When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.
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00:03:43 May we take a look at the rest of the house?
00:03:45 Certainly.
00:03:46 Ah, this will be Mrs. Pebbles, huh?
00:03:49 Mrs. Weebles.
00:03:50 No banter, Daniels.
00:03:52 While cheer up, youth and beauty have arrived in brilliant wit.
00:03:55 The old house will re-echo to music and laughter.
00:03:59 Show people.
00:04:07 Oh, this place needs a little air.
00:04:10 Yes, a little dusting wouldn't hurt either.
00:04:13 I should say not.
00:04:15 Oh, what a beautiful view.
00:04:18 But the ocean always makes me sad.
00:04:21 Get a ghost in here. Ghosts of gayer days.
00:04:24 I once lost a dear friend by drowning.
00:04:27 Where's that caretaker?
00:04:29 Yes? Oh, we wanted to use this for rehearsals in the general setting room.
00:04:34 Yes, ma'am, I'll get some dusters.
00:04:36 Drink is the root of all evil.
00:04:39 Uh-oh, one of them.
00:04:42 Probably a very sincere, kind woman.
00:04:45 I'll be back to help as soon as I see if the girls are all right upstairs.
00:04:49 And Marsha gets a whole suite to herself.
00:04:51 That's your choice by right, Winifred.
00:04:53 Oh, no, Ruby. Marsha's our lead for the next season.
00:04:56 This room's been cleaned. It's really nice.
00:04:59 I think we should bring more beds.
00:05:01 All the rest of us sleep in one room.
00:05:03 It'd be safer.
00:05:04 What are you feeling unsafe about now?
00:05:06 In this big house, anything.
00:05:09 Just anything could happen.
00:05:11 Oh, Winifred, Adelaide,
00:05:13 I think it would be better if you girls shared the rooms with Marsha.
00:05:17 Oh, this I call a grand plaisir.
00:05:19 We can manage you very well, Mrs. Roy.
00:05:21 Go on, you goose. We'll help you take over.
00:05:23 This I call a swell break.
00:05:26 Oh, girls, no horseplay.
00:05:28 What's that toy?
00:05:29 A maiden waiting to the sole great star, Marsha.
00:05:33 Come on, Lois. And Clem, this we gotta see.
00:05:37 Oh, I think I'll just stay here.
00:05:41 Marsha isn't going to like this.
00:05:43 I hope.
00:05:45 Well, Marsha, the other room in this suite is for Winifred and Adelaide.
00:05:49 I was going to put Santoy in the other room.
00:05:52 I'm sorry, Marsha. Santoy isn't a maid.
00:05:55 She'll stay with the other girls.
00:05:57 Oh, clumsy doll.
00:05:58 What a cruel thing.
00:05:59 I could put that down.
00:06:01 Girls, please.
00:06:02 I'd talk with you.
00:06:03 Leave me. I want to talk with her.
00:06:05 There's no need for us to use the room.
00:06:07 The arrangements have already been made.
00:06:09 Come, girls. I'll have no quarreling.
00:06:11 Sicker, Adelaide. Sicker.
00:06:13 I knew something dreadful was going to happen when we came here.
00:06:17 Oh, now, dear, come along. Maestro expects us all in for a sweep before he...
00:06:21 Again you make trouble with your bad temper and your sole grand manners.
00:06:28 I might suggest you mind your affairs.
00:06:31 In England, in France, always the same thing.
00:06:33 You flirt with rich men and poof, trouble.
00:06:36 I would advise you to mind your own business.
00:06:38 You make the fool of Colt King, same as the others.
00:06:41 You will ruin the show.
00:06:43 I will own this show.
00:06:45 And listen, you know the maestro's rules.
00:06:47 What if he were to find out that Doc Brandt is your husband?
00:06:50 There is other work in this country.
00:06:53 Women like you, someone should like that.
00:06:57 Furthermore, the maestro and a lot of other people might like to know who Doc Brandt really is.
00:07:03 Bad as you are, you would not do a thing like that.
00:07:07 But we're all going swimming before dark, dear.
00:07:10 Pig. I could kill her.
00:07:20 (door slams)
00:07:22 Well, where have you been?
00:07:34 Pick those things up.
00:07:36 No, wait a minute.
00:07:38 We're going swimming, but I'll get you excused.
00:07:41 I want you to go to Adelaide's trunk for me.
00:07:44 Oh, please, don't make me steal.
00:07:46 Steal? Who do you think I am, Fagin?
00:07:49 Look, in Adelaide's trunk there's a small metal box.
00:07:53 There are some letters in it.
00:07:54 No, Marsha.
00:07:56 Please, I can't.
00:07:58 Do you want the maestro to know that you're under 18?
00:08:00 Oh, I can't lose this job, Marsha. I can't.
00:08:03 It's my chance and, well, I need the money.
00:08:07 Exactly.
00:08:08 Bring me three or four letters.
00:08:10 Three or four will do.
00:08:15 (car engine starts)
00:08:17 All right, let's go then.
00:08:20 (men chattering)
00:08:22 Hi, Max.
00:08:23 Mr. King will be down soon, girls. Then we can swim.
00:08:28 Oh, maestro making an entrance, eh?
00:08:31 I just wish you not to win.
00:08:33 Of course you'll swim, dear. Sun, sea air, exercise.
00:08:36 That's the tonic.
00:08:37 Say, where's Lois?
00:08:38 She has a headache.
00:08:39 I don't think I'll go and eat in the storm.
00:08:41 Well, that'll be all right, Santoy.
00:08:43 Come on, girls.
00:08:45 Perfect. Perfect, Daniels. We should have pictures.
00:08:50 We're posing a set for the magazines tomorrow.
00:08:52 Good. Then today, we swim.
00:08:55 (women chattering)
00:08:57 Come on, sweetheart.
00:08:59 Come on.
00:09:02 Come on, sweetheart.
00:09:05 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
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00:09:39 Where's Marcia?
00:09:41 Her robe was gone when I came out.
00:09:43 Maybe she's ill or something.
00:09:45 I hope it's serious.
00:09:46 This woman, she's sick all the time, inside.
00:09:49 Shh.
00:09:51 Has anyone seen Marcia?
00:09:53 I think she went up to the house, maestro.
00:09:55 I wonder if Marcia and maestro quarreled.
00:10:02 You can't quarrel with a lap dog.
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00:11:04 (Marcia screams)
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00:11:12 The root of evil.
00:11:17 You said it.
00:11:18 Lots of evil has come out of the sea.
00:11:20 The world, for instance.
00:11:21 Liquor is the root.
00:11:23 Crime, the stem and branches.
00:11:25 And what's the fruit?
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00:11:58 You look like if you have seen the ghost.
00:12:02 It's kind of chilly.
00:12:06 Did you see some toy or Lois?
00:12:08 No, I was just in the cabana.
00:12:11 (door opens)
00:12:17 Lois, you in there?
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00:12:24 (door opens)
00:12:34 (Lois screams)
00:12:36 Watch out, what might that?
00:12:39 (Lois screams)
00:12:44 Lois!
00:12:47 What happened?
00:12:49 She's dead.
00:12:50 Quiet girls, please.
00:12:53 I think you better leave the room.
00:12:54 Look, maestro.
00:12:56 For the good of the show, Lois is dead.
