Passed | 1h 12min | Drama | 22 February 1934 (USA)
John Dawson, a steel-mill owner loses his legs and his company in an accident engineered by his crooked secretary/treasurer, Jim Marley. After meeting a blind peddler, Marchant, he travels the country, under an assumed name, organizing beggars, peddlers, and the handicapped into a dues-paying system.
Director: Phil Rosen
Writers: Esther Lynd Day, Tristram Tupper
Stars: Lionel Atwill, Betty Furness, Henry B. Walthall
John Dawson, a steel-mill owner loses his legs and his company in an accident engineered by his crooked secretary/treasurer, Jim Marley. After meeting a blind peddler, Marchant, he travels the country, under an assumed name, organizing beggars, peddlers, and the handicapped into a dues-paying system.
Director: Phil Rosen
Writers: Esther Lynd Day, Tristram Tupper
Stars: Lionel Atwill, Betty Furness, Henry B. Walthall
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00:05:46Yes?
00:05:47Vivian, this is Jim. Did you talk to Flint?
00:05:51Yes, I told him I couldn't stay here any longer.
00:05:54This gloomy house and those terrible mills and the city with Jim, I'll go mad.
00:05:59It's Flint's chance to make a fortune. You can have everything.
00:06:03Live where you like, travel.
00:06:05Steel is in his blood. Flint is steel. But I'm not.
00:06:10Talk to him again this afternoon. Put it to him squarely.
00:06:14It's all so hopeless, Jim. But drop in tonight and we'll talk things over.
00:06:18All right. Goodbye.
00:06:28Have Joe Swan report to my office at once.
00:06:30Who did you want?
00:06:31Swanson, one of the crane men on the night ship.
00:06:33Here he offered you a million to sell out.
00:06:35You ought to have taken it.
00:06:37No, I have plans of my own.
00:06:39By the time you boys are finished paying for the stock you're buying,
00:06:42this is going to be the biggest steel mill in the country.
00:06:45In the meantime, these dinner pails are going to remain full.
00:06:49Come on, boys. It's time to get back to work.
00:06:56You were drunk again last night.
00:06:57Who said I was drunk?
00:06:59Flint?
00:07:02I had a drink, but I wasn't drunk.
00:07:04I handled the crane all right, didn't I?
00:07:07Yes, but supposing you were to pull the wrong lever.
00:07:10You might drop a ladle of metal onto some man walking on the floor below.
00:07:15Flint himself is on the floor a lot of the time.
00:07:18Maybe he'd give me another chance.
00:07:21Flint? And he's against a man if that man's finished.
00:07:27I'm running that crane tonight, ain't I?
00:07:31Then it's your last night.
00:07:40Come on.
00:08:40Come on.
00:09:10Come on.
00:09:41Come on.
00:09:46Look out!
00:09:53Flint!
00:09:57Over here! Over here!
00:10:00Over there!
00:10:05My God, a leg!
00:10:10Oh, my God.
00:10:40A contract should have come in for six 48-ton girders.
00:10:58Yes, it came to the office yesterday.
00:11:00Oh.
00:11:02Good.
00:11:05These are government contracts, Jim.
00:11:09Give them precedence over everything.
00:11:12I use the finest steel that may mean the lives of men.
00:11:16Yes, John, I understand.
00:11:20I must get back to the mill.
00:11:22The quickest way for you to get well is to stop thinking about these things.
00:11:25Yes, it's good advice, but hard to follow.
00:11:30You can rely upon the men at the mill.
00:11:32You yourself trained them.
00:11:34And Vivian, she's proving quite a businesswoman.
00:11:37Well, you and Joe Wilson take care of her.
00:11:41She's more capable than you think.
00:11:45I've had part of an attorney drawn up,
00:11:47so that she can sign papers that require your signature.
00:11:51Oh, well.
00:11:52It will be excellent training for her.
00:11:54Good, yes.
00:11:56It will help to distract her mind and give her a deeper interest in my affairs.
00:12:02Mr. Morris, this won't do at all.
00:12:04A hospital isn't a place for iron and steel
00:12:06any more than the steel mill is the place for rest and quiet.
00:12:09You're quite right, doctor. I'm sorry.
00:12:11I'll not be responsible for his condition if this keeps up.
00:12:14Take these tentacles, please.
00:12:21Goodbye, John.
00:12:22Good morning, sir.
00:12:25Goodbye, John.
00:12:26Good morning, sir.
00:12:32Oh, doctor.
00:12:37I suggest you give orders that he's to attend to no business whatsoever
00:12:41and sees no one with the possible exception of Mrs. Dawson.
00:12:44Yes, yes.
00:12:51When will I be out of here?
00:12:53If you obey orders and forget all business worries,
00:12:56we'll have you back in your own home before the New Year.
00:13:19So you're beginning to face facts.
00:13:21Flint thinks more of his mill than he does of you.
00:13:24I'd like to take you away from here.
00:13:27You don't know what you're saying, Jim.
00:13:29But I love you.
00:13:30If he doesn't love you enough to take you away, then...
00:13:33will you come with me?
00:13:38To go away with you?
00:13:42No.
00:13:43No, it's impossible, Jim.
00:13:52If Flint were the only reason, Jim,
00:13:54but there's another,
00:13:56it's all so hopeless.
00:13:58But I love you.
00:13:59Please.
00:14:22Mrs. Dawson has called to take me home?
00:14:24I'm sure she'll be here a little later.
00:14:26But remember, another month in bed after you go home.
00:14:30The doctor's orders.
00:14:32Oh, I suppose so, I suppose so.
00:14:35Oh, Mr. Enright has gotten permission from the doctor to see you.
00:14:38Huh? Enright?
00:14:40Oh, yes, yes, yes.
