Girl sleuth Nancy Drew (Bonita Granville) is always on the case when a mystery springs up in River Heights. This time, Nancy enters an amateur journalism contest and runs smack into a plot to frame an innocent young woman for murder. With the aid of her long-suffering chum, Ted (Frank Thomas Jr.), and some legal advice from her attorney dad (John Litel), Nancy nabs an elusive piece of evidence that she hopes will prove the identity of the real killer -- and win her the journalism prize to boot.
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00:00:00THE END
00:00:44Listen, let me be wrong for once. Write a new head.
00:00:55Hey, boy.
00:00:58Yes, sir?
00:00:59Did you find Tracy yet?
00:01:00No, sir. He's still out.
00:01:02When you find Mr. Tracy, would you ask him if he would condescend to undertake a little
00:01:05repertorial chore for me this afternoon? If you don't mind.
00:01:09Oh, no, sir. I don't mind.
00:01:11Don't stand there like an imbecile, round him up.
00:01:13Yes, sir.
00:01:16Well, they're here, Mr. Boswick.
00:01:17Who's here?
00:01:18The students.
00:01:19What are they doing here?
00:01:20Mr. Boswick, don't you remember?
00:01:22It was a promotion tie-up to increase circulation.
00:01:25And what did I promise them?
00:01:27Well, they were to work for you for three days as real reporters.
00:01:30And the one who submits the best story during that time was to receive $50.
00:01:36And a gold medal.
00:01:37Oh, I might have guessed it.
00:01:39I don't know why I let you talk me into these things.
00:01:41Last week you had the place filled with a lot of champion potato pickers.
00:01:44And now the place is going to be overcrowded with a lot of crazy jobs.
00:01:47I won't see them.
00:01:48Mr. Boswick, they're right beside you.
00:01:52Oh, Mr. Boswick, these are the young people you've been so anxious to meet.
00:01:57Miss Nancy Drew from the Brinwood School for Young Ladies.
00:01:59I'm very pleased to meet you.
00:02:02Miss Phyllis Kimble of...
00:02:04How are you?
00:02:05How are you?
00:02:06Oh, Mr. Boswick, are we really going to have real assignments just like real reporters?
00:02:10Can I cover a scandal?
00:02:14Girls, boys.
00:02:15Mr. Boswick, won't you say a few words to the contestants?
00:02:18Yeah, very sure.
00:02:21Why anyone is simple-minded enough to want to work on a newspaper?
00:02:24I've never been able to find out.
00:02:26Why, Mr. Boswick, journalism is a very noble and glorious career.
00:02:30With all the adventure and romance and everything, I should think you just love it.
00:02:33I do love it.
00:02:34I love every minute of it.
00:02:36I love my employees, too.
00:02:39Here, take one.
00:02:40All right.
00:02:41I won't look.
00:02:48What did you get?
00:02:49I've got to write a story about a squirrel in the park.
00:02:51Where does the mayor live?
00:02:53Why?
00:02:53I've got to find out how many babies he kissed last week.
00:02:55A human interest story about a goldfish?
00:02:57Ladies' amateur poetry club.
00:02:59Cozy Nook Tea Room, 1 p.m.
00:03:01All right, now.
00:03:02Come on.
00:03:03Get going.
00:03:03All right, children.
00:03:04Come on.
00:03:04Come on.
00:03:05And if it isn't news, you needn't bother coming back.
00:03:08Clever idea, isn't it?
00:03:09We'll go into that later.
00:03:10Mr. Boswick, I don't believe you take us home.
00:03:12Seriously.
00:03:13My dear Miss, who is it?
00:03:14In regard to your supposition, I see you're not without perspicacity.
00:03:21I still haven't been able to find Mr. Tracy.
00:03:24Every time I depend upon a reporter, I'm double-crossed.
00:03:27Oh, all right.
00:03:27Leave a memo on his desk.
00:03:29Tell him to hurry over to the courthouse right away.
00:03:31They're holding an inquest on that Lambert woman.
00:03:33Yes, sir.
00:03:33Yes, sir.
00:03:34In the Sioux School of Children.
00:04:01Are you satisfied with your assignment, Miss Drew?
00:04:04Oh, I think it'll do.
00:04:06For a start.
00:04:07Mm-hmm.
00:04:14Dr. Carey, please.
00:04:20Raise your right hand.
00:04:22She swear the testimony you're about to give will be the truth.
00:04:24The whole truth, nothing but the truth.
00:04:25I'll be God.
00:04:26I do.
00:04:26Dr. Carey, as autopsy surgeon, you examined the body of Kate Lambert?
00:04:32I did.
00:04:33And what did you find?
00:04:35That Miss Lambert's death was not caused by our failure,
00:04:38as Dr. Hibbert certified.
00:04:40Her death was caused by a poison, sodium faranide.
00:04:44What is sodium faranide?
00:04:46It's a chemical used in photography.
00:04:48Is such a chemical easily obtained?
00:04:50Oh, no.
00:04:51Only on special order from the manufacturer.
00:04:53It's a new agent, not yet on the open market.
00:04:55In fact, only those who are well advanced in photography know anything about it.
00:05:04Myles Lambert.
00:05:05Mr. Lambert, you were the first to suspect your aunt had not met a natural death?
00:05:09I was.
00:05:11What aroused your suspicions?
00:05:14Well, for years, Dr. Hibbert had assured me that my aunt's heart condition was nothing to worry about.
00:05:20And when she died so suddenly, I was naturally very shocked and surprised.
00:05:24But even so, I didn't suspect anything until I happened to run across a scientific magazine in my aunt's library.
00:05:30There was an article in that magazine which had a great deal of significance to me in view of the
00:05:35circumstances.
00:05:36The article was about sodium faranide.
00:05:39And the portions of it dealing with the chemical's poisonous properties had been carefully marked in pencil.
00:05:46To whom does this magazine belong?
00:05:48It's addressed to Eula Denning.
00:05:51Did you mark this article, Miss Denning?
00:05:53Well, I... I must have.
00:05:56Why?
00:05:57I keep a file of all chemicals I work with.
00:06:00Especially poisonous ones and their antidotes.
00:06:02Then you are interested in photography.
00:06:05Yes.
00:06:07How familiar are you with sodium faranide?
00:06:09Well, I... I know something about it.
00:06:12Miss Denning, what was your relationship to Kate Lambert?
00:06:16My mother was her companion for many years.
00:06:19After mother died, Miss Lambert took care of me.
00:06:23Isn't it true that under the terms of Miss Lambert's will, you were the sole beneficiary?
00:06:27Yes, but...
00:06:29Oh...
00:06:30But I didn't kill her.
00:06:31Why, Kate Lambert was the best friend I ever had.
00:06:34She put me through school, treated me as her own child.
00:06:37And yet you coerced into making a will, leaving all her property to you.
00:06:41No.
00:06:42A will that was made less than a week before her death.
00:06:44No.
00:06:45I didn't do it.
00:06:46Someone must have taken the poison from the dark room.
00:06:49Mr. Garrett, if you had the chemical tinned, that would prove I was innocent.
00:06:53How?
00:06:53Well, the murderous fingerprints would be on it.
00:06:56Not if they'd been removed.
00:06:57But they couldn't be removed.
00:06:59If anyone touched that chemical, the faranide would etch the prints into the metal.
00:07:03A search has been made for the poison container, Miss Denning.
00:07:06It's missing.
00:07:07But it must be in the house somewhere.
00:07:09Miss Denning, you were the only person connected with the Lambert household
00:07:12with the knowledge of sodium Fahrenheit.
00:07:14You were the only one who had access to Miss Lambert's room the night she died.
00:07:18And you were the only one who had motive to commit the murder.
00:07:21I didn't kill her, I tell you.
00:07:22I didn't.
00:07:22I didn't kill her, I tell you.
00:07:24That's all.
