BEHIND. GREEN LIGHTS (1946) Stabilized Frame
Directed by Otto Brower avec William Gargan, Carole Landis et John Ireland.
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00:01:45Don't you sit down? I'll fix you a drink.
00:01:52Oh, I really don't care for one, thank you.
00:01:54I have some very nice burgundies.
00:01:56Cigarette?
00:02:15Oh, thank you.
00:02:20Well?
00:02:22I simply haven't been able to raise that much money, Mr. Blart.
00:02:25How much have you raised?
00:02:2610,000.
00:02:28And I said 20.
00:02:30Well, that settles that.
00:02:32Oh, please, won't you give me a little more time?
00:02:34Look, Miss Bradley, you're stalling.
00:02:36You either haven't got the money or you won't go to the one who has got it.
00:02:39Now, I'm holding a powerhouse.
00:02:41Newspaper clippings, letters, affidavits, photographs.
00:02:44Enough dynamite to blow the lid a mile high.
00:02:47And I've got a cash customer who'll pay 20,000 in the morning.
00:02:52Is it useless to appeal to your sense of decency?
00:02:55Oh, completely.
00:02:56You see, I haven't any.
00:02:57Not since I put on long pants.
00:02:59And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.
00:03:02I can believe that.
00:03:03But I do know when a girl needs a drink.
00:03:06Take it.
00:03:08You look shaky.
00:03:14Give me that arm.
00:03:36The Herald stands pretty well on the police run, Johnny,
00:03:38so I don't think you'll have much difficulty contacting the various departments.
00:03:41These cops are good guys, but they've got bellyaches like you and me,
00:03:44so name them and give them a break whenever you can.
00:03:46They pay cops off with peanuts the way they do newspapermen.
00:03:49No.
00:03:50I want you to get it off without breaking it.
00:03:52Your wife can't steal your car.
00:03:54That's community property.
00:03:56Yeah, I know, Chief, but she done took it out of community.
00:04:02Come on, Johnny, I want you to meet the lieutenant.
00:04:04He's a good egg.
00:04:06What do you like to do?
00:04:07Dance?
00:04:09Harry James?
00:04:10Sure.
00:04:11Well, why don't you turn on the radio in one of your homes?
00:04:14Fix yourself some donuts and coffee and stuff.
00:04:17Hang it out in the joint like the one Carrie pulled you out of.
00:04:19It'll buy you nothing but trouble.
00:04:22Carrie, see that these two girls get home, will you?
00:04:23Yes, sir.
00:04:27Hiya, Sam.
00:04:28Hello, Oppenheimer.
00:04:29Hi.
00:04:30Meet Johnny Williams, the Herald's gift to the police department.
00:04:32This is Lieutenant Carson, Sergeant Oppenheimer.
00:04:33Hi, young fella.
00:04:34It's so nice to meet you guys.
00:04:36You love them when you get to know them better.
00:04:38Johnny's fixing to clean up the department.
00:04:39I thought you ought to look him over.
00:04:41Oh, cut it out, Ames.
00:04:42The Herald's a good paper, Johnny.
00:04:43That's the best paper in town, Lieutenant.
00:04:45The Herald has ideals.
00:04:46Only the truth is fit to print.
00:04:48I wish I could say as much for that rag of yours, Ames.
00:04:50Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:04:51It's your first day on the police run, Johnny?
00:04:53Yeah.
00:04:54Gosh, I hope I don't pull any boners.
00:04:56You won't.
00:04:57Drop around and see me any time you feel like it.
00:04:59Maybe I'll come up with a scoop one of these days,
00:05:01just to keep Ames and the rest of those pelicans in line.
00:05:04Yeah, that'd be great, Lieutenant.
00:05:05Gee, I sure need one.
00:05:06Come on, Johnny, meet the rest of the gang.
00:05:07Okay, I'll see you later.
00:05:08All right, bye.
00:05:11That's a tough assignment for that nice kid.
00:05:13Oh, it won't hurt him.
00:05:14Won't do us any harm, either.
00:05:16I'm going down to Dutchman's for an egg sandwich.
00:05:18I'll go along with you.
00:05:38Come on, gentlemen.
00:05:39You take all day.
00:05:40Come on, will ya?
00:05:41Don't hurry.
00:05:42Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:05:44I have necessity news for a sergeant.
00:05:46Don't get up, gentlemen.
00:05:51What is this, a gag?
00:05:53It's Walter Bard.
00:05:55Runs a private detective agency in the Echo Sound.
00:05:58Looks like a tough guy.
00:06:00But he's a lucky guy.
00:06:02Good.
00:06:03I've got a little news for you.
00:06:04What is it?
00:06:05Get them out of here.
00:06:06Hey, I'm a young man.
00:06:07You want to join me, sir?
00:06:08No, thank you.
00:06:09Come on, I'll give you a handy,
00:06:10because the guy's got the guts to get us out of here.
00:06:13Look at that boy.
00:06:14Got you a little nothing on him.
00:06:16You don't seem to understand how reckless he can be.
00:06:18No, I don't.
00:06:19He's the kind of guy
00:06:20Runs a private detective agency in the Ecuador building.
00:06:22I picked a fine spot to dump him.
00:06:24Looks like somebody's trying to give the department a business.
00:06:27Get going up, Herman.
00:06:28Yeah.
00:06:38Gracious sakes, alive!
00:06:40It's Mr. Bard!
00:06:42Do you know anything about this?
00:06:43Not me, not me.
00:06:46I just sell him flowers.
00:06:50Take this into the desk.
00:06:51Right.
00:06:54Hey, Sam!
00:06:56What have you got?
00:06:57What do you think?
00:06:58Hey, Sam Carson's first gonna step on the sidewalk in front of the station.
00:07:02That's the name of the game, gin.
00:07:04Don't forget you owe me two bits.
00:07:07Check this guy with ballistics as soon as you can,
00:07:09then have the car gone over for pay.
00:07:11Hey, Sam, who's this?
00:07:12Hey, it's Walter Bard.
00:07:13Dumped right in front of the station.
00:07:15Of course, Walter.
00:07:16He's the one who's gonna pay for this.
00:07:18Dumped right in front of the station.
00:07:19I couldn't get any closer.
00:07:20Boy, there's gonna be a stink about this.
00:07:23He was mixed up in politics, wasn't he?
00:07:25He was mixed up in everything.
00:07:27He's been asking for something like this for a long time.
00:07:30What's the matter, Johnny?
00:07:31I never saw a dead man before.
00:07:37Give me Charlie, I'll make a snack.
00:07:39Hold on to your wig, Charlie.
00:07:41Walter Bard, the private eye, was just found shot to death in his car,
00:07:43right at the front door of the joint.
00:07:45Evidently a definite slap at the present administration.
00:07:48You can call it a culmination of the hoodlum war that's been going on.
00:07:51Yeah.
00:07:52Say that it's gangland's despairing reply to the vigilance of the police.
00:07:56Huh?
00:07:57Sure, play it up big, lay it on thick.
00:07:59Everybody's gonna be taking pot shots at the administration over this little deal,
00:08:02and the express is its only friend.