00:12:58 She'll not mind if it looks like an accident.
00:13:00 You couldn't move the body?
00:13:01 Why sure, to the beach.
00:13:03 It'll look like a drowning.
00:13:04 We'll work it out when the fuss dies down.
00:13:06 It'll be easier on Lois' mother too.
00:13:08 You press agents are all calloused.
00:13:10 I forbid it.
00:13:12 Take the edge off the fresh news breaks
00:13:13 and we can handle it quietly, I tell you.
00:13:15 I forbid it.
00:13:16 She was garroted a cord around her neck.
00:13:18 What kind of a cord is that?
00:13:20 A silk cord.
00:13:22 Silk, huh?
00:13:23 That's an old Chinese custom.
00:13:25 (gasps)
00:13:26 Chinese!
00:13:27 Now, Clem, this is no time for hysterics.
00:13:29 Come on.
00:13:30 Hey girls, come, we'd better leave the room.
00:13:32 Hurry.
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00:13:38 Oh, for heaven's sake, Clem, let up.
00:13:43 Don't make her come near me.
00:13:45 Is this Lemontine controlling yourself?
00:13:46 It's a Chinese drink, a silk and cord.
00:13:49 She was in the house with poor Lois all the time.
00:13:52 Oh, I wish Doc were here.
00:13:53 What she needs is a pill.
00:13:55 You'll have to humor him.
00:13:56 Oh, sure, Clem.
00:13:57 The Chinese garrote people all the time.
00:14:00 You're accusing me?
00:14:01 J'accuse, j'accuse.
00:14:02 This is very bad.
00:14:03 The garrote is an old French apache custom, too.
00:14:06 That's right.
00:14:07 And if it was Marsha up there,
00:14:08 you'd have some tall explaining to do.
00:14:10 I'm going to see if you men have found any trace of Marsha.
00:14:12 No, Winifred.
00:14:13 They asked us to stay here until the police come.
00:14:16 Girls, please try to be calm.
00:14:18 Yes, until Marsha's found, we won't know anything.
00:14:21 All Marsha's clones are still upstairs.
00:14:23 Don't stare at me like that.
00:14:25 Santoy, dear, no one accuses you.
00:14:27 It was a silk cord!
00:14:30 I've read about the Chinese!
00:14:32 I'll put an end to this.
00:14:34 I met a detective, the world's greatest detective.
00:14:37 His name is Jimmy Chan, great Chinese detective.
00:14:40 He'll protect his countrywoman.
00:14:42 Santoy, where are you going?
00:14:45 [Whistles]
00:14:47 [Telephone rings]
00:14:52 Mr. Chan!
00:15:11 Jimmy!
00:15:12 Jimmy!
00:15:13 Tell him it's murder!
00:15:14 Hello?
00:15:18 This is Mr. Chan's residence.
00:15:20 Mr. Chan!
00:15:21 Jimmy!
00:15:22 Jimmy!
00:15:23 Murder! It's murder!
00:15:24 That gets those detectives, it's all they understand.
00:15:26 Don't let him telephone, he's planning something!
00:15:28 We'll all be murdered!
00:15:30 Mr. Chan! Jimmy!
00:15:32 This is Santoy, I'm at the beach.
00:15:33 Tell him it's murder!
00:15:34 [Screams]
00:15:36 Jimmy!
00:15:37 No!
00:15:38 Jimmy! Jimmy!
00:15:40 Yes, murder! Murder!
00:15:42 Jimmy! Jimmy, he's murdered!
00:15:44 Hold on now, be calm, don't get excited.
00:15:46 Be calm, everybody now.
00:15:47 I want you, wait a minute, be calm.
00:15:48 Now wait a minute, now wait, wait.
00:15:49 Wait a minute, say that word.
00:15:50 Good gracious of me.
00:15:52 Who, who, where, mm!
00:15:54 Wait a minute, where's the pad?
00:15:56 What's your number, you said it was 26 Malibu Drive?
00:15:58 Malibu Drive?
00:15:59 Oh, good gracious, that's all right.
00:16:01 Hold it now, hold it.
00:16:02 Don't get excited.
00:16:03 Now, who?
00:16:04 Mr. Chan!
00:16:05 Good gracious of me.
00:16:07 Mr. Chan!
00:16:08 Wait a minute, Mr. Chan!
00:16:10 Mr. Chan!
00:16:11 Mr. Chan!
00:16:12 Mr. Chan!
00:16:14 Good evening.
00:16:15 Oh, good gracious, Mr. Chan.
00:16:17 Jimmy's just gotten murdered.
00:16:18 I just got it over the telephone.
00:16:19 What?
00:16:20 Where?
00:16:21 Where call come from?
00:16:22 Uh, uh, 26 Malibu Drive.
00:16:24 There's a whole lot of girls there,
00:16:25 and they said he just got murdered.
00:16:26 Malibu Beach?
00:16:27 How long since you seen Jimmy?
00:16:28 Oh, this afternoon, he must have had a date.
00:16:30 But them girls said he just got murdered.
00:16:32 I can understand the girl part of it,
00:16:34 the rest of it, no.
00:16:36 We go.
00:16:37 Uh, I'll get car, you get your clothes on.
00:16:39 Yes, sir.
00:16:40 Oh, good gracious of me.
00:16:41 Ain't this something?
00:16:42 You are sure you have correct address?
00:16:50 Yes, sir, Mr. Chan.
00:16:51 I heard it plain.
00:16:52 A whole lot of girls screaming in the hollering about Jimmy.
00:16:55 Oh.
00:16:56 Please, you will drive carefully in the city.
00:16:59 We make up time on Coast Highway.
00:17:01 Yes, sir.
00:17:02 Birmingham.
00:17:05 [Silence]
00:17:21 26 Malibu Drive.
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00:17:35 Santoy, found her.
00:17:36 You must find Marsha, Sergeant.
00:17:37 Now let the Sergeant talk.
00:17:39 What's he know about it?
00:17:40 I'll have to take your statements separately.
00:17:42 Have they moved?
00:17:44 Yes, the coroner took over.
00:17:46 Now, who is Marsha?
00:17:48 The murderess.
00:17:49 Oh, now, Madge, we don't know.
00:17:51 There's very little the girls can tell you, Sergeant.
00:17:54 If you'll wait until the men come back, they may have news of Marsha.
00:17:57 And where are the men?
00:17:58 They're out looking for her.
00:18:00 Someone send for a detective.
00:18:01 Oh, thank heavens.
00:18:03 [Speaking Chinese]
00:18:06 I'm here looking for number two son Jimmy.
00:18:09 But he's not here, Mr. Chan.
00:18:11 Understood, Jimmy was here and in trouble.
00:18:14 Oh, that must be a mistake, sir.
00:18:16 Oh, mistakes sometimes bring most fortunate relief.
00:18:20 I see all other troubles are in most capable hands.
00:18:24 Good evening, Sergeant.
00:18:25 [Speaking Chinese]
00:18:27 A very serious thing has happened, Mr. Chan.
00:18:29 This is the Sergeant's big break.
00:18:30 Give him a chance.
00:18:31 I'm Reynolds of the State Police, Mr. Chan.
00:18:33 This is out of city jurisdiction.
00:18:35 But now that you're here, I'd be glad if you'd kind of look things over.
