Passed | 1h 2min | Adventure, Mystery, Drama | 15 March 1934 (USA)
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
Director: William Nigh
Writers: Edgar Wallace, Wellyn Totman
Stars: Noah Beery, Astrid Allwyn, Edwin Maxwell
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
Director: William Nigh
Writers: Edgar Wallace, Wellyn Totman
Stars: Noah Beery, Astrid Allwyn, Edwin Maxwell
Category
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00:00:30♪
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00:01:20Hello, Tommy.
00:01:22Watson.
00:01:23Professor.
00:01:24Commander.
00:01:26How is the captain?
00:01:27We don't know, sir.
00:01:28The doctor's with him now.
00:01:29We haven't had any report on him since early this morning.
00:01:32I think we'd better go up.
00:01:49I don't think I should leave you, Dr. Howard.
00:01:51But there's nothing more you can do for him.
00:01:52Well, that's just it.
00:01:53Nothing seems to help him.
00:01:54You've been treating him since we left Panama, and...
00:01:56and he's worse.
00:01:57My dear girl.
00:01:58Don't tell me to say that you haven't done all you can, doctor,
00:02:00but medicine can't cure his mind.
00:02:16Hello, doctor.
00:02:17How is he today?
00:02:19This morning, as rational as you or I.
00:02:21But now, I don't understand.
00:02:25He's unlike any mental case I have ever seen.
00:02:28And there are times when he keeps muttering Professor Grimm's name to himself.
00:02:33I don't like it, sir.
00:02:35Well, it's probably overworked.
00:02:37Captain Holling hasn't had a vacation in years.
00:02:40Just the same, I would advise that you relieve him of command on this trip, Mr. Watson.
00:02:45When the Guthriek needs him more than it ever did.
00:02:56I thought you were going to meet me ashore for dinner last night.
00:02:58He was very bad, Cliff.
00:02:59I couldn't leave him.
00:03:00Was Donny a patient, too?
00:03:01You had dinner on board with him.
00:03:03What difference does it make?
00:03:05It's too bad it's mutiny.
00:03:07What?
00:03:08Taking a poke at your first officer.
00:03:11Idiot.
00:03:13Of course, Lila.
00:03:14I've got to wait till I get a chief's first before I get a break.
00:03:17Oh, you're talking like a child, Cliff.
00:03:19Well, I know you haven't given him a break.
00:03:22Silly.
00:03:24What is it, Captain?
00:03:28I don't know.
00:03:34But it's...
00:03:36It's here.
00:03:38Like the engines pounding.
00:03:42Well, I'll be all right.
00:03:45Don't you think you ought to go away?
00:03:48Well, I'll be all right.
00:03:50Don't you think you ought to go away for a rest?
00:03:53You're in your world of good, Captain.
00:03:55Vacation's just what you need.
00:03:57Yeah.
00:03:59So that you can have my ship, eh?
00:04:02I've been watching you.
00:04:04Always waiting your chance to take her away from me.
00:04:09No, no, Captain.
00:04:10Donny's right.
00:04:11You need a rest.
00:04:13Then you will wait before making Professor Grimson's experiment?
00:04:17Well, I'm afraid we've gone too far for that.
00:04:21You mean that you'd let my ship go to sea without me?
00:04:26It will only be for one voyage.
00:04:28What?
00:04:31You can't do that.
00:04:33Why, for 20 years we've been together.
00:04:37I've nursed her through storms.
00:04:40Lived with her.
00:04:42While all that you ever did was to build her.
00:04:45But she's not your ship.
00:04:47She's mine.
00:04:48And now you think that she can run without me, eh?
00:04:52Without anyone, Captain Hollings.
00:04:55You're not going through with it.
00:04:57Gentlemen, please.
00:04:58You, you'll never live to do it.
00:05:01You won't live to...
00:05:04Oh.
00:05:05Miss King, please.
00:05:08I'll be all right.
00:05:10Come on, Captain.
00:05:11Yes, I...
00:05:13You, listen.
00:05:18I'll be all right.
00:05:19Teddy?
00:05:25Yes, I'll be all right.
00:05:26He's fine.
00:05:30Get me a glass of water, Miss King.
00:05:32Perhaps you gentlemen will leave me alone with him.
00:05:35I'll arrange to send him to a sanitarium, Mr. Watson.
00:05:38I'm sorry we waited this long.
00:05:46I'd give anything in the world if this hadn't happened.
00:05:52It's up to you now, Captain Downey.
00:05:56Thank you, sir.
00:05:57I appreciate the honor, but...
00:06:00It isn't easy to accept it under these circumstances.
00:06:03In his right mind, he'd want you to carry on.
00:06:06You and Rogers.
00:06:08You'll take Downey's place as chief mate.
00:06:11Thank you, sir.
00:06:12I have every confidence in both of you.
00:06:34You understand, gentlemen...
00:06:36...that what you are about to see must remain a secret.
00:06:39Yes, sir.
00:07:07Captain Downey, you sail tomorrow as usual.
00:07:11At 9 o'clock, when the gathering is at sea...
00:07:14...it will be operated by Professor Grimson...
00:07:16...from his laboratory.
00:07:19My work is finished, Watson.
00:07:21It is now up to...
00:07:23...S-505.
00:07:26What is S-505?
00:07:29The, uh...
00:07:31...tube...
00:07:32...controls the energy...
00:07:34...which will operate it...
