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00:00:00The End
00:00:30Yeah, yeah, I know, but call me tomorrow. I've got to get out of here.
00:01:00Hey, Tunnel, I've got a date for you tonight. Dot's cousin just got into town, and you and I...
00:01:03I already have an engagement. I've had it for over a month with Cyrus J. Rutherford.
00:01:08Cyrus J. Rutherford, the screwball millionaire?
00:01:11Eccentric, you can't call a man with eight million dollars a screwball.
00:01:14I can. All that hocus-pocus about the stars and building a private, uh, what do you call it on top of his house?
00:01:20Observatory.
00:01:21He just happens to believe in the influence of the stars on human behavior.
00:01:24The only stars that could influence my behavior would be Dorothy Lamar or Veronica Lake.
00:01:30Say, every big company in town's taking a shot at Rutherford. How'd you swing it?
00:01:33Leo.
00:01:34Leo? Leo who?
00:01:35The star.
00:01:36You see, I wrote and told him when I was born under the sign of Leo. That's his lucky star.
00:01:40And he wrote right back and made the appointment for the 13th, which is today, when Leo's in the ascendancy.
00:01:45You mean to say you believe in that guff too?
00:01:47I believe in selling insurance.
00:01:49Tuttle, the way you keep that nose to the grindstone, you're going to wear out the grindstone.
00:01:54You can laugh.
00:01:56Wait till I come back here with Mr. Rutherford's name on that policy.
00:01:59Quiet, please.
00:02:13I, Cyrus J. Rutherford, being of sound mind and body, do hereby declare the following to be the preamble to my last will and testament.
00:02:21The disposition of my estate is of only slightly less interest to me than it is to you, my loving heirs.
00:02:30It has been divided among you.
00:02:33The largest share is to be $500,000 and the smallest, $1.50 to pay for the taxi from the station.
00:02:43So pay close attention, all of you.
00:02:44My sister Estelle, who disobeyed my wishes 20 years ago by marrying a nincompoop, named, I believe, Kenneth, and whom I've had the pleasure of not seeing since.
00:02:57Cyrus never changed a bit.
00:03:01And niece Margaret, whom I have never seen, which is probably just as well.
00:03:08I like that.
00:03:09My nephew, James Davis.
00:03:14I last saw him when he was an impertinent youth of 20.
00:03:18I do not like impertinence, and I did not like James.
00:03:23My niece, Carol Dunlap.
00:03:25Although I despised her father, turned out to have somewhat better intelligence and a less selfish interest in her old uncle than others in the family.
00:03:36And the last of my living relatives.
00:03:39Nephew Henry Rutherford and his wife, Mona.
00:03:42Henry, at least, has the virtue of bearing the Rutherford name.
00:03:46And he was a fairly good investment counselor.
00:03:48Honest, as far as I could find out.
00:03:51Mona wears too much makeup.
00:03:53I told you he didn't.
00:03:54Oh, shut up.
00:03:55Go on, Mr. Gellman.
00:03:57And she seems to have waited with undue impatience for my demise.
00:04:02My faithful butler, Merkel, who for 20 years padded the household bills.
00:04:08And Matthews, who kept house for me in a haphazard sort of way.
00:04:13Professor Hilton, to whom I owe my knowledge and understanding of the secrets of the heavens.
00:04:18And finally, my lawyer, Morton Gellman.
00:04:22Uh, well, that's about all, folks.
00:04:27The rest is just routine.
00:04:28Go ahead and read it.
00:04:29We're all just one big happy family.
00:04:32Yes, let's hear it.
00:04:33We want it.
00:04:33Whom I trust implicitly, as far as I can throw an elephant.
00:04:39As you know, I have been an ardent student of the stars.
00:04:43I want to continue to be exposed to them.
00:04:46Therefore, I wish to be interred not underground, but in a glass-domed vault,
00:04:53where they will evermore continue to shine down upon me.
00:04:57You are all to remain here as my guests until this vault is completed.
00:05:01After I have been safely interred, you may open my will,
00:05:05which is now sealed in the safe in the specimen room.
00:05:08Then you will learn how I have seen fit to reward you, one and all.
00:05:14But should this, my last wish, be disobeyed,
00:05:18and my body buried anywhere except in the above-mentioned vault,
00:05:23then the terms of the will shall be reversed,
00:05:25and those who are to get the large bequests will get the smallest, and vice versa.
00:05:31Furthermore, should any of you leave the grounds before I am safely interred in my vault,
00:05:36you will forfeit all rights to your legacies.
00:05:39I know you will find it difficult to live together, even for a few days.
00:05:44But this is my wish.
00:05:47So with these last words, I leave you to your squabbling,
00:05:51which, fortunately, I won't be able to hear.
00:05:54Of all the insulting, insane ideas.
00:05:57I will never hold up in a court of law.
00:05:59Please, please.
00:06:00It's all perfectly legal.
00:06:02They'll start work on the vault tomorrow.
00:06:03Should only be a matter of a few days.
00:06:05Looks as if you and I are in for the lion's share.
00:06:08You mean from what Uncle Cyrus said?
00:06:10This place gives me the creeping memes.
00:06:13I wish it were over with.
00:06:14You don't have to stay.
00:06:16Have you read the final will?
00:06:17Do you know who gets what?
00:06:20He drew it up himself.
00:06:21And nobody will read the will until he is properly interred.
00:06:25Well, let's not stand around in the presence of Uncle Cyrus' body
00:06:29and call about his will.
00:06:30I wouldn't call either if I'd spent 20 years stooging for a slice of it.
00:06:34I resent that.
00:06:35I meant you too, dear cousin.
00:06:49Perhaps you would all like some coffee.
00:07:00Very well.
00:07:01You'll serve it in the library, Matthews.
00:07:03Am I taking orders from you now?
00:07:05You are.
00:07:07Do as Mrs. Ratter could say, Matthews,
00:07:10until the actual bill is read.
00:07:12What do you mean by that?
00:07:14It's actually nothing, madam.
00:07:16Nothing at all.
00:07:17Excuse me.
00:07:21I'll straighten the room.
00:07:26Atlas detective agency.
00:07:32I have a job for you.
00:07:34What?
00:07:34You want to hire a man to guard the stiff?
00:07:37Yes.
00:07:38I want you to see that he isn't buried.
00:07:40Hey, look.
00:07:41Is this a gag?
00:07:42It's funny.
00:07:43It must not be disturbed.
00:07:46That's right.
00:07:48Do you want the job or don't you?
00:07:50We'll keep your friend on ice.
00:07:51Just pay my man the first hundred dollars when he gets there.
00:07:54All right.
00:07:55I'll be straight to you in about an hour.
00:07:57Boo!
00:07:59Can I play, too?
00:08:00I beg your pardon?
00:08:02That's all right.
00:08:02I was just going to have a quiet six or eight drinks,
00:08:04if you will tell me which is to be my room.
00:08:06Well, I could even show you,
00:08:08unless you'd rather drink alone.
00:08:10Mrs. Rutherford.
00:08:13Mona!
00:08:13Mona!
00:08:13Mona!
00:08:13Mona!
00:08:17Well, well, what have we here?
00:08:22Oh, come on, Kenneth.
00:08:23I've got a headache.
00:08:24Does anyone see Professor Hilton?
00:08:26He's up in the tower, I imagine,
00:08:27communing with the stars.
00:08:29Well, just to set everyone's mind at rest,
00:08:31I've engaged the watchman
00:08:32to spend the night with a casket.
