry about that.
00:15:11We'll have plenty of money as soon as we get rid of these jewels.
00:15:15You hope.
00:15:23Jimmy!
00:15:25What's wrong?
00:15:27Wait a minute.
00:15:29It's just a little misunderstanding, honey.
00:15:31I've got to go down to police headquarters for a few minutes.
00:15:33Just a little matter to take care of.
00:15:35I'll be out of there before you can say Jack Robinson so we can...
00:15:37What's the conversation?
00:15:39Are you his girl?
00:15:41Why, yes.
00:15:42Okay.
00:15:43You go to headquarters, too.
00:15:44Now, wait a minute, officer.
00:15:45I'm probably an accomplice.
00:15:48Gun models, you call them, don't you?
00:15:50Well, wait a minute.
00:15:51Nobody's taking her down to any police station.
00:15:53I won't stand for it.
00:15:54Get in the car.
00:15:55I'm a taxpayer.
00:15:56Who isn't?
00:15:57Get in the car.
00:15:59In the car.
00:16:04You go to headquarters with him, miss.
00:16:08Move over, miss.
00:16:14Headquarters, wise guy.
00:16:15And no funny business.
00:16:25Unlawful entries, grand larceny, disturbing the peace, and attempted attack.
00:16:31Sure he didn't do anything else, miss?
00:16:33I think that covers everything.
00:16:35You're making a big mistake, Sergeant.
00:16:37Quiet.
00:16:38Take him on back.
00:16:39Come on, sonny boy.
00:16:40Now, wait a minute.
00:16:41Don't you worry about a thing, honey.
00:16:43You can't do this to us.
00:16:44You talk too much.
00:16:45Wait a minute.
00:16:52All right, matron.
00:16:53Take her on back, too.
00:16:54Come along, dearie.
00:16:55You can't put me in jail.
00:16:56My father's a policeman.
00:16:57Well, that ought to make you feel at home.
00:16:59Come on.
00:17:01You'll appear at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to press the complaint.
00:17:04It'll be a pleasure.
00:17:05And thank you so much, Sergeant.
00:17:07You've been very sweet.
00:17:08Oh, that's all right.
00:17:10Bye.
00:17:12Goodbye.
00:17:37Put more risk action in your store.
00:17:39Both of you.
00:17:40And watch your footwork.
00:17:41Oh, darling, you are so clever.
00:17:43I'm afraid I'll never learn.
00:17:44Well, you'll learn if he has to weigh you down to a nub.
00:17:46Don't be such a grouch.
00:17:48Exercise is good for you.
00:17:49Not at 7 o'clock in the morning, it's not.
00:17:52Let's try it again.
00:17:53All right, darling.
00:18:01This is my idea of doing nothing at all.
00:18:04So why do you do it?
00:18:08Somebody has to protect you against that crook.
00:18:10He is not a crook.
00:18:11He is a dear sweet wolf.
00:18:14I'd like to punch him on the nose.
00:18:15You're being very silly.
00:18:19I don't see what you see in that guy.
00:18:21Naturally, for a moment.
00:18:30How about a breathing spell?
00:18:32I just remembered I have an important phone call to make.
00:18:34Certainly, darling.
00:18:35I'll be back in a minute.
00:18:37All right.
00:18:43He's probably calling one of his crook friends.
00:18:46You are too suspicious.
00:18:47The police questioned Steve,
00:18:49and he had absolutely nothing to do with the stealing of my jewels.
00:18:52Even the police can be wrong, too.
00:18:54Look, John.
00:18:55You're my business manager.
00:18:56But there's nothing in our conduct that says that you can manage my heart.
00:19:01I happen to love Stephen.
00:19:02Love him?
00:19:04How can you love a man you don't know anything about?
00:19:07Stephen Brady pops up out of nowhere.
00:19:09Suddenly, he arrives in Hollywood and starts to run around with the picture people.
00:19:12Who is he?
00:19:13And what's his background?
00:19:15Why, I don't know.
00:19:17Well, why don't you find out?
00:19:18There's an extension phone over there.
00:19:20See who he's calling.
00:19:21Listen in.
00:19:22Maybe you'll learn something.
00:19:24Come on, do this a favor from me, will you?
00:19:26All right.
00:19:27We will satisfy your suspicions.
00:19:29Come on.
00:19:32Look, this is ridiculous.
00:19:34Go on.
00:19:35If I'm wrong, I'll apologize.
00:19:37All right.
00:19:39I tell you, I don't know what you're talking about.
00:19:41Save it, Steve.
00:19:42I know you've got the stuff.
00:19:44I owe you a bonus.
00:19:45Thanks for grabbing the stuff before I can get to it.
00:19:50But I'll be big-hearted about it.
00:19:53I'll let you keep 50%.
00:19:56That'll make everything even.
00:19:58What if I told the police that Duke Juergens isn't on?
00:20:01Go ahead and tell them.
00:20:03I'll be waiting for them in room 807 at the Mammoth Hotel.
00:20:07But when you do, young copper,
00:20:10be sure and tell them about that little job we pulled in Long Island last summer.
00:20:18All right, Duke.
00:20:19I'll see you in a couple hours.
00:20:21That's better.
00:20:23And when you come, be sure and bring the stuff with you.
00:20:26I know where we can turn it over quick.
00:20:29I'll be seeing you.
00:20:30And don't try any funny business,
00:20:31because I've got one of the boys failing you all the time.
00:20:37Oh, John.
00:20:38What shall I do?
00:20:39Just leave everything to me.
00:20:41And don't live on like you know a thing.
00:20:43But my public.