00:14:42Show him in, please, nurse.
00:14:45Now, hello, Enright.
00:14:47How are you?
00:14:48Sit down.
00:14:49Oh, thank you.
00:14:50Last time I saw you was the day this happened.
00:14:54Today I'm being moved to my home,
00:14:56and in a month's time I'll be at my desk.
00:14:58Well, the matter I've come to see you about is urgent.
00:15:01Well, it's about that merger.
00:15:03My answer's the same today as it was three months ago.
00:15:05Oh, yes, yes, yes.
00:15:06Oh, yes, yes, yes.
00:15:08Oh, yes, yes, yes.
00:15:10Oh, yes, yes, yes.
00:15:11Oh, yes, yes, yes.
00:15:13My answer's the same today as it was three months ago.
00:15:15The merger was put through six days ago.
00:15:17What?
00:15:19Impossible.
00:15:21My proxies, my own stock.
00:15:23Your proxies were revoked a week ago,
00:15:25and your stock purchased by my client.
00:15:27In October you executed a general power of attorney.
00:15:30Yes, to my wife.
00:15:32Well, no doubt she acted for your best interests
00:15:34in selling your stock.
00:15:36That is, I assume you will never again be able to attend the business.
00:15:39Your assumption is wrong.
00:15:41Well, I'm not here to argue.
00:15:43The check paid for your stock was endorsed by your wife
00:15:46and deposited in her account.
00:15:48If there is any irregularity connected with this,
00:15:50I shall, of course, at once take steps to protect my client.
00:15:53What steps?
00:15:55If necessary, the detention of Mrs. Dorff.
00:15:57Detention? Ridiculous.
00:15:59Why, she's calling for me here today.
00:16:01Well, I've been informed she's sailing for England today.
00:16:12Oh, nurse.
00:16:14Please telephone my home
00:16:16to see if Mrs. Dorff has left for the hospital.
00:16:18Yes, sir.
00:16:20For the protection of my client,
00:16:23I have prepared a general release.
00:16:26If you care to sign it,
00:16:29otherwise I shall be forced to take steps against Mrs. Dorff.
00:16:33Thank you, sir.
00:16:35You may go.
00:16:37I shall be forced to take steps against Mrs. Dorff.
00:16:46Well, can you tell me where we can locate Mrs. Dorff?
00:16:52Thank you. Goodbye.
00:17:08Has Mrs. Dorff left for the hospital?
00:17:13Mrs. Dorff left the city last night with your daughter for England.
00:17:38My wife has been tricked into this.
00:17:42I'll settle with whoever is responsible.
00:17:44Oh, yes, of course. Of course.
00:17:48It may interest you to know
00:17:51that we propose following James Marley's plan
00:17:54for a gradual expansion of the Dawson Mills.
00:18:00And?
00:18:02Sorry the industry has lost you.
00:18:04Good day.
00:18:11She couldn't have known what she was doing.
00:18:17She was very young.
00:18:21Younger than I by 15 years.
00:18:25Younger than I by 15 years.
00:18:41Come in, Joe.
00:18:43Glad you're here.
00:18:45Why haven't I seen you during the past two months?
00:18:48Mr. Marley said that no one was to see you, sir.
00:18:51Doctor's orders.
00:18:54Huh.
00:18:58You know about the merger?
00:19:01We just heard about it this morning.
00:19:04Last week we gave our proxies to Mr. Marley.
00:19:07We thought, or he made it appear, there was to be a fight.
00:19:11That he was going to act as you would have acted.
00:19:14Jim Marley.
00:19:17Is Marley at the mill?
00:19:19I understand he's sailing for England.
00:19:22As soon as I heard this, I went to the bank.
00:19:25I took the liberty of checking things up, sir.
00:19:27Yes?
00:19:30There isn't much left, sir.
00:19:37I see that everything's paid.
00:19:39Yes, of course.
00:19:42We had a meeting this morning.
00:19:44All the men at the mill.
00:19:46And we want you to know that...
00:19:49Well, that...
00:19:52You'll always be provided for.
00:19:59Only part of me is crippled, Joe.
00:20:02Plenty left so I can take care of myself.
00:20:05Yes, sir, of course.
00:20:17Oh, nurse.
00:20:19Would you have the order to come in here, please?
00:20:22I'm giving up this room.
00:20:25But Mr. Dawson, you can't...
00:20:27Some years ago, I endowed a ward.
00:20:30I want to be moved in there.
00:20:33You see, I want people to talk to.
00:20:44The boys won't let you do that.
00:20:46Move my bed a little, Joe.
00:20:48So I can see out that window.
00:20:50Yes, sir.
00:21:06That's right.
00:21:08Now...
00:21:10You remember the plans we talked over together?
00:21:13The gradual expansion of the mill?
00:21:17The Marley stole them, too.
00:21:20The new corporation, they're carrying them out.
00:21:25Look out there.
00:21:27I... I can't see the mill.
00:21:30For the snow.
00:21:32I can.
00:21:34I can see it.
00:21:36Not as it is now.
00:21:39But as it will be 10 or 15 years from now.
00:21:43When my plans are carried out...
00:21:46Its capacity will be doubled.
00:21:52You're mistaken, my friend.
00:21:54Soliciting arms is one of the oldest and most honorable professions.
00:21:58I live well. I save money.
00:22:01I get more out of life than most men.
00:22:03Well...
00:22:05You seem to have something which people with eyes seldom find.
00:22:08Happiness.
00:22:11People with eyes see very little.
00:22:14I know all that goes on around me...
00:22:17Through my other senses.
00:22:19I offer you a partnership.
00:22:21I'll furnish the locomotion, and you furnish the vision.
00:22:26Interesting.
00:22:28But for me, impossible.
