One Frightened Night (1935) B&W

For The Love Of Film Education (FTLOFE)

An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his doctor, and his housekeeper. But complications and murder arise when two different women turn up, claiming to be the granddaughter. —Jim Beaver jumblejim@prodigy.net>   Source: IMDB

Transcript

00:02:00It's a swell night for a murder.

00:02:14Tom, if the grain keeps up, the whole game will be wrecked tomorrow.

00:02:17Looks as though we'll have to play the game in rowboats.

00:02:19That'll be a new experience for you, young man, paddling your own canoe.

00:02:23Don't be too hard on Cousin Tom, Jasper.

00:02:27He hasn't found himself yet.

00:02:28It's all right, Laura. We can't all be important people.

00:02:31By the way, Arthur, when are they going to make you chairman of the board?

00:02:35If that should happen, it won't be because I squander my time playing polo.

00:02:38Ah, two goals for Arthur.

00:02:41When they make Arthur chairman of the board, I'll sell my stock.

00:02:44That's the sugar, Laura.

00:02:47Hurry up, put it down.

00:02:53Come, come here, Laura.

00:02:55Do you have to spill your coffee all over me?

00:02:57I couldn't help it, Jasper. It was that awful thunder.

00:03:00I'm sure we've all been struck by lightning.

00:03:02Never strikes twice in the same place, Laura.

00:03:04Just keep your chin up and hold on to everything.

00:03:07Elvira! Elvira!

00:03:10Jasper, don't excite yourself.

00:03:11How many times have I told you...

00:03:12Elvira! Elvira!

00:03:15Come on, Tom, you hurry up.

00:03:19You're getting slower than a snail.

00:03:23Come on, come on, come on.

00:03:25Sit it, sit it down.

00:03:30Will you stop fussing over me?

00:03:33On and on, can't you do anything with this wife of yours?

00:03:36Laura, dear.

00:03:37Elvira! Elvira!

00:03:41Bring my port, my private port.

00:03:43Jasper, wine?

00:03:45You know what Dr. Denham said about alcohol.

00:03:48What's the use of arguing with him when he's determined to dig his own grave?

00:03:52Well, it's my grave and I have to lie in it.

00:03:55Jasper, you worry me when you talk like that.

00:03:57You always worry me.

00:03:59Darling, is there nothing I can do to please you?

00:04:01Jasper, leave me alone.

00:04:03Take it and put it in the library.

00:04:04Save it there instead.

00:04:06Hurry up, hurry up.

00:04:15There, darling.

00:04:16Take that blanket off of me.

00:04:19Confound it, that belongs on a horse.

00:04:22Bringing you down here was a false alarm, doctor.

00:04:24There's nothing wrong with his health.

00:04:26Let me take your arm, Laura.

00:04:29Why do you suppose he asked us down here tonight?

00:04:31I can't imagine.

00:04:33Must be a big disappointment to you he's not ready to kick the bucket.

00:04:36You look lovely in mourning.

00:04:41Oh, you shouldn't smoke.

00:04:42That's why I do it.

00:04:49Don't go, Elvira.

00:04:51What I have to say might interest you.

00:04:56Of course you all know that the new state inheritance tax goes into effect tonight at midnight.

00:05:04Yes, I know.

00:05:05I thought you would.

00:05:11You take quite a slice out of the fortune that you expect, dear Laura, to inherit from me, wouldn't it?

00:05:17That's unkind.

00:05:19Why, we never once thought about the money.

00:05:22It's you we're thinking about, Jasper.

00:05:25I'm sure your solicitation, dear Laura, touches me.

00:05:30But I'm not going to make you wait until I die.

00:05:34Before this new tax goes into effect tonight,

00:05:37I'm going to make you an outright of one million dollars.

00:05:40Jasper, darling!

00:05:44Don't do that!

00:05:45Arthur!

00:05:47Arthur!

00:05:48On behalf of Laura and myself, I want to say that...

00:05:50Save that speech for your next board meeting.

00:05:54Stop that scribbling!

00:05:56If I have to put up with that, you won't get anything.

00:06:01Don't look so sour, Elvira.

00:06:03There's a little gift for you, too.

00:06:06Know what a woman like you is going to do with a million dollars is more than I know.

00:06:10What?

00:06:11I'm Mr. White.

00:06:12I don't know what to say.

00:06:14Rubbish.

00:06:15I know what you're saying to yourself.

00:06:17If I'd have married that old buzzard, I'd have got it all.

00:06:22Well, it was worth a million to have escaped that.

00:06:27By the way, Elvira, are you doing anything tomorrow night?

00:06:30Will you shut up, Tom?

00:06:32All right.

00:06:33But while you're in such a benevolent mood, could you spare me a dime?

00:06:36You're a good-for-nothing scoundrel.

00:06:39What would you do with a dime if you had it?

00:06:41Well, I can promise I'd put it into immediate circulation.

00:06:44I'm sure of that.

00:06:45That's why I'm giving you a million.

00:06:48Thanks, Jasper.

00:06:53What are you looking so worried about, Doc?

00:06:56Afraid I'm going to run out of money before I get to you?

00:06:59Well, I have a million for you, too.

00:07:03Jasper, I don't know how to thank you.

00:07:06Don't think I don't know why you let me win all those tribute games.

00:07:11Oh, stop that counting on your fingers.

00:07:17I still have a million left for my other aunt.

00:07:21Don't tell me you found Doris Waverly.

00:07:23If my attorney had found any trace of my granddaughter, she'd get it all.

00:07:28All?

00:07:29Every nickel of it.

00:07:31After what her mother did to you.

00:07:32She still was the only one of you worth her salt.

00:07:36And it took you 20 years to find that out.

00:07:38Yeah, that's why I wouldn't want to make it up to the girl

00:07:42for the unhappiness I caused her mother.

00:07:46That is not my private stuff.

00:07:49No, that's the guest's wine.

00:07:50I'm sorry.

00:07:52And who are you going to make happy with the other million, Jasper?

00:07:54Felix.

00:07:55Your attorney?

00:07:56Yes, Felix.

00:07:57So there won't be anything left of my estate for you to fight over.

00:08:02Now, may I remind you, dear, kind, loving friend.

00:08:08That a fool and his money are soon...

00:08:12Reserve I've held on to mine for over 70 years.

00:08:14Yes, and now you're too old to get any fun out of it.