00:20:44I'd rather lose all my Jews than have our public find out that I was engaged to a thief.
00:20:49Don't worry.
00:20:50I know a concern that handles such matters painlessly.
00:20:54Let's get back.
00:21:01Sorry, Corrine, but I'll have to leave.
00:21:03Anything wrong?
00:21:04Yes.
00:21:05A friend of mine is quite ill and needs some financial assistance.
00:21:08Will I be seeing you for dinner?
00:21:09Sure will.
00:21:10I wouldn't miss it for the world.
00:21:11Excuse me.
00:21:21Oh, John.
00:21:22How could he do this?
00:21:25I think I'm going to faint.
00:21:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:27Take it easy, Corrine.
00:21:29Look.
00:21:29That's why there are professional people who have business managers.
00:21:32Let me do the warning.
00:21:33Oh, you're so comforting, darling.
00:21:36Kiss me.
00:21:37Huh?
00:21:39I said kiss me.
00:21:40Oh.
00:21:41I just made a discovery that's going to change my whole life.
00:21:46I love you, John.
00:21:50Conroy, you're getting soft like your friend Jimmy Parker.
00:21:53Women get the same kind of treatment as men around this outfit.
00:21:56Just because a girl made goo-goo eyes at you is no reason for not bringing in her car.
00:22:00Ah, but boy, she said she just wanted to take one more ride in the country before I took her
00:22:04car.
00:22:05Then I get out to pick some daisies for and I turn around and what happened.
00:22:08Thanks.
00:22:08She drove away.
00:22:09No excuses.
00:22:10You should take a few pointers from Miles Hanover.
00:22:13There's a young man who has lifted skip tracing to the dignity of her profession.
00:22:16He doesn't lose any skips.
00:22:18Of course he doesn't.
00:22:19You hand him all the soft jobs.
00:22:20Why, that geranium couldn't even take a car away from a boy.
00:22:23No, no.
00:22:23No.
00:22:23Why don't you do something, Conroy?
00:22:27Hello?
00:22:28Yeah.
00:22:29Put him on.
00:22:30It's John Lawrence, business manager for Corrine Hill.
00:22:33You mean the movie Queen it was robbed?
00:22:34Yeah.
00:22:36Yes, Mr. Lawrence.
00:22:36What can I do for you?
00:22:37I would like to discuss the matter in strictest confidence.
00:22:41I'll be in your office at 11 o'clock this morning.
00:22:43Fine.
00:22:44I'll be waiting for you.
00:22:46Oh, yes, indeed.
00:22:47You can depend on it.
00:22:49We can handle the matter in absolute secrecy.
00:22:51We never betray a confidence.
00:22:55Why, you'd be amazed if I were to tell you the names of some of the stars, directors, writers,
00:23:00and even producers we've had as skips.
00:23:03All right, Mr. Lawrence.
00:23:05Say goodbye.
00:23:07I'll bet it's something to do with that jewel robbery.
00:23:10Well, that's a little out of our line, ain't it?
00:23:11We don't okay crooks.
00:23:12Well, we can try, can't we?
00:23:14Sure.
00:23:16Jimmy Parker, just call Mr. Lanigan.
00:23:18Yeah?
00:23:18Where is he?
00:23:19Did he make a report on those two calls he made last night?
00:23:22No, he didn't.
00:23:22He's in jail.
00:23:24In jail?
00:23:24What for?
00:23:26Larceny, illegal entry, attempted attack.
00:23:28I quit counting at that point.
00:23:29Well, it serves him right.
00:23:30Let him stay there.
00:23:31He does.
00:23:32Oh, wait a minute.
00:23:33Where are you going?
00:23:34Back to my work.
00:23:35Back to your...
00:23:36Look here, get our attorneys on the phone right away.
00:23:39What kind of a woman are you anyway, letting Jimmy Parker stay in jail?
00:23:42And you, on your feet.
00:23:43We're going to police headquarters.
00:23:45You said it.
00:23:49And there he is.
00:23:51The wolf that kept our daughter out all night.
00:23:54But John, she was safe in jail.
00:23:58Yeah?
00:24:00Where did she get that fur coat?
00:24:02They don't shoot Japanese wreathers behind bars.
00:24:06Next case.
00:24:07James Parker, charged with unlawful entry, disturbing the peace, attempted assault and larceny.
00:24:12Also the case of Miss Mary Mulvaney, charged with being his accomplice.
00:24:17Is the complaining body Miss Lula Driscoll present?
00:24:23Miss Lula Driscoll.
00:24:26Your Honor, I represent the defendants.
00:24:29I move dismissal.
00:24:30Lack of prosecution.
00:24:32Do you have the answers to the complaining body case dismissed?
00:24:37Say, I told you they couldn't keep me in jail.
00:24:40Now what?
00:24:42Well, I'm going to call on that Driscoll woman and get that radio.
00:24:44Not me.
00:24:45Mine except for breakfast.
00:24:46The coffee in the chair is terrible.
00:24:48Okay, but remember, that Driscoll woman made you spend a night in a cell.
00:24:52Where's your fighting spirit?
00:24:54All right, I'll go with you.
00:24:56Now we're getting someplace.
00:25:08Oh, pardon me, pardon me, Mr. Parker.
00:25:10Suppose you tell me why you landed in jail.
00:25:12I ought to think you'll be disgraced in our daughter.
00:25:15Are you all right, dear?
00:25:16And where'd you get the pretty cold?
00:25:18Well, Jimmy...
00:25:19Say, was the gal with the radio good-looking?
