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(cheerful music)

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(ticker tape machines clicking)

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(indistinct stockbroker chatter)

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(ticker tape machines clicking rapidly)

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(indistinct stockbroker chatter)

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- Come on, come on.

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Get a move on.

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- [Secretary] Mr. Benson!
- Yes?

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- Mrs. Boyd-White!
- Well, well?

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- She said she can't cover for him.

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- Then, tell Joey to sell him out.

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- Yes sir.

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Benson Company? Yes, I will!

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(indistinct chatter)

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- Oh, I'm so sorry Captain.

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What is the matter?
- Oh, shut up!

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- Hello, Mohler!

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- I must see you!
- All right, all right.

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Come on into the office.

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- Oh, Mr. Benson!
- Yes?

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- We're all cleaned up now,

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except for that one big account.

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- Oh, you mean Gray's!
- Yes, sir!

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- What is the status now?

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- 380,000.

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- You tried to notify him?

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- All day yesterday and today.

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- Well try, oh, nevermind.

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Sell him out. Sell him out.

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Well? You heard me.

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Close him out!
- Yes, sir!

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- Oh, Miss Leslie,

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get those bottle packages
out of the stairs

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and bring them to my office.
- Yes, sir.

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- I tell you, it is most necessary,

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I get this (indistinct)
- All right, all right,

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in a minute.

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Ms. Leslie?
- [Ms. Leslie] I'm coming sir!

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- Oh, thank you.

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Well, here they are,

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and you owe me the note to me, too!

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Pay the note and you get back as well,

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the note's due tomorrow.

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- Well, I cannot pay.

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- Oh, then you don't get this or this,

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since you can't pay the note.

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- Oh, Tony, are you not my friend?

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- Sure!

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If I weren't, you wouldn't forge my name

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to this check, would you?

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- Oh!
(phone buzzing)

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Yes? All right, tell her
I'll see her in a minute.

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- But I must have the cheque!

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- Try and get it!

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- But if you don't give it to me,

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- Now listen, you won't do anything.

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Who do you think I am,
one of your faded widows?

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And I'm not very afraid of male lapdogs!

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- Well, well, interesting
hearing men fight

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over something besides me for a change!

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- Ms. Del Roy, Mr. Mohler.

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- Hello, Dolphy!
- Hello Fanny.

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- He knows you too?

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What are you all a twitter about, anyway?

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You borrowed these from your
meal ticket, didn't you?

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And she's in Paris, isn't she?

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Well, you better pay me somehow

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and return it before she
gets back, haven't you?

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(phone buzzing)

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Yes?

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- What did he mean, your
meal ticket is in Paris?

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- Where did you think I
picked what I gave you?

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From the trees?

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- Mrs. Banning's here?
- Who?

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- Tell her I'll see here in a minute.

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Well old boy, your meal ticket's back.

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Perhaps she brought you
a Parisian dog biscuit!

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- Oh!
(Benson laughing)

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- What is it?

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What's that dowagers
delight got, that I haven't?

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- When you are a big boy,

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maybe I'll tell you.
- Yes?

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Well, let me tell you something, darling.

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We sold you out of the
market this morning.

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You haven't got a dime.

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- You! You didn't!

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- Yes, but my dear, my own,

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why didn't you cable me you were coming?

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- My dear darling, I did cable.

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You just must have been out.

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- Oh, I was hunting in the mountain,

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and I was dying for
you to come back to me.

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What did you come here for, Paula?

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Do not tell me you were
locked in the market.

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- My dear boy, I don't know.

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I only heard of the crash

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when I arrived this morning.

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I've been nearly frantic,

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but of course, Tony Benson would carry me!

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- Oh yeah, yeah.

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- Where is Tony?

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- Oh, wait, wait.

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- Tony Benson, you're a
cold scoundrel aren't you?

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No wonder I can't go for you,

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you could have given me
another day to cover.

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- You didn't answer one
of our margin calls.

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- Oh, I was going to bring you my pearls,

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but say, what's in that box?
- Now, now, now, now.

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- Oh, Tony my darling,

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I simply must know what's
happened to my account.

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You carried me, of course!

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- No, you were a little overweight.

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- Tony!

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- [Assistant] Oh, Mr. Gray!

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Excuse me, we tried to
get in touch with you.

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- I've been out of town.

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- [Assistant] I was
gonna mail these to you.

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You see, you were the last account we had

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that wasn't covered, so,

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- I understand.

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Mr. Gray, would you mind
waiting in the waiting room?

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There's someone in Mr. Benson's office.

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- Alright.

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- Yes, I sold you out.

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All of you, All except Adolph,

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who wasn't even in.

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No, it's something else your
dear Adolph owes me for!

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Not the market!
- Benson, I'm going to,

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- Never mind.
- Oh, you're busy, Tony.

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- No, come in Harry.

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- A storm seems to be arriving.

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- It looks as if one has already arrived.

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I'll come back when you're alone.

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- Alright, Harry.

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- I have nothing more to say.

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You are not a gentleman, Mr. Benson.

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You are a,
- I know, I'm a Smith.

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Well, is it my fault

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that you are on the high
seas when the market breaks?

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- I have a good mind to,
- You won't do anything.

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Mohler said he would, but he won't.

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None of you will.

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Oh, I suppose if you could,

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I'd be a corpse by now.

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Well, you were called on
for margin, weren't you?

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You wanted to have your
cake and eat it too.

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Easy money, quick profit.

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Well, you've gambled and you lost.

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Yes, you lost!

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- Mr. Benson,
- You lost, I tell you!

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- Dolphy, dear, don't you have

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anything to say to this person?

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The way he's talking to me,
- With what I got on him,

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oh, go on, get out of here.

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All of you, go on.

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Go on, get out. Leave me alone.

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I'm no longer in.

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Hello, reception?

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Get my chauffeur at the garage.

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Tell him to meet me at the
club at six o'clock, yes.

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I'm going to spend the night
at my place up the river,

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and I don't want to be disturbed.

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All right.

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Yes, come in Harry.

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Even the heavens seem to be crashing.

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Say, Harry, why don't you
spend the night with me

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at my place up the river?

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- It's not a bad idea.

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- We can meet at the club at six o'clock

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and have a steam and a
rubdown before we go.

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I'm nervous.

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- I don't blame you,

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after that gang that was just in here.

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They don't like you, do they?

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- Well, maybe not.

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You know, Harry, I'm sorry
I had to sell you out;

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but then you big shots are
used to taking it on the chin.

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- Not twice in succession.
- Twice?

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- Big Drake walked off with
180 grand of mine last week.

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- He did?

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- Yeah, he high carded me.

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- Oh.

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Harry, why don't you quit that racket?

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- I like it.

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- Harry, you're not sore at me, are you?

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- I haven't made up my mind, yet.

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(storm winds blowing)

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(dice game rattling)

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- That's 3000 you owe me.

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- [Mr. Gray] Yeah, three grand.

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- I've got the jumps!

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- No wonder, after what
you did to me today.

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- Oh, well those cry babies at
the office got on my nerves.

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Well, I put a couple of
twos and twos together,

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watching Del Roy and Mohler.

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Oh, let's go to bed, eh?

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- Oh, I left my bag at your club.

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- I'll phone for it.

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You'll have to rough it, though.

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I let the servants go for the winter.

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(loud banging)
(winds blowing)

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(storm winds blowing)

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- What was that?

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- Backfire, I guess.
- Oh, Markham's car, maybe.

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- Whose?

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- Markham, the district attorney.

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You know him, don't you?

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- We've had a couple of talks.

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What's he doing here?

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- He's got a place next to mine.

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He's up here resting for the campaign.

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(winds blowing)

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(hinge creaking)
(glass smashing)

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(rapid footsteps)

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(winds blowing)

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(thunder rolling)

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Hello, Fanny!

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Adding a little burglary

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to your other accomplishments, eh?

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(Benson chuckling)

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- [Fanny] I want that
jewel case Mohler gave you.

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- Oh-ho! So he borrowed them from you

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and not Paula Banning, eh?

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Well, what do you think of that fella?

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(Benson laughing)

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- Hurry Benson, I was going to give

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those pearls to you to cover my account,

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till I couldn't find them.

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- Hurry what? That jewel
case is in my office safe,

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where it'll stay.
- Oh, no it isn't.

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I thought in the pocket
your coat as you left today.

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- That's right, I forgot.

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I was upset.

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They're in my coat pocket downstairs.

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Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me, please.

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(car engine fading)

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(thunder rumbling)

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- [Mr. Gray] Don't move!
(Paula screaming)

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- What do you mean
frightening me like that?

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- Would you have a drink?

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- What?

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- Suit yourself.

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Oh, Tony?

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- Who's that?

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- It's Gray, I'll get rid of him, though.

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- Friend of yours!
- [Mr. Benson] Huh?

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- Tony, I want you,
- Excuse me, please. My coat.

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- You were leaving, perhaps?

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- What? Oh, not at all.

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What was the noise out back?

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- Window blew shut.

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Must have been open.

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- Tony, I must plead for my poor darling.

257
00:12:05,546 --> 00:12:07,879
He had no idea he was doing anything wrong

258
00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:09,212
when he signed that check.

259
00:12:09,212 --> 00:12:10,837
You were such friends!

260
00:12:10,837 --> 00:12:12,462
I shouldn't have left him.

261
00:12:12,462 --> 00:12:14,712
- Then you'd better pay his note to me.

262
00:12:14,712 --> 00:12:16,837
- My dear Tony, I haven't the 10,000.

263
00:12:16,837 --> 00:12:18,837
I tell you, I've lost everything.

264
00:12:18,837 --> 00:12:21,046
And the banks won't
advance me another cent.

265
00:12:22,962 --> 00:12:24,379
What are you doing here?

266
00:12:25,546 --> 00:12:28,671
Not, my dear Anthony, that
it's difficult to guess.

267
00:12:28,671 --> 00:12:30,921
- Ah! Mrs. Pot.

268
00:12:30,921 --> 00:12:32,171
- Pot?
- Yes.

269
00:12:32,171 --> 00:12:33,921
Calling the kettle black.

270
00:12:34,837 --> 00:12:37,296
You girls ought to get together on Mohler.

271
00:12:37,296 --> 00:12:39,046
Paula, who do you suppose

272
00:12:39,046 --> 00:12:40,254
he was running around with

273
00:12:40,254 --> 00:12:41,129
while you are in,

274
00:12:45,629 --> 00:12:47,462
- Paula, I think you'd better go upstairs.

275
00:12:47,462 --> 00:12:52,421
(indistinct)
(Benson hushing)

276
00:12:52,421 --> 00:12:53,296
- You for me!

277
00:12:56,004 --> 00:12:57,712
- What's your name?

278
00:12:57,712 --> 00:12:58,962
- Harry, to you.

279
00:12:59,962 --> 00:13:00,796
What's yours?

280
00:13:01,879 --> 00:13:03,171
- Fanny, to you.

281
00:13:05,587 --> 00:13:06,421
- Tony?

282
00:13:07,921 --> 00:13:09,337
Let's have a party, huh?

283
00:13:12,171 --> 00:13:15,462
(Tony chuckling)

284
00:13:15,462 --> 00:13:16,962
- Are you going to give me that case?

285
00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:17,879
- No.
- I would.

286
00:13:17,879 --> 00:13:19,129
- Now, look here.
(glass crashing)

287
00:13:19,129 --> 00:13:20,421
Say, what is this?

288
00:13:20,421 --> 00:13:21,546
What's going on here, anyway?

289
00:13:21,546 --> 00:13:22,754
- [Mr. Gray] Have you got a flashlight?

290
00:13:22,754 --> 00:13:25,546
- Yes, There's one over here. Come on.

291
00:13:25,546 --> 00:13:27,546
(thunder rolling)
Here it is.

292
00:13:27,546 --> 00:13:29,796
- [Mr. Gray] Here, I'll go.

293
00:13:34,212 --> 00:13:36,254
- I want that jewel case Mohler gave you,

294
00:13:36,254 --> 00:13:37,546
and I'll get it.

295
00:13:37,546 --> 00:13:38,712
- For what?

296
00:13:40,087 --> 00:13:40,921
- Nothing.

297
00:13:40,921 --> 00:13:43,379
- Oh, well, we'll see about that.

298
00:13:43,379 --> 00:13:45,254
If you think you can hang on to Mohler,

299
00:13:45,254 --> 00:13:46,879
with Paula Banning back?

300
00:13:46,879 --> 00:13:47,879
And if she finds out

301
00:13:47,879 --> 00:13:49,087
he's been running around with you,

302
00:13:49,087 --> 00:13:50,296
where will you be?

303
00:13:50,296 --> 00:13:51,796
She'll stop his allowance.

304
00:13:51,796 --> 00:13:55,796
You know, he hasn't told
her about your pearls.

305
00:13:56,837 --> 00:13:58,962
- I'll take care of that.
- Yeah?

306
00:13:58,962 --> 00:14:00,921
Well, you'll take care
of his notes somehow,

307
00:14:00,921 --> 00:14:01,796
if you want this.

308
00:14:02,712 --> 00:14:06,337
Say, why all this frenzy
about a few pearls?

309
00:14:06,337 --> 00:14:09,504
There are plenty more where
these came from, aren't there?

310
00:14:09,504 --> 00:14:11,837
What about this, anyway?

311
00:14:11,837 --> 00:14:12,837
- I have to sell 'em.

312
00:14:12,837 --> 00:14:13,879
You sold me out, didn't you?

313
00:14:13,879 --> 00:14:16,962
- Oh, well, let's have a look.

314
00:14:19,379 --> 00:14:22,212
(thunder rolling)

315
00:14:26,629 --> 00:14:28,796
Listen, now wait a minute.

316
00:14:30,046 --> 00:14:31,921
(thunder rolling)

317
00:14:31,921 --> 00:14:34,629
- Oh!
(nervous chuckling)

318
00:14:34,629 --> 00:14:35,462
I fell in.

319
00:14:37,254 --> 00:14:38,962
I'm glad you are here.

320
00:14:39,004 --> 00:14:41,921
Tony might have misconstrued
my arriving this way,

321
00:14:41,921 --> 00:14:43,337
had he been alone.

322
00:14:43,337 --> 00:14:44,212
- [Mr. Gray] Well, he's certainly

323
00:14:44,212 --> 00:14:45,462
got plenty of company now.

324
00:14:45,504 --> 00:14:48,879
What are you people trying to
do anyway, remove this guy?

325
00:14:48,879 --> 00:14:50,629
- Oh, no, no.

326
00:14:50,629 --> 00:14:52,046
- [Mr. Gray] Well, let's go upstairs.

327
00:14:52,046 --> 00:14:52,879
- Yes.

328
00:14:56,837 --> 00:14:59,712
(nervous chuckling)

329
00:14:59,712 --> 00:15:02,212
- I'll tell you why I
won't, in four words:

330
00:15:02,212 --> 00:15:03,379
I don't like you.

331
00:15:03,379 --> 00:15:06,379
- As if you've liked all your playmates.

332
00:15:08,546 --> 00:15:09,379
- I've had to put up with

333
00:15:09,379 --> 00:15:11,712
a lot of you big businessmen
to get somewhere,

334
00:15:11,712 --> 00:15:12,921
but now I'm there.

335
00:15:12,921 --> 00:15:14,962
I'm putting up with the one's I picked.

336
00:15:15,004 --> 00:15:17,837
And I told you a year
ago, I wasn't picking you.

337
00:15:17,837 --> 00:15:19,921
Your eyes are too close together, get it?

338
00:15:19,921 --> 00:15:22,546
And let this sink under
that toupee of yours:

339
00:15:22,546 --> 00:15:24,712
I am going to get that jewel case of mine.

