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00:01:07You sure about the address, miss?
00:01:10Yes, this is the place.
00:01:12You'll be sure and wait for me now, won't you?
00:01:14Sure, I'll wait.
00:01:49Come on.
00:02:19That's funny.
00:02:39Number, please.
00:02:41Oh, I'm at 122 Old Mill Road.
00:02:44This house hasn't been occupied for 13 years and yet there's a telephone in it.
00:02:47Can you tell me who had it installed?
00:02:49I wouldn't have that information, madam.
00:02:52I could connect you with a night supervisor,
00:02:54but she'd have to wait until the business office opens in the morning.
00:02:57I'm sorry.
00:03:18Ah!
00:03:24Hmm.
00:03:26All the modern improvements.
00:03:30You ought to clean the place up a bit.
00:03:59Hmm.
00:04:28Oh, yes, of course.
00:04:56Dad sat there.
00:05:01I sat next to him.
00:05:06Mr. Barksdale sat next to me.
00:05:11Aunt Lucille.
00:05:15Uncle John.
00:05:22Harold.
00:05:27Mother.
00:05:31Thor.
00:05:36Marjorie.
00:05:40Uncle Dick.
00:05:44Aunt Joan.
00:05:49Uncle Wayne.
00:05:54And...
00:06:08Mr. Barksdale?
00:06:12Mr. Barksdale, is that you?
00:06:19Mr. Barksdale?
00:06:23Mr. Barksdale?
00:06:26Mr. Barksdale?
00:06:28Police station.
00:06:53Captain Ryan speaking.
00:06:55Yeah?
00:06:57The old Morgan place?
00:06:58He says he drove a youngster out there about 30 minutes ago.
00:07:02Hold the driver. I'll be right over.
00:07:04Okay.
00:07:10Wake up, you dumb-ass muscle, and get going.
00:07:17Come on.
00:07:20Where are we going?
00:07:21Oh, the...
00:07:27Better than a mackerel.
00:07:30All right.
00:07:37Mr. Stuyvesant.
00:07:399-600.
00:07:43You can go.
00:07:45Leave your address. We'll want you later.
00:07:47Yes, sir.
00:07:50What?
00:07:51Well, keep ringing him.
00:08:02Hello?
00:08:03Hello, Phil?
00:08:05This is Ryan.
00:08:06Listen, we've got a swell case down here.
00:08:10I'm not interested.
00:08:24Give me Stuyvesant 9-600.
00:08:37When you hear the tone of the gong, it will be exactly 12 o'clock and six split seconds.
00:08:49Ring that number again.
00:08:52Hello, hello, you.
00:08:54Say, what's the idea of putting that dame on the phone?
00:08:56I know what time it is.
00:08:57What time is it?
00:08:58Shut up.
00:08:59No, no, no, I don't mean you.
00:09:01Don't hang up.
00:09:02I want you to get over here right away.
00:09:05Murder.
00:09:07I know, but this is a good murder.
00:09:10Listen, 13 years ago, a guy invited all his relatives to dinner.
00:09:16The sap deserved to die.
00:09:21Well, arrest the mother-in-law and don't bother me anymore.
00:09:26Oh, all right, but make it snappy.
00:09:29All right.
00:09:30There was 12 people there.
00:09:31The table was set for 13.
00:09:33The 13th guest never got there.
00:09:35That was 13 years ago.
00:09:37And now, tonight, we find a dame murdered, and she's sitting at the table in the 13th chair.
00:09:44Huh?
00:09:45I counted them.
00:09:47She was sitting in the 13th chair.
00:09:49You dumb flatfoot.
00:09:50Who told you where to start counting?
00:09:54Well, go back and count the girl's chair first and let me know how you come out.
00:09:58And give my love to Aunt Sarah.
00:10:09Ring that number again and keep ringing it.
00:10:12And then tell the night supervisor I want to know who had a couple of phones installed at 122 Old Mill Road
00:10:18if you have to get the whole Bell family out of bed.
00:10:28Yes, sir.
00:10:45I'm Winston, the private investigator.
00:10:48Captain Ryan sent for me.
00:10:49Yes, sir.
00:10:50Go right in.
00:10:51And have fun, huh?
00:10:58Call up headquarters and tell Clarence I'm sending those prints.
00:11:01Yes, sir.
00:11:03Oh, what's the number?
00:11:04Central 5...
00:11:06You dumb idiot.
00:11:07Don't you even know that?
00:11:08Get out and look it up.
00:11:09This will do you good.
00:11:11Yes, sir.
00:11:14Hello, Mr. Winston.
00:11:15We got a swell murder here.
00:11:17Good.
00:11:18And the number you want is Central 5-5000.
00:11:22Huh?
00:11:24Oh, yeah.
00:11:255-5000.
00:11:28Central 5-5000.
00:11:34Well, you certainly took your time.
00:11:37I was busy.
00:11:38Yeah, sure.
00:11:40When you hear the gong, the time will be 12 o'clock and six split seconds.
00:11:47Have a look at this and then I'll introduce you to the lady.
00:11:52This house has been unoccupied for 13 years.
00:11:55Yet the phone's installed and the electricity turned on.
00:11:59I'm tracing that.
00:12:02Those books are on the floor.
00:12:10That's all in here.
00:12:12Now come on and have a look at the banquet.
00:12:26The kid sure holds still a little, right?
00:12:29Same old joke.
00:12:31If I had a day off, I'd take up a new one.
00:12:34You can have her now, Doc.
00:12:36Just a minute.
00:12:37I want Winston to have a look.
00:12:39Oh, will you take care of that, Jerry, please?
00:12:41OK.
00:12:47Too bad.
00:12:48Pretty girl.
00:12:49You wouldn't notice that.
00:12:52You wouldn't notice that.
00:12:55Seen enough?
00:12:56Yeah.
