Discover The Fatal Hour, a classic 1940 crime thriller featuring Boris Karloff as James Lee Wong, a detective drawn into a dangerous investigation following the murder of a San Francisco police officer.
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As Captain Bill Street seeks justice for his murdered colleague, Mr. Wong and reporter Bobbie Logan help uncover a network of smugglers, deception, and suspicious deaths. What begins as a murder investigation develops into a compelling mystery filled with unexpected twists.
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As Captain Bill Street seeks justice for his murdered colleague, Mr. Wong and reporter Bobbie Logan help uncover a network of smugglers, deception, and suspicious deaths. What begins as a murder investigation develops into a compelling mystery filled with unexpected twists.
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00:00:32Hello Mike. What's new? Got anything for the afternoon edition?
00:00:37No, nothing new. Tell a king his nemesis is out here.
00:00:41Now Miss Logan, maybe you'd better drop back a little later.
00:00:45Cap Street's tied up on a very important case.
00:00:50That's alright.
00:00:51An important case, huh?
00:00:53So the boys get a fast call. Put in a wreck the car and when they get down there it's
00:00:56just another family quarrel.
00:00:59How many times have I told you not to bust in my office?
00:01:01I can't tell louder than you can, Bill Street. I want some news.
00:01:03Of course, you know Miss Bobby Logan of the Herald.
00:01:05Little gal gets all the medals for digging up the bodies.
00:01:08Check with those fingerprints, will you?
00:01:09Right. Well, goodbye.
00:01:13A polite policeman.
00:01:15Oh, come on, Bill. Give me a story.
00:01:17You know I've got to have something for the afternoon edition.
00:01:19Everything is peaceful and quiet. I have nothing for the afternoon edition. Now scram.
00:01:23Captain, the coroner phoned.
00:01:26They've just taken Dan Grady to the morgue.
00:01:29They fished him out of the bay about an hour ago.
00:01:32Murdered.
00:01:46Well, he's going to take this pretty hard, Mike.
00:01:49Sure. Him and Dan was just like brothers.
00:01:52Yes, I know.
00:01:55What makes you think they tried to hide his body, Doc?
00:01:58Well, in the first place, you know where it was found.
00:02:00Lost ashore down the bay.
00:02:03Lungs were collapsed.
00:02:04That means the body was under water pressure for some time.
00:02:08This was tied around the ankles.
00:02:10And there were deep bruises.
00:02:13Tied a weight on them and threw them overboard.
00:02:15That's right, Bill.
00:02:16After the bullets had done their work.
00:02:18Yeah.
00:02:19Did you get them over to ballistics?
00:02:20Mm-mm.
00:02:22There's the clothes he had on.
00:02:23Take a look.
00:02:28Seaman's outfit.
00:02:31Andy, check these clothes and see if you can find out where he bought them.
00:02:35Thanks a lot, Doc.
00:02:37I'll check with you later about Dan.
00:02:42Bye, Bill.
00:02:46Is this the whole department with the jill, Bill?
00:02:50Hit me a little harder than the rest.
00:02:52Dan and I were together as kids.
00:02:54Took a training together.
00:02:56Pounded the same beat.
00:02:58Yes, I know.
00:03:00You say he was on a smuggling detail.
00:03:02Yes.
00:03:04That ought to lead us to something.
00:03:05Nothing unless he was following a hot trail.
00:03:08You know, Grady.
00:03:09He always preferred to work lone wolf on a case.
00:03:12Well, it's in my department now, Chief.
00:03:14It's homicide.
00:03:16Yes, and you have command of every resource of the department.
00:03:20I may need it.
00:03:21Because I want to find out who killed Grady if it's the last thing I do.
00:03:24I know you will, Bill.
00:03:25And good luck.
00:03:26Thanks.
00:03:44I'm sorry.
00:03:46I wish I could help.
00:03:48Thanks, Bobby.
00:03:50It's funny, but somehow I can't realize it.
00:03:54Does his wife know?
00:03:56Molly?
00:03:57No, not yet.
00:03:59Poor kid.
00:04:02Say, you can help me at that if you want to.
00:04:04Of course.
00:04:05Anything.
00:04:07Go on out to Molly's and break it to her as easy as you can.
00:04:12She doesn't know me very well.
00:04:14You're the one to tell her.
00:04:17Well, it's a woman's job.
00:04:19Okay, Bill.
00:04:32I came just as soon as I heard the news.
00:04:35Am I glad, Wong.
00:04:36I sure can use you.
00:04:38Unfortunately, I can't call you in on this case officially.
00:04:41I'm more or less doing it on my own.
00:04:43I'll do everything I can to help.
00:04:46Dan Grady was my friend, too.
00:04:49Thanks.
00:04:50You know what it means to me.
00:04:51I'm not too fast with your facts.
00:04:54You know, the only reason I've been useful in the past was because in each case the Orient was involved.
00:04:59Well, Dan Grady was a sign of the smuggling detail.
00:05:02And smuggling in San Francisco means the Orient.
00:05:06Let's have a look at his office.
00:05:08Good.
00:05:13Wife and kid.
00:05:19You say he was working on a smuggling detail.
00:05:22Yes, sort of a roving commission.
00:05:25The reason they gave it to Dan is because he was born and raised here in San Francisco.
00:05:29He knew every nook and cranny.
00:05:31But the seamen's clothes would indicate that he was working on something at the waterfront.
00:05:36Yeah, but what?
00:05:41Warren, look here.
00:05:43What is that?
00:05:50Why, that's a rare piece of emerald jade.
00:05:52As finest specimen as I've ever seen.
00:05:55Carved in the fashion of the Ming Dynasty.
00:05:58Why, the art of that carving has been lost for hundreds of years.
00:06:01This piece is worth two or three thousand dollars.
00:06:03Really?
00:06:05Dan was sure working on something hot.
00:06:09Probably that's why he was killed.
00:06:16Yes.
00:06:17I have seen many similar in the past three months.
00:06:21From the captured provinces.
00:06:24Even so.
00:06:26From the ruined temple of Lao Chi.
00:06:30Is it not so?
00:06:33Torn from their settings.
00:06:35By alien hands.
00:06:38Even young China would not use such methods.
00:06:42To win its wars.
00:06:46Where did you obtain this?
00:06:49It was in the drawer of the desk of the policeman who was killed.
00:06:54A policeman?
00:06:55A good man.
00:06:57Can you help me?
00:07:00A store called Belden's is on Market Street.
00:07:03There.
00:07:04A wise man.
00:07:06Could become more wise.
00:07:22How do you do?
00:07:23I'm Mr. Belden.
00:07:24Something I can do for you?
00:07:25I'd like an appraisal on this piece.
00:07:28Why certainly.
00:07:32Hmm.
00:07:34A most unusual piece.
00:07:37The coloring is magnificent.
00:07:39But I'm afraid I can't appraise its real value.
00:07:42But I understood you specialized in oriental jewelry and art objects.
00:07:47No.
00:07:47Only imitations.
00:07:49We haven't a piece of jewelry in the house worth over fifty dollars.
00:07:52I'm afraid you've come to the wrong place.
00:07:55So it would seem.
00:08:04Good morning then.
00:08:10I suggest you try Harrington's over on Kearney.
00:08:13They handle that class of merchandise.
00:08:15Thank you for your time.
00:08:16Not at all.
00:08:17I'm sorry I couldn't help you.