340
00:15:26,796 --> 00:15:27,962
- Oh, I beg your pardon.

341
00:15:29,129 --> 00:15:31,712
Tony, this was the big noise.

342
00:15:31,712 --> 00:15:33,712
- Oh, hello Tony.

343
00:15:33,712 --> 00:15:35,546
- Hello, Adolph.
- Oh, Fanny!

344
00:15:35,546 --> 00:15:36,379
- Dolphy!

345
00:15:38,587 --> 00:15:39,837
Is that my boy?

346
00:15:41,629 --> 00:15:44,379
- Paula, what are you doing here?

347
00:15:45,546 --> 00:15:46,962
- Oh!

348
00:15:46,962 --> 00:15:48,587
Carrying on without me, eh?

349
00:15:48,587 --> 00:15:51,046
- No, but that might be a good idea.

350
00:15:51,046 --> 00:15:52,754
- When you told me he
would put you in jail,

351
00:15:52,754 --> 00:15:55,962
I simply had to come here and
throw myself on his mercy.

352
00:15:55,962 --> 00:15:58,254
Tony, he's my heart.

353
00:15:58,254 --> 00:15:59,421
- Oh, please be quiet. Please.

354
00:15:59,421 --> 00:16:01,004
- You know, while you've been away,

355
00:16:01,004 --> 00:16:02,879
he's been playing the about a bit.

356
00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:04,337
- Darling, it's not true.
- No,

357
00:16:04,337 --> 00:16:05,421
don't change the subject.

358
00:16:05,421 --> 00:16:06,712
Give him that money.

359
00:16:06,712 --> 00:16:08,796
Do you want him to put me in the jail?

360
00:16:08,796 --> 00:16:10,712
- I'll fix him, kill him first.

361
00:16:10,712 --> 00:16:11,962
- If you don't mind,

362
00:16:11,962 --> 00:16:14,337
I have first call on him for that.

363
00:16:14,337 --> 00:16:16,462
- Well, that makes it unanimous.

364
00:16:16,462 --> 00:16:17,629
Farewell, Caesar.

365
00:16:17,629 --> 00:16:20,087
Or, shall we say it with flowers?

366
00:16:21,087 --> 00:16:21,921
(doorbell ringing)

367
00:16:21,921 --> 00:16:23,504
- Say, what is this?

368
00:16:23,504 --> 00:16:24,921
Must be my birthday.

369
00:16:29,587 --> 00:16:30,837
Oh, Markham!
- Hello.

370
00:16:30,837 --> 00:16:31,671
- Come in.

371
00:16:31,671 --> 00:16:33,087
- I just dropped by,

372
00:16:33,087 --> 00:16:35,004
oh, I beg your pardon.

373
00:16:35,004 --> 00:16:36,712
- That's quite all right, come in.

374
00:16:38,712 --> 00:16:41,587
(thunder rumbling, lightning striking)

375
00:16:41,587 --> 00:16:43,587
- Ah, thunder and lightning!

376
00:16:43,587 --> 00:16:44,921
Enter the villain.

377
00:16:44,921 --> 00:16:46,462
How are you, Mr. District Attorney?

378
00:16:46,462 --> 00:16:47,379
- Hello Gray.

379
00:16:47,379 --> 00:16:49,296
- [Mr. Benson] Ms. Del Roy, Mr. Markham.

380
00:16:49,296 --> 00:16:51,379
And, Mr. Mohler.

381
00:16:52,337 --> 00:16:53,171
- Excuse me.

382
00:16:55,337 --> 00:16:56,754
- You'll have to put me up for the night.

383
00:16:56,754 --> 00:16:57,921
I puncture a tire.

384
00:16:57,921 --> 00:16:59,046
- Plenty of room.

385
00:16:59,046 --> 00:16:59,879
- Thanks.

386
00:17:00,921 --> 00:17:03,129
- Gray, you must be behaving yourself.

387
00:17:03,129 --> 00:17:06,587
The newspapers haven't accused
you of anything for months.

388
00:17:06,587 --> 00:17:08,504
- I can't imagine what
you're talking about.

389
00:17:08,504 --> 00:17:09,337
- No?

390
00:17:09,337 --> 00:17:11,587
(Benson laughing)

391
00:17:11,587 --> 00:17:14,504
Oh, Benson, I want to talk to
you about the market upset.

392
00:17:14,504 --> 00:17:15,921
I suppose there'll be some trouble,

393
00:17:15,921 --> 00:17:17,837
I think you can give me the advice I need.

394
00:17:17,837 --> 00:17:19,212
- Let me take your coat, won't you?

395
00:17:19,212 --> 00:17:21,671
- No, thank you. I have
a friend waiting up.

396
00:17:21,671 --> 00:17:26,296
Oh, by the way, Gray,
he'd like to meet you.

397
00:17:26,296 --> 00:17:27,337
You mind if I bring him in?

398
00:17:27,337 --> 00:17:28,546
- Not at all.
- Thanks.

399
00:17:34,046 --> 00:17:38,462
- You know, Markham seems to
be quite interested in you.

400
00:17:38,462 --> 00:17:40,796
- Well, if he is, it
won't do him any good.

401
00:17:42,837 --> 00:17:44,712
- Paula is so upset.

402
00:17:44,712 --> 00:17:46,921
You don't mind if she
lies down for a moment?

403
00:17:46,921 --> 00:17:48,379
I shall prepare her something.

404
00:17:48,379 --> 00:17:50,754
- Sure, we've all been too excited anyway.

405
00:17:51,671 --> 00:17:52,712
- Here you are, Gray.

406
00:18:00,504 --> 00:18:02,129
Philo Vance, Mr. Benson.

407
00:18:03,087 --> 00:18:04,546
- Mr. Benson.
- How do you do, Mr. Vance!

408
00:18:04,546 --> 00:18:05,962
- Harry Gray.

409
00:18:05,962 --> 00:18:06,837
- Mr. Gray.

410
00:18:06,837 --> 00:18:08,837
- Not the detective?
- It is.

411
00:18:08,837 --> 00:18:10,796
- Only as an amateur, remember.

412
00:18:10,796 --> 00:18:13,462
Our friend, Sergeant
Heath, insists on that.

413
00:18:13,462 --> 00:18:15,462
- Vance told me that he's getting rusty.

414
00:18:15,462 --> 00:18:18,921
Nothing to sharpen his psychology
on since the Green murder.

415
00:18:18,921 --> 00:18:20,296
- Yes, I felt rather hurt

416
00:18:20,296 --> 00:18:22,504
that you didn't call me
in on that Green business.

417
00:18:22,504 --> 00:18:24,421
- Take off your coats
gentleman, won't you?

418
00:18:24,421 --> 00:18:26,837
I'll get some ice.
- Thank you.

419
00:18:26,837 --> 00:18:27,671
- You see, Mr. Vance,

420
00:18:27,671 --> 00:18:30,171
down at headquarters they've got an idea

421
00:18:30,171 --> 00:18:31,962
that I know all about these crimes.

422
00:18:31,962 --> 00:18:33,671
- Oh, really?
- That's right.

423
00:18:33,671 --> 00:18:35,587
You and ah, no offense,

424
00:18:37,087 --> 00:18:39,254
well, those killers of his,

425
00:18:39,254 --> 00:18:41,379
at least the ones I've read about.

426
00:18:41,379 --> 00:18:43,462
It seems to me they're all amateurs too.

427
00:18:43,462 --> 00:18:44,462
- Yes, so they were.

428
00:18:45,337 --> 00:18:46,962
That's why Markham thought
it might be amusing,

429
00:18:46,962 --> 00:18:49,379
without disturbing my status
as an amateur in the matter,

430
00:18:49,379 --> 00:18:53,212
for me to meet an authority
on the profession.

431
00:18:54,879 --> 00:18:56,296
- Harry, get some cups!

432
00:18:56,296 --> 00:18:58,212
We'll have coffee.
- [Mr. Gray] Right.

433
00:18:59,379 --> 00:19:00,921
- Won't you sit down, Mr. Vance?

434
00:19:00,921 --> 00:19:01,754
- Thank you.

435
00:19:02,921 --> 00:19:05,212
- Benson, did the market hit you?

436
00:19:05,212 --> 00:19:06,796
- Well, you never heard of

437
00:19:06,796 --> 00:19:09,504
a bootlegger drinking
his own stuff, did you?

438
00:19:09,504 --> 00:19:11,629
Strange you two should
drop in here this evening,

439
00:19:11,629 --> 00:19:14,462
on top of everybody wanting
to murder everybody else;

440
00:19:14,462 --> 00:19:15,796
in the market of course!

441
00:19:17,046 --> 00:19:19,712
- Oh, we need another bottle.

442
00:19:19,712 --> 00:19:20,962
- Well, I'll get it.

443
00:19:20,962 --> 00:19:22,587
- Oh, here's the keys.

444
00:19:22,587 --> 00:19:23,421
And by the way,

445
00:19:23,421 --> 00:19:25,837
be careful of that burglar
alarm in the cellar.

446
00:19:27,546 --> 00:19:30,629
I think that burglar alarm
would interest you, Mr. Vance.

447
00:19:30,629 --> 00:19:31,462
- Oh?

448
00:19:31,462 --> 00:19:33,712
- It's a rather tricky arrangement.

449
00:19:33,712 --> 00:19:35,546
Later on, I'd like to show it to you.

450
00:19:45,879 --> 00:19:47,879
- It's not in his room.

451
00:19:47,879 --> 00:19:49,546
Must be still in his pocket.

452
00:19:49,546 --> 00:19:50,671
- I will get it.

453
00:19:50,671 --> 00:19:53,671
I'll make him give to me.
- Quiet, be quiet.

454
00:19:53,671 --> 00:19:56,671
Coffee will be ready soon.

455
00:19:56,671 --> 00:20:00,337
Darling, why can't you get money?

456
00:20:00,337 --> 00:20:03,212
Does my affection for you mean so little?

457
00:20:03,212 --> 00:20:04,962
- Oh, these?

458
00:20:05,921 --> 00:20:09,046
Well, to tell you the truth darling,

459
00:20:09,046 --> 00:20:12,087
all the glitters is not gold.

460
00:20:14,462 --> 00:20:16,754
Oh, my boy. Oh, my boy!

461
00:20:17,796 --> 00:20:19,254
- But he'll put me in the jail!

462
00:20:19,254 --> 00:20:20,212
- Never!
- I tell you, yes!

463
00:20:20,212 --> 00:20:23,212
He hates me because of the Del Roy woman.

464
00:20:23,212 --> 00:20:25,754
Well, all I did was look at her.

465
00:20:25,754 --> 00:20:28,129
Can I help if she loves me?

466
00:20:28,129 --> 00:20:30,296
But I'm true only to you, my darling.

467
00:20:30,296 --> 00:20:31,337
Only to you.

468
00:20:31,337 --> 00:20:34,254
But this Benson, who called
him himself our friend,

469
00:20:34,254 --> 00:20:36,379
he's jealous of me!

470
00:20:36,379 --> 00:20:39,212
So, you will lose me for the jail!

471
00:20:42,087 --> 00:20:44,629
- I'll hate him.

472
00:20:44,629 --> 00:20:47,587
We'll both hate him!

473
00:20:47,587 --> 00:20:49,421
Oh, my boy. Oh my boy!

474
00:20:52,379 --> 00:20:53,587
- The most important thing

475
00:20:53,587 --> 00:20:55,879
is now to get that envelope,
the cheque, the note.

476
00:20:55,879 --> 00:20:59,004
- [Paula] Yes, yes, yes!
(sobbing)

477
00:20:59,004 --> 00:21:00,212
- Oh, you're jelly!

478
00:21:03,712 --> 00:21:06,212
- That's how they kill
in books, Mr. Vance.

479
00:21:06,212 --> 00:21:08,879
But how it's really
done is quite different.

480
00:21:08,879 --> 00:21:10,212
- I see!

481
00:21:10,254 --> 00:21:11,046
Then your thought is,

482
00:21:11,087 --> 00:21:13,796
that if matched wits with a professional,

483
00:21:13,796 --> 00:21:17,212
I might not have been
so lucky, is that it?

484
00:21:17,212 --> 00:21:19,754
- That's it.
- No thanks.

485
00:21:19,754 --> 00:21:21,962
- Oh, I'll get you some coffee
in a minute, Mr. Markham.

486
00:21:21,962 --> 00:21:22,837
- Well, I've had this bottle

487
00:21:22,837 --> 00:21:24,879
in my cellar for years, Markham!

488
00:21:24,879 --> 00:21:27,379
Before prohibition!
- Naturally!

489
00:21:28,254 --> 00:21:29,046
- So if you'll excuse me,

490
00:21:29,087 --> 00:21:30,671
I'll see what the ladies are doing.

491
00:21:32,129 --> 00:21:33,171
- It's very interesting

492
00:21:33,171 --> 00:21:35,004
to get your point of view, Mr. Vance.

493
00:21:35,837 --> 00:21:37,712
Just how would you stack your cards

494
00:21:37,712 --> 00:21:39,712
against a professional?

495
00:21:39,712 --> 00:21:41,546
- Well, it's my theory, Mr. Gray,

496
00:21:42,462 --> 00:21:43,671
that the only infallible method

497
00:21:43,671 --> 00:21:46,337
of determining human guilt,

498
00:21:46,337 --> 00:21:49,796
is by analyzing the psychological
factors of the crime

499
00:21:49,796 --> 00:21:52,046
and then applying them to the individual.

500
00:21:52,046 --> 00:21:55,962
- The point is in these cases
of yours Vance, the gun,

501
00:21:56,796 --> 00:22:00,546
"the gun," that's newspaper
slang for killer, Markham.

502
00:22:00,546 --> 00:22:01,712
- Right.

503
00:22:01,712 --> 00:22:03,337
- What I mean to say is,

504
00:22:03,337 --> 00:22:05,296
these killers you've met

505
00:22:05,296 --> 00:22:07,504
always used a lot of trick stuff.

506
00:22:07,504 --> 00:22:09,171
A lot of props.

507
00:22:09,171 --> 00:22:12,712
The professionals don't, from what I hear.

508
00:22:13,546 --> 00:22:15,421
They bang 'em neat

509
00:22:15,421 --> 00:22:17,921
and leave 'em where they lay.
- Exactly!

510
00:22:17,921 --> 00:22:20,337
That's one of the reasons
they're so seldom caught,

511
00:22:20,337 --> 00:22:23,046
in other jurisdictions I mean.

512
00:22:23,046 --> 00:22:24,462
- You mean to tell me that you'd ignore

513
00:22:24,462 --> 00:22:26,962
all tangible evidence in the crime?

514
00:22:26,962 --> 00:22:27,962
- Not ignore it, no!

515
00:22:27,962 --> 00:22:31,337
But neither would I accept it for gospel

516
00:22:31,337 --> 00:22:32,379
on its face value.

517
00:22:33,712 --> 00:22:36,046
- Yes, well, I'll make that coffee.

518
00:22:37,962 --> 00:22:40,796
(thunder rolling)

519
00:22:45,754 --> 00:22:47,087
- Oh! Excuse me!

520
00:22:50,671 --> 00:22:53,796
Why don't you go into my
room to dry your things?

521
00:22:53,796 --> 00:22:55,254
There's a fire there.

522
00:22:55,254 --> 00:22:56,921
- Thanks.

523
00:22:56,921 --> 00:22:58,462
I want that jewel case.

524
00:22:58,462 --> 00:22:59,587
I'll get it, you know!