00:12:59OK, Doc.
00:13:06Say, how did you know about that dinner party 13 years ago?
00:13:11Oh, every man and his dog knows that story around here.
00:13:15Morgan Sr. dropped dead just after they all sat down at the table.
00:13:21The old lady, she was young then, must have been a little bit cracked herself.
00:13:26She wouldn't allow a thing to be touched.
00:13:29Just closed up the house and moved out, and that's that.
00:13:36And all these guys have been waiting for the dinner ever since.
00:13:41Gives me the willies every time I think of it.
00:13:43Well, don't think then.
00:13:45Do you know who the girl is?
00:13:47Sure.
00:13:48Her daughter, Marie Morgan.
00:13:50Had her whole life's history in her handbag, but no address.
00:13:54The driver that brought her out here said he picked her up on the corner of 59th and Park.
00:13:59The apartment house?
00:14:00No, on the corner.
00:14:02We've been checking up on the apartment houses around there now.
00:14:06How was she killed?
00:14:08Hmm, wait till you hear.
00:14:10The doc hasn't said for sure yet, but it looks like she was electrocuted.
00:14:15Electrocuted?
00:14:17Hmm.
00:14:24I thought of that too.
00:14:26Not a wire on it.
00:14:28That was it.
00:14:30Electricity.
00:14:31Enough to kill her, but not to burn the body.
00:14:35I wonder where she got it.
00:14:38Say, that light in the living room...
00:14:42I'll get it.
00:14:48Well, what about that light in the living room?
00:14:52It ain't on.
00:14:53I tried this globe in every socket in the room and it don't work.
00:14:57Oh, maybe the globe's burned out.
00:15:01Never thought of that.
00:15:03Anyway, I don't think I'd go around trying light sockets if I were you.
00:15:08Why?
00:15:09Didn't it occur to you that a young lady was electrocuted here tonight,
00:15:13and that she might have been trying light sockets?
00:15:16Yes.
00:15:28Hello, operator.
00:15:29See if you can trace that call and ring me back.
00:15:32Make it snappy.
00:15:34Yes, darling, there's been a murder.
00:15:36You can read all about it in the morning papers.
00:15:40She listened in on all the other calls.
00:15:42Why the devil didn't she listen in on that one?
00:15:44What was it?
00:15:45I don't know, I just heard the receiver going up after I answered.
00:15:50Hello, Captain Ryan speaking.
00:15:52Sound Hotel?
00:15:54Thank you, sister.
00:15:56Oh, grunt!
00:15:57Yes, sir.
00:15:59Speed it over to the Sound Hotel and see if you can trace that call.
00:16:02Get a list of all the guests and all the telephone calls after midnight.
00:16:05And don't muff it.
00:16:06No, sir.
00:16:07And don't go to sleep!
00:16:09Yes, sir.
00:16:10Oh, well, how am I going to get there?
00:16:12You can drive a car, can't you, sweetheart?
00:16:14Take mine unbeaten!
00:16:16Yes, sir.
00:16:20Oh, if that guy's uncle don't die soon, I'll be a nervous wreck.
00:16:25Who's the uncle?
00:16:26Just the big boss in the city, that's all.
00:16:29Oh, so that's why he's on the force.
00:16:31You don't suppose because he's got many brains?
00:16:33Hey, Cap!
00:16:34Come here!
00:16:35Come here a minute!
00:16:36Oh...
00:16:41Come here, Cap!
00:16:43What's the matter now?
00:16:45The car! Look at it!
00:16:46It ain't fair!
00:16:48Well, I'll be a son of a...
00:16:51What are you laughing at?
00:16:52Nothing.
00:16:53I just think it's funny.
00:16:55I'm glad you invited me down.
00:16:57Yeah.
00:17:09Come in, boys.
00:17:11Yeah.
00:17:12Okay.
00:17:13Sit down.
00:17:15I'll see you in a few minutes.
00:17:17Did they identify the body?
00:17:18Yes, sir.
00:17:20Which one of you is the brother?
00:17:22I am.
00:17:23Friend of yours?
00:17:24Yes.
00:17:25And of my sister.
00:17:27All right, boys, I won't keep you long.
00:17:30Either of you know a man named Barksdale?
00:17:33Yes, we both do.
00:17:35He was my father's lawyer.
00:17:37Is he still handling the estate?
00:17:39Yes.
00:17:40Why?
00:17:41We'll ask the questions if you don't mind, son.
00:17:43Wasn't your father's will a little unusual?
00:17:46It was quite unusual.
00:17:48He provided for my mother, for Marie and me,
00:17:51and left the bulk of the estate to the 13th guest.
00:17:54Who was that?
00:17:55We don't know.
00:17:56The 13th guest never arrived.
00:17:59Screwy!
00:18:01Anything else about this guest?
00:18:03No.
00:18:04Except that we always supposed that he'd come forward
00:18:06and be named when we became of age.
00:18:08Well, when will that be?
00:18:09Well...
00:18:11Why, do you suppose that might have had something to do with it?
00:18:15Marie was 21 yesterday.
00:18:17What?
00:18:18Yes.
00:18:19Barksdale called her the other day and told her to...
00:18:21No, I'm not interested in that.
00:18:22Well, I am.
00:18:23All right, be interested.
00:18:25Wait a minute, where are you going?
00:18:26Out.
00:18:27I'll see you later.
00:18:28Say, but...
00:18:33I suppose you were at that dinner party your father gave?
00:18:35Yes.
00:18:39Where'd your sister sit that night?
00:18:41Why?
00:18:42Beside my father.
00:18:43She always sat there.
00:18:44Which side?
00:18:46The one on his right.
00:18:50Will you draw me a diagram of that table,
00:18:52name the people and the seating arrangement,
00:18:54and if any of them have died since, make a note of it.
00:18:57Have you kept in touch with the family?