00:08:17I'll get my fun watching the pack of you make idiots of yourself.

00:08:23Doc, you always wanted to endow a clinic.

00:08:27Yes.

00:08:29Now that you have the money, you'll most likely throw it away on the races.

00:08:33Hey, now, confidentially, do you think I'd better get a haircut before I die?

00:08:39Well, fire her.

00:08:43Let the first move talking promoter comes along, take it away from her.

00:08:47After, I'll possibly bamboozle Laura into giving it to him to lose on Wall Street.

00:08:53Why not?

00:08:54Don't do that.

00:08:56And you, my boy.

00:08:58Oh, I'll probably get sued for a million.

00:09:00Breach of promise.

00:09:00Anything to amuse you, Jasper.

00:09:02Yeah, after 12 o'clock tonight, it's yours to do with as you darn please.

00:09:08When he gets here, let me know.

00:09:14We'll get this thing over with right away.

00:09:16Say what you like about Jasper, but he has a heart of gold.

00:09:19The last time we discussed his heart, you said it was tobacco.

00:09:22Now we can have a chat on the Riviera, clothes, motorcars.

00:09:27We have more important news for the money.

00:09:29Well, it's my money, and if I want a place on the Riviera, I'm going to have it.

00:09:33You'll find that I have something to say about that.

00:09:36Oh, very well, Arthur.

00:09:38But at least we can plan to winter in Miami, can't we?

00:09:57Is that you, Phoenix?

00:09:59Yes.

00:10:01It's a nasty night, Jasper.

00:10:03Who's that with you?

00:10:04Who's that with you?

00:10:05Doris, don't waver me.

00:10:09Jasper, I found your granddaughter.

00:10:20My, my, my.

00:10:27So, you're Doris.

00:10:31Why didn't you come to me before?

00:10:34I never thought you wanted me.

00:10:36Not until I saw Mr. Phoenix's advertisement in the paper.

00:10:52Ladies and gentlemen, my granddaughter.

00:10:57Good evening.

00:10:59Come, child.

00:10:59There's so much I want to talk to you about.

00:11:04Phoenix, have you got the checks?

00:11:07Yes, I have them right here.

00:11:09Well, turn them up.

00:11:10I won't need them now.

00:11:12My entire fortune goes to Doris.

00:11:15You know, child, this is the happiest moment I've spent in 20 years.

00:11:21You ever see a lot of hungry wolves waiting around to feast on the corpse?

00:11:24No.

00:11:25Well, turn around and take a look.

00:11:28It looks like somebody has spoiled their dinner.

00:11:33Oh, you had yours?

00:11:36How about a nice hot cup of coffee?

00:11:40Elvira!

00:11:42Yes, Mr. White?

00:11:43Some hot coffee and a snack and make it snappy.

00:11:46Yes, yes, Mr. White.

00:11:52Thanks, Felix.

00:11:53I feel the need of one of these.

00:11:55Might as well take down your stocking, Laura.

00:11:56Santy Claus won't be here.

00:11:58You talk as though this were a joke.

00:12:00It is, only we're on the wrong end of it.

00:12:04Well, Doc, it looks as though that heart of gold turned out to be the backer after all.

00:12:07Your levity isn't in good taste, Dean.

00:12:09Don't kid me.

00:12:10You needed that million.

00:12:11I heard you lost quite a lot on the ponies lately.

00:12:14What a sucker you were, Felix, letting the girl find you.

00:12:16If you're reflecting on my integrity as a member of the bar, why...

00:12:19Ah, tell it to a jury.

00:12:21It's not fair.

00:12:22What right does that girl got to come here?

00:12:24That girl got to come here after all these years.

00:12:25What right has she?

00:12:27Oh, it's just awful.

00:12:29The old devil would do something like this.

00:12:31I can't stand it.

00:12:32I can't stand it.

00:12:33I can't stand it.

00:12:36Laura, Laura.

00:12:41That's the quickest million dollars I ever lost.

00:12:44Well, while there's life, there's hope.

00:12:46Too bad she couldn't have waited until after midnight.

00:12:48Yeah.

00:12:49Where are you going?

00:12:50I'm going upstairs to get acquainted with five million dollars.

00:12:54Felix, are you sure that this girl is Doris Waverly?

00:12:58There can be no question of her identity.

00:13:00She even has letters from her mother to prove it.

00:13:02I'd like to see those letters, Felix.

00:13:03That'll be all right with me.

00:13:05Suppose we go into the den.

00:13:16Going to be married, I'm going to make you Mrs. Henry Waverly,

00:13:21no matter what your father says.

00:13:23Jasper never forgave his daughter for running off with that actor.

00:13:27From the day he sealed up her room, it has never been opened.

00:13:33Must have been a temptation for you to get rid of these letters, Felix.

00:13:40Beg your pardon?

00:13:41No offense, Felix.

00:13:44Driving 40 miles with a girl whose safe arrival here would cost you a million dollars.

00:13:51I don't mind saying it would have been a temptation to me.

00:13:54Sounded as though you meant that.

00:13:57A lot of money a million dollars these days.

00:14:08You might as well know the truth.

00:14:12There's the telegram that came while we were at dinner.

00:14:18Oh, Arthur, how could you?

00:14:21Arthur!

00:14:22Whining won't help.

00:14:24That girl spoiled everything.

00:14:26Well, what are we going to do?

00:14:29There must be some way out.

00:14:31That money would have saved us.

00:14:46When we get this room changed around, you won't know it.

00:14:49We're going to get rid of all this heavy old stuff.

00:14:52We're going to get things.

00:14:54Things that look like you.

00:14:56It's almost a shame to do anything to this room.

00:14:59It's beautiful just as it is.

00:15:04You like it?

00:15:05Like it?

00:15:06I love it.

00:15:08After some of the places I've lived in, it's paradise.

00:15:11It hasn't always been easy for you, has it, child?

00:15:14Not always.

00:15:15But that doesn't matter now.

00:15:17You could have come to me before this.

00:15:19Mother wouldn't come calling.

00:15:22Neither would I.

00:15:24She wouldn't have had to call if she'd been willing to have left your father.

00:15:27But she seemed to feel that her happiness was with him.

00:15:31But Dad never made her very happy.

00:15:35Your mother wasn't happy with your father?

00:15:37Well, not exactly.

00:15:39But really, I shouldn't feel the way I do about him.

00:15:42After all, he was my father.