525
00:22:59,587 --> 00:23:03,504
- All right, later on when
they'll be downstairs.

526
00:23:03,504 --> 00:23:06,962
We'll talk it over, eh?

527
00:23:06,962 --> 00:23:10,129
- Will we?

528
00:23:10,129 --> 00:23:12,004
- I'll be back.

529
00:23:12,004 --> 00:23:15,462
- Listen, I'm going to
get that jewel case.

530
00:23:15,462 --> 00:23:17,379
- Oh, all right.

531
00:23:17,379 --> 00:23:18,462
I'll be back.

532
00:23:23,546 --> 00:23:27,212
(thunder rolling ominously)

533
00:23:33,046 --> 00:23:35,379
- The jury has to depend on

534
00:23:35,379 --> 00:23:37,462
circumstantial evidence, Markham!

535
00:23:37,462 --> 00:23:39,296
They can't understand any other kind.

536
00:23:40,337 --> 00:23:44,087
(storm raging, wind howling)

537
00:23:51,337 --> 00:23:56,337
(indistinct)
(loud knocking at door)

538
00:24:08,379 --> 00:24:09,212
- [Markham] Well?

539
00:24:12,337 --> 00:24:14,962
- Is Mr. Gray here?

540
00:24:15,796 --> 00:24:17,587
- He's in the kitchen.

541
00:24:17,629 --> 00:24:18,546
- Oh.

542
00:24:18,546 --> 00:24:19,962
This is his bag.

543
00:24:20,921 --> 00:24:22,754
Will you see that he gets it, please?

544
00:24:22,754 --> 00:24:23,754
- Certainly.

545
00:24:29,171 --> 00:24:32,421
(door creaking closed)

546
00:24:34,171 --> 00:24:35,754
What do you suppose he,

547
00:24:36,754 --> 00:24:37,879
oh, this came for you!

548
00:24:39,171 --> 00:24:41,337
- My bag, thanks.

549
00:24:41,337 --> 00:24:44,296
- What's in it, Gray? Pineapples?

550
00:24:44,296 --> 00:24:48,462
You know that's newspaper
slang for bombs, Mr. Gray.

551
00:24:48,462 --> 00:24:49,296
- Slang.

552
00:24:51,379 --> 00:24:53,421
- Back to our conversation, Vance.

553
00:24:54,754 --> 00:24:55,754
How do you think you'd come out

554
00:24:55,754 --> 00:24:59,587
with one of these bang them
and leave them laid killings

555
00:24:59,587 --> 00:25:01,046
that we were talking about?

556
00:25:01,046 --> 00:25:02,504
- By a professional, you mean?

557
00:25:02,504 --> 00:25:03,879
- Exactly.

558
00:25:03,879 --> 00:25:05,962
- Well, it might be rather interesting.

559
00:25:05,962 --> 00:25:07,879
Have you anything in that line, Markham?

560
00:25:07,879 --> 00:25:08,754
- Talk to Gray.

561
00:25:10,587 --> 00:25:13,254
- I seem to have quite a
reputation in this town,

562
00:25:14,129 --> 00:25:16,129
for the killing!
(clock chiming)

563
00:25:16,129 --> 00:25:19,379
Well, perhaps something could be arranged.

564
00:25:19,379 --> 00:25:21,504
- Splendid!
(gunshot)

565
00:25:21,504 --> 00:25:25,296
(body clattering)
(clock chiming)

566
00:25:25,296 --> 00:25:26,129
- Benson.

567
00:25:27,546 --> 00:25:31,879
(clock chiming)
(wind blowing)

568
00:25:31,879 --> 00:25:32,712
- Nothing here.

569
00:25:32,712 --> 00:25:35,296
- He's dead.
(Paula gasping)

570
00:25:39,629 --> 00:25:41,921
- Gimme the medical
examiner's office, please!

571
00:25:43,671 --> 00:25:44,837
- Somebody must have overhead

572
00:25:44,837 --> 00:25:46,129
that conversation of ours.

573
00:25:47,296 --> 00:25:49,712
- Yes, it's exactly what
was occurring to me.

574
00:25:49,712 --> 00:25:52,879
- [Markham] I want to speak
to Dr. Doremus, personally!

575
00:25:52,879 --> 00:25:55,462
- Well, there you are, Mr. Vance.

576
00:25:55,462 --> 00:25:56,629
Do your stuff.

577
00:26:06,087 --> 00:26:07,754
- Well, that's that.

578
00:26:08,962 --> 00:26:10,546
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

579
00:26:13,462 --> 00:26:14,712
The (indistinct) up like thunder

580
00:26:14,754 --> 00:26:17,337
across the Hudson outside the lodge.

581
00:26:17,337 --> 00:26:19,754
(indistinct)

582
00:26:20,712 --> 00:26:23,212
- Hurry up on that
phone and gimme a match.

583
00:26:23,212 --> 00:26:24,962
- The first to arrive on the scene

584
00:26:24,962 --> 00:26:27,712
was the brains of the homicide squad,

585
00:26:27,712 --> 00:26:30,754
Sergeant E for Edward,
- Ernest.

586
00:26:30,754 --> 00:26:33,212
- Sergeant Edward Heath,

587
00:26:33,212 --> 00:26:34,379
or as I nicknamed him

588
00:26:34,379 --> 00:26:37,379
in one of my more brilliant
moments, Edward Sleuth,

589
00:26:37,379 --> 00:26:39,754
so everybody would know
he was a detective.

590
00:26:39,754 --> 00:26:40,921
- Aw, can that stuff.

591
00:26:42,879 --> 00:26:44,879
Now listen, whenever I've got

592
00:26:44,879 --> 00:26:46,921
anything to give you scribes,

593
00:26:46,921 --> 00:26:48,379
I'll tell you.

594
00:26:48,379 --> 00:26:49,212
- Yeah?

595
00:26:51,421 --> 00:26:52,921
Who's going to tell you?

596
00:26:58,462 --> 00:26:59,296
- Anybody could have got up

597
00:26:59,296 --> 00:27:00,462
and down those back stairs

598
00:27:00,462 --> 00:27:01,462
without being seen.

599
00:27:01,462 --> 00:27:02,462
- Where's Welch?

600
00:27:02,462 --> 00:27:04,171
- Up going over the bedroom.

601
00:27:04,171 --> 00:27:05,004
- I can do that.

602
00:27:05,004 --> 00:27:07,879
You get outside and
look around the grounds.

603
00:27:07,879 --> 00:27:09,254
- Alright.

604
00:27:09,254 --> 00:27:11,212
- Say, what's ailing you?

605
00:27:11,212 --> 00:27:13,837
- I got sold out from the stock market!

606
00:27:13,837 --> 00:27:15,212
- No.

607
00:27:15,212 --> 00:27:17,962
- Yeah, I lost 90 bucks!

608
00:27:17,962 --> 00:27:19,421
(Heath tsking)

609
00:27:19,421 --> 00:27:21,046
- Wiped out.

610
00:27:21,046 --> 00:27:23,504
- [Burke] By the way, Mr. Markham phoned.

611
00:27:23,504 --> 00:27:25,879
Mr. Vance will be here right away.

612
00:27:25,879 --> 00:27:27,379
- Oh yeah?

613
00:27:27,379 --> 00:27:28,504
Well, I'll try and arrange it

614
00:27:28,504 --> 00:27:31,254
so that I'll be just gone when,

615
00:27:31,254 --> 00:27:32,754
time he gets here.

616
00:27:35,379 --> 00:27:36,462
Hello, Welch.

617
00:27:37,921 --> 00:27:40,462
- How do you spell clue?

618
00:27:40,462 --> 00:27:41,379
- What difference it make?

619
00:27:41,379 --> 00:27:42,629
There ain't any.

620
00:27:42,629 --> 00:27:44,837
- [Vance] Oh, I wouldn't
say that, Sergeant.

621
00:27:46,879 --> 00:27:48,921
- [Heath] Oh!
- Good morning, Sergeant!

622
00:27:48,921 --> 00:27:50,337
- [Heath] Why, hello Mr. Vance.

623
00:27:50,337 --> 00:27:51,754
- No go, Sam.

624
00:27:51,754 --> 00:27:54,046
I'm afraid the blue in
that is going to clash.

625
00:27:54,046 --> 00:27:54,879
(phone ringing)

626
00:27:54,879 --> 00:27:56,921
- Take that phone in the hall, Welch.

627
00:27:56,921 --> 00:28:00,046
- Blue, Sergeant, is a very tricky color.

628
00:28:00,046 --> 00:28:01,546
You know, in spite of its commonness,

629
00:28:01,546 --> 00:28:02,629
it's quite difficult.

630
00:28:03,546 --> 00:28:04,921
But that's anomalous, of course.

631
00:28:04,921 --> 00:28:07,129
- Well so it is, so it is.

632
00:28:07,129 --> 00:28:08,712
Mr. Vance, you know,

633
00:28:08,712 --> 00:28:09,712
pardon my obscurity,

634
00:28:09,712 --> 00:28:12,462
but sometimes I don't quite follow you.

635
00:28:12,504 --> 00:28:13,629
- Really, Sergeant?

636
00:28:13,629 --> 00:28:15,046
- No, now a while ago there

637
00:28:15,046 --> 00:28:16,962
I said there wasn't any clues

638
00:28:16,962 --> 00:28:19,337
and you said that you wouldn't say that.

639
00:28:19,337 --> 00:28:21,337
- Well, I wouldn't, really.

640
00:28:21,337 --> 00:28:22,796
- That was The Times calling.

641
00:28:22,796 --> 00:28:24,587
They want to know if you,
- You tell The Times

642
00:28:24,587 --> 00:28:26,421
that when they get my name right,

643
00:28:26,421 --> 00:28:28,171
they might get a story.

644
00:28:28,171 --> 00:28:29,421
You see, Sergeant,

645
00:28:29,421 --> 00:28:34,421
I decided to spend the
night here in meditation.

646
00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:36,212
So I phoned Sam to bring out my things

647
00:28:36,212 --> 00:28:38,421
and I meditated.

648
00:28:38,421 --> 00:28:39,254
- Any luck?

649
00:28:40,254 --> 00:28:41,837
- I've been studying that little Derringer

650
00:28:41,837 --> 00:28:43,046
that was found at the top of the stairs

651
00:28:43,046 --> 00:28:44,296
there last night.

652
00:28:44,296 --> 00:28:45,754
It's rather unique.

653
00:28:45,754 --> 00:28:46,671
- [Heath] Yes, ain't it?

654
00:28:46,671 --> 00:28:48,421
- And of course the lady's handbag,

655
00:28:48,421 --> 00:28:50,587
which you know doubt found
in Benson's room there.

656
00:28:50,587 --> 00:28:52,337
- Yes, I got that right here.

657
00:28:52,337 --> 00:28:54,004
- Cherchez la femme, eh Sergeant?

658
00:28:55,671 --> 00:28:56,504
- Oui!

659
00:28:58,962 --> 00:29:01,837
- But I was told to come by telephone!

660
00:29:01,837 --> 00:29:04,962
I was to ask for Mr. Vance.

661
00:29:04,962 --> 00:29:06,754
- Say, did you get that?

662
00:29:06,754 --> 00:29:09,087
- Well, you go inside.

663
00:29:11,837 --> 00:29:13,629
- Say, is Philo Vance in on this one?

664
00:29:13,629 --> 00:29:15,462
- I don't know, is he inside?

665
00:29:15,462 --> 00:29:16,629
- I wish I knew.

666
00:29:16,629 --> 00:29:17,837
(indistinct)

667
00:29:17,837 --> 00:29:19,879
- Well I've been here since 6:00 AM.

668
00:29:19,879 --> 00:29:22,671
If Vance is here, he is Santa Claus.

669
00:29:22,671 --> 00:29:25,296
He must have come down at chimney!

670
00:29:25,296 --> 00:29:26,129
- Come on boys.

671
00:29:26,129 --> 00:29:28,837
- Well, one of those two
dames owned this bag.

672
00:29:30,921 --> 00:29:31,962
Well?

673
00:29:31,962 --> 00:29:32,962
- Mr. Vance?

674
00:29:32,962 --> 00:29:34,504
- Oh yes, come in.

675
00:29:34,504 --> 00:29:38,462
You know Sergeant, when Albert
here popped in last night,

676
00:29:38,462 --> 00:29:41,337
Markham thought that he was Gray's man.

677
00:29:41,337 --> 00:29:43,754
- Gray, is it?
- Oh no sir.

678
00:29:43,754 --> 00:29:44,837
I explained to Mr. Vance

679
00:29:44,837 --> 00:29:46,212
when he called me up this morning,

680
00:29:46,212 --> 00:29:48,712
Mr. Benson was my employer.

681
00:29:48,712 --> 00:29:49,754
He telephoned me last night

682
00:29:49,754 --> 00:29:52,462
to bring Mr. Gray's bag from the club.

683
00:29:52,462 --> 00:29:53,962
- What's your name?

684
00:29:54,004 --> 00:29:55,671
- Albert, Brecker.

685
00:29:55,671 --> 00:29:57,337
- The medical examiner is here.

686
00:29:57,337 --> 00:29:58,171
- Show him up.

687
00:29:59,296 --> 00:30:01,754
And you stick around.

688
00:30:03,421 --> 00:30:04,254
- Thank you, sir.

689
00:30:07,837 --> 00:30:09,421
- Well, another dizzy dame

690
00:30:09,421 --> 00:30:12,171
to do some jury vamping, I suppose.

691
00:30:12,171 --> 00:30:13,712
- I rather doubt, Sergeant,

692
00:30:13,712 --> 00:30:16,004
whether any woman was
in this room with Benson

693
00:30:16,004 --> 00:30:18,212
immediately prior to the murder.

694
00:30:18,212 --> 00:30:19,921
That's what I wanted
Albert for, to verify.

695
00:30:19,921 --> 00:30:21,962
- Good morning, Sergeant!

696
00:30:21,962 --> 00:30:22,879
- Hiya, Doc.

697
00:30:22,879 --> 00:30:24,712
- Bless my soul, Mr. Vance.

698
00:30:24,712 --> 00:30:26,296
Why, I haven't seen you

699
00:30:26,296 --> 00:30:28,296
since we laid the Green family to rest.

700
00:30:28,296 --> 00:30:29,504
- Quite right!

701
00:30:29,504 --> 00:30:32,421
- There was a lovely murder
case for you, Sergeant.

702
00:30:32,421 --> 00:30:34,587
Blessed my soul, yes.

703
00:30:34,587 --> 00:30:35,629
- I was there.

704
00:30:36,504 --> 00:30:38,046
Well, hop at the body, Doc.

705
00:30:38,046 --> 00:30:38,962
- Certainly, certainly.

706
00:30:39,004 --> 00:30:41,087
Have one of your men
give me a hand, please.

707
00:30:41,087 --> 00:30:41,921
- Surely.

708
00:30:41,921 --> 00:30:44,629
- Oh, I'm sorry I wasn't here last night.

709
00:30:44,629 --> 00:30:46,171
Wedding anniversary.

710
00:30:46,171 --> 00:30:48,629
My wife and I always celebrate.

711
00:30:49,879 --> 00:30:51,087
Went to a hockey match!

712
00:30:53,087 --> 00:30:54,796
How's the election coming?

713
00:30:54,796 --> 00:30:55,629
- Fair.
- Good!

714
00:30:59,046 --> 00:31:01,379
- Mr. Benson kept his toupees
beautifully, didn't he?

715
00:31:01,379 --> 00:31:04,337
- He was a bit touchy
about himself, if I do say.

716
00:31:04,337 --> 00:31:05,212
- Vain, you mean?