00:25:20Did you notice how quickly the judge granted my motion for dismissal?
00:25:23Hold everything, will you?
00:25:24It's a long story, folks.
00:25:26We can't talk here, and I'll tell it to you as soon as I know the ending.
00:25:29Mom, I'm sorry about Mary, but it wasn't my fault.
00:25:31Come on, honey.
00:25:32Hey, wait a minute.
00:25:33You remember me?
00:25:34I'm your boss.
00:25:36Now, whatever you're up to, I want you to drop it and beat my office by 11 o'clock.
00:25:39You understand?
00:25:40Okay, come on, honey.
00:25:41Come on, honey.
00:25:55I wonder what Lannigan's pulling at 11 o'clock.
00:25:58Maybe they're holding a public firing for Mr. James Parker.
00:26:01You may think I'm silly, darling, but I'd be glad if he'd dig it out of the skip-tracing business.
00:26:05I have to admit, it's pretty hectic.
00:26:07Well, maybe so.
00:26:08But I hope he doesn't find me until I get that Driscoll dame's radio.
00:26:23My weasel!
00:26:24Who's the weasel?
00:26:25Now, look, that guy.
00:26:26There's a guy that took my fur coat off of me.
00:26:30And that dame with him is wearing it.
00:26:33Well, what are we waiting for?
00:26:38Fill off the coat, sister.
00:26:39Wait a minute.
00:26:40Hey, coat.
00:26:41What is this?
00:26:42I'll show you, fella.
00:26:48There you are, Duchess.
00:26:52Okay.
00:26:53Ready?
00:26:54Wait a minute.
00:26:55You can't do this to me.
00:26:56You're balling me, sister.
00:27:01What happened?
00:27:02We lost in the first round.
00:27:05And I hope Lannigan does fire you.
00:27:09Your car's here, sir.
00:27:10Or would you rather have an ambulance?
00:27:15A whiff.
00:27:18I asked you boys to drop everything and sit in on this conference
00:27:21so you can see how Miles Hanover handles something really big.
00:27:25Proceed, Mr. Lawrence.
00:27:26Well, as you know, Miss Corrine Hill's jewels were stolen.
00:27:29I came to you because...
00:27:30Because you know the boss's great record as a police detective
00:27:32before he founded this business.
00:27:34And were confident he could produce results.
00:27:36Exactly.
00:27:37But I'm puzzled as to how the jewels could have been stolen from the wall safe
00:27:40without awaiting her.
00:27:41But I came to the conclusion that...
00:27:43She'd been drugged?
00:27:44Yes.
00:27:44Yes.
00:27:45And I naturally figured that...
00:27:47It was an inside job.
00:27:48Yes.
00:27:49Yes.
00:27:50And I deducted that someone close to her had administered a sleeping potion,
00:27:53perhaps in a drink.
00:27:55And I suspected that...
00:27:56Steve Brady.
00:27:57Because he was a rest guard on the night of the robbery.
00:27:59He knew the layout of her home and enjoyed the confidence any young woman has in her fiancée.
00:28:03Right.
00:28:04Yes.
00:28:05Yes.
00:28:06Are you listening to this, Mr. Parker?
00:28:08No.
00:28:08Yes.
00:28:09You got me doing it now.
00:28:11My suspicions have been confirmed.
00:28:13No.
00:28:14No.
00:28:14No.
00:28:14Yes.
00:28:16Tell them about it, Mr. Lawrence.
00:28:17Well, this morning Steve Brady made a telephone call while playing badminton with Corrine.
00:28:22I induced her to listen in on the extension phone.
00:28:25And?
00:28:26And a party giving his name as Duke Jurgens threatened Steve Brady with dire things if he didn't split the
00:28:31loot.
00:28:32Duke Jurgens was staying at the Marmock Hotel.
00:28:34Duke Jurgens?
00:28:35Why, he's a notorious jewel thief.
00:28:37Which makes our case very simple.
00:28:39Jurgens is putting the heat on Brady.
00:28:40We wait for them to meet, close in, get the jewels, and notify the police.
00:28:43It's a cent.
00:28:44No.
00:28:45What do you mean, no?
00:28:46Well, I imagine the reason Mr. Lawrence consulted us was because he wanted to keep the cops out of it.
00:28:51After all, Steve Brady is engaged to Miss Hill.
00:28:53Was engaged to her.
00:28:55You're right about keeping the police out of it.
00:28:57She should be protected against notoriety and ridicule.
00:29:00The public should never know she was engaged to a thief.
00:29:02Hmm, I see.
00:29:03What you want to do, if possible, is recover the jewels and arrange for Steve Brady to drop quietly out
00:29:09of the picture.
00:29:09Exactly.
00:29:10I get it.
00:29:11And for this, I am prepared to pay a fee of $5,000.
00:29:13In addition for the $10,000 award payable by the insurance company for the return of the jewels.
00:29:18We'll take the case.
00:29:20Miles and others in your hands.
00:29:22You will find Mr. Hanover very efficient.
00:29:24I'll fall back in every way.
00:29:25Don't worry about a thing, Mr. Lawrence.
00:29:27I'll start right now by looking up Mr. Duke-Jurgens at the Mammoth Hotel.
00:29:37Boss, you should have given me that job.
00:29:39It's right up my alley.
00:29:39You haven't got an alley, Parker.
00:29:41And where's that fur coat?
00:29:43Oh, the fur coat.
00:29:45Well, I had it and then I didn't have it.
00:29:46Well, make up your mind.
00:29:47Oh, and how about that Frisco woman's radio?
00:29:50I'd have had it here now if you hadn't told me I had to come here.