00:07:27What's the verdict?
00:07:28The Denning girl's being held for trial.
00:07:30Murdered.
00:07:38What's up, baby?
00:07:39Something we didn't figure on.
00:07:41I've got to get out there and have her drawn up on a tin can.
00:07:50Come back here!
00:07:51Come back!
00:08:02What's all this about a tin can?
00:08:05There's fingerprints on it.
00:08:06If the cops find it first, we're going to be in a jam.
00:08:08A jam?
00:08:09How?
00:08:10Never mind how.
00:08:12If you're at Denning isn't sent up, she'll get all that old lady's dough.
00:08:15Oh, I see.
00:08:16And if she is sent up, her money goes to Miles Lambert.
00:08:20Not bad.
00:08:22How much do you get?
00:08:23Oh, Lambert's take care of me.
00:08:25Looks like I'll have to start being nice to Mr. Lambert.
00:08:28Don't you be nice to nobody but me, Lambie Pie.
00:09:08Come back!
00:09:09The den,长.
00:09:10Comes back on Mr. Lambert.
00:09:10You итог of thinking.
00:09:10My name is Captain Buck.
00:09:10I'm here to
00:09:10talk to Mr. Lambert.
00:09:10Alyson, Mr. Lambert.
00:09:11You know how bad he looks, français!
00:09:13Oh, Snow.
00:09:15She wants to get姿 Gato.
00:09:16Bye.
00:09:27Be careful, baby.
00:09:33Officer, did a man come in here?
00:09:35The DA spokes up this joint, miss.
00:09:37No one can get in here without a foredaughter.
00:09:39I'm here to see to that.
00:09:41Oh, well, a man bumped into my fender and ran away.
00:09:43Oh, a hidden runner, eh?
00:09:45Yes, he must be around here someplace.
00:09:48It's the only place he could have gone.
00:09:49Well, in that case, miss, you and I'll just take a look around.
00:09:52Oh, well, maybe you'd better go on that side of the house,
00:09:53and I'll go on this one so he can't escape.
00:09:56Good idea.
00:09:56And if you spot him, yell, I'll come a-runner.
00:10:05Hey, what are you doing there?
00:10:08Why, I'm here to read the gas meter.
00:10:10That's the man, look, sir.
00:10:12He's the one who smashed my fender.
00:10:14Oh, a runnin' hitter, eh?
00:10:15Yes, but I won't prefer charges if you'll pay to have it fixed.
00:10:19Well?
00:10:23Hello, Squirt.
00:10:24It'll only cost me three and a half to have my fender fixed
00:10:26and about 50 cents for the gasoline I wasted coming out here,
00:10:29so here's a dollar back.
00:10:31All right, get along with you.
00:10:36Thanks a lot, officer.
00:10:37He had an awful lot of money for a gas meterator.
00:10:40Maybe I'm in the wrong branch of the service.
00:10:43Did he say he was from the gas company?
00:10:45Yeah.
00:10:47Gee, that's kind of funny.
00:10:51I got it, Mr. Boswick, all about the Lambert inquest.
00:10:54I was a little delayed on account of a man ran into my fender, and I...
00:10:56So it was you, huh?
00:10:58You switched those assignment slips, didn't you?
00:11:00Well, I thought reporters always did things like that.
00:11:03At least they do in the movies.
00:11:05And besides, it says, write in my textbook on journalism
00:11:07that a newspaper man or woman would stop at nothing to get news.
00:11:09And if she ever intends to impress the editor,
00:11:11she must be willing to do much more than just what the assignment calls for.
00:11:14So there.
00:11:15A thing like this would happen to me.
00:11:17I have it.
00:11:18Every word.
00:11:19Oh, it's sensational.
00:11:21I bet you 2380 never thought I could do it.
00:11:23Miss Drew, the story of the Lambert inquest was on the street a half hour ago.
00:11:28But that's impossible.
00:11:29I have it right here.
00:11:31And...
00:11:34We were lucky enough to get it from the D.A.'s office.
00:11:43Oh, dear.
00:11:45I was so sure I had a scoop and you'd have to stop the presses.
00:11:49Stop the presses?
00:11:50Or something.
00:11:50My dear little girlie, will you please take pity on a poor, tired old man?
00:11:55If another thing like this happens to me today, I'll lose my mind.
00:12:06Good morning, Dad.
00:12:08Good morning, Pet.
00:12:09Well, how's the story reported this morning?
00:12:12Don't mention it.
00:12:13You watch.
00:12:14I'll show that Mr. Bostitch or whatever his name is.
00:12:17I'll get a story yet.
00:12:18That's the spirit.
00:12:19Good morning, Miss Nancy.
00:12:21Good morning, Effie.
00:12:22Oh, doesn't that look good?
00:12:23Effie, you're an artist.
00:12:24Boy, oh boy, what cuisine.
00:12:26Oh, shucks, Miss Nancy.
00:12:28Let's just plain old cereal.
00:12:36Dad, I have a favor I want to ask of you.
00:12:38Go right ahead, darling.
00:12:39I'm in a very receptive mood this morning.
00:12:41Go right ahead.
00:12:42Well, Eula Denning needs a good lawyer.
00:12:44And I want you to defend her.
00:12:46No, I wouldn't want that case, Nancy.
00:12:48I've been reading about it and I'm afraid the girl's guilty.
00:12:50There's not one bit of extenuating evidence.
00:12:52Just the same.
00:12:52I bet she didn't do it.
00:12:53What makes you think that?
00:12:55I don't know.
00:12:56I guess maybe it's just my woman's intuition.
00:12:58But she doesn't look like the type would poison anybody.
00:13:00Can't go by type, Nancy.
00:13:02One of the most charming women in history was a murderess.
00:13:04And she committed her crimes for far less than the Lambert estate.
00:13:07That's where the man with the funny ear came in.
00:13:09Funny ear?
00:13:10What are you talking about?
00:13:11This man sat next to me during the inquest.
00:13:13And afterwards got in a car with a woman and ran into my fender.
00:13:16Nancy, I'm going to take that car away from you if you start having accidents.
00:13:19But it wasn't my fault.
00:13:20I wasn't even in the car.
00:13:21That's why I followed him.
00:13:22I made him pay for that fender, too.
00:13:24Guess what, Dad?
00:13:25He went right out to that Lambert estate and tried to get in.
00:13:28Probably another reporter.
00:13:29Oh, I don't think so.
00:13:30He didn't look smart enough.
00:13:31He acted awfully suspicious.
00:13:33Well, I wouldn't concern myself about it too much.
00:13:34Oh, no!
00:13:35You want it?
00:13:36Certainly.
00:13:37I'm saving it for last.
00:13:38Oh.
00:13:40Goodbye, darling.
00:13:40Bye-bye, Dad.
00:13:57It's going to go to the bathroom.
00:14:04Tess?
00:14:05Oh, Tess?
00:14:09Where are you, Ted?
00:14:10In the garage.
00:14:13What do you want?
00:14:15Come here, Liz.
00:14:16Something very poor.
00:14:18Oh, I'm busy.
00:14:33Well, where are you?
00:14:35Here.
00:14:39What's the matter? What are you hiding for?
00:14:41Somebody tried to blow up my car.
00:14:42Oh, stop it, will you?
00:14:44It's nothing to get excited over.
00:14:47Nothing to get excited over?
00:14:50How can you say a thing like that?
00:14:52I might have been blown to bits right before my very eyes.
00:14:56It's just a gang.
00:14:58A whistle bomb.
00:15:02You mean it's just a practical joke?
00:15:03Sure.
00:15:04It blows off when you press the starter.
00:15:06And boy, did you go into a tailspin.
00:15:09Ted Nickerson, I'll bet you put that thing in there.
00:15:11Oh, don't be an infant.
00:15:13I got better things to do.
00:15:16Fine thing.