717
00:31:05,212 --> 00:31:06,046
- Yes sir.

718
00:31:06,046 --> 00:31:08,254
- Well, what guy with a list
of phone numbers he had,

719
00:31:08,254 --> 00:31:09,712
wouldn't be?

720
00:31:09,712 --> 00:31:12,462
Elementary, my dear Albert; elementary.

721
00:31:12,504 --> 00:31:15,171
- Sergeant, you've been
reading "Sherlock Holmes?"

722
00:31:15,171 --> 00:31:16,796
- Quite right, my dear Watson.

723
00:31:16,796 --> 00:31:17,962
Quite right.

724
00:31:17,962 --> 00:31:21,254
- Oh, Welch, take care of these, will you?

725
00:31:22,087 --> 00:31:24,796
- This was Mr. Benson's
favorite toupee, sir.

726
00:31:24,796 --> 00:31:27,254
- Fancy.
- Oh, no sir.

727
00:31:27,254 --> 00:31:29,587
I once worked for a
gentleman that had seven,

728
00:31:29,587 --> 00:31:30,712
one for every day in the week

729
00:31:30,712 --> 00:31:33,379
to correspond to the
natural growth of his hair.

730
00:31:33,379 --> 00:31:36,129
- Albert, do you think that Mr. Benson

731
00:31:36,129 --> 00:31:39,337
would've appeared before a
lady in whom he was interested

732
00:31:39,337 --> 00:31:40,546
without his toupee?

733
00:31:40,546 --> 00:31:41,587
- Oh, no sir!

734
00:31:41,587 --> 00:31:43,337
He would rather have died.

735
00:31:43,337 --> 00:31:45,379
- Well, he got his wish.

736
00:31:45,379 --> 00:31:47,504
- Doc said he was shot at about six feet

737
00:31:47,504 --> 00:31:48,629
and no powder marks.

738
00:31:48,629 --> 00:31:50,296
- Well, suicide's out,

739
00:31:50,296 --> 00:31:51,962
unless Benson was an acrobat.

740
00:31:54,587 --> 00:31:56,046
- If you don't mind sir,
- I'll call.

741
00:31:56,046 --> 00:31:56,962
Thank you, Albert.

742
00:31:58,296 --> 00:31:59,462
- I'll see you later.

743
00:32:00,379 --> 00:32:01,504
- Thank you, sir.

744
00:32:08,837 --> 00:32:09,671
- You know Mr. Vance,

745
00:32:09,671 --> 00:32:12,671
this is a kind of a murder
that the public likes.

746
00:32:12,671 --> 00:32:14,587
Have you any suggestions?

747
00:32:14,587 --> 00:32:15,921
You know, you might have.

748
00:32:15,921 --> 00:32:17,504
You were here when it happened.

749
00:32:19,087 --> 00:32:20,712
- Well, Sergeant, after
a night of meditating

750
00:32:20,754 --> 00:32:22,629
on what happened before the murder,

751
00:32:22,629 --> 00:32:25,212
I have suggestions no end.

752
00:32:25,212 --> 00:32:26,879
- [Welch] Oh, Burke's got
something out front, Sergeant.

753
00:32:26,879 --> 00:32:28,421
- Be right down.

754
00:32:28,421 --> 00:32:30,421
Oh, Mr. Markham told me

755
00:32:30,421 --> 00:32:33,296
about the stuff Harry
Gray was saying to you.

756
00:32:33,296 --> 00:32:35,087
Like, he was leading up to the shooting

757
00:32:35,087 --> 00:32:37,212
to kind of try you out.

758
00:32:37,254 --> 00:32:38,879
The nerve of that gorilla.

759
00:32:38,879 --> 00:32:40,629
- What's Gray's history?

760
00:32:40,629 --> 00:32:42,962
- Well, he suspected of a lot of things.

761
00:32:42,962 --> 00:32:44,587
- Ever been convicted?

762
00:32:44,587 --> 00:32:45,587
- Too smart.

763
00:32:46,546 --> 00:32:48,212
- Just what is his racket?

764
00:32:48,212 --> 00:32:49,296
- Well, rumor has it

765
00:32:49,296 --> 00:32:51,504
that he is a big shot
in a bootlegging ring.

766
00:32:52,462 --> 00:32:54,629
You know, I still don't like
the way he talked to you.

767
00:32:54,629 --> 00:32:55,462
(doctor chuckling)

768
00:32:55,462 --> 00:32:56,796
- Had to use the kitchen table.

769
00:32:58,129 --> 00:32:59,546
Killed about midnight.

770
00:32:59,546 --> 00:33:00,837
Direct fire, into the heart.

771
00:33:00,837 --> 00:33:02,587
A single shot

772
00:33:02,587 --> 00:33:04,796
and never knew what hit him.

773
00:33:04,796 --> 00:33:05,879
Bless my soul, no.

774
00:33:05,879 --> 00:33:07,796
- Well, he must have seen the guy.

775
00:33:07,796 --> 00:33:08,879
- Come and have a look at the bullet.

776
00:33:08,879 --> 00:33:10,421
Most interesting.

777
00:33:10,421 --> 00:33:11,671
- I'll be right with you.

778
00:33:12,587 --> 00:33:15,296
- Come on, let me,
- Nevermind. Nevermind.

779
00:33:15,296 --> 00:33:16,587
- Sergeant.
- Yes?

780
00:33:16,587 --> 00:33:18,254
- One of the boys found
this in the bushes.

781
00:33:18,254 --> 00:33:20,462
- I had it in my hand.
- In your hat.

782
00:33:20,462 --> 00:33:21,296
- In here, Jim.
- Yeah.

783
00:33:21,296 --> 00:33:23,296
- Alright.
- Come on, give us a break.

784
00:33:23,296 --> 00:33:24,254
Let's see it.

785
00:33:24,254 --> 00:33:25,546
- Aw, quiet down will you?

786
00:33:26,754 --> 00:33:27,962
- What was it?

787
00:33:27,962 --> 00:33:29,587
(indistinct)

788
00:33:29,587 --> 00:33:32,087
- [Burke] Handbag?
- [Officer] Right here.

789
00:33:32,087 --> 00:33:33,671
- [Burke] Gun?
- [Officer] Got that too.

790
00:33:33,671 --> 00:33:36,171
Gimme that piece of paper
I found in the wood box.

791
00:33:38,879 --> 00:33:40,504
(phone ringing)
Get that phone.

792
00:33:41,504 --> 00:33:42,796
Look at this, Mr. Vance.

793
00:33:42,796 --> 00:33:44,962
- Yeah, I'll tell him.

794
00:33:44,962 --> 00:33:45,796
- There's an empty jewel case

795
00:33:45,837 --> 00:33:47,796
that we found in a bush outside.

796
00:33:47,796 --> 00:33:50,712
Been thrown out the
window, last night maybe.

797
00:33:50,754 --> 00:33:51,879
And here's the paper it was wrapped in

798
00:33:51,879 --> 00:33:54,171
that I found in the wood box right there.

799
00:33:55,087 --> 00:33:56,254
It's marked Mohler.

800
00:33:57,254 --> 00:33:58,879
- He may prove of interest to us later.

801
00:33:58,879 --> 00:33:59,712
- Yeah, I'll tell him.

802
00:33:59,712 --> 00:34:00,546
- But Mr. Vance,

803
00:34:00,546 --> 00:34:01,754
with election coming up Tuesday

804
00:34:01,754 --> 00:34:03,337
and the papers riding us the way they are,

805
00:34:03,337 --> 00:34:05,087
I've gotta have something now!

806
00:34:06,254 --> 00:34:08,254
- Well, what about that
small puddle of blood

807
00:34:08,254 --> 00:34:10,754
on the second step from the top there?

808
00:34:10,754 --> 00:34:12,671
Hasn't that any particular
significance to you?

809
00:34:12,671 --> 00:34:13,671
- Oh, Sergeant.

810
00:34:13,671 --> 00:34:15,796
They picked up Del Roy
down at the Grand Central,

811
00:34:15,796 --> 00:34:17,004
trying to beat it out of town.

812
00:34:17,004 --> 00:34:17,837
- Del Roy!

813
00:34:20,004 --> 00:34:21,921
Yes? Yes?

814
00:34:21,921 --> 00:34:23,004
I'll be right down.

815
00:34:23,004 --> 00:34:25,212
- [Speaker] Mr. Vance, your car is here.

816
00:34:25,212 --> 00:34:27,712
- Thank you.
- Keep it together, Welch.

817
00:34:27,712 --> 00:34:30,421
(indistinct)

818
00:34:30,421 --> 00:34:32,171
- Say, Mr. Vance, who did this?

819
00:34:32,171 --> 00:34:33,629
- The four Marx Brothers.

820
00:34:33,629 --> 00:34:37,212
(indistinct group chatter)

821
00:34:42,629 --> 00:34:43,546
- Oh, hello Vance.

822
00:34:43,546 --> 00:34:45,379
Good to see you!
- Hello Mr. Gray!

823
00:34:45,379 --> 00:34:46,212
- Anything new?

824
00:34:46,212 --> 00:34:49,379
- Well, you called my hand last night.
- Still stuck.

825
00:34:49,379 --> 00:34:52,546
I'm afraid I took up
that challenge of yours

826
00:34:52,546 --> 00:34:55,337
to solve a murder by a
professional, too soon.

827
00:34:55,337 --> 00:34:57,379
- This was no professional job.

828
00:34:58,754 --> 00:35:01,546
- Oh, Albert the door.
- Thank you.

829
00:35:01,546 --> 00:35:03,296
- Everybody there, including me,

830
00:35:03,296 --> 00:35:05,004
threatened to kill Benson.

831
00:35:05,004 --> 00:35:07,212
They were all sore at
that financial genius.

832
00:35:08,462 --> 00:35:10,212
What's the matter?

833
00:35:10,254 --> 00:35:11,587
Albert, get that door!

834
00:35:18,504 --> 00:35:19,796
- You know, somehow I had the impression

835
00:35:19,796 --> 00:35:22,212
that Albert was Mr. Benson's man.

836
00:35:22,212 --> 00:35:25,421
So he was, I just took him on today.

837
00:35:25,421 --> 00:35:26,296
- Oh.
- You see,

838
00:35:26,296 --> 00:35:29,796
Benson's dress ties
were always tied smart.

839
00:35:29,796 --> 00:35:32,004
And Albert, there, was
the boy who tied them.

840
00:35:32,004 --> 00:35:33,379
That's it.
- I see.

841
00:35:33,379 --> 00:35:34,421
- Oh, come in Frank.

842
00:35:35,462 --> 00:35:37,046
- Good morning.
- Good morning.

843
00:35:37,962 --> 00:35:40,504
And those two women that
were there last night, Vance?

844
00:35:40,504 --> 00:35:43,462
Never get mixed up with
women, they're dynamite.

845
00:35:43,462 --> 00:35:44,296
No brains.

846
00:35:44,296 --> 00:35:45,462
- Hmm.

847
00:35:45,504 --> 00:35:46,337
- A shave, sir?

848
00:35:46,337 --> 00:35:47,421
- Yes.

849
00:35:47,421 --> 00:35:49,879
You see, I don't let just anybody

850
00:35:49,879 --> 00:35:51,087
put a razor on me.

851
00:35:51,087 --> 00:35:52,254
- Neither did Napoleon.

852
00:35:53,087 --> 00:35:54,796
- Yes, I read about that!

853
00:35:54,796 --> 00:35:56,212
That's where I got the idea!

854
00:35:56,212 --> 00:36:00,462
- Mr. Gray, I wondered if I
could get you to help me out.

855
00:36:00,462 --> 00:36:02,087
- Sure, I'd better,

856
00:36:02,087 --> 00:36:03,712
or they'll be indicting me again.

857
00:36:04,671 --> 00:36:07,587
If everything those birds
tried to pin on me stuck,

858
00:36:07,587 --> 00:36:10,296
I'd have worn out a carload
of electric chairs by now.

859
00:36:11,171 --> 00:36:13,546
You see, my business makes me acquainted

860
00:36:13,546 --> 00:36:15,796
with a lot of tough mugs.

861
00:36:15,796 --> 00:36:18,504
And Markham and that detective, Heath,

862
00:36:18,504 --> 00:36:21,837
call me in every time
an automobile backfired.

863
00:36:21,837 --> 00:36:23,046
But I don't mind,

864
00:36:23,046 --> 00:36:25,212
that's their job.
- Yes, so it is.

865
00:36:25,212 --> 00:36:26,671
Well Mr. Gray,

866
00:36:26,671 --> 00:36:29,421
something the police
overlooked at the Benson lodge

867
00:36:29,421 --> 00:36:32,337
seems to point to one of
the guests there last night.

868
00:36:32,337 --> 00:36:34,837
And I thought perhaps
you might know someone

869
00:36:34,837 --> 00:36:36,254
who would look into his room,

870
00:36:36,254 --> 00:36:38,921
his hotel room for me, professionally.

871
00:36:38,921 --> 00:36:40,462
(doorbell ringing)

872
00:36:40,462 --> 00:36:42,212
- You're on to Mohler, eh?

873
00:36:43,254 --> 00:36:44,921
Well, I know a stool pigeon

874
00:36:44,921 --> 00:36:47,004
that you might use as a bellhop.

875
00:36:47,004 --> 00:36:47,921
Of course, he'd have to have

876
00:36:47,921 --> 00:36:49,962
a package of something
that he was delivering

877
00:36:49,962 --> 00:36:52,087
in case someone walked in on him.

878
00:36:52,087 --> 00:36:53,046
(indistinct)

879
00:36:53,046 --> 00:36:55,004
- Wasn't looking for me, were, ya Albert?

880
00:36:55,004 --> 00:36:56,337
Come on in here.

881
00:36:56,337 --> 00:36:57,379
See here, Gray.

882
00:36:58,587 --> 00:37:00,587
Oh, you're here!

883
00:37:00,587 --> 00:37:02,296
- Oh yes, Sergeant, I'm here.

884
00:37:02,296 --> 00:37:05,087
- Well, I wasn't about a
minute behind you on this one.

885
00:37:05,087 --> 00:37:06,796
I'm taking you downtown.

886
00:37:06,796 --> 00:37:08,046
Get in there and get ready.

887
00:37:08,046 --> 00:37:09,962
- But sir, please!
- Get your hat.

888
00:37:09,962 --> 00:37:13,004
- What's the idea?
- You too, Gray.

889
00:37:13,004 --> 00:37:14,421
Mister Markham's got some questions

890
00:37:14,421 --> 00:37:16,671
he wants to ask both you boys.

891
00:37:16,671 --> 00:37:18,796
All right, just as soon
as I'm through here.

892
00:37:18,796 --> 00:37:21,921
Didn't I tell you they'd
try to pin this on me?

893
00:37:21,921 --> 00:37:23,796
- Oh, you never killed Benson.

894
00:37:23,796 --> 00:37:24,962
Not personally, you didn't.

895
00:37:24,962 --> 00:37:27,087
But when I learned that Albert here

896
00:37:27,087 --> 00:37:28,879
was working for Benson yesterday

897
00:37:28,879 --> 00:37:30,296
and for Gray today!

898
00:37:31,337 --> 00:37:35,129
Well, I don't have to explain
that to you, Mr. Vance.

899
00:37:35,129 --> 00:37:35,962
Hurry up, Albert.

900
00:37:35,962 --> 00:37:38,129
- So, Albert the murderer

901
00:37:38,129 --> 00:37:39,629
and Gray's the accessory, huh?

902
00:37:40,796 --> 00:37:42,379
Certainly the rest of our little group

903
00:37:42,379 --> 00:37:44,087
won't object to that, will they Mr. Gray?