00:07:35...by radio.
00:07:41It's uncanny, Professor.
00:07:42It's...
00:07:43...strange.
00:07:48Watson...
00:07:49...don't forget to install this telescope in the cabin...
00:07:52...so that you can keep in constant contact with the laboratory.
00:07:55That's all arranged for.
00:08:25Can't you get the wavelength?
00:08:49I'm trying to, Your Excellency.
00:08:58There.
00:08:59I think I've got them.
00:09:00Right.
00:09:03They're testing S-505.
00:09:06Is that what you get?
00:09:07Right, Your Excellency.
00:09:36Well, Professor...
00:09:50...if S-505 will do everything that you say it will...
00:09:54...it will control the sea.
00:09:56Radio-controlled battleships and submarines...
00:09:59...would have won the World War in the first year.
00:10:02Its future possibilities...
00:10:04...are inconceivable...
00:10:06...if it succeeds.
00:10:35Will you give me the combination now, Mr. Watson?
00:10:38When S-505 is returned to that room...
00:10:41...before you sail tomorrow...
00:10:43...it won't be necessary for a human being...
00:10:45...to set his foot in that room again.
00:10:48Not even you, Captain.
00:11:01How is he?
00:11:03How is he?
00:11:04He's better.
00:11:05Dr. Howard has made arrangements for him...
00:11:06...to go to the sanitarium.
00:11:18It's an honor to be of the slightest assistance...
00:11:20...to you, Professor.
00:11:21Thank you, sir.
00:11:22See you tomorrow, Tony.
00:11:23Yes.
00:11:41James, what do you want up here?
00:11:47Captain Norling, sir.
00:11:49Is he any better?
00:11:50No, James.
00:11:51He's been relieved.
00:11:55You can go back to your cabin job.
00:11:57I'm master of this ship now.
00:12:00Yes, sir.
00:12:01Too bad, sir.
00:12:05What are you trying to do?
00:12:08I'm trying to make a bowl and a bite, sir.
00:12:11Here.
00:12:20Make yourself a necktie.
00:12:50A bowl and a bite.
00:12:52No one but a sailor would think of this way...
00:12:54...to strangle a man.
00:12:55Has he no idea who attacked him?
00:12:57No.
00:12:58He was sleeping in the next room...
00:12:59...when he heard someone in here.
00:13:01He put on his robe...
00:13:02...but before he had the time to turn on the lights...
00:13:04...the rope was around his neck.
00:13:05That's all he remembered.
00:13:13There's nothing I can do for Professor Grimson.
00:13:15His neck is broken.
00:13:17He may live for hours...
00:13:19...or die while Major Pope is questioning him.
00:13:23This, uh, Major Pope...
00:13:26...just who is he?
00:13:27Oh, he's a private investigator...
00:13:29...that Professor Grimson has known for some time.
00:13:31You see, the professor didn't want to call in the police.
00:13:35Did you anticipate this attack?
00:13:38For a long time, I felt that I had been followed.
00:13:43You're convinced that your assailant...
00:13:44...was after the tube that you call S-505.
00:13:47Did he get it?
00:13:49It wasn't here.
00:13:51I gave it to Watson for safekeeping.
00:13:54You should have taken equal precautions...
00:13:56...for your own safety, Professor.
00:13:58My life amounts to little.
00:14:01It's my work that must live.
00:14:05I understand, Professor.
00:14:14What?
00:14:16How long ago?
00:14:20Well, let me know the moment you hear anything.
00:14:27Captain Holland...
00:14:29...escaped from the sanitarium...
00:14:31...last night.
00:14:34That accounts for the attack.
00:14:37A most convenient conclusion, Commander.
00:14:41But I'm inclined to agree with Professor Grimson...
00:14:43...that whoever attacked him was after the tube, S-505.
00:14:46But it hasn't been proven success.
00:14:48That's why I feel certain...
00:14:50...that the man who went this far will go farther...
00:14:53...once the success of S-505 is assured.
00:14:56There's no doubt in my mind...
00:14:57...that he'll be aboard the Guthrie when it sails.
00:15:00But at Professor Grimson's request, I shall also be aboard...
00:15:02...if you think I can find accommodations.
00:15:04I'll take care of it, Major.
00:15:08What of Captain Holland?
00:15:10They found no trace of him, Excellency.
00:15:13Have you instructed your agent on board the Guthrie?
00:15:16Yes, Excellency.
00:15:18He will not fail.
00:15:21To make doubly sure, I myself have placed another man...
00:15:24...on the Guthrie.
00:15:27To make doubly sure, I myself have placed another man...
00:15:30...on the Guthrie.
00:15:40Don't shut me!
00:15:43I don't think I've ever been on board ship before in all my life.
00:15:46Not decrepit yet.
00:15:58Oh, I lost my magazine!
00:16:00Here, Granny, you hold them. I'll be right back.
00:16:03I couldn't get along without you.
00:16:05Got along all right without you before you were born.
00:16:09There's something I want to ask you, please.
00:16:12Yes, but this is most important.
00:16:14That's all right. It's a mistake, boys. Never mind.
00:16:17It's a mistake, boys. Never mind.
00:16:20It's a mistake, boys. Never mind.
00:16:23It's a mistake, boys. Never mind.
00:16:26It's a mistake, boys. Never mind.
00:16:29What I want to ask you is to say...
00:16:31...I want to sit at the captain's table...