00:15:17It's practically a menace to civilization.
00:15:19Anyone who deliberately do a trick like that ought to...
00:15:21pipe down.
00:15:28We didn't do anything.
00:15:29We didn't do anything.
00:15:32I'm going to tell Ma and you.
00:15:33Look, they got a load of them.
00:15:35They're not mine, they're killers.
00:15:36Killer Perkins, you grew up to be a fiend.
00:15:38But it was Mary's idea.
00:15:40It certainly was.
00:15:41Mary Nickerson, you ought to be ashamed.
00:15:44Ted, aren't you going to speak to your sister?
00:15:46That gangster?
00:15:47She's out of my control.
00:15:48Oh, you're just jealous because you didn't think of it first.
00:15:51Give me those.
00:15:52Hey, those belong to my big brother.
00:15:54They don't now.
00:15:55Now, go on.
00:15:55Get out of here.
00:15:56Before I lose control of myself, go on.
00:15:59Get out of here.
00:16:00You thugs.
00:16:01I'm in my own backyard and don't you dare come in.
00:16:03There.
00:16:14Nice going, Nancy.
00:16:16The very idea.
00:16:18Just a nice quiet morning at the Drews.
00:16:20Well, so long.
00:16:21I'll be seeing you.
00:16:21Where you going?
00:16:23Now, where do you think I'd be going with this tennis racket?
00:16:25To shovel coal?
00:16:26I'll tell you where he's going.
00:16:28For 10 cents.
00:16:30I wouldn't pay you a penny.
00:16:31I'm not that interested.
00:16:32Then what are you asking for?
00:16:34You get in the house.
00:16:37I'll tell you anyway.
00:16:38He's got a date with a beautiful girl.
00:16:43Oh, are you going to play tennis again with that woman?
00:16:46What do you mean, woman?
00:16:47She's only two years older than you are.
00:16:49Well, she'd rather play tennis.
00:16:51Why, all right.
00:16:52But I was sort of depending on you to help me.
00:16:54Of course, my getting the best story for the paper isn't really so important.
00:16:57But you know how it is.
00:16:58The honor and everything would be nice.
00:17:00Oh, gosh, Nancy.
00:17:01Nancy, no.
00:17:01Oh, it's all right.
00:17:02Go right ahead.
00:17:02Don't mind me.
00:17:03I just...
00:17:04Oh, by the way, I have something for you.
00:17:06Oh, you have?
00:17:07Well, what is it?
00:17:08Oh, it's nothing really.
00:17:10Just a little birthday present.
00:17:13I spent the four bucks.
00:17:14I had to fix the fender.
00:17:16Gee, Nancy, thanks.
00:17:19But my birthday isn't for two months yet.
00:17:21Is that so?
00:17:22Uh-huh.
00:17:22Oh, well, now that you've seen it, you might as well keep it.
00:17:27Well...
00:17:28Gee, thanks.
00:17:29I...
00:17:29I don't...
00:17:31Oh, gosh.
00:17:34Thanks.
00:17:35You're welcome.
00:17:36Wait a minute, Nancy.
00:17:38Look, I might postpone my tennis state if you really need me.
00:17:41Oh, don't bother.
00:17:42Don't bother.
00:17:43I was just going down to the jail to interview Eula Denning and I wanted you to take your camera
00:17:47along.
00:17:48So far, she hasn't allowed anyone to take her picture.
00:17:50Well, then how do you expect me to get one?
00:17:52Oh, oh, I'd think of a way.
00:17:55Then you don't really need me.
00:17:58Well, reporters always take staff photographers when they're...
00:18:00when they're on important assignments and...
00:18:02Besides, Dad doesn't like the idea of my going into a jail alone.
00:18:05I'll go with you.
00:18:07A jail is no place for children, Mary Nickerson.
00:18:09Oh, let her go.
00:18:10Maybe they'll lock her up.
00:18:11I should say not.
00:18:12Now, go on.
00:18:12Change your clothes and wear your new hat.
00:18:14All right.
00:18:15I'll get your camera for you, Ted.
00:18:19Hurry now.
00:18:20I want to make the noon edition.
00:18:21And besides, maybe you'll have time to fix my fender.
00:18:25Duked again.
00:18:31No cameras.
00:18:32Well, you see, I...
00:18:33You're the lady of your camera, Ted.
00:18:35Huh?
00:18:35Well, okay.
00:18:38All right.
00:18:39Over there.
00:18:44Well, what's that?
00:18:45You should have known you couldn't get a camera in this place.
00:18:47I did.
00:18:53What was in the case?
00:18:55I took out the camera and put in a block of wood.
00:18:57I think you've done something like this.
00:18:59Now, look.
00:18:59You don't expect me to take a picture in here after what she said.
00:19:02Of course, silly.
00:19:03And if they catch us, we'll stay here.
00:19:05Oh, stop your worry.
00:19:07Put your hat on.
00:19:10Inside?
00:19:11Of course.
00:19:11You never saw a real newspaper man without his hat on, did you?
00:19:14Ah, they even eat in them.
00:19:17Oh.
00:19:18No, no, not like that.
00:19:19Looks awful.
00:19:22For gosh sakes, what are you doing?
00:19:24You just gave it to me.
00:19:25No, no, no.
00:19:25Now, let me fix it.
00:19:35Fix it is right.
00:19:40Oh, you ruined it.
00:19:47There.
00:19:48Now you look like a real reporter, not a store window dummy.
00:20:01Yes?
00:20:01Miss Denning?
00:20:03I'm Nancy Drew of the Tribune, and this is Mr. Nickerson, my photographer.
00:20:06Oh, a reporter.
00:20:08You seem so young.
00:20:10I guess I'd better explain.
00:20:11We're not real reporters.
00:20:13I just want to win a prize in journalism, and that's why I wanted an interview.
00:20:16What did you say your name was?
00:20:18Nancy Drew.
00:20:19Are you related to Carson Drew, the attorney?
00:20:22He's her father.
00:20:24Oh, I see.
00:20:26Miss Denning, do you know a man with a funny ear?
00:20:28It's all sort of folded up like.
00:20:31No, I don't.
00:20:32What do you ask?
00:20:33Well, there was one at the inquest, and I was wondering if he was a friend of yours.
00:20:37I don't know who he could be.
00:20:39Miss Denning, I don't think you did anything.
00:20:42That is, I mean, I think you're innocent.
00:20:45If it's all right with you, I'm going to ask my father to come and see you.
00:20:48Oh, if he only would.
00:20:50You see, there's...
00:20:52Well, there's so much evidence against me.
00:20:54Why, it's even worse now than it was yesterday.
00:20:57Did they find something else?
00:20:59Police checked with the manufacturers and learned the only sale of sodium Fahrenheit made in this part of the country
00:21:04was to me.
00:21:05Uh-oh.
00:21:06Gee.
00:21:07Oh, if you only had that tin can, the one the poison came in.
00:21:11You know, you told about it at the inquest yesterday.
00:21:13It disappeared.
00:21:14Someone probably stole it.
00:21:16I saw it just the end of the day when I was cleaning out the dark room.
00:21:19I can't understand why they didn't find it.
00:21:21It was...
00:21:22What's the matter?
00:21:24The tin was empty, but I didn't throw it away.
00:21:28I wanted to save it because the manufacturer's address was on it.
00:21:32Gee, think hard.
00:21:33Maybe you can remember what you did with it.
00:21:34I put some empty bottles and things in the basement in an old cupboard.
00:21:41That container must have been with them.
00:21:43Maybe it's still there.
00:21:44Yeah.
00:21:45You just leave it to me.
00:21:46And please don't tell anyone.
00:21:47Oh, I almost forgot.
00:21:49Miss Denny, may we take a picture of you?
00:21:51I don't mind.
00:21:52Hurry up, Ted.
00:21:53Yeah, Ted.