00:22:31I have two serious purposes in life, Marshal.
00:22:34One is to find a woman and a child...
00:22:37To see they never want for anything.
00:22:40The other...
00:22:42Has to do with a man.
00:22:45Ah, but how will you accomplish these things?
00:22:47To take time.
00:22:48Ah, exactly.
00:22:50Throw in your luck with mine.
00:22:52And we'll wander until we find this woman and child.
00:22:55And the man.
00:22:56Is it a bargain?
00:22:58I assure you, my friend...
00:23:00You'll never have a dull day.
00:23:03Young Flint Dawson.
00:23:06A beggar?
00:23:10Unthinkable.
00:23:30Thank you, madam.
00:23:33If you are blind, how did you know I was a woman?
00:23:36By the sound of your footsteps.
00:23:38Also a faint fragrance.
00:23:40If we lose one sense...
00:23:42Nature generously sharpens the other four.
00:23:45Oh, I see.
00:24:03Steel, copper, iron, coal...
00:24:07You carry quite a list.
00:24:09Who publishes these little volumes?
00:24:12I write them and have them printed.
00:24:14How interesting.
00:25:03Hm?
00:25:05Oh, yes.
00:25:07Stay where you are.
00:25:38Sure, and what kind of beggars are you?
00:25:40Refusing a reward.
00:25:42Well, I have something else in mind.
00:25:44During the past two years...
00:25:46Martian and I have come in contact with nearly 2,000 beggars.
00:25:50We have a plan of organization...
00:25:52That will give them self-respect...
00:25:54Do away with fakers...
00:25:56And be of some service to the public.
00:25:58Oh, I see.
00:26:00Well, let's go.
00:26:02Self-respect.
00:26:04Do away with fakers.
00:26:06Be of some service to the public.
00:26:08Oh, how far have you got along with this organization?
00:26:11We have several hundred members.
00:26:13Selected members.
00:26:15Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:26:17Vegans against the law.
00:26:19But our members operate under peddler's licenses.
00:26:22I sell sheet music.
00:26:24The point is...
00:26:26That someday this organization will have 5,000 pairs of eyes...
00:26:31And every city will be in direct contact with the underworld.
00:26:34We could be of great service in apprehending criminals.
00:26:38Oh, sounds interesting.
00:26:41I better take you in with the chief.
00:26:43Come on.
00:26:53Things have worked out well, Gus.
00:26:55We now have 680 members.
00:26:58And we want you to join us.
00:27:00An organization in every city.
00:27:02A comfortable place to live.
00:27:11How much do you take in each day, Milgen?
00:27:13I average pretty well.
00:27:15Three or four dollars.
00:27:17How much do you save?
00:27:19Never saved a penny in my life.
00:27:21That's the point.
00:27:23Now this is the proposition.
00:27:25Our organization is actually false.
00:27:27It didn't begin.
00:27:29This is what we hope to do.
00:27:35You run a good business here, Sam.
00:27:37I'd like to have you on our finance committee.
00:27:39I'll think it over, John.
00:27:41How many members have you got lined up?
00:27:44Oh, over 1,102 years.
00:27:46With savings averaging around 270 a day each.
00:27:50That's 3,000 dollars a day to be invested.
00:27:53More than a million dollars a year.
00:27:57It's getting into big business.
00:27:59You bet.
00:28:01The men who join us will someday live in comfort.
00:28:05They'll share in big enterprises.
00:28:09Gentlemen, are there any questions you wish to ask?
00:28:13Yeah, say, what's the catch anyway?
00:28:17Sounds phony to me.
00:28:19What does it John Daniels get out of it?
00:28:22None of the money that you put in.
00:28:24No?
00:28:25By organizing and overhead expenses,
00:28:27he will receive 10% of the profits he will make for you
00:28:31by investing your money.
00:28:33Oh.
00:28:34But gentlemen, I think Mr. Daniels can explain this better than I.
00:28:39All right.
00:28:41Now in the first place,
00:28:43I want you men to understand
00:28:46that not all of you will be allowed to join this organization.
00:28:49No?
00:28:51Those of you who are physically fit to earn their living in other ways
00:28:54won't even be considered.
00:28:58There are now 2,000 members
00:29:00who are saving about $3 a day each.
00:29:04Last year, these savings amounted to more than $2 million.
00:29:09That's a lot of money.
00:29:11Within 10 years, I estimate there will be about 5,000 members.
00:29:15And, well, you can figure it out for yourselves.
00:29:19That will mean a total investment of between $40 and $50 million.
00:29:24Gee, that's a lot of money.
00:29:26He can at any time draw up both principal and profits.
00:29:30The benefits include club rooms,
00:29:33a decent place to sleep in,
00:29:35food at cost, medical care,
00:29:38legal services,
00:29:40the purchase of wholesale prices of the wares you peddle,
00:29:43the license fees, et cetera, et cetera.
00:29:47Now, to you other men,
00:29:49I've time to say very little,
00:29:52except that we have an employment agency,
00:29:54if you want to work.
00:29:56Oh, I see.
00:29:57How do we know our money?
00:29:58Come here and I'll explain everything to you.
00:30:00It's really on the principle of the...
00:30:32New directors meeting.
00:30:34Big doings.
00:30:35With Jim Marley in control, this mill will soon be going full blast.
00:30:39Say, who is this Jim Marley?
00:30:41Uncle Joe.
00:30:42Ain't Jim Marley the man that put this mill in the steel combine
00:30:46about 10 or 12 years ago?
00:30:4815 years ago.
00:30:50I thought so.
00:30:51He saved it from the snapheap, didn't he?
00:30:53Yeah, he did.
00:30:54He saved it from the snapheap.
00:30:56He saved it from the snapheap.
00:30:58He saved it from the snapheap.