00:15:46It's an old tone.

00:16:16Arthur, what are you going to do?

00:16:24Do you want everybody in the house to hear you?

00:16:27Arthur!

00:16:28You don't want to be foolish.

00:16:29You shut your mouth before I shut it for you.

00:16:41If there's anything else you want, just ask for it.

00:16:43Oh, you're a dear granddad.

00:16:45Oh, Tittle Fitz.

00:16:46I mean Fiddle Fitz.

00:16:47I'm an old grouse.

00:16:49Who wouldn't be with a lot of mummies walking around?

00:16:54Thanks, Elvira.

00:16:59She doesn't look much like her mother, does she?

00:17:01I take after my father.

00:17:03Scat, get out!

00:17:10Never mind, Elvira.

00:17:12She's always sour about something.

00:17:14Besides, she just had a great bereavement.

00:17:17Oh, I'm sorry.

00:17:18So are a lot of other folks I know.

00:17:19Well, they at least got a good dinner out of it.

00:17:21I don't understand.

00:17:22You would if you knew them.

00:17:24But if there's something wrong...

00:17:25Everything straightened itself out the moment that you walked into this house.

00:17:29Nothing else can happen now.

00:17:43Hello!

00:18:13Oh, hello.

00:18:32Where did you come from?

00:18:33Well, I tried ringing the bell, but I couldn't stay out there in the rain all night.

00:18:37Do you know where you are?

00:18:39Are you one of the wives?

00:18:40Oh, would you hold that against me?

00:18:42No.

00:18:43Which one are you?

00:18:45Well, I'm the one that's no good.

00:18:49That's a fact.

00:18:50Jasper always said so.

00:18:52I have all the weaknesses and none of the virtues.

00:18:55Probably do what Jasper always said, wind up with a tin cup in my hand.

00:18:59Well, you don't look as though you were suffering.

00:19:01Well, you don't know the half of it.

00:19:03I just lost a million like that.

00:19:06Poor boy.

00:19:07Tell me, how did it happen?

00:19:09A woman made a sap out of him.

00:19:11They're always making a sap out of me.

00:19:13Or trying to.

00:19:15That's another one of my weaknesses.

00:19:17I won't take advantage of you.

00:19:19Thanks.

00:19:19From now on, we wives must stick together.

00:19:22Just who did you say you were?

00:19:24Doris.

00:19:25I'm Jasper's wife's granddaughter.

00:19:26You're who?

00:19:27Doris Waverly.

00:19:29Well, this is going to be interesting.

00:19:31You have no idea.

00:19:33Well, I suppose you are surprised by that.

00:19:35Yes, I am, but not nearly so surprised as Jasper is going to be.

00:19:38Say, listen, by the way.

00:19:41When you put on your act for him, it better be a good one.

00:19:44I don't guess so.

00:19:45Well, you see, I happen to know you're not Doris Waverly.

00:19:49I saw you in Boston last week in an act at the Regent Theatre.

00:19:52Oh, you should cut us in Springfield.

00:19:53We'll rout him there, too.

00:19:56Here come two gentlemen who'll enjoy meeting you.

00:19:59Dr. Denham and Mr. Felix.

00:20:02Gentlemen, Miss Doris Waverly.

00:20:04How do you do?

00:20:06How do you do?

00:20:07Is this some more of your perverted sense of humor, young man?

00:20:10It's not my idea of a joke.

00:20:12I can think of funnier things than belonging to the Jasper White family.

00:20:16As Mr. White's attorney, you'll understand my interest in your unexpected appearance,

00:20:20Miss Waverly.

00:20:21That's okay with me.

00:20:23Where do you come from?

00:20:24Boston.

00:20:25Just played a week at the Regent.

00:20:27Too bad you didn't catch the act.

00:20:28Do you good to relax?

00:20:30An actress, eh?

00:20:32What brought you here?

00:20:34The great LaValle.

00:20:35Who?

00:20:36Joe LaValle.

00:20:37My partner in the vortical act.

00:20:38We ran out of gas down the road.

00:20:39He ought to be here any minute.

00:21:07Is that so?

00:21:20And so, after all these years, you suddenly take it into your mind to visit your grandfather.

00:21:26Now you're catching on.

00:21:27Now, if you don't mind telling Mr. White...

00:21:29Oh, let me do it.

00:21:30I can hardly wait.

00:21:34Pardon me, madam.

00:21:35What are you made up for, Lady Macbeth?

00:21:37What do you want?

00:21:38In case you have to know, I'm seeking the whereabouts of one Doris Waverly.

00:21:42Who are you?

00:21:42Don't you know who I am?

00:21:44I am the master of legends of Maine.

00:21:46The great LaValle, the world's greatest magician.

00:21:49Press the digitator.

00:21:50Now you see it, and now you don't.

00:22:00Here I am, Joe.

00:22:03I'll be with you in a minute, babe.

00:22:06Say, what kind of a one-night stand is this we've walked into?

00:22:16Who's the brother act?

00:22:18A couple of nice boys, Joe.

00:22:19They've just given me a marvelous reception.

00:22:23Well, always glad to meet my public.

00:22:30Gentlemen, have one on me.

00:22:33Now you see it.

00:22:34Now you don't.

00:22:41Deaf and dumb, both of them.

00:22:43But I'm not hungry.

00:22:44You better have something.

00:22:46Try a cup of this coffee.

00:22:47You better drink it while it's hot.

00:22:49Thanks.

00:23:00Come in.

00:23:02Excuse me, Jasper.

00:23:04What do you want?

00:23:05There's a surprise package waiting for you downstairs.

00:23:08Wait.

00:23:09All right, I'll tell her.

00:23:11Tell who?

00:23:14She calls herself Doris Waverly.

00:23:17What do you mean?

00:23:19That's ridiculous.

00:23:21I'll be right down.

00:23:24Why should anyone want to impersonate me?

00:23:26There's a very good reason, but don't you worry about it.

00:23:30You wait here.

00:23:33Sheriff, you'd better come over here right away.

00:23:42Yes, goodbye.

00:23:52Not only that, even Houdini used to cop my act.

00:23:55I suppose you're magician enough, Mr. LaValle,

00:23:57to get yourself out of anything.

00:23:59You take the very words right out of my mouth.

00:24:01Ever try getting yourself out of jail?

00:24:03No, I don't think so.

00:24:18This is the young lady?

00:24:19Yes.