00:29:52I'll get that radio this afternoon if it's the last thing I do.
00:29:55Right, because if you don't get it, it will be the last thing you do.
00:29:58And that goes for you and that car you let that woman get away with.
00:30:02Mr. Lanigan, you make things painfully plain.
00:30:05Oh, is that so?
00:30:06Oh, here's another little skip for you, Parker.
00:30:09One that you can handle with your eyes closed.
00:30:12A man named Brady Egan.
00:30:13Skip with an electric washer after making only one payment.
00:30:16All you've got to do is bring in $105 in cash or the washing machine.
00:30:20Don't worry about it, boss. I'll have it that...
00:30:22Wait a minute!
00:30:22It says here Egan's wanted by the police.
00:30:25Yeah.
00:30:26For breaking one collector's jaw and tossing another one through a plate glass window.
00:30:30Will you excuse me?
00:30:36Sweet fellow, the boss.
00:30:38Another soft job, Parker.
00:30:42Well, he sounded like he meant it.
00:30:43Yeah, but listen.
00:30:45If you see a blonde driving a blue Ford Coupe with license number 1T1356,
00:30:50grab it for me, will you?
00:30:51Now, this ain't much of a job, but I sure do need that wolf poison it brings in every week.
00:30:54I'll do the best I can.
00:31:11You wait right here, honey.
00:31:13I'll be back with the radio in five minutes.
00:31:14Thanks to me.
00:31:15I heard that story before.
00:31:16Try and stay out of jail.
00:31:17I'll do my best.
00:31:18Don't worry.
00:31:19This time I'm playing for keeps.
00:31:21Wait a minute.
00:31:22Thanks, pal.
00:31:34Cheerio.
00:31:35What?
00:31:36You again?
00:31:37I'd like to see Miss Lulu Driscoll.
00:31:38You're a little bit late.
00:31:39She moved out this morning.
00:31:41Whoa.
00:31:42Uh-huh.
00:31:42Probably didn't want to be bothered by any more phonies.
00:31:46Oh, that was a dirty trick I played on you last night, and I apologize.
00:31:51I'm not supposed to tell anybody who I really am.
00:31:55I'm a G-man.
00:31:56I couldn't tip my mitt.
00:31:57I'm on the trail of a mob of counterfeiters.
00:31:59Oh, who are you trying to kid now?
00:32:02No, that's on their level.
00:32:03Look, the cops pinched me last night, didn't they?
00:32:05Uh-huh.
00:32:06Well, here I am today, free.
00:32:08They just pinched me so Lulu Driscoll wouldn't be suspicious.
00:32:11No kidding.
00:32:12You mean she's one of them?
00:32:13Shh, shh, shh.
00:32:15Sure.
00:32:15And I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't mean a little money in your pocket if you remember
00:32:18where she moved to.
00:32:20There's a big reward out for counterfeiters.
00:32:22She didn't leave any address.
00:32:24No?
00:32:25Uh-uh.
00:32:25She sent all the furniture to storage.
00:32:28Remember the name of the storage company?
00:32:29Yeah.
00:32:30It was the McGinnis Storage House.
00:32:32I saw the truck.
00:32:33Did you see him take the radio?
00:32:36Say, are you sure you're not just after that radio?
00:32:40You guessed it, beautiful.
00:32:42Well, cheerio.
00:32:43Take this.
00:32:46Cheerio.
00:32:47Uh, office.
00:32:49Boy, oh boy, what a break.
00:32:51My job is safe for democracy, the sun is shining, the sweetest girl in the world by my side.
00:32:55What more could a fellow want?
00:32:57The Driscoll Radio.
00:32:59I walked right into that.
00:33:01Look.
00:33:07See that sign?
00:33:08Uh-huh.
00:33:10Let's go and see what it looks like.
00:33:12But why?
00:33:14Well, I'm a man of many impulses.
00:33:16I've got a hunch something very lucky is going to happen to me.
00:33:18Let's get married.
00:33:20Huh?
00:33:21Right away.
00:33:22On a hunch?
00:33:23Sure, why not?
00:33:24I've got 600 bucks in the back and a job that'll be safe as soon as I pick that radio
00:33:28up at McGinnis' storehouse.
00:33:30I love you, you love me.
00:33:32What are we waiting for?
00:33:33But tell me, I think...
00:33:34Don't think.
00:33:35It's bad for posterity.
00:33:36People about to plunge into matrimony shouldn't think too much.
00:33:39Come on.
00:33:42I don't know why I'm doing this.
00:33:44But I am.
00:33:45Wait a minute.
00:33:47Sorry.
00:34:02Well?
00:34:04How do you think I'd look in front of that fireplace with my cigarettes and slippers?
00:34:07Yeah, I can fix this place up real cute.
00:34:10Jimmy, furniture's so expensive.
00:34:12Oh, there's a million bargains in the paper every day.
00:34:14But we're going to pay cash.
00:34:15I'm not going to have any skip tracers moving our beds out from under us.
00:34:18Jimmy!
00:34:19Well, shall we put a deposit on the place?
00:34:21You certainly get a lot done in one day.
00:34:23Just getting a good start.
00:34:25How much did you say that was?
00:34:32You look at the furniture as well.
00:34:33I'll go in and grab that radio.
00:34:35Okay.
00:34:35Oh, I almost forgot.
00:34:37We already have one chair.
00:34:38It looked great in front of the fireplace.
00:34:40I've had it for years.
00:34:40I'll be right back.
00:34:54I'm going to skip tracers limited.
00:34:56You stored some furniture here today from Miss Lulu Driscoll.