00:18:38 A little Chinese girl tells me many persons are wrongfully accused.
00:18:43 Was a dead girl so very badly hated?
00:18:46 Oh, no, Mr. Chan.
00:18:48 It was a sweet, harmless child.
00:18:50 The murder of Lois is a mystery.
00:18:52 But the missing one, Marcia, we all hate her.
00:18:54 I kill her myself.
00:18:56 Correct.
00:18:57 Lois was strangled.
00:18:59 Adelaide's right.
00:19:00 We all hated Marcia.
00:19:01 Not hate, Madge.
00:19:02 That's a bitter word.
00:19:04 Marcia, she will not be found.
00:19:06 I hope not.
00:19:07 [Speaking Chinese]
00:19:09 Question the men.
00:19:10 Ask them.
00:19:11 Girls, please.
00:19:12 Mr. Chan, would you care to talk to us separately?
00:19:15 I would like a few moments alone with Sergeant, if you please.
00:19:18 Some girls.
00:19:19 Upstairs.
00:19:20 No, no, not up there.
00:19:22 No need to go to that room.
00:19:24 We can make a general dormitory where you can all be together.
00:19:26 Come on.
00:19:30 Don't worry.
00:19:31 Mr. Chan will clear things up.
00:19:33 The Sergeant looked capable to me.
00:19:35 We, but as a detective...
00:19:42 Looks like an ordinary bathrobe cord to me, sir.
00:19:46 I was more concerned about the presence of my number two son, Jimmy, in this house.
00:19:51 Well, I haven't seen him, sir, but I'd appreciate any time you can give the case, sir.
00:19:56 Oh, Mr. Chan.
00:19:58 I met you when you were on the March case.
00:20:00 I was handling publicity for the March flower mills.
00:20:02 My name is Rick Daniels.
00:20:04 I'm delighted.
00:20:05 Being press agent, you will have facts you rely for details.
00:20:09 Mr. Chan, am I glad to see you.
00:20:12 Mr. Cole King, I believe?
00:20:14 Yes, sir.
00:20:15 Your presence here is a great relief to us.
00:20:17 One moment.
00:20:20 What is your position on Mr. King's show?
00:20:23 Physiotherapist in charge of diet, general physical culture.
00:20:27 George Brandt, Mr. Chan.
00:20:29 An honor, sir.
00:20:30 Any sign of the missing girl?
00:20:31 No, we searched every room and every cabana.
00:20:33 We can't find her anywhere.
00:20:35 Now, gentlemen, I will ask you for careful statements and details, please.
00:20:41 I'll be in my cabana, girls.
00:20:43 Madge will take care of you.
00:20:45 Good night.
00:20:46 Good night.
00:20:47 Good night.
00:20:48 Clam, hold it.
00:20:49 [SCREAMING]
00:20:50 Clam's off again.
00:20:52 I saw it, too.
00:20:53 Somebody out on the porch.
00:20:54 A man.
00:20:55 He went into the next room through the window.
00:21:00 Birmingham, guard Edwards.
00:21:01 Yes, sir.
00:21:03 [SCREAMING]
00:21:05 What is trouble, please?
00:21:07 Someone went in here from the porch.
00:21:08 A man.
00:21:09 I saw him jump through the window.
00:21:30 [SCREAMING]
00:21:33 So you will explain your behavior with speed?
00:21:38 Well, Pop, you see it was this way.
00:21:40 Also intelligence.
00:21:42 Well, I found the address on the telephone pad.
00:21:44 I figured you were on the case and that you might need some help.
00:21:47 And when I saw the state cops up on the highway, I knew that they had just stopped.
00:21:50 So I just climbed up--
00:21:53 Hello, Jimmy.
00:21:54 [SPEAKING CHINESE]
00:21:56 Unorthodox, though not unusual.
00:21:59 [SPEAKING CHINESE]
00:22:01 One moment, please.
00:22:02 You and Birmingham will take up positions in rear.
00:22:05 No one is to leave premises.
00:22:07 OK, Pop.
00:22:08 Our quarters are in a cabana, Mr. Tan.
00:22:10 Kindly remain in the house.
00:22:12 Ladies, return to your rooms.
00:22:14 Sounds official.
00:22:15 I still think the sergeant could handle it.
00:22:17 Position up, buddy.
00:22:26 Yes, sir.
00:22:27 Trunk.
00:22:29 All right, sir.
00:22:30 [WHISTLING]
00:22:41 Jimmy, ain't nobody going to try to leave the house tonight.
00:22:44 Come on, let's find a place to stretch out.
00:22:46 Pipe down.
00:22:47 I'm already in touch with Pop.
00:22:48 Yeah, but I'm plum exhausted.
00:22:49 I want to go to sleep.
00:22:50 Sleep?
00:22:51 Why don't you try sleeping on your feet for a change?
00:22:53 Hmm, that ain't a bad idea.
00:22:55 Hey, Duck, there's somebody now.
00:22:57 He went into the cellar.
00:23:09 What are you worrying about?
00:23:10 He ain't leaving the house.
00:23:11 He's always looking for trouble.
00:23:17 Now, now, now, wait a minute.
00:23:22 Now, now, now, wait a minute.
00:23:23 Now, where you going?
00:23:24 Come on, this will square us with Pop.
00:23:26 I'm already squared with your Pop.
00:23:28 Well, you stay here.
00:23:29 I'm going in.
00:23:30 That's just what I'm-- whoa, gangway.
00:23:31 I changed my mind.
00:23:32 [door slams]
00:23:33 Jimmy?
00:23:55 Oh, Jimmy.
00:23:56 I wonder where did that boy go?
00:23:58 I wonder where did that boy go?
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00:24:38 (gasps)
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00:25:07 (laughs)
00:25:16 - That's me.
00:25:17 (laughs)
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00:25:35 (screams)
00:25:53 - Good gracious, Mr. Chan!
00:25:54 Come out, somebody!
00:25:56 Jimmy, hold on, come and find you!
00:25:58 I got you, hold on!
00:25:59 Mr. Chan, Jimmy!
00:26:01 Good gracious, come on, all of you,
00:26:03 you got me surrounded, I got you!
00:26:04 Come on, good gracious, Jimmy!
00:26:06 Mr. Chan, come here!
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00:26:09 Jimmy!
00:26:12 Good gracious, come here!
00:26:13 Jimmy!
00:26:14 They tried to kill me, everybody tried to kill me!
00:26:17 They hit me across the head, Jimmy!
00:26:18 They conked me, look at everything falling on me!
00:26:21 - I saw him run, he had a bundle in his hands.
00:26:23 - Yeah, he might have had a bundle in one hand,
00:26:24 but he sure had a club in the other one.
00:26:26 - Where's my hat?
00:26:27 - Jimmy, let's get out of here.
00:26:29 Get your thing off of you, come on!
00:26:31 - Here, take this with you!
00:26:33 - Oh, gee, Pop, you scared me!
00:26:37 - You observe something in cellar?
00:26:39 - Yeah, somebody went down there
00:26:40 and tried to stuff a bundle in the furnace.
00:26:42 - Person make exit?
00:26:43 A carrying bundle away in hands?
00:26:45 - Only in one hand, Mr. Chan.
00:26:46 - Yeah, he clipped Birmingham.