00:24:23Now, who are you?

00:24:27You, I mean.

00:24:28This gentleman is a friend of the young woman.

00:24:32Mr. LaValle.

00:24:34The great LaValle.

00:24:36A variety magician.

00:24:38Vaudeville.

00:24:39Artist.

00:24:40Well, I'm going to speak to this young lady alone.

00:24:43As your attorney, Jasper, don't you think that I had better...

00:24:45I said alone!

00:24:46Get out!

00:24:47All of you!

00:24:48Yes, yes.

00:24:48Go on.

00:24:51I said all of you!

00:24:53I'll be standing right out stage in case you need me.

00:24:56You...

00:24:59You say that you are...

00:25:03My granddaughter.

00:25:04Well, that's what Mother always told me.

00:25:07Well, why haven't you visited me before this?

00:25:10Well, it's the first time our booking ever took us near Boston.

00:25:14Why did you pick out this particular night to come here?

00:25:17If you're sorry, I wish I hadn't.

00:25:20I only came because Mother asked me to, before she died.

00:25:23Oh, this is the first time I've ever seen you.

00:25:25It's Mother of yours.

00:25:28She thought that I would leave you my money.

00:25:30Your money?

00:25:32Why, I wouldn't touch a penny of it.

00:25:34I've never had to beg for anything.

00:25:36Then why did you come here?

00:25:38I don't know now.

00:25:39I knew what you'd be like, and that's just what you are.

00:25:41Only more so.

00:25:42No wonder Mother ran away.

00:25:43Camaria!

00:25:44Don't you say a word against my father.

00:25:45He was the grandest man who ever lived.

00:25:48And I think you're the most hateful old thing I've ever seen.

00:25:51Wait.

00:25:51Oh, I've had enough.

00:25:52I shouldn't have let Joe talk me into coming here.

00:25:55Oh, it was his idea, eh?

00:25:57This Monty bank.

00:25:58You needn't sneer at him.

00:26:00He's been everything to me my father would have been if he'd lived.

00:26:02And what's more, Joe's an artist.

00:26:04A trickster.

00:26:06And why should I believe any different of you?

00:26:09Why should I believe that you were Doris Waverly,

00:26:11when I know the real Doris Waverly is upstairs?

00:26:15I don't care what she calls herself,

00:26:17but if she says she's Doris Waverly, it's a lie.

00:26:19Are you willing to tell her that?

00:26:21I'd enjoy it.

00:26:22Well, come on.

00:26:54Well, I don't know who she thinks she is, but I know who lies.

00:27:04If she's in here, you can tell it to her.

00:27:09Doris.

00:27:13Doris.

00:27:19Doris.

00:27:21Doris!

00:27:21What's the matter, Captain?

00:27:23This door wasn't locked when I left here.

00:27:25Go on, bring it over.

00:27:38What's the matter with her?

00:27:53She's dead.

00:28:00Where?

00:28:05She must have died instantly.

00:28:07How?

00:28:09Poison.

00:28:10There's no doubt about it.

00:28:11One of the dead knew it.

00:28:13She has all the usual symptoms.

00:28:15But why should she kill herself?

00:28:17Because she knew the real Doris Waverly was downstairs

00:28:19and decided it was the only way out.

00:28:35Sit down, Sheriff.

00:28:36You won't find any cyanide in my bag.

00:28:39How'd you know it was cyanide?

00:28:42The coroner corroborated his diagnosis.

00:28:56Then what's this?

00:28:59Castor oil.

00:29:06You're lucky it wasn't you up there in that room

00:29:08instead of that other girl.

00:29:09Meaning what?

00:29:10Don't you know that whoever killed that girl

00:29:12thought she was Doris Waverly?

00:29:14Well, that sort of puts me on the spot, doesn't it?

00:29:17Every minute you spend under this roof,

00:29:19that clock may be ticking your life away.

00:29:22You're not trying to tell me it means anything to you, are you?

00:29:25You might be surprised if I were to tell you

00:29:27how much it could mean to me.

00:29:29I know how much it means to you.

00:29:33To be one million dollars richer.

00:29:35Why don't you do your disappearing act?

00:29:37That's my idea at that.

00:29:38Come on, we're bowing out of this show right now.

00:29:41Swell.

00:29:41I'll drive you wherever you want to go.

00:29:43Save your gas, buddy.

00:29:45That guy gets in my head.

00:29:47What kind of a song and dance has he been giving you now?

00:29:49He's nice, Joe.

00:29:50Who wouldn't be with a girl waiting for five million dollars

00:29:52to be dropped in her lap?

00:29:54You don't think I'm waiting for that?

00:29:55I'll say you're not.

00:29:57I've sought a lot of women in half of my time,

00:29:59but that dame upstairs was no fate.

00:30:01We're exiting.

00:30:02Without saying goodbye?

00:30:03Stick around this morgue long enough

00:30:04for them to say goodbye to you with flowers.

00:30:06Come on.

00:30:07So long, hot shot.

00:30:11Sorry I have to walk out on you.

00:30:12You're not going anywhere.

00:30:13Yeah, that's what you think.

00:30:15Nobody leaves this house.

00:30:16Sheriff's orders.

00:30:17Say, if that small town sheriff thinks he's booking us on this village...

00:30:20Don't get tough, LaValle.

00:30:21I'm grateful, LaValle, for you.

00:30:22Now look here, officer.

00:30:23Tell it to the sheriff.

00:30:25And how I'll tell him.

00:30:28Son, you can't keep me here.

00:30:30Doing it, ain't I?

00:30:31I told you I'd send for you when I wanted you.

00:30:33If anybody else is going to get carried out of this morgue,

00:30:35it's not going to be Doris.

00:30:36I'm walking her out of here right now.

00:30:38Running out, eh?

00:30:39I said walking, constable.

00:30:40Never run to agents.

00:30:42Another crack out of you and I'll jail you for contempt.

00:30:44If you do, I'll have you arrested for impersonating an officer.

00:30:48Now look here, LaValle.

00:30:49The great LaValle.

00:30:50Listen, Jasper, you can't expect this girl to risk staying here after what's happened.

00:30:54But you heard you get away now, right?

00:30:56I was coming to that.

00:30:57This girl's not Doris Waverly.

00:30:59So she knows why Doris Waverly was killed.

00:31:02Why, you nasty little mouthpiece.

00:31:05I'll knock you fatter than a fridge safety.