00:08:06Oppenheimer, go up to Bard's apartment.
00:08:08Bring back any letters or photographs that might look hot.
00:08:12See if you can get Bard's wife on the phone.
00:08:14Talk to the janitor and neighbors.
00:08:16Get a line on any recent visitors.
00:08:18Okay, lieutenant.
00:08:19Harper, you chase up to Bard's office in the Eckerdorf building.
00:08:22Go through his desk and files. Check his appointment calendar.
00:08:24Yes.
00:08:25Lieutenant, I just happened to think.
00:08:27Bard used to hang out at Tony's on 2nd Street quite a lot.
00:08:30Good idea.
00:08:31Say, Wilson, go over there and ask Tony if Bard met anyone there tonight.
00:08:34Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs it.
00:08:36Right.
00:08:38Yes?
00:08:39Mrs. Bard doesn't answer, lieutenant.
00:08:41She's probably sleeping. Keep on trying.
00:08:43Okay.
00:08:45Come on.
00:08:50Hey, Dan.
00:08:51Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen.
00:08:53He covers police for the sun.
00:08:55Also has the poesy corner on the side.
00:08:57Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:08:58Pleasure to meet you, my boy.
00:09:00I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast
00:09:02to the riffraff that infests this mortuary.
00:09:04When are you going to get rid of that Mawthiefen trophy you got on?
00:09:07Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather,
00:09:10Daniel Boone Wintergreen, a Nordic Indian fighter.
00:09:13Nothing would persuade me to bargain with it,
00:09:15except a temporary shortage of funds.
00:09:17Are you in need of a good overcoat, Mr. Williams?
00:09:19Hey, lay off him, Wintergreen.
00:09:20On a hot day, that coat gets higher than the stockyards in the south wind.
00:09:32Come in, Doc.
00:09:33Well, here it is, Sam.
00:09:34The bullet went clean through him, smashed the fifth rib.
00:09:37Have your boys found it yet?
00:09:38In the front seat of Holstreet.
00:09:40Discharged from the gun that was in the car?
00:09:41Mm-hmm. His own.
00:09:43There were plenty of powder burns, Sam.
00:09:44Could have been suicide.
00:09:46Not a chance, Doc.
00:09:47The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.
00:09:49The body was driven there in Bart's car and left there.
00:09:52Oh, I'm sure you're right, Sam.
00:09:53Do you think someone's trying to discredit us in the administration?
00:09:56Could be.
00:09:59Holy mackerel.
00:10:05That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.
00:10:07Well, this is very interesting.
00:10:10The daughter of Luther Bradley, the reformed candidate for mayor.
00:10:13Boy, what the express will do with this.
00:10:16Send Brewer in.
00:10:17Must be someone of Bradley.
00:10:19Somehow, I don't think it is.
00:10:20Why?
00:10:21The famous Calvert Luck, my boy.
00:10:24Brewer, you and Robbins go out to the Luther Bradley house on Carlisle.
00:10:28Ask for Miss Janet Bradley.
00:10:29Tell her you'd appreciate it if she'd come back with you.
00:10:32We want to ask her a few questions.
00:10:33Okay.
00:10:34Handle her carefully.
00:10:35All we want is her cooperation.
00:10:37Stress that, Brewer.
00:10:39Yes?
00:10:40Mrs. Abbard still doesn't answer.
00:10:42Keep trying.
00:10:46Express?
00:10:47I want to speak to Mr. Calvert.
00:10:48Very important.
00:10:49It's Dr. Yeager talking.
00:10:52Hello?
00:10:54Yeah, this is Calvert.
00:10:56Oh, hello, Doc. What's on your mind?
00:10:59Walter Bard.
00:11:00Sure I know him.
00:11:03Well, who shot him?
00:11:04I don't know.
00:11:05But his body was found in his own car right in front of the police station here.
00:11:09That's right, the police station.
00:11:11And get this, Mr. Calvert.
00:11:13There was a notation in Bard's memorandum book
00:11:15that he had an appointment with Janet Bradley this evening.
00:11:18Luther Bradley's daughter?
00:11:20Are you sure?
00:11:25This is beautiful.
00:11:29Look, Doc, you stay there and keep your eyes open.
00:11:31I'll keep in touch with you.
00:11:32Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert.
00:11:34You can count on me.
00:11:36Goodbye.
00:11:56This is Miss Bradley, Lieutenant.
00:11:58Lieutenant Carson.
00:11:59How do you do?
00:12:00Sorry we had to bring you out this hour of the night, Miss Bradley.
00:12:03Sit down, please.
00:12:08What do you know about a man named Walter Bard?
00:12:11You knew him?
00:12:13Knew him?
00:12:15He was murdered this evening.
00:12:17Oh.
00:12:18In his own car. Shot.
00:12:21I found him about 11.45 in front of this police station.
00:12:24You did know him?
00:12:26Yes, I knew him.
00:12:28Seen him recently?
00:12:30This evening.
00:12:31I had an appointment with him at his apartment.
00:12:33Were you a friend of his, Miss Bradley?
00:12:35No.
00:12:37Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.
00:12:40I'm sorry, I can't.
00:12:42Private?
00:12:47That's not so good.
00:12:51Is your father still in Washington?
00:12:53Yes, he'll be back on Monday in time for the election.
00:12:55This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father, Miss Bradley.
00:12:59A dead body on your doorstep could prove very embarrassing for the department, too, Lieutenant Carson.
00:13:04Maybe.
00:13:06Do you mind very much if we take your fingerprints?
00:13:08Is that necessary?
00:13:09Well, it's a routine we follow, but of course, if you'd rather not.
00:13:13Very well.
00:13:15Thank you. This way, please.
00:13:19Now the right hand.
00:13:21Now the right hand.
00:13:25That's fine.
00:13:27You can wipe off your hands with this.
00:13:29Oh, thank you.
00:13:31My photograph next, Lieutenant?
00:13:34Sitting's by appointment only.
00:13:36That's all there is to it.
00:13:43Nothing classified on it, honey.
00:13:48It will take a few minutes to make comparisons.
00:13:50You don't mind waiting?
00:13:51Of course not.
00:13:52Right in there.
00:13:55You'll be swell about this.
00:14:04Yes?
00:14:05Max Calvert to see you, Lieutenant.
00:14:07Send him in.
00:14:09Thanks, Sam.
00:14:11I just thought I'd drop in and say hello.
00:14:13I figured you'd be around.
00:14:15Well, I don't wonder. You're sore, Sam.
00:14:17Someone giving the police department the business, huh?
00:14:20The administration, too.
00:14:21The administration's your problem.
00:14:23Ah, now that's not the attitude to take, Sam.
00:14:26Don't forget, we got an election coming up next Tuesday.
00:14:29I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:14:31I know, but a politician sometimes can do an awful lot for a policeman, Sam.
00:14:36I understand you got the Bradley girl down here.
00:14:40So you know all about that, huh?
00:14:42Well, people usually cooperate with me, Sam.
00:14:45She was with Bard this evening, wasn't she?
00:14:47I'm not making any statements.
00:14:48And when I do, the Express will get it, along with the other papers.