00:34:58That's right.
00:34:59You weren't fair to it.
00:35:00Speak to the motto.
00:35:00You want a little bit?
00:35:01No, just the radio.
00:35:02Radio?
00:35:03There wasn't any radio.
00:35:05Are you sure?
00:35:06Positive.
00:35:09Well, have you got a new address?
00:35:11Leave.
00:35:15Move to 2266 model clip drive.
00:35:192266 model clip drive.
00:35:20Thanks.
00:35:21What about the furniture?
00:35:22Keep it.
00:35:34Find anything?
00:35:35This looks good.
00:35:37Death and family compels her to sacrifice five rooms of nearly new furniture at fraction
00:35:41of the original course.
00:35:43This is Brown Mill, 6775 Hathaway Drive.
00:35:46That's for us.
00:35:47Let's go.
00:35:48What about the radio?
00:35:49She didn't move the radio in with the rest of the things, but I've got a new address.
00:35:52Boy, will she be surprised to see me.
00:35:54On the way out there, we can have a look at the furniture.
00:36:03It really breaks my heart to part with all my lovely things.
00:36:06So many tender memories of my poor dear Alfred who passed away.
00:36:10Right in the prime of luck he was.
00:36:12Only 44.
00:36:15Oh, that's too bad.
00:36:18You say, uh, $350 will handle the whole thing?
00:36:22Yes.
00:36:24Excuse me just a moment.
00:36:25Someone's at the front door.
00:36:28What do you think?
00:36:30Everything's lovely.
00:36:31You're such a bargain.
00:36:32You can get plenty of bargains for cash.
00:36:35I'll make her out a check.
00:36:38How do you do?
00:36:39How do you do?
00:36:40And about that payment?
00:36:41We want to be reasonable, Mrs. Brownell, but you haven't made a payment since you bought
00:36:44the Stella.
00:36:45No.
00:36:45I'm afraid I'll have to have one of our trucks pick it up this afternoon.
00:36:48Oh, please, don't do that.
00:36:50I don't have the payment this afternoon yet.
00:36:52By five o'clock without fail.
00:36:54The insurance man is here right now with papers for me to sign to collect for Alfred's insurance.
00:36:59You knew, of course, my husband passed away.
00:37:02No.
00:37:02Oh, that's too bad.
00:37:05Makes things different, too.
00:37:07We won't hurry you, Mrs. Brownell.
00:37:09You take your time about the payment.
00:37:11Make it, uh, five-thirty.
00:37:13Even six o'clock.
00:37:14That's okay.
00:37:15Don't forget our establishment is known as the Friendly Store.
00:37:17Good day.
00:37:18Good day.
00:37:26Well, will you do these two decisions?
00:37:28Yeah, we'll take it.
00:37:29Here's your check.
00:37:30Three hundred and fifty dollars.
00:37:32And I hope you'll find as much pleasure out of it as I've had.
00:37:34Well, if I can use your phone, I'll have this stuff out here in a jiffy.
00:37:37Slutin' me.
00:37:38And while you're doing that, I'll run over to the bank.
00:37:42She trusts me.
00:37:44What about the radio and your job?
00:37:46Oh, there's plenty of time.
00:37:47It's only one-thirty.
00:37:48I'll take care of all that after we've moved into our new home.
00:37:50Just leave everything to me.
00:37:53Oh, my heirloom.
00:37:55Goes right there by the fireplace.
00:37:57Why don't you put it down easy?
00:37:59Why do you...
00:38:01Oh, boy, what a chair.
00:38:03That's been with me since college.
00:38:04It looks good.
00:38:06Don't you like it?
00:38:06Well, it isn't that I don't like it.
00:38:08It's just that it doesn't think it fit in with the rest of the brain.
00:38:10Ah, you don't like it.
00:38:11It grows like it.
00:38:12Come here.
00:38:13Give me a kiss.
00:38:14Sorry?
00:38:14Oh!
00:38:16It's almost 3.30.
00:38:17We'll just have time to get married.
00:38:19Then we'll take a nice honeymoon trip.
00:38:20The 2266 Marble Clips Drive and get that Driscoll woman's radio.
00:38:23Oh, boy, what a day.
00:38:25What a honeymoon.
00:38:26What a honeymoon.
00:38:27What a honeymoon.
00:38:28Oh, poor person.
00:38:30Oh, boy.
00:38:36Oh, boy.
00:38:40Oh, boy.
00:38:53Oh, boy.
00:38:56Oh, boy.
00:38:57Oh
00:39:51Your attention please, this is the last call, flight number 17.
00:39:57Are San Francisco, Oakland, Cortland, and Seattle.
00:40:03Plane now ready for departure at gate number 2.
00:40:09Hello, Steve. Going somewhere?
00:40:17Yeah, I was.
00:40:19You don't want to fly, fella. It's too dangerous.
00:40:29I get it. This way.
00:41:04Let's go.
00:41:32All right, sit down.
00:41:35Now, for the last time, where's the ice?
00:41:37You got it all wrong, dude.
00:41:39I didn't grab the stuff.
00:41:42Okay, Taxi, I guess you'd better work on him.
00:41:44Fine.
00:41:56See, Stevie boy?
00:41:57He keep abreast of the time.
00:42:00Taxi studied to be a dentist until he threw him out of college.
00:42:04He's going to work on you with that.
00:42:06It eliminates a lot of the rough stuff and saves a lot of time.
00:42:10A little bit of grinding with that, and you'll sing like a canary.
00:42:15Now, wait a minute, Duke.
00:42:17I tell you, I didn't grab the...