00:31:08Easy, or I'll slap the bracelets on you.

00:31:10Keep your cuffs in your pocket, Dr. Watson.

00:31:12I only do my escape act when I get paid for it.

00:31:14You won't get yourself out of this so easily.

00:31:20Still claiming you're Doris Waverly, eh?

00:31:23I won't be talking to you like this by you or anybody else.

00:31:26You've got a pretty sharp tongue, young woman.

00:31:28And where do you suppose she gets it, you nitwit?

00:31:31She's her mother all over again.

00:31:37Give me a gun.

00:31:43I knew that you were my granddaughter from the very moment you said I was the most

00:31:49hateful old thing you had ever met.

00:31:52I wouldn't have said that if I...

00:31:53I wanted to see how far you really would go.

00:31:57You went a little farther.

00:31:59I'm sorry.

00:32:00I suppose I had it coming to me, but no one else ever had the spunk to do it before.

00:32:07If this is your granddaughter, then who's the other girl?

00:32:09An imposter.

00:32:11Brought here by someone who knew she would get my entire estate.

00:32:15That doesn't explain those letters that prove that she was Doris Waverly.

00:32:19They're very convincing, Jasper.

00:32:21No.

00:32:26They're not his.

00:32:27Top of my stuff, huh?

00:32:28Now let's see you pull them out of your hat.

00:32:31You saw me put them back?

00:32:32I was showing them to the doctor while you were upstairs.

00:32:35That's right.

00:32:37I suppose those letters just put on their hats and coats and went out for a walk.

00:32:40They might even have been cremated.

00:32:45Are you sure those letters weren't forgeries, Felix?

00:32:49Are you... are you accusing me?

00:32:53I was just thinking that someone might have tried to substitute an imposter.

00:32:58So they could get five million instead of one.

00:33:01Mr. Felix, how did you meet the dead girl?

00:33:04I... I advertised for her, naturally.

00:33:08So you advertised for her.

00:33:10You didn't by any chance kill that girl?

00:33:12This is intolerable.

00:33:13I, who stand before you with an unsullied record.

00:33:17A man whose whole career exemplifies the highest ideals of your faith.

00:33:22And don't forget to bring in Lincoln and Gettysburg.

00:33:25Surely, Jasper, you do not doubt my integrity.

00:33:28I don't trust you anymore and I do, Denham.

00:33:30No?

00:33:30No, you look too innocent.

00:33:32Dr. Denham did not look so innocent when he was alone with me.

00:33:36He admitted it would be a temptation to have kept that girl from arriving here.

00:33:40Very interesting, Mr. Felix.

00:33:43But it wasn't I who took that cup of poison coffee to the girl's room.

00:33:46Hmm!

00:33:47I was coming to that.

00:33:49What about this Elvira?

00:33:52I'll get her.

00:33:53I'll get her.

00:34:02Your hearing can't be as good as it used to be, Elvira.

00:34:05Come in.

00:34:13The rest of you can go.

00:34:14I'll call when I want you.

00:34:16Jerome, go on, get out.

00:34:17Get out, scat, all of you.

00:34:19You won't run away.

00:34:20I'm not afraid.

00:34:21And don't touch this young scoundrel too far.

00:34:23Don't you let her out of your sight.

00:34:25I won't.

00:34:26You're a bitch.

00:34:28Stop that.

00:34:29Go, get her out of here.

00:34:33I thought I was a magician, but she's got too much on the ball for me.

00:34:36What's that?

00:34:37Making a human being out of an old buzzard like you.

00:34:40Easy now, Pop.

00:34:41I'm going to solve this murder for you.

00:34:43Pull it out of your head, eh?

00:34:45Wrong again, Oscar.

00:34:46That's where the little Easter bunnies come from.

00:34:48Okay, Elmer, it's your witness.

00:34:52Sit down.

00:35:02You needn't be afraid if you have nothing to conceal.

00:35:11Oh, it's you.

00:35:12Give me another piece of paper, will you?

00:35:16Thank you very much.

00:35:18Just one.

00:35:20Some tobacco.

00:35:21Watch very closely.

00:35:26There you are.

00:35:27You see them?

00:35:44I told you the truth.

00:35:46I believe you, Elvira.

00:35:48Sure.

00:35:48But why did you poison the coffee?

00:35:50I didn't do it.

00:35:51Who did?

00:35:55I don't know.

00:35:57You took the coffee to the girl's room?

00:35:59You hated her, didn't you?

00:36:02Didn't you?

00:36:02Yes.

00:36:03Yes, I hated her.

00:36:04Why shouldn't I?

00:36:06Oh, I knew I'd get it out of her.

00:36:08You want to write your own confession?

00:36:10I'm not confessing anything.

00:36:12She can't confess to something she didn't do.

00:36:14Oh, protecting her.

00:36:15Is that it, Mr. White?

00:36:16Oh, don't be any more of an idiot than you can help, sure.

00:36:19Even if Elvira did poison the coffee,

00:36:22she never choked that girl until she was insensible

00:36:25and then forced that coffee down her throat

00:36:27to make it look like suicide.

00:36:29It took a man to do that.

00:36:31How do you know all about this?

00:36:32I don't.

00:36:33But whoever committed the murder

00:36:35made the mistake of placing the cup in her right hand

00:36:37when I know she was left-handed.

00:36:39You know more about this than you're telling.

00:36:42Elvira knows more than she's telling.

00:36:44Who did it?

00:36:46You're shielding him, Elvira.

00:36:48Why should I?

00:36:49Because you hated the girl

00:36:51and whoever did it was accommodating you

00:36:53and you're protecting him.

00:36:54I know.

00:36:55You made the mistake a moment ago

00:36:56when the sheriff asked you who did it

00:36:58and you hesitated and thought twice

00:37:00before you said you didn't know.

00:37:03Well, that makes her necessary after the fact.

00:37:06Come on, you're going with me.

00:37:08No, no, I'll tell you.

00:37:09I heard them talking in their room.

00:37:11Heard who?

00:37:11The proctor.

00:37:13She was excited.

00:37:14She told him she was afraid of something he was going to do.

00:37:16Then he told her to shut her mouth

00:37:17before he even would have heard it.

00:37:20You're lying.

00:37:21No.

00:37:22That's a lie, you.

00:37:23Maybe you'd like to kill her

00:37:24the way you killed that other girl.