00:26:48 - Resume vigilance, person with bundle, most important.
00:26:52 - Now, the way I figured that thing, Jimmy--
00:26:54 (thuds)
00:26:56 (dramatic music)
00:26:59 (screams)
00:27:14 (sobbing)
00:27:16 - Oh, what is it?
00:27:18 Oh, what is it?
00:27:19 Oh, my goodness!
00:27:21 - Quiet, girls, it's Aunt Toye.
00:27:23 - Jimmy!
00:27:25 (door opens)
00:27:27 - Oh, I am so glad to learn
00:27:29 you are not cause of this latest disturbance.
00:27:33 Remain where you are, please.
00:27:35 (all talking at once)
00:27:37 - Drink!
00:27:38 - If you mention the root of evil--
00:27:40 - Aunt Toye, what happened?
00:27:41 - What's the matter, what happened?
00:27:43 - What's the matter, tell us.
00:27:44 - Upstairs, someone threw something over my head.
00:27:47 I smell a chloroform.
00:27:49 - I can smell it here, too.
00:27:51 - Ruby, don't go up there, don't!
00:27:53 - I smell it down here, no!
00:27:54 - It's ether.
00:27:55 - Impossible, there's a plot against all of us.
00:27:58 (all talking at once)
00:28:01 - Quiet, please.
00:28:02 (all talking at once)
00:28:04 - Mocho, mocho.
00:28:06 Do I smell ether, Doctor?
00:28:08 - Yes, sir, a cloth must have been saturated with it,
00:28:10 Mr. Cramden.
00:28:11 - It's fantastic, it's madness.
00:28:13 - This house is haunted!
00:28:14 - Let's clam dry now.
00:28:15 - Ladies, please, young ladies,
00:28:16 I would suggest you all go quietly to your rooms.
00:28:19 The little Chinese girl is evidently
00:28:21 the center of general mystery here.
00:28:23 - Well, why don't you search the place?
00:28:25 - By now, attackers have ample opportunity to escape,
00:28:29 or to join us here.
00:28:32 (wind howling)
00:28:34 (rain pattering)
00:28:37 (wind howling)
00:28:40 (rain pattering)
00:28:43 - What a horrible night.
00:28:45 I didn't sleep a wink.
00:28:47 - You're snoring, it was as manu.
00:28:49 - Poor clam, she was nervous before we ever came here.
00:28:52 - Feel better this morning, dear?
00:28:55 - I slept a little.
00:28:56 - I'm inside the poor kid till she arrives.
00:28:58 (all talking at once)
00:29:00 - The time, please, old soul.
00:29:01 - Just carrying around my own protection.
00:29:03 - What is the great Mr. Chan doing?
00:29:05 - He has the situation well in hand.
00:29:06 - Oh, Mr. Chan is working it out.
00:29:08 You've got to admire him.
00:29:10 He's quiet, intelligent, and persistent.
00:29:12 - Persistent, an admirable quality.
00:29:14 (all laughing)
00:29:17 (rain pattering)
00:29:20 - Good gracious life, Mr. Chan,
00:29:26 I knowed it was gonna happen sometime.
00:29:28 - No, no, no, Jimmy, get up.
00:29:30 Could not possibly happen that way.
00:29:32 Come in, Birmingham.
00:29:33 Could not, Birmingham, come here.
00:29:35 - Yes, sir.
00:29:36 - Now, I want you to stand right there.
00:29:40 Bend over and simulate pilfering of trunk.
00:29:43 - Oh, yes, sir.
00:29:44 - Now, imagine you are stealing something from the trunk.
00:29:47 - I know.
00:29:48 - Now, you are familiar with technique of the garrote?
00:29:51 - They didn't teach that in my school, Pop.
00:29:53 - Observe.
00:29:56 When held in this manner,
00:29:59 garrote cannot possibly be caught
00:30:02 if victim should suddenly grasp the cord.
00:30:05 - Gee, Pop, where'd you learn that?
00:30:06 - In the school of hard experience.
00:30:08 Simulate pilfering.
00:30:12 Now, I am garrote.
00:30:15 I enter from this door.
00:30:18 I approach the victim stealthily.
00:30:22 - Not now, Mr. Chan, not now.
00:30:26 - You see, Jimmy, that is what I mean.
00:30:28 It was utterly impossible for garrote
00:30:31 to approach victim from behind
00:30:34 while victim is kneeling in that position at the trunk.
00:30:37 - I get it, Pop.
00:30:38 That lowest girl wasn't at the trunk.
00:30:39 - Uh-huh, well, deduce further, remember?
00:30:41 The body was lying here
00:30:43 where these marks are placed upon the floor.
00:30:45 - She whirled away from the trunk and saw the killer.
00:30:48 - Uh-huh, deduce further, you're reaching the point.
00:30:50 - She recognized the killer.
00:30:52 She couldn't believe what she saw with her eyes
00:30:54 or she would have gotten further away.
00:30:56 Maybe clean away.
00:30:57 - Indicating what?
00:30:58 - That the killer was a friend.
00:30:59 - Exactly, what I am trying to demonstrate.
00:31:02 The killer, Jimmy, was a friend.
00:31:05 - Oh, Mr. Chan, maybe that girl didn't see the killer at all.
00:31:08 Maybe the killer was transparent.
00:31:10 - Oh, no further deductions.
00:31:14 - Action.
00:31:23 - If only we could go swimming.
00:31:24 - A good idea, but forbidden.
00:31:26 - Sergeant's orders, stay here or in the house.
00:31:28 - Check out the orders from Miss Chan.
00:31:30 - Detractor.
00:31:31 - The sergeant's a great criminologist.
00:31:33 - He told me so himself.
00:31:34 - Crimes and criminals.
00:31:36 It all seems like a nightmare.
00:31:39 - Oh, Mr. Chan, is it how you say, permissible to go swimming?
00:31:43 - I think nice swim would be very refreshing for everyone.
00:31:48 - Thank you.
00:31:49 - Sure.
00:31:50 - Come on.
00:32:08 - You're holding your own laundry, Rick.
00:32:10 - I'd be glad to do any washing, sir.
00:32:12 - Uh, no thank you.
00:32:13 It's just something I had for the maestro.
00:32:15 - Jimmy.
00:32:23 - Dave, more.
00:32:25 - Jimmy.
00:32:26 - Brian Birmingham, you will both follow movements of Mr. Daniels very closely.
00:32:34 - Oh, but Pop, Santoy and I were going to go for a swim.
00:32:38 - Swim later.
00:32:39 - Oh, Clementine, look what I found.
00:32:50 - It moved.
00:32:52 - Don't touch it, Ruby, don't.
00:32:53 - Afraid of a crab.
00:32:55 - Oh, fine.
00:32:56 - Clementine, get it before it goes in the water.
00:33:00 - Where are you going?
00:33:04 - Come on.
00:33:05 - Marshal.
00:33:11 - It's Marshal!
00:33:16 - Marshal!
00:33:17 - Tightwad's the roofer.
00:33:29 - Grim old cord.
00:33:32 - You will also examine Knot very closely.
00:33:35 - Got it.
00:33:38 - Another one.
00:33:39 - Strangled.
00:33:40 - Good gosh, another cord.
00:33:42 - Everyone will please return to the house.
00:33:46 - Except the sergeant.