00:14:51Well, you're not letting a pretty face affect your better judgment, are you, Sam?
00:14:55I'm not letting that tabloid of yours spill that girl's reputation
00:14:57so you can stop Luther Bradley on Tuesday.
00:14:59Well, the public has the right to know the facts.
00:15:01The Express prints them.
00:15:03Yeah, anything for a nickel.
00:15:08Look, Sam.
00:15:09How long have you had this job?
00:15:11Long enough.
00:15:13When you first came into this department,
00:15:14I was still on the police run for the Express.
00:15:16Now, I own it.
00:15:18Well, we're looking around.
00:15:20Look at Mike Shea there.
00:15:21Now, Mike was your type of cop here.
00:15:23He never played ball.
00:15:25So what did it get him?
00:15:26A load of lead in the belly.
00:15:29You ought to be smart, Sam.
00:15:34Look.
00:15:35Is Bradley anything to you?
00:15:38No.
00:15:39Well, Jordan's on his way out.
00:15:41How'd you like to be chief?
00:15:43I'd like it.
00:15:44You know that, Calvert.
00:15:46Could be arranged.
00:15:47How?
00:15:49Well, if this Bradley girl were booked,
00:15:51it might please some very important people very much.
00:15:53And they might be willing to do a lot for you.
00:15:55There isn't a particle of evidence against her.
00:15:58Well, no one would criticize you if you'd book her anyway.
00:16:01Not suspicion or a material witness, anything you like.
00:16:04Until after the election.
00:16:06Then let her go.
00:16:07She'd be all right.
00:16:08Do that and you'd have a grand jury investigation right in your lap.
00:16:11Oh, Sam.
00:16:12Now, don't look at it that way.
00:16:14Why, a week after the election,
00:16:16the whole thing will be completely forgotten.
00:16:19Think it over.
00:16:22Don't forget, Sam, it always pays to cooperate.
00:16:26Always pays.
00:16:39Great guy, wasn't he, Lieutenant?
00:16:41He sure was.
00:16:43I guess he was just about the greatest cop the city ever had.
00:16:45Yeah. Wanted to get him.
00:16:47Lieutenant, I got something to show you.
00:16:49See you, William.
00:16:54What'd you find in Bard's apartment?
00:16:56I don't know, Sam.
00:16:58He's got a gun.
00:16:59He's got a gun.
00:17:01He's got a gun.
00:17:02He's got a gun.
00:17:04He's got a gun.
00:17:05He's got a gun.
00:17:07He's got a gun.
00:17:08Cigarette butts in the ashtray with two different shades of lipstick.
00:17:11Two glasses with prints on both.
00:17:14Prints on the gun,
00:17:16on one of the glasses,
00:17:18and Miss Bradley's fingerprints, all check.
00:17:23Looks like an open and shut case, Lieutenant.
00:17:29Bring Miss Bradley in, Sergeant.
00:17:35Well, Lieutenant would like to see you, Miss Bradley.
00:17:39All right, Oppenheimer.
00:17:44Miss Bradley, we found your fingerprints on a highball glass in Bard's apartment.
00:17:48Oh, yes. He poured a drink for me, but I set it down without tasting it.
00:17:52We also found your fingerprints on the gun with which Bard was shot.
00:17:57All right.
00:17:59I'll tell you exactly what did happen.
00:18:09I went to see Bard on behalf of someone who was very close to me,
00:18:14someone whom he was trying to blackmail.
00:18:17He made a business of buying and selling information about people,
00:18:21especially about those who had built honest lives after making a bad start.
00:18:25Problem people.
00:18:27He had come to me with certain information.
00:18:30He wanted $20,000 for it, but I'd been able to raise only $10,000.
00:18:39Well, come in, Miss Bradley.
00:18:42I'll make sure those negatives are in here, too.
00:18:44You'll find them all there.
00:18:46Don't be rude.
00:18:48I'd rather enjoy putting an end to your activities.
00:18:55Here we are.
00:18:59He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:19:02He was.
00:19:03He was.
00:19:05He was.
00:19:06He was very much alive when I left him, Lieutenant.
00:19:09Miss Bradley,
00:19:11do you expect me to believe that chisel let you take those papers away from him?
00:19:15But I've told you the exact truth.
00:19:17What happened to the gun?
00:19:19I threw it in his car when I left.
00:19:21What did you do with the envelope?
00:19:22Burned it as soon as I got home.
00:19:24What was in it?
00:19:25I can't possibly tell you.
00:19:27It must have been hot if Bard wanted that kind of dough for it.
00:19:29Holding back now won't do you a bit of good.
00:19:32What was it about? Your father?
00:19:34It's no use asking me.
00:19:36Lieutenant, dirt Bard had dug up?
00:19:39Something Calvert could use?
00:19:41Let me help you.
00:19:43You couldn't make a deal with him.
00:19:45He said he'd take you home. It was raining.
00:19:47You go down to his car. He makes a pass at you.
00:19:49You grab his gun, let him have it, and scram with the envelope.
00:19:51The brakes on the car come loose and the car starts rolling.
00:19:54Lieutenant, you...
00:19:56You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bard.
00:20:00Your prints are on the gun.
00:20:02You have motive. Plenty of it.
00:20:04What do you expect me to believe?
00:20:08I guess it does look pretty bad.
00:20:12What are you going to do with me?
00:20:14I ought to book you.
00:20:17You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.
00:20:24I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.
00:20:26I've learned a great deal about the police department from Father.
00:20:30Max Calvert could do a lot to help you if you could learn to do things his way.
00:20:33Leave Calvert out of this. I'm a policeman, not a politician.
00:20:37I'm glad. I've always liked policemen.
00:20:43I should book you. Otherwise I can't hold you.
00:20:47If you don't mind waiting a little longer.
00:20:49Well, something may turn up.
00:20:53You mean you may see things a little more clearly?
00:20:56Put it anywhere you like.
00:20:59In here, please.
00:21:04Do you guys mind if I win a hand?
00:21:07Nope.
00:21:08Oh, me? This guy here always wins.
00:21:10Hello, Doc. Anything new on the Bard killing?
00:21:13Well, he was shot with his own gun that was found in the car.
00:21:16Well, we know all about that.
00:21:17Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley,
00:21:20Luther's daughter, is mixed up in the case.
00:21:22No.
00:21:23That's right. Carson has her downstairs now.
00:21:25She had a date with Bard in his apartment this evening.
00:21:27A regular little mine of information.
00:21:29Well, I just thought the boys should know.
00:21:31That's nice of you.
00:21:33But I'm still running the night shift around here,
00:21:35and I'll give out the information.
00:21:37The Express already has it.
00:21:38I don't need to tell you how they got it.
00:21:40So you boys might as well have it, too.
00:21:42Miss Bradley is involved.
00:21:43To what extent, we don't know yet.
00:21:45She was in Bard's apartment this evening,
00:21:47but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there.
00:21:49Well, that's good enough for the front page.
00:21:50I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you, fellas.
00:21:53Did you get that, Charlie?
00:21:54That was Carson himself.
00:21:56I'll give you a minute.
00:21:57Here's the latest dope on the Bard case.