00:37:26I had nothing to do with it.

00:37:27I never left my room.

00:37:28What was it your wife was afraid you'd do?

00:37:30I never said a thing.

00:37:31Oh, yes, you did, Laura Proctor.

00:37:32You were talking there as fast as you could.

00:37:34You're making it up, every word of it.

00:37:36Have you forgotten that that room

00:37:37was locked from the inside?

00:37:38Have you forgotten that the balcony outside of your room

00:37:41leads to that room?

00:37:43Oh, you would like to pin it on me, wouldn't you?

00:37:45You've always hated me,

00:37:46ever since I married into your family.

00:37:47That's Laura's misfortune, not mine.

00:37:50That's all for you.

00:37:51Oh, you think it might be?

00:37:53Accused of murder, not knowing what will happen next.

00:37:56If I had anything to say about it,

00:37:57there'd be plenty happening.

00:37:58Threatening, eh?

00:37:59Arthur, dear, I told you to be careful.

00:38:02Oh, so he did do something

00:38:04that you didn't want him to do.

00:38:06That's all for you, Mr. Proctor.

00:38:07I'll talk to you later.

00:38:09But Mrs. Proctor is going to answer

00:38:11a few questions right now.

00:38:13You're not going to bulldoze my wife.

00:38:15She doesn't know any more about this than I do.

00:38:17Well, that ought to be plenty.

00:38:19Outside, Proctor.

00:38:27Now, you're going to make it a lot easier for yourself

00:38:29if you tell the truth now.

00:38:34You'll never make me talk.

00:38:36A remarkable woman.

00:38:37She won't talk.

00:38:44Just the same, I don't understand

00:38:46how you happened to come here on this particular night.

00:38:48That's what he said.

00:38:49But I didn't know what he meant.

00:38:51Are you sorry, too?

00:38:55What are you talking about?

00:38:57Grandfather.

00:38:58You know, he's a strange sort, isn't he?

00:38:59I really think he'd be a swell person

00:39:01if he could get to know him.

00:39:02Well, don't I raise any attention?

00:39:04You know, I'm not such a bad sort, either.

00:39:06Well, I'm sure you're not.

00:39:07I'm sure you're not.

00:39:08I'm sure you're not.

00:39:09I'm sure you're not.

00:39:10I'm sure you're not.

00:39:11I'm sure you're not.

00:39:12I'm sure you're not.

00:39:13I'm sure you're not.

00:39:14I'm sure you're not.

00:39:15I'm sure you're not.

00:39:16I'm sure you're not.

00:39:17I'm sure you're not.

00:39:18I'm sure you're not.

00:39:19I'm sure you're not.

00:39:20I'm sure you're not.

00:39:21I'm sure you're not.

00:39:22You seem to be more afraid of me than anything else in this house.

00:39:24I'm not afraid.

00:39:26I want to take you out of here.

00:39:29But I promised him I'd stay.

00:39:30Besides, the show isn't over yet.

00:39:32That's just what I mean.

00:39:33You're in danger here, Doris.

00:39:34I'd never forgive myself if anything happened to you.

00:39:37Really?

00:39:38Well, there's nothing small time about the way you are.

00:39:41Listen, if you think this is an act I'm putting on...

00:39:43Remember your weakness.

00:39:44Look it over in the morning.

00:39:45All right.

00:39:46If that's the way you feel about it, I won't bore you any longer.

00:39:52Tom!

00:39:57You're not afraid, are you?

00:40:01Well, I guess I'll take tougher houses than this.

00:40:04Just the same.

00:40:05I'll be back.

00:40:21I'll be back.

00:40:51I'll be back.

00:41:22Tom!

00:41:26Tom!

00:41:51Tom!

00:42:21Tom!

00:42:51Tom!

00:43:02Hey, stop!

00:43:14Oh!

00:43:40Come on, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!

00:43:43Get Dr. Denham, quick!

00:43:45Take him in there.

00:43:46Come on, all right?

00:43:49Here, that's it.

00:43:54Now, put him in his chair.

00:44:01Hurry up.

00:44:02Come here, don't waste it.

00:44:05Jasper!

00:44:07There now, you're all right.

00:44:08What happened?

00:44:09You're a detective, you tell me.

00:44:13Well?

00:44:14It wasn't human.

00:44:16Wasn't any face like you ever see before.

00:44:17Must have been the sheriff.

00:44:20What are you talking about?

00:44:21I got in the hall just in time to see it disappear into the dining room.

00:44:24I followed it outside and took a shot at it.

00:44:25But it just kept on going.

00:44:27Then, then I stopped to look around.

00:44:29And there it was, that face.

00:44:31Looking like something the devil let loose.

00:44:33I saw it, I tell you.

00:44:34It reached out to grab me.

00:44:35And before I could fire again, it was gone.

00:44:38Go away.

00:44:40What happened to him?

00:44:42Where were you when the billings fell on me?

00:44:44Someone evidently tried to murder Mr. Lavelle.

00:44:47Too bad they didn't make a good job of it.

00:44:49I resent that.

00:44:50Yeah, maybe they saw his act.

00:44:52Well, if you think my hands are not quicker than your eyes...

00:44:55I'll get back to him.

00:44:57And don't put it in the coffee either.

00:44:59I resent that.

00:45:03Can you remember what happened?

00:45:06I was eating a banana, minding my own business,

00:45:09when I bumped into a dart sticking in the newel post.

00:45:11A dart?

00:45:12What was it doing there?

00:45:14I asked it, but it wouldn't talk.

00:45:16So I started downstairs in case it wanted to talk to you.

00:45:19Here it is.

00:45:22I, uh...

00:45:27It's gone.

00:45:29Let's see if we'll let one out of your hat, Mr. Lavelle.

00:45:33To the great Lavelle.

00:45:40Maybe someone else in this room has a bag of tricks.

00:45:44Someone who took that poison dart from Mr. Lavelle

00:45:48to conceal the evidence of another attempted murder.

00:45:51How did you know it was poison?

00:45:52An Amazon blowgun has no other effectiveness.

00:45:55You'll find that blowgun was stolen from my trophy room.

00:45:58I didn't see it when I left Doris there.

00:46:00Where did you go when you left her?

00:46:02To my room.

00:46:03When I heard the shot, I ran back to the trophy room

00:46:06and Doris wasn't there.

00:46:08I'd gone into the hall.

00:46:09Something frightened me.