00:31:00He saved it from the snapheap, didn't he?
00:31:02Young fellow, this was the best independent steel mill in America,
00:31:06and that was when Flint Dawson was general manager.
00:31:09Something for you, Uncle Joe.
00:31:16Whatever happened to this Flint Dawson?
00:31:19He got hurt in a bad accident at the mill.
00:31:22After that, I heard he was killed somewhere in a train wreck.
00:31:30Well, looks like all us old-timers have been thrown on the scrap pile.
00:32:01You can't put new wine into old bottles.
00:32:04Those old employees were trained by Flint Dawson.
00:32:06They know how to make steel.
00:32:08He's right.
00:32:10This is not a charitable institution,
00:32:13and if any of the directors are not in sympathy with my policies,
00:32:16they have, of course, the privilege of tendering their resignations.
00:32:22Gentlemen, I move we adjourn for the day.
00:32:25Second the motion.
00:32:26Second the motion.
00:32:31We're with you, Jim. All the way.
00:32:33Thanks.
00:32:35Good work, Jim.
00:32:37Oh, Wilson, my nephew, Lee Marley, is arriving today from New York.
00:32:41He should be here now. Have him shown up to my office.
00:32:43Yes, Mr. Marley.
00:32:48Marley, you're skating on thin ice.
00:32:51How so?
00:32:53Davis tells me that you and the crowd are unloading the stock that gave you control of this property.
00:32:57We'll buy it back at a lower figure.
00:32:59Thin ice.
00:33:01Another point.
00:33:02There are still three or four hundred old employees
00:33:05who through the years have been buying stock,
00:33:07voting stock, dynamite.
00:33:10When combined stock has been sufficiently depreciated,
00:33:13we'll form a syndicate and buy them out.
00:33:15They'd rather sell their right arm.
00:33:18If they're out of work, they won't be able to make the payments.
00:33:22They'll have to sell out.
00:33:30Come in.
00:33:38Well?
00:33:40Mr. Marley,
00:33:42I hope you like this policy of discharging the older men.
00:33:46My own notice came as somewhat of a surprise.
00:33:50Personally, I'm well fixed.
00:33:53I'm thinking of the old laborers.
00:33:55That policy has already gone into effect.
00:33:59Before you leave, check up on the stock being purchased by the employees.
00:34:03Where do you keep the certificates?
00:34:05In the company safe.
00:34:06Well, bring me the stock books. I'll go through them with you.
00:34:09Very well.
00:34:23Come on. I want you to meet my uncle.
00:34:26Conventional woman hitter, but wait till he sees you.
00:34:29Not now. I'm going to steal your car.
00:34:31I'll come and get you after I've seen my attending.
00:34:34This is going to be the most exciting day of my life.
00:34:37You know, Lee, what I'd like?
00:34:38What is it?
00:34:39I'd like one of those little cottages we just had.
00:34:41I could put up your lunch every day.
00:34:43Cottage cheese and cottage pudding.
00:34:45Can you cook?
00:34:46Certainly.
00:34:47Are you sure?
00:34:48I'm not too sure. I never tried.
00:34:50Are you willing to try?
00:34:51Of course.
00:34:53That's a promise to marry me.
00:34:55You want to marry me just for my machine?
00:35:01Well, a dispensing old man at 25.
00:35:06Now listen, don't you forget to call for me.
00:35:08I won't.
00:35:09All right. Bye, dear.
00:35:11I'm going to make you secretary of this corporation.
00:35:14You don't mean secretary of combined steel?
00:35:17In fact, what I do mean, I'm putting in young, vigorous men.
00:35:20Wait. I'll work day and night.
00:35:24Secretary of combined steel.
00:35:28A certain party will be mighty glad when she hears this.
00:35:31Yeah?
00:35:32Well, this position, Lee, is one of great responsibility.
00:35:36You'll have to forget about women.
00:35:40But you see, uncle, this is different.
00:35:43Why, we're going to settle down even in a workman's cottage.
00:35:47That is, if she'll marry me.
00:35:50Pull up a chair and I'll tell you about your new duties as secretary of combined steel.
00:36:00I don't know. That's the only answer I can make to your questions, Joyce.
00:36:04But you do know, Scotty, you're the wisest man in the world.
00:36:07Joyce, darling, I'm your father and your mother and your brother.
00:36:11I raised you, and there isn't anything I wouldn't tell you.
00:36:14All right, then just answer me one question.
00:36:16All right, then just answer me one question.
00:36:18Who is John Daniels?
00:36:23John Daniels is as much of a mystery to me as he is to you.
00:36:26More so.
00:36:27I hear from him three or four times a year.
00:36:29I receive sums of money for your support.
00:36:31I keep detailed accounts.
00:36:33Yet you've never seen the man?
00:36:36Twelve years ago, a man came into my office with a letter from John Daniels.
00:36:40I was to go abroad to an institution in Liverpool
00:36:43and arrange for the adoption of a six-year-old child.
00:36:46Her name was Joy McLoughlin.
00:36:48Since that time...
00:36:49Yes, I know.
00:37:03Well, that's all I know.
00:37:05All right, if you can't tell me anything, I'm going to tell you something.
00:37:09I'm in love.
00:37:10This time it's the real thing.
00:37:12You're sure it's the real thing?
00:37:14Mm-hmm.
00:37:15We met on the boat just before it sailed from Buenos Aires.
00:37:18We were together every evening.
00:37:20Well, who is he, and when am I going to meet him?
00:37:26A letter, Mr. Taggart.
00:37:27It's marked important for immediate delivery.
00:37:31Will you excuse me?
00:37:32Sure.
00:37:43Well, for the first time after all these years, I'm going to meet John Daniels.
00:37:47What?
00:37:48Good night.