904
00:37:44,087 --> 00:37:44,921
- Hardly.

905
00:37:44,921 --> 00:37:46,546
- I'm on my way to Knopf, Sergeant.

906
00:37:46,546 --> 00:37:48,171
Exhibition of Japanese prints.

907
00:37:48,171 --> 00:37:49,629
I will see you later, no doubt.

908
00:37:49,629 --> 00:37:50,462
If you'll excuse me.

909
00:37:50,462 --> 00:37:51,796
- So long.

910
00:37:51,796 --> 00:37:53,379
Hurry up and get him washed up.

911
00:37:56,962 --> 00:37:59,046
- Alright, the bag's mine.

912
00:37:59,046 --> 00:38:00,629
I was in his room then.

913
00:38:00,629 --> 00:38:03,421
- [Markham] After climbing
in the back window, why?

914
00:38:03,421 --> 00:38:04,254
- How did you find out?

915
00:38:04,254 --> 00:38:06,796
- Well, Harry Gray was present, you know.

916
00:38:06,796 --> 00:38:07,629
But Gray's out of it.

917
00:38:07,629 --> 00:38:08,796
He was in the kitchen making coffee.

918
00:38:08,796 --> 00:38:10,129
- I see.

919
00:38:10,129 --> 00:38:12,296
- Harry Gray can't tangle me in this.

920
00:38:12,296 --> 00:38:13,921
- Why did you try to leave town?

921
00:38:15,337 --> 00:38:17,504
- Find out if you can.

922
00:38:17,504 --> 00:38:19,754
- Don't be so picturesque,

923
00:38:19,754 --> 00:38:21,046
I'm not a jury.

924
00:38:21,046 --> 00:38:21,879
- Oh, you are a fool if

925
00:38:21,879 --> 00:38:22,712
you think I
- Why did you

926
00:38:22,712 --> 00:38:23,921
go to that house?

927
00:38:23,921 --> 00:38:25,421
- To talk to Benson about my account.

928
00:38:25,421 --> 00:38:27,379
He sold me out.

929
00:38:27,379 --> 00:38:28,671
We quarreled.

930
00:38:28,671 --> 00:38:29,962
- And you needed money?

931
00:38:29,962 --> 00:38:30,921
- No.

932
00:38:32,046 --> 00:38:34,629
- Did you ever see that before?

933
00:38:36,712 --> 00:38:37,546
- No.

934
00:38:38,796 --> 00:38:40,337
- Benson was interested in you,

935
00:38:41,504 --> 00:38:44,212
suppose we say that he attacked you.

936
00:38:44,212 --> 00:38:45,337
- Well?

937
00:38:45,337 --> 00:38:49,671
- If you'll excuse me, your
reputation is well known.

938
00:38:49,671 --> 00:38:52,837
The Forsyth suicide two years ago.

939
00:38:52,837 --> 00:38:55,254
The case of,
- Nevermind that.

940
00:38:55,254 --> 00:38:57,837
I've liked men in my
time, they've liked me.

941
00:38:57,837 --> 00:38:59,379
What of it?

942
00:38:59,379 --> 00:39:02,962
I didn't like Tony Benson,
but I didn't kill him.

943
00:39:02,962 --> 00:39:04,671
If my thoughts could
have killed the swine,

944
00:39:04,671 --> 00:39:06,962
he'd have been dead long ago.

945
00:39:06,962 --> 00:39:09,379
- The rest of 'em are in
the reception room there.

946
00:39:09,379 --> 00:39:10,212
- Wait, please.

947
00:39:14,879 --> 00:39:15,921
Sergeant?

948
00:39:15,921 --> 00:39:16,879
- Yes, Chief?
- Get Mohler

949
00:39:16,879 --> 00:39:18,504
and Mrs. Banning in.

950
00:39:18,504 --> 00:39:20,671
- Yes, and you'll want
that valet of Gray's too,

951
00:39:20,671 --> 00:39:21,962
when I'm true with him.

952
00:39:21,962 --> 00:39:22,796
You know, Chief, there's

953
00:39:22,796 --> 00:39:23,671
something funny about,
- Never mind that

954
00:39:23,671 --> 00:39:24,796
now, Sergeant.

955
00:39:26,212 --> 00:39:28,671
Del Roy seems upset.

956
00:39:28,671 --> 00:39:31,546
- I don't wonder, you barked at her.

957
00:39:31,546 --> 00:39:33,254
You shouldn't bark at the ladies, old man.

958
00:39:33,254 --> 00:39:34,087
- Oh, I'm busy.

959
00:39:34,087 --> 00:39:35,587
This is not the only case in New York

960
00:39:35,587 --> 00:39:37,087
and you're not helping me any.

961
00:39:37,087 --> 00:39:39,254
You are more flippant than usual today.

962
00:39:39,254 --> 00:39:42,837
Well, this was a particularly
flippant murder, Markham.

963
00:39:42,837 --> 00:39:45,254
And if you go on trusting
clues like those,

964
00:39:45,254 --> 00:39:46,962
you'll be busier still.

965
00:39:48,712 --> 00:39:49,671
- Have you a clue?

966
00:39:49,671 --> 00:39:50,712
- [Paula] I have instructed my lawyer.

967
00:39:50,712 --> 00:39:51,921
- Sit down.

968
00:39:51,921 --> 00:39:54,546
- Why, I can't conceive who would want

969
00:39:54,546 --> 00:39:57,129
good old Tony out of the way.

970
00:39:57,129 --> 00:39:59,296
Why, we were just planning
our fall hunting trip

971
00:39:59,296 --> 00:40:00,129
for this month.

972
00:40:00,129 --> 00:40:02,004
- Oh, you hunt, Mr. Mohler?
- Because darling,

973
00:40:02,004 --> 00:40:02,837
- You keep out of it.

974
00:40:02,837 --> 00:40:04,379
You will have,
- What's that?

975
00:40:04,379 --> 00:40:05,879
- Oh, I love to hunt.

976
00:40:05,879 --> 00:40:07,212
I love to hunt.

977
00:40:07,212 --> 00:40:09,462
Ever since
- Never mind all that.

978
00:40:09,504 --> 00:40:11,546
This envelope with your name on it

979
00:40:11,546 --> 00:40:13,504
was found in Benson's desk.

980
00:40:13,504 --> 00:40:16,004
It contains three very
interesting documents.

981
00:40:16,004 --> 00:40:16,962
- Then it was useless.

982
00:40:16,962 --> 00:40:18,296
He didn't have it with him!

983
00:40:18,296 --> 00:40:19,212
- What was useless?

984
00:40:19,212 --> 00:40:20,212
(indistinct)
- Please, Paula!

985
00:40:20,212 --> 00:40:23,337
The first is a canceled cheque of Benson's

986
00:40:23,337 --> 00:40:27,046
made out to Adolph Mohler for $10,000.

987
00:40:27,046 --> 00:40:28,254
- Oh.
- The second,

988
00:40:29,379 --> 00:40:30,837
is a confession signed by you,

989
00:40:30,837 --> 00:40:33,129
admitting this check to be a forgery.

990
00:40:33,129 --> 00:40:36,212
And the third is a note for $10,000

991
00:40:36,212 --> 00:40:39,212
made out to Anthony Benson
signed by Adolph Mohler.

992
00:40:39,212 --> 00:40:40,421
- Yes, yes, that.

993
00:40:40,421 --> 00:40:42,379
I should have mentioned
those things before.

994
00:40:42,379 --> 00:40:45,671
You know, my financial
arrangement were not

995
00:40:45,671 --> 00:40:48,671
all what one could desire.
- I shouldn't have left you.

996
00:40:48,671 --> 00:40:53,671
- Unfortunately, to
protect Madame's stock,

997
00:40:54,171 --> 00:40:56,087
Mr. Benson required $10,000.

998
00:40:56,129 --> 00:40:57,462
- Okay, and you so you forged his name.

999
00:40:57,504 --> 00:40:59,337
- Oh, you mean it would
have been a forgery,

1000
00:40:59,337 --> 00:41:00,587
if he had made a complaint.

1001
00:41:00,587 --> 00:41:02,504
- Well, it's a cinch
he can't make one now.

1002
00:41:02,504 --> 00:41:04,504
- Its a forgery just the same, Sergeant,

1003
00:41:04,504 --> 00:41:05,629
but I'll take that up later.

1004
00:41:05,629 --> 00:41:07,671
- He forges Benson's name,

1005
00:41:07,671 --> 00:41:09,879
pays him back with his own money.

1006
00:41:09,879 --> 00:41:10,712
Marvelous.

1007
00:41:11,629 --> 00:41:14,837
- I explained it to dear
old Tony at once, of course,

1008
00:41:14,837 --> 00:41:17,504
and offered him this note.
- Which falls as due today.

1009
00:41:17,504 --> 00:41:19,504
- Yes, and,
- You mean to tell me

1010
00:41:19,504 --> 00:41:21,712
that Benson accepted your
note without security?

1011
00:41:21,712 --> 00:41:23,212
- Oh, well naturally.

1012
00:41:23,254 --> 00:41:24,921
- Yeah, well,

1013
00:41:24,921 --> 00:41:26,962
what was wrapped in this piece of paper,

1014
00:41:26,962 --> 00:41:29,962
which was found in the wood
box with your name on it?

1015
00:41:31,462 --> 00:41:33,837
- Tony gave me a party for my birthday

1016
00:41:33,837 --> 00:41:36,379
and presented me with a gold pencil.

1017
00:41:36,379 --> 00:41:38,254
I have it here,
- You didn't tell me

1018
00:41:38,254 --> 00:41:39,087
it was your birthday.

1019
00:41:39,087 --> 00:41:41,129
- Please, Paula, be quiet.

1020
00:41:41,129 --> 00:41:42,837
You will get me the electric chair.

1021
00:41:42,837 --> 00:41:45,587
- But darling,
- You will come with me.

1022
00:41:45,587 --> 00:41:46,546
- This is the security

1023
00:41:46,546 --> 00:41:48,462
that you gave Benson for that note.

1024
00:41:48,504 --> 00:41:51,212
- Oh, so Miss Del Roy told you.

1025
00:41:51,212 --> 00:41:52,546
- Who?

1026
00:41:52,546 --> 00:41:54,087
- Those pearls are Miss Del Roy's

1027
00:41:54,087 --> 00:41:55,462
and she threatened to kill

1028
00:41:55,462 --> 00:41:57,046
Benson herself.
- Del Roy?

1029
00:41:57,087 --> 00:41:58,462
- Yes! She's a snake, that woman.

1030
00:41:58,462 --> 00:42:00,879
I'm through, I'm finished with her.

1031
00:42:00,879 --> 00:42:03,212
Now you are the word to me again, darling.

1032
00:42:03,212 --> 00:42:04,462
- You think I would accompany you

1033
00:42:04,462 --> 00:42:06,087
through your sordid affair?

1034
00:42:06,087 --> 00:42:07,171
- Oh, please.

1035
00:42:07,171 --> 00:42:09,087
Miss Del Roy loaned me her pearls,

1036
00:42:09,087 --> 00:42:11,712
and I,
- What a lovely liar.

1037
00:42:11,712 --> 00:42:13,129
He bought them for me one day

1038
00:42:13,129 --> 00:42:15,004
and stole them the next.

1039
00:42:15,004 --> 00:42:16,504
- So Adolph, that's
what became of the money

1040
00:42:16,504 --> 00:42:18,921
I sent you to cover my margins.

1041
00:42:18,921 --> 00:42:21,171
Now wonder you forged that check.

1042
00:42:21,171 --> 00:42:22,671
Why you, you!

1043
00:42:22,671 --> 00:42:23,504
- What were you doing,

1044
00:42:23,504 --> 00:42:25,212
sneaking into Benson's house last night?

1045
00:42:25,212 --> 00:42:26,046
Both of you?

1046
00:42:26,046 --> 00:42:27,796
Why did you quarrel with him?

1047
00:42:27,796 --> 00:42:30,712
- I wanted to get back
that confession of forgery.

1048
00:42:30,712 --> 00:42:32,712
He threatened to put Adolph in jail.

1049
00:42:32,712 --> 00:42:35,712
Mr. Markham, Adolph's all I have now!

1050
00:42:35,712 --> 00:42:38,296
Except the money that makes him love me.

1051
00:42:38,296 --> 00:42:40,587
- You threatened to kill
Benson yourself, didn't you?

1052
00:42:40,587 --> 00:42:43,087
- Yes.
- Well, who didn't?

1053
00:42:43,087 --> 00:42:46,254
- Mr. Markham, may I have that jewel case?

1054
00:42:46,254 --> 00:42:47,796
- Mr. Gray is here, sir.
- Oh, send him in.

1055
00:42:47,796 --> 00:42:49,379
Miss Del Roy, in the other room.

1056
00:42:49,379 --> 00:42:50,212
Sergeant!

1057
00:42:51,171 --> 00:42:52,171
- In here, please.

1058
00:42:59,462 --> 00:43:01,046
- You through with my valet yet?

1059
00:43:01,046 --> 00:43:02,129
- We are not.

1060
00:43:02,129 --> 00:43:03,796
- In a minute, Gray.

1061
00:43:06,546 --> 00:43:08,296
- Well, Mr. Detective,

1062
00:43:08,296 --> 00:43:09,587
the newspaper boys are certainly

1063
00:43:09,587 --> 00:43:11,296
having a lot of fun with you,

1064
00:43:11,296 --> 00:43:13,462
being on the scene of
the crime last night.

1065
00:43:14,629 --> 00:43:15,462
- They don't seem to take

1066
00:43:15,462 --> 00:43:17,212
your presence at the scene of the matter

1067
00:43:17,212 --> 00:43:19,087
quite so humorously.

1068
00:43:19,087 --> 00:43:21,046
- No one ever laughs at me.

1069
00:43:21,046 --> 00:43:22,921
They used to when I was a kid,

1070
00:43:22,921 --> 00:43:25,254
but I taught them not to.

1071
00:43:25,254 --> 00:43:29,629
But you, Philo Vance, the
famous amateur detective

1072
00:43:29,629 --> 00:43:32,921
to be in on the draw and then raised out,

1073
00:43:32,921 --> 00:43:34,629
how do you stand it?

1074
00:43:34,629 --> 00:43:36,629
- Perhaps I haven't completed my draw.

1075
00:43:37,629 --> 00:43:39,296
- I'll see you later, Gray.

1076
00:43:39,296 --> 00:43:40,254
- Why not?

1077
00:43:42,046 --> 00:43:43,671
I'm used to that, Markham.

1078
00:43:47,004 --> 00:43:48,254
- Vance, Del Roy is bluffing.

1079
00:43:48,254 --> 00:43:50,004
Did you notice that she didn't even ask

1080
00:43:50,004 --> 00:43:51,462
if her pearls were still there?

1081
00:43:51,504 --> 00:43:53,212
No, because she knew they weren't,

1082
00:43:53,212 --> 00:43:54,379
because she got them.

1083
00:43:54,379 --> 00:43:55,671
- Oh?
- She tried to leave town,

1084
00:43:55,671 --> 00:43:56,504
didn't she?

1085
00:43:56,504 --> 00:43:57,462
- Where was she going, you know?

1086
00:43:57,504 --> 00:43:59,504
- Yes, Boston.

1087
00:43:59,504 --> 00:44:00,712
Oh, Vance, I'm tired.

1088
00:44:00,712 --> 00:44:03,379
I'm tired of all the
human passions and lies,

1089
00:44:03,379 --> 00:44:05,421
And you don't suppose

1090
00:44:05,421 --> 00:44:07,962
they'll beat me in the
election Tuesday, do you?