00:16:34...on the captain's right.
00:16:37Now, we'll try and take care of that for you.
00:16:39I'll have to look over my list.
00:16:41Thank you so much.
00:16:46Who is that very distinguished-looking gentleman there?
00:16:50Well, that is our head waiter.
00:16:53Oh, well, we'll skip that.
00:17:02Here it is, Granny. I found it.
00:17:04Oh, I find kind of a rescuer this is going to be for me.
00:17:08The only rest I'll ever get from you is when I'm in the grave.
00:17:11Please, Granny, you're exciting yourself again.
00:17:13I'm not excited.
00:17:14You know what the doctor said.
00:17:15Never say doctor to me again.
00:17:17What am I here for?
00:17:19To get away from him.
00:17:21What are you waiting for?
00:17:22Waiting for you, ma'am.
00:17:23Well, why did you say so before?
00:17:25I've been standing here long enough. Goodness gracious me.
00:17:27At least somebody must pay me a little attention.
00:17:29Did the chips doctor get my message?
00:17:31Yes, he did, Mr. Morton.
00:17:33And Mrs. Blinken will have every attention, I'm sure.
00:17:36Thank you very much.
00:17:46That's the ashore whistle, Mr. Watson.
00:18:14From the appearance of that door,
00:18:15I don't think you need worry about anyone disturbing that room.
00:18:17Nevertheless, we're relying on all of you.
00:18:21If there's any change in Professor Grimson's condition,
00:18:24you'll hear from me.
00:18:26Otherwise, you'll be ready for contact at 9 o'clock.
00:18:30Sorry you're not coming with us, sir.
00:18:32A voyage like this is something to live for.
00:18:34I only hope Professor Grimson lives for it.
00:18:37Good luck.
00:18:52I beg your pardon. How do you do?
00:18:56Is that your station?
00:18:58Yes, 407.
00:19:00Then we are neighbors.
00:19:02And of course, we couldn't really be neighbors
00:19:06unless we could borrow something.
00:19:09Might I ask you for the loan of a corkscrew?
00:19:13Corkscrew, sir?
00:19:15Yes, a corkscrew.
00:19:17Might I ask you for the loan of a corkscrew?
00:19:20Corkscrew, sir?
00:19:21Accidentally, I have one with me.
00:19:23Oh.
00:19:25Thank you so much.
00:19:28And if it's good stuff,
00:19:31we'll have the pleasure later.
00:19:34That is, of course, if you'll join me.
00:19:36I shall be honored, Mrs.
00:19:37Ah, Plimpton.
00:19:39The Rochester Plimptons.
00:19:41Though I suppose you've never been to Rochester.
00:19:44Rochester?
00:19:45I regret I missed the charm of it until now.
00:19:48Oh, that's enough.
00:19:50I'm too old for flattery,
00:19:52even though I must say you do it remarkably well, Mr.
00:19:55Von Kessling?
00:19:57Of course, I might have known you came from the continent.
00:20:01Continental men are my weakness.
00:20:04You're traveling alone, Mrs. Plimpton?
00:20:06Oh, yes.
00:20:07That is, unless you count Edgar.
00:20:10It's the same thing as being alone.
00:20:12Grandson.
00:20:13Blue-blooded on his father's side.
00:20:16Blue blood, but cut.
00:20:19The Mortons were all that way.
00:20:22Well, thank you, James, so much.
00:20:25You're welcome.
00:20:27I'll be seeing you.
00:20:29I hope so.
00:20:30Yes.
00:20:42Stop!
00:20:43Put that back.
00:20:44I put him in the wrong stitroom, ma'am.
00:20:46But I'm sorry you ate the countess.
00:20:48You're sorry?
00:20:49Hmm.
00:20:50You mean you couldn't cook him?
00:21:04Rogers, report to my cabin and drop the pilot.
00:21:07Yes, sir.
00:21:12My dear!
00:21:14Oh, hi!
00:21:15Good to see you again!
00:21:16We found the man in the black coat!
00:21:18Oh, what a great man!
00:21:20You must see him!
00:21:21He's a thief!
00:21:22Oh, you must come and see him!
00:21:24Oh, my!
00:21:25Oh!
00:21:26Oh!
00:21:27Oh!
00:21:28Oh!
00:21:29Oh!
00:21:31Oh!
00:21:32Oh!
00:21:33Oh!
00:21:34Oh!
00:21:35Oh!
00:21:36Oh!
00:21:37Oh!
00:21:38Oh!
00:21:39Oh!
00:21:40Oh!
00:21:41It's wonderful to be alive, isn't it, and see the world progress in front of you.
00:22:11I hope Professor Grimson lives.
00:22:13It's too bad, Donny, but there's never any progress without tragedy.
00:22:17Someone is going to have to pay for it.
00:22:19Someone who knew the secret of S-505.
00:22:21Come in.
00:22:22We've got the pilot, sir.
00:22:23Take the bridge, Mr. Rogers, over a beam of Cape John Light.
00:22:34Yes, sir.
00:22:35Dr. Howard and Miss Kane.
00:22:36I'll speak to you, sir.
00:22:37Where are they?
00:22:39Doctor.
00:22:40What is it, Doctor?
00:22:43That's all right.
00:22:46Major Pope here is Mr. Watson's representative this trip.
00:22:50Oh, I see.
00:22:51I have just completed an analysis of Captain Holling's blood.