00:38:12Good night.
00:38:22My name is Marson.
00:38:23Mr. Taggart?
00:38:24How do you do?
00:38:25Mr. Daniels is waiting to see you.
00:38:35Mr. Taggart is here, John.
00:38:42Mr. Dawson.
00:38:43Come in, Scott. Glad to see you.
00:38:45Lots of things to talk about.
00:38:50How are you?
00:38:51How do you do?
00:38:53I read in the papers you were killed in a railroad accident 15 years ago.
00:38:57Oh, I had some baggage on that train.
00:38:59The incident served a purpose.
00:39:01Helped to conceal my identity.
00:39:02Sit down.
00:39:06The last time I talked to you was the time I advised you to take up the study of law.
00:39:09The time you made it possible for me to study law.
00:39:11Well, I figured that an honest office boy would make an honest lawyer.
00:39:14You proved I was right.
00:39:15Also, I liked your lack of inquisitiveness.
00:39:18Hadn't been from a lack of curiosity.
00:39:20A strange story, Scott.
00:39:24Possibly you remember a man named Jim Marley.
00:39:26Yes.
00:39:27Yes, he was secretary and treasurer of the old Dawson Company at the time of your accident.
00:39:33It wasn't an accident.
00:39:36On the day I learned what Marley had done,
00:39:38I insisted for me to be moved to the hospital where I was endowed with a destitute.
00:39:41There I came to know a blind man named Marshall.
00:39:45Amazing story I've ever heard.
00:39:47Well, by estimate, through fortunate investments, we've almost doubled their savings for me.
00:39:52Financially, this must be one of the strongest paternal organizations in the world.
00:39:56It is.
00:39:58You...
00:39:59You haven't mentioned your daughter.
00:40:01Do you mind telling me how you found her?
00:40:04I...
00:40:07Marshall and I found Joyce in England.
00:40:10Just 12 years ago.
00:40:12We also found Joyce's mother on the morning of that day.
00:40:43According to this letter from Gypsy Jones, this is the street.
00:40:49We turn at this corner.
00:40:51Was the little girl with her?
00:40:53Yes, they were together.
00:40:54He followed them.
00:40:56He gives the number of the house.
00:41:00Why don't we go there?
00:41:02Well, this is not the kind of street she'd live in.
00:41:13Officers have been in and out all day.
00:41:16Miss Merida found the body she did early this morning.
00:41:19Suicide, that's what they say.
00:41:21But how do they know?
00:41:22A man came up to see her last night.
00:41:24Didn't anybody hear the shot?
00:41:25Woke me up.
00:41:26Then a truck went rumbling by.
00:41:28And I said to Miss Jones, I said...
00:41:30Here they come.
00:41:32She's horrible, isn't she?
00:41:34Yes.
00:41:35Terrible, terrible.
00:41:36She's horrible, isn't she?
00:41:39I wonder what...
00:41:52That night we found Joyce in a small institution where her mother had placed her.
00:41:56You haven't seen Joyce since then?
00:41:58I've seen her at least twice a year.
00:42:01In order not to humiliate her,
00:42:03I've always remained in the shadows.
00:42:06As to Marley,
00:42:08I've bided my time.
00:42:11Now that time has come.
00:42:14These are your instructions, Scott.
00:42:16Preliminary to the time when I should confront Marley personally.
00:42:19He's exceeded in placing himself to the head of Combined Steel.
00:42:22Then he'll depress the stock by selling it short.
00:42:25The idea of buying it back at a lower figure for personal crooked profit.
00:42:28My idea and plan is to buy that stock quickly.
00:42:33I'll go over these instructions tonight.
00:42:35Use E.J. Curry and company for your brokers.
00:42:38Marley tried to ruin Curry.
00:42:40And I want you to buy 10,000 shares outright.
00:42:43Give them to Joyce.
00:42:45So that I'm beaten, she won't have to suffer.
00:42:48Start buying tomorrow at noon.
00:42:50I'll follow your orders to the letter.
00:42:53I'll follow your orders to the letter.
00:42:55Good night, Scott.
00:42:56Good night.
00:43:22Five thousand five.
00:43:36Marley.
00:43:37Your old enemy E.J. Curry is buying Combined in 5,000 share lots.
00:43:43Curry's back in the market, Mr. Marley.
00:43:47Here.
00:43:49Curry must have learned you're short on Combined Steel.
00:43:51He's out to get you.
00:43:53Splendid.
00:43:54Sell for my account 5,000 shares each time the stock goes up half a point.
00:43:58But you're already short 15,000 shares.
00:44:01I'm going 40,000 shares short.
00:44:04I'll bring in the security before the market opens tomorrow morning.
00:44:07All right, goodbye.
00:44:12Marley.
00:44:13Yes, sir.
00:44:14Call a special meeting of directors tomorrow morning.
00:44:16You'll only have to notify these men.
00:44:19Anything wrong?
00:44:20An old enemy of mine named Curry has apparently secured considerable backing
00:44:24and he's trying to get stock control of Combined.
00:44:27Any chance of him succeeding?
00:44:29I'll have my heel on his neck within 24 hours.
00:44:32Oh, another matter.
00:44:33There are 400 stock certificates representing 40,000 shares of Combined
00:44:38that Wilson failed to prepare for issuance.
00:44:41This evening I'll help you go through them.
00:44:43You'll have to sign each certificate as secretary of the corporation.
00:44:46Yes, sir.
00:44:48I did have an appointment this evening, but I can break it.
00:44:50Oh, that's all right.
00:44:51Be back here by 9.30.
00:44:52That'll be time enough.
00:45:03Well?
00:45:04What now?
00:45:05Well, now I'll tell you why we're here.
00:45:07Scott Taggart lives in that apartment house over there.