00:18:59When we couldn't avoid it.
00:19:01Well, put down their addresses and leave it with the captain here.
00:19:03Thanks.
00:19:04Do you remember how we sat that night?
00:19:08Yes, I think so.
00:19:10Were you there?
00:19:12Well, I was visiting there.
00:19:14We were just kids then.
00:19:15But it isn't easy to forget a thing like that dinner party.
00:19:18I suppose not.
00:19:20I've got a hunch I'll be thinking about it for some time myself.
00:19:23Let us hear about that phone call from Barksdale and I'll let you go.
00:19:26Well, there isn't much to it except that my father
00:19:29and his wife are dead.
00:19:31Where did you go?
00:19:32Well, there isn't much to it except that
00:19:34Barksdale called her a few days ago and gave us an instruction.
00:19:38Something she was supposed to do on her 21st birthday.
00:19:42And you don't remember what they were?
00:19:44I know. She wouldn't tell me.
00:19:46And we're supposed to find the answer.
00:19:49Does anybody know anything?
00:19:51What's the matter with the old man besides being nuts?
00:19:54Are you sure this dinner wasn't held in an insane asylum?
00:19:57Why, try and calm down.
00:19:59Take these boys to the next office and give them some paper and pencils.
00:20:03And send Carter in.
00:20:04Yes, sir.
00:20:05You boys better stick around. We might want you.
00:20:08It's too bad, son. Take care of yourself.
00:20:12What do you mean?
00:20:13Nothing much.
00:20:14You mean they might go after me?
00:20:16They might.
00:20:18I don't think I'd care if they did.
00:20:20Well, we would.
00:20:21It'd cost the department a lot of dough to investigate a murder.
00:20:24Well, in that case, I'll be careful.
00:20:27Well, thanks.
00:20:28You've been very considerate today.
00:20:30That's all right, son.
00:20:40Well, what do you think?
00:20:42I can't think. I'm numb.
00:20:44Why the devil does a man have to go through all that hocus-pocus just to leave a will?
00:20:49It burns me up.
00:20:50Well, stop burning.
00:20:52Carter will make you happy.
00:20:53Yeah.
00:20:54Hey, Carter.
00:20:58Let's see what you got.
00:21:00Yes, sir.
00:21:03Here are the deposit slips of the telephones and lights ordered by one John Barksdale.
00:21:07Barksdale? So that's where you got it, huh?
00:21:10Feel better now?
00:21:11I'll say.
00:21:13Wait till I lay my hands on this guy.
00:21:15Also, a man answering to Barksdale's description registered at the Sound Hotel last night about 9.30
00:21:20under the name of Perry.
00:21:22And at 1.22 put in a call to Douglas and 968.
00:21:26Then checked out of his hotel immediately after.
00:21:28Now, he hasn't been home since, and he hasn't shown up in his office yet.
00:21:32And his folks are beginning to worry.
00:21:34Well, now, isn't that too bad?
00:21:36Tell them they can see him on Visitor's Day.
00:21:39Let's go.
00:21:40Pardon me, sir.
00:21:41I managed to dig this up out of the Daily Herald files.
00:21:45That's Bartlesdale.
00:21:47Swell.
00:21:48Let's send that out at once.
00:21:50Okay.
00:21:51Put a couple of the boys and those two kids in there.
00:21:53They may be all right, and again, they may not.
00:21:55Yes, sir.
00:21:56Anything else for me, sir?
00:21:57No, but stick around.
00:21:58Okay.
00:22:04Calling all cars.
00:22:05Calling all cars.
00:22:07Standby for description of one John Barksdale.
00:22:10Wanted for questioning on the Morgan murder case.
00:22:13Last seen on Long Island driving a Packard Touring.
00:22:16License unknown.
00:22:18Description.
00:22:19Fifty years.
00:22:21Six feet.
00:22:22Gray hair.
00:22:23Eyes brown.
00:22:24That is all.
00:23:24How did that happen?
00:23:27Well, a friend of mine has told me.
00:23:30Yes, you tell me, then I'll give you a point.
00:23:35I'm sure.
00:23:44No, it's a joke.
00:23:48Hello? Hello? I sure am ringing the wrong number.
00:24:05Hello?
00:24:12Ah! Ah!
00:24:24Ah! Ah!
00:24:42Well, I don't care...
00:24:44you call me all the names you want to.
00:24:47I have brought out our names to call you.
00:24:50I don't care.
00:24:51Mr. Winston, if you'd have heard it...
00:24:53heard it. What did it sound like, Grump? Well, it sounded like Tarzan. Tarzan. And the devil
00:25:01and a couple of heinies strode in. Well, uh, would you give me an idea of what it sounded
00:25:07like? Well, yeah, it started kind of, it started kind of up, like, yeah! That ain't just it,
00:25:24you know, it's kind of like it. Well, perhaps if you tried it again, Grump. Yeah, well,
00:25:32he's, he's, yeah! Grump, Grump. Don't you know when you're being ribbed? Shut up! Well,
00:25:42I was only trying to. Shut up! Get out.
00:25:46What was that?
00:26:07Oh.
00:26:24So, who put all them books there? So would I. Did you go to sleep today? I don't think so. You
00:26:35don't think so? Get out of my sight before I kill you. Yeah. Hey, Phil, come here. You, come
00:26:45here. Where are you? In the dining room. Oh. Is he dead? It's Barksdale. Can you beat that?
00:27:08Search the house upstairs and down. Yes, sir. Not that it'll do much good. Phil, what's the answer?
00:27:22It's got me worried plenty. Me too, but I'm beginning to be glad that I wasn't invited to
00:27:30that dinner party years ago. Yeah. Here's the diagram young Morgan drew today. Take a look at
00:27:39the seating arrangement. First, we find the girl's body in the chair that she sat in that night, and
00:27:45now this. Are you beginning to get the idea? Gee, yes. Hey, gods, Phil. Are they gonna line this
00:28:00table with stiffs? That's the way it looks unless we do something. But, but that's crazy. It very
00:28:08nearly confirms one thing, though. The person doing it was at the table that night. I'll get it, boss.