00:08:18I'm sorry I couldn't help you.
00:08:31I think the wrong place was.
00:08:36Oh man.
00:08:36Not at all.
00:08:37Mr. Belden.
00:08:37You're going to do that.
00:08:38I've got a follow-up.
00:08:38I've got to get a friend.
00:08:40Mr. Belden.
00:08:42This guy.
00:08:44Mr. Belden.
00:08:45I was going to be wrong.
00:08:46I was at the boss.
00:08:47Mr. Belden.
00:08:48I am sure I was just,
00:08:4912 o'clock noon.
00:08:5012 o'clock noon, huh?
00:08:52You don't say.
00:08:53Yeah.
00:08:53At that time, he'd been lying dead for three hours in the morgue.
00:08:57Yeah?
00:08:58Yeah.
00:08:59Why, he'd sworn on a stack of Bibles.
00:09:00That was the guy.
00:09:01Sure, I know, Mr. Unifer.
00:09:02We all make mistakes sometimes.
00:09:04Well, thanks for coming in anyway.
00:09:05Oh, not at all, Inspector.
00:09:07Not at all.
00:09:07Say, maybe it was the guy's double.
00:09:09Yeah.
00:09:10You know, they say every guy's got a double.
00:09:11Sure.
00:09:12Even me.
00:09:13Sure.
00:09:13Even you.
00:09:14Yeah, sure.
00:09:20Mike, get Bobby Logan on the phone.
00:09:22Yes, sir.
00:09:25Market 6-400.
00:09:29Hello, Bobby.
00:09:30I was just trying to get you on the phone.
00:09:31Oh, are we going someplace?
00:09:33Yeah, you're going someplace.
00:09:34If you ever pull a bright idea like that again.
00:09:36Well, what's the matter with that?
00:09:38Somebody might be able to give you a lead.
00:09:39Somebody might be able to give me a lead.
00:09:41I've had every crank in San Francisco in here this afternoon.
00:09:45Yeah.
00:09:46Logan doesn't answer.
00:09:47Where do you think I ought to look for her?
00:09:48Try my office.
00:09:50Huh?
00:09:52Every one of them has seen Dan Grady in five different sections of the city at the same time.
00:09:56Well, but he...
00:09:56But nothing.
00:09:57You see that guy that just went out of here?
00:09:59Yes.
00:09:59He was on the bus today at noon with Dan.
00:10:01Well, that's silly.
00:10:02Of course it's silly.
00:10:03But I've had to talk to those ghosts.
00:10:05That's what your idea's done.
00:10:06Wasted my whole afternoon.
00:10:09Yeah, Mike.
00:10:10A gentleman out here says he saw Detective Grady.
00:10:13What?
00:10:14Miss Logan will interview him.
00:10:16Well, did you hear it?
00:10:17Just faintly.
00:10:18Go on.
00:10:18He's your witness.
00:10:25Are you Mr. Lyons?
00:10:26Yes.
00:10:27Oh, I'm Miss Logan of the Herald.
00:10:29I put that picture in the paper.
00:10:30Oh, how do you do?
00:10:31Well, I saw the man last night.
00:10:34Are you sure?
00:10:35Certainly.
00:10:36We talked for quite a while in the bar at the Club Neptune.
00:10:39Good afternoon, Miss Logan.
00:10:41I came in answer to your advertisement.
00:10:43Oh, now look, Mr. Wong.
00:10:49Now give me the details and talk fast.
00:10:52Hello.
00:10:53Did you get any information?
00:10:54I called on a little friend of mine in Chinatown
00:10:57who advised me to investigate Belden's store on Market Street.
00:11:01Belden's?
00:11:02You know, the jewelry shop.
00:11:03Oh, sure.
00:11:04I'll put a couple of men on it.
00:11:05No, I think I'd leave things the way they are for the time being.
00:11:09Bill Street, I've got him!
00:11:10Got who?
00:11:11This man did see Dan Grady.
00:11:12Now look, Bobby, we've been all through that.
00:11:14But this man is positive.
00:11:16All right, if he's so positive.
00:11:17What was he wearing when you saw him?
00:11:19Well, sort of like a sailor.
00:11:21You know, a pea jacket, striped sweater.
00:11:24He had on dungarees, pea cap with black patterned leather visor.
00:11:30Where'd you see him?
00:11:31At the Club Neptune.
00:11:32He was sitting at the bar having a drink.
00:11:35What time was that?
00:11:36About 8.30, I guess.
00:11:39That fits in, doesn't it, Wong?
00:11:40Yes, it does.
00:11:42Well, of course it does!
00:11:43Silly idea, huh?
00:11:44If it hadn't been for that paper!
00:11:47You're quite sure this is the man?
00:11:48You're absolutely certain of your identification?
00:11:51Oh, yes.
00:11:52My drink happened to tip over and spilt on him.
00:11:55And I apologized, and we got to talking.
00:11:58And then what happened?
00:11:59Well, we talked together for a couple of minutes about football and things like that.
00:12:05Then I left and went home.
00:12:07You left him at this Club Neptune?
00:12:08Yes, he was still sitting there when I left.
00:12:11Well, thank you very much.
00:12:12You've been a great help.
00:12:13Well, is there, uh, any reward connected with this?
00:12:18Well, you see, uh, Miss Logan takes care of that.
00:12:24Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Lyons.
00:12:27I'm afraid there's no reward.
00:12:28But, well, I'd be very glad to mention your name in my next story of the case.
00:12:32Uh, did you say your first name was Homer?
00:12:34Uh, yes, Homer.
00:12:36L-Y-O-N-S.
00:12:40Too bad you haven't got a picture.
00:12:42Oh, I have.
00:12:43I brought one along just in case.
00:12:45Oh, thank you very much, Mr. Lyons.
00:12:48Good day.
00:12:51Well, Bell Street, do I get an apology or don't I?
00:12:54Sure, I'm going to get the mayor to give you a key to the city.
00:12:56Hmm, terrific.
00:12:57The police thanked the Herald for giving them their only clue.
00:13:01How's that, Mr. Wong?
00:13:02Not nearly strong enough.
00:13:03You've earned our undying gratitude.
00:13:05Well, I hope the information is some use to you.
00:13:08I'll see you later.
00:13:09Not me, Flatfoot.
00:13:10Get one of the nurses out of the receiving hospital.
00:13:12They don't mind a pain in the neck.
00:13:14Hey, you think that's a bad idea?
00:13:18Well, now, Street, just what do you know about the Club Neptune?
00:13:21Oh, not much, Wong.
00:13:24We'd better have dinner together.
00:13:25I'll take you down there later.
00:13:26I want to talk to this Harry Lockett.
00:13:28Harry Lockett?
00:13:29Yeah, he's the fellow that owns the Club Neptune.
00:13:31Hardway Harry, they call him.
00:13:33Hardway?
00:13:34Poor gambler.
00:13:35Yeah, gambler, smuggler, crook, everything.
00:13:38All right, sir.
00:14:11I think you know how are things upstairs usual crowd not much play you
00:14:17as Tanya come in yet tonight I want to see you when she comes in
00:14:54to try my team
00:15:01well love don't you recognize anything
00:15:05What?
00:15:06I'll bet you don't even know what day this is.
00:15:08Of course I do.
00:15:10It's Friday.
00:15:11That's why you insisted upon coming here for a fish dinner.
00:15:13Oh, no, it isn't.