00:21:59Miss Janet Bradley, junior league, active in everything.
00:22:01Oh, yes, Mr. Jones.
00:22:03I'm sticking right on the job.
00:22:04I just wormed it out of the lieutenant this minute.
00:22:06Janet Bradley, daughter of the Maryland candidate,
00:22:09is being questioned with regard to the Bard murder.
00:22:11Yes.
00:22:12And you leave those two tickets for the Philharmonic.
00:22:14You boys won't forget who gave you the original tip.
00:22:16We won't forget.
00:22:18Dr. G.F. Yeager.
00:22:19Hallelujah, Dr. Yeager.
00:22:21Hallelujah, Dr. Yeager.
00:22:23Hallelujah, Dr. Yeager.
00:22:25Hallelujah, Dr. Yeager.
00:22:28Now, which one of you has taken my scissors?
00:22:30I stuck them in your buffalo coat for safekeeping.
00:22:36If you moochers insist on playing childish pranks with my scissors,
00:22:39I'll be forced to do something drastic.
00:22:45Well, it's about time.
00:22:48Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Calvert. I didn't know you were here.
00:22:50I hope you haven't been waiting long.
00:22:52Long enough. Where have you been?
00:22:54Oh, all over. It's been a very busy night.
00:22:55Has Carson booked the Bradley girl yet?
00:22:58Not yet. He's stalling, Mr. Calvert.
00:23:00I don't trust Carson. He's never played along with us the way he should.
00:23:03Why, he just bawled me out for tipping off the press room
00:23:05that he'd been questioning the girl.
00:23:07I want her charged with murder, and I want it spread
00:23:09all over the front page of every paper in town.
00:23:11Sooner the better.
00:23:12Oh, thank you. I'll save this for later.
00:23:15I'm going to give this murder the biggest coverage
00:23:17any local paper's had in years.
00:23:19I'll run the Bradley girl's picture every day.
00:23:22Diagrams of the street where the body was found.
00:23:24Diagrams of Bard's apartment.
00:23:26Pictures of the murder car.
00:23:28I'll have a sob sister covering her appearance at the inquest.
00:23:31Every appearance in court.
00:23:33I'll do a half column devoted to her costume alone.
00:23:36How she looks.
00:23:37With the inference that she's frightened,
00:23:39that she's hiding something, that her back's against the wall.
00:23:42Yes, but the only hitch, Mr. Calvert,
00:23:44is that Walter Bard didn't die of a gunshot wound.
00:23:48What did you say?
00:23:50He was poisoned before he was shot.
00:23:52Who did it?
00:23:53I don't know.
00:23:54You cut him open?
00:23:56I didn't have to. I found traces of poison in his mouth.
00:23:59Well, have you told Carson?
00:24:01Not yet.
00:24:02Well, don't.
00:24:04The trouble is, if Carson ever takes a good look at the body,
00:24:06he'll notice that there was practically no bleeding.
00:24:08And he'll know what that means.
00:24:10Then we've got to get rid of the body.
00:24:12Get it out of here, fast, tonight.
00:24:14Before the inquest, I can't.
00:24:16You can and you're going to.
00:24:18But, Mr. Calvert, you can't just pick up a body
00:24:20and drag it out of the morgue
00:24:21while the chief medical examiner's had a whack at it.
00:24:25Look, have you got any John Doe's in the icebox?
00:24:28One that you can ship out to the crematorium in a hurry?
00:24:30Well, there's a floater that we fished out of the bay
00:24:33a couple of weeks ago.
00:24:34All right, now, you go down to the morgue
00:24:36and switch Walter Bard's body to the John Doe slab.
00:24:38Then make out commitment papers for John Doe.
00:24:40Cremation.
00:24:42And ship it out tonight.
00:24:43But is it sure to be found out sooner or later?
00:24:45If you have to, make the morgue attend to the fall guy.
00:24:48If he squawks, you send him to me, you understand?
00:24:50I'll... I'll do my best, Mr. Calvert.
00:24:53Your best is to get that body out of here fast.
00:25:08Yes?
00:25:09Mrs. Bard on the wire now, Lieutenant.
00:25:16Hello?
00:25:18Is this Mrs. Walter Bard?
00:25:19Yes, this is Mrs. Bard.
00:25:21You've been ringing for some time, haven't you?
00:25:23I'm sorry.
00:25:25I was sound asleep.
00:25:27I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:25:31That is impossible.
00:25:32He wasn't...
00:25:34I'm afraid he was, Mrs. Bard.
00:25:37We don't know yet.
00:25:39I'll have to ask you to come down here.
00:25:41I know it'll be difficult, but you may be able to help us.
00:25:45Of course, but...
00:25:46But I haven't seen Walter for several weeks.
00:25:48We haven't been living together.
00:25:52Yes.
00:25:54As soon as I've dressed.
00:26:12Yes?
00:26:13Arthur, something dreadful has happened.
00:26:15It's Walter.
00:26:17Did the police say how it happened, Nora?
00:26:19Or where?
00:26:21No, Arthur.
00:26:22No.
00:26:24They've asked me to come down to the station.
00:26:26Now.
00:26:27Remember, you haven't been out all evening.
00:26:31I'll go with you.
00:26:33Certainly, I'm your lawyer.
00:26:36Don't worry, darling.
00:26:38Everything will be all right.
00:26:39Yes.
00:26:41Pick me up on your way down to the station.
00:26:43In about 20 minutes.
00:26:44It won't take me long to dress.
00:26:51Here's the lab report on the lipstick on the cigarette stubs.
00:26:54Any calls?
00:26:55No, sir.
00:26:57One of them is Janet Bradley's.
00:26:58The other is a shade called Rochelle, used mostly by brunettes.
00:27:01Mrs. Bard is here, Lieutenant.
00:27:02Oh, send her in.
00:27:04Will you come in, please?
00:27:06Sorry you had to come down here tonight, Mrs. Bard.
00:27:08I understand, Lieutenant.
00:27:09This is Mr. Templeton, my attorney.
00:27:11Walter Bard and I would have been divorced.
00:27:13I'm handling all of Mrs. Bard's business affairs.
00:27:15So I asked Mr. Templeton to come with me.
00:27:17Sit down, please.
00:27:23You told Mrs. Bard very little on the telephone, Lieutenant.
00:27:25Bard was shot through the heart.
00:27:27We found his car parked in front of this building.
00:27:29His body in it.
00:27:31But that's fantastic.
00:27:32Who did it?
00:27:34We're not prepared to say as yet.
00:27:35Mrs. Bard, I think you told me that you and Bard
00:27:37hadn't lived together for quite some time.
00:27:39Not for over a year.
00:27:41Have you seen him recently?
00:27:42I saw him in a nightclub one evening several weeks ago.
00:27:44I was with Mr. Templeton.
00:27:47We want to be frank with you, Lieutenant.
00:27:49Well, I hope you will be.
00:27:50Nora and I are going to be married.
00:27:52We've been waiting for her divorce from Bard.
00:27:54Had the proceedings begun?
00:27:56No. The papers were ready, but they hadn't been served yet.
00:27:58Did Bard refuse to accept service on these papers?