00:45:09And this afternoon he told me I must never see you again.
00:45:12Oh, yeah?
00:45:13Well, I'll talk to him about that.
00:45:15Now listen, Lee.
00:45:16I have an idea that has something to do with my guardian.
00:45:19All my life I felt a force.
00:45:21It sounds silly, but it's there.
00:45:24It's invisible, but it has a name.
00:45:26John Daniel.
00:45:27Oh, is that your guardian's name?
00:45:28Yes.
00:45:29And tonight I'm going to see him and you're going with me.
00:45:31That's why we're here.
00:45:33Scotty made an appointment to see him.
00:45:34I found that out.
00:45:35And we're going to follow him.
00:45:37Oh, now listen.
00:45:38I know good as a detective.
00:45:39Shh.
00:45:40There's Scotty now.
00:45:46Hurry, before he gets out of sight.
00:46:05Did you see that?
00:46:06The man that let Scotty in locked the gate.
00:46:09Well, what's our next move, Miss Sherlock Holmes?
00:46:13Have you got the knives to go through with it?
00:46:15That I have.
00:46:16Well, we can't go in the front way.
00:46:18Well, how about the back?
00:46:20I could put on a long gray beard.
00:46:22Have you got one with you?
00:46:23I'll grow one.
00:46:25Let's go over the top.
00:46:27Of what?
00:46:28Of that wall and through the garden.
00:46:30Oh, I can just see myself dangling by the seat of the pants
00:46:33from one of those spikes.
00:46:35Yeah, and you laughing.
00:46:36I promise not to laugh if you won't look when I climb.
00:46:40Hold everything.
00:46:41I've got an idea.
00:46:42Hold on.
00:46:53Come on.
00:46:54I'll go first.
00:46:55Catch her if you fall.
00:47:04Come on.
00:47:07Oh, no.
00:47:08Careful.
00:47:10Oh.
00:47:12There you are.
00:47:19Well, here goes nothing.
00:47:25Oh.
00:47:26You.
00:47:28You.
00:47:42Look in the eye.
00:47:43Which eye?
00:47:47Do you think you'll bite?
00:47:49I'll see.
00:47:50Nice doggy.
00:47:52Say, here's a watchdog.
00:47:54He's a committee of welcome.
00:47:56Nice boy.
00:47:57Come on.
00:47:58Come on.
00:47:59I'll catch him.
00:48:00Yeah, and if I miss, he'll catch you.
00:48:02You hold him.
00:48:03I'll get down there by myself.
00:48:09Oh, dear.
00:48:10Do you need help?
00:48:12Come on.
00:48:13I'll help you.
00:48:14There.
00:48:15There we are.
00:48:16Oh.
00:48:20Get down.
00:48:21Get down.
00:48:22Come on.
00:48:26Come on.
00:48:37Marley's in over his head.
00:48:3940,000 shares short.
00:48:41By tomorrow night, I'll make a pauper of him.
00:48:45A beggar on the street corner.
00:48:47That's only the beginning.
00:48:49I have several accounts to settle.
00:48:51This is but one of them.
00:48:57He hasn't any legs.
00:48:59Oh, did you see the haze in his face?
00:49:01It frightens me.
00:49:02I'm not going to do any more of this eavesdropping.
00:49:04I'm going in there right now.
00:49:05No, you're not.
00:49:06I want to hear what they say.
00:49:10What I'm doing is in no way connected with this organization.
00:49:14I waited all these years to be able to handle it personally.
00:49:17Tonight, I'm resigning as head of this union.
00:49:19There's one thing to consider, Mr. Dawson.
00:49:21Not only are you going to crush James Dawson,
00:49:23but others who are connected with him.
00:49:24Ah, they're all of the same stripe.
00:49:26I don't mind Marley's nephew, Lee Marley.
00:49:30Your daughter Joyce is in love with him.
00:49:33What?
00:49:38Lee, that man's my father.
00:49:42He promised me something.
00:49:43Anything, dear.
00:49:44Promise you won't say anything to your uncle
00:49:46until after I've had a chance to talk to Scott.
00:49:48I've seen the first picture.
00:49:50You'll see how that's happened to me now, Liz.
00:50:21Who are these men?
00:50:23Well, some have retired.
00:50:25But all either are or have been beggars.
00:50:35And the Englishman who never hit this country
00:50:37for the science of the rare or common,
00:50:39the policy that they offer to these men
00:50:41will testify to his brethren.
00:50:43Marshal.
00:50:46This is Scott Taggart.
00:50:48I met Mr. Taggart when he came last night.
00:50:51We welcome you,
00:50:52the first outsider to enter this room.
00:50:56I have an announcement to make.
00:50:58I want you and Taggart by my side on the platform.
00:51:02I have an announcement to make.
00:51:04I want you and Taggart by my side on the platform.
00:51:32My friends,
00:51:3415 years ago,
00:51:36I spoke to some of you on street corners
00:51:39and in the rooming houses of different cities.
00:51:43All that we planned at that time
00:51:45has come to pass.
00:51:49Three years ago, against some opposition,
00:51:51your finance committee
00:51:53wisely invested all funds in government and state...
00:51:57government and state...
00:51:59on which you can draw
00:52:01to the full amount of your savings and profits.
00:52:06My own fortune has come through you
00:52:09and what is left of my debt
00:52:11will be returned as an endowment to this institution.
00:52:16I have fulfilled my part of the bargain,
00:52:19but now it has come necessary for me
00:52:21to devote my time to personal matters.
00:52:27Tonight,
00:52:29I am resigning as head of this organization.
00:52:32We won't let you resign.
00:52:34Go on now, John.
00:52:36But you can't do that, John.
00:52:40I wouldn't leave you
00:52:42if there was not a man to take my place.