00:33:48 - You remain here and instruct the coroner.
00:34:01 - It's obviously a suicide, Mr. Chan.
00:34:03 - She killed Lois and then go out and drown herself, n'est-ce pas?
00:34:08 - You observed Knot?
00:34:11 - It was a granny knot, sir.
00:34:13 - You also possibly examined victim's throat as the trachea was flattened.
00:34:18 - What would you say regarding possible period of immersion?
00:34:22 - Ten or twelve hours.
00:34:24 - He is only guessing, Mr. Chan.
00:34:26 - Well, I have only a superficial knowledge of such things, Mr. Chan.
00:34:29 - I am certain coroner will agree with your every statement.
00:34:32 - Excellent.
00:34:34 - Doctor.
00:34:36 - It can't be a suicide, Mr. Chan.
00:34:39 - She was a good swimmer.
00:34:40 - She'd have to tie the cord on herself.
00:34:42 - Knot was a kind women tie.
00:34:44 - Also many men.
00:34:45 - Hey, Knot!
00:34:47 - Yes?
00:34:48 - He's going up the beach with that package. Birmingham's watching him.
00:34:51 - I will take care of it.
00:34:52 - I must ask you all not to leave this room.
00:34:55 - I have much to discuss with you later.
00:34:58 - Later.
00:35:00 - Mr. Chan.
00:35:02 (Door slams)
00:35:04 (Music)
00:35:07 (Music)
00:35:10 (Music)
00:35:12 - No!
00:35:38 - I'll open it, please.
00:35:39 - I can explain, Mr. Chan.
00:35:44 - I will listen to your explanation at the house in the presence of your friends.
00:35:50 - Yeah.
00:35:55 - Yeah.
00:35:57 - Right.
00:35:58 - Well, the coroner says she couldn't have died by drowning.
00:36:04 - I thought not.
00:36:05 - She wasn't the kind.
00:36:07 - Better we leave this place while the excitement is still on.
00:36:11 - You don't know America, honey. They'd hound us and never let up.
00:36:14 - I'll live with you in caves, even in tree trunks, only to run away from this.
00:36:19 - I've been running away for years. Time has come now to face it.
00:36:23 - That detective, he knows everything. Already he called you doctor.
00:36:27 - Yes, I caught that.
00:36:32 - Look, before we go in, I was trying to keep somebody from being framed.
00:36:36 - This robe was planted on him.
00:36:38 - The maestro?
00:36:39 - That's right, and you can check on that. He found it in his clothes closet.
00:36:42 - I prefer to listen to your explanation in presence of the other suspects.
00:36:47 - Listen, Mr. Chan, I know crime.
00:36:49 - There isn't anybody in this house that could have killed Lois except Marcia herself.
00:36:53 - Then Marcia took the waterworld.
00:36:55 - Suicides do not garrote themselves by tying granny knot at back of neck.
00:37:00 - I've seen a lot of crime.
00:37:02 - Repetition of your merit only go to prove your fear of fault, Mr. Press Agent.
00:37:09 - Continue inside, please.
00:37:11 - It's Marcia's robe!
00:37:22 - Where was it, Rick?
00:37:23 - I had it.
00:37:24 - It's Rick! Rick, get over here!
00:37:26 - Quiet, there!
00:37:27 - Please, please.
00:37:29 - For the benefit of everyone, I wish to inform you it's my opinion.
00:37:33 - Marcia did not kill Miss Lois.
00:37:36 - Mr. Chan, several of us saw Marcia going into the house while we were swimming.
00:37:40 - The sergeant has a theory on that.
00:37:42 - He thinks somebody wore the robe and then went into the house.
00:37:44 - Excellent deduction, but lacks point of fact.
00:37:47 - And Santoy had every opportunity.
00:37:50 - What is she saying?
00:37:52 - Santoy is a little doll, and she herself was attacked, no?
00:37:56 - You sound repressed.
00:37:59 - And that ether business could have been phony.
00:38:01 - If anyone wanted to cover up...
00:38:03 - Ruby, please.
00:38:04 - Mr. Chan, it's plain you suspect all of us of the actual...
00:38:07 - For the actual murder of trying to shield someone.
00:38:10 - Daniels, don't stare that way.
00:38:13 - You look like a vulture.
00:38:15 - Mr. King.
00:38:17 - You are familiar with these cords?
00:38:23 - This one possibly from black gown?
00:38:26 - There is no black gown in the wardrobe, Mr. Chan.
00:38:29 - Excuse, please. Chinese girl who is familiar with wardrobe tell different story.
00:38:38 - This cord which killed Miss Lois is from your black beach robe.
00:38:43 - And this one with silver thread is from Marcia's gown.
00:38:48 - All right. So that is correct.
00:38:50 - How do you expect to get cooperation?
00:38:52 - How do you expect to get cooperation from one you so obviously and wrongly accused?
00:38:56 - Spill it, you dope. You are the guilty one.
00:38:58 - Let's get him out of here where we can give him the third degree.
00:39:00 - Wait a minute, Daniels. Don't you see?
00:39:02 - It's a trick of chance. It's an old oriental custom trying to get us to accuse each other.
00:39:06 - You are going to talk.
00:39:07 - Don't ever lay a hand on me again.
00:39:09 - You killed them both. Why don't you spill it?
00:39:11 - Daniels, this police court stuff, I'll have you arrested.
00:39:15 - Rick, stop it.
00:39:17 - Look, I was loyal to you and your show, but enough is plenty.
00:39:20 - I took that robe out and tried to bury it because I thought somebody was trying to frame you.
00:39:24 - Then Chan caught me and the finger's on me.
00:39:26 - Daniels, you took that robe to Chan.
00:39:29 - Oh, skip that.
00:39:30 - But Doc here's got something in his past that stinks.
00:39:32 - And the finger's on him too.
00:39:34 - The girls are accusing each other.
00:39:36 - You're ruining lives, cold king.
00:39:38 - When you're the guilty one, why don't you spill it?
00:39:40 - Stop it, Rick. Get yourself more evidence.
00:39:42 - I got evidence enough.
00:39:44 - He let this dame Marcia make a fool out of him.
00:39:46 - Then he got tired of it.
00:39:47 - And he garroted her with a cord from his own bathrobe.
00:39:50 - Now stop him, Mr. Chan.
00:39:51 - No, no, please continue.
00:39:53 - This kid Lois was a chiseler.
00:39:55 - She shook Adelaide's trunk for the tin box to put the bee on you, Doc.
00:39:58 - Blackmail.
00:39:59 - And that's where you came in.
00:40:01 - She was swiping the box when she saw you fix Marcia.
00:40:04 - You had to kill Lois with a cord from Marcia's gown.
00:40:07 - I don't know anything about it. You're crazy.
00:40:10 - Oh, now I see it, Daniels.
00:40:14 - You're the murderer.
00:40:16 - You killed Marcia.
00:40:18 - Marcia took Winifred's job in the show.
00:40:20 - And ever since then, you've been moody and ugly.
00:40:23 - You killed Marcia and then later took her body out to sea.
00:40:26 - Oh, that won't get you anywhere.
00:40:27 - Hey, wait a minute.
00:40:28 - You killed Marcia.
00:40:30 - Daniels, you're calloused.