00:08:33That's a swell idea.
00:08:34It'll save us the trouble
00:08:35of watching each other all night.
00:08:37What have you there, Miracle?
00:09:00Well, there are too many rats in this house.
00:09:04They should be done away with.
00:09:06You haven't put out enough cups.
00:09:11Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford,
00:09:13are they to have it too?
00:09:15All of them.
00:09:24Will you open the door, please?
00:09:26Come in.
00:09:40Come in.
00:09:54I brewed some coffee, sir,
00:10:05but I can't find anyone in the library.
00:10:08Well, they're probably all retired.
00:10:09Wouldn't you care for some, sir?
00:10:11No, it keeps me awake.
00:10:13I assure you,
00:10:14this coffee will not keep you awake.
00:10:16No, thank you.
00:10:17No, thank you, Miracle.
00:10:22Very well, sir.
00:10:23Call when you want me to pick you up.
00:10:45Right, and don't let Mr. Stiff take a powder on you, huh?
00:10:49Creepy joint.
00:10:51I hope this job don't last long.
00:10:52Come in.
00:11:12I thought you might need your bag, Miss Carroll.
00:11:21You left it in the hall closet downstairs.
00:11:23Oh, yes, thank you.
00:11:24Just put it there.
00:11:25Yes.
00:11:26I was very considerate of you.
00:11:28Not at all.
00:11:28I hope you'll be comfortable.
00:11:30I'm sure I will.
00:11:32Good night.
00:11:34Good night.
00:11:34Good night.
00:11:34Leave this house at once if you value your life.
00:12:04That must be the detective driving up.
00:12:28Thank goodness for that.
00:13:04Hey, good evening.
00:13:17I have an appointment.
00:13:18Yes, I know.
00:13:19This way, sir.
00:13:29Nice place you have here.
00:13:30Yes, sir.
00:13:32Oh, I've been trying to get here for so long.
00:13:44I'd rather than you're here, sir.
00:13:45Go.
00:13:49Go.
00:13:53You're not wanted here.
00:13:56Hmm?
00:13:57Go.
00:14:00Go.
00:14:00Oh, I'm so glad you've come.
00:14:04Say, that...
00:14:05I wouldn't have slept in a wink all night if you hadn't.
00:14:07Well, thank.
00:14:07That's awfully kind of you.
00:14:08You don't look a bit like I expected.
00:14:10I don't?
00:14:11No.
00:14:12I thought you'd be more rugged looking.
00:14:14You know, that way.
00:14:15Why do I have to look rugged?
00:14:16Well, I don't mean that you aren't.
00:14:19I just mean that you don't look it.
00:14:21I suppose under your coat, you're a massive muscle.
00:14:24It just shows how deceptive appearances can be.
00:14:26Oh, I don't think my appearance is so deceptive.
00:14:28Now you're being modest.
00:14:30But then I've heard that people who lead dangerous lives usually are.
00:14:33Well, it isn't so dangerous, but once in a while you run into a rough customer who tries to throw you out, but mostly it's just routine.
00:14:41Oh, I wouldn't call it routine to go tracking people down so they can shoot at you.
00:14:45Oh, no one's ever gone that far.
00:14:47Although one time a fellow tried to cancel his wife's life.
00:14:50Oh, how horrible.
00:14:51What did you do?
00:14:52I talked him out of it.
00:14:53Besides that, I got him to take out an annuity for her.
00:14:56Oh, you must be very brave.
00:14:58Oh, I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
00:15:00How do you do?
00:15:00Oh, I'm Morton Gelman, Mr. Rutherford's lawyer.
00:15:04Pleased to meet you.
00:15:05Your duties have been explained to you?
00:15:06Mr. Gelman, I've been in this business for over 12 years.
00:15:09Good, then you should know what to do.
00:15:10Here's your money.
00:15:11Oh, I couldn't take any money yet, really.
00:15:13This is just the first payment.
00:15:14You'll get the rest later if everything goes off satisfactory.
00:15:17Well, I'm quite sure it will.
00:15:18Of course, he has to be examined by the doctor.
00:15:22Well, that's all been taken care of.
00:15:23You just do your part.
00:15:24We'll take care of the rest.
00:15:25Here you are.
00:15:26Well, this is a little bit irregular, but I guess it'll be all right.
00:15:28He's in there.
00:15:29You'll just sit with him all night.
00:15:30I'll sit with him.
00:15:31I'll be upstairs if he doesn't want me.
00:15:33May I show you in, sir?
00:15:34Oh, I guess so, yes.
00:15:36Uh, goodbye, Miss Dunlap.
00:15:38Pleased to have met.
00:15:39Met.
00:15:40We haven't met yet.
00:15:41My name is Tuttle, Albert Tuttle.
00:15:43I'm Carol Dunlap.
00:15:44His niece.
00:15:45How do you do?
00:15:47How do you do?
00:15:48Would you care to have a cup of coffee first, sir?
00:15:51Yes, I would.
00:15:52What kind of coffee is this?
00:15:54The very best, sir.
00:15:55No, I mean there are two classes of coffee drinkers.
00:15:58There's the percolated, then there's the drip.
00:16:00This is percolated.
00:16:02Sorry on the drip.
00:16:05Well, excuse me.
00:16:06Yes.
00:16:06Good luck, Mr. Tuttle.
00:16:08Don't worry.
00:16:08Mr. Rutherford won't get away from me tonight.
00:16:10This way, sir.
00:16:12How's Mr. Rutherford looking these days?
00:16:15He never looks better, sir.
00:16:17Fine.
00:16:17He's in there.
00:16:32Good evening, Mr. Rutherford.
00:16:35Oh.
00:16:36Tell you what.
00:16:38Mr. Rutherford, I'm Albert L. Tuttle of the Emperor.
00:16:48Let me out of here.
00:17:18What's the matter with you?
00:17:22Oh, I can't sell a dead man insurance.
00:17:25What are you talking about?
00:17:26He's in there right in the corner.
00:17:27I just put my briefcase on him and say,
00:17:29What's going on here?
00:17:29What's the disturbance?
00:17:30They don't seem to understand.
00:17:31Mr. Rutherford, he's in there.
00:17:33The sea's dead.
00:17:33What'd you think he was, dozing?
00:17:35You mean you knew it all the time?
00:17:36Why else would I hire you to watch the body?
00:17:38Watch it.
00:17:38I came here to sell it.
00:17:39Him.
00:17:40Life insurance.
00:17:41Who ever heard of selling a dead man life insurance?
00:17:44I don't want to sell them now.
00:17:45Oh, say, who are you anyway?
00:17:47Albert Tuttle of the Emperor Life Insurance.
00:17:49I had an appointment, Mr. Rutherford.
00:17:50I've had it for over a month.
00:17:51I was going to sell him a $200,000 policy and get my gold pin.
00:17:54Why didn't you say so?
00:17:55What are you doing going around posing as a detective?
00:17:57I wasn't posing as anybody.
00:17:59I came here to see Mr. Rutherford and I've seen him.
00:18:01Now I'm going to get out of here.
00:18:02Not with my $100.
00:18:03I don't want your money.
00:18:04I didn't want it in the first place.
00:18:05Here.
00:18:06Hat in cold, sir.
00:18:07I don't want my hat in cold.
00:18:08I just...
00:18:08Oh, excuse me.
00:18:09I hope whatever you're worried about turns out all right when the real detective gets here.
00:18:22Maybe he isn't coming.
00:18:25Maybe they just said that.