00:15:15We came here because this is an anniversary.
00:15:25What is it?
00:15:29Tanya's here.
00:15:30But she's got young Bellin with her.
00:15:32She's starting that over again, eh?
00:15:34Bring it in.
00:15:35Okay.
00:15:38Listen, Tanya.
00:15:40I've been lying awake nights planning our future together.
00:15:43I realize that I haven't much to offer you, but...
00:15:46I'll try awfully hard to make you happy.
00:15:55Oh, excuse me, Frank.
00:15:57I think I better go fix my makeup.
00:15:59Surely.
00:16:22What do you want?
00:16:23I thought I told you to keep away from young Bellin.
00:16:26And I told you that my personal affairs are none of your business.
00:16:30What are you trying to do?
00:16:31Get the old man on our neck?
00:16:33Keep away from that boy or I'll...
00:16:35Or what?
00:16:37I guess if I'm good enough to help handle his smuggled junk,
00:16:40to run the risks that he cashes in on,
00:16:42I'm fit company for his son.
00:16:44Well,
00:16:44what about a certain other gentleman?
00:16:52Frank Bellin wants to marry me.
00:16:55So?
00:16:56He's got a bed, eh?
00:16:58Wait until his old man hears that.
00:17:00If you open your mouth to make trouble for that boy.
00:17:03So blow me down.
00:17:05You have really fallen for it.
00:17:07Maybe.
00:17:08Or maybe it's just the novelty of finding someone who's decent and on the level.
00:17:15Come on.
00:17:16Come on.
00:17:17Have some sense.
00:17:18Get the boyfriend out of here and keep him out.
00:17:20We're not in any spot to invite trouble, girlie.
00:17:37I, I seem to have developed a headache, Frank.
00:17:41Maybe it was a drink.
00:17:42Oh, I'm sorry.
00:17:43Well, maybe some fresh air will do you good.
00:17:45Shall we take a drive?
00:17:46Yes.
00:17:59Let's go.
00:18:00Hello, everybody.
00:18:01Well, ain't it grand we can all be together?
00:18:03Tommy, give me my usual.
00:18:05You know, that good old double.
00:18:09Well, yeah, I know you.
00:18:11You're Logan of the Herald.
00:18:13Don't you remember me?
00:18:14I'm the guy you wrote about in that audible field accident.
00:18:17You know, in those days, I was a drinking man.
00:18:20Aren't you going to have your dinner?
00:18:22What dinner?
00:18:23The one you ordered.
00:18:25I ordered dinner?
00:18:26I'm sure you did.
00:18:28Well, just get it.
00:18:29And I know you can handle your drinks better if you have something to eat.
00:18:34I think you got something to eat.
00:18:36Don't go away.
00:18:38You know, I always forget to eat when I go out to step it.
00:18:42I'm awfully sorry.
00:18:43Oh, that's all right.
00:18:44He was just feeling hospitable.
00:18:46Hmm.
00:18:46That's easy to understand.
00:18:48The Club Neptune feels the same way, Miss Logan.
00:18:51Gee whiz, I'm famous.
00:18:53Who wouldn't recognize that pretty face of yours if they read the Herald?
00:18:59I'm Harry Lockett.
00:19:01I'm very glad to meet you.
00:19:03I've heard a lot about you and your Club Neptune.
00:19:06So it seems, judging from today's Herald.
00:19:09Oh, you don't sound pleased.
00:19:10I'm not.
00:19:11I don't like that publicity.
00:19:13You don't?
00:19:14No.
00:19:16How about a little chat in my office?
00:19:19Why not?
00:19:33I think I'll take a look around the back.
00:19:35All right, I'll see you inside.
00:19:47You see, Miss Logan, we don't like newspaper people around here.
00:19:52I see your point.
00:19:55You know, if you had this place soundproof,
00:19:57those poker chips up there wouldn't make such a racket.
00:20:00Just a little friendly advice.
00:20:02Thanks.
00:20:03And here's some for you.
00:20:05I wouldn't write any more stories about the Club Neptune if I were you.
00:20:09Are you trying to tell me what to put in the Herald?
00:20:11I'm trying to tell you what you shouldn't put in the Herald.
00:20:14In fact, I just as soon as you stay out of here, I think you'll be safer.
00:20:21Sometimes some people get hurt.
00:20:23Yeah, Dan Grady got hurt, didn't they?
00:20:27Hey, you're sure as to cut your neck, don't you, little girl?
00:20:36Who is it?
00:20:37Captain Street.
00:20:43What are you doing here?
00:20:44Mr. Lockett was just making some suggestions as to the news policy of the Herald.
00:20:48All right, Bobby.
00:20:49Well, now, look here, Bill Street.
00:20:50Come on, come on.
00:20:55Hello, Hardway.
00:20:56Come on, Capit.
00:21:03Have a drink?
00:21:04No, thanks.
00:21:11What's on your mind, Street?
00:21:13I suppose you read about Dan Grady.
00:21:15Oh, yes, yes.
00:21:16That's too bad.
00:21:17I don't think I knew him.
00:21:19I thought everybody on the waterfront knew Grady.
00:21:22He was on the smuggling detail.
00:21:24It's funny you didn't run into him.
00:21:26I resent that street.
00:21:27I resent what happened to Dan Grady.
00:21:29Quit stalling, Hardway.
00:21:30He was in this place last night at 8.30.
00:21:32It's your bar.
00:21:33Well, maybe he was.
00:21:34So but a lot of other people.
00:21:36We had a big night last night.
00:21:38And nobody saw Dan Grady.
00:21:39None of my boys did.
00:21:41Because as soon as I saw the papers, I asked all of them.
00:21:44You can talk to them yourself.
00:21:46Maybe I will.
00:21:55I'll see you in the light.
00:21:56You're right.
00:21:57Over there.
00:22:49Come in.
00:22:53Come in.
00:22:54Don't pay any attention to me if I seem a little tough, Harry.
00:22:58Dan happened to be a pal of mine.
00:23:01His body washed up on the beach this morning.
00:23:04Been in the water for 12 hours.
00:23:30Kind of a tough way to go, isn't it?
00:23:33Well, Street, they say that drowning, it's an easy death.
00:23:36But Grady had two slugs in the back of his neck before he ever hit that water.
00:23:39That's not so easy, is it?
00:23:46Well, Street, if there is anything I can do for you...
00:23:49Open that door.
00:23:51Open that door.
00:24:04Well, hello, Street.
00:24:07How'd you get in there?
00:24:08The secret stairway in the haunted house.
00:24:12Secret stairway, my eye.
00:24:13Those stairs were there when we bought the place.
00:24:16But they still serve a very useful purpose.
00:24:18This is Hardway Harry Lockett, Mr. Wong.
00:24:21Oh, the Chinese copper.
00:24:32But to return to our secret stairway, I'm afraid we scared one of your callers away.
00:24:39Evidently he didn't care to meet my friend, Captain Street.
00:24:42Seafood is our specialty, Mr. Wong.
00:24:45That was probably kept from the fishing barge.
00:24:48He saw I was busy and beat it.
00:24:50That very adequately describes his exit.
00:24:53He comes in that way because he doesn't like to go through the cafe.
00:24:56Clothes sort of...
00:24:57Slightly fishy, Mr. Lockett.
00:24:58Very fishy.
00:24:59I get this Hardway.