00:40:33 - You tried to make Lois's death look like suicide.
00:40:35 - Obstructing justice is very serious crime, Mr. Daniels.
00:40:39 - Sergeant, you will make investigations and bring proper charges.
00:40:43 - Shall I handcuff him, sir?
00:40:44 - Oh, not necessary now.
00:40:47 - Listen, all of you.
00:40:48 - When I shall have dismissed you, the men will all go to their cabanas.
00:40:54 - The ladies will remain here and in this house.
00:40:56 - Oh, Mr. Chan, you won't make us put in another night in this house.
00:41:00 - Impossible to speed up investigation now.
00:41:03 - You two, in a few moments, will meet me in my headquarters,
00:41:06 - first room on the right, the top of the stairs.
00:41:08 - Talking Adelaide.
00:41:09 - Why, they're no more guilty than I am.
00:41:11 - That is very interesting comment, young lady.
00:41:14 - Perhaps I will be able to question you later on.
00:41:18 - He won't question, sir.
00:41:21 - Sergeant, you will please join my two assistants.
00:41:23 - Right, sir.
00:41:24 - No one is to leave house or cabanas.
00:41:26 - Speech party okay, sir?
00:41:27 - If carefully guarded. This is routine precaution.
00:41:31 - I am convinced the murderer is in this room.
00:41:36 - It's a dame, Sarge.
00:42:03 - I'll get her. You stay here and see that none of the others try it.
00:42:32 - Oh, so it's you. Where were you going?
00:42:35 - To mail a letter.
00:42:36 - Wisecracks won't help, honey. You sure fooled me. Move over.
00:42:40 - I'll drive back like a good girl, Sergeant.
00:42:42 - Oh, no, you don't. I'll send for the bike later. Move over.
00:42:55 - State Board of Medical Examiners. What's this?
00:42:58 - I'm not talking.
00:43:20 - You wish I should open this letter, Doctor?
00:43:22 - Of course. It's my application to the State Board.
00:43:24 - I gave it to Ruby to post because she had a better opportunity to escape.
00:43:28 - Tomorrow is the last day for filing. I decided to drop it.
00:43:32 - Best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go a little bit haywire, huh?
00:43:37 - Very well, I accept explanation.
00:43:40 - I think perhaps, Sergeant, you had better mail letter. You may open it first if you wish.
00:43:45 - I guess I'll mail it, Mr. Champ.
00:43:47 - Good work, Sergeant.
00:43:50 - Sit down, please.
00:43:52 - I suggest now we all talk together freely.
00:43:56 - Well, it seems obvious to me, Mr. Chan.
00:43:58 - Marshal killed Lois, contrived to tie a similar cord around her own neck since she was so good a swimmer.
00:44:03 - One moment, please. One moment.
00:44:06 - If either Garote had been tied with square knot, a surgeon's knot, case would now be closed with you arrested.
00:44:13 - But how is that possible?
00:44:15 - Sit down, please.
00:44:17 - Today I confirmed a suspicion which began to germinate when I first see you.
00:44:23 - Six years ago in New York City, a very young and promising doctor was accused of wife murder.
00:44:29 - Marshal, they're lies, lies, lies!
00:44:31 - Lies, lies, yes, perhaps.
00:44:34 - Young doctor was exonerated, but the whole affair ruined his life.
00:44:39 - All right. He went to war. There he met a girl and married her. Me.
00:44:45 - Now you know everything, Mr. Chan.
00:44:47 - Thank you so much.
00:44:48 - When you were both in Paris, you knew this girl Marshal very well?
00:44:53 - Oh, zut! We know her too well.
00:44:55 - No, no. Let it drop, Adelaide. I'm suspect again.
00:45:00 - You refuse to talk about yourselves?
00:45:03 - What is there to say? The medical association disowned me. I couldn't resume practice when I came back.
00:45:08 - Marshal got Adelaide a job with this show, and there was a job for me. It's as simple as that.
00:45:13 - I have no wish to reopen old wounds.
00:45:16 - Adelaide knows I was completely innocent of that charge, Mr. Chan.
00:45:20 - Then yes, perhaps, but now, by simple process of elimination, doctor, I have arrived at a most important conclusion in this present case.
00:45:30 - I am very sorry, but I am under the painful necessity of accusing you of a most serious crime.
00:45:36 - Accuse me, Mr. Chan?
00:45:37 - No, no, this is all wrong. I killed Marshal.
00:45:40 - Adelaide, Adelaide, Mr. Chan doesn't want dramatics.
00:45:43 - Excuse, please. On contrary, dramatics highly valuable just now.
00:45:48 - I am convinced, doctor, you tell only partial truths.
00:45:52 - I am convinced you find dead girl's body in this room.
00:45:56 - I am also firmly convinced you removed from this room certain articles which Loy steal from trunk.
00:46:03 - No, no. He was with me everywhere, in the water, on the beach, everywhere.
00:46:06 - It's no use, Adelaide. I found Lois.
00:46:09 - That metal box of yours was on the floor beside her. I took it away.
00:46:13 - You did find her then. Continue.
00:46:16 - But she was dead, Mr. Chan. I tried artificial respiration. It was no good.
00:46:21 - I knew what a bad situation I was in.
00:46:24 - That metal box contained personal letters referring to that affair in New York.
00:46:28 - I saw the whole thing being bungled by the local police to ruin us.
00:46:32 - To destroy everything Adelaide and I have together. Our entire future.
00:46:37 - This box contain other articles besides letters?
00:46:40 - Lots of things. Everyone have something in it.
00:46:42 - It was only in fireproof container of the girl's head, sir.
00:46:45 - Ruby have some letters, Winnie Fred, Sanctoise and Jane, Mrs. Thornton.
00:46:48 - You can produce this box?
00:46:50 - It's in my cabana, sir.
00:46:51 - Good. We will go at once to cabana. Go ahead.
00:46:55 - Contents of box may reveal new clues, doctor.
00:47:03 - Doc never did this to Lois. We care if she steal box, sure. But we not care that much.
00:47:08 - Evidence so far quite convincing, but puzzle always deepest near the center.
00:47:14 - Mr. Chan, it's gone.
00:47:16 - Gone?
00:47:18 - You'll excuse me, doctor, if I seem slightly suspicious.
00:47:24 - It was here.
00:47:26 - Look, it's been cut open. I had no chance to slip this bag.
00:47:30 - Until box is found can offer very little comfort.
00:47:33 - Oh, no, no, please. We tell the truth, only truth.
00:47:36 - Isn't there anything we can do to convince you, Mr. Chan?
00:47:38 - I will bend every effort to find the box, but in the meantime, doctor, I must assure you, your position is extremely delicate.
00:47:46 - Well, there goes my chance for the state medical examination here.
00:47:54 - They can't ruin people like this. They just can't.
00:47:57 - If Chan arrests me, the publicity, everything will come out.
00:48:01 - Oh, it does not matter. We have lived through so much. We overcome this.
00:48:05 - I live with you in jail, in hovels. I even live with you in pork pies.
00:48:11 - It's pigsty, honey.
00:48:12 - Oh, what's the difference?
00:48:14 - Oh, hiya, Pop. Santoy needed some air.
00:48:25 - Okay, can be arranged.
00:48:27 - Well, that's fine. She's kind of scared with all those other dames, I mean girls around. They've been picking on her.