00:18:26I wouldn't put it past them.
00:18:28I don't quite follow you.
00:18:30I'm afraid to talk here.
00:18:32Oh.
00:18:34Excuse me.
00:18:34I'm worried about staying here.
00:18:39I'd be very happy to drive you into town.
00:18:40I have to stay.
00:18:46Oh, I feel quite sure everything will turn out all right.
00:18:50I know something's going to happen.
00:18:52I wish you'd stay.
00:18:54What could happen with all those nice people here?
00:18:57Well, goodbye.
00:19:01Look out!
00:19:04Get away from here before you get yourself killed.
00:19:17Wait a minute, pal.
00:19:18Wait a minute.
00:19:19You're going to pass up a bit like that.
00:19:21Fight that door.
00:19:24You could be a hero.
00:19:26Go now while you've got both legs.
00:19:29This is none of your business.
00:19:31Don't listen to that side of you.
00:19:33Get in there and pitch.
00:19:35Look at those eyes.
00:19:37Look at those...
00:19:37Stop it!
00:19:38Stop it!
00:19:39She's luring you to destruction.
00:19:41She'll try flattery next.
00:19:43She'll say,
00:19:44You saved my life.
00:19:46You're wonderful.
00:19:48Oh.
00:19:49You saved my life.
00:19:52You're wonderful.
00:19:53What did I tell you?
00:19:55Yeah.
00:19:58Ah.
00:20:00Oh.
00:20:02You're hurt.
00:20:04Ah.
00:20:04It was just a bump.
00:20:07You all right?
00:20:09Yeah.
00:20:11Oh.
00:20:12Well.
00:20:14Goodbye.
00:20:15Oh, please don't go.
00:20:16Oh, it was just an accident.
00:20:17No, it wasn't.
00:20:19Someone tried to kill me.
00:20:20I know it.
00:20:21They said they would, and they'll try it again.
00:20:24Here, will you read this?
00:20:25Somebody put it in my bag.
00:20:26Leave this house at once, if you value your life.
00:20:33Well, goodbye.
00:20:36Hey, that's really on the level.
00:20:37Somebody tried to...
00:20:39Whose room is up there?
00:20:40Well, that's the tower, I think.
00:20:42The tower, eh?
00:20:43Somebody tried to kill you, eh?
00:20:45Well, I'll show him he can't go around throwing rocks at people.
00:20:48I'll go up there, and I'll get him in my hands, and I'll tear him apart.
00:20:51Oh, now, please don't.
00:20:52You might get hurt.
00:20:53It's a good thing you talked me out of it.
00:20:55Then you'll help me?
00:20:57Well, uh...
00:20:59Please.
00:21:01Well, uh...
00:21:03Well...
00:21:05Well...
00:21:06Well, uh...
00:21:21Yes?
00:21:38This is Mr. Tuttle, Professor Hilton.
00:21:41Do you mind if we look around, Professor?
00:21:42I'm busy. Constellations changing.
00:21:44Venus approaching Jupiter.
00:21:46It must be very interesting for Jupiter.
00:21:48Go right ahead. We won't get in your way.
00:22:01Careful. You might get a long way down.
00:22:06How did that stone get loose?
00:22:08Stone? Stone? Oh, yes, stone.
00:22:12Thought I heard. Afraid to look.
00:22:15Heights make me vertigo, dizzy.
00:22:19It's funny for an astrologer.
00:22:21Up, yes. Look up. I like that.
00:22:24Down, no. It goes to my, uh, uh, dizzy.
00:22:28Professor, I was almost killed by that stone.
00:22:34You don't seem very interested.
00:22:36What will be will be. It's all in the stars.
00:22:42May I look at your hand?
00:22:45Palms? Poppycock? Bungam?
00:22:47Don't. Don't believe in reading ponds.
00:22:49Depends on what you see there.
00:22:51There's dirt on yours.
00:22:52How did it get there?
00:22:53Well, my pencil.
00:22:57Roll underneath the telescope.
00:23:00Dusty under there.
00:23:01Very dusty.
00:23:06Well, uh, excuse us.
00:23:09What do you think?
00:23:27Well, he looked harmless enough that there was dirt on his hand.
00:23:30Well, maybe someone came around the parapet when he wasn't looking and loosened the stone.
00:23:35Why should anyone want to harm you?
00:23:37I don't know.
00:23:38Uncle Cyrus left kind of a peculiar will.
00:23:41Hasn't been read yet.
00:23:42But if I'm one of the ones that gets a bigger share,
00:23:45somebody wants to get me out of the way.
00:23:50Could have been an accident.
00:23:52Accident?
00:23:53Say, are you covered for falling stone?
00:23:56I don't think so.
00:23:57Well, if one stone fell, another could work loose.
00:24:00That would be a good thing to be covered.
00:24:02Let's see now.
00:24:04Oh, the detective.
00:24:06I wonder why he didn't show up.
00:24:08Hmm?
00:24:09Atlas Detective Agency.
00:24:11Canal 60598.
00:24:25They don't answer.
00:24:26Maybe they're on a special case.
00:24:28Something like murder or something.
00:24:30What are you doing here?
00:24:31I thought you'd left.
00:24:32Well, you see...
00:24:33You wanted someone to watch the body.
00:24:34The detective didn't show up.
00:24:36So Mr. Tuttle said he'd do it.
00:24:37I did?
00:24:38Him?
00:24:38He?
00:24:39What?
00:24:40He, not him.
00:24:41It's a common mistake.
00:24:42You see, him is objective.
00:24:43I'm sure your grammar is excellent, Mr. Tuttle.
00:24:45But I'm afraid you won't make a very good watchman.
00:24:47I'm afraid so, too.
00:24:48Well, he's better than no watchman at all, isn't he?
00:24:51Besides, I think he's very nice to say he'd do so.
00:24:53Who?
00:24:53Who?
00:24:54Who are you?
00:24:54Very well.
00:24:55I washed my hands of the whole responsibility.
00:24:57From now on, it's on your own head.
00:24:58On my head?
00:24:59Now, Mr. Gilman, there's a mistake here.
00:25:03It's very kind of you.
00:25:05I'll be able to sleep now.
00:25:07Good night, Albert.
00:25:07Good night, Carol.
00:25:08Good night, Mr. Gilman.
00:25:09Good night.
00:25:14I guess it'll be all right.
00:25:16I'll sit here and make myself comfortable.
00:25:18In there.
00:25:19In there?
00:25:20I don't need anybody to watch out here.
00:25:22But, Mr. Gilman, would you like to play a little dominoes?
00:25:26No.
00:25:26Is that a game?
00:25:27No.
00:25:28No.
00:25:38No.
00:25:39I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but I don't want to play a little dominoes, but
00:26:09Murder at midnight.
00:26:21Nine, ten, eleven.
00:26:39The large, gloomy house was dark, except for the light by which McGarrity was reading.
00:26:58Outside, a storm was brewing.
00:27:03Inside, the painful silence held a promise of violence and death.
00:27:08In the distance, the first faint rumble of approaching thunder was heard.
00:27:15The very emptiness of the room held menace.
00:27:19To Inspector McGarrity's alert ears, no sound was too slight to be heard.
00:27:24The ticking of the clock, almost in rhythm with the beating of his own heart.
00:27:32The wind slammed a shutter against a window.
00:27:37But McGarrity knew that the owl was at hand.
00:27:43Quietly, a secret panel opened in the wall behind him.
00:27:48Two hands with fingers curved like the claws of a predatory animal reached toward its throat.