00:28:37Help! Help! Help! Help! What's the matter now? No. Oh. How did you get out of the morgue? I haven't
00:29:05been in any morgue. Take your hands off me. Shh. Be nice. I won't. Let me alone. Do you want me to spank you?
00:29:27Hold still. That's a good little girl. What's your name? Marie Morgan? Yes. What did you say? I asked this child here if she
00:29:44were Marie Morgan. I'm no child. Will you shut up? And she said yes, and she said yes. I don't know, maybe it's
00:29:51something I ate, and this is the nightmare. Where did you pick her up? I found her riding around in your car. In my? I was on my way to the police station. Yes, and baby, you're still on your way to the police station. Take her down and lock her up. I've got some things I want to ask her about. You can't arrest me. Oh, can't I? That's what they all say. Maybe it's all a mistake, and maybe you can explain everything, and I'll bet you won't say a word until you see your lawyer. Well, I won't. All right, baby. Come and see your lawyer.
00:30:21Help yourself to a good look. Murdered? That's right. Do you know anything about it? No. No, of course not. What can this mean? That's what we're going to find out. Take her and lock her in the library until we get through here.
00:30:51Was she headed for police station? She was going in that direction. Call up city headquarters and report this. Call the coroner. Then stick around outside. Yes, sir. Now, why did you ask that girl if she was Marie Morgan? I think she is. What about the other dame? There are no twins. No, but the other girl had several small scars around her neck.
00:31:22Didn't you notice them? Yes, but I didn't think anything about it. Well, I did. I thought she'd had her face lifted. Well, what a blasted idiot I've been. That's why you were so surprised when her brother told you she was 21. Certainly. No kid that age is going to have her face lifted. And you beat it back to the morgue to have another look. Right. And took a good plastic surgeon with me. She hadn't had her face lifted. She'd had it completely made over.
00:31:48Well, I'll be. Now, that commences to make sense. Barksdale made an appointment with the real Marie Morgan to meet him here. They planned to kill her and substitute the other girl. Who planned to kill her? Huh? Barksdale made the appointment? Yes, but if Barksdale was in on it, which he may have been, who killed the gentleman on your right?
00:32:18Little Bo Peep.
00:32:48Operator.
00:33:05I wouldn't do that if I were you. The police might not like it. I was only trying to call my brother. We'll call him later. You're going to take a ride with me. Where to? To my apartment. She'd be safer in jail. Don't worry, she won't get away. I didn't mean that. I said she'd be safer in jail.
00:33:36And you may go to the devil.
00:33:38Mr. Adams, Mr. Bidston.
00:33:50Why, my dear child. Why, I'm almost afraid to touch you. What is the meaning of all this? Why, I'll have to send back that cutaway I ordered for your funeral. You wear those to weddings, not funerals. This is Uncle Adams, the worst old reprobate who ever lived. My dear, you're covering quite a lot of territory. How do you do, Mr. Winston? I'm delighted. How do you do? If you give him a drink, I think he may keep still. What'll it be, scotch and soda? Sprinted, thanks.
00:34:20Easy on the soda.
00:34:32There you are.
00:34:34If you want my opinion, it's Uncle Adams who's been committing all the murders.
00:34:39All the murders?
00:34:42Mr. Boxdale was murdered today, in the old house.
00:34:45Boxdale? My word. Not that I ever liked the old devil, you understand, but murders. What's the meaning of it, Mr. Winston? You're investigating the case, I suppose?
00:34:57Unofficially. I'm a friend of Captain Ryan.
00:34:59Yes, yes, of course. I've heard of you. Well, have you any clues, don't you call them, any ideas?
00:35:05No, but he has a laugh for you.
00:35:08Really? Well, let's have it.
00:35:10You're next.
00:35:12What?
00:35:13According to Mr. Winston's theory, you're next on the list. Unless, of course, you've been doing the murders yourself.
00:35:21Really, Marie, you boys have the most peculiar sense of humor.
00:35:28Must be some more of the family. I'm doing the resurrection act.
00:35:34And enjoying it thoroughly, if I know you. You certainly startled me.
00:35:39Did I?
00:35:43Mr. and Mrs. Thornton, Mr. Winston and Miss Thornton. How do you do?
00:35:47How do you do?
00:35:48If you'll explain your reasons.
00:35:49Well, for heaven's sake, I thought you were dead.
00:35:53Disappointed?
00:35:54Well, why be a hypocrite? You know I've always hated your...
00:35:57Marjorie, if you say that word again, I'll disown you.
00:36:00What a loss.
00:36:06Is this for private use only? I suppose you're Winston.
00:36:11At your service.
00:36:12I may take you up on that.
00:36:17If this is another one of your jokes, Marie, I must say it's in bad taste.
00:36:21I've been simply prostrated all day.
00:36:24I'll bet you have. Bridge always tires mother.
00:36:27Marjorie.
00:36:32May I answer it?
00:36:33Certainly.
00:36:37Let me.
00:36:38Certainly.
00:36:41Bud!
00:36:48Marie! It is you!
00:36:51Oh, my dear.
00:36:53They tried to kill me.
00:36:56Are you glad I'm alive?
00:36:58Am I glad?
00:37:00I think you are.
00:37:02But what does it mean, sis?
00:37:05They made us go down and look at that other girl.
00:37:10We thought it was you.
00:37:12Did you cry?
00:37:15Well, to tell you the truth, honey, we both went home and got potted.
00:37:22That's just as good.
00:37:26Come on in. Mr. Winston has the whole family here.
00:37:29He says one of them is the murderer.