00:25:01If I find out that anything happened to Grady in this place, I'm going to tear it apart.
00:25:05If you ever do, I'll help you.
00:25:08Come on, Wong.
00:25:09Goodbye, Mr. Lockett.
00:25:10Goodbye, Mr. Wong.
00:25:16Oh, sorry.
00:25:17Didn't know you were busy.
00:25:18He's not.
00:25:19He's not.
00:25:20Because we're just leaving.
00:25:24I beg your pardon, but we've met before, haven't we, Miss, uh, Miss, uh...
00:25:31Sir Robert Benane, but we haven't met.
00:25:34I'm so sorry.
00:25:35Oh, now I know what prompted my mistake.
00:25:38I saw you sitting outside in a car with young Mr. Belden.
00:25:42What was he doing here?
00:25:44We had dinner here.
00:25:45Do you mind?
00:25:46Excuse the boys from Sir Robert, but, uh, it's their business to be curious.
00:25:50This is Mr. Wong, the famous detective.
00:25:53And this is Captain Street of the San Francisco Police.
00:25:57Your head waiter says you found my compact.
00:26:00Yes, it's my desk.
00:26:01I'll get it for you.
00:26:02Drop in any time, boys.
00:26:04It'll be your turn to drop in on us the next time.
00:26:13You're a help.
00:26:15Why in blaze didn't you get rid of Belden when I told you to?
00:26:18Well, I did.
00:26:19He must have seen us outside in the parking lot.
00:26:22What'd they want?
00:26:23You read the papers, don't you?
00:26:24What do you think?
00:26:26I think that dead policemen are bad medicine.
00:26:28I don't like it, Harry.
00:26:30Relax.
00:26:31They haven't got a thing on us.
00:26:34So great he was here last night.
00:26:36What do you think?
00:26:37What does that prove?
00:26:38That the party's getting too rough for yours truly.
00:26:41So.
00:26:43Don't tell me Miss Sarova's getting jittery, huh?
00:26:46Sarova's getting out.
00:26:48Murder's something I don't want any part of.
00:26:50I'm through.
00:26:51Oh, no, you're not.
00:26:53When you're through, it will be because I tell you you're through.
00:26:57Are you threatening me?
00:26:59Maybe.
00:27:01Don't do it, Harry.
00:27:03I know too much.
00:27:06Things happen to people who know too much.
00:27:10Yes.
00:27:11They end up in the bay like a certain policeman.
00:27:31That seafood gag of Hardways was a hot one.
00:27:34And the young lady who lost her compact.
00:27:37More seafood, eh, Street?
00:27:38I'll say.
00:27:39What's her name?
00:27:41I thought I told you to scram.
00:27:43You're always telling me to scram.
00:27:45Well, you're not going to ride in a police car.
00:27:47Okay, let me out and I'll put on my roller skates.
00:27:49Oh.
00:27:53I tell you I don't like the set up.
00:27:56I don't like any part of it.
00:28:00When a dead copper spells trouble and if this girl starts to talk.
00:28:07Yeah.
00:28:10Yeah, I think so too.
00:28:16But this idea of mine is something entirely new in radio, Mr. Forbes.
00:28:20Nevertheless, I'm a guest continuing the program.
00:28:22But Forbes, Veldins has had a radio program for years.
00:28:25And it's been excellent advertising.
00:28:27Not excellent enough to keep you out of the receivership.
00:28:30I represent the creditors and I cannot approve the expenditure.
00:28:33But, Mr. Forbes.
00:28:34I'm sure this new idea of mine will create a lot of interest.
00:28:37That means customers for Veldins.
00:28:39I can only judge my past performance, Mr. Griswold.
00:28:42Results have not warranted the expense.
00:28:45All here?
00:28:46Yes.
00:28:47But, Mr. Forbes, this is a novelty.
00:28:51A complete one-act play in which I enact all the roles, male and female.
00:28:55You see, Mr. Forbes, impersonation is my fault.
00:28:58I think persistence is your fault.
00:29:00Well, I tell you this is the type of program that's bound to create comment.
00:29:04Why not give it a chance?
00:29:06Just glance through this and you'll get the idea.
00:29:08After the commercial, the music fades out.
00:29:11And you hear footsteps and a knock.
00:29:13Now, read from there on.
00:29:18Now, read from there.
00:29:38Pretty melodramatic, isn't it?
00:29:40But that's the kind of stuff they like nowadays, Mr. Forbes.
00:29:42The highly dramatic programs are the most successful.
00:29:45Suppose we try it for a couple of weeks.
00:29:47It wouldn't cost a fortune and it might get results.
00:29:49Well, all right.
00:29:50We'll try it.
00:29:51Oh, thanks, Mr. Forbes.
00:29:52I'm sure you won't be sorry.
00:29:54We go on from 10 to 10.15 tonight.
00:29:56I hope you're listening in.
00:29:57We will.
00:29:58Those bills are all right.
00:29:59I'll see you in the morning.
00:30:01Hello, Frank.
00:30:02Hello, Mr. Forbes.
00:30:07How are you feeling, Dad?
00:30:08Oh, as well as could be expected,
00:30:10considering the fact that I don't have anything to do.
00:30:12Nothing to say about my own business.
00:30:14When are you going to take me in with you?
00:30:16Not for a while yet.
00:30:18But, Dad, I've got to go to work.
00:30:19I've got to make some money.
00:30:21Isn't your allowance enough?
00:30:22No.
00:30:23I'm going to get married.
00:30:26Who to?
00:30:28That Sarova woman?
00:30:30Miss Sarova, yes.
00:30:32How did you know?
00:30:33I haven't taken my eyes off you completely.
00:30:36You've been out with that adventurous every night for a month.
00:30:39I wouldn't talk like that if I were you, Dad.
00:30:41We're both liable to be sorry for it.
00:30:43Besides, it won't change my decision.
00:30:44Frank, I won't permit you to wreck your life,
00:30:47to throw away your entire future for the sake of that scheming unscreening.
00:30:49That's enough!
00:30:52I'm sorry you feel that way about it, Dad, but...
00:30:55there's nothing you can do about it.
00:30:56You'll never marry that woman.
00:30:58Do you understand?
00:30:59Never!
00:31:07Morning, Sophie.
00:31:08Everything chips-shaped?
00:31:09No sign of the police, if that's what you mean.
00:31:11Oh.
00:31:12Why, Sophie, that's the farthest thing from my mind.
00:31:15Bring me the checks from last night, eh?
00:31:17Okay.
00:31:42Hey, have you been fooling around my desk?
00:31:45Me?
00:31:46Mm-hmm.
00:31:47What?
00:31:47I wouldn't touch your stuff, boss.
00:31:49Something missing?
00:31:50Yeah, my gun.
00:31:52Gee, that ain't so good.
00:31:53When did you last see it, boss?
00:31:55I don't know.
00:31:56Yesterday, I guess.
00:31:57I want to talk to you.
00:32:05Say, what are you thinking of coming down here after what's happened?
00:32:07I told you I'd get the stuff to you as soon as it was safe for Cap to bring it
00:32:11in.
00:32:11That isn't why I'm here.
00:32:12I want to know what that Sarova woman is doing running around with my son.
00:32:16Well, I did my best.
00:32:18You know, after all, it's not such a bad idea.
00:32:21Sort of a close corporation.
00:32:23Are you mad?
00:32:24My boy has no part in all this.