00:52:44He has been with me from the beginning
00:52:47and I know no man of greater foresight.
00:52:51I suggest as my successor,
00:52:53not the blind Marchant,
00:52:55but Marchant, the man of superhuman vision.
00:52:58But we need both you and Marchant.
00:53:00We need you very much.
00:53:11Say a word to the Marchant.
00:53:15I can't. I can't make a speech,
00:53:18but I can play something lively.
00:53:21That's right. Anything will do.
00:53:25I'm going to play for you.
00:53:55Come on, more!
00:54:25Come on, let's go.
00:54:55I'm going to play for you.
00:55:10Oh, Wilson.
00:55:12What are we going to do?
00:55:13I advise you to appoint a committee to see James Marchant.
00:55:16Next time, the committee.
00:55:17Let's all go in and see him.
00:55:21I don't believe I do that.
00:55:23I suppose that your stock is safe.
00:55:25It has been taken from the company's vaults,
00:55:27but perhaps Marley has transferred it for some good reason.
00:55:30Now get this straight.
00:55:32I left those stock certificates at your office
00:55:34merely as collateral security.
00:55:35There won't be any necessity for selling a single share.
00:55:38Before noon, there'll be a break in the market.
00:55:41Yes, yes, the directors are meeting now.
00:55:44No.
00:55:45Well, gentlemen, unless a miracle happens,
00:55:48Combine will be up several more points at the opening.
00:55:51That's what they said, eh?
00:55:52Uh-huh.
00:56:07Good morning, gentlemen.
00:56:08Good morning.
00:56:09Good morning.
00:56:10Combine opened four points up from yesterday's closing.
00:56:12Well, that about wipes me out.
00:56:14I can't hold out much longer.
00:56:16We're all in the same boat. We're licked.
00:56:18Curry and his crowd have outsmarted you.
00:56:20Well, what are we going to do?
00:56:22What do you suggest?
00:56:23Cover as quickly as we can.
00:56:24You turn tail, I see you take plenty of medicine.
00:56:26But Jim, we can't hold out much longer.
00:56:28You can hold out for a couple of hours, can't you?
00:56:29Then what?
00:56:30Combine will then break 5, 10, possibly 15 points.
00:56:32Curry and his crowd will run to cover.
00:56:34How are you going to break the market?
00:56:36There's a quorum of directors present.
00:56:38Several have failed to show up.
00:56:40We can proceed without them.
00:56:42Everything will be regular on the minutes.
00:56:45And after that?
00:56:47For the first time since Combine Steel was organized 16 years ago,
00:56:51it has become necessary to pass the quarterly dividend.
00:56:54Oh!
00:56:57Fine.
00:56:58I have to hand it to you, Jim.
00:57:00You certainly have outsmarted Curry and his crowd.
00:57:03You certainly have.
00:57:04Gentlemen, let's get busy.
00:57:16Combine! Combine! Combine!
00:57:19Combine! Combine! Combine!
00:57:22Combine! Combine! Combine!
00:57:37All right, goodbye.
00:57:40Combine has dropped two more points.
00:57:42I think it's 57 and an eighth.
00:57:47Well, John, as I pointed out some 15 years ago,
00:57:51soliciting arms is both an ancient and honorable profession.
00:57:57Well, I'm glad I'm alone in this.
00:58:01But you are not.
00:58:03Huh?
00:58:04We are together, as we've been in everything else.
00:58:08What do you mean, Martin?
00:58:09For the first time in my life,
00:58:11I bought stock, Combine Steel, on my own.
00:58:15Marshall and I are in the same position.
00:58:17Everything we have, Mr. Dawson, came through you.
00:58:20You too, Taggart?
00:58:22I bought Combine yesterday at 63.
00:58:24Well, you'd better both sell out quickly.
00:58:25Put in your orders.
00:58:26We'll put in our orders to sell when you put in yours.
00:58:28Well, they'll wipe you out.
00:58:30Marley and this crowd are selling short the stock of a corporation they themselves control.
00:58:34Now they've passed the quarterly dividend for no other reason
00:58:37but to still further depress that stock.
00:58:39Marley personally has gone further.
00:58:41Marley personally has gone further.
00:58:43Last night, he stole a large amount of stock from the company's vaults.
00:58:47This morning, before the market opened, he put it up for security.
00:58:50That stock didn't belong to him.
00:58:52It'd been purchased by the employees of the corporation.
00:58:55Marley could be sent to penitentiary for that.
00:58:57I have another thought in mind.
00:59:00I'm going out to Marley's office.
00:59:03What is it, Mike?
00:59:04Mike?
00:59:10Joyce!
00:59:12Joyce!
00:59:13I just heard what happened.
00:59:15Lee Marley telephoned me that his uncle's gotten the best of you.
00:59:18I came to tell you that I helped him.
00:59:20I didn't tell Scotty, but I sent the stock that you gave me to Mr. Marley
00:59:24this morning before I understood it all.
00:59:26You mustn't worry.
00:59:27I'll see that you never want for anything.
00:59:29But that isn't what I came here for.
00:59:32I'm sorry. I've been so ungrateful.
00:59:34After all you've done for me.
00:59:36I'm so sorry.
00:59:37No, no, no. Come, come, now.
00:59:39I don't mind being poor.
00:59:40I don't mind anything now.
00:59:55What is this?
01:00:02Hello?
01:00:05What?
01:00:08Are you sure?
01:00:12A miracle has happened!
01:00:13The mind is going up.
01:00:15Orders are coming in from all parts of the United States.
01:00:18What does this mean, Marshal?
01:00:20I haven't any idea.
01:00:22Have you been using the funds of the organization to help me in a personal fight?
01:00:25Why, no, John. Certainly not.
01:00:27What did you do after I left the club room last night?