00:27:55Feeling vaguely that something was amiss, McGarrity glanced around.
00:28:00But the hands withdrew.
00:28:06When they reappeared, they held a handkerchief to jam down its throat and snuck the breath from its lungs before he could cry out.
00:28:11The hair in the back of McGarrity's neck began to rise.
00:28:34As he had a premonition that the bloody hand which had struck down Sir Ogilvie would strike again that night.
00:28:42McGarrity's premonition was well founded.
00:28:45For at that very moment, the murderer looking behind him was preparing to kill the famous detective in cold blood.
00:28:51Ah, trash.
00:28:53Things like that don't happen.
00:28:54The End
00:29:03The End
00:29:04The End
00:29:05THE END
00:29:35Mr. Tuttle, are you all right?
00:29:50Albert!
00:29:55What's the matter with the lights?
00:29:56I don't know.
00:29:58Maybe the wires are down.
00:30:05Albert!
00:30:08Is he dead?
00:30:15Oh, somebody do something. He's hurt.
00:30:17Oh.
00:30:18Oh, Albert. Speak to me. Take something.
00:30:21Oh, just sign on the dotted line.
00:30:24Is that a fishery?
00:30:25It's hilarious.
00:30:27Oh.
00:30:28Oh, Carol.
00:30:29What happened?
00:30:31There's blood on your hand.
00:30:32You're hurt.
00:30:33Oh, it's your blood.
00:30:35Oh, my blood.
00:30:36My blood?
00:30:37Oh, Albert.
00:30:38I'm wounded. He killed me.
00:30:39Don't control yourself. It's only a scratch.
00:30:40You should have such a scratch.
00:30:42Never mind that.
00:30:43What happened?
00:30:44Oh, I don't know.
00:30:46The lights went out and somebody hit me.
00:30:49Then the lights went out.
00:30:52There it is.
00:30:53What is it?
00:30:58It's my blood.
00:31:00That's what I was hit with.
00:31:08Both doors are locked from the inside.
00:31:10It's someone right here in this house.
00:31:14Where were you five minutes ago?
00:31:15Oh, don't be so nosy. I was with them. Why?
00:31:18What's the matter? You got a headache?
00:31:19Maybe you can tell us what's the matter.
00:31:21Someone attacked him.
00:31:22It's my blood.
00:31:23We were upstairs having a nightcap.
00:31:25Kenneth Hopkins, you promised you'd only have one drink.
00:31:27It's cold up there in bed.
00:31:29Who's this?
00:31:30Mr. Tuttle was acting as watchman to be sure that no one steals the...
00:31:33He's gone.
00:31:36What?
00:31:36Well, maybe he went out for a little walk.
00:31:38This is no joking matter.
00:31:41How did this happen?
00:31:42Do you realize what this means if he's buried underground?
00:31:45I thought you were getting a watchman.
00:31:48Somebody knocked him out.
00:31:55And I thought you were an insurance salesman.
00:31:57Well, I am.
00:31:58I mean, I was.
00:31:59You see, I just stayed to help out.
00:32:01There's something fishy about you.
00:32:03First you come here with a story we can't check.
00:32:05And you worm yourself in as a watchman.
00:32:07Henry, if you're insinuating that Albert had anything to do with it,
00:32:10well, I asked him to stay.
00:32:12Oh.
00:32:13Oh, I'm sorry, Albert.
00:32:15Suppose you lay off the third degree with Carol.
00:32:18Somebody stole Uncle Cyrus' body,
00:32:19and I'm going to find out who before it's too late.
00:32:22But why would anyone want to steal the body?
00:32:23Because of my client's will.
00:32:26He wanted to be interred in a glass-top vault
00:32:28so the stars would shine down on him.
00:32:30He didn't want to be buried any other way.
00:32:32If he is, then his bequests will be reversed.
00:32:35Those who want to get the largest share will get the smaller,
00:32:37and vice versa.
00:32:38Oh, I see.
00:32:39Then somebody stole the body so that they could bury it
00:32:41and reverse the will.
00:32:43But then that would mean that they knew it was in the will.
00:32:45And nobody does, do they?
00:32:47I wonder.
00:32:48Cut out the wisecracks, or I'll let you have it.
00:32:51Oh, I think you're taking a lot for granted, Henry.
00:32:53No one has read the will.
00:32:55The body must still be here in the house,
00:32:56and we've got to find it.
00:32:57I beg your pardon.
00:32:58With everybody's nerves, Alan Hedge,
00:33:03I suggest that you all have some coffee.
00:33:05No, no.
00:33:06Oh, yes, Merkle, I'll have some.
00:33:08No, I like drip.
00:33:09Well, maybe Uncle wasn't stolen.
00:33:12Maybe he's hiding.
00:33:14I can see why he didn't like you.
00:33:16And I'll tell you right now what I think.
00:33:18What?
00:33:19That you and Kenneth,
00:33:20who undoubtedly are down for the smallest share,
00:33:22have stolen it.
00:33:23Why, you too-bit heel,
00:33:24I've been wanting to do this for 20 years.
00:33:26Oh, Albert!
00:33:27Oh, no, I hit the jackpot.
00:33:31Uncle Simon's body.
00:33:33Take it away, somebody!
00:33:34Take it away!
00:33:38Listen, Tuttle.
00:33:41I've got an idea how we can catch the body snatcher.
00:33:44If it works.
00:33:44Get someone else.
00:33:45My head is killing me.
00:33:46You're the only one who can do it.
00:33:48Now, listen.
00:33:48Please, just let me lie here quietly and bleed.
00:33:52All you've got to do is to pretend you're fed up.
00:33:54You're scared.
00:33:55Pretend I'm scared?
00:33:56What do you think I'm shaking from?
00:33:58Enthusiasm.
00:33:59You quit.
00:34:00Then, when the coast is apparently clear,
00:34:02whoever it was might come back and try again.
00:34:04Then you catch them.
00:34:05We catch them.
00:34:06We?
00:34:07By that time, I'll be in my bed.
00:34:08Oh, no.
00:34:09You only pretend to leave.
00:34:11Then you sneak in through the French windows
00:34:12and you lay for them.
00:34:13Listen, I'm not covered for going in through windows.
00:34:16I mean in case of glass breakage.
00:34:17There's nothing to it.
00:34:19I'll be right here waiting for you,
00:34:20and you'll be waiting in the coffin.
00:34:21Oh, I'll be...
00:34:23Coffin?
00:34:24Don't you think it'll be a little bit crowded in there?
00:34:26We'll hide the real body.
00:34:27Oh.
00:34:29I get a better idea.
00:34:30Let the body stay there and let me hide.
00:34:33Look, you want to help, don't you, for Miss Dunlap's sake?
00:34:35Well, I didn't figure I'm going that far.
00:34:37Good.
00:34:38Now, you start your act as soon as we get out in the hall.
00:34:40Now, wait a minute.
00:34:41I want to talk to Miss Dunlap first.
00:34:42I don't want her to think I'm a coward, even if I am.
00:34:45Absolutely not.
00:34:45You mustn't tell anyone.
00:34:46If anything went wrong, she'd be open to suspicion.
00:34:49Oh, I didn't think it.
00:34:50If anything went wrong, nothing will go wrong.
00:34:53Why don't you stop worrying?
00:34:54You sure this is all right, yes?
00:34:59Remember now, you pretend you're leaving.
00:35:02Then I'll let you in again through the French windows.
00:35:03But make it convincing.
00:35:05I can't stand much more.