00:37:31I'm giving odds on Uncle Adams.
00:37:33Uncle Adams? He's too lazy to commit a murder.
00:37:37But tell me, darling, what happened to you?
00:37:39I'll tell you later.
00:37:43Well, here we are.
00:37:45Just one big happy family.
00:37:48Oh, hello, Thor.
00:37:49Who was that blonde I saw you with the other night?
00:37:52There was no blonde and you know it.
00:37:54Oh, really?
00:37:56Dear Marjorie, your soul must look like the inside of a vinegar bottle.
00:38:01By Jove, it's a good idea. I wish I had thought of it myself.
00:38:04What's that?
00:38:05My family.
00:38:06It must be some poor soul that had the misfortune to dine with us when we were all together.
00:38:10I think you're right.
00:38:11Someone who dined with you 13 years ago.
00:38:14Really?
00:38:16Oh, you mean the night that John read that stupid will.
00:38:19And then died.
00:38:23Well, mercy, don't ogle me. I didn't kill him.
00:38:27No one killed him as far as we know.
00:38:30Does anyone here know the present whereabouts of Wayne Seymour?
00:38:37The last time I saw him, I got an impression that he was going to spend the rest of his days at No. 9 Yokohama.
00:38:43I see you know your Yokohama, Mr. Winston.
00:38:46I've traveled a bit.
00:38:48With the exception of Wayne Seymour, you people were the only guests at that dinner who are still alive.
00:38:54Well, and we're dead from the neck up.
00:38:56Speak for yourself, John.
00:38:58You may not speak if you don't mind.
00:39:00Go ahead, but a few snappy jokes injected here and there would make a world of difference.
00:39:04You see, we're accustomed to public speaking.
00:39:07I'm afraid this isn't a joking matter.
00:39:09It looks as if someone is determined to kill every person who attended that dinner 13 years ago.
00:39:14They've already killed two people.
00:39:16Two?
00:39:18Yes.
00:39:19A girl mistaken for Miss Morgan and John Barksdale.
00:39:23Mr. Barksdale murdered?
00:39:25Very much so.
00:39:27And in both cases, the bodies were found in the chairs occupied by that person at the dinner.
00:39:32And as Captain Ryan so elegantly describes it, the murderer intends to line the table with stiffs.
00:39:39Oh, how vulgar.
00:39:42Well, thank goodness I was under the table most of the time.
00:39:45Yes, pinching me.
00:39:47Oh, I was a cute youngster, always full of fun.
00:39:50Someday I'll look at your baby pictures, but just now we're discussing murder.
00:39:54Which automatically makes one think of Marjorie.
00:39:57Speak for yourself, John.
00:40:00Shall we go on with this or just turn it into a family reunion?
00:40:03Well, why not have a blindfold test?
00:40:05Wouldn't matter which one you picked.
00:40:07We'd all cut each other's throats for a dime.
00:40:10Why a dime?
00:40:12I'd cut yours for fun.
00:40:20Give me police headquarters.
00:40:22Detective Bureau, Captain Brown's office.
00:40:24Well, it isn't every day you get a chance to see a mastermind at work.
00:40:28Oh, who's this speaking?
00:40:30Oh, this is Winston.
00:40:33Send the wagon to my apartment.
00:40:35And issue...
00:40:39four John Doe and three Jane Doe warrants.
00:40:43Material witnesses in the Morgan case.
00:40:45Right.
00:40:47I've got them here.
00:40:50Really, you're quite amusing, Mr. Winston.
00:40:55You'll like the matron in the city jail, too.
00:40:58She's one of the Philadelphia Smiths.
00:41:05Perhaps by this time you're beginning to see that I mean business.
00:41:08Now then, you want to stop trying to be clever
00:41:11or do you want to spend the night in jail?
00:41:13Well, Willie, do the men have separate wards from the women?
00:41:17I think you've settled it then, young lady.
00:41:20Night in jail may make you people see that murder isn't amusing.
00:41:28This is an outrage.
00:41:29So is murder.
00:41:30Why, you can't do this.
00:41:31Wait and see.
00:41:32I'll break you for this.
00:41:33The governor is a personal friend of mine.
00:41:35And of mine.
00:41:36And I happen to know that he's a little funny when it comes to murder.
00:41:39He doesn't like it.
00:41:40Don't be a lot of fools.
00:41:42He doesn't intend to send us.
00:41:44The police.
00:41:45Mr. Winston.
00:41:46Good evening, Sergeant.
00:41:47Good evening, sir.
00:41:48Have you the warrants?
00:41:49Yes, sir.
00:41:50Oh, yes.
00:41:51Yes, all signed and in order.
00:41:53All right.
00:41:54Take these people down and lock them up.
00:41:56Yes, sir.
00:41:57All right, step lively.
00:41:58I demand to see my lawyer.
00:41:59Miss Morgan saw her lawyer today and I don't think she enjoyed it.
00:42:02You'll be sorry for this.
00:42:10Good night, Winnie dear.
00:42:17Mr. Winston, please.
00:42:19Good night, my dear.
00:42:20And sweet dreams.
00:42:38Darn.
00:42:40Hello.
00:42:41Come on down, dearie.
00:42:43We've got another corpse.
00:42:46What?
00:42:47But the family's all locked up.
00:42:49Yeah, sure.
00:42:50You're a smart guy.
00:42:55I don't know.
00:42:56I'm not over yet.
00:42:57You coming down?
00:42:59OK.
00:43:01Get me the police station.
00:43:05Hello.
00:43:06Give me the desk sergeant, the city jail.
00:43:08Yeah.
00:43:11Hello.
00:43:12This is Winston.
00:43:13Private investigator on the Morgan case.
00:43:16I sent down seven of the upper crust for you.
00:43:18I want you to come down here.
00:43:20Yes, sir.
00:43:21Yes, sir.