00:28:02Repeatedly.
00:28:04He was my husband, and even though he's dead...
00:28:05Nora.
00:28:07I'm going to say it, Arthur.
00:28:08He was mean and cruel.
00:28:10He liked to hurt people.
00:28:11He did it deliberately.
00:28:12I studied for two years.
00:28:15Mrs. Bard has had a very difficult time, Lieutenant.
00:28:17Yes, I know.
00:28:20Mrs. Bard, you were home all evening?
00:28:22Yes.
00:28:24I was asleep when you telephoned.
00:28:27You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time
00:28:29during the course of the evening.
00:28:31Mrs. Bard has already answered that question
00:28:32twice before, Carson.
00:28:34I don't mind answering Lieutenant Carson's question
00:28:35a third time, Arthur.
00:28:37I was not in Walter's apartment this evening, Lieutenant.
00:28:41Were you?
00:28:42No.
00:28:45I suppose you know I'll have to ask Mrs. Bard
00:28:47to identify the remains.
00:28:49Naturally.
00:28:51Oppenheim, will you take care of that?
00:28:52Yes, sure.
00:28:54This way, please.
00:28:57Listen, pal.
00:28:58I didn't bust that mirror.
00:29:00Somebody else tossed the bottle into the glassware.
00:29:02Name?
00:29:04I'm Zachary, the Philadelphia Phantom.
00:29:05Never heard of you.
00:29:07What's your address?
00:29:08You can't book me, copper.
00:29:10I'm fighting at the Elks tonight.
00:29:12The annual smoker, see?
00:29:13I go on at 1 o'clock.
00:29:15What's your address?
00:29:17But what about the Elks?
00:29:19You ain't gonna let the Elks down, are you?
00:29:22I'm an odd fellow.
00:29:24The address, Zachary.
00:29:25You can't do it to me, pal.
00:29:27It's my professional reputation.
00:29:28Visit the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant.
00:29:30Give the Phantom one of our private suites.
00:29:32He'll see the judge in the morning.
00:29:34But I gotta go on at 1 a.m.
00:29:36I'll come back. Honest, I will.
00:29:38Take him away.
00:29:40Take him away.
00:30:10Take him away.
00:30:41I vote for Louis. He has the best beer.
00:30:43What's the best dish in the joint?
00:30:45The blonde behind the counter.
00:32:10Come on.
00:32:40Here, that's all you need. Now get going.
00:33:11Woodbury Crematorium.
00:33:12This one burns, huh?
00:33:14Yep. Give him an easy ride.
00:33:15It's his last one.
00:33:41The stiff's gone.
00:33:42Are you sure you ever had one?
00:33:44Gosh, Bill, I put him in there myself.
00:33:46Let me use your phone.
00:33:49Yeah, Doc.
00:33:50The body must have walked right out of the ambulance.
00:33:53Well, go back over your route.
00:33:55Keep your eyes open and your trap shut.
00:33:56If you can't find the body,
00:33:58report to me as soon as you get here.
00:33:59I'll take care of it.
00:34:01I'll take care of it.
00:34:02I'll take care of it.
00:34:04I'll take care of it.
00:34:05I'll take care of it.
00:34:07I'll take care of it.
00:34:08I'll take care of it.
00:34:11Well...
00:34:18Hello.
00:34:21What?
00:34:24Oh, so somebody else wants Bard's body, huh?
00:34:29Ah, that crew must be double-crossing you.
00:34:31They must know how that body was taken out of the ambulance.
00:34:34Well, I don't believe it.
00:34:36You'll make them cough up the truth.
00:34:37I want to know who else wants that body.
00:34:40Listen, Yeager, this is a pretty serious matter.
00:34:43Both for the administration and for the police department,
00:34:45and incidentally for you.
00:34:47But I did everything I could, Mr. Calvert.
00:34:49Everything you asked me to.
00:34:51You find that body and get rid of it.
00:35:00Yes?
00:35:01Sam, a John Doe that was being transported
00:35:03to the Woodbury crematorium has disappeared from the ambulance.
00:35:06What do you mean, disappeared?
00:35:08Well, the boys say that they loaded it into the ambulance,
00:35:10and when they got there, it was gone.
00:35:12Well, what am I supposed to do, pull your rabbits out of my hat?
00:35:14The doors must have fallen open.
00:35:16Tell Riley to send a patrol car over the route the ambulance took.
00:35:19I've already told the crew to retrace their route.
00:35:21Well, find that body before the papers find it for you.
00:35:25Holy smoke!
00:35:30Hello? Hello, this is Johnny Williams.
00:35:32Let me speak to Mr. Jones, quick.
00:35:36I'll call you right back.
00:35:38You're new around here, ain't you?
00:35:40What's your name?
00:35:41Williams, the Herald.
00:35:43I'm here to speak to Mr. Jones.
00:35:44I'm here to speak to Mr. Jones.
00:35:46I'm here to speak to Mr. Jones.
00:35:48I'm here to speak to Mr. Jones.
00:35:50I'm here to speak to Mr. Jones.
00:35:52I'm here to speak to Mr. Jones.
00:35:54I'm pretty busy.
00:35:55Sure you're busy.
00:35:57You bricklayers is always busy.
00:35:58Unless it's a bouquet you're wanting on the cuff until Saturday night.
00:36:02And then it's Flossie, my darling.
00:36:04Flossie, be a pal.
00:36:06And give us a kiss, Flossie.
00:36:08But I'm on to your banana oil.
00:36:11Look, Flossie, I gotta pull my paper.
00:36:13There's been a murder.
00:36:14Sure, there's been a murder.
00:36:16Didn't he get himself killed with one of me carnations in his buttonhole?
00:36:18And Owen me a dollar six bits.
00:36:21Seven of them he died owing me for.
00:36:23Oh, that's a shame, Flossie.
00:36:24But you'll get your money back.
00:36:26And when I ask the cops for me due, what do I get?
00:36:29Birdseed!
00:36:31I'll tell you what you do, Flossie.
00:36:32You go down to the desk.
00:36:34When all I want is me dollar six bits
00:36:36out of the money he died in his pants with.
00:36:39I've been to the desk, and what do I get?
00:36:41Birdseed, sure.
00:36:43But this time you tell the lieutenant that I sent you.
00:36:44Johnny Williams of the Herald.
00:36:46Tell him to give you your dollar six bits
00:36:47and the Herald will pay it.
00:36:48Tell him I personally guarantee it.
00:36:51Phew.
00:36:54Hello, give me Mr. Jones.
00:36:56Waiter.
00:36:57Birdseed!
00:37:00Hello, Mr. Jones?
00:37:01Waiters!
00:37:04I got a Lulu on that Walter Bard killing.
00:37:06An exclusive.
00:37:07Yeah.
00:37:08In the press room clothes closet.
00:37:11Hey, wait a minute.
00:37:14I'll call you back, Mr. Jones.
00:37:19Now, where are my scissors?
00:37:20I never seem to be able to find them.
00:37:24Last time I found them in my overcoat pocket.
00:37:29Here they are, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:32Oh.
00:37:33I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:37:36I wish people would leave my scissors alone.