00:48:32 - Oh, it isn't that bad, Jimmy. Everyone's nervous and jumpy.
00:48:36 - Couldn't she go back to the city with us tomorrow, Pop?
00:48:38 - I'm afraid too soon. You have made tall talk of prowess as detective. Honor of Chan family now at stake.
00:48:46 - Well, Santoy got it all wrong.
00:48:48 - I'm afraid too short time to bring this to conclusion.
00:48:52 - Can't you speed it up, Pop?
00:48:54 - Leisurely hunter have time to stalk prey, but hunter in haste must set trap.
00:48:59 - A trap?
00:49:00 - Shrewdly baited.
00:49:01 - Pop's concentrating. He'll settle it fast now.
00:49:04 - Jimmy, you will find other assistant and take up post of observation of last night.
00:49:09 - Oh, but Pop, Santoy wanted to take a walk.
00:49:12 - So she shall. So she shall. Nice walk with intelligent conversation. With me.
00:49:19 - With me.
00:49:21 - They can't keep us caged in here another night.
00:49:28 - Chan wants us all to get some rest.
00:49:30 - What's happened to the maestro?
00:49:32 - His nerves are shot. He's hysterical. Doc's got him in his cabana trying to calm him down now.
00:49:37 - Come on, Clem.
00:49:38 - No, no, not upstairs.
00:49:39 - That'll be best, Clementine. Match can give you a rubdown.
00:49:42 - And sleep?
00:49:43 - Probably not.
00:49:44 - Why, never sleep until the thing is all settled.
00:49:46 - In the wall. Noises in the wall like someone whispering.
00:49:49 - Oh, it's just probably some rats.
00:49:51 - Ah!
00:49:52 - If you want, we can bring in some bedding and you can sleep down here.
00:49:55 - Good. I'm not hangering for upstairs. I'll help with the bedding.
00:49:58 - That's a sound idea. I think I'll go to my cabana, girls. I'm terribly tired. Match can take care of you.
00:50:04 - Oh, I tell you, there's something in that wall.
00:50:07 - Someone call?
00:50:08 - Oh, it's nothing, Mrs. Weebles. One of the girls heard noises in the wall.
00:50:12 - Mice were overrun with them.
00:50:14 - Would you help bring some bedding for the girls? They're going to stay downstairs tonight.
00:50:19 - Certainly.
00:50:20 - Earthquake! Earthquake! Earthquake!
00:50:40 - Room for cover, everybody! Room for cover!
00:50:43 - Shh! Shh! Shh!
00:50:44 - Quiet! Quiet! We're supposed to be on guard.
00:50:46 - What is you up to? What do you mean throwing people around like this?
00:50:49 - Listen, I just talked to Pop.
00:50:50 - Yeah, but he told me to stay here by myself.
00:50:52 - It's about a box. If we find the box, everything's okay.
00:50:55 - Oh, is it a long box about six feet tall and got flowers piled up on it?
00:50:59 - No, no, no. It's a little tin box with some papers in it. And I've got a hunch where we can find it.
00:51:03 - Where?
00:51:04 - In the maestro's room. He's with the doc. And I figure the maestro's guilty.
00:51:08 - Yeah, but I ain't figuring.
00:51:10 - Hey, you stay here. If anything happens, I'll hear you yell.
00:51:13 - No.
00:51:14 - You ain't kidding.
00:51:15 - Whoa!
00:51:22 - Oh boy, oh boy. Not now. I'll tell you when. I'll tell you when. I'll tell you when. Not now.
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00:51:50 - Be brave, Nees. That ain't nobody but the housekeeper, Miss Weebles, or Miss Wobbles.
00:51:56 Wonder what she's going in that door for.
00:51:59 - Where you going?
00:52:02 - Oh, a policeman.
00:52:05 - Now, when you see one time that somebody went down in there, and I followed them, see?
00:52:09 So after they went second, I went first, and I come out first after I...
00:52:12 - So?
00:52:13 - So, well, what it was, I went down in there second, and when I followed them, they come out first.
00:52:18 And what I was trying... Don't you get it?
00:52:20 - I'm no good at geometry. Did you see anybody go by here?
00:52:22 - Oh, the housekeeper. She went over there in that door.
00:52:24 - Keep your post.
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00:52:35 [Door slams]
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00:55:05 - Oh, this is a relief.
00:55:07 - You'd rather have Doc doing it, wouldn't you?
00:55:09 - That would be a luxury.
00:55:11 - Poor Clem. You relaxed her, Madge.
00:55:16 But I don't suppose any of us will get any rest tonight.
00:55:19 - I've got one eye glued open myself.
00:55:21 There. That should ease you a bit.
00:55:23 - I wonder where Santoy is.
00:55:25 - Snooping around. An old Chinese custom.
00:55:27 - Well, come on. Let's get some rest.
00:55:29 - No, they cannot...
00:55:34 [Clem screams]
00:55:45 - In the wall! It's in the wall!
00:55:48 - Holy cats whispering walls again.
00:55:50 - Oh, Clem, it's all right. We're all here.
00:55:53 - In the wall! It's in the wall!
00:55:55 - Nancy, she heard it before.
00:55:56 - El Revé!
00:55:57 - What has happened?
00:55:58 - Clem had a bad dream, Monsieur Chan.
00:56:00 - She's a Shakespearean addict, Monsieur Chan. Dramatic.
00:56:03 [Clem screams]
00:56:05 - Oh!
00:56:07 - Mrs. Weebles.
00:56:08 - Fine trick to play on a lady.
00:56:10 Somebody slid it back from upstairs.
00:56:12 - You write longhand or shorthand?
00:56:14 - Drink is the root.
00:56:16 - You are spying, making notes.
00:56:18 What are you, amateur detective?
00:56:20 - I have evidence. Plenty evidence.
00:56:22 - Ladies, no need to be alarmed.
00:56:24 Sliding panel is merely relic of old prohibition days.
00:56:28 Right, Mrs. Weebles?
00:56:30 - More of them!
00:56:31 [Clem screams]
00:56:33 - Next time, try the front door.
00:56:35 - I was following somebody.
00:56:37 You!
00:56:38 - Bickle, eh?
00:56:40 - Ruby, it's no joking matter.
00:56:42 - Ladies, levity is a great cure-all.
00:56:45 You will please all return to your chambers.
00:56:48 - Mr. Chan, you promised me I wouldn't have to stay here.
00:56:53 - No, child. Mr. Chan's afraid for you.
00:56:56 Why don't you come out with me to my cabana?
00:56:58 You'll be able to sleep there, all right?
00:57:00 - Sergeant.
00:57:05 Where are other three men?
00:57:11 - In Doc's cabana, I think.
00:57:13 - Noise of high surf must have prevented their hearing recent alarms.
00:57:19 Sergeant, tonight you will keep careful watch between cabanas and house.
00:57:25 - Right, Mr. Chan.
00:57:26 - But about Mrs. Weebles...
00:57:28 - Ah, harmless.
00:57:30 She may have overheard something of importance, but I will question her later.
00:57:35 But, Sergeant, tonight keep careful guard.
00:57:39 No one must cross between cabanas and house.
00:57:43 You will also check on three men, but do not disturb.
00:57:47 - Right, Mr. Chan.