00:21:55Thanks a lot, Miss Denny.
00:21:56And we'll let you know what happens.
00:22:06A little bit to your right.
00:22:07It looks sad now.
00:22:08Hold it.
00:22:14Here, what's the big idea?
00:22:15What's going on out here?
00:22:16We're taking the quadrofoam to port them with the foreign fabric.
00:22:18I'll get ham, scram, scram.
00:22:19Is the gentleman with the prisoner?
00:22:21Ted, I think we'd better be leaving.
00:22:22Here.
00:22:37Well, what if you can get in?
00:22:38It's still illegal.
00:22:39Not for a reporter.
00:22:40A reporter has the right to do things an ordinary person shouldn't.
00:22:43Ah, fool.
00:22:44Now, go ahead and do just exactly as I told you.
00:22:46Okay.
00:22:48But if anything happens, don't blame me.
00:22:57Hello.
00:22:58Well?
00:23:00You don't want to subscribe to any magazines, do you?
00:23:03No.
00:23:04I didn't think you did.
00:23:07Are you watching this place?
00:23:09Yep.
00:23:13Well, I guess you get kind of lonesome around here all by yourself, huh?
00:23:17Sometimes.
00:23:19I'm not very busy right now.
00:23:21If you like, I could play a little game of rummy or something.
00:23:26Say, that's an idea, son.
00:23:28Draw up a chair.
00:23:29Yes, well.
00:23:34Look, do you mind if I sit over there?
00:23:36I'm kind of superstitious.
00:23:38Oh, sure.
00:23:39Sure.
00:23:48We ought to have something to shoot at, son.
00:23:50Say, any a point?
00:23:52A penny of rummy.
00:23:54Yeah, that'll be fine.
00:23:57I'll keep score.
00:23:58For you.
00:24:07I'll keep score.
00:24:08Hurry, Nancy.
00:24:12Hurry up, guys, get my own day out.
00:24:14Don't do that.
00:24:16That puts me off of my game.
00:24:18Oh, I'm sorry.
00:25:22What was that noise?
00:25:25What noise?
00:25:26I'd better investigate.
00:25:27Well, you would just hear it, please.
00:25:34I'm sorry.
00:25:46Let's go.
00:25:52Your mother wants you to come home right away.
00:25:58Well, I guess I'll have to be gone.
00:26:01How do we stand?
00:26:03I'll figure it out.
00:26:10You got me in a fine mess.
00:26:12I lost my whole week's allowance to that rummy shark.
00:26:14Well, it was worth it.
00:26:16I found the Tintan.
00:26:17Yeah?
00:26:17Uh-huh.
00:26:18And Ted, that man with a funny ear was there.
00:26:20He chased me out of the basement.
00:26:22Gosh, Nancy.
00:26:23We took an awful chance.
00:26:26Maybe we shouldn't have done it.
00:26:28We'd better get this Tint right down to the police station
00:26:29and see if Captain Tweedy can find any fingerprints on it.
00:26:53Let's go.
00:26:54Suffering. Cats, look at the time.
00:26:55My tennis date was at three.
00:26:56But this is much more important than tennis.
00:26:58If I pass her up this time, she'll never play with me again.
00:27:00But don't you want to go to the police station?
00:27:02You don't need me.
00:27:03You can tell me about it later.
00:27:04Goodbye.
00:27:05Where?
00:27:53Captain Tweedy, of all people, it would have to be you.
00:27:57Captain Tweedy, of all people, it would have to be you.
00:28:02Well, wait a stare now.
00:28:04Come on, get away.
00:28:04Break it up.
00:28:11Hi, Dad.
00:28:12Hello, Pat.
00:28:13Gee, I'm glad you're home.
00:28:14You are.
00:28:15What are you doing up so late?
00:28:17You can get back to sleep.
00:28:19Good night.
00:28:20Oh, but Dad, I can't go to sleep.
00:28:22What's the matter?
00:28:24Nothing.
00:28:24Nothing.
00:28:25No.
00:28:27Come on in.
00:28:27Tell me all about it.
00:28:32Now.
00:28:34Dad, you've always taught me to do right, haven't you?
00:28:37I've tried to, Nancy.
00:28:39Dad, if I believed in something I knew was right, I should always live up to it.
00:28:44More than that.
00:28:45Don't back down an inch.
00:28:47Supposing you made a promise that you knew was right, I bet you you'd keep it.
00:28:51Certainly.
00:28:52A person who fails to live up to his promise is a weakness.
00:28:55And you'd never want me to break a promise, would you?
00:28:58Of course not, Nancy.
00:29:00If you make a promise in good faith, I'd expect you to live up to it, no matter what it
00:29:05cost you.
00:29:05And you'd help me live up to it?
00:29:07Certainly.
00:29:08What kind of a father do you think I am?
00:29:10Well then, you're going to defend Eula Denning because I promised her you would.
00:29:14What?
00:29:15Not that.
00:29:16You just said you'd help me keep a promise.
00:29:17Nancy, you tricked me into this.
00:29:19You're always doing that to me.
00:29:20Now, I won't have...
00:29:23Well, all right.
00:29:24If you can give me any reason to believe that Eula Denning is innocent, I'll take her case.
00:29:29Oh, Dad.
00:29:31I knew you would.
00:29:33Well, Ted and I went out to that Lambert house this afternoon.
00:29:36I sleeped in and found that tin of sodium paranoid.
00:29:38The one that Miss Denning claims could have had fingerprints on it.
00:29:40You two went out there alone?
00:29:41Uh-huh.
00:29:42And I know it was important evidence because that man with the funny ear chased me out of the basement.
00:29:46And, Ted, that's not the worst of it.
00:29:48When I was taking that tin down to the police, a woman stole it from me.
00:29:52So that proves other people are mixed up in it.
00:29:54You should have gone to the police in the first place.
00:29:55Oh, I know, Ed.
00:29:57Everything's gone wrong.
00:29:58I've failed all around.
00:30:00Maybe I'm just not intelligent.
00:30:01That's right.
00:30:03Dad!
00:30:03I mean, darling, everybody makes mistakes.
00:30:09Don't you see, Dad?
00:30:11If Eula Denning's convicted, it'll be my fault.
00:30:13Because I was foolish and lost the only evidence that could maybe save her.
00:30:16I'm responsible.
00:30:18Well, don't worry, Nancy.
00:30:19I'll see Eula Denning first thing in the morning.
00:30:21Oh, Dad.
00:30:23Honestly, I feel ten years younger.
00:30:25Don't be too enthusiastic.
00:30:27So far, there isn't a stick of evidence we could take into court.
00:30:30There will be if you can get hold of that man with a funny ear.
00:30:32You think you'd know him again if you saw him?
00:30:34With that ear?
00:30:35I'll say.
00:30:36It looked like one of Evie's talkovers.
00:30:37Oh, cauliflower ear.
00:30:39What?
00:30:39I thought a cauliflower went away.
00:30:41What did you say?
00:30:42I can't understand you, Nancy.
00:30:43Well, how can you expect some splashing around like a seal after a fish?
00:30:47That's no way to talk to your father.
00:30:49Oh, Dad, they're talking!
00:30:50Oh, why don't you take them out of here?
00:30:52Here.
00:30:52Here's a towel.
00:30:53Oh, dear.
00:30:54Now I'll have to start all over again.
00:30:56I said that that man's ear looked like one of Evie's popovers.
00:31:00And I said it was probably a cauliflower ear.
00:31:02Oh.
00:31:02That might indicate that he was a boxer or a wrestler.
00:31:05Really?
00:31:06Well, what connection such a man could have with this case is more than I can see.
00:31:10Dad, I felt all along that that man with a funny ear was a clue.
00:31:13I think you ought to do something about him.
00:31:15I'm going to do something about a girl with a funny face.
00:31:18Come on, baby, you're going to bed.