00:22:56And what have you found, Doctor?
00:22:58Traces of an uncommon drug that's hardly known outside the West Indies.
00:23:02It has the percussive properties of temporarily paralyzing the nerve centers of the brain.
00:23:08What, in your opinion, was the means of getting this poison into his system?
00:23:13Was it food?
00:23:14Drink?
00:23:15Perhaps even the tobacco that he smoked might have been drugged.
00:23:18Why, Captain Holling didn't have an enemy in the world.
00:23:20The world is very large, Captain Donny.
00:23:23For this liner, fortunately, is a little world all its own.
00:23:26Do you mean that anyone on board this ship...
00:23:28Who else would have been close enough to him to systematically administer a poison without exciting his suspicions?
00:23:33But no one was any closer to him than we people in this room.
00:23:36Yes.
00:23:38Glad so.
00:23:40Are you implying that one of us...
00:23:41It was your own suggestion, Mr. Rogers.
00:23:45I presume that Miss...
00:23:46Miss Kane.
00:23:47Miss Kane here had charge of Captain Holling during his illness?
00:23:50Yes, she did.
00:23:52Did he at any time drop a hint as to any bad feeling existing between himself and anyone on board?
00:23:58Not that I know of.
00:24:00You're quite sure, Miss Kane?
00:24:02Of course.
00:24:03It's as full as I'd tell you.
00:24:05Unless you were shielding someone.
00:24:07Don't you think that's going just a little too far, Major Polk?
00:24:10Do you object to my questioning Miss Kane?
00:24:13She told you she doesn't know anything about it.
00:24:15Isn't that enough?
00:24:16Well, if she has nothing to conceal, why should you be so concerned?
00:24:20Do you mean by that she's shielding me?
00:24:23That's absurd.
00:24:24Why don't you ask who had anything to gain by...
00:24:27by removing Captain Holling?
00:24:30Well, I realize, of course, that Captain Downey owes his promotion to what happened.
00:24:35Are you trying to say...
00:24:36Of course he isn't.
00:24:38Say what you mean.
00:24:40Major Polk said it.
00:24:41Take it up with him.
00:24:45Fine.
00:24:49Yes?
00:24:52Yes?
00:24:54Yes, she's here.
00:24:56I'll tell her.
00:24:58That was your name of Morton asking for you.
00:25:00Oh, yes, yes, thank you.
00:25:01I told him I'd be here.
00:25:03It's the Pimpton case, Doctor.
00:25:04Oh, yes.
00:25:05If you have no more questions to ask me, may I go to my patient?
00:25:10Certainly.
00:25:22Good, you say, Doctor?
00:25:24Yes.
00:25:25Take the bridge, Mr. Rogers.
00:25:27I'll talk to you later.
00:25:29Yes, sir.
00:25:40Isn't there enough trouble between you and Downey without making it worse?
00:25:43What's the matter?
00:25:44Afraid I'll hurt his feelings?
00:25:46Cliff, you're acting like a fool.
00:25:48I'm not afraid I'll hurt his feelings.
00:25:50Cliff, you're absolutely impossible.
00:26:01I see, Doctor.
00:26:03I'll be in the hospital if you want me.
00:26:29What's the trouble between you and Rogers?
00:26:31The girl?
00:26:32Leave her out of it.
00:26:33Oh, I see.
00:26:35You know, I thought for a moment he knew something that might incriminate him.
00:26:38You were quick enough to take the words out of his mouth.
00:26:48You know, Captain, Miss Kane is a very, very charming young lady.
00:26:56Hello?
00:26:57Hello?
00:27:00Hello?
00:27:01Oh, is the bath so busy it can't answer the telephone?
00:27:06Now what is it?
00:27:07It's me, Granny.
00:27:09It would be.
00:27:11Not now.
00:27:12Later.
00:27:14Come in.
00:27:20This is Miss Kane, Granny.
00:27:21How do you do?
00:27:22I was doing all right until you came in.
00:27:24Granny, I asked Miss Kane to see you.
00:27:27It's her nerves.
00:27:28That's why the doctor recommended this trip.
00:27:30Oh, I'm sure it's going to do you a world of good.
00:27:34Yes.
00:27:35It'd do me more good if I never heard that again.
00:27:38There's nothing the matter with me but Edgar.
00:27:41And he's nothing much.
00:27:42Granny.
00:27:43Don't keep reminding me of that.
00:27:45It isn't my fault that your mother had to get married.
00:27:47Now be off.
00:27:48Go on.
00:27:49I'm not you, Edgar.
00:27:51If you want me for anything.
00:27:53What would any woman want you for?
00:27:55Well, if you're going to insult me.
00:27:56No use.
00:27:57I've given up trying.
00:28:00You'd think old age had burdens enough without carrying that.
00:28:04I'm sure he means well, Mrs. Simpkins.
00:28:07What do you know about it?
00:28:09Trying to wish a nurse on me.
00:28:11Never felt better in my life.
00:28:13Well, then I'm sure you won't need Dr. Howard.
00:28:15I don't even want to look at him.
00:28:18Oh, but he's not at all bad to look at.
00:28:21Rather handsome, in fact.
00:28:23But I'll tell him he needn't drop in.
00:28:25You needn't tell him anything of the kind.
00:28:27If he chances to drop in, well, it'll be perfectly all right.
00:28:32And you're sure there's nothing more I can do for you?