00:35:07That body's falling on Albert.
00:35:09I've had enough of this.
00:35:11I'm going home.
00:35:12All right.
00:35:13That's the way you feel about it?
00:35:14Albert.
00:35:15That is the way I feel about it.
00:35:16I am going home.
00:35:19I don't care what you say, Mr. Gelman.
00:35:21I'm leaving.
00:35:22After all, I've been popped in the head and punched around and pushed around.
00:35:26Albert.
00:35:26Why should I stay?
00:35:28Next time, I might get killed.
00:35:29Well, I'm too young to get killed.
00:35:30That's a very sensible attitude.
00:35:32A very sensible attitude, Mr. Tuttle.
00:35:34After all, it's not my affair.
00:35:36You said so yourself, Carol.
00:35:37I came here to sell your Uncle Cyrus insurance.
00:35:40As long as nobody's interested in insurance, I'm leaving.
00:35:42Eh?
00:35:49Well, goodbye, Carol.
00:35:51Goodbye, Albert.
00:35:53Oh.
00:35:53Well, uh...
00:35:54I don't blame you for going, but...
00:35:57Well, maybe we'll meet again sometime in town.
00:35:59Maybe.
00:36:00And if we do, there'll be something I want to say.
00:36:03What?
00:36:04Goodbye.
00:36:06Goodbye.
00:36:06What detains you?
00:36:08I had to pretend to go to bed so the others were too.
00:36:35They're all asleep now.
00:36:38Come on.
00:36:39Can't I sit here a while and defrost?
00:36:41Come on.
00:36:41We've got work to do.
00:36:49Hold on.
00:36:50I don't think we ought to try it again.
00:36:53Too risky.
00:36:54Well, we got rid of that screwball, didn't we?
00:36:56There's nothing to stop us now.
00:36:57Do you think we're doing the right thing?
00:36:59Do you think we get rid of the body and find out we reversed the will and somebody else's
00:37:03favor?
00:37:04Yes.
00:37:05What about that?
00:37:06Don't be asinine.
00:37:08Uncle Cyrus didn't like any of us well enough to leave us a pig's bristle.
00:37:10Well, I'm for taking my chances on reversing the will and getting a good chair.
00:37:14All right.
00:37:15I'm with you there.
00:37:16But what was the goofy idea of moving the body?
00:37:19I thought he was plenty comfortable in the cellar.
00:37:21So we put him first.
00:37:23Are you serious?
00:37:23I thought you and your pop were putting behind the living room panel.
00:37:29We thought you did.
00:37:30Hey, wait a minute.
00:37:31Either you two are giving me a run around or somebody else is playing put and take.
00:37:36I wonder who.
00:37:37Well, stop wondering.
00:37:38This time we'll stash Uncle Cyrus' body where nobody will ever find it.
00:37:41Get your coats.
00:37:43What for?
00:37:43We're going to take a little hike.
00:37:45But I...
00:37:45And stop nursing that bottle.
00:37:47Come on, Dad.
00:37:48Come on.
00:37:48Hurry it up with you.
00:37:53Think you'll be safe in there?
00:37:59Of course.
00:37:59You'll be watching.
00:38:00Yeah, I'll be watching.
00:38:01Here, hide the key.
00:38:03Come on.
00:38:07Tuttle.
00:38:12Get your coat off and get in.
00:38:14Say, I have an idea.
00:38:15Suppose I hide in the specimen room with you.
00:38:17No, that's no good.
00:38:19Get in.
00:38:20It doesn't look comfortable.
00:38:22Why not?
00:38:22It's padded.
00:38:23Yeah, so is the cell.
00:38:24Come on, now.
00:38:25Get in.
00:38:25Now, wait a minute.
00:38:26Don't rush me.
00:38:28Yeah.
00:38:29You sure it's safe?
00:38:30I'm not worried about that.
00:38:32You're not worried.
00:38:33No need to both of us worry, Amon.
00:38:35Come on.
00:38:53Come, come, now.
00:39:04I haven't got very much time.
00:39:05Oh.
00:39:07Don't lock it.
00:39:08Of course not.
00:39:12Mr. Gelman.
00:39:13What is it now?
00:39:15Could you get me a glass of water?
00:39:16I got hiccups.
00:39:18Hold your breath.
00:39:19That'll cure you.
00:39:20That's what I'm afraid of.
00:39:21See you later.
00:39:22I don't think so.
00:39:22Monty.
00:39:23Come on.
00:39:23Both of us are out.
00:39:24Don't go out.
00:39:24I get out.
00:39:25Hold your breath.
00:39:25Turn your breath.
00:39:25Hold your breath in.
00:39:34Oh.
00:39:35I got your breath.
00:39:36Oh.
00:39:37Hollywood.
00:39:37Oh.
00:39:37Oh.
00:39:37Oh.
00:39:38Oh.
00:39:38Oh.
00:39:39Hold on.
00:39:39Nice English.
00:39:40Hey.
00:39:40You опыт?
00:39:40Oh.
00:39:40Totally.
00:39:41poundしい.
00:39:41ложotics.
00:39:42Oh.
00:39:42Oh.
00:39:43Oh.
00:39:43Cool.
00:39:43Oh.
00:39:43Oh.
00:39:44Oh.
00:39:45Oh.
00:39:46Oh.
00:39:47Oh.
00:39:47Oh.
00:39:48Oh.
00:40:19I thought I saw those windows move.
00:40:32You shouldn't have had that last drink.
00:40:33Go ahead, open them.
00:40:39Well, come on, let's get him out of here.
00:40:42What's locked?
00:40:43Guess we'll have to take the whole box.
00:40:45You take that other end.
00:40:49Come on.
00:41:19Come on.
00:41:49THE END
00:42:19Will you stop that jerking?
00:42:23Who jerked?
00:42:24You did.
00:42:24You want to make me drop it?
00:42:26If anybody jerked, you jerked.
00:42:27Oh, for heaven's sake, stop it.
00:42:29Come on, let's get this thing over there.
00:42:32There.
00:42:32That did it.
00:42:33You almost jerked it out of my hands that time.
00:42:35I did no such a thing.
00:42:37Your foot must have slipped.
00:42:38Look, do I have to carry this thing myself?
00:42:40Come on, I'm freezing.
00:42:49Well, what do you say to this for a ready-made grave?
00:43:02Nobody will ever find it in the pool.
00:43:04Can't we get this thing over with?
00:43:26Let's get out of here.
00:43:27Let's get out of here.
00:43:57Let's get out of here.
00:44:27Let's get out of here.
00:44:57Come here.
00:44:59What did they do to you?
00:45:01Oh, it was that Gilman.
00:45:02He's the one that talked me into this.
00:45:04Wait a minute, there's something here.
00:45:05What's the goldfish?
00:45:07Wait till I get my hands on that...
00:45:09that lawyer.
00:45:12You mean you think that Gilman...
00:45:13Perfectly safe, he said.
00:45:14Nothing could happen to me.
00:45:16Why, it's as simple as a straight life insurance policy.
00:45:18You know what...
00:45:19Oh, what's that, my brother?
00:45:22Oh.
00:45:22Oh.
00:45:24Wait.
00:45:26Gilman.
00:45:27Sure, it was Gilman.
00:45:28He knew I wouldn't leave you here all alone,
00:45:30so he cooked up that scheme just to get me out of the way.
00:45:33Even made me get in that coffin.
00:45:34Then after he and his accomplices had got me out of the way,
00:45:37he thought he'd have a clear field.