00:31:19Oh, Dad, put me down!
00:31:20I'm no baby!
00:31:21You'll always be your daddy's baby.
00:31:22I won't be anybody's baby!
00:31:24Everybody loves a baby.
00:31:27That's why I'm in love with you.
00:31:28Pretty baby, baby.
00:31:30Oh, Dad!
00:31:31Pretty baby!
00:31:32Dad, don't be so silly!
00:31:33Oh!
00:31:36Good night, baby!
00:31:38Good night, baby!
00:31:40Good night, baby!
00:31:41I'm going to leave you now.
00:31:43Oh, Dad!
00:31:44We've got to talk this thing over!
00:31:45In the morning, the morning!
00:31:48The bright and early morning!
00:31:50The morning!
00:31:59Hello.
00:32:01I'm Nancy Drew.
00:32:02Charm, I'm sure.
00:32:03Draw up a chair.
00:32:07No, thank you.
00:32:08I've been standing all day.
00:32:09Do you keep pictures of all kinds of prize photos from people like that?
00:32:12You should meet some of my wife's folks.
00:32:14But you came to the right place, sister. I know them all personally.
00:32:18What's your guy look like?
00:32:19Oh, you'll know him in a minute. He has a cauliflower ear.
00:32:32Here. If you recognize him, let me know.
00:33:03I'm sorry.
00:33:04Ted, hi Ted.
00:33:06What do you want?
00:33:07Well, don't make me yell. Come here.
00:33:10Excuse me a second, Helen.
00:33:18Come here.
00:33:18How did you find me here?
00:33:19Hello, Ted.
00:33:20Oh, I get it.
00:33:22Where would one expect to find you these days?
00:33:24Ted's got a girlfriend. Ted's got a girlfriend.
00:33:27Quiet, small fry.
00:33:28She's not so pretty, huh?
00:33:29I bet Ted thinks so.
00:33:30Look, what's on your money?
00:33:31Look at this clipping I found.
00:33:33Let me see.
00:33:36Soxy Anthens. Who's that?
00:33:38He's the man I saw at the Lambert place.
00:33:39He used to be a boxer.
00:33:40And right now he's at Maxie's gymnasium on First Street.
00:33:43How do you know?
00:33:43Yeah, how do you know?
00:33:45Well, I just asked myself where I'd go if I were a prizefighter
00:33:48and decided it would be to a gymnasium.
00:33:50So I called up all the places in town and pretended I was Mr. Anthens' girlfriend.
00:33:53And pretty soon I found out he was at Maxie's.
00:33:55And I hung up.
00:33:56Yeah.
00:33:57Well, it was nice of you to tell me about it.
00:33:59And I got to get back.
00:34:01Goodbye, Ben.
00:34:01Bye, Ben.
00:34:02Certainly.
00:34:02I don't want to keep you.
00:34:04I just thought I'd let you know where I'll be in case Dad asks you.
00:34:06You're not going down to that gym alone.
00:34:08Of course I am.
00:34:09Something has to be done about Toxley right away.
00:34:11He's important evidence.
00:34:12So you came over here to tell me about it.
00:34:14So I'll get in a jam with your father for letting you go there.
00:34:16I did no such thing.
00:34:17You're not responsible for me.
00:34:19We'll go with you, Nancy.
00:34:20We did slump fights, don't we, Killer?
00:34:22I hope to kiss a polecat.
00:34:24You two will not go.
00:34:25Why not?
00:34:26Why?
00:34:26Never mind.
00:34:27Oh, darn it, Nancy.
00:34:28Now you got me worried.
00:34:29Maybe I better go alone.
00:34:30Oh, I don't think you ought to, Ted.
00:34:32It's a pretty tough place.
00:34:33I can take care of myself and you too.
00:34:35Well, if you insist.
00:34:37Here.
00:34:38What's this?
00:34:39Your costume.
00:34:40You'll pose as another boxer by the name of One Round Lugan.
00:34:42Gain Soxley's confidence.
00:34:44And who knows, maybe he'll incriminate himself.
00:34:46Say, you had this all figured out, didn't you?
00:34:48Why, Ted Nickerson, I did not.
00:35:07You really did that.
00:35:14I thought never would be fine.
00:35:16What can I do?
00:35:20This is an awful joint.
00:35:22Ted, there he is.
00:35:26Ted, I'm positive that woman that stole the tin can from me yesterday is Oxy's girlfriend.
00:35:30So now all you have to do is get him to tell you her name and where she lives.
00:35:33Maybe you'd like to know if she's got any bridge work.
00:35:35How will that help?
00:35:37Do you remember? Captain Tweedy always said,
00:35:39Cherchez la fin, find the woman.
00:35:40Very smart thing he ever did say.
00:35:42Yeah, and he stole that.
00:35:44But it's true.
00:35:44You can always get information from women.
00:35:46They just love to talk.
00:35:48Yeah, I've noticed that.
00:35:49Go ahead now. I'll wait out here for you.
00:35:53Gosh, he doesn't look very friendly, does he?
00:35:57Remember, you're one-round Lugan.
00:36:05Wait a minute. What's the name?
00:36:07One-round Lugan.
00:36:09All right, Cher, you don't get so long as you can.
00:36:17Hiya, champ.
00:36:19I ain't no champ.
00:36:20You sure train like one.
00:36:23I'm kind of new around this, Greg.
00:36:25Yeah, but I've been putting the boys on a camp or something, Frisco.
00:36:28Yeah?
00:36:29I'll be enough of that.
00:36:31Say, didn't I see you with a nice-looking dame the other night?
00:36:33What's your name?
00:36:34Oh, one-round Lugan.
00:36:35I'll bet that baby...
00:36:36One-round Lugan.
00:36:37Never heard of you.
00:36:38Well, I ain't very well known around here yet.
00:36:42How about spying a few hours?
00:36:43That'll get you some attention.
00:36:44Oh, I ain't gonna do any training today.
00:36:48If you're a fighter, you're in training all the time.
00:36:52Well, I didn't bring my clothes.
00:36:54It's all right. I'll get you some.
00:36:55Hey, Jake.
00:36:57Yeah?
00:36:58Give the job a pair of trunks.
00:36:59He's gonna show me how to do things out in Frisco.
00:37:01Oh, sure. Well, come on.
00:37:03But I'd really rather not.
00:37:24I want some gum, please.
00:37:51Max, it's Jim.
00:37:52Uh, this is Soxy Amson's girlfriend speaking.
00:37:55Will you have him call me back as soon as he can?
00:37:57Wait a minute. He's right here.
00:37:59Hello?
00:38:02Hey, Soxy.
00:38:04Your girlfriend wants you to call her right away.
00:38:06Okay.
00:38:34Come on.
00:38:35No, no, not there.
00:38:37Come on, through here.
00:38:38Hey!
00:38:39Get in there, will you?
00:38:41In you go.
00:38:44All right, Soxie, warm up a little bit.
00:38:47A little.
00:38:48That's it.
00:38:54Ha-ha.
00:38:55No games.
00:38:56Oh, but I've got to go in now.
00:38:58I'm his manager.
00:38:59His manager?
00:39:03Ted, what are you doing?
00:39:05Oh, gee, Nancy, I'm an awful mess.
00:39:07Well, I just learned something that might be an important clue.
00:39:09Come on, I want to go.
00:39:11So do I.
00:39:12But I can't.
00:39:13I've got to fight him.
00:39:15Fight him?
00:39:16Oh, Ted, you mustn't.
00:39:19I'll get mobbed or something if I don't.
00:39:21Oh, dear.
00:39:23Well, look, maybe he's out of condition.
00:39:25Yeah.
00:39:26Like an ox.
00:39:27Okay, one around.
00:39:29Let's go.
00:39:29Please, Jake.
00:39:30All set.
00:39:34Well, goodbye, Nancy.