1091
00:44:07,962 --> 00:44:10,129
- Solving this case
won't lose you any votes.

1092
00:44:10,129 --> 00:44:11,504
- Well, I have solved it.

1093
00:44:12,754 --> 00:44:13,837
Sergeant!

1094
00:44:13,837 --> 00:44:15,337
These complications, Mohler

1095
00:44:15,337 --> 00:44:17,504
and Mrs. Banning and the rest,

1096
00:44:17,504 --> 00:44:20,087
simply obscure the direct
evidence against Del Roy.

1097
00:44:21,171 --> 00:44:22,879
- Yes, Chief?
- Sergeant.

1098
00:44:22,879 --> 00:44:27,712
Exhibit A, B, and C versus Fanny Del Roy.

1099
00:44:27,712 --> 00:44:28,962
Label them for the grand jury.

1100
00:44:28,962 --> 00:44:31,796
I am going to ask for her
indictment this afternoon.

1101
00:44:31,796 --> 00:44:33,754
- On that evidence?

1102
00:44:33,754 --> 00:44:36,462
- Vance, I may not know Japanese art,

1103
00:44:36,504 --> 00:44:39,171
but I am still District
Attorney of New York.

1104
00:44:41,171 --> 00:44:43,879
- Defense counsel in the McGuire case.

1105
00:44:43,879 --> 00:44:44,754
- You'll have to wait.

1106
00:44:44,754 --> 00:44:46,337
- Are we to be detained here?

1107
00:44:46,337 --> 00:44:47,171
- Sergeant!

1108
00:44:47,171 --> 00:44:47,962
- Yes sir!
- Hand over Ms. Del Roy over

1109
00:44:48,004 --> 00:44:49,337
to the custody of a Matron.

1110
00:44:49,337 --> 00:44:51,046
- [Heath] Yes, sir.

1111
00:44:51,046 --> 00:44:52,087
Have Ms. O'Brien over
to the chief's office.

1112
00:44:52,087 --> 00:44:53,546
Right away, yeah.

1113
00:44:55,129 --> 00:44:57,587
- [Vance] Don't make a mistake, old man.

1114
00:44:57,587 --> 00:44:58,587
You can't afford to.

1115
00:44:58,587 --> 00:44:59,546
- [Markham] if you'll show me where, I,

1116
00:44:59,546 --> 00:45:01,546
- What I'd like to show you,

1117
00:45:01,546 --> 00:45:03,712
are some bits of stringy fuzz

1118
00:45:03,712 --> 00:45:06,046
across the front of Benson's waistcoat.

1119
00:45:06,046 --> 00:45:07,129
You have that waist coat, of course?

1120
00:45:07,129 --> 00:45:09,587
- [Markham] Yes, it's in the
medical examiner's office.

1121
00:45:09,587 --> 00:45:11,046
What's that got to do with it?

1122
00:45:11,046 --> 00:45:12,796
- Have I ever let you down?

1123
00:45:13,754 --> 00:45:15,004
- Well, no.

1124
00:45:15,004 --> 00:45:17,421
- I suppose we take a look
at that waistcoat, then.

1125
00:45:18,712 --> 00:45:19,712
- [Markham] Alright.

1126
00:45:22,129 --> 00:45:24,421
(indistinct road traffic)

1127
00:45:24,421 --> 00:45:26,087
- County courthouse.
- Yes, sir.

1128
00:45:27,046 --> 00:45:30,546
(indistinct road traffic)

1129
00:45:37,129 --> 00:45:37,962
- Vance, this looks like

1130
00:45:37,962 --> 00:45:39,462
a wild goose chase to me.

1131
00:45:39,462 --> 00:45:40,337
- Pardon me, Markham.

1132
00:45:41,296 --> 00:45:43,546
Suppose you turn east at the next corner.

1133
00:45:43,546 --> 00:45:45,796
(glass shattering)

1134
00:45:45,796 --> 00:45:47,837
(Markham grunting)

1135
00:45:47,837 --> 00:45:49,046
- I'm shot, Vance.

1136
00:45:49,046 --> 00:45:49,879
Stop the car!

1137
00:45:49,879 --> 00:45:52,254
- No, no. My apartment, quick!

1138
00:45:52,254 --> 00:45:53,754
That shot was meant for me, Markham.

1139
00:45:53,754 --> 00:45:55,254
Had a silencer on that gun.

1140
00:46:04,212 --> 00:46:06,754
- What makes you think the
bullet was meant for you?

1141
00:46:07,754 --> 00:46:09,837
- Something I said in your office.

1142
00:46:09,837 --> 00:46:10,962
It must have been overheard.

1143
00:46:10,962 --> 00:46:11,837
- By whom?

1144
00:46:12,712 --> 00:46:14,379
- All the possibilities
were there, weren't they?

1145
00:46:14,379 --> 00:46:16,546
- Well, I still think it's Del Roy.

1146
00:46:17,671 --> 00:46:20,254
- But Markham, do women kill

1147
00:46:20,254 --> 00:46:22,337
merely to recover a string of pearls?

1148
00:46:22,337 --> 00:46:25,546
- Well, suppose Benson had
forced his attention on her?

1149
00:46:25,546 --> 00:46:26,879
Supposing that he attempted to,

1150
00:46:26,879 --> 00:46:29,337
- Can you imagine Benson, with his vanity,

1151
00:46:29,337 --> 00:46:32,671
attempting anything without his toupee?

1152
00:46:32,671 --> 00:46:33,504
- I've got it.

1153
00:46:33,504 --> 00:46:34,337
- What do you mean?

1154
00:46:34,337 --> 00:46:35,462
- Albert.

1155
00:46:35,462 --> 00:46:36,296
The minute you told me

1156
00:46:36,296 --> 00:46:38,879
that Albert brought that
handbag out to Gray that night,

1157
00:46:38,879 --> 00:46:39,962
- Gray simply went out there

1158
00:46:39,962 --> 00:46:42,254
to spend the night with
Benson, who was nervous.

1159
00:46:42,254 --> 00:46:44,546
- Well, he picked a swell chaperone.

1160
00:46:44,546 --> 00:46:46,004
- Yeah, Gray forgot and left his bag

1161
00:46:46,004 --> 00:46:47,379
in Benson's room at the club.

1162
00:46:47,379 --> 00:46:50,129
Benson phoned and Albert
brought it out, that's all.

1163
00:46:50,129 --> 00:46:52,337
- And where did Albert go after that?

1164
00:46:52,337 --> 00:46:54,712
He claimed that he took
the train back to town.

1165
00:46:54,712 --> 00:46:56,254
That's no alibi.

1166
00:46:56,254 --> 00:46:59,546
Why, he only started working
for Benson six weeks ago.

1167
00:46:59,546 --> 00:47:00,796
And when I photographed him,

1168
00:47:00,796 --> 00:47:02,046
he nearly threw a fit.

1169
00:47:02,046 --> 00:47:04,212
- You know Markham, because Albert refuses

1170
00:47:04,254 --> 00:47:06,629
to tell the police the
history of his life,

1171
00:47:06,629 --> 00:47:09,546
Sergeant insists that
he's a gunman in disguise.

1172
00:47:09,546 --> 00:47:10,796
- Well, he's a foreigner.

1173
00:47:10,796 --> 00:47:13,129
- Well, my case against Delroy!

1174
00:47:13,129 --> 00:47:15,712
So Sergeant, you tell Smithers
to prepare the indictment.

1175
00:47:15,712 --> 00:47:16,837
- Yes sir.

1176
00:47:16,837 --> 00:47:19,296
- Now, just a moment.

1177
00:47:19,296 --> 00:47:22,337
I'm not going to let you
make fools of yourself.

1178
00:47:22,337 --> 00:47:23,421
Markham, until tomorrow night,

1179
00:47:23,421 --> 00:47:25,462
let me handle this in my own way.

1180
00:47:25,462 --> 00:47:28,754
Now if you don't, on
the day after tomorrow,

1181
00:47:28,754 --> 00:47:31,212
the morning papers will
say that I, not you,

1182
00:47:31,254 --> 00:47:32,962
will have solved the
murder of Anthony Benson.

1183
00:47:32,962 --> 00:47:34,879
And that's election day.

1184
00:47:34,879 --> 00:47:35,962
- You stopped me last night

1185
00:47:35,962 --> 00:47:38,046
from proceeding as I saw fit,

1186
00:47:38,046 --> 00:47:39,921
and I got a bullet in my arm.

1187
00:47:39,921 --> 00:47:41,504
Del Roy has the real motive.

1188
00:47:41,504 --> 00:47:42,837
- Oh, motive.

1189
00:47:42,837 --> 00:47:46,129
Drop a nickel in a slot and get a motive.

1190
00:47:46,129 --> 00:47:48,587
Everybody has some motive
for murdering somebody.

1191
00:47:48,587 --> 00:47:50,421
- Yeah, be careful somebody
doesn't murder you.

1192
00:47:50,421 --> 00:47:52,754
- No, nobody's gonna get him, Chief.

1193
00:47:52,754 --> 00:47:54,587
I'll watch over you Mr. Vance.

1194
00:47:54,587 --> 00:47:55,837
- Thank you Sergeant.

1195
00:47:55,837 --> 00:47:58,129
Oh, tell me, did that
firearms expert of yours

1196
00:47:58,129 --> 00:47:59,921
say when he would
know about those bullets?

1197
00:47:59,921 --> 00:48:01,337
- Sometime today.
- I'll see him.

1198
00:48:01,337 --> 00:48:03,254
And if you don't mind, Markham,

1199
00:48:03,254 --> 00:48:05,254
I'd like to have Ms. Del Roy's jewel case

1200
00:48:05,254 --> 00:48:06,629
brought to me here this afternoon.

1201
00:48:06,629 --> 00:48:09,796
- Right.
- Then I want a police woman.

1202
00:48:09,796 --> 00:48:10,879
- A police woman?

1203
00:48:10,879 --> 00:48:12,254
- Yes.
- Well, say!

1204
00:48:12,254 --> 00:48:14,712
I can handle anything in this case.

1205
00:48:14,754 --> 00:48:16,254
- Well very good, Sergeant.

1206
00:48:16,254 --> 00:48:18,879
This is a little job of
chambermaiding in a hotel.

1207
00:48:19,962 --> 00:48:20,796
- Oh.

1208
00:48:22,712 --> 00:48:25,462
(Heath grunting)

1209
00:48:33,129 --> 00:48:35,254
- Now this is the bullet
that killed Benson.

1210
00:48:35,254 --> 00:48:36,254
The rifling marks on it

1211
00:48:36,254 --> 00:48:37,796
correspond exactly with the rifling

1212
00:48:37,796 --> 00:48:38,671
on the inside of the barrel

1213
00:48:38,671 --> 00:48:41,212
of that gun you picked
up after the murder.

1214
00:48:41,212 --> 00:48:44,796
This one is the one that hit Mr. Markham.

1215
00:48:44,796 --> 00:48:45,921
The same kind of a bullet

1216
00:48:45,921 --> 00:48:47,504
fired from the same kind of a gun.

1217
00:48:47,504 --> 00:48:48,921
But the trouble is,

1218
00:48:48,921 --> 00:48:50,962
that this is such a special make

1219
00:48:50,962 --> 00:48:52,004
that I don't understand

1220
00:48:52,004 --> 00:48:52,837
how it could be two of them

1221
00:48:52,837 --> 00:48:54,296
exactly alike around here.

1222
00:48:54,296 --> 00:48:55,337
- Excuse me, Mr. Vance.

1223
00:48:55,337 --> 00:48:56,171
- Oh, yes Welch.

1224
00:48:56,171 --> 00:48:56,962
- Here have the picture of

1225
00:48:56,962 --> 00:48:57,837
those fingerprints you wanted.

1226
00:48:57,837 --> 00:48:58,671
- Oh, good.

1227
00:48:58,671 --> 00:49:00,462
And that coffee can,

1228
00:49:00,504 --> 00:49:01,754
you left it there all right?

1229
00:49:01,754 --> 00:49:03,254
- Yes, I stuck it back
on the kitchen shelf.

1230
00:49:03,254 --> 00:49:04,337
- Thank you.

1231
00:49:04,337 --> 00:49:05,296
- What gets me is,

1232
00:49:05,296 --> 00:49:07,212
Sergeant Heath said there was no explosion

1233
00:49:07,212 --> 00:49:08,212
when Markham was shot.

1234
00:49:08,212 --> 00:49:10,379
Now, this type of gun was designed

1235
00:49:10,379 --> 00:49:11,962
in Russia during the revolution

1236
00:49:12,004 --> 00:49:14,796
for the protection of the
women of the aristocracy.

1237
00:49:14,796 --> 00:49:16,087
A few drifted to Paris

1238
00:49:16,087 --> 00:49:17,712
and were copied to the underworld.

1239
00:49:17,712 --> 00:49:19,212
But there was never a silencer

1240
00:49:19,212 --> 00:49:20,712
manufactured for that gun.

1241
00:49:20,754 --> 00:49:22,921
- Ah, but there was, Captain!

1242
00:49:22,921 --> 00:49:26,254
In this article by the late
Bale of the Paris Police,

1243
00:49:26,254 --> 00:49:28,712
both the gun and its tiny
silencer are described.

1244
00:49:29,587 --> 00:49:30,962
You might keep that copy for your file.

1245
00:49:30,962 --> 00:49:32,421
- Thank you.
- Thank you!

1246
00:49:32,421 --> 00:49:34,796
And Captain, if there
should be a call for me,

1247
00:49:34,796 --> 00:49:36,587
I'll be at the reference
room at "The Times."

1248
00:49:36,587 --> 00:49:37,546
- I'll let you know.

1249
00:49:37,546 --> 00:49:38,712
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.

1250
00:49:43,212 --> 00:49:45,754
- But for strength of
composition, Mr. Vance,

1251
00:49:45,754 --> 00:49:48,254
and for unusual delicacy of lines,

1252
00:49:48,254 --> 00:49:49,629
I would continue.
- Oh, Sam?

1253
00:49:49,629 --> 00:49:50,462
Pardon me.

1254
00:49:50,462 --> 00:49:51,796
- Yes?
- Is Mr. Markham all right?

1255
00:49:51,796 --> 00:49:54,587
- Well, no sir. Sergeant
Heath is with him.

1256
00:49:57,296 --> 00:49:58,546
- As I was saying Mr. Vance,

1257
00:49:58,546 --> 00:50:01,129
I could do no better
than to recommend to you

1258
00:50:01,129 --> 00:50:02,879
these three very choice examples

1259
00:50:02,879 --> 00:50:05,421
of the Ukiyo-e school.

1260
00:50:05,421 --> 00:50:07,296
Now these, Mr. Vance,
are a rare opportunity.

1261
00:50:07,296 --> 00:50:09,671
If you don't take advantage of it, sir,

1262
00:50:09,671 --> 00:50:10,879
I assure you you'll regret it to your,

1263
00:50:10,879 --> 00:50:12,796
- Hey, hey.

1264
00:50:12,796 --> 00:50:14,212
Who are you?

1265
00:50:14,212 --> 00:50:15,671
- Who am I? Who are you?

1266
00:50:15,671 --> 00:50:16,754
- Oh, pardon me, Sergeant.

1267
00:50:16,754 --> 00:50:18,462
This is my print dealer.

1268
00:50:18,462 --> 00:50:19,962
He's not dangerous.

1269
00:50:19,962 --> 00:50:20,837
- Oh.

1270
00:50:20,837 --> 00:50:23,004
- If you would step aside, please.