00:45:39But let me tell you...
00:45:41Uh-oh.
00:45:45What are you doing?
00:45:46I want to see if they had time to steal the body while I was drowning.
00:45:49You mean the body's in there?
00:45:51Yeah, it's still in...
00:45:53It's Gilman.
00:45:56Rutherford's gone and he's in there dead.
00:45:58Mother.
00:45:59Well, I don't think he'd...
00:46:01He'd exactly hang himself on a coat hook to commit suicide.
00:46:03Or would he?
00:46:04Oh.
00:46:06Oh, don't leave me.
00:46:10Hello.
00:46:11Hello.
00:46:15Mr. Gilman.
00:46:15Dead.
00:46:18This is dead, too.
00:46:20There, there, there.
00:46:21Now, don't get scared.
00:46:22Oh, but I am scared, Albert.
00:46:24Aren't you?
00:46:25Who, me?
00:46:26I've been scared since 8.30.
00:46:28What are we going to do?
00:46:30There's a murderer in this house.
00:46:32Three of them.
00:46:34Any one of us might be next.
00:46:35Not if we catch them first.
00:46:37How?
00:46:38I'll show them.
00:46:39I'm through being pushed around.
00:46:41I've been bop-clopped and clunked.
00:46:43I'll show them that they can't drown Albert Tuttle and get away with it.
00:46:46I'll call them all down here.
00:46:47And, and we'll grill them.
00:46:49Grill.
00:46:50That reminds me.
00:46:51I'm hungry.
00:46:52Me, too.
00:46:53I think we ought to...
00:46:55We ought to fry this and eat it.
00:46:57Oh, Albert.
00:46:58What about the murderers?
00:46:59Let them catch their own fish.
00:47:01I made a joke.
00:47:02Yes.
00:47:04Poor Mr. Gilman.
00:47:05Why would anyone want to kill him?
00:47:07Never mind that.
00:47:08Then what?
00:47:09Well, then we came back here and we went to the closet.
00:47:13And there he was.
00:47:14Dead.
00:47:15What about my uncle?
00:47:16Where is he?
00:47:17We'd better find a body before it's buried.
00:47:18How can you be so cold-blooded?
00:47:20A man's been murdered.
00:47:21And all you can think about is your inheritance.
00:47:23Whoever stole the body was thinking about it, too.
00:47:25That same person murdered Gilman.
00:47:27There were three of them.
00:47:29I saw them.
00:47:30You saw them?
00:47:32Why didn't you say so?
00:47:34Who were they?
00:47:34It was dark.
00:47:35I couldn't tell.
00:47:36You couldn't tell?
00:47:39Mirko.
00:47:40Yes, sir?
00:47:41Do you always sleep fully clothed?
00:47:45No, sir.
00:47:46Then what are you doing dressed at this hour of the night?
00:47:48I was waiting for the next occurrence.
00:47:50Oh, then you knew something was going to happen.
00:47:52Well, didn't it?
00:47:54Having already been aroused once before,
00:47:57I thought it would save time if I remained in my room on call.
00:48:01Is that how the mud got on your shoes?
00:48:03Waiting in the room?
00:48:04I stepped out to let the cat in, out of the rain.
00:48:08What rain?
00:48:10What rain?
00:48:15The rain that's falling down, sir.
00:48:21What is the trouble?
00:48:23I heard the commotion.
00:48:24Where were you, Professor?
00:48:25Watching Venus under the rain.
00:48:28Mr. Gellman has been murdered.
00:48:31Well, you're not surprised.
00:48:32Surprised?
00:48:33No.
00:48:34Not even at murder?
00:48:36No such a thing.
00:48:37Poor or deemed.
00:48:39Mr. Gellman in the shadow.
00:48:42An unlucky star.
00:48:43Very unlucky.
00:48:45Well, if the stars can tell you all that,
00:48:47perhaps they can also tell you who killed them.
00:48:49No.
00:48:49I am a scientist, Mr. Turtle.
00:48:53It's Tuttle.
00:48:54Not a detective.
00:48:56I can tell you this, though.
00:48:58Do not make too many plans for a birthday party yourself.
00:49:03You are under the influence of a very precarious star.
00:49:06Very precarious, Mr. Tittle.
00:49:09It's Tuttle.
00:49:12My car is outside.
00:49:14I'm going for the police.
00:49:15You'll never get there.
00:49:17Why not?
00:49:19Begging your pardon, sir.
00:49:21The bridge over the creek was washed out.
00:49:23I saw it from the tower.
00:49:25No one can get in or out.
00:49:28Then I'll walk.
00:49:29Suit yourself, sir.
00:49:32But the nearest telephone would be about ten miles in the rain.
00:49:39Why do we waste time answering a lot of questions?
00:49:42We'd better start looking for Uncle's body.
00:49:44You look for him.
00:49:45I'm going up and lock myself in my room till the police come.
00:49:48Come along, Kenneth.
00:49:49Me too.
00:49:49I didn't come here to spend all night on a treasure hunt.
00:49:51Aren't you going to give us a clue?
00:49:53While we're on the subject, where were you when all this went on?
00:49:56I was in bed.
00:49:57Is that right?
00:49:58I suppose so.
00:49:59You suppose so?
00:50:00We have separate rooms.
00:50:02Well, naturally.
00:50:03I'm going to help them look.
00:50:05After all, I started...
00:50:09You should get out of those wet clothes before you catch your death.
00:50:12Oh, stop using that word.
00:50:13I'm all right.
00:50:15There's a vacant room next to mine.
00:50:17It was Uncle Cyrus's.
00:50:18You're going to use it.
00:50:19Come on.
00:50:20Of course.
00:50:25Would you like some coffee, Mr. Tuttle?
00:50:28It's a tittle.
00:50:28A tittle.
00:50:31No, thank you.
00:50:33Madam?
00:50:34I don't need anything to keep me awake.
00:50:37None for me, thanks.
00:50:38No.
00:50:39If you find anything, call me.
00:50:40I'll be in my room.
00:50:42That'll be a novelty.
00:50:42No.
00:50:42I'll be in my room after there.
00:51:14Thank you, Tim.
00:51:34That killman business wasn't at all smart.
00:51:36Well, you don't think I killed him, do you?
00:51:37If you didn't, you did.
00:51:38You might have.
00:51:39What else?
00:51:40Me?
00:51:41Listen, you're not trying to pin this on me, are you?
00:51:43Oh, don't be silly.
00:51:44We were all together.
00:51:45Except when you went for your coats.
00:51:47Stop it.
00:51:48Somebody else wants the world changed even more than we do.
00:51:51Enough to commit murder.
00:52:01Here, come on.
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00:54:55THE END
00:54:59THE END
00:55:01THE END
00:55:13It's locked.
00:55:15I have to get my keys.
00:55:17Let's get it out of the way for the time being.
00:55:19All right.
00:55:39She's been there for a few minutes.
00:55:43Here's one with a couple of snorts left.
00:55:53Ah, and here's a full one.
00:55:55Yes, take both of them.
00:55:57That's just what I was going to do.
00:55:59Good.
00:56:01That's just what I was going to do.
00:56:15That's just what I was going to do.
00:56:29That's just what I was going to do.
00:56:43That's just what I was going to do.
00:56:57That's just what I was going to do.
00:56:59That's just what I was going to do.
00:57:01That's just what I was going to do.
00:57:03That's just what I was going to do.
00:57:05That's just what I was going to do.
00:57:07That's just what I was going to do.