00:32:27I went into it because it was the only hope I had of saving my business.
00:32:30Of meeting my obligations.
00:32:32But not to the extent of wrecking his life.
00:32:34And that's what this marriage would mean.
00:32:36That's your problem.
00:32:38Right now, I have more important things to do than nurse a lovesick pup.
00:32:43If you value your neck, you'll do something about it.
00:32:45I'm warning you, Lockett.
00:32:47Before I see this happen to my son, I'll blast everything wide open.
00:32:52Including yourself?
00:32:54Including myself.
00:32:56Uh-huh.
00:32:57I see you.
00:32:58You like the idea of a few months on Alcatraz?
00:33:03I'll stop at nothing.
00:33:24Hello.
00:33:26Hello, Tanya.
00:33:27This is Harry.
00:33:31I want to apologize the way I talked to you last night.
00:33:35Oh.
00:33:35You know, I couldn't mean it.
00:33:38We were both a little, uh, jittery and unreasonable.
00:33:43Now listen, Tanya.
00:33:45I, uh, I want to see you.
00:33:48I have to talk over something with you.
00:33:50I think you'd be interested.
00:33:52All right.
00:33:54I'll be in all evening.
00:33:55Goodbye.
00:34:01I hope I didn't keep you waiting, fancy.
00:34:03Oh, that's all right.
00:34:04So don't mention it.
00:34:49Good boy, Mr. Watts.
00:34:51Mr. Wong!
00:34:53It's all right, Clancy, he missed me.
00:34:54Oh, I'm glad of that.
00:34:56Who was it, sir?
00:34:56I haven't the least idea, but the shop came from there.
00:34:59Well, we'll find out who that is.
00:35:24Well, whoever it was, beat it out the back and lift the door wide open.
00:35:27Whoever it was, he killed Mr. Bellman.
00:35:29What?
00:35:31Oh, glory be!
00:35:33Death Street.
00:35:34Yes, sir.
00:36:11This case has got a million angles.
00:36:14If this jade matches the stuff we found in Grady's office, Belton had a fortune hidden away.
00:36:18And I can't understand why he was in receivership.
00:36:21Well, perhaps he went into this kind of business to get out of receivership.
00:36:25What's that receiver's name? Maybe he can help us.
00:36:28A man named Forbes.
00:36:29You know where he lives?
00:36:30At the town apartments.
00:36:32We'll go up and see him.
00:36:34Clancy, call my office and have young Belton picked up.
00:36:36Tell him to hold him while I get there and wait for the corner.
00:36:38Yes, sir.
00:36:47Good evening, gentlemen.
00:36:48We want to see Mr. Forbes, John T. Forbes.
00:36:50Who's calling?
00:36:51Captain Street of the police department.
00:36:53Ring 22, please.
00:36:58Captain Street of the police department to see Mr. Forbes.
00:37:02Yes, sir.
00:37:03Go right up Captain Street.
00:37:04That's number 22.
00:37:07Captain Street.
00:37:09What on earth can he want?
00:37:16I wonder if I've forgotten a speed ticket.
00:37:20Excuse me.
00:37:21Pray to take my hand, will you?
00:37:22Okay, but it's 10 o'clock and I have to meet Alfie.
00:37:24Probably won't be very long.
00:37:30Captain Street.
00:37:31That's right, and it's Mr. Wong.
00:37:33How do you do?
00:37:34Come in here, gentlemen.
00:37:42I'm afraid we interrupted your game, Mr. Forbes.
00:37:45Oh, that's all right.
00:37:45Sit down, gentlemen.
00:37:47I've heard a great deal about you at one time or another, Mr. Wong.
00:37:51I'm certainly glad to meet you.
00:37:54Well now, gentlemen, what can I do for you?
00:37:55Might as well come to the point, Mr. Forbes.
00:37:57Frank Belden Senior, the firm for which your receiver was found dead a half an hour ago in his store.
00:38:03What?
00:38:06Poor old Frank.
00:38:09I had no idea he felt so desperately about it.
00:38:12Of course, I knew his, uh, financial affairs were in bad shape.
00:38:16It's not suicide, Mr. Forbes.
00:38:18He was murdered.
00:38:22Well, this certainly knocks me out.
00:38:26I've got to have a drink.
00:38:28How about you, gentlemen?
00:38:30Thank you, now.
00:38:31No, thanks.
00:38:36Murdered.
00:38:41Who, uh, who found him?
00:38:43Give me more of the details.
00:38:45Mr. Wong found the body.
00:38:47Wong?
00:38:48Were you in the store?
00:38:50I was making an investigation of Belden's stock.
00:38:54I found this piece of jade worth at least two or three thousand dollars.
00:38:59And there are several more pieces, too, just as valuable.
00:39:03I thought they carried only cheap costume jewelry.
00:39:07Could he have been concealing any, uh, valuable assets from me?
00:39:11That's exactly what we wanted to find out.
00:39:15I'd like to go down to the store and make a complete examination of their stock.
00:39:18Will that be all right?
00:39:19I think it's a good idea.
00:39:24Yeah.
00:39:26Will you...
00:39:27Do you have a cigar, gentlemen?
00:39:28Yes, thanks.
00:39:29No, thank you.
00:39:30One more thing, and I think you should know.
00:39:34That jade was smuggled.
00:39:35And one of our own men on the smuggling detail...
00:39:38...was murdered, running it down.
00:39:40And the trail seems to lead to Belden's store.
00:39:44Why, this is the worst thing I've ever heard.
00:39:47Excuse me.
00:39:48Hello?
00:39:50Yeah.
00:39:51It's for you.
00:39:52Thanks.
00:39:54Street speaking.
00:39:56What?
00:39:58I'll go right up.
00:40:00There's been a shooting on the floor above.
00:40:01Can we get out this way?
00:40:02Yes.
00:40:06Yes.
00:40:29That's that Cerova girl.
00:40:31How do you like this?
00:40:33A murder right over my head.
00:40:36Yeah?
00:40:37Oh, you're the clerk.
00:40:38Yes, sir.
00:40:38I telephoned headquarters from downstairs.
00:40:40Thanks.
00:40:41What do you know about this?
00:40:42Nothing, except what the switchboard operator told me.
00:40:44What'd she tell you?
00:40:45Well, I was sitting in the lobby when all of a sudden she started yelling,
00:40:48Miss Serova's being killed.
00:40:52All right, all right.
00:40:53Take it easy.
00:40:53Sit down.
00:40:56What did you hear on the phone?
00:40:58Well, I was sitting there as usual when the buzzer sounded,
00:41:01and it was a call from 32.
00:41:02What time was that?
00:41:03About 14 after 10.
00:41:05That's an odd time to remember, 10, 14.
00:41:07Well, I'm not sure, but it was 15 after 10 when I heard the shot,
00:41:10and they were arguing about a minute.
00:41:12Who was arguing?
00:41:13Miss Serova and the man.
00:41:14Well, what were they arguing about?
00:41:15What'd they say?
00:41:16Well, he said, get away from that telephone.
00:41:18That's the last time you're going to pull this sort of stuff on me.
00:41:20And Miss Serova yelled, don't shoot, don't shoot.
00:41:23But he did.
00:41:24It's quite possible, Street.
00:41:26The receiver's off the stand.
00:41:29Yeah.
00:41:31Do you recognize the man's voice?
00:41:32No, but he was awful mad.