00:28:35No.
00:28:37Unless you can get me something to go with that.
00:28:42I'm afraid not, Mrs. Simpkins.
00:28:46Goodbye.
00:28:47Goodbye.
00:28:49Oh, Miss Kane.
00:28:54Would you feel safer to talk now that we're alone?
00:28:59There isn't anything more I can tell you.
00:29:01You mean at this time?
00:29:03If you want to put it that way, Major Pope.
00:29:06Yes.
00:29:12Thank you so much for...
00:29:14Thank you so much for...
00:29:16Oh, dear me, you're Major Pope.
00:29:19You're not the gentleman I borrowed this from, are you?
00:29:22If you were, I could return it to you at once.
00:29:24But now, of course, I can't.
00:29:26It is so silly of me to mistake you for someone else
00:29:29when yours is a face one couldn't possibly forget.
00:29:34I must apologize to you.
00:29:36Oh, there you are.
00:29:38This is the gentleman who loaned me the corkscrew.
00:29:41Mr. von Kessling, do you know Major Pope?
00:29:44How do you do, Major?
00:29:46Pleasure, Mr. von Kessling.
00:29:48Thank you so much.
00:29:50I have nothing to go with it after all.
00:29:55Oh, isn't it nice?
00:29:57We don't have to wait for the 12-mile limit anymore.
00:30:00You know, I'm from the bar.
00:30:02You ought to try the Bacardi.
00:30:04Oh.
00:30:05Perhaps you join me there later.
00:30:10Later.
00:30:11Bacardi.
00:30:12Later.
00:30:40Oh.
00:30:47Oh.
00:30:56Oh.
00:31:05Oh.
00:31:10Oh.
00:31:24Oh.
00:31:33Oh.
00:31:40Oh.
00:32:06I hope you don't mind my being here.
00:32:08As long as you waited for me.
00:32:10I wanted to see you alone.
00:32:12About that man Pope.
00:32:13His insinuation about you was vile.
00:32:17Do I mean that much to you?
00:32:20Let's not talk about things like that now
00:32:22when there are so many more important things to think about.
00:32:25Nothing has ever been as important as you.
00:32:28Let's make this our last trip.
00:32:30You mean you'll leave the sea?
00:32:32What will we live on?
00:32:33Oh, I'll have plenty.
00:32:35You will?
00:32:37Of a jungle?
00:32:39Something like that.
00:33:02Don't go.
00:33:03Oh, I must.
00:33:08Come in.
00:33:16Well?
00:33:17I've just checked the engine room and wheelhouse.
00:33:19Everything's set to go the minute we receive word.
00:33:21And when we get it, I'll tell you
00:33:23so you won't need to come snooping around.
00:33:25I didn't know I'd be...
00:33:27intruding.
00:33:28Why don't you go in?
00:33:29No way.
00:33:31You've stuck your nose into the wrong place once too often, Rogers.
00:33:35You've made your last trip with me.
00:33:37That's great.
00:33:38When it's over, I'm going to give you something
00:33:39I've been saving up for a long time.
00:33:41Well, if that's all you're waiting for,
00:33:42now's as good a time as any.
00:33:44He's here.
00:33:46Nanny.
00:33:48I just saw him, sir.
00:33:49He was looking at me.
00:33:51The plainest day, sir.
00:33:52Captain Norling.
00:33:53Are you crazy?
00:33:55He'd strike me dead if I didn't see him, sir.
00:33:57The door of 406 opens, and he looks at me, sir.
00:34:00He don't say nothing.
00:34:01And I don't answer him.
00:34:03Come on.
00:34:04Mesa, go on with him.
00:34:25Hello.
00:34:26Did Major Pope leave word where to find him?
00:34:29Well, get him.
00:34:30Ask him to get up here as fast as he can.
00:34:35Hey, Joe.
00:34:36Open this door.
00:34:38Simms claims he saw Captain Holling in here.
00:34:41Captain Holling?
00:34:50Take a look in there.
00:34:51Yes, sir.
00:35:05There's nothing like a scotch and soda on a night like this.
00:35:14Who do you suppose that attractive woman can be?
00:35:18Well, that's the countess.
00:35:20Countess Farnese.
00:35:22Looks like Grand Rapids to me.
00:35:26You mustn't judge your fellow travelers by appearances,
00:35:29Mrs. Plimpton.
00:35:30You never know what you're going to find.
00:35:33You never know who your neighbor really is, do you, Mr. von Kessling?
00:35:37It's one of the charms of Plummet, isn't it, Major?
00:35:40It is quite.
00:35:41Hating Major Pope.
00:35:42Hating Major Pope.
00:35:43Oh, boy.
00:35:48Pardon me.
00:35:54So sorry.
00:35:55Will you excuse me?
00:35:56Oh, must you?
00:35:57Yes, I'm afraid so.
00:35:58Well, I suppose it can't be helped.
00:36:00No, it can't.
00:36:01I'll join you later.
00:36:04Charming man, the Major, isn't he?
00:36:07I should like to know more about him.
00:36:10So would I.
00:36:14Will you excuse me?
00:36:15You too?
00:36:16Oh, dear.
00:36:18Well, I might have guessed it with all these young girls about.
00:36:21Go ahead and enjoy them.
00:36:24Silly little things.
00:36:26Listen, that, Mrs. Plimpton, I have a slight headache.