00:43:22Yes, sir.
00:43:23Yes, sir.
00:43:24Yes, sir.
00:43:25Yes, sir.
00:43:26Yes, sir.
00:43:27Yes, sir.
00:43:28Yes, sir.
00:43:29This is the upper crust for you.
00:43:30Will you send somebody in and see if they're all there?
00:43:33Yes, sir.
00:43:35Hey, Mike.
00:43:36Take a look at the 400 and see if they're all there.
00:43:39OK, sergeant.
00:44:00What's the matter with her?
00:44:02Who cares?
00:44:10Don't touch her, Marjorie.
00:44:13Hey, what's the matter?
00:44:20What?
00:44:24What?
00:44:26What?
00:44:28She says that you remind her of her mother.
00:44:31Oh, no.
00:44:34What?
00:44:36What?
00:44:37Mike, down.
00:44:38You can't do this.
00:44:44I demand that you...
00:44:45Yes, I know.
00:44:46You're going to write a letter to the commissioner.
00:44:48I won't stay in here another moment.
00:44:52Say, what are you trying to do?
00:44:53Rip me?
00:44:54Dear me, no.
00:44:55Say, if you guys don't dump me up, there's going to be a murder.
00:44:58Well, that's what we're here for.
00:45:00Two murders.
00:45:01He did them.
00:45:02What?
00:45:03Hey, pipe down.
00:45:04Yeah, officer.
00:45:05I demand it.
00:45:06Oh, go read your ticker.
00:45:08I want to know what Steele's doing.
00:45:22All there, sergeant.
00:45:24Okay.
00:45:26All there, Mr. Winston.
00:45:28Okay, thanks.
00:45:29Oh, wait a minute.
00:45:31Turn them all loose, but put a man on each one of them.
00:45:34Now, I'll be responsible.
00:45:51The wire runs over here and then goes no place at all.
00:46:15I've scoured the whole house.
00:46:17Now, the only answer is there must be a closet or a room somewhere
00:46:20that we don't know anything about.
00:46:22I don't want to know anything about it.
00:46:27All right, Bill.
00:46:28Make it snappy.
00:46:30Cut it right there.
00:46:42What do you make of that, huh?
00:46:44I wonder.
00:47:15Steel.
00:47:17Great guns.
00:47:19Nothing rubber about that.
00:47:23Come on, let's get out of here.
00:47:30I've seen sights, but that way.
00:47:35Rather a neat way of doing it, though, huh?
00:47:37I don't think it's neat.
00:47:39It's fiendish as the devil.
00:47:41Do you realize that the murderer left that switch on not caring who got killed?
00:47:46And while he's asleep in the county jail, he commits another murder.
00:47:51But he wasn't here to turn off the switch and bring the body in here.
00:47:55I think that cinches it.
00:47:57But which one?
00:47:59Well, you saw them.
00:48:01Which are the most likely?
00:48:03Well, the odds are about even.
00:48:05There's a cousin Marjorie who'd commit murder just for the fun of it.
00:48:08And her mother'd kill anything that stood in her way.
00:48:11But I think it stands between the two uncles.
00:48:14Adams is as smooth an old devil as I've ever seen.
00:48:17But Thornton's deep.
00:48:18You know, the big businessman who'd stop at nothing.
00:48:21What about the brother and his boyfriend?
00:48:23I think they're all right.
00:48:25Jensen's in love with the girl, and her brother seems genuinely fond of her.
00:48:29And what's the girl's story?
00:48:31Well, she says someone shot at her in the dark.
00:48:34She ran upstairs and hid.
00:48:36And by the way, she heard that same cry that Grump heard.
00:48:40And according to her, it wasn't particularly pleasant.
00:48:43Just the same I'd like to hear it.
00:48:46And what else did she do besides steal my car?
00:48:50Well, she said she came back down, was about to beat it out the front door
00:48:54when she heard a car and motorcycle drive up.
00:48:56Said by that time, she didn't know where to turn.
00:48:58And when she came in here and saw her double sitting cold and stiff at the table,
00:49:02she did go nuts.
00:49:04Got scared of the police as well as the rest.
00:49:06Hid in the cellar and then stole the car.
00:49:08She hid out all the next day.
00:49:10Thought better of it and was on her way to the station when they picked her up.
00:49:14It's logical.
00:49:16Barksdale asked her out here?
00:49:17Yes.
00:49:18And what they were all after, I think,
00:49:20was a slip of paper that she'd got that day at the bank.
00:49:23Which doesn't make much sense, of course, unless it's a safe combination.
00:49:27What was it?
00:49:29Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen.
00:49:31Thirteen.
00:49:34I'd like to get old man Morgan alone for about ten minutes.
00:49:39I'd teach the old buzzard how to write a will.
00:49:42Well, we get the family down here and try and sweat it out of them?
00:49:47Or should we put a close watch on them and see who comes down here?
00:49:51No, I'm in favor of the last.
00:49:53Our friend may get curious and come down to see if he's had another killing.
00:49:57Then we keep this last one quiet, huh?
00:49:59That's right.
00:50:01I've got a hunch it's the missing uncle.
00:50:04Look, I'm going to call Miss Morgan.
00:50:06Call a coroner, too, will you?
00:50:08I'm kind of ashamed of her because I've bothered him so much lately.
00:50:16Well, if this is the kind of service I'm going to get, I'm going to get killed every day.
00:50:21I'll get it.
00:50:24Hello?
00:50:26Miss Morgan's apartment.
00:50:28How'd you like our city jail?
00:50:34Listen, child, I want you to destroy that strip of paper at once.
00:50:38And don't tell anyone what was written on it.
00:50:41Not even your brother.
00:50:43But...
00:50:45But...
00:50:47No one's accusing your brother.
00:50:50Say, listen, don't you get too smart.
00:50:53You know, there's a distinct prejudice in the police department against little girls
00:50:56who go around stealing police cars.