00:39:37Now, folks, we're going to have a little excitement.
00:39:40Three-round boxing exhibition between Soxie Ampers of Chicago,
00:39:43who we all know.
00:39:49And one-round Lugan, the Frisco flag.
00:39:54All right, boys, go to your corners and come out fighting.
00:39:58Why, one round, your glove's untied.
00:40:01Here, let me fix it for you.
00:40:02Hmm?
00:40:07Nancy, you're a genius.
00:40:12Now, if I can only tie you.
00:40:16Come on, Maxie.
00:40:17Come on.
00:40:19Come on.
00:40:20Come on, Maxie.
00:40:20Him again, Ted.
00:40:20Oh, I mean Lugan.
00:40:22Come on.
00:40:23Come on, Soxie.
00:40:24Hey!
00:40:25Come on.
00:40:26Come on.
00:40:26Come on.
00:40:27Hang him on a whisker, Soxie.
00:40:29Ah, Ted ain't got no whiskers yet.
00:40:31He has, too.
00:40:34Whoa!
00:40:37Whoa!
00:40:38Whoa!
00:40:38Whoa!
00:40:38Tuck one up!
00:40:43Oh, Chase, get for a change.
00:40:48How much time left?
00:40:50Count him!
00:40:51Don't be so nice to him!
00:40:55Hit him again!
00:40:56Hit him again!
00:40:57Hit him again!
00:40:58Come on!
00:40:59Come on!
00:41:00Come on!
00:41:01Come on!
00:41:01Come on!
00:41:02Come on!
00:41:03Come on!
00:41:04Come on!
00:41:07Ted!
00:41:08Ted!
00:41:09Ted!
00:41:11Ted!
00:41:12Ted, speak to me!
00:41:14Speak to me!
00:41:16Ted, what happened?
00:41:18That's what I was just about to ask you.
00:41:21Try 3-5-2-4-4-9.
00:41:26Gee, I wonder what they're doing.
00:41:28I don't know who they are.
00:41:30Maybe they're both insane.
00:41:32Hello.
00:41:34This is Soxie Athens.
00:41:36Is my girlfriend there?
00:41:41No, so.
00:41:43Dear, there's only one more we can call.
00:41:45And that just has to be it.
00:41:47If you got the rest of them right.
00:41:49Oh, I'm sure I have.
00:41:50Yeah.
00:41:50Oh, look at me.
00:41:53I'm ruined.
00:41:54I won't even dare show up for my tennis lessons now.
00:41:57Tennis lessons?
00:41:59Ted, is that girl you've been playing with a tennis teacher?
00:42:02Sure.
00:42:03It's Helen Winfield, a champ.
00:42:05Those lessons cost me $1.50 a copy.
00:42:07Tennis teacher?
00:42:08Oh, that's wonderful.
00:42:09I mean, I'm sorry about your lessons, but...
00:42:12Hey, what's the matter with you?
00:42:13Nothing, nothing.
00:42:14Now, try that other number.
00:42:153-5-2-4-4-0.
00:42:17Maybe you ought to be psychoanalyzed.
00:42:21Oh, I'm going home and get me a cookie.
00:42:24Get me one, too.
00:42:25I'm gonna stay here and find out what it's all about.
00:42:27Okay, pal.
00:42:34Room clerk, Beldenburg Hotel.
00:42:36This is Mr. Soxie Athens.
00:42:38I...
00:42:39I'm calling my girlfriend.
00:42:41Well, she isn't here just now, Mr. Athens.
00:42:43It's the place.
00:42:45How will I get her name?
00:42:46Be strategic.
00:42:47Yeah, yeah.
00:42:49Uh, do you know where Miss Fultz went?
00:42:51No, I don't, but...
00:42:53I'll see if she left a message in your box.
00:42:55Soxie lives there, too.
00:42:56Really?
00:42:59No, there's no message, Mr. Athens.
00:43:00Shall I tell her you call?
00:43:02Just a moment.
00:43:04Well, Jo, did Miss Lucas take your cab?
00:43:06Yeah, why?
00:43:07Her name's Lucas.
00:43:08Yeah.
00:43:10She went to the Mandarin Cafe, Mr. Athens.
00:43:13Mandarin?
00:43:13Well, thank you very...
00:43:14Uh, thank you very much.
00:43:17The Mandarin Cafe.
00:43:27You any money?
00:43:29Well, not to brag about it.
00:43:31Neither have I.
00:43:32Don't eat too much.
00:43:35Oh, boy!
00:43:36A Chinese place!
00:43:38Mary Nickerson.
00:43:39We just love Chinese places, don't we, killer?
00:43:41Yeah.
00:43:41For God's sake, where did you hoodlums come from?
00:43:44Thought you'd get away from us, didn't you?
00:43:46Yeah!
00:43:47You're going home.
00:43:48We are not.
00:43:49We might get lost.
00:43:50We're going with you.
00:43:51Over my dead body.
00:43:52Mine, too.
00:43:54Well, I guess I'll just have to call up Nancy's father then.
00:43:58Oh, all right, all right.
00:43:59I suppose we'll have to do it.
00:44:01But on one condition.
00:44:02When the waiter takes your order, you say, I'm not hungry.
00:44:04But I am!
00:44:05How about you, killer?
00:44:07I'm stuck!
00:44:08We haven't enough money.
00:44:09Are you going to cooperate with us or not?
00:44:11How about it, killer?
00:44:12Sure, we'll play ball.
00:44:14Okay, let's go.
00:44:14Wait a minute.
00:44:15Let's just try this once.
00:44:17Now.
00:44:18I'm the waiter.
00:44:19What'll you have, Cass?
00:44:21Tatsumi!
00:44:21No, no.
00:44:23Look, we're broke.
00:44:25We can't buy you any food.
00:44:27And would you settle for a glass of milk?
00:44:29Well, we might go that far.
00:44:31Okay, it's a deal.
00:44:34Ted, why do you have to have a sister?
00:44:36Ask Ma.
00:44:46Oh, I'm afraid this is a little too close to the orchestra.
00:44:51I'm afraid.
00:44:57This will be fine.
00:44:58Thank you very much.
00:45:00Ted, did you see?
00:45:02She's right in the next booth.
00:45:04It's Miles Lambert.
00:45:05She is?
00:45:06It's fine.
00:45:07Something's funny.
00:45:08I'd positive that's Soxie's girl,
00:45:10and yet she's stepping out with Mr. Lambert.
00:45:13Do you suppose Soxie knows Lambert?
00:45:16Let me out.
00:45:18What for?
00:45:18Never mind.
00:45:21Never mind that.
00:45:26Come on.
00:45:33Max is Jim.
00:45:35Soxie!
00:45:41Hello?
00:45:42Mr. Ansons, this is a friend.
00:45:46Would you be interested in knowing that Miss Lucas is dining with Miles Lambert at the Mandarin Cafe?
00:45:51Who's talking?
00:46:08What did you call me?
00:46:10I phoned Soxie about Lambert and Miss Lucas.
00:46:12And was he mad?
00:46:14Soft from the cats.
00:46:15I'd quickly learned something important,
00:46:16because when he gets here, something's sure to happen.
00:46:19Yeah.
00:46:20Probably a tall one.
00:46:22What you order, please?
00:46:23Oh.
00:46:24I'll have some egg full young.
00:46:27And you?
00:46:27Uh.
00:46:29Just tea.
00:46:30And you too, please.
00:46:35a glass of milk, and chopped suey.
00:46:40Yes, yes.
00:46:54Hey, look.
00:47:12Soxie!
00:47:12You cheap little...
00:47:13Take it easy, Soxie.
00:47:14Sit down.
00:47:16You've been planning to run out on me ever since you found out Lambert is moving in on that old
00:47:20lady's dough.
00:47:20Shut up, Soxie.