00:41:34Anybody come through that lobby that might have come up here?
00:41:36No, sir.
00:41:37Did you pass anybody on the way up?
00:41:39I didn't see anybody.
00:41:40All right, that's all for now.
00:41:41Stick around downstairs.
00:41:44Oh, hello, Doc.
00:41:46Prince photographs the works.
00:41:50And I want you to get me that...
00:41:52Oh, little ball peep, huh?
00:41:54What are you made up for?
00:41:56That's all I need.
00:42:00Just be sure to get everything in this corner, would you please?
00:42:10Hello, Ballard.
00:42:12What are you doing here?
00:42:14I thought I told you the tale hard way.
00:42:15I was trailing him.
00:42:16I lost him in the traffic at 8 and Market around 9 o'clock.
00:42:19And I've been looking for him ever since.
00:42:20That's wonderful.
00:42:21Get my office on the phone.
00:42:25Get me police headquarters.
00:42:26Hey.
00:42:28Remember the last guy we saw Sir Over with?
00:42:31Hardway Harry.
00:42:32And he ditched Ballard an hour ago.
00:42:34That's our man.
00:42:35Just a minute.
00:42:36Hold it, Mike.
00:42:38Hello, Mike.
00:42:39Hardway ditched Ballard about an hour ago.
00:42:428th and Market.
00:42:43Yeah, I want you to send out a couple of men ahead and...
00:42:46What?
00:42:46Hello, operator.
00:42:49Hardway Harry's been sitting in my office for the last hour.
00:42:52Operator.
00:42:52Get her off the phone.
00:42:54Come on, get her off there.
00:42:55Put that thing...
00:42:56Hello, Mike.
00:42:57I want you to hold Hardway.
00:42:59I don't care how you hold him.
00:43:00Hold him.
00:43:01Bill.
00:43:01Bill, the maid.
00:43:02Will you stop?
00:43:03Well, Bill, the housekeeper...
00:43:03Will you quit picking on me?
00:43:05Mr. Wong, the housekeeper saw a man sneaking up the back stairs.
00:43:09Sit down.
00:43:10I'm sorry.
00:43:12Who are you?
00:43:13I'm the maid on this floor.
00:43:15Well, where were you in this...
00:43:16She was looking in the door.
00:43:17Will you be quiet?
00:43:19You say you saw a man coming up the back stairs.
00:43:22I finished by 10 o'clock.
00:43:24I was going down the back stairs when he came in.
00:43:27Who came in?
00:43:28The young man.
00:43:29What young man?
00:43:30Mr. Belden.
00:43:32Belden, Jr.
00:43:33He was in the habit of using the back stairs?
00:43:36Sometimes.
00:43:37Then he had his own key.
00:43:38Yes, sir.
00:43:40That settles it.
00:43:41Ballard, pick up young Belden.
00:43:42Good idea.
00:43:46That's all for now.
00:43:47Thanks.
00:44:01You know, Wong, Belden knew Serova.
00:44:03Hardway knew her.
00:44:05They're all mixed up in this thing some way.
00:44:08I'm going to have them all come in my office tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
00:44:11I'll...
00:44:11What am I doing?
00:44:27Sit down, Hardway.
00:44:29See who's out there, Jim.
00:44:32Well, how'd you do?
00:44:34Not bad.
00:44:36Have a pretty good breakfast to you fellows, you know.
00:44:39Thanks for the cigarettes.
00:44:40Oh, we always take care of our guests.
00:44:42Who's out there?
00:44:43No, Jim.
00:44:44Cap Anderson.
00:44:45All right, Jim.
00:44:48A couple of friends of yours.
00:44:52What were you doing here last night?
00:44:56Well, I caught one of your boys following me, and I figured he wanted to make sure where I was.
00:45:02So when he lost me about 9 o'clock, I decided I'd better check in.
00:45:07So you'd have an alibi because you knew Tanya Serova was going to be killed last night.
00:45:10What?
00:45:11Yeah, murdered last night.
00:45:14Oh.
00:45:14Coming in here wasn't such a bad idea, was it?
00:45:17What time did you get here?
00:45:199.29 on the dot.
00:45:21Oh, got it figured out the minute, huh?
00:45:23You can check with the sergeant.
00:45:24I know, I know.
00:45:26So?
00:45:27Hello, Wong.
00:45:28Oh, Mr. Wong, the Chinese copper.
00:45:33Look here, Street, you haven't got a thing on me.
00:45:36I knew Serova, sure.
00:45:38She used to come to my place very often.
00:45:40But so do a lot of other people.
00:45:41Including young Belden.
00:45:43Yes, with Serova, yes.
00:45:44So what?
00:45:45How well did you know young Belden?
00:45:49Casually.
00:45:50How well did you know his father?
00:45:53Just an acquaintance.
00:45:55When was the last time you saw him?
00:45:59I saw him in my office.
00:46:01Yesterday.
00:46:02He came to pay his son's barb bill.
00:46:05Man, you had a little quarrel.
00:46:07Then you followed him down to his jewelry store.
00:46:09And shot him!
00:46:10Old man Belden shot?
00:46:12Yeah.
00:46:14That's too bad.
00:46:15Yeah, it is too bad.
00:46:16He got it the same way Gray he got it in the back of the neck.
00:46:18What's your alibi for that?
00:46:20I was being trailed by one of your coppers by good luck.
00:46:26Why?
00:46:27A man named Forbes is out here.
00:46:28He said you sent for him.
00:46:30All right, send him in.
00:46:31Wait outside.
00:46:41Good morning, Mr. Forbes.
00:46:43You want to see me, Captain?
00:46:44Yes.
00:46:44You know Mr. Wong.
00:46:45Oh, yes.
00:46:46How are you, Mr. Wong?
00:46:47Forbes.
00:46:47We were kind of interrupted last night.
00:46:49And I'd kind of like to find out what you know about young Belden.
00:46:52Well, I'm afraid I can't tell you very much.
00:46:55Most of my dealing has been with his father.
00:46:56Well, what sort of a kid is he?
00:46:59Well, he's always struck me as being a rather nice sort of a chap.
00:47:02Quiet, well brought up, and...
00:47:05So you don't think for a minute that he had anything to do with his father's murder?
00:47:08Maybe.
00:47:09I do know he's mixed up in Sarovas, then.
00:47:11Oh, I can't believe that, Captain.
00:47:13Which isn't possible.
00:47:14I'm afraid you're wrong.
00:47:16There's Belden, Captain.
00:47:18Pick him up in a quick lunch joint.
00:47:19Have him coffee.
00:47:20All right, sit down.
00:47:22Have you met Mr. Wong?
00:47:24Perhaps you met him last night.
00:47:26Well, I've never met Mr. Wong.
00:47:28How do you do?
00:47:29We've been looking for you all night.
00:47:31Where were you?
00:47:32I don't know why the police would be interested in my movements.
00:47:35What's this all about?
00:47:36What were you doing in Tanya Sarovas' apartment last night?
00:47:39Oh, we know you were there.
00:47:40The maids saw you sneaking up the back way.
00:47:42If I were you, I'd tell the captain all he wants to know.
00:47:45Well, I don't know what this is all about, Frank, but you're welcome to my legal advice.
00:47:50If I can be of any assistance to you.
00:47:52For his father's sake, I feel that I ought to do everything I can to protect him.
00:47:55All right.