00:51:01Oh, you're not?
00:51:03Well, 21's a mere drop in the bucket.
00:51:08But...
00:51:10Say, will you shut up and let me talk?
00:51:12Now listen, don't tell anyone those numbers.
00:51:15And if anyone tries to get them out of you, let me know immediately.
00:51:18Will you do that?
00:51:20Like a sweet little girl.
00:51:25That was the great sleuth, Winston.
00:51:27Yeah, what did he want?
00:51:29He told me not to tell anybody the numbers on that slip of paper.
00:51:33What numbers?
00:51:34Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen.
00:51:39Oh, gosh.
00:51:40Trust a woman.
00:51:43Oh, well, for goodness sake, don't tell him I told you.
00:51:46All right, we won't.
00:52:26Shame on you, looking at those things.
00:52:29Huh?
00:52:31Why don't you have luncheon with me?
00:52:33It'll be more comfortable than standing out here.
00:52:36How'd you know I was following you?
00:52:38Have you ever been to the zoo?
00:52:40Sure.
00:52:41Did you see the elephants?
00:52:43Yeah.
00:52:44Well, that's how I know.
00:52:47Well, let's go.
00:52:50Did you see the elephants?
00:52:51Yeah.
00:52:52Well, that's how I know.
00:52:55Huh?
00:52:57I'm afraid you're not very bright.
00:52:59But you may come in handy.
00:53:01I'm about to go calling.
00:53:02Would you like to come along?
00:53:04I gotta go wherever you go.
00:53:07Is that a theme song or just your quaint way of saying things?
00:53:12Oh, well, I...
00:53:13You'd better ride with me.
00:53:15You know I'm getting a pain in the neck from looking back at you.
00:53:18Come on.
00:53:23Of course, just looking at you may give me a pain in the neck.
00:53:27Huh.
00:53:30Get in.
00:53:41Well, okay.
00:53:42Stay there until you're relieved.
00:53:44That was Bentley detailed to watch Adams.
00:53:46He says Adams hasn't left the house all day.
00:53:48But some dame just came up in the limousine with Grump.
00:53:51Grump?
00:53:52He's tailing the Thornton girl.
00:53:53Tailing her?
00:53:54He's riding in the limousine with her.
00:53:56What?
00:53:59I'd give a hundred bucks to see that.
00:54:04Come in.
00:54:06There's a Dr. Sherwood outside.
00:54:09Says he has some information on the Morgan case.
00:54:11Dr. Sherwood?
00:54:12Yes, sir.
00:54:13Send him in.
00:54:15I hope he's our man.
00:54:18Hi, Doctor.
00:54:19Captain Brown?
00:54:20How do you do?
00:54:21Won't you sit down?
00:54:22Here you are.
00:54:24I hope you're a plastic surgeon.
00:54:26I see you're ahead of me.
00:54:28I am, as a matter of fact.
00:54:29And I operated on the young lady who was killed.
00:54:32I only saw your notice in the paper this morning.
00:54:34Yeah, well, we didn't know until last night that the wrong girl had been killed.
00:54:37When did you operate on her?
00:54:39Several months ago.
00:54:41Three, as a matter of fact.
00:54:42She and her brother came to me.
00:54:43What?
00:54:45Well, she said he was her brother.
00:54:47What name did they give?
00:54:49Morgan.
00:54:50Morgan.
00:54:52May I take Dr. Sherwood over to Miss Morgan's apartment?
00:54:55Okay.
00:54:56You could identify the brother, couldn't you?
00:54:57Oh, certainly.
00:54:58He came to me twice.
00:54:59Fine.
00:55:00Let's go.
00:55:01Goodbye, Captain Brown.
00:55:02Goodbye, Doctor.
00:55:03And thank you.
00:55:13Oh, hello.
00:55:15Come in, Doctor.
00:55:20That your man?
00:55:22No.
00:55:24Say, why aren't you down at the old house?
00:55:26Well, I'm rather tired of being there so much.
00:55:29Do you have a picture of your friend Jensen around?
00:55:32Yes, I think so.
00:55:34But look here, Mr. Winston.
00:55:36Marie's gone down to the old house to meet you.
00:55:38What?
00:55:39Didn't you call her?
00:55:40Why, no.
00:55:41You didn't call her?
00:55:42No, I tell you.
00:55:43What's it all about?
00:55:46I just got in.
00:55:47She left this.
00:56:07Where's it?
00:56:08Oh.
00:56:09Oh, get a picture of Jensen.
00:56:10Show it to the doctor, will you, please?
00:56:14Hello, operator.
00:56:15Get me Douglas and 968.
00:56:17Hurry it.
00:56:23That's the one.
00:56:25Hurry with that call.
00:56:39Hello.
00:57:09Hello?
00:57:30Hello?
00:57:32Oh, yes.
00:57:34Now listen, child.
00:57:35Don't get in a panic, but get out of the house as quick as you can.
00:57:38Is there an officer guarding it?
00:57:40Yes.
00:57:41He let me in when I told him you...
00:57:44Mr. Winston, didn't you call me?
00:57:46Now, now, don't get in a panic.
00:57:48Just get the officer to drive you to the Douglas and police station and wait for me there.
00:57:52Now beat it.
00:57:53All right.
00:58:06Where's Miss Morgan?
00:58:07Hasn't she been here?
00:58:08No.
00:58:09No one's been here.
00:58:10You come with me.
00:58:11I may need you.
00:58:12No, wait.
00:58:13Stay here.
00:58:14Tell Ryan to beat it over to the Morgan house as soon as he gets here.
00:58:16Yes, sir.
00:58:25Isn't she there?
00:58:26No.
00:58:38He'll come around, all right.
00:58:40Come on.
00:58:41Go quietly.
00:59:07Come on.
00:59:37Will you stop?