00:37:39This time I'll nail them down.
00:37:53Milk!
00:37:55How many, you guys?
00:37:56That's Mr. Rosinski.
00:37:57Get a bottle for me, will you?
00:37:59Yeah.
00:38:04Make it one for Wintergreen.
00:38:09Hey, is Wintergreen up there?
00:38:10Yeah, he's here.
00:38:12Tell him I want to buy his buffalo coat.
00:38:14I'll be right up.
00:38:16Hey, no dice.
00:38:17He doesn't want to sell.
00:38:18I never heard of such impertinence.
00:38:20As if I didn't have the right to dispose of my own property.
00:38:24Look, Mr. Wintergreen.
00:38:25You can't sell that overcoat.
00:38:27I hoped you'd bring a chastening influence to this menagerie.
00:38:30Why, it'd be an insult to your grandfather and to the grand old name of Boone.
00:38:33It'd be unpatriotic.
00:38:34I am dreadfully disappointed in you, Williams.
00:38:36Why, that overcoat's made history.
00:38:38It's practically a national monument.
00:38:39You can't have a big lug like Rosinski delivering milk in it.
00:38:42Why don't you get wise to what you've got?
00:38:44Why, that overcoat ought to be in the Smithsonian Institute.
00:38:47They'd pay real dough for it.
00:38:48Smithsonian?
00:38:50Uh-huh.
00:38:51But do you really think...
00:38:53No, Williams.
00:38:54No, my mind is made up.
00:38:59Oh! Oh! Oh!
00:39:07Get in, Mr. Jones. Quick.
00:39:13Sure, Mr. Jones. That's what I said.
00:39:15Walter Bard's body in a press room clothes closet.
00:39:18Hey, there's somebody in there.
00:39:19I know it sounds crazy, Mr. Jones, and I'm not drunk.
00:39:21It's true.
00:39:23There's a guy in here, I tell you.
00:39:24Listen to him holler his head off.
00:39:26Yeah, and I'm the only one who knows except Wintergreen.
00:39:28I got him spiked.
00:39:29Absolutely, Mr. Jones.
00:39:38Oh, my. Oh, my.
00:39:44Yes?
00:39:45Mr. Haggerty, city editor of the Herald, Lieutenant.
00:39:47Right.
00:39:49Hello, Haggerty.
00:39:53What did you say?
00:39:55In the press room?
00:39:56Here?
00:39:58What?
00:40:00As soon as I've nailed the guy that sold you that one,
00:40:02I'll be over personally to tell you what kind of a joint I'm running around here.
00:40:06One of those tosspot reporters phoned Haggerty
00:40:08and said that Bard's body is hanging in the press room clothes closet.
00:40:14Say, you don't think he was talking about the John Doe that Jaeger lost?
00:40:18There's only one way to find out.
00:40:25That's what I said, you dope.
00:40:26All wrapped up in somebody's overcoat in the press room closet.
00:40:28My overcoat, please. Credit where credit is due.
00:40:30Hey, look, you guys, a perfect fit.
00:40:32Hey, what goes on?
00:40:34I found Bard.
00:40:35All wrapped up in Wintergreen's overcoat in the clothes closet.
00:40:37The Herald's printing it, so relax, fellas, and save paper.
00:40:43Give me a rewrite, sweetheart. Hurry up.
00:40:44Haggerty was right. It is Bard.
00:40:47Say, this guy didn't bleed much.
00:40:49Jaeger say anything about that?
00:40:50Not to me.
00:40:53I haven't taken back, Sergeant.
00:40:59Mr. Jones again.
00:41:00Okay, you'll get it, Mr. Jones.
00:41:02Lieutenant Carson's examining the body now.
00:41:04Yeah.
00:41:07For 30 years, Lieutenant, I've been putting him on ice.
00:41:09Nobody ever done this to me before.
00:41:11Where was he?
00:41:12In here.
00:41:13Pull it up.
00:41:15That's the John Doe he fished out of the bay.
00:41:17The one Doc Jaeger committed tonight for cremation.
00:41:19How'd it get in there?
00:41:21I don't know, Lieutenant.
00:41:22I put him on number seven myself. There's been a switch.
00:41:24Here's Doc Jaeger now.
00:41:26What's this all about, Sam?
00:41:27It looks as if someone went outside as that John Doe you lost.
00:41:29Only it wasn't John Doe. It was Walter Bard.
00:41:31John Doe is here in Bard's place.
00:41:33Boy, this is absurd, Sam.
00:41:35A lot of people have died.
00:41:37I don't know.
00:41:38I don't know.
00:41:40I don't know.
00:41:41I don't know.
00:41:42This is absurd, Sam.
00:41:44A lot of things are tonight.
00:41:45You signed a commitment paper, didn't you?
00:41:47Yes, for John Doe.
00:41:49Well, Bard's body must have been picked up by mistake.
00:41:51That's the only way it could have happened.
00:41:53Well, so long as it turned out all right.
00:41:55O'Malley, get that John Doe out of here.
00:41:57Put Bard back in the right place.
00:41:59And see that he stays there until the chief medical examiner is through with him.
00:42:02Yes, sir.
00:42:03Is this Mrs. Bard?
00:42:06Hello, Mrs. Bard.
00:42:07This is Ames of the Express.
00:42:09The Express?
00:42:12Oh, I haven't the slightest idea what connection Miss Bradley has with the case.
00:42:17Oh, shh.
00:42:18In fact, I didn't know she was even acquainted with my husband.
00:42:24You're welcome.
00:42:26I'm glad to see you.
00:42:27I'm glad to see you too.
00:42:29I'm glad to see you too.
00:42:30I'm glad to see you too.
00:42:31You're welcome.
00:42:33What was it, Martha?
00:42:34A report on the Express.
00:42:36The police have found out Janet Bradley was in Walter's apartment tonight.
00:42:43Arthur, we've got to go to the police station and tell them the truth.
00:42:47No, we've got to sit tight.
00:42:49If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur.
00:42:51There'd always be that doubt.
00:42:53It'd grow and keep on growing.
00:42:55In the end, it'd break us apart.
00:42:57We'd distrust each other for the rest of our lives.
00:42:59At this moment, Arthur, there's a voice inside me saying,
00:43:03I'm not sure of him.
00:43:06Do you really mean that, Nora?
00:43:08Yes, I do.
00:43:09And maybe there's a voice inside you saying, I'm not sure of her.
00:43:13Don't you see how right I am, Arthur?
00:43:16We couldn't live together like that.
00:43:19You ought to be the lawyer, Nora.
00:43:22We'll go down to Carson's office right now.
00:43:24Darling.
00:43:30Hello.
00:43:32Yes.
00:43:33I'd like somebody to come down here and perform an autopsy.
00:43:37Sure, I know I got Jaeger. I want someone else.
00:43:40Bard.
00:43:42For a very particular reason.
00:43:44How about Doc Hastings?
00:43:46As soon as you can get him down here.
00:43:51I'll see Mrs. Bard now.
00:43:53We've come to make certain alterations in our statement, Lieutenant.
00:43:57What's happened?
00:43:59We told you we wanted Bard's appointment this evening.