00:46:11It must have been your shadow that startled me.

00:46:14That dart was meant for you, Doris,

00:46:15but somebody mucked their cue this time

00:46:17and we're not waiting for another rehearsal.

00:46:18Come on.

00:46:19You'll stay right here.

00:46:20I thought I told you not to leave her out of your sight.

00:46:23And just where were you during all this, Proctor?

00:46:26In his room.

00:46:27Yes.

00:46:28Arthur never leaves his room.

00:46:30I'm going outside and look around.

00:46:32I want everybody right here when I come back.

00:46:35Abner.

00:46:36Yes, Chief.

00:46:37See if that blowgun is missing from the trophy room.

00:46:40Find it if you have to search every room in the house.

00:46:43Well, it can't be one of them.

00:46:44That face.

00:46:46Well, go on.

00:46:48Don't anybody leave this room.

00:46:50Wait a minute, fellow.

00:46:51Vance, I'm going with you.

00:46:53I don't need your help.

00:46:54Yeah, but if anything happens to you this time,

00:46:56I want a front row seat.

00:47:01Who lifted my gun?

00:47:04Try your back, Proctor, Sheriff.

00:47:06Not here.

00:47:07Well, isn't that funny?

00:47:09I, uh...

00:47:10I...

00:47:12That is funny.

00:47:14I got a feeling something else unpleasant is going to happen to you.

00:47:17Not while you're around to protect me.

00:47:18This door hasn't been unlocked in 20 years.

00:47:25My mother.

00:47:26It took a stubborn old man a long time to realize he was wrong.

00:47:56There should be a candle in here somewhere.

00:48:01There's one.

00:48:15Yes, you're like her.

00:48:19Just like her.

00:48:23I almost wish you hadn't let me see the room.

00:48:26Like this?

00:48:26No, it's going to be as it used to be, now that you're here.

00:48:37Hand me that pen.

00:48:48Just as I thought.

00:48:50There you go.

00:48:55Someone stole those letters out of this trunk to prove that girl's identity.

00:48:59How do you know they weren't forgery?

00:49:01They disappeared from Mr. Felix's briefcase before you saw them.

00:49:04That's why I made them disappear.

00:49:06You?

00:49:07Yeah, to find out if they were genuine.

00:49:09This prints it.

00:49:10And I blamed it on to your attorney.

00:49:12He's possibly blaming it on Dr. Denham.

00:49:15They keep on accusing me.

00:49:16Someone is bound to make a slip.

00:49:18You should change jobs at the sheriff.

00:49:20But if you're the only one that has the keys to this room for all those...

00:49:24What's that?

00:49:28Looks like the broken end of a cylinder.

00:49:32A virus?

00:49:36Hmm.

00:49:38Where are you going?

00:49:40I'm going to find the one piece that's missing.

00:49:42Where are you going?

00:49:44I'm going to find the one piece that's missing from our photo.

00:49:48Oh, a virus.

00:49:50You weren't by any chance looking for a scissor, were you?

00:49:52I was passing the door when I noticed the lock had been opened.

00:49:56I thought...

00:49:58Of course you thought it hadn't been opened in 20 years.

00:50:00Come on, get, get, get.

00:50:02Oh, that face.

00:50:10Why don't you wear a cowbell?

00:50:12I wonder that face if you're a scared abonner.

00:50:14What are you doing here?

00:50:16All right, I'll bite. What am I doing here?

00:50:18Come on, get in.

00:50:22Bite.

00:50:48There's no use looking out here any further.

00:50:56We can't find anything.

00:50:58How do you know?

00:51:00How do I know anything?

00:51:02I give up, Sheriff.

00:51:04How do you know anything?

00:51:06Give me that badge.

00:51:08Why, I got a notion.

00:51:10Hmm.

00:51:12When did you say so?

00:51:16Well, Sheriff.

00:51:20I'll be hearing from you.

00:51:46Now do you understand, dear?

00:52:04Yes, I think I do.

00:52:06These belong to you.

00:52:08You might like to look them over for a while.

00:52:13I'll be back shortly.

00:52:32From the first moment we met, I knew that life could never hold anything else for me.

00:52:36Without you, nothing would be worthwhile.

00:52:39Our love is something bigger than either of us.

00:52:42We can't fight against it, and I won't let him.

00:52:45Please, dear, no matter what your father says,

00:52:48we have our own lives to live,

00:52:51and as long as I live.

00:52:54Help!

00:52:58Help, help!

00:53:04Help!

00:53:05Help, help!

00:53:14Help!

00:53:15Help, help!

00:53:16Come on, down here!

00:53:17Come on, hurry up!

00:53:18Hurry up, hurry up!

00:53:19Break the door open!

00:53:20Come on, break it in!

00:53:29Come on, step aside.

00:53:33Step aside.

00:53:37Well, I'm a...

00:53:38Look out, put on that lamp.

00:53:40Officer!

00:53:43What are you doing here?

00:53:45That's what I'd like to know.

00:53:46I'm telling anything, officer.

00:53:48Well, so there is something to tell.

00:53:50I knew right from the start that he was the guilty one.

00:53:53Tried to murder you, didn't he?

00:53:54I don't know.

00:53:55You were after those letters, eh, Arthur?

00:53:57She knows what we're after.

00:54:00We found this.

00:54:01Her pin in our room.

00:54:05I followed you in there.

00:54:07I'll tell you what I was doing in Arthur's room.

00:54:09I found this in the wastebasket and put it together.

00:54:12Ever since he received that telegram at dinner, I knew he was in trouble.

00:54:15Give me that.

00:54:16No, you don't.

00:54:17It doesn't concern any of you.

00:54:18No?

00:54:19It only warns Arthur of a shortage in his account, that's all.

00:54:22Oh, I see.

00:54:24A million dollars would have covered a lot of shortage, eh, Arthur?

00:54:27Oh, no.

00:54:28You're not pinning murder on me.

00:54:30I thought she'd stolen my telegram.

00:54:32I came in here to get it back.

00:54:34She was over there.

00:54:35But before I could speak to her...

00:54:36The lights went out.

00:54:37Then I heard her scream.

00:54:38That face!

00:54:40And the next thing I knew, there was a struggle.

00:54:43I felt something grab at my throat.

00:54:44I tried to get loose.

00:54:47And after that, I don't remember.

00:54:49Doris, is this what you saw?

00:54:51Yes, that's it.