00:47:22As for you, wise guy, you want the stain, she's yours.
00:47:25But the minute you're her try and break, you're gonna get her surprise.
00:47:28I've still got the tin can with fingerprints on it.
00:47:32I don't know what to do with it.
00:47:34Why?
00:47:37Ducky!
00:47:37Ducky!
00:47:38Ducky!
00:47:38Ducky!
00:47:39Hey!
00:47:39Hey!
00:47:40Hey!
00:47:40Hey!
00:47:41Hey!
00:47:42Hey!
00:47:43Hey!
00:47:44Hey!
00:47:45Hey!
00:47:46There's no clue where you will do that!
00:47:47Now, go get ahead.
00:47:48We don't want any publicity!
00:47:51Come on, Dowek.
00:47:53Where at the other man's hand?
00:47:55Get the checks, I've gotta call Dad.
00:47:56Sure.
00:48:06Yes?
00:48:06Your daughter's on the phone, Mr. Drew.
00:48:09Hello, Nancy!
00:48:11Dad, what happened to Lombard's estate if you'll eventing us be convicted?
00:48:14It goes to Miss Lambert's nearest relative, Miles Lambert.
00:48:16Why do you ask?
00:48:17Oh, I was just wondering.
00:48:19Thanks, Ted.
00:48:23Come on, Ted, hurry up.
00:48:25Give me some dough.
00:48:26I'm short.
00:48:28That's all I have.
00:48:31Sixty-five cents more, please.
00:48:33Look, mister, that's all we got.
00:48:35Maybe you'll trust us, huh?
00:48:37Oh, sure, sure.
00:48:38You nice people, I trust you.
00:48:40Oh, thank you very much.
00:48:42Come on, Ted, we've got to hurry.
00:48:43Sixty-five cents.
00:48:45But you just said you trust us.
00:48:47You see, mister, we've got to go home and get the money from our folks.
00:48:50But we'll come back.
00:48:52Sixty-five cents.
00:48:54Now look what you got us into.
00:48:56We don't know nothing about it, do we, Keller?
00:48:59No, they invited us.
00:49:02Look, mister, we haven't got sixty-five cents.
00:49:06Cut check, no sixty-five cents?
00:49:08Yeah, that's right.
00:49:10Winger, dug up.
00:49:21You wash dishes all the day.
00:49:23Maybe two, three days.
00:49:25Hey, hey, where you go?
00:49:26Kitchen that way.
00:49:28No, fire focus is that way.
00:49:29Now look.
00:49:30Oh, I don't want to wash dishes.
00:49:33I'm awful tired, but I can supervise.
00:49:35You're going to wash dishes, both of you.
00:49:37It'll serve your right, too.
00:49:38Oh, mister, maybe she could entertain.
00:49:41Entertain?
00:49:42Yeah, she's a famous singer.
00:49:43I thought she was my fan.
00:49:45What are you trying to do?
00:49:46You must be winging.
00:49:47I'm as sure she's sung all over the world.
00:49:50All right.
00:49:51You sing nice, American song.
00:49:53No good, washy-dischy.
00:49:55Come on, quick.
00:49:55Hey, what do they sing?
00:50:00Anything.
00:50:01Little Bo Peep.
00:50:03Oh, dear.
00:50:05We'll be in for life after this.
00:50:08Yeah, we'll be in.
00:50:09Hey, mister, can't you help her out?
00:50:13Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep.
00:50:18But she knows just where to find them
00:50:23For they'll stand around the band
00:50:28Wagging their tails behind them
00:50:33Hi, diddle, diddle, the cat has fizzled
00:50:36The cow is beginning to croon
00:50:38Oh, little dog laughs, laughs, laughs
00:50:40Because we're never in tune
00:50:42Mary had a little lamb, little lamb
00:50:47Little lamb
00:50:48Mary had a little lamb
00:50:50He said, I'll see you later
00:50:52He went out to hear them jam
00:50:55Hear them jam, hear them jam
00:50:57Mary had a little lamb
00:51:00Now he's an alligator
00:51:02Oaks, peas, beans, and barley grow
00:51:05Oaks, peas, beans, and barley grow
00:51:07Can you or I or anyone know
00:51:10How oats, peas, beans, and barley grow
00:51:12Grab yourself a partner
00:51:15Grab yourself a partner
00:51:17Open the ring and choose one in
00:51:20While we all daily laugh and sing
00:51:22Twinkle, twinkle, little star
00:51:24How I wonder what you are
00:51:27Up above the world so high
00:51:29Like a diamond in the sky
00:51:51Rock-a-bye, baby, in the treetop
00:51:56When the wind blows, the cradle will rock
00:52:00When the wind blows, the cradle will rock
00:52:03The cradle will fall and down will come, baby
00:52:08Cradle and all
00:52:13Rock it, my baby
00:52:22We all love music
00:52:25So don't you count
00:52:27And rock it, my baby
00:52:30Rock it, my baby
00:52:32Rock it, my baby
00:52:35Rock it, my baby
00:52:38Say, do, say, do, see
00:52:40Rock it on, dance
00:52:46Ah, Miss Drew
00:52:47Ah, we're all present
00:52:49Now, here's the $50 and the medal
00:52:52And now if Mr. Bostwick has chosen the best news story submitted by our charming company
00:52:57Give the prize to this one
00:52:58About the humane worker who invented a nutcracker for toothless squirrel
00:53:02That's me
00:53:04I won, I won
00:53:07It has been great
00:53:07Unless Miss Drew has a better story
00:53:10Oh, I have a story, Mr. Bostwick
00:53:11But it's very confidential
00:53:13You see, my father
00:53:19Well, what is it?
00:53:20Shh
00:53:23Fact is, Mr. Bostwick
00:53:25Some strange man called my father
00:53:27And said he had the missing tin of sodium faranine
00:53:30With fingerprints on it that would prove Eula Denning is innocent
00:53:34It would show up the real murderer of Kate Lambert
00:53:36Is this true?
00:53:38Why, Mr. Bostwick
00:53:39You know my father's reputation
00:53:41And I wouldn't tell a lie
00:53:44Go on, go on
00:53:46Furthermore
00:53:48The man is bringing the tin to my father's office this evening
00:53:51Terrific
00:53:53Hey, Charlie, stop the presses
00:53:55You're wonderful, Miss Drew
00:53:56Paul Page won for replay
00:53:57Not a story yet?
00:53:59Hey, Rerat
00:54:00Don't stand there like a halfwit
00:54:01Give her the money
00:54:02She won
00:54:04Congratulations
00:54:04And now, Mr. Drew
00:54:06I take great pleasure in presenting you the check and the medal
00:54:10Oh, well
00:54:11Give the check to the others
00:54:13And I'll just take the medal
00:54:14Come on, Ted
00:54:14We're in a hurry
00:54:30Remarkable
00:54:32Remarkable
00:54:32Isn't it a whopper?
00:54:33So Soxy Anthem's gonna spill the beans, eh?
00:54:37Well, well
00:54:38You don't understand, Sergeant Entwistle
00:54:40That story isn't true
00:54:41Must be true
00:54:42It's print in the paper
00:54:43Nancy just made it up
00:54:45But the print it for it isn't true
00:54:46That's the trouble with the newspapers these days
00:54:48Well, it wasn't their fault
00:54:50I made the editor think the story was on the level
00:54:52Why?
00:54:54Oh, dear
00:54:55Sergeant Entwistle
00:54:56Are you sure Captain Tweedy won't be back?
00:54:57Sure, I'm sure
00:54:58He's in Chicago on a radio interview
00:55:00On how to avoid crime
00:55:01He's done it, all right
00:55:03Just the same
00:55:04I'll bet he'd understand
00:55:05Yeah
00:55:06What's Captain Tweedy got that I haven't got?