01:00:30I telegraphed the local headquarters in every city that you had resigned.
01:00:35Yes?
01:00:37And what else did you say?
01:00:40That you were going to be the head of Combined Steel Corporation.
01:00:44What? You old fox!
01:00:46You old scoundrel!
01:00:48Say, we've got to get down to headquarters.
01:00:50What doing?
01:00:51John Daniels has been made head of Combined Steel.
01:00:54Everybody's buying it.
01:00:55Come on.
01:00:56Actually, we know about it.
01:00:59Here, kid, let me see that paper.
01:01:03Keep the change. I'll be rich before the day is over.
01:01:05Thanks.
01:01:10Hey, Joe, come here.
01:01:13What's the truth?
01:01:14Come on down to headquarters.
01:01:16John Daniels has been made head of Combined Steel.
01:01:18Chance to clean up if we buy the stock quick.
01:01:20George?
01:01:22Sad Sam.
01:01:23Yeah.
01:01:24Yeah, I just heard.
01:01:26Buy me a thousand shares.
01:01:28At the market.
01:01:30Get up, all of you!
01:01:31John Daniels has resigned.
01:01:33He's head of a steel company.
01:01:34Get down to headquarters.
01:01:36Everybody's buying stock!
01:01:42It's incredible.
01:01:43We cut all quarterly dividends.
01:01:45And people all over the country
01:01:47flood the brokerage houses with buying orders.
01:01:50Oh, boy!
01:01:51It's happening!
01:02:10What do you want?
01:02:11There's a committee of workmen waiting downstairs.
01:02:13I haven't time for any workmen.
01:02:15But it's about some stock being held for them by the corporation.
01:02:17Huh?
01:02:19Oh.
01:02:22Yes, I'll...
01:02:24I'll have to see about that.
01:02:41It's meant Dawson.
01:02:43Dawson?
01:02:44Dawson!
01:02:45Dawson?
01:02:46Sit down, Marley.
01:02:52You may tell the committee of workmen
01:02:54your uncle has stolen the stock they were buying.
01:02:57Oh, that's a lie.
01:02:59You can tell the committee that the stock will be issued when the...
01:03:02when the workmen finish paying for it.
01:03:04Mr. Wilson offered to pay the amount owing on his stock, but...
01:03:07the head bookkeeper couldn't find the certificates in his safe.
01:03:10Ah.
01:03:11Gentlemen, that's all you need to know.
01:03:13Except...
01:03:15before the market closes today,
01:03:17the control of Combined Steel will have changed hands.
01:03:20The dividends will be paid as usual.
01:03:22Now you may go.
01:03:24But, uh...
01:03:47Your nephew may stay.
01:03:49If you want him.
01:03:51Wait outside for me.
01:03:57Sit down.
01:03:59Sit down.
01:04:20Did you ever see that revolver before?
01:04:23Why, no.
01:04:25You bought it in Liverpool three days before Vivian was killed.
01:04:28It was found on the floor beside her.
01:04:30I sailed two days before she killed herself.
01:04:33You sailed several days after her death.
01:04:36But the records of the steamship company...
01:04:38The records of the company show that you built passage.
01:04:41But the purser's report showed you did not sail on that boat.
01:04:44You killed her.
01:04:46I didn't.
01:04:47I didn't kill her.
01:04:49She took her own life.
01:04:51I had no idea.
01:04:53John, I swear...
01:04:55That's what we're going to find out.
01:04:58Come on.
01:05:04If I turned you over to them...
01:05:06You'd be buried with a lot of metal into which they would throw you.
01:05:11Perhaps you'd rather die that way.
01:05:14The way you tried to kill me.
01:05:17Or...
01:05:19I'll see that you leave here safely and go to England to be tried for murder.
01:05:24I'll give you five minutes to think things over.
01:05:30The point is, Marley...
01:05:32That you have nothing to fear from a trial...
01:05:35If you didn't kill Vivian.
01:05:53Who's there?
01:05:55You can't go in there, buddy.
01:06:26Is my uncle still in there?
01:06:31If the stock we issued to the workman was stolen...
01:06:34I'm as guilty as he is.
01:06:36I signed the certificates.
01:06:38Your crime is one of ignorance.
01:06:40To have learned the steel business, young man...
01:06:43You should have started at the bottom, not at the top.
01:06:55Hey, man.
01:06:56Man, listen.
01:06:57What's ever happened to your stock is my fault.
01:06:59And I'm going to see that you don't lose a dime of your money.
01:07:01We don't care what you've got to say.
01:07:03We want Jim Marley.
01:07:04Yeah, we want to see Marley.
01:07:06Go away!
01:07:25Darling, what are you doing here?
01:07:27What happened?
01:07:28It's all right. Don't worry.
01:07:56What is this?
01:08:11What is this?
01:08:26What is this?
01:08:39It's Flint!
01:08:41Flint Dawson has come back!
01:08:43It's him, all right.
01:08:44Old Flint Dawson himself.
01:08:46It's Flint Dawson!
01:08:52The mills will be closed until next Monday.
01:08:54All former employees will then return to work.
01:08:58Your stock will be issued to you.
01:09:00Paid for in full.
01:09:25Now you're starting right at the bottom.
01:09:28That's the way to learn the steel business, young man.
01:09:31Here comes the chief!
01:09:39My first day and no dinner, pale.
01:09:42I have lunch all ready for you in our cottage.
01:09:44Cottage cheese and cottage pudding.
01:09:46Come on.
01:09:47Come on.
01:09:48Come on.
01:09:49Come on.
01:09:50Come on.
01:09:51Come on.
01:09:52Come on.
01:09:53Come on.
01:09:54Great!
01:10:00Well, Steve, that's a nice piece of pie.