00:54:52Where did this come from?

00:54:53You're supposed to be a magician.

00:54:55Tell me.

00:54:58In this room, you nitwit.

00:55:01It belongs here.

00:55:05This door.

00:55:08Be on the safe.

00:55:13Where's Pondy?

00:55:14Why, I...

00:55:17Sheriff!

00:55:18Here.

00:55:20Sheriff!

00:55:21In here, Abner!

00:55:25I just found this in his golf bag.

00:55:27I did like you said, Sheriff.

00:55:29Started in this room and went down the line until I got to his.

00:55:31Just got my hands on this when he walked in behind me and made a grab for me.

00:55:34He was locked in the closet when I found him.

00:55:36You and I are taking a little trip to headquarters.

00:55:38Abner, give me them bracelets.

00:55:40Pondy, stop him!

00:55:43You'd better stay in here, Miss Waverly.

00:55:45You might get hurt.

00:55:46Come on, let's go to our room.

00:55:55Take it easy, Sheriff.

00:55:59He's not in here.

00:56:00I've got an idea.

00:56:01Things down in the hall.

00:56:02Go on.

00:56:06I've got an idea.

00:56:07I've got an idea.

00:56:08I've got an idea.

00:56:09I've got an idea.

00:56:10I've got an idea.

00:56:16Where'd he go?

00:56:17He didn't come out here.

00:56:18That's funny.

00:56:20Maybe a little light would help you, Sheriff.

00:56:23Looks like he's a better magician than you, LaValle.

00:56:26Better climb down that balcony, wise guy.

00:56:28Sure, I was coming to that.

00:56:31Abner!

00:56:32Yes, Chief.

00:56:33Go on that balcony and take a look at that other room.

00:56:37See what you can find.

00:56:41Hey, LaValle, are you trying to tell me my...

00:56:44LaValle!

00:56:45LaValle, where are you?

00:56:47Don't tell me your worst, hot dog.

00:56:50What are you doing in there?

00:56:52Not what you think, Sherlock.

00:56:54Say, don't you think I've got enough trouble without keeping track of you?

00:56:57I don't know, have you?

00:56:59Didn't see anything, Chief.

00:57:00Don't do that.

00:57:03Come on, Abner.

00:57:06Come on, LaValle.

00:57:07We haven't got any time to play games.

00:57:10LaValle!

00:57:12LaValle!

00:57:20He's gone.

00:57:21He must have disappeared, Chief.

00:57:28That guy ain't no magician.

00:57:30What's up there?

00:58:01Oh, you frightened me.

00:58:03I wanted to be sure you were all right.

00:58:19George, you must believe me.

00:58:21If I hadn't taken you in, you wouldn't have been in there.

00:58:24You wouldn't have been in there.

00:58:26You wouldn't have been in there.

00:58:28You must believe me.

00:58:29If I hadn't taken you out of that room, he'd have got you too, whoever he is.

00:58:33You must believe me.

00:58:34I do, Tom.

00:58:38Look out, Tom!

00:58:48Danham!

00:58:49Pick him up, you.

00:58:50You're just in time, Sheriff.

00:58:51I was in here when he dragged Miss Waverly into that tunnel to save her from you.

00:58:55I found out about that passageway when Abner took a shot at...

00:58:58at Danham.

00:58:59I was crossing from Arthur's room over to the next balcony when I saw a figure run into the hedge and disappear.

00:59:04First chance I got, I followed the hedge.

00:59:06It led to a secret entrance into the passageway.

00:59:08When I found Abner in my room, I knew the blowgun had been planted there by the murderer.

00:59:12I wanted to trap him.

00:59:14That's why I couldn't say anything to anybody.

00:59:16You planned it carefully, Danham.

00:59:18Those letters you stole from my daughter's trunk.

00:59:20You were upset, Jasper.

00:59:22This excitement's been too much for you.

00:59:24Fortunately, Doc, I found this lying on the floor, broken, where you had forced the lock on that trunk.

00:59:31That's got to do with me.

00:59:32And I found this broken scalpel in your bag.

00:59:36You'll observe, Sheriff, they fit perfectly.

00:59:40Your health is affecting your mind, Jasper.

00:59:42It hasn't affected my eyes.

00:59:44Can you account for your cup button in the hand of the murdered girl?

00:59:50You better come clean, Danham.

00:59:51Why did you kill that girl?

00:59:53I'll tell you why.

00:59:55She was his accomplice, and they were after my entire fortune.

00:59:58But when my granddaughter appeared, Danham thought the game was up, and so did she.

01:00:03Dead people don't talk.

01:00:05That's why you wouldn't give her a chance to expose you.

01:00:09The first mistake you made was when you put poison in the cup to make it look like suicide.

01:00:15The second was when you let me win all those games at cribby.

01:00:19Come on, Danham, I'm taking you to headquarters.

01:00:24Hey, hey, hey.

01:00:30Look here, Jasper, I examined that girl, and I didn't see any cup button.

01:00:33Of course not, you nitwit.

01:00:35It was hanging loose in his cup, and I just plucked it.

01:00:38He's certainly having his fun, isn't he?

01:00:40I told you I would have some fun for my money.

01:00:48All the way my husband will go home.

01:00:50Jasper, take your bags to the car.

01:00:52Felix, you go with him.

01:00:53Arthur will need a lawyer now.

01:00:55As you say, Jasper.

01:00:56Stop that sniveling, or I won't give you the money to cover Arthur's shortage.

01:01:00Jasper, darling!

01:01:03Arthur!

01:01:04Don't do that!

01:01:05Arthur!

01:01:06Jasper, I saw you take something from the doctor's bag.

01:01:09What was it?

01:01:10Pardon me.

01:01:12I just sold a mint.

01:01:15Help!

01:01:17Help, somebody!

01:01:22There you are.

01:01:25I had to tie him up when he ran out of that secret panel.

01:01:28I couldn't have him gumming things up when I was the closest to Denham.

01:01:31Where do I get my hands out of here?

01:01:33Where is that hate detective?

01:01:36Sheriff!

01:01:39Oh, Sheriff!

01:01:42Sheriff!

01:01:44Hey, Kurt!

01:01:45I was coming to that.

01:01:47But try and get out of him, Hugh Denny.

01:01:50A great love vow.

01:02:05Doris!

01:02:06We've got to break in a new act.

01:02:09That's what I'm doing.

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