00:57:13That's got a real kick in it.
00:57:36Yeah, I wonder whose it was.
00:57:37Who cares?
00:57:39I was going to sing a song about a murder.
00:57:42Who are you searching?
00:57:45I guess I can sing if I wanted, can't I?
00:57:47Well, this one's a dead soldier.
00:58:12Better hide the bottle before they start squawking.
00:58:17Where did I put it?
00:58:19There's the spot.
00:58:22Nobody will be the wise.
00:58:25Just one more little drink, then you go make shut-eye.
00:58:28Okay.
00:58:29There you go.
00:58:39What's that?
00:58:40What's what?
00:58:44I think I've had enough.
00:58:48Good night.
00:58:49Good night.
00:58:49Good night.
00:58:50Good night.
00:58:51Good night.
00:58:52Good night.
00:58:53Good night.
00:58:54Good night.
00:58:55Good night.
00:58:56Good night.
00:58:57Good night.
00:58:58Good night.
00:58:59Good night.
00:59:00Good night.
00:59:01Good night.
00:59:02Good night.
00:59:03Good night.
00:59:04Good night.
00:59:05Good night.
00:59:06Good night.
00:59:07Good night.
00:59:08Good night.
00:59:09Good night.
00:59:10Good night.
00:59:11Good night.
00:59:12Good night.
00:59:13Good night.
00:59:14Good night.
00:59:15Good night.
00:59:16Good night.
00:59:17I thought we'd put it in the closet.
00:59:26I know we put it in the closet.
00:59:28Did you?
00:59:31Never mind.
00:59:32Let's put it where it belongs.
00:59:47What people?
01:00:14What happened?
01:00:15What was that?
01:00:17What's going on?
01:00:24He's in there.
01:00:25The murderer in the basket.
01:00:26He is, is he?
01:00:27I'll give you until the count of three to come out.
01:00:30One, two, three.
01:00:33Don't shoot.
01:00:34Don't shoot.
01:00:36Oh, Carol, I can explain everything.
01:00:45It's, uh, embarrassing, isn't it?
01:00:55Coffin.
01:00:57The coffin.
01:00:58Coffin.
01:00:58Oh, my God.
01:00:59Oh, my God.
01:01:14Oh.
01:01:15Oh, my God.
01:01:17Oh.
01:01:18Oh, my God.
01:01:19Oh.
01:01:50Oh, don't scream like that's your skin.
01:02:13Mr. Tuttle, what are you doing here?
01:02:15Well, I heard footsteps. They sound as if they came from up here.
01:02:18I heard them, too.
01:02:19I'd have sworn they came from right over my head.
01:02:22Well, I guess there's nobody else here.
01:02:24Must have been the wind.
01:02:26We'd better go back before someone else hears us and start shooting.
01:02:29Yes, we'd better.
01:02:37Now, if you get frightened, I'm right across there.
01:02:40You call me.
01:02:41That's a big help.
01:02:43Thank you. Good night.
01:02:44Good night.
01:02:59Good evening.
01:03:01Did you sell any insurance?
01:03:03Now, listen, Carol.
01:03:05Done that to you.
01:03:07No matter what you're thinking, I'm innocent.
01:03:09I was just taking her back to her room.
01:03:11Then I was going to my room.
01:03:12Oh, you've had a baby night.
01:03:14You mean when I get into Margaret's room?
01:03:16That wasn't my fault, either.
01:03:17Why, you're passing over.
01:03:19Oh, you got me all wrong.
01:03:20I get into her room to her mother's room.
01:03:23I was lost.
01:03:24Well, if you don't believe me, perhaps you'll believe Mrs. Rutherford.
01:03:28Mrs. Rutherford!
01:03:30You don't have to explain.
01:03:31I only know what I see.
01:03:33She doesn't answer.
01:03:37Mrs. Rutherford!
01:03:41I just left her.
01:03:45We'd better go in.
01:03:49I'll show you.
01:03:50Is she awake?
01:03:53Is she?
01:03:54Ah!
01:03:56Ah!
01:03:59Queen!
01:04:00What's all the racket?
01:04:00Pounding on walls?
01:04:01Queen?
01:04:04How did this happen?
01:04:05I don't know.
01:04:06I was with her a few minutes ago.
01:04:08Mona.
01:04:09Mona!
01:04:11I'll kill you for this.
01:04:12I'll kill you for this.
01:04:14Wait a minute.
01:04:16I don't know what this is all about.
01:04:19You don't think I had anything to do with it?
01:04:22That's absurd.
01:04:23I just took her back to a room and I didn't even go in.
01:04:26That's Carol.
01:04:26She saw me come out.
01:04:28I mean...
01:04:28I thought you said you didn't go inside.
01:04:30I didn't.
01:04:31I just...
01:04:31I just looked around to make sure that there was nobody there.
01:04:33Then you were inside.
01:04:34Oh, that doesn't prove anything.
01:04:36Suppose he was inside.
01:04:37Then he was the last person to see her alive.
01:04:39He just admitted it.
01:04:40I didn't.
01:04:41Anybody could have gotten in here.
01:04:42How?
01:04:43Through the panel.
01:04:44There's a spring here.
01:04:46You just touch it and this panel opens.
01:04:49There's a secret passage in back of it.
01:04:52It's there someplace.
01:04:54Save that for the police.
01:04:55Only the next time you better make it better.
01:04:56Police?
01:04:57I came here to sell insurance.
01:04:58Brother, you better have some.
01:04:59Oh, Jim.
01:05:00What right have we got to judge?
01:05:01Look, Carol.
01:05:02A murder's been committed.
01:05:03Two murders.
01:05:03By his own admission, he was the last person to see both murdered people alive.
01:05:07Then he pulled this phony story about a secret panel.
01:05:09Only there's no panel.
01:05:11And Uncle Cyrus' body is still missing.
01:05:13I'll bet he stole it.
01:05:14I didn't have anything to do with it.
01:05:16I came here to sell insurance.
01:05:17Why should I go around killing people?
01:05:18Well, that's something else for the police to find out.
01:05:20Let's lock him up before he has the chance to kill somebody else.
01:05:23Now, wait a minute.
01:05:24Wait a minute.
01:05:24I'm going to...
01:05:25You can't do this to me.
01:05:27I'll tell you.
01:05:27I'll lift the power, Markle.
01:05:29Yes, sir.
01:05:32What are you going to do to me?
01:05:33They're locking you in here.
01:05:34I can't hear the keys.
01:05:35I wish you'd listen to me.
01:05:36The real murder is still at large.
01:05:37Sure, we'll listen to you when the police get here.
01:05:39Are you sure this is the only way out?
01:05:40I'll do it the other way.
01:05:41Straight down.
01:05:42Good.
01:05:42Shall I take him out, sir, and push him off the ledge?
01:05:45You could say it was an accident.
01:05:46No, Markle.
01:05:47We'll let the law take its course if he's quiet.
01:05:49Of course, if he tries to escape, we'll have to get a little better.
01:05:51How's Henry?
01:06:14Pretty broken up.
01:06:15I'll see what I can do for him.
01:06:16Perhaps he would like some coffee, sir.
01:06:20Jim, about Albert.
01:06:22Sorry, Carol.
01:06:23I'm afraid he's just a wrong guy.
01:06:24Carol.
01:06:39Carol, I'm sorry.
01:06:42They don't know I'm here.
01:06:43I stole a passkey.
01:06:44You better leave before the police suspect you, too.
01:06:47You believe me, don't you?