00:42:18Wait a minute.
00:42:19I think his life by custom needs a lot of attention.
00:42:22Are you going to open wide or do we have to open it for you?
00:42:24Come on, open up.
00:42:26It'll only hurt for two or three days.
00:42:28Take that thing away!
00:42:29I'll talk!
00:42:31Fine.
00:42:33That's better.
00:42:35Now, where's the stuff?
00:42:36My girl has it.
00:42:38No more disco?
00:42:39Where is she?
00:42:402266 Marble Cliff Drive.
00:42:42All right.
00:42:43We'll talk to her.
00:42:44Come on.
00:42:49Hello, Mr. Lawrence.
00:42:50This is Miles Hanover.
00:42:52The man who always gets results, but quickly.
00:42:54You said you wanted to prove to Miss Hill that Steve Brady is a crook?
00:42:57That's right.
00:42:58Well, get this.
00:43:00Go to 2266 Marble Cliff Drive in about a half an hour,
00:43:04and you'll not only find Steve Brady with his fellow crooks,
00:43:06but you'll also find him with his real girlfriend.
00:43:09I'll be nearby, so don't worry about a thing.
00:43:11Thanks.
00:43:13We'll be there.
00:43:16I was just thinking, boys.
00:43:18If Lulu hasn't got the ice, it might be necessary to play Karen and Stevie here
00:43:22for the one-way sightseeing tour.
00:43:25Don't worry.
00:43:25She's got them.
00:43:27Well, maybe we'd better pick up a car on the way out.
00:43:30We'll stop at the next market.
00:43:32Hey, taxi.
00:43:33Yeah?
00:43:34See what you can pick up on the way of a good, fast two.
00:43:37Okay.
00:44:01Hey, that's my car!
00:44:04Well, do something!
00:44:04Get the police!
00:44:06After me wasting a whole afternoon getting that car back from a skip tracer,
00:44:10then somebody has to steal.
00:44:16Dude!
00:44:23Smart..
00:44:25Bye!
00:44:26we have just an account for him to stop at the exit. See what
00:44:31they need here? Okay.
00:44:34That's
00:44:35fine. Come here!
00:44:35side! When's guessing
00:44:39this? Go! Howppy!
00:44:46Let's go.
00:45:17Police men at Primrose, 2268, Marble Cliff Drive.
00:45:21There's a peeping town looking in my bedroom window.
00:45:24I can't help it if it is daylight.
00:45:28There's a man up a tree looking in my window.
00:45:34But this time, it's the truth.
00:45:37Goodbye.
00:45:39Attention car 34.
00:45:41Attention car 34.
00:45:43Go to 2268, Marble Cliff Drive.
00:45:46I see a woman brought a man up a tree.
00:45:49Daylight keeps in town, boys.
00:45:51Go get him.
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00:48:40What's wrong with any funny stuff?
00:48:41She won't be childish.
00:48:42What did I want to get theaya with coppers for?
00:48:45Oh, that was right.
00:48:57Sorry to trouble you ma'am.
00:49:00We found this fella looking into your living room window from a tree.
00:49:03Know any reason why he'd be doing that?
00:49:05Oh, uh, yes, there is a reason.
00:49:08He's my brother.
00:49:09Your brother?
00:49:11But he said he's...
00:49:11Oh, he's liable to say anything.
00:49:13Listen, what's the idea?
00:49:14Can't I entertain a gentleman friend without you snooping around?
00:49:17So I'm over 21.
00:49:18Yeah, yeah, way over.
00:49:19And besides, I don't like the company you keep.
00:49:21First thing you know, they'll get you on a jam.
00:49:23Never mind that.
00:49:25Just a little family argument, officer.
00:49:26We'll straighten it out, won't we, dear?
00:49:28Oh, sure.
00:49:29Well, okay, but it all sounds screwy to me.
00:49:33You better stop playing squirrels.
00:49:36You might pick the wrong tree sometimes.
00:49:38He'll be safe with me, officer.
00:49:41Goodbye.
00:49:45All right, Snoopy, what's the gag?
00:49:49Thanks for making it easy, gorgeous.
00:49:51Now I'm going to give you a break.
00:49:53Give me the jeweler in.
00:49:54There will be no questions asked.
00:49:55Shh.
00:49:56Not for love.
00:49:58Follow me.
00:50:02Hey, you!
00:50:03What's the idea?
00:50:04Help!
00:50:08Smart dame, eh?
00:50:10Take him in and tie him up.
00:50:15Who's the guy?
00:50:16Hide him.
00:50:17Why'd you let him in?
00:50:18I couldn't help it.
00:50:19The cops caught him snooping, and I figured we'd better have him inside.
00:50:22He's probably a private dick that works for that insurance company that underwrote the Corine
00:50:25Hill stop.
00:50:26So what?
00:50:29You'll take it.
00:50:31Come on.
00:50:37Yes?
00:50:38How do you do?
00:50:39My name's Corine Hill.
00:50:41You may have heard of me.
00:50:42Oh, well, yes.
00:50:44I'm sorry I didn't recognize you at first.
00:50:46You look so much younger in your pictures.
00:50:48I have been told I'll find Mr. Brady here.
00:50:51Mr. Stephen Brady.
00:50:53Stephen Brady?
00:50:55Why, I'm sorry.
00:50:55I don't know the gentleman.
00:50:57Well, I'm afraid you've come to the wrong place.
00:50:58And I'm afraid you're not a very good liar.
00:51:02Just a minute.
00:51:03What is this?
00:51:04You say you don't know Steve Brady?