00:47:56But I still want to know what you were doing in Tanya Sarovas' apartment last night at 10 o'clock.
00:47:59Were you there, Frank?
00:48:01Yes, I was there, but I didn't kill her.
00:48:05She was dead when I found her.
00:48:07Don't give me that.
00:48:08Well, you don't know what you're saying, Frank.
00:48:10I demand that this boy be advised of his constitutional rights.
00:48:13I'll take care of his constitutional rights.
00:48:15This is a murder investigation.
00:48:17Tanya Sarovas was killed last night at 10.15.
00:48:19Just 15 minutes after this young man was seen going in her apartment.
00:48:22That's not true.
00:48:23It's not true, I tell you.
00:48:24She was dead when I found her.
00:48:26Are you sure of the time, Street?
00:48:28Your own switchboard operator heard the argument and the report.
00:48:32They fell street in your study, you remember?
00:48:35Yes, yes, that's right.
00:48:37All right, Bell, an alibi out of that.
00:48:38Come clean.
00:48:39Why'd you kill her?
00:48:40I didn't, I didn't, I tell you.
00:48:43I love Tanya.
00:48:44Why would I want to kill her?
00:48:45I'll tell you why.
00:48:47Because you were jealous.
00:48:48You thought she was devil-crossing you, and you went up to her apartment, and you quarreled,
00:48:51and then you killed her.
00:48:52That's a lie.
00:48:53Every word of it's a lie.
00:48:55So you found your sweetheart murdered, and what did you do?
00:48:57You ran out and hid.
00:48:59Why didn't you call the police?
00:49:00I don't know.
00:49:01I was half crazy.
00:49:02Now, see here, Street.
00:49:04This boy is no condition for questioning.
00:49:05I'll say he isn't, because he doesn't know the answers.
00:49:08Gentlemen, I suggest that we all calm down, and allow young Mr. Belder to tell us what
00:49:13happened in his own way.
00:49:14All right, all right.
00:49:15I'm listening.
00:49:17Now, supposing we go back just a little way, shall we?
00:49:21When did you last see Tanya Sarova alive?
00:49:25When she promised to marry me.
00:49:27Yesterday afternoon, late.
00:49:29And where was that?
00:49:31In her apartment.
00:49:32I, uh, I was going to take her to dinner, see, and, but she said she didn't feel well,
00:49:36so, so I went out and got a bite, and then I drove around a little while.
00:49:39Yes, and then?
00:49:41Well, on the way home, I, I saw a light in the apartment, and I, well, I went up to
00:49:45tell
00:49:45her good night.
00:49:46Are you in the habit of using the back way?
00:49:49Yeah, I had a key, see, sometimes Tanya wasn't in, and I'd go in and wait for her.
00:49:53Yeah, well, she was in last night.
00:49:54Did you use the key then?
00:49:57No.
00:49:58No, that's funny.
00:49:59I remember that the door was open.
00:50:02What else do you remember?
00:50:04Yes, Belden, go on.
00:50:06Well, I, I went in and called her, but there was no answer, so I went in the living room,
00:50:11and on the floor, I saw her over by the window.
00:50:15Near the telephone?
00:50:18I don't know.
00:50:19I, I didn't see anything but Tanya.
00:50:24Was there anything else in the room that was unusual that attracted your attention?
00:50:29Anything at all?
00:50:32Yeah, see, I remember the, the radio was on.
00:50:35Oh, don't kid me.
00:50:36The radio wasn't playing when I got there.
00:50:39If you didn't leave that apartment until before 10.15, where'd you go?
00:50:43I don't know, I just, I, I, I drove around, I, I don't know where I went, I, I drove
00:50:47all night.
00:50:50What?
00:50:51Captain, a fellow out here named Griswell says he's got to see you.
00:50:54Who's Griswell?
00:50:55What does he want?
00:50:55What does he do?
00:50:57What do you want to see him about?
00:50:58I got to talk to him.
00:50:59I'm from radio station LMAB.
00:51:01He's from a radio station LMAB.
00:51:04I don't know anybody from a radio station.
00:51:06Tell him to wait.
00:51:07He says you've got to wait.
00:51:12All right, come clean.
00:51:14You didn't leave that apartment until after 10.15.
00:51:17After you killed her!
00:51:18Stop it, I tell you, stop it!
00:51:20Street, you're getting nowhere, bro, beating the boy this way.
00:51:23Maybe if you let me talk to him quietly somewhere.
00:51:25All right, all right, I'll talk to him quietly.
00:51:27Would you like to see your father?
00:51:30No.
00:51:32Why should I want to see him?
00:51:35He's probably glad she's dead.
00:51:37Why should he be glad?
00:51:38Doesn't he like her?
00:51:39No.
00:51:41Did you quarrel over with your father?
00:51:44Yeah.
00:51:44Yeah, we had a quarrel and I walked out on him.
00:51:47And then you walked back last night to his jewelry store and shot him, killed him!
00:51:54You mean my father's dead?
00:51:57Stop it, will you?
00:51:58Stop it!
00:51:58What are you trying to do to me?
00:52:00Somebody get me a glass of water!
00:52:01Oh, never mind the water!
00:52:03Oh, I protest, get him a glass of water.
00:52:05Where is it?
00:52:05Outside.
00:52:08Something wrong, Captain?
00:52:09Yeah, give me that brandy.
00:52:18Now go and sit down.
00:52:20What do you want?
00:52:21Come on, what is this?
00:52:22Say, what am I supposed to do?
00:52:23Spend the weekend here?
00:52:24Here, he'll get to you.
00:52:27Mr. Hardway.
00:52:28The press.
00:52:29Yes, the press.
00:52:30What do you know today?
00:52:31Pardon me.
00:52:44What's the matter?
00:52:46Who is this?
00:52:47It's a fellow from the radio station.
00:52:49Grisdwell.
00:52:52Where'd this paper file come from?
00:52:54Say, that looks like mine.
00:52:55It's missing from the desk.
00:52:57All right.
00:52:59Who did it?
00:53:00This is a payoff right in my own office.
00:53:03Stay away from that phone.
00:53:10Start talking Hardway.
00:53:13What, again?
00:53:21Sorry for the interruption, Mr. Wong,
00:53:22but that was a new program, and I wanted to check on it.
00:53:24Not at all.
00:53:25It's all most interesting.
00:53:27Yes, but full of headaches.
00:53:29Replacing Grisdwell is going to be one of them.
00:53:31I can quite imagine.
00:53:33His programs were popular, weren't they?
00:53:35Very.
00:53:36He was a talented young man.
00:53:38Wrote most of the sketches and played all the parts in them.
00:53:41He played female roles as well.
00:53:44Oh, yes.
00:53:46In the sketch you want to see, the one he did last night,
00:53:50he played a very emotional feminine role.
00:53:57Here's the manuscript for it.
00:54:01Now, this program went on the air sharply at 10 o'clock.
00:54:04Oh, yes.
00:54:05Radio works on split seconds.
00:54:07Every program is timed exactly.
00:54:09And it ran for how long?
00:54:11Uh, 15 minutes in all.
00:54:13The sketch went on at 10, one and a half,
00:54:15and finished at 10, 14.
00:54:16The balance of the program time was taken up with, uh,
00:54:19commercials.
00:54:20It's advertising.
00:54:21Uh, would it disturb you if I turned on this program?
00:54:24Not at all.
00:54:25I've just finished.