00:57:49 - Doctor. Doctor.
00:57:57 Help me. Help me, Doctor.
00:58:02 - What are you giving him?
00:58:03 - Just a mild sedative. Poor devil, he needs it.
00:58:06 - What he needs is a good shot at truth serum.
00:58:08 - I heard that. Now get out of here.
00:58:12 Doctor, throw him out.
00:58:15 - He's giving you a shot of truth serum.
00:58:17 We'll spit the truth out of you when you don't know it.
00:58:19 - Take him away. Take him away.
00:58:22 - Maestro, this will calm your nerves, bring sleep.
00:58:26 - Doctor, I've got to confess.
00:58:29 - Talk. Talk, killer.
00:58:31 Throw a light on him. Keep him going. He's cracking.
00:58:33 - Get out for heaven's sakes and leave the man alone.
00:58:35 - Well, they all crack when they're like this.
00:58:37 - I took that box. I took it out of your bag.
00:58:41 - Why? Why? Get out.
00:58:43 - It's in my room.
00:58:45 - What's in it? - I'm drunk.
00:58:46 - What's in it? Why were you hiding?
00:58:48 - Papers. Burnt papers.
00:58:51 She'll expose me and ruin me.
00:58:56 - Get out, Daniels, or I won't be responsible.
00:59:08 - So you're covering for him.
00:59:10 - The box was in your bag. It's beginning to get clear now.
00:59:13 - You're wild. Get out.
00:59:15 - You needn't have given him that shot.
00:59:17 - It was the merciful thing. The only merciful thing.
00:59:21 - Maybe so. But I'm getting to a phone.
00:59:24 - I'll bring some law in here that'll make Chan look like a monkey.
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00:59:56 - Stop. I know it's you, Daniels.
01:00:00 Come out with your hands up or I'll shoot.
01:00:02 - You wouldn't dare. Listen, I'll make you a deal.
01:00:05 - Come out with your hands up.
01:00:07 - Look, Sarge, I got this thing cracked. Let's get to a telephone.
01:00:11 - Chan's orders. No one leaves premises.
01:00:14 - But I tell you I got this thing cracked. Let's get to your headquarters.
01:00:16 There's a promotion in this, and I can see that you get the breaks.
01:00:19 - Chan's orders.
01:00:22 - Ah, whither I go, so goest thou.
01:00:25 - I'll break you for this. I got influence.
01:00:27 - Not as much as I've got right now.
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01:01:36 - Oh, that's them darn mice again.
01:01:40 - Birmingham. Birmingham.
01:01:45 - Jimmy, is that you?
01:01:47 - Birmingham. Hey, I'm stuck. Come help me.
01:01:50 - You're stuck? Where are you stuck?
01:01:52 - Hey, come and help me. Birmingham.
01:01:55 - Yeah, I'm over here. Where's you at?
01:01:57 - Hurry. I'm slipping again.
01:01:59 - Oh, my goodness. He's stuck.
01:02:05 - Say something so I can find you.
01:02:07 - Is you talking from this side?
01:02:08 - What do you mean this side? I'm slipping. Hey, give me a hand.
01:02:11 - I just want to know if you're talking on this side of the world or the other side.
01:02:15 - Hey, I can't hold on much longer.
01:02:17 [Gunshots]
01:02:26 - Jimmy. Jimmy.
01:02:28 - Birmingham. Birmingham.
01:02:29 - Good gracious, Jimmy. What is the matter with you?
01:02:32 - I got it. I got it. It's in the furnace.
01:02:35 - Yeah? You ain't going back in there, is you?
01:02:37 - Yeah, I got it.
01:02:38 - You sure have. You got it all over your face.
01:02:40 - Hey, what's in there?
01:02:41 - It's very important. We got to get it to pop.
01:02:43 - Yeah, but you're going to wash your face first, ain't you?
01:02:45 - I'm having time for that now.
01:02:46 - Yeah, but suppose it'll be that little Chinese number.
01:02:48 - Yeah, maybe you're right.
01:02:51 - Come on.
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01:03:09 - Pop must be around these cabanas somewhere.
01:03:11 - Can we wait till morning to tell him?
01:03:12 - Oh, no. He's got to know tonight.
01:03:14 He might arrest an innocent person.
01:03:15 And besides, we got to watch these cabanas anyhow.
01:03:18 - You ain't fooling me.
01:03:19 I know how come you ain't in these cabanas.
01:03:21 - It's that little Chinese girl.
01:03:24 - Hey, look.
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01:03:42 - I found it, Pop.
01:03:43 - I have trap all set and you put big foot in it.
01:03:46 Come.
01:03:50 - Which way did it go?
01:03:52 - It went that way.
01:03:53 - Well, hurry. We follow.
01:03:54 - Right.
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01:04:21 - 70, 75. I got to slow it down, Mr. Chan.
01:04:24 - Too bad.
01:04:25 I was in hope soon to overtake her in the car.
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01:05:18 [Groaning]
01:05:21 [Music]
01:05:27 - It's Mrs. Thorne.
01:05:29 - You're too late, Mr. Chan.
01:05:33 I wanted to ruin him.
01:05:36 I wanted to make him suffer as badly as I have.
01:05:42 - Carl King, the maestro.
01:05:46 - I was his wife.
01:05:49 I ran away from him, but when I tried to come back,
01:05:54 he wouldn't even recognize me.
01:05:57 He gave me a job, wardrobe manager.
01:06:04 I was humiliated, cast aside like, like something unclean.
01:06:13 - You can't understand about Marcia and Lois, Mrs. Thorne.
01:06:17 - But why Santoy?
01:06:19 - Santoy knew.
01:06:21 She stole my papers.
01:06:23 My papers in the box.
01:06:24 - No. No. Papers stolen by others.
01:06:27 [Music]
01:06:32 - I hope he suffers.
01:06:35 [Music]
01:06:48 - Highway patrol, Jimmy. Directed here.
01:06:52 - She deserted years ago. Ran away with a dancer.
01:06:55 Some of her letters here in the box.
01:06:57 - She put the bathrobe in the maestro's closet,
01:07:00 hoping the local police take the obvious arrest.
01:07:03 - And quenched the evidence with the cords.
01:07:05 Is that the way it was, Mr. Chan?
01:07:06 - Exactly.
01:07:08 Happy solution of case will permit you, doctor,
01:07:11 once again to resume medical practice.
01:07:14 Will you excuse, please? I'm in very great hurry.
01:07:18 - But Mr. Chan, Marcia went up the beach while we were in swimming.
01:07:22 - Mrs. Thorne went up the beach in Marcia's robe.
01:07:25 Silly. Making it seem as if Marcia was killed in the house
01:07:28 and then carried out.
01:07:29 - Exactly. Exactly. Thank you so much. Here.
01:07:32 - Say, Pop, can I, uh...
01:07:33 - Yes, you may take that walk now. Here. Goodbye.
01:07:36 - Mr. Chan. No one has thanked you.
01:07:39 - Oh. Oh, I am sufficiently recompensed now. Thank you so much. Goodbye.
01:07:45 - Mr. Chan. Mr. Chan.
01:07:46 - What's the matter, Birmingham?
01:07:47 - It was mouses in them walls.
01:07:49 [Mouse screeches]
01:07:52 - Look at that.
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