00:51:05That's what I said.
00:51:07Well, what's his picture doing on the radio?
00:51:11Okay, mister.
00:51:13So that's Steve Brady's picture.
00:51:15You mean to tell me that he's a friend of yours?
00:51:19Sorry, sister.
00:51:20He likes my acting better than yours.
00:51:23Always has.
00:51:25Boys.
00:51:31Why, Stephen, what is the meaning of this?
00:51:34I'm sorry, Corine, but this isn't my party.
00:51:36To think that I want fancy.
00:51:38I'm fond of you.
00:51:40John, take me home.
00:51:41Why, of course, honey.
00:51:42Say where you are.
00:51:43What do they want and how did they get here?
00:51:45Search me.
00:51:46Well, I take him and back and tie him up with the other monkey.
00:51:49Okay.
00:51:49Back here.
00:51:50Look at that, brother.
00:51:51Get back there.
00:51:52But I am calling you.
00:51:53You are, babe.
00:51:53I know, but I don't want your autograph.
00:51:55Get back.
00:52:01Well, right, I'm through fooling.
00:52:04Now, did you or didn't you mail that stuff up to San Francisco?
00:52:08What if I didn't?
00:52:11Listen.
00:52:12Have you been pulling a fast one to save a few jewels
00:52:15when you know it'd be curtains for us?
00:52:17What guarantee have we that we'll be around if we give Duke the ice?
00:52:21You've got my word.
00:52:23Don't make me laugh.
00:52:25Don't you see, darling?
00:52:26We're safe as long as we keep the jewels.
00:52:27He won't dare pull anything.
00:52:29Let's give a 24-hour start, and I'll send you word where you can find the stuff.
00:52:32Nothing doing, smart girl.
00:52:35That stuff is around here someplace.
00:52:37Hey, boys.
00:52:42Try these two up and store them in the back of that hot car.
00:52:45Okay, Duke.
00:52:46After you, folks.
00:52:48Don't worry, honey.
00:52:49They won't do a thing to us.
00:52:50That's what you think.
00:52:52All right, boys.
00:52:53Take them away.
00:52:54Then come back, and we'll find that stuff we have to tear this house apart.
00:53:01Well, Mrs. Parker, how do you feel?
00:53:03I feel much better when you've picked up that radio, and we can settle down to a plain and
00:53:06normal existence.
00:53:08Sleep for a couple of hours.
00:53:09Practically done, sweetheart.
00:53:17There it goes again.
00:53:18Must be a little homely.
00:53:21You fellas stay out of sight.
00:53:22I'll take it.
00:53:31I'm James Parker from Skip Tracers Limited.
00:53:33I want to see Miss Lulu Driscoll.
00:53:36Sorry, she's out right now.
00:53:37I don't know what time she'll be back.
00:53:38Could you call later?
00:53:39No deal.
00:53:40I came here to get the radio, and it goes with me now.
00:53:42Otherwise, I'll have cops here in five minutes.
00:53:44Okay, fella.
00:53:45You get no argument from me.
00:53:47Go ahead and take it.
00:53:48I mean, don't blame me if that sister of mine gets in your hair.
00:53:50Thanks.
00:53:50She got in my hair last night.
00:53:52Where's the radio?
00:53:53In there.
00:53:58We had a lot of trouble getting this.
00:54:04Oh.
00:54:05Here's a card that'll give your sister instructions if she wants to pay what she owes.
00:54:08Thanks.
00:54:09So long.
00:54:10So long.
00:54:22So long.
00:54:26Well, honey, I got it.
00:54:27Well, Anakin's face be right when I walk in and bounce this baby on his desk.
00:54:39Here, the tool kit fell out.
00:54:41Tool kit?
00:54:42I never heard of a radio having a tool kit before.
00:54:48Well?
00:54:53Boy, oh boy.
00:54:54What's the matter?
00:54:55Do you see what I see?
00:54:57Diamond.
00:54:58Sure.
00:54:59And they're Corrine Hills or I'm crazy.
00:55:01This is a $15,000 reward for them.
00:55:04$10,000 from the insurance company and five more if there's no publicity.
00:55:07Boy, they're only in the chips.
00:55:08That little Driscoll is mixed up in me.
00:55:09Sure, she's mixed up in this deal.
00:55:12That picture I took off the radio.
00:55:13That was Steve Brady.
00:55:14The guy that was with Corrine Hill the night her diamonds were stolen.
00:55:17No wonder that Driscoll Dane beefed about me taking a radio.
00:55:20No wonder she had me pinched last night.
00:55:22Come on, let's get out of here.
00:55:27Look.
00:55:28What?
00:55:28That car.
00:55:29That's a skip car Bill Connery is looking for.
00:55:311-P-1-3-5-6.
00:55:33Boy, this is our lucky day.
00:55:34Look, honey, you drive my car and I'll take that one.
00:55:37Now, you go back to our apartment and wait for us and don't move out of the place until I
00:55:39come for you.
00:55:40I'm going to get these back to Corrine Hill and collect.
00:55:42But give me a...
00:55:42Don't ask questions.
00:55:43Hurry.
00:55:47Well, I guess the stuff ain't here.
00:56:02Somebody's cupping the hot car.
00:56:04What?
00:56:04If they get away with Steve and Lolo, they'll never get the stuff.
00:56:07Come on.
00:56:49There's another one.
00:57:09I'm calling all cars.
00:57:11Attention to all motorcycles.
00:57:13Go to Wiltshire Boulevard at once.
00:57:15Intercept two speeding cars headed east, now being followed by police car number 34.