00:54:27I'd like to take this with me.
00:54:29Oh, it'll be all right.
00:54:30Thank you very much.
00:54:31Goodbye.
00:54:32Goodbye.
00:54:33Presenting for your entertainment,
00:54:34the first mystery thriller in their new series of programs.
00:54:46How do you do, sir?
00:54:47Can I help you?
00:54:48Yes.
00:54:49Is this the new remote control radio?
00:54:52Why, yes.
00:54:52And a very fine instrument, too.
00:54:54I wonder if you'd be kind enough to give me a demonstration.
00:54:56I'd be glad to.
00:54:57Won't you sit, huh?
00:55:01Now, uh, this is the remote control box.
00:55:05Looks like the dial of the automatic telephone.
00:55:07And works very much on the same principle.
00:55:09You see, it's not attached in any way to the demonstration radio.
00:55:13However, being in any part of the house
00:55:15and desiring to change the program,
00:55:16we simply switch the dials and the radio automatically switches.
00:55:19I'll show you.
00:55:22California, Bear, Tuesday and Wednesday.
00:55:25Moderate temperature,
00:55:26light to moderate northerly wind off coast.
00:55:29At just what distance would that still be effective?
00:55:32Guaranteed up to 200 feet.
00:55:34Tuesday and Wednesday.
00:55:35Range extreme northwest.
00:55:36And you can shut the radio off in the same way?
00:55:38Oh, yes.
00:55:39Just press down on this right here.
00:55:41Coming subtly.
00:55:52What, again?
00:55:53Yeah.
00:55:54Didn't take long for that lawyer to get you and the boys out, did it hard way?
00:55:57Why should it?
00:55:59Say, listen, you can't hang that murder rap on any of us.
00:56:01Somebody killed Griswold,
00:56:03and three of you were there when it happened.
00:56:04Yeah, and plenty of others.
00:56:06That office of yours was a close second to a railroad station.
00:56:11But, uh, what's this visit for?
00:56:13According to ballistics,
00:56:14the same gun killed
00:56:16Sarova, Belden, and Grady.
00:56:18Mind if I check yours?
00:56:19Heh.
00:56:20You know I don't carry a gun.
00:56:21I haven't had one around here in years.
00:56:24Come on, search the place.
00:56:25You think if I had one,
00:56:26I would keep it here just to show?
00:56:28Looks like you're getting a little carrots, aren't we?
00:56:31If that gun matches those bullets,
00:56:32it'll be too bad for you.
00:56:34Get that to ballistics.
00:56:36So you still think I killed Sarova
00:56:37while I was in your office, eh?
00:56:39You've got to farm that rod out.
00:56:41Take him away.
00:56:44You're making a mistake, Street.
00:56:46Murder is not my record.
00:56:48Maybe.
00:56:48We'll wait and see what that ballistic report says.
00:57:26You're making a mistake.
00:57:36All right, keep your hands right there.
00:57:40Turn around.
00:57:42Ah, Cap Anderson, huh?
00:57:46From Harry Lockett's fishing barge.
00:57:51So this is the seafood you supply this place with, huh?
00:57:59That's right.
00:58:00You're making a mistake here.
00:58:00Mm-hmm.
00:58:14Here I come.
00:58:14Time for you.
00:58:25This is me.
00:58:26Uh, you too.
00:59:46This is Mr. Wong, Bessie.
00:59:48I'll be experimenting with the phone for a little while, so pay no attention if it rings.
01:00:02Oh, come in, Forbes.
01:00:03Oh, it's you, Mr. Wong.
01:00:05Well, that is a relief.
01:00:07I was wondering who was up here.
01:00:10Oh, you put that string down past my window.
01:00:13Yes.
01:00:14When I found the receiver off the stand last night, I had an idea that the switchboard operator was intended
01:00:21to overhear what she heard.
01:00:23I don't follow you.
01:00:24I believe that the murderer had a way of forcing her to listen at the right time.
01:00:30You think that a murderer would deliberately invite a witness to his crime?
01:00:33He might arrange to have her think she was a witness.
01:00:36With a piece of cord, a telephone, and a radio.
01:00:43I don't understand.
01:00:44Now, this radio is a new remote control, Mark.
01:00:47Now, let us assume that a certain radio program exactly fitted a given situation.
01:00:54How easy it would be to tune in the desired station at the right time and be nowhere near the
01:00:59instrument.
01:01:00Oh, I see.
01:01:02You mean that the crime could have been committed sometime before?
01:01:06Of course.
01:01:07And by any of our suspects who had such cast-iron alibis.
01:01:12Partway Harry Lockett, for instance, who planted himself in Streets' office at the supposed time of the murder.
01:01:18Any of his friends.
01:01:20Even young Belden?
01:01:21Even young Belden.
01:01:22He was here at ten o'clock.
01:01:25Who knows?
01:01:27Perhaps it was his second visit.
01:01:30You don't believe that, do you?
01:01:34No.
01:01:36Not that any of the others did it, either.
01:01:41No.
01:01:57Is that what you were looking for, Mr. Baum?
01:02:00Yes.
01:02:02And you pulled the cord.
01:02:04When I went to get the drink.
01:02:05And when you reached for the cigars.
01:02:07I turned off the radio by remote control.
01:02:12Thank you, Mr. Forbes.
01:02:13Keep away from that telephone.
01:02:15Get over there.
01:02:29Operator.
01:02:32Oh, hello, Captain.
01:02:33Hello, is Mr. Forbes in?
01:02:35I'll see for you.
01:02:38Operator.
01:02:40Mr. Forbes doesn't answer.
01:02:41All right, thanks.
01:02:45Why don't you answer that call?
01:02:48Well, that's Mr. Wong.
01:02:49He told me not to pay no attention to it.
01:02:51Mr. Wong?
01:02:52Yeah.
01:02:53He's up in Mr. Roba's apartment playing with the telephone.
01:02:56Well, I hope he's having a good time.
01:02:58I'll drop up and see him.
01:02:59Playing with the telephone.
01:03:08I killed Grady because he was in the way.
01:03:11And Belden because he was getting ready to talk.
01:03:13Griswold when he recognized his own program.
01:03:15And Tanya Sarova because she knew too much.
01:03:18No.
01:03:19Because she was leaving me for a younger man.
01:03:27It's you who knows too much.
01:03:31Wong, this is Street.
01:03:33Just a moment, Street.
01:03:42What are you doing up here?
01:03:43Get him up.
01:03:45Over there with him.
01:03:55Well, the two of you.
01:03:57That makes it perfect.
01:04:01I suppose you'd like to have us turn around
01:04:03so you could give it to us in the back
01:04:05like you gave it to Grady.
01:04:06Drop that gun.
01:04:08Drop it, I say.
01:04:13Nice work, kid.
01:04:17Take him, Mama.
01:04:19Oh, Bobby.
01:04:20Bobby.
01:04:22Honey.
01:04:24Bobby.
01:04:25Yes?
01:04:26Oh, it's all right, Bessie.
01:04:27The experiment's over.
01:04:29You might get me the Herald, will you?
01:04:31Herald?
01:04:33You have a star reporter on your staff.
01:04:36A Miss Roberta Logan.
01:04:38She has just been instrumental in the capture of John Forbes.
01:04:41Confessed murderer in the Dan Grady Sarova case.
01:04:45Oh, yes, this is a scoop.
01:04:52I'll see you next time.