00:59:58Here, cut it out.
00:59:59Cut it out.
01:00:00Come on.
01:00:01Get up here.
01:00:02Kill him.
01:00:03Kill them all.
01:00:04Come on.
01:00:05Cut it out.
01:00:06do with my sister.
01:00:07Here, put it out.
01:00:08Come on, get up.
01:00:12Go let him in.
01:00:17Now then, what have you done with Miss Morgan?
01:00:20Come on now, make it snappy.
01:00:21Miss Morgan?
01:00:22I don't know.
01:00:23Where is she?
01:00:24What's this?
01:00:25Ah, just a swell species of skunk.
01:00:27Now come on, tell me.
01:00:28What have you done with her?
01:00:29I tell you, I...
01:00:30Did you call her and tell her to meet me here?
01:00:32No, I swear I didn't.
01:00:34We know all about Sherwood and the other girls,
01:00:36so you may as well tell us the rest.
01:00:38Who was in on this with you?
01:00:43Barksdale.
01:00:44So you killed her and then Barksdale,
01:00:45so you wouldn't have to split, huh?
01:00:47No, I don't know who killed them, I swear it.
01:00:50Pick up that phone.
01:00:53No, no!
01:00:54Why not?
01:00:56Because that's the way Leela got it.
01:00:58You were there that night, did you kill her?
01:01:00No, I saw her after...
01:01:01After shooting at Miss Morgan?
01:01:05No, no, I didn't...
01:01:07Now you're a liar.
01:01:09Go on, take him down and lock him up.
01:01:15But Phil...
01:01:16I tell you, Ryan, it doesn't make good sense.
01:01:18Why go to all the trouble to impersonate someone
01:01:20and then kill the impersonator?
01:01:22Jensen tried to kill Miss Morgan,
01:01:24but somebody else killed the girl
01:01:26thinking it was Miss Morgan.
01:01:27Jensen knew the difference.
01:01:29There have been two different factions
01:01:30working in this against each other.
01:01:32Why not...
01:01:33But where's...
01:01:34Exactly.
01:01:39Get an axe.
01:01:40Break that wall in.
01:01:41All right.
01:01:42And son,
01:01:43you'd better go on back to the station.
01:01:45Why?
01:01:46Because I don't think your sister's going to be alive
01:01:48when we find her.
01:01:52I don't know!
01:01:53Tell me!
01:01:55No!
01:01:56You know what they are!
01:01:58Tell me!
01:02:00I know, but...
01:02:02If you kill me, you'll never know!
01:02:04You little fool!
01:02:05Don't you know that I'll kill you anyway?
01:02:13Tell me!
01:02:15Stop!
01:02:16All right.
01:02:18Thirteen to thirteen.
01:02:22You'd better not be lying.
01:02:23I'll kill you!
01:02:24I'll kill you!
01:02:25I'll kill you!
01:02:26I'll kill you!
01:02:27I'll kill you!
01:02:28You'd better not be lying!
01:02:59Come on!
01:03:00Come on!
01:03:01Come on!
01:03:02Come on!
01:03:03Smash it!
01:03:29Come here!
01:03:30Give me that axe!
01:03:31Will you?
01:03:32Come here, boy.
01:03:33That's it.
01:03:59He's not going to save!
01:04:01He's not going to save!
01:04:02He's not going to save!
01:04:04He's not going to save!
01:04:06I'll knock him in his grave.
01:04:08I'll knock him in his grave.
01:04:10Isn't that funny?
01:04:15Yeah.
01:04:16It's a swell joke.
01:04:17Come on!
01:04:18Come on!
01:04:19Get out of here!
01:04:20Come on!
01:04:21Come on!
01:04:28You've got a patent on that little electrical device of yours, Adams?
01:04:43No, I'm sorry to say, I haven't.
01:04:47Well, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
01:04:50The state's got something that works along the same lines, and we're going to give you
01:04:55an exclusive demonstration.
01:04:59Take him out.
01:05:00Come on, move.
01:05:01Want me to let you into that safety deposit box?
01:05:05Sure.
01:05:06What did you find?
01:05:07Only a million dollars in securities for her.
01:05:10A million?
01:05:11How disgusting.
01:05:12I hope it isn't U.S. Steel.
01:05:15Don't worry, it isn't.
01:05:16I left the securities there, of course, but this letter was on top and I thought you'd
01:05:20want it.
01:05:24To Marie, the thirteenth guest.
01:05:27Can you imagine that?
01:05:28I was it all the time.
01:05:36My...
01:05:43The poor lamb.
01:05:46Read it.
01:05:47Aloud?
01:05:48Why, yes.
01:05:50My dear child, I am making a rather melodramatic attempt to protect your fortune, but if I
01:05:56am right about the other members of the family, it is almost certain to reveal them to you
01:06:00in their true light, so that you will not make the same mistake I made when I married
01:06:04into it.
01:06:05Bless you, my dear, and may they have killed each other off by the time you receive this.
01:06:10Your father.
01:06:13It's sad, but it's also darn good advice.
01:06:17What?
01:06:19Not to marry into a screwy family.
01:06:28Aye.
01:06:36Tell me where you've been.
01:06:39Well, first I went...
01:06:49Well, you told me to tailor.
01:06:51Well, you told me to tailor.
01:07:18Well, you told me to tailor.
01:07:21Well, you told me to tailor.
01:07:33Hello.
01:07:34Hello, Phil.
01:07:35This is Ryan.
01:07:37Listen, I've got another swell...
01:07:40I'm not interested.
01:07:51When you hear the tone of the gong, it will be exactly twelve o'clock and six split seconds.
01:08:08Uh-oh.
01:08:15Hello.
01:08:17Ring Stuyvesant 9600 and keep ringing it.
01:08:22And when you've done that, well, well ring it some more.
01:08:27Well, well ring it some more.