1271
00:50:23,004 --> 00:50:24,837
Mr. Vance,
(doorbell ringing)

1272
00:50:24,837 --> 00:50:25,879
These three,
- I better

1273
00:50:25,879 --> 00:50:27,171
take that door, Mr. Vance.

1274
00:50:27,171 --> 00:50:29,087
You know we can't be too careful today.

1275
00:50:29,087 --> 00:50:30,254
- Alright, Sergeant.

1276
00:50:30,254 --> 00:50:31,421
Oh by the way, you haven't forgotten

1277
00:50:31,421 --> 00:50:33,254
that jewel case have you?

1278
00:50:33,254 --> 00:50:34,087
- Right here.

1279
00:50:35,837 --> 00:50:37,212
- Thank you.

1280
00:50:37,212 --> 00:50:38,254
- Of course Mr. Vance,

1281
00:50:38,254 --> 00:50:40,087
I don't want to force these upon you.

1282
00:50:40,087 --> 00:50:41,629
I have, in the portfolio,

1283
00:50:41,629 --> 00:50:44,087
something that might
interest you still more.

1284
00:50:44,087 --> 00:50:45,712
If I can only find it here,

1285
00:50:45,712 --> 00:50:47,254
it's something I was particularly anxious

1286
00:50:47,254 --> 00:50:49,129
to bring to your attention.

1287
00:50:49,129 --> 00:50:50,962
Ah yes, here we have it.

1288
00:50:50,962 --> 00:50:53,296
These three from the Wright collection:

1289
00:50:53,296 --> 00:50:57,796
Hokusai, Narunobi and Hiroshige,

1290
00:50:57,796 --> 00:50:59,254
commonly referred to, you know,

1291
00:50:59,254 --> 00:51:01,421
as the three Hiroshige,
- Burke.

1292
00:51:01,421 --> 00:51:03,171
- Oh, Burke, did you get it?

1293
00:51:03,171 --> 00:51:04,004
- Yes sir.

1294
00:51:04,004 --> 00:51:08,129
All the sacks were tied up with
chord like that, except one.

1295
00:51:08,129 --> 00:51:08,962
- And that one?

1296
00:51:08,962 --> 00:51:10,921
- Well, somebody must have
cut it off, like you said.

1297
00:51:10,921 --> 00:51:12,254
- Say, what have you been up to?

1298
00:51:12,254 --> 00:51:13,504
- All right, Sergeant, I'll explain later.

1299
00:51:13,504 --> 00:51:15,337
Oh, Burke, will you stand by

1300
00:51:15,337 --> 00:51:16,962
Mr. Markham's office please?

1301
00:51:16,962 --> 00:51:18,046
- Yes sir.

1302
00:51:18,046 --> 00:51:20,379
- Sergeant, we're getting warm.

1303
00:51:20,379 --> 00:51:22,921
- What do you mean, we're
getting warm? From that?

1304
00:51:22,921 --> 00:51:25,129
- Mr. Vance, may I not call your attention

1305
00:51:25,129 --> 00:51:27,212
to these very,
- Oh,

1306
00:51:27,212 --> 00:51:29,212
I'll take the Hiroshige.

1307
00:51:29,212 --> 00:51:31,629
3000, you said, huh?
- Right, thank you.

1308
00:51:31,629 --> 00:51:32,462
Correct.

1309
00:51:33,421 --> 00:51:34,254
Pardon me.

1310
00:51:35,462 --> 00:51:38,421
- 3000 bucks for those chromos?

1311
00:51:38,421 --> 00:51:40,587
What's the psychology in that, Mr. Vance?

1312
00:51:40,587 --> 00:51:41,712
- Sergeant, we're hot.

1313
00:51:42,796 --> 00:51:44,254
- Say, will you please let me in

1314
00:51:44,254 --> 00:51:46,587
on this string bonfire business?

1315
00:51:47,671 --> 00:51:48,504
- You'll observe, Sergeant,

1316
00:51:48,504 --> 00:51:51,962
that this twine burns slowly but surely.

1317
00:51:51,962 --> 00:51:52,796
(phone ringing)

1318
00:51:52,796 --> 00:51:54,046
Oh, will you take that please?

1319
00:51:54,879 --> 00:51:56,712
- Yeah? No, Heath.

1320
00:51:57,712 --> 00:51:58,837
Oh, she has?

1321
00:52:00,129 --> 00:52:01,462
Good!

1322
00:52:01,462 --> 00:52:03,962
- Yes, Sergeant?
- Mrs. Banning's confessed.

1323
00:52:03,962 --> 00:52:06,171
- Slowly but surely.

1324
00:52:09,421 --> 00:52:11,587
- It was to protect Adolph.

1325
00:52:11,587 --> 00:52:14,629
I went to Benton's room,
I pleaded with him.

1326
00:52:14,629 --> 00:52:16,087
He had the jewel case,

1327
00:52:16,087 --> 00:52:19,004
so I thought he must have
Adolph's confession of forgery

1328
00:52:19,004 --> 00:52:20,212
and his note, too.

1329
00:52:21,129 --> 00:52:22,754
Benson laughed at me.

1330
00:52:22,796 --> 00:52:26,962
There was a gun on the
table, so I shot him.

1331
00:52:27,837 --> 00:52:31,337
He went to the door to
call and then he fell.

1332
00:52:32,171 --> 00:52:34,004
- And where was Mr. Mohler?

1333
00:52:34,004 --> 00:52:36,046
- In one of the guest rooms.

1334
00:52:36,046 --> 00:52:39,504
Oh, I swear to you Mr. Mohler is innocent!

1335
00:52:39,504 --> 00:52:41,129
- Now, Mrs. Banning,

1336
00:52:41,129 --> 00:52:41,962
- Yes?

1337
00:52:43,212 --> 00:52:44,504
- Have you a hair pin?

1338
00:52:45,796 --> 00:52:46,671
- What?

1339
00:52:46,671 --> 00:52:47,504
- A hair pin.

1340
00:52:48,921 --> 00:52:50,587
- Why, yes.

1341
00:52:50,587 --> 00:52:51,921
- May I have it?

1342
00:52:56,087 --> 00:52:57,462
Thank you.

1343
00:52:57,504 --> 00:52:59,962
- Sergeant Heath's on the wire, Mr. Vance.

1344
00:53:00,004 --> 00:53:00,921
- Is there anyone in the reception room?

1345
00:53:00,921 --> 00:53:01,754
- No sir.

1346
00:53:01,754 --> 00:53:03,504
- I'll take it there.

1347
00:53:09,212 --> 00:53:10,046
Hello?

1348
00:53:11,629 --> 00:53:13,129
Yes.

1349
00:53:13,129 --> 00:53:14,129
Oh, just a minute.

1350
00:53:15,212 --> 00:53:16,462
And what are you doing up?

1351
00:53:16,462 --> 00:53:17,837
- You think I can lay
around your apartment

1352
00:53:17,837 --> 00:53:20,921
with the newspapers hounding
me about this Benson crime?

1353
00:53:20,921 --> 00:53:22,087
Where is Sergeant Heath?

1354
00:53:22,087 --> 00:53:23,837
I can't find him anywhere.

1355
00:53:23,837 --> 00:53:24,712
- I had him on the wire.

1356
00:53:24,712 --> 00:53:26,671
He is doing something for me.

1357
00:53:26,671 --> 00:53:28,921
- Oh.
- Also for you.

1358
00:53:28,921 --> 00:53:29,754
- Oh.

1359
00:53:31,462 --> 00:53:34,587
- Yes, Sergeant? Yes.

1360
00:53:36,379 --> 00:53:40,587
All right, arrange it for six sharp.

1361
00:53:40,587 --> 00:53:42,587
And you'd better set that clock out there

1362
00:53:42,587 --> 00:53:44,296
and your watch with mine.

1363
00:53:44,296 --> 00:53:47,962
I make it just 4:33. Right.

1364
00:53:49,462 --> 00:53:51,712
- Mr. Vance, if you're through with me,

1365
00:53:52,629 --> 00:53:54,587
well, I haven't had any lunch yet and,

1366
00:53:54,587 --> 00:53:56,962
- Oh, I'm terribly sorry Burke.

1367
00:53:56,962 --> 00:53:57,921
Suppose you eat first

1368
00:53:57,921 --> 00:53:59,671
and then pick up that police woman

1369
00:53:59,671 --> 00:54:02,337
who's chambermaiding for
us at that hotel, will you?

1370
00:54:02,337 --> 00:54:03,962
- All right.
- Good.

1371
00:54:05,004 --> 00:54:06,921
- What do you think of her confession?

1372
00:54:08,421 --> 00:54:10,004
- Well, more a confession out of love

1373
00:54:10,004 --> 00:54:11,546
than a confession of guilt,

1374
00:54:11,546 --> 00:54:12,421
don't you think?

1375
00:54:12,421 --> 00:54:14,421
- You mean that she's
trying to protect Mohler?

1376
00:54:14,421 --> 00:54:15,254
- What else?

1377
00:54:16,671 --> 00:54:18,087
- Mr. Gray is here, sir.

1378
00:54:18,087 --> 00:54:19,337
- Send him in.

1379
00:54:22,254 --> 00:54:23,837
- [Vance] How do you do?

1380
00:54:23,837 --> 00:54:24,712
- Oh, hello.

1381
00:54:24,712 --> 00:54:25,546
- [Vance] How are you Gray?

1382
00:54:25,546 --> 00:54:27,254
- Say, when you gonna play that hand

1383
00:54:27,254 --> 00:54:29,171
you've been bragging about?

1384
00:54:29,171 --> 00:54:30,587
- Tonight.

1385
00:54:30,587 --> 00:54:33,546
Would you like to sit in on the game?

1386
00:54:33,546 --> 00:54:36,087
- Table stakes?
- Anything you say.

1387
00:54:36,087 --> 00:54:37,379
- No, you say.

1388
00:54:37,379 --> 00:54:38,587
This will be your party.

1389
00:54:39,587 --> 00:54:40,504
- I don't think so.

1390
00:54:41,921 --> 00:54:44,546
Markham, I'd like to
have all our little group

1391
00:54:44,546 --> 00:54:47,379
at Benson's lodge in one hour.

1392
00:54:47,379 --> 00:54:48,671
And suppose we take along

1393
00:54:48,671 --> 00:54:51,587
a photograph of Adolph
Mohler's fingerprint.

1394
00:55:01,546 --> 00:55:02,421
- I understand, Vance.

1395
00:55:02,421 --> 00:55:04,337
I know what you mean, yes.

1396
00:55:04,337 --> 00:55:06,254
Mohler, you mean to tell me

1397
00:55:06,254 --> 00:55:08,379
that you were just sitting up there alone,

1398
00:55:08,379 --> 00:55:09,796
when the gun went off?

1399
00:55:09,796 --> 00:55:11,087
- How do you know it was a gun?

1400
00:55:11,087 --> 00:55:13,421
- [Mr. Gray] Oh, this is going
to be an interesting hand!

1401
00:55:13,421 --> 00:55:14,671
- Well?

1402
00:55:14,671 --> 00:55:17,629
- What I said was that I
was not with Mrs. Banning.

1403
00:55:17,629 --> 00:55:20,087
- I don't wanna know where you were not,

1404
00:55:20,087 --> 00:55:21,629
I wanna know where you were.

1405
00:55:24,546 --> 00:55:25,962
- I am a gentleman.

1406
00:55:25,962 --> 00:55:28,462
- Oh, Miss Del Roy?
- Yes.

1407
00:55:30,587 --> 00:55:32,212
He was with me.

1408
00:55:32,212 --> 00:55:33,421
- Remarkable fellow, Mohler.

1409
00:55:33,421 --> 00:55:36,212
- Oh, come on, we're not
getting any place at all, Vance.

1410
00:55:36,212 --> 00:55:38,879
- You'll have your murderer,
Markham, by six o'clock.

1411
00:55:40,171 --> 00:55:42,212
- I can't stand much more of this!

1412
00:55:42,212 --> 00:55:44,087
If you've got anything on me, say it!

1413
00:55:45,837 --> 00:55:50,171
- This is a rather unusual jewel
case of yours, Ms. Del Roy.

1414
00:55:50,171 --> 00:55:51,712
- Oh, but you.
- You know, Markham,

1415
00:55:51,712 --> 00:55:53,212
Ms. Del Roy has a better motive

1416
00:55:53,212 --> 00:55:55,337
for keeping Anthony
Benson permanently quiet

1417
00:55:55,337 --> 00:55:56,837
than any of them.

1418
00:55:56,837 --> 00:55:58,879
- Please, I would like to go.

1419
00:55:58,879 --> 00:56:00,254
- [Markham] You'll keep quiet.

1420
00:56:00,254 --> 00:56:01,379
- [Vance] And you, Albert,

1421
00:56:01,379 --> 00:56:03,087
hiding your past from the police.

1422
00:56:03,921 --> 00:56:05,004
- I was afraid.

1423
00:56:05,004 --> 00:56:06,296
- I don't blame you.

1424
00:56:06,296 --> 00:56:08,296
Albert's wife is looking for him.

1425
00:56:08,296 --> 00:56:10,212
He left high in Chicago recently,

1426
00:56:10,254 --> 00:56:12,087
without giving notice, you might say.

1427
00:56:12,087 --> 00:56:14,504
- How much longer is this
comedy going to last, Vance?

1428
00:56:14,504 --> 00:56:17,171
- In 10 minutes, Markham,
it won't be comedy.

1429
00:56:17,171 --> 00:56:20,504
For one of you, it isn't now, is it?

1430
00:56:20,504 --> 00:56:23,921
- But why give me a
ringside seat to the seance?

1431
00:56:23,921 --> 00:56:25,671
If any of you comics have got an idea

1432
00:56:25,671 --> 00:56:28,046
that I had anybody bump Benson off,

1433
00:56:28,046 --> 00:56:30,337
- You certainly had
motive enough, didn't you?

1434
00:56:31,337 --> 00:56:32,629
- [Mr. Gray] What motive?

1435
00:56:32,629 --> 00:56:34,004
- Simply matter of fact, revenge,

1436
00:56:34,004 --> 00:56:36,087
for having sold you out on the market.

1437
00:56:36,087 --> 00:56:39,962
You, the illustrious
Harry Gray; the big shot.

1438
00:56:41,129 --> 00:56:43,504
Vanity and arrogance, Markham,

1439
00:56:43,504 --> 00:56:45,337
usually motivates the behavior

1440
00:56:45,337 --> 00:56:46,921
of the intelligent gunman.

1441
00:56:46,921 --> 00:56:48,046
- [Fanny] Gunman?
- Look here!

1442
00:56:48,046 --> 00:56:50,296
- But you were with us, here,

1443
00:56:50,296 --> 00:56:53,171
when the shot was fired and the body fell.

1444
00:56:53,171 --> 00:56:55,004
And just before that?

1445
00:56:55,004 --> 00:56:56,879
- I was in the kitchen making coffee.

1446
00:56:56,879 --> 00:56:58,129
- That's right, I remember.

1447
00:56:58,129 --> 00:57:00,962
- I remember that it was
very over-boiled coffee.

1448
00:57:00,962 --> 00:57:03,504
Must have been on the fire
a long time, wasn't it?

1449
00:57:04,921 --> 00:57:05,837
- Gray?

1450
00:57:05,837 --> 00:57:08,254
Gray couldn't have made
the coffee that night,

1451
00:57:08,254 --> 00:57:10,546
I made it for Paula.

1452
00:57:10,546 --> 00:57:12,629
I wouldn't call me a liar if I were you.

1453
00:57:12,629 --> 00:57:14,962
- I, Adolph Mohler, made the coffee.