00:44:02Well, we were. Nora was there when Bard died.
00:44:05And I was there later.
00:44:07Go on.
00:44:09I didn't tell Arthur I was going.
00:44:11But I went to ask Walter once more to give me a divorce.
00:44:16There's no use being angry with me.
00:44:18I'm not angry with you.
00:44:20There's no use being angry with me, Nora.
00:44:23Take off your things and stay a while.
00:44:25Have a drink?
00:44:27It's a rainy evening.
00:44:28That's finished, Walter.
00:44:30I'm in love with Arthur Templeton. We want to get married.
00:44:32So you can make it legitimate, huh?
00:44:34You have no right to say that.
00:44:35You have absolutely no grounds whatsoever.
00:44:37Perhaps.
00:44:39But I'm not going to turn you loose so Templeton can put you on his income tax.
00:44:42Besides, this arrangement suits me fine.
00:44:44So long as I'm married, no woman can make a sucker out of me.
00:44:47But Walter...
00:44:49Don't worry. Go into the bedroom.
00:44:51I'll talk with you as soon as I'm through with this body.
00:45:02Well, well. Come in, Miss Bradley.
00:45:05Did you listen?
00:45:06I heard a little.
00:45:08Walter seemed to have some papers that Miss Bradley wanted to buy.
00:45:10But he was holding out for more money.
00:45:12And then?
00:45:14Then there was some sort of scuffle.
00:45:15I don't know what happened.
00:45:16Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.
00:45:19I got the impression she was covering Walter with a gun.
00:45:22Then a door slammed.
00:45:23Yes?
00:45:25I waited a few minutes, then I went in.
00:45:29Walter had just taken a drink.
00:45:31He took a step toward me.
00:45:34I'll never forget the way he looked.
00:45:36The muscles of his face were all drawn up as if they were knotted.
00:45:40Then he fell into a chair. When I got to him, he was dead.
00:45:43I was terrified. I rushed out of the place.
00:45:46Why didn't you call the police?
00:45:48I was afraid to.
00:45:52Did you take a drink with Bard?
00:45:54No.
00:45:57Do you remember if Bard's gun was still in the holster?
00:46:01I'm sure it wasn't.
00:46:02But I do remember seeing it there when I first went in.
00:46:05Then who shot Bard?
00:46:07I shot Bard.
00:46:12I went to see Bard for the same reason Nora did.
00:46:14I thought perhaps I could get him to change his mind about the divorce.
00:46:16I just pulled over the curb opposite his apartment house.
00:46:19Door opened.
00:46:20Nora came running out. She looked frightened.
00:46:22Before I could get around to calling after her,
00:46:24she had jumped into her car and started off.
00:46:26I noticed that the car in front of the apartment was Bard's.
00:46:30I'd asked her never to go to Bard's apartment again.
00:46:32The more I thought about Nora being there, the less I liked it.
00:46:44I fell asleep.
00:47:04The notion that Bard's callousness had driven Nora to killing him took hold of me.
00:47:08That would be murder.
00:47:09murdered. Looked like poison to me. All I could think of was that Nora might be traced
00:47:18to the apartment. There was only one thing to do. Get the body out of the place. I knew
00:47:22the risk I was running, but I had to do it. Someone was coming up. I didn't dare go back
00:47:44and wait. I'd have to carry him down. I was taking a big chance, but it was late and luck
00:47:51was with me. No one saw me.
00:48:21Then I saw the gun. If I could fake a suicide, Nora's fingerprints wouldn't be on the gun,
00:48:36but swing suspicion away from her. I held the gun close to him to muffle the shot. It occurred
00:48:44to me then if Bard's body was found as far as possible from his apartment house, Nora's danger
00:48:49would be still less. I released the brake, started the car rolling down the hill away
00:48:56from the apartment house. And that's our story. Nora's and mine. Templeton, do you believe
00:49:07Mrs. Bard's story? Yes, I do. And you believe his? Of course I do. You really came down here
00:49:15to convince each other that you were each telling the truth, didn't you? Partly. We had to speak
00:49:19for Johnny Bradley too, Lieutenant. I'll need a detailed statement from both of you later.
00:49:24Certainly, Lieutenant. You can wait in the outer office. I'm sorry, Flossie, but you'll have to
00:49:35see Lieutenant Carson. See the lieutenant, he says. A dollar six fits. That stiff died Owen me,
00:49:42and he tells me to see the lieutenant. Listen, I will see the lieutenant, and the chief,
00:49:50and the mayor, and the governor if I have to. I'll have me dollar six bits if I have to see
00:49:56the president himself. Sure, Flossie, sure. You're right. I don't blame you a bit. Okay,
00:50:05my lord. What have you got? Just finished the autopsy, Sam. What'd you find, Doc? Enough
00:50:15poison in his stomach to starve an elephant. And he died before he was shot. Didn't Yeager tell
00:50:19you that? Yeager? Yes? Come to my office, will you? Okay. Thanks for coming over, Doc. I'll be
00:50:31talking to you. Oh, Doc, go out the other door. Well, Sam, what's on your mind? This. Bard died
00:50:44of poison. He was shot after he died. You forgot to tell me that, Doc. No, I didn't forget, Sam. I
00:50:50had my orders, just as you had yours. Did you engineer the John Doe Bard switch? Calvert wanted
00:50:59him burned, fast. I see. Anything else I can tell you, Sam? No, not right now, Doc. Thanks for
00:51:07coming in. Oh, don't mention it. Hello, Sam. How are things coming? All right. You're up kind of
00:51:21late, aren't you, Max? Well, this is a pretty busy night. I understand you sent for Hastings to
00:51:26perform an autopsy on Bard's body. You get all the news, don't you, Max? What was the idea? What was
00:51:32the matter with Yeager? As you probably know, Bard didn't die from a gunshot wound. He was poisoned,
00:51:37something that Yeager neglected to mention in his report. In fact, Yeager and certain other people
00:51:42were very anxious to burn the body before I could get a chance to look at it. This is a pretty
00:51:46serious business, Sam. Didn't Janet Bradley poison Bard? I don't know. But it looks that way, doesn't
00:51:51it? You mean you'd like it to look that way? Oh, Sam, now let's be reasonable. You've got every
00:51:56justification in the world for booking that girl. This is murder. Now, if your conscience is
00:52:01troubling you, hold her until Tuesday and let her go. Yeager will keep his mouth shut and Hastings
00:52:05gonna be taken care of. You've got all the angles figured out, haven't you, Max? Sam, listen, I'm
00:52:10your friend. I want to see you get ahead. I don't want to see you go back to pounding a beat. Is that
00:52:15a threat? Oh, I'm not threatening anybody, Sam. I wouldn't presume to do such a thing. But Bradley's
00:52:20got to be stopped cold, whether the girl is innocent or not. Sam, let's look at it from your own
00:52:25angle now. I'm not saying you would go back to pounding a beat, but it could happen. Things like
00:52:31that do happen.
00:52:50Smoke? No, thanks. We've turned up some new evidence. Does it help me?