00:57:49See if you can plug one of his tires.
00:57:51Don't shoot him in the back of that car.
00:57:53I want Steve and Lolo alive.
00:57:55Can't get in from me.
00:58:05They're shooting.
00:58:06Yeah.
00:58:29What are you reaching for, fella?
00:58:31I repossessed that car.
00:58:33I'm telling you made a mistake, pal.
00:58:35That's my car.
00:58:36You don't look like any blue-eyed blind to me.
00:58:52Come on.
00:58:53Come on.
00:58:53Come on.
00:58:53Come on.
00:58:53Break it up.
00:58:54Come on.
00:58:55Move.
00:58:56Oh, so it's you.
00:58:58Hello, Pop.
00:58:58Don't pop me.
00:58:59You're under arrest.
00:59:01What for?
00:59:01We're breaking all the traffic laws and the bookman driver's stolen car.
00:59:04Oh, I didn't steal that car.
00:59:06That's a skip account job.
00:59:07I repossessed it along with his sister's radio.
00:59:09Oh, yeah?
00:59:10Then why was he and these pals shooting at you?
00:59:12What about it, fella?
00:59:13Why, you ask me?
00:59:14I wasn't doing any shooting.
00:59:16You can search me if you think I'm carrying the rod.
00:59:18Oh, smart, ain't you?
00:59:19As though I didn't see you and your pals crush your guns out of the car.
00:59:22Now, where is this radio that you say you repossessed?
00:59:25In my car.
00:59:26Open up the back of that car and see if he's telling us the truth.
00:59:28Oh, that isn't my car.
00:59:29We know that.
00:59:30Open it up.
00:59:39There's a couple of bodies in here.
00:59:40And he probably killed them.
00:59:49So you're a kidnapper, too, huh?
00:59:51Now, wait a minute.
00:59:52This is going far enough.
00:59:53I was supposed to keep the cops out of this on account of publicity.
00:59:56But fun seems to be fun when my own father-in-law calls me a kidnapper.
00:59:59Now, that's Steve Brady, the guy that stole Corrine Hill's jewels.
01:00:03And that's Lulu Driscoll, his gun model.
01:00:04And the other three fellas were in on it, too.
01:00:06They must have stolen this car from our skip account.
01:00:08And that's the truth, Pop.
01:00:10You're crazy.
01:00:11And you're not my son-in-law.
01:00:13All right.
01:00:14I'll prove one thing at a time.
01:00:16There's the jewels.
01:00:19And if you want to look over their hideout, go to 2266 Marble Cliff Drive.
01:00:232266 Marble Cliff Drive?
01:00:24I was there once before today to see about a man up a tree.
01:00:27I know it.
01:00:2910,000 bucks.
01:00:31All right.
01:00:32Take it out.
01:00:32All right, you guys.
01:00:33Let's go.
01:00:33Come on.
01:00:34Get going.
01:00:35Come on.
01:00:36You, too.
01:00:38Don't push.
01:00:38Well, come on.
01:00:39Great work, my boy.
01:00:40Of course, you'll get the $10,000 reward, and I'm going to open a new department.
01:00:44Lost wills and missing heirs, and you're going to be in charge of it.
01:00:47Oh, that's swell, boss.
01:00:49That's a great wedding present, isn't it, Pop?
01:00:51Wedding present?
01:00:52What do you mean?
01:00:53Your daughter became Mrs. James Parker this afternoon.
01:00:55Pop, I want you to come over and see us any old time you feel like it.
01:00:58He can take his shoes off, too, can't he?
01:01:00Oh, sure.
01:01:04You were right about that house on Marble Cliff Drive being a hideout.
01:01:07We found these three there.
01:01:09Hanover, were you in that house?
01:01:10Yes, indeed.
01:01:11And, uh, what's more, I'm about to recover Miss Hill's jewels for you.
01:01:13Are you crazy?
01:01:14I'll show you how crazy I am.
01:01:16I, uh, see you repossessed Miss Driscoll's radio.
01:01:19That's right.
01:01:19Well, what you didn't know was the jewels were hidden inside that radio all the time.
01:01:23No fool.
01:01:24Yes, indeed.
01:01:24Watch closely.
01:01:31They must be here.
01:01:32I saw Miss Driscoll put them here.
01:01:33She did.
01:01:34I took them out.
01:01:38Here are your jewels, Miss Hill.
01:01:39I'm sorry I couldn't get them back to you without the cops butting him giving you all this publicity.
01:01:44The publicity has been simply marvellous.
01:01:47My press agent tells me I made front page in every paper in the country.
01:01:51But Mr. Lawrence wanted to protect you from all publicity and notoriety.
01:01:54Oh, John, it's old fashioned.
01:01:56He doesn't realise that publicity is the lifeblood of an important star.
01:02:01Oh.
01:02:02Hmm.
01:02:04You dear, brave boy, you'll...
01:02:07Do you mind if I kiss you?
01:02:10Just one little kiss.
01:02:18Don't have to speak to my wife.
01:02:29Wait a minute.
01:02:30I gotta carry you over the threshold.
01:02:34The switch is on the left there, honey.
01:02:35Wait.
01:02:37They're gonna be just as cozy as a couple of bugs in earth.
01:02:51What is this?
01:02:52Search me.
01:03:09Your furniture has been repossessed by Skip Tracer's laminate.
01:03:12Oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:03:13Looks like your sins have caught up with it.
01:03:14I swear, dad.
01:03:20Ah,人民!
01:03:22Ha ha ha...
01:03:24Oh, ho ho.
01:03:28Uw...
01:03:29Uw...
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