1454
00:57:14,962 --> 00:57:16,754
- And if Mohler did make it, Markham,

1455
00:57:16,754 --> 00:57:19,837
Mr. Gray was out of this
room some five minutes.

1456
00:57:19,837 --> 00:57:21,087
And doing what?

1457
00:57:21,087 --> 00:57:22,879
- You're dealing, don't ask me.

1458
00:57:22,879 --> 00:57:24,962
- I'm not, I'm telling you.

1459
00:57:24,962 --> 00:57:27,546
Mr. Gray didn't make the
coffee that night, you know.

1460
00:57:27,546 --> 00:57:28,671
- [Mr. Gray] Who says I didn't?

1461
00:57:28,671 --> 00:57:30,546
- This photograph,

1462
00:57:30,546 --> 00:57:31,462
of the only fingerprints

1463
00:57:31,462 --> 00:57:34,254
on that freshly unwrapped can of coffee.

1464
00:57:34,254 --> 00:57:36,462
And this one, of your prints Mohler,

1465
00:57:36,462 --> 00:57:38,379
prove even to a jury, Markham,

1466
00:57:38,379 --> 00:57:40,004
that only he touched that coffee can.

1467
00:57:40,004 --> 00:57:41,754
- Oh, spare me!

1468
00:57:41,754 --> 00:57:43,671
When they took the print of
my fingers this afternoon,

1469
00:57:43,671 --> 00:57:45,254
I knew you had suspected me.

1470
00:57:45,254 --> 00:57:47,504
If you're going to accuse me, do it.

1471
00:57:47,504 --> 00:57:49,671
- Oh, this is getting tricky.

1472
00:57:49,671 --> 00:57:52,212
- Oh, two-handed poker
isn't so very tricky,

1473
00:57:52,212 --> 00:57:53,504
do you think?

1474
00:57:53,504 --> 00:57:55,962
Mr. Gray, just what were you doing

1475
00:57:55,962 --> 00:57:58,046
while Markham and I sat here that night,

1476
00:57:58,046 --> 00:58:02,254
and Albert came in and so
mysteriously with your handbag?

1477
00:58:02,254 --> 00:58:03,504
- You tell me.

1478
00:58:04,546 --> 00:58:05,879
- Sure!

1479
00:58:05,879 --> 00:58:07,879
You crept up those back stairs,

1480
00:58:07,879 --> 00:58:09,754
tapped on Benson's door,

1481
00:58:09,754 --> 00:58:10,712
he was changing his collar.

1482
00:58:10,712 --> 00:58:13,504
You remember, Markham,
how it bothered him?

1483
00:58:13,504 --> 00:58:16,129
Walked in and shot him dead,

1484
00:58:16,129 --> 00:58:17,837
with one of those imported derringers

1485
00:58:17,837 --> 00:58:19,504
and silencers of yours.

1486
00:58:19,504 --> 00:58:21,046
- Silencers? Ha!

1487
00:58:21,046 --> 00:58:22,337
That's a hot one.

1488
00:58:22,337 --> 00:58:23,712
You heard the shot,

1489
00:58:23,712 --> 00:58:25,004
while I stood here with you.

1490
00:58:25,004 --> 00:58:27,796
- The shot that killed Benson was silent.

1491
00:58:27,796 --> 00:58:29,421
No one heard it.

1492
00:58:29,421 --> 00:58:30,629
Just as no one heard the shot

1493
00:58:30,629 --> 00:58:32,046
which you fired at me, Gray,

1494
00:58:32,046 --> 00:58:34,379
and which wounded Mr. Markham.

1495
00:58:34,379 --> 00:58:35,587
Here at the lodge, however,

1496
00:58:35,587 --> 00:58:37,671
you arranged for a second shot to explode

1497
00:58:37,671 --> 00:58:40,129
as Benson's body came
tumbling down those stairs.

1498
00:58:40,129 --> 00:58:43,171
- Oh, I suppose the body waited up there

1499
00:58:43,171 --> 00:58:45,296
for the second shot?
- Exactly.

1500
00:58:45,296 --> 00:58:46,837
You arranged that, too.

1501
00:58:46,837 --> 00:58:49,796
(clock chiming)

1502
00:58:49,796 --> 00:58:52,879
Just as I have.
(gunshot)

1503
00:58:52,879 --> 00:58:56,546
(body crashing, clattering)

1504
00:58:58,421 --> 00:58:59,254
It's a dummy!

1505
00:58:59,254 --> 00:59:00,587
Oh, Burke?
- Yes sir.

1506
00:59:00,587 --> 00:59:02,046
- Supported at the head of the stairs

1507
00:59:02,046 --> 00:59:03,754
by a piece of twine,

1508
00:59:03,754 --> 00:59:05,546
at the same kind that Mr. Gray cut

1509
00:59:05,546 --> 00:59:08,171
from a pack of liquor in
the basement that night.

1510
00:59:08,171 --> 00:59:10,212
The twine was crossed around Benson's body

1511
00:59:10,254 --> 00:59:11,671
and looped around a newel post

1512
00:59:11,671 --> 00:59:13,337
at the head of the stairs.

1513
00:59:13,337 --> 00:59:14,171
I knew that the body

1514
00:59:14,171 --> 00:59:16,087
must have been there for several minutes.

1515
00:59:16,087 --> 00:59:17,046
- [Markham] How did you know?

1516
00:59:17,046 --> 00:59:18,712
- Because if Benson had been shot

1517
00:59:18,712 --> 00:59:21,712
immediately prior to his
tumbling down the stairs,

1518
00:59:21,712 --> 00:59:23,421
there couldn't possibly have been

1519
00:59:23,421 --> 00:59:25,796
that puddle of blood on the
second step from the top,

1520
00:59:25,796 --> 00:59:27,837
could there?
- Very interesting.

1521
00:59:27,837 --> 00:59:29,087
But where were all these people

1522
00:59:29,087 --> 00:59:31,546
while I was doing this Houdini stuff?

1523
00:59:31,546 --> 00:59:32,712
Do you think I'd take a chance

1524
00:59:32,754 --> 00:59:34,754
at being walked in on like that?

1525
00:59:34,754 --> 00:59:36,171
- But what chance were you taking

1526
00:59:36,171 --> 00:59:37,546
after you saw that Mrs. Banning

1527
00:59:37,546 --> 00:59:40,712
was resting on the bed in her room?

1528
00:59:40,712 --> 00:59:42,337
- How did you know that?

1529
00:59:42,337 --> 00:59:43,337
- Your hairpin, Mrs. Banning. Thank you.

1530
00:59:44,962 --> 00:59:48,087
It exactly matches this one,

1531
00:59:48,087 --> 00:59:50,962
which I found on your
pillow up there that night.

1532
00:59:50,962 --> 00:59:52,879
From the impression of
your figure on the bed,

1533
00:59:52,879 --> 00:59:54,296
you must have been resting there

1534
00:59:54,296 --> 00:59:55,796
for some time, weren't you?

1535
00:59:55,796 --> 00:59:58,837
- Yes, I was lying there
when the shot was fired.

1536
00:59:58,837 --> 01:00:00,087
- Ah.
- All right,

1537
01:00:00,087 --> 01:00:01,879
but what about Del Roy and Mohler?

1538
01:00:01,879 --> 01:00:03,337
- Ms. Del Roy has already told us

1539
01:00:03,337 --> 01:00:05,546
that Mr. Mohler was with her,

1540
01:00:05,546 --> 01:00:09,171
discussing her pearls, I should think.

1541
01:00:09,171 --> 01:00:11,379
Mr. Mohler had considerable
explaining to do,

1542
01:00:11,379 --> 01:00:13,129
if you remember.

1543
01:00:13,129 --> 01:00:15,254
You listened outside their door

1544
01:00:15,254 --> 01:00:17,046
and what you heard convinced you

1545
01:00:17,046 --> 01:00:18,046
that they would remain there

1546
01:00:18,046 --> 01:00:19,546
for several minutes at least.

1547
01:00:19,546 --> 01:00:21,587
- [Markham] But how could
he have timed the shot?

1548
01:00:21,587 --> 01:00:23,129
- As I just did with the dummy.

1549
01:00:25,546 --> 01:00:28,004
With another of Benson's
cartridge burglar alarms,

1550
01:00:28,004 --> 01:00:29,212
like this one.

1551
01:00:29,212 --> 01:00:30,296
You used the one

1552
01:00:30,296 --> 01:00:32,754
Benson had stuck in the
door of his storeroom.

1553
01:00:32,754 --> 01:00:35,379
You got it when you went down
to the cellar that night.

1554
01:00:35,379 --> 01:00:36,212
After you had made sure

1555
01:00:36,212 --> 01:00:37,462
that you would not be interrupted

1556
01:00:37,462 --> 01:00:39,337
by Mrs. Banning and the others,

1557
01:00:39,337 --> 01:00:43,296
you hung the body and the
alarm on that twine up there.

1558
01:00:43,296 --> 01:00:45,546
<i>Then you set fire to a
loose end of the twine,</i>

1559
01:00:45,587 --> 01:00:47,962
<i>so that when the flame reached the knot,</i>

1560
01:00:47,962 --> 01:00:50,337
<i>the twine broke, the body fell,</i>

1561
01:00:50,337 --> 01:00:52,337
<i>and the alarm dropped to the floor</i>

1562
01:00:52,337 --> 01:00:54,171
where it exploded like this.

1563
01:00:54,171 --> 01:00:56,087
(loud bang)

1564
01:00:56,087 --> 01:00:58,421
You were first upstairs,
after the body fell.

1565
01:00:58,421 --> 01:01:00,587
You quickly dropped the Derringer

1566
01:01:00,587 --> 01:01:02,296
behind the newel post,

1567
01:01:02,296 --> 01:01:04,462
picked up the alarm and the string,

1568
01:01:04,462 --> 01:01:06,379
put them in your pocket

1569
01:01:06,379 --> 01:01:10,962
and told me to do my stuff, wasn't it?

1570
01:01:10,962 --> 01:01:12,546
- Well,

1571
01:01:12,546 --> 01:01:13,879
- He meant to kill Benson, you see,

1572
01:01:13,879 --> 01:01:15,921
but surrounding it with the props he did

1573
01:01:15,921 --> 01:01:19,129
was simply camouflage, I suppose,

1574
01:01:19,129 --> 01:01:21,962
to befuddle the amateur?

1575
01:01:21,962 --> 01:01:23,754
- You're going to have the
time of your sweet life

1576
01:01:23,754 --> 01:01:25,337
trying to hang this on me.

1577
01:01:26,421 --> 01:01:29,796
The police woman I used as
a chambermaid in your hotel

1578
01:01:29,796 --> 01:01:32,087
has already hung it on you.

1579
01:01:32,087 --> 01:01:34,671
She found Ms. Del Roy's pearls,

1580
01:01:34,671 --> 01:01:37,254
which you stole that
night after the shooting,

1581
01:01:37,254 --> 01:01:38,879
to divert suspicion.

1582
01:01:38,879 --> 01:01:40,254
- Anything else?

1583
01:01:40,254 --> 01:01:41,087
- Oh yes.

1584
01:01:42,462 --> 01:01:44,712
The coat you wore, Mr. Gray.

1585
01:01:44,754 --> 01:01:48,296
It seems that bits of fuzz
from the twine you used

1586
01:01:48,296 --> 01:01:49,796
were on Benson's waistcoat,

1587
01:01:51,046 --> 01:01:54,046
also on the inside of this pocket.

1588
01:01:54,046 --> 01:01:55,212
The same pocket from which

1589
01:01:55,212 --> 01:01:56,837
I saw you withdrawing your hand

1590
01:01:56,837 --> 01:01:58,129
as I followed you up the stairs.

1591
01:01:58,129 --> 01:02:00,421
- You know that isn't enough.

1592
01:02:00,421 --> 01:02:02,546
Do you think any jury would go for that?

1593
01:02:03,712 --> 01:02:06,171
- Well if not, I know they'll go for this:

1594
01:02:07,254 --> 01:02:08,504
The clever little silencer

1595
01:02:08,504 --> 01:02:10,796
that fits your clever little gun.

1596
01:02:10,796 --> 01:02:13,129
Another trophy from your room, Mr. Gray.

1597
01:02:13,129 --> 01:02:15,296
Also contributed by our police woman.

1598
01:02:16,296 --> 01:02:17,671
Is that enough?

1599
01:02:20,296 --> 01:02:23,337
- All right, you outsmarted me, Vance.

1600
01:02:24,962 --> 01:02:25,837
I'm game.

1601
01:02:29,921 --> 01:02:31,171
- Hey!
(thudding)

1602
01:02:31,171 --> 01:02:32,546
- Look out, he's got a gun!

1603
01:02:32,546 --> 01:02:33,379
(shouting)

1604
01:02:33,379 --> 01:02:34,837
- [Heath] Drop it, Gray!

1605
01:02:34,837 --> 01:02:37,837
(gunshots)

1606
01:02:37,837 --> 01:02:40,504
(body crashing)

1607
01:02:47,421 --> 01:02:50,171
Well Mr. Vance, I told
you I'd watch over you.

1608
01:02:50,171 --> 01:02:51,962
- [Vance] Thank you, Sergeant.

1609
01:02:51,962 --> 01:02:54,796
- That baby put three
slugs mighty close to me!

1610
01:02:55,796 --> 01:02:57,962
I better call the doc.

1611
01:02:57,962 --> 01:03:00,296
- Well, I'll wait outside.

1612
01:03:00,337 --> 01:03:01,671
I haven't been feeling my best.

1613
01:03:01,671 --> 01:03:02,921
- All right.
- I'll take care of you,

1614
01:03:02,921 --> 01:03:04,046
Dolphy dear.

1615
01:03:04,046 --> 01:03:06,504
- Burke, get that coat and cover him.

1616
01:03:06,504 --> 01:03:07,337
- Yes, sir.

1617
01:03:09,087 --> 01:03:10,379
- That you, Doc?

1618
01:03:10,379 --> 01:03:13,671
This is Sergeant Heath, I'm
out at the Benson Lodge.

1619
01:03:13,671 --> 01:03:15,712
There's been another murder.

1620
01:03:15,712 --> 01:03:18,337
I mean, shooting. I did it.

1621
01:03:19,296 --> 01:03:20,129
Okay,

1622
01:03:21,837 --> 01:03:25,254
- Mr. Vance, may I have
the jewel case now?

1623
01:03:25,254 --> 01:03:28,379
- Oh, of course.

1624
01:03:28,379 --> 01:03:30,462
And don't worry,

1625
01:03:30,462 --> 01:03:33,546
no one else knows about your daughter.

1626
01:03:33,546 --> 01:03:35,921
- Thank you. I was going to her,

1627
01:03:35,921 --> 01:03:38,504
when they caught me leaving town.

1628
01:03:38,504 --> 01:03:39,629
If Benson had found this,

1629
01:03:39,629 --> 01:03:40,796
he would've held it over me.

1630
01:03:40,796 --> 01:03:44,921
Threatened to tell my
little girl, what I am.

1631
01:03:47,296 --> 01:03:49,921
Thank you, Mr. Vance, for
not telling them about her.

1632
01:03:55,546 --> 01:03:57,712
- So, it was Harry Gray, Mr. Vance.

1633
01:03:58,837 --> 01:04:00,171
Well, it didn't

1634
01:04:00,171 --> 01:04:02,587
surprise me any.
- Surprise me any.

1635
01:04:04,671 --> 01:04:06,462
(men chuckling)

1636
01:04:06,462 --> 01:04:10,171
(cheerful orchestral music)