00:36:29I have some aspirin in my safe room.
00:36:31Why didn't you mention it before?
00:36:33I have just the thing you need.
00:36:35Oh, I wouldn't trouble you for anything.
00:36:37No, no, no, no, no trouble at all.
00:36:40You're coming with me.
00:36:41But, but...
00:36:42Oh, come along.
00:36:43This way.
00:36:48No one in there, sir.
00:36:49But I tell you, I saw him, sir.
00:36:51What have you been drinking, Phim?
00:36:53Not a drop, sir.
00:36:55So help me.
00:36:56But if it weren't him, it was his ghost, it was.
00:36:59Do you believe in ghosts?
00:37:00Well, when you see him with your own eyes, what are you going to believe, sir?
00:37:09Hello?
00:37:10Get me the captain.
00:37:11He says put him up.
00:37:14Oh, what's happened?
00:37:16Where's Granny?
00:37:17Oh, she's not here.
00:37:19Phim thought he saw a...
00:37:20A stowaway.
00:37:21Hello, captain?
00:37:23There's no one here.
00:37:25Well, Phim was mistaken.
00:37:26But how could he be?
00:37:28Phim knows Holling when he sees him.
00:37:31Make a thorough search.
00:37:32Yes, sir.
00:37:37Where was this?
00:37:38Right below, in 406.
00:37:43Captain Holling is on this boat.
00:37:46Pull yourself together, captain.
00:37:51As soon as I have, you'll know something about medicine.
00:37:53Now, this is something that was recommended to me
00:37:56by one of the finest specialists in New York City.
00:37:59Really?
00:38:00Oh.
00:38:02A pity we weren't invited to the convention.
00:38:05What is this?
00:38:07Oh, there's nothing to be alarmed about, Mrs. Clemson.
00:38:09An army in my room?
00:38:10Maybe that wouldn't alarm you.
00:38:12What are you men doing in there?
00:38:14Looking for a man, Granny.
00:38:15A man?
00:38:16Stowaway.
00:38:17Oh, but there's no one there.
00:38:18Phim's only thought he saw.
00:38:20Thought?
00:38:21Getting me all excited again over nothing at all.
00:38:25You two men keep a sharp lookout.
00:38:27Yes, sir.
00:38:29A singular place to be looking for a stowaway, officer.
00:38:33The steward was mistaken.
00:38:52Will that gun give you a feeling of assurance, captain?
00:38:55I don't see what you have to be afraid of.
00:38:57Howling's out of his mind, isn't he?
00:38:59A maniac.
00:39:00He might do anything.
00:39:02To the man who made him that way?
00:39:04To anyone.
00:39:05No one's safe with him around.
00:39:07How do you know he's on board at all?
00:39:09I don't know.
00:39:10He's got a gun.
00:39:11He's got a gun.
00:39:12He's got a gun.
00:39:13He's got a gun.
00:39:14He's got a gun.
00:39:15He's got a gun.
00:39:16He's got a gun.
00:39:17He's got a gun.
00:39:18He's got a gun.
00:39:19He's got a gun.
00:39:20He's on board at all.
00:39:21Who else has seen him?
00:39:22How do you know that Sims saw him?
00:39:24Why would he lie about it?
00:39:26Well, to be time enough to inquire into that or to worry about hollering up to 9 o'clock.
00:39:31Do you think I'd let that experiment go ahead with that maniac loose on this ship?
00:39:35I was in that next room when he warned Watson not to go ahead with it.
00:39:39I saw him start to attack Grimson.
00:39:41Do you think he'd stop now?
00:39:43Anything might happen.
00:39:45You can't get into that control room to stop it.
00:39:48At 9 o'clock, this line-up was under radio control
00:39:51until S-505 has proven a success or failure, whether you like it or not.
00:40:48Captain.
00:41:14Captain Hollering is...
00:41:15What?
00:41:16Asking to repeat the message.
00:41:47It was around his neck when I found him just now.
00:42:02I'll answer it.
00:42:17Hello?
00:42:19Tell Dr. Holler to come here at once.
00:42:23No response.
00:42:26Here he comes.
00:42:47That's funny.
00:43:01You never did like him, did you, Rogers?
00:43:05Come in.
00:43:10I've been forward, sir, and found nothing.
00:43:16Captain Downing.
00:43:19What do you know about this?
00:43:21Nothing, sir.
00:43:23Nothing.
00:43:24And this...
00:43:26Captain Downing.
00:43:28That's exactly what I thought you'd say.
00:43:31But I don't understand, sir. I...
00:43:35You said you'd seen Hollering on board so you'd have an alibi.
00:43:40Why did you kill Downing?
00:43:41I didn't.
00:43:42What would I want to kill him for?
00:43:44You held a grudge against him for reducing you to a tavern steward.
00:43:47What's that got to do with killing a man?
00:43:49I never had no fight with him, I didn't.
00:43:51Like you had.
00:43:52Oh, I heard you down here having an out with him and Miss Kane,
00:43:55right here in this room.
00:43:56And he was going to strike everyone.
00:44:11Come in, Mr. Von Tiesbing.
00:44:14You can hear much better in here.
00:44:25An unpleasant night to be on deck.
00:44:27What are you doing out there?
00:44:29I came here to speak to Captain Downing.
00:44:37Your explanation that a mere stowaway
00:44:39caused all the disturbance in Mrs. Benson's stateroom
00:44:42didn't quite satisfy my, uh, curiosity.