00:55:08Well, for one thing
00:55:09Well, for one thing
00:55:10Look, Sergeant
00:55:11I put that story in the paper
00:55:13So the police could trap the real murderer of Kate Lambert
00:55:15Well, that's different
00:55:17How?
00:55:18Don't you see?
00:55:19That paper will be on the street any minute
00:55:20And if Lambert is really the murderer
00:55:22He'll go to Soxy's room after that tin can
00:55:24The minute he reads the story
00:55:25He'll think Soxy's going to double-cross him or something
00:55:28Miss Drew, I'm sort of influenced to think you've got something
00:55:30Of course I have
00:55:32Now, all you have to do is be at Soxy's place when Lambert arrives
00:55:34And arrest them both with the evidence
00:55:36Where's this guy Soxy lived?
00:55:38Room 815, Beldenburg Hotel
00:55:39We'll go along and help you identify them
00:55:41No, you kids can't come along
00:55:42Oh, but I've got to go along
00:55:43I want to get an eyewitness news story about how you handle the case
00:55:46When they read what I write, you'll probably be promoted
00:55:48Yeah? I see what you mean
00:55:50All right, you kids got to promise to keep out of trouble
00:55:52Oh, sure, we promise
00:55:55This is Sergeant Entwistle
00:55:56Send up a couple squad cars
00:55:58Oh, no, you mustn't do that
00:56:00If those men see police around, they'll run away
00:56:02Or at least get rid of that tin
00:56:03Yeah, so see what you mean
00:56:05All right, I'll go along
00:56:06Capture them single-handed
00:56:07That'll be much better
00:56:08But if they even see you, then...
00:56:10Oh, don't worry about that
00:56:11They'll never know me
00:56:12I'll wear that disguise I wore on the Cullen case
00:56:14Here it is, Sergeant
00:56:17Oh, thanks
00:56:27Thank you
00:56:30Oh, careful
00:56:32Grandma's medicine
00:56:33Clumsy
00:56:36Good evening, young man
00:56:37Good evening, madam
00:56:37Will you register, Arthur?
00:56:39Huh?
00:56:40Oh, sure
00:56:41Grandma
00:56:42Grandma would like the same room she had the last time she was here
00:56:44What was it, Grandma?
00:56:45Why, let's see
00:56:47My memory ain't what it used to be
00:56:49Was it, uh, 8.15?
00:56:51Well, 8.15 is occupied, Mrs. Plopper
00:56:54But I can give you the one right next to it
00:56:56Oh, that'd be wonderful
00:56:57Yes, that'll have to do
00:56:59You see, I'll have to be up high on the count of my ass
00:57:01I see
00:57:04Show Mrs. Plopper to 8.17
00:57:06Come, children
00:57:08Why don't they make these doors bigger?
00:57:11Care for us
00:57:12Yes, ma'am
00:57:29Anything else, madam?
00:57:30No, thanks
00:57:32There you are
00:57:34Thank you
00:57:37Get those bags open
00:57:40Did I tell you about my disguise?
00:57:42Out here, sergeant
00:57:43Okay
00:57:44Did I fool them?
00:57:46Did I fool them?
00:57:48Anything happens, I'll give you the signal
00:57:50Right
00:57:50Right
00:58:31Let me do that, wouldn't you, Nancy?
00:58:33Yeah
00:58:40This one goes on the wall
00:58:49Pull that wire through, will you, Nancy?
00:58:56Okay
00:58:58I don't like this business, Nancy
00:59:00Give me the wham-whams
00:59:02I know, me too
00:59:06I'll sit here
00:59:07If you don't hear me, let me know
00:59:09I can hear them
00:59:10Yeah
00:59:10I don't know
00:59:11I don't know
00:59:12I don't know
00:59:18I don't know
00:59:51Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:59:56Oh, I guess I must be in the wrong room.
01:00:02What's your name?
01:00:04Why, my name is Mrs. Popper.
01:00:07Help, help.
01:00:09Get away and send them off.
01:00:12Oh, do something.
01:00:21Hold on.
01:00:23Got that phone.
01:00:24We weren't doing anything.
01:00:26Honest, we weren't.
01:00:26No, no, we were merely trying.
01:00:28Shut up.
01:00:29Come on, get up, you.
01:00:37All right, get out of here.
01:00:44Come on.
01:00:48Upstairs.
01:00:50All right, hurry it up.
01:00:56Come on.
01:00:57Come on.
01:01:06Mister, what are you going to do to us?
01:01:13All right, in here.
01:01:29I wonder what they did to Sergeant Entwistle.
01:01:32I wonder what they did to Sergeant Entwistle.
01:01:44Yeah, I know.
01:01:47Oh, that's no use, Nancy.
01:01:49Let's yell.
01:01:51Yeah, together.
01:01:53Help!
01:01:54Help!
01:01:55Somebody let me...
01:01:56Think.
01:01:57I hopefully got machine guns in this picture.
01:01:59So do I.
01:02:00Say.
01:02:02Look.
01:02:06Nancy's car.
01:02:08Let's hook the air out of the tires.
01:02:10We ought to do something.
01:02:12Say.
01:02:12I just remembered.
01:02:22Hey, those are mine.
01:02:26Let's put them all on.
01:02:29Oh, boy.
01:02:31Help somebody.
01:02:34There's not a chance, Nancy.
01:02:36Not a chance.
01:02:37With hundreds of people right under our feet,
01:02:39there must be some way out.
01:02:42What's that?
01:02:43Oh, it's just a fuse box.
01:02:46Say.
01:02:47Those are the fuses to the electric side.
01:02:49If we turn that off, we'd get some attention.
01:02:51Well, they wouldn't notice it for hours, baby.
01:02:53By that time, it'll be too late.
01:02:56Bell, little bit.
01:02:58Wait a minute.
01:03:00I've got an idea.
01:03:10I've got an idea.
01:03:13There.
01:03:13That ought to create a sensation.
01:03:15And this will help.
01:03:23Look.
01:03:42Get the engineer to fix it right away.
01:04:09Somebody's coming.
01:04:11Hurry up!
01:04:15Come on, mister.
01:04:16Downstairs, a criminal.
01:04:17We've got to catch him.
01:04:18Follow me.
01:04:30Where are you going to double-cross me?
01:04:34Get the police, quick.
01:04:35All right.
01:04:37Give me that.
01:04:44That'll hold him.
01:04:48Ted, hurry up.
01:04:50Right.
01:04:54You're a punchy, Lambert.
01:04:56That story in the paper was a phony.
01:04:58Yeah?
01:04:58Well, you're still hanging out of that tin can, aren't you?
01:05:00Sure.
01:05:01In case I have to prove you killed the old dame.
01:05:03I don't trust you.
01:05:04You'll get your dough as soon as they convict you with Danny.
01:05:06If I were going to double-cross you, you don't think I'd tie up the law here, do you?
01:05:10Where'd he come from?
01:05:11He was looking for that tin can.
01:05:13Say, this is a frame.
01:05:30You're getting away.
01:05:50Come on, let's try this.
01:06:04I'm getting away in my daughter's car.
01:06:15Hey!
01:06:17Hey!
01:06:19Hey!
01:06:21Hey!
01:06:24After the man!
01:06:52Hey, get off that car!
01:06:54Stop, you idiot!
01:06:55That's the car I'm chasing!
01:06:58Come on!
01:06:59Come on!
01:07:02What's this all about?
01:07:04That's him!
01:07:05That's the man that poisoned the Lambert woman.
01:07:07And here's the proof.
01:07:08Hi, Dad!
01:07:09Nancy, how many times have I told you not to?
01:07:12Sergeant, how dare you allow my daughter to...
01:07:19Calling car 21.
01:07:21Calling car 21.
01:07:24Proceed to Jem Movie Theater.
01:07:26Apprehend two kids, boy and girl about 13.
01:07:28didn't like picture, set off whistle bomb, that is all.