00:53:19No. What is it? Bard didn't die of a gunshot. He was poisoned. Really? Someone slipped the stuff
00:53:31in his whiskey decanter. Oh, wait a minute. You don't think I put the poison in his decanter. Why
00:53:40didn't you drink your highball? Well, I didn't want it. How do you think that'll sound in court?
00:53:45Any way you want it to sound, I suppose. Are you going to book me? If you could give me just one
00:53:56solid reason why I shouldn't. I'm sorry for you, Lieutenant Carson. I'm in a bad spot, but so are
00:54:04you. You have to decide whether I'm guilty because I really am guilty or because I'm Luther Bradley's
00:54:11daughter. If you book me now, you'll never be sure whether you did it because you really believe I
00:54:16killed Walter Bard or because Max Calvert told you to. That's one of the things I'm trying to get
00:54:23straight in my mind. If Calvert wasn't turning on the heat. And another reason, it would have been
00:54:31easy. I'd have booked you, but fast. What other reason? It wouldn't make sense to you or to anyone
00:54:39else. In my kind of job, your reasons have got to make sense. I suppose so. And that means? I'll have to book you the way things stand.
00:55:09I'll have to book you the way things stand.
00:55:39Yes, sir. Say, is that nutty woman that sells flowers still in the building? In the building? She's practically in my lap. But don't worry,
00:55:53Lieutenant. I'll get rid of her. Don't get rid of her. I want to see her. Send her in. Let's see if you can locate Oppenheimer. Okay,
00:55:59Lieutenant. All right, Flossie. Lieutenant will see you now. Maybe now I'll get me dollar six bids. Sit down, darling. None of that. All I want is the money that
00:56:11stiff-o's me. You mean Bard? He must have died with some accident. Don't worry about that. You'll get your dollar six bids. Tell me, did you sell this to Bard? Sure I did. When? Six o'clock this
00:56:25evening, just as he was coming out of Simi's bail bond office. Didn't he pay you for it? He did not. He never pays you. You've always got to chase him. Up to the present moment,
00:56:35that slicker owes me a dollar six bids. Did you see him after that? I went to his apartment to collect, but I didn't see him. He must have been out to dinner, so I stuck around. Did you see anyone else when you were up there?
00:56:46Nobody but Doc Yeager. Do I get my money or don't I? Yeager? He was up there? Bard was out to the both of us. What time was this? Oh, I don't know. Past eight, maybe. I knocked on Bard's door and he didn't answer, so I stuck around in the
00:57:02corridor. It was raining out and I was waiting for him. Then Doc Yeager. Did Yeager see you? No, he never seen me, but he was there. You ask him. Tell me about Yeager. What happened? I was drying myself with the radiator on the stairway lantern. I was down half a flight, so he didn't see me.
00:57:19Never seen a man so scared, the way he kept looking around. He could hardly find the keyhole, his hand was shaking so. I don't know how many keys he tried before he got the one that was supposed to open the door.
00:57:49I couldn't fit it. He shut the door behind him so quiet I could hardly hear it. He couldn't have been in there more than a minute and he still acted like he was scared of his own shadow.
00:58:17He never seen me, but he was there. You ask him. Doc, come into my office again, will you? Okay. And now do I get my financial reimbursement? There you are. You can always tell a gentleman by the way he treats a lady. Just a minute.
00:58:47Come in, Doc. You don't look well, Doc. Sit down. Oh, I'm all right. Tired, that's all. Too much night work, I guess. I'm not as young as I was. What's up, Sam?
00:59:08Bard's death is a lucky break for you, isn't it, Doc? I don't get you. This malpractice case the grand jury's got on you. Bard did some investigating for the medical association, didn't he? Oh, he's got nothing on me. I wonder what happened to the evidence he dug up. It isn't in either his apartment or his office. Because there never was any. I heard different. Funny how it disappeared, isn't it, Doc? Oh, you're not insinuating that I... That you got a hold of it? Yes, I am, Doc.
00:59:37That's ridiculous. I haven't been out of the building since the body was found. Maybe you were out before it was found. I was not. You weren't in Bard's apartment early this evening? Certainly not. Along about 8.30? No. Suppose I told you you were seen going into Bard's apartment with one of your keys. You stayed there a few minutes, then left, locking the door after you. Whoever said that's a liar!
00:59:59Who's calling me a liar? It's yourself that's the liar. I seen you sneaking into the poor murdered boy's apartment and sneaking out again, with the mark of cain all over your face! And that's how the poison got in Bard's whiskey.
01:00:14Help! Help! Help! Help! Police! Police! Help!
01:00:29I will have it.
01:00:59There he is!
01:01:11Stop him!
01:01:27Take him away.
01:01:28Come on.
01:01:29Thanks.
01:01:30Who are you?
01:01:31I'm Zachary.
01:01:32Say, that's the guy who broke jail.
01:01:33Yeah!
01:01:34The Philadelphia Phantom.
01:01:35I won my fight by a knockout, so now I'm back.
01:01:37You got back just in time.
01:01:39Well, I guess this ought to wash things up, eh?
01:01:41Not exactly.
01:01:42You're still under arrest.
01:01:43Well, if that ain't gratitude.
01:01:45Don't worry, Zachary.
01:01:46I'll be in your corner when the case comes up.
01:01:48Thanks, pal.
01:01:49You can count on both of us.
01:01:52I think Yeager's confession will be sufficient.
01:01:54Won't you blinds a little times?
01:01:56There's still a misdemeanor charge against you, Mr. Templeton, but I don't think it will
01:01:59interfere with your wedding plans.
01:02:01You're invited to our wedding, Lieutenant.
01:02:03Fine.
01:02:04I'll be there to kiss the bride.
01:02:07Good luck to both of you.
01:02:09Now, why couldn't something like that happen to me?
01:02:15Why couldn't it?
01:02:16Oh, nobody loves a copper.
01:02:18Why don't you ask her?
01:02:19Ask her?
01:02:20Ask who?
01:02:21What?
01:02:22Yeah, ask her out to breakfast with you.
01:02:26She ought to be pretty hungry by now.
01:02:27You're nuts.
01:02:28It's been done.
01:02:29After the going over I gave her?
01:02:31I still say it's been done.
01:02:37Maybe you got something there.
01:02:40You're free to go now.
01:02:44We have the confession of a Dr. Yeager.
01:02:47I'm glad you didn't touch that drink.
01:02:49So am I.
01:02:50I've just had the pleasure of telephoning Max Calvert and informing him that his stooge
01:02:55murdered Walter Bard, which, of course, ruins his front page on Janet Bradley.
01:03:00And that's about all, unless you want to tell me what you took away from Bard, between ourselves,
01:03:05of course.
01:03:06I feel I can tell you now.
01:03:09I didn't trust you before.
01:03:11You didn't seem to be yourself, but now you do.
01:03:15Thanks.
01:03:16It's quite a story.
01:03:18Suppose I tell you about it some evening soon.
01:03:21I suppose you do.
01:03:26Yes, the lieutenant was very complimentary, Mr. Jones.
01:03:29He said if I hadn't found the body in the clothes closet, the case might never have been solved.
01:03:33Hey, fellas, look at this.
01:03:36I'll call you back.