00:44:46Unfortunate that your curiosity should have waited so long.
00:44:51Had it brought you here a few minutes before Mr. Rogers discovered the body,
00:44:54it might have been helpful to us in indicating who murdered Captain Downing.
00:45:13Well, Doctor?
00:45:17His neck was broken.
00:45:19Yes, with that.
00:45:24Oh, horrible.
00:45:26Rogers found him.
00:45:28Give me a hand, Sam's.
00:45:31But who?
00:45:33Not only Miss Kane, Mr. Von Kessling doesn't know any more about it than you do.
00:45:36It's merely his curiosity that gives us the honor of his presence.
00:45:39Well, then who?
00:45:41You don't believe it was Captain Hollings?
00:45:43No, I don't.
00:45:45I don't believe it.
00:45:47I don't believe it.
00:45:49I don't believe it.
00:45:51I don't believe it.
00:45:53I don't believe it.
00:45:55I don't believe it.
00:45:57I don't believe it.
00:45:59Captain Hollings?
00:46:01Have you any reason to think it might have been?
00:46:06I don't know.
00:46:08I don't know.
00:46:28This is what I was looking for when you found me along with Mr. Downing.
00:46:33Voodoo Medicines of the West Indies.
00:46:35Why, that book belongs in my library.
00:46:38The last time I saw it, Mr. Downing was reading it.
00:46:41It disappeared from the library after that.
00:46:43I thought you didn't tell us all you knew.
00:46:45If you thought that Downing had poisoned Hollings, why didn't you tell us?
00:46:48I couldn't until I was sure the book was there.
00:46:51Would you be so quick to tell us now if Captain Downing was still alive and said that the book had been planted?
00:46:56Are you implying that I put that book there?
00:46:59You've said enough, Hope.
00:47:01Granting that Downing did poison Hollings,
00:47:04even you must perceive that he didn't obligingly kill himself to make room for Captain Rogers.
00:47:09You're forgetting that he died the same way Professor Grimson was struck down.
00:47:12By the same hand.
00:47:14Not necessarily by the same hand,
00:47:17but by someone who knew how Professor Grimson was struck down.
00:47:21And if Captain Hollings is on board...
00:47:23And if he's not, there still remains someone on board so vitally interested in the outcome of this experiment
00:47:28that he doesn't stop at murder.
00:47:30Yes, sir.
00:47:50Well, Captain?
00:47:51Three minutes.
00:47:54Just a moment, Mr. Von Tessman. Nobody leaves this room.
00:47:57I beg your pardon?
00:47:58I'm making no exceptions.
00:47:59You're as much under suspicion as anyone here.
00:48:01But still, I have certain rights.
00:48:04Look here, Von Tessman.
00:48:05Something is about to happen here that's bigger than your rights or mine.
00:48:08You're welcome to remain as a guest or be placed under arrest and put on iron.
00:48:13Will you tell them we're waiting for contact?
00:48:25Jesse?
00:48:26Miss Haynes?
00:48:27At nine sharp, your light will flash from the control room.
00:48:30Stand clear after that.
00:48:32Under no circumstances touch the wheel without order.
00:48:34Yes, sir.
00:48:48Yes, Mr. Rogers?
00:48:50The 70 inches is off now.
00:48:57Ring.
00:48:58Contact.
00:49:00Hope.
00:49:01All right.
00:49:04Shh.
00:49:05Everybody quiet.
00:49:08We'll hold present course at 15 knots.
00:49:13We'll...
00:49:15hold...
00:49:18present...
00:49:20course...
00:49:22at 15 knots.
00:49:24How much longer?
00:49:29Five seconds.
00:49:34Contact.
00:49:54Contact.
00:50:15What are you doing now?
00:50:20Fifteen knots.
00:50:24Fifteen knots.
00:50:26Without the help of a man on board.
00:50:29Tell him it works.
00:50:35Here it comes.
00:50:39Successful.
00:50:41Fifteen knots.
00:50:44Correct.
00:50:46I knew it couldn't fail.
00:50:49Changing course.
00:50:50Changing course...
00:50:52to 165 degrees.
00:50:59Changing...
00:51:01course.
00:51:02Wait.
00:51:05Changing course...
00:51:06to 165 degrees.
00:51:20Changing course.
00:51:46Increasing speed...
00:51:48to 20 knots.
00:51:50I'm just going to get a piece of his heart, that's all.
00:52:06Twenty knots.
00:52:07Twenty knots.
00:52:08I'm canny.
00:52:09I'm never so bored in all me life.
00:52:10If that woman's a singer, I'm a canary.
00:52:15I've been better off if I'd gone to bed.
00:52:37Wartime test.
00:52:41Full speed.
00:52:45Ahead.
00:52:50With lights out.
00:53:00Now what's the matter?
00:53:02Ouch!
00:53:05So this is the life of a sailor.
00:53:09Take it easy, folks. They'll be on in a minute. I can mix them in the dark.
00:53:16Going full speed.
00:53:20Ahead.
00:53:23With lights out.
00:53:27Well done, Professor Grimsom.
00:53:29Unbelievable!
00:54:00Look there!
00:54:04Who did that?
00:54:07Wait! This way!
00:54:09Watch it, Lila!
00:54:16Professor Curry, strike a match, please!
00:54:21Are you all right, Lila?
00:54:25Look! There's someone there!
00:54:29Who is it?
00:54:37It's Captain Howling!
00:54:39Wait!
00:54:59He's done it. He's taken S-505 and replaced it with our scrambled tube.
00:55:06Who's there?
00:55:07What is it?
00:55:08The doctor!
00:55:09Doctor, doctor, please help me!
00:55:10What's the matter?
00:55:11What's Captain Howling?
00:55:12Drive me!
00:55:13What's happened to him? Come on!
00:55:14Let's get him into the room here.
00:55:25It's froze!
00:55:30Stop the engine!
00:55:32Can't you do something?
00:55:34We're helpless. There's nothing we can do, sir.
00:55:44Oh, it's dead.
00:55:46We can't go through the interference!
00:55:52Why doesn't somebody give me some...
00:55:54Lights! I...
00:55:57Help! Help! I've got him! I've got him!
00:56:09My stars! What was that?
00:56:15Help! Help! I've got him! I've got him!
00:56:17It's me, Granny!
00:56:19What's happened to you?
00:56:20That watchman, he did it! I'm burning, Granny!
00:56:23Are you sure you can't get loose?
00:56:25No, Granny, untie me!
00:56:27Untie you?
00:56:29This is the first vacation I've had in years!
00:56:40What's that?
00:56:41Keep him in control!
00:56:56Get a crowbar! Get something! We've got to get this over with!
00:56:58A crowbar! Yes, sir!
00:57:06Is he conscious, Doctor?
00:57:07No, no!
00:57:08I've got to talk to him!
00:57:09No, no, no!
00:57:10Captain Hollings!
00:57:11Can you hear me?
00:57:12Captain Hollings!
00:57:13Tell me the combination of the safe!
00:57:17The...
00:57:18The...
00:57:19The...
00:57:20The...
00:57:21The...
00:57:22The...
00:57:23The...
00:57:24The...
00:57:25The...
00:57:26The...
00:57:27The...
00:57:28The...
00:57:29The...
00:57:30The...
00:57:35We cannot break our contact.
00:57:37We are in control.
00:57:40Where's the plane?
00:57:4110 miles off Cape Loma. He'll be over the gut rig in a few minutes.
00:57:44Perfect.
00:57:54Is there anybody here?
00:58:04Say something!
00:58:09Speak!
00:58:12Major!
00:58:22Oh, if you knew what I've suffered!
00:58:26Are we on our own power?
00:58:28Yes.
00:58:29I'll speed ahead.
00:58:30Get back on your course.
00:58:31I'll trouble you for my cane, Mrs. Templin.
00:58:35Your cane?
00:58:38Then you were the man that was in my room!
00:58:40Why, of course I was in your room.
00:58:43I chased the man out of your room.
00:58:46And through that door...
00:58:47There's the man you want, Captain Rogers!
00:58:50He's the man who killed Downey.
00:58:51Be careful, he's got a gun on him.
00:58:52As you are, folks.
00:58:57That plane is to pick you up.
00:58:59You're out of luck.
00:59:00All right, Joe.
00:59:08Joe, who is this, uh, this von Kessler?
00:59:10Inspector, Bureau of Navigation.
00:59:12If you wouldn't have destroyed that S-505, I would have saved him!
00:59:16That too wasn't the S-505.
00:59:18Where is that tube?
00:59:20Where is that tube?
00:59:22You're an inspector.
00:59:24You tell me.
00:59:39Steady.
00:59:42Where is that tube?
00:59:44Come on, talk!
00:59:46Is this what you mean?
00:59:48I took it out of the cane.
00:59:56Well, after all, you can't hang a man for wanting that tube.
01:00:00No.
01:00:02But you can be hung for murder.
01:00:05Your bullet didn't make as good a job of me as your rope made of Downey.
01:00:12See, I didn't know until tonight that you were both agents of some international power.
01:00:16You thought that you had prepared yourself for every emergency, didn't you, folks?
01:00:21Even Downey didn't know that secret panel that you cut in the wall of the stateroom below.
01:00:26Now, no one knew but me.
01:00:30And when I discovered it several weeks ago, I cut that secret passage in the wall over there.
01:00:36And I was standing behind there listening to you when Downey lost his nerve.
01:00:41He wouldn't go through with it.
01:00:43That's why you came back and murdered him?
01:00:46All right.
01:00:47Take him alone.
01:00:48Put him in there.
01:00:53Oh, Mrs. Clinton, I hope the trip does you a world of good.
01:00:57Major, don't forget your limp.
01:01:07Thank you for what you've done.
01:01:10Mr. Watson requested me to come on board just before you left.
01:01:13He'd be mighty glad to hear that you're alive and well.
01:01:16Yes, but he won't be if he doesn't sit down and take things easy.
01:01:21I'm feeling very good, Doctor.
01:01:26So you're a detective?
01:01:28Yes.
01:01:29How wonderful.
01:01:30You know, detectives have always been a weakness of mine.
01:01:34Oh, I forgot.
01:01:35I didn't get an opportunity to thank your watchman for tying up Edgar.
01:01:39I'm so sorry, but, you know, he had to do it.
01:01:41The boy was in a way.
01:01:43You're telling me.
01:01:45Oh, Sim.
01:01:46Yes, sir?
01:01:47I think a little jolt of brandy would do the captain good.
01:01:50A jolt?
01:01:53It's quite a do with a couple of quarts myself.