01:06:48Of course I do, and so will the police.
01:06:50I'm not so sure.
01:06:53It's just my word against the evidence.
01:06:56Even the stars are against me.
01:06:57The professor said so.
01:06:58Now, don't get feeling like that.
01:07:00Everything will turn out all right somehow.
01:07:03Stars are no stars.
01:07:05Look.
01:07:06It's clearing up already.
01:07:08Maybe that's a good sign.
01:07:10I wonder which one is mine.
01:07:12You know, the precarious one.
01:07:15Don't tell me you're falling for that hooey.
01:07:17You can't tell.
01:07:18There may be something to it after all.
01:07:22How can those little pinpoints influence your life?
01:07:25You can't even tell them apart.
01:07:27Not even through this thing, I'll bet you.
01:07:29Probably had plain old-fashioned window glass in it.
01:07:34Oh!
01:07:36What's the matter?
01:07:36Something in your eye?
01:07:40Look at it.
01:07:42Look at it.
01:07:43It's nothing.
01:07:51It's him.
01:07:52It's he.
01:07:54Oh, no!
01:07:55Wait for me!
01:07:59Jim.
01:08:00Jim!
01:08:01Jim!
01:08:02Henry!
01:08:03Henry!
01:08:05Yeah, Carol, what is it?
01:08:06I'm dead in the tower.
01:08:08And it's Herman's alpha with Uncle Boris' body.
01:08:10Uncle Boris in the tower?
01:08:12Oh, my God.
01:08:12I'll just wait for him.
01:08:16Henry!
01:08:17Henry!
01:08:17Here in the tower.
01:08:18Where is he?
01:08:19He's in there.
01:08:19He looks horrible.
01:08:20What?
01:08:20Right there.
01:08:21It's a telescope.
01:08:22It is, Uncle Cyrus.
01:08:24Uncle Cyrus.
01:08:24You were up here all alone.
01:08:26What did you do?
01:08:26Something wrong?
01:08:28My telescope?
01:08:29It's in key.
01:08:32Remarkable.
01:08:33Very remarkable.
01:08:34I've never seen the moon's face so clear.
01:08:38The star...
01:08:39Get him out!
01:08:41Get him out!
01:08:42He'll ruin my lens!
01:08:43What kind of a joke is that?
01:08:45This is not a toy!
01:08:47Get him out!
01:08:48Henry!
01:08:49Henry!
01:08:53Henry!
01:08:54Henry!
01:09:10Henry!
01:09:11Are you alive?
01:09:12Nothing was right.
01:09:14Someone must have used this passage where you killed Mona.
01:09:19Henry!
01:09:19Somebody else who got too nosy.
01:09:25I don't understand.
01:09:28Oh, you don't mean.
01:09:30Oh, sure you don't mean.
01:09:33You killed Mona!
01:09:34And Mr. Gilman!
01:09:36You would have been alive, but she followed me.
01:09:38Found out too much.
01:09:40But...
01:09:40But Henry!
01:09:41Uncle Cyrus likes you.
01:09:43He lied, the old hypocrite.
01:09:45I know.
01:09:46I read his will.
01:09:47He didn't think I'd get anything.
01:09:49But now I'll get it all.
01:09:51All of it because I'll kill everybody who comes in my...
01:09:54What was that?
01:09:59It sounded like Cam.
01:10:00Where did it come from?
01:10:01No!
01:10:05He's down there.
01:10:12Come on!
01:10:13We've got to find him!
01:10:14Yes!
01:10:14Yes!
01:10:14Yes!
01:10:14Yes!
01:10:14Yes!
01:10:15Yes!
01:10:15Yes!
01:10:15Yes!
01:10:15Yes!
01:10:15Yes!
01:10:15Yes!
01:10:16Yes!
01:10:16Yes!
01:10:16Yes!
01:10:16Yes!
01:10:16Yes!
01:10:16Yes!
01:10:16Yes!
01:10:16Yes!
01:10:17Yes!
01:10:17Yes!
01:10:18Yes!
01:10:19Yes!
01:10:20Yes!
01:10:21Yes!
01:10:22Yes!
01:10:23Yes!
01:10:24Yes!
01:10:25Yes!
01:10:26Yes!
01:10:27Yes!
01:10:28Yes!
01:10:29Yes!
01:10:30Yes!
01:10:31Yes!
01:10:32Yes!
01:10:33Yes!
01:10:34Yes!
01:10:35Yes!
01:10:36Yes!
01:10:37Yes!
01:10:38Yes!
01:10:39Yes!
01:10:40Yes!
01:10:41Yes!
01:10:42Yes!
01:10:43Yes!
01:10:44Yes!
01:10:45Yes!
01:10:46Yes!
01:10:47Yes!
01:10:48Who are you?
01:10:53He pulled a knife on me.
01:10:55I'm a detective.
01:10:57A detective?
01:10:57Yeah, someone caught me on the dough.
01:10:59Well, then, who bought me?
01:11:02What's the matter?
01:11:03He's still loose.
01:11:04Down there.
01:11:05Hurry, he's got the girl.
01:11:07Come on, Pa.
01:11:09Hey, what about me?
01:11:18Hey, what about me?
01:11:48Come on.
01:12:18Come on.
01:12:25Come on, men.
01:12:25We get them cornered.
01:12:27Where are they?
01:12:28Oh, no.
01:12:38Oh, no.
01:12:42Oh, no.
01:12:43Oh, no.
01:12:45Oh, no.
01:12:47Oh, no.
01:12:51Oh, no.
01:12:53Oh, no.
01:12:55Oh, no.
01:12:57Oh, no.
01:12:57Oh, no.
01:12:57Oh, no.
01:12:58Oh, no.
01:12:59Oh, no.
01:13:00Oh, no.
01:13:01Oh, no.
01:13:01Oh, no.
01:13:02Oh, no.
01:13:03Oh, no.
01:13:03Oh, no.
01:13:04Oh, no.
01:13:04Oh, no.
01:13:05Oh, no.
01:13:05Oh, no.
01:13:06Oh, no.
01:13:07Oh, no.
01:13:08Oh, no.
01:13:09Oh, no.
01:13:10Stop.
01:13:23Mr. Rutherford.
01:13:25Mr. Henry.
01:13:26He killed him.
01:13:28I've had enough of your interference.
01:13:30He's going to shoot.
01:13:32Okay.
01:13:38You killed Mr. Gelman and Mona.
01:13:40That's right.
01:13:41Mr. Cyrus underrated me.
01:13:55All right.
01:14:01Well, well, quite a satisfactory will.
01:14:04Go on, Jim.
01:14:05That's all there was to it.
01:14:06Henry had read the will.
01:14:08He wasn't going to get much money,
01:14:09so he tried to reverse it.
01:14:10Gelman caught him reading it,
01:14:12so Henry killed him.
01:14:13Well, now that the old boy is resting peacefully in his vault,
01:14:17we're all set for life.
01:14:18Let's have a drink.
01:14:19Would anyone like a cup of coffee?
01:14:22No coffee.
01:14:22Not for me, thanks.
01:14:23I'm going to have something stronger.
01:14:28Well, Carol, I...
01:14:34Well, Carol, I guess my work is over here.
01:14:37I guess it's goodbye.
01:14:39I hope not, Albert.
01:14:41Maybe sometime, someplace.
01:14:43Go on in, pal.
01:14:52She's waiting for you.
01:14:55Wait.
01:14:56You go in there, you'll never get out.
01:14:58You'll be hooked for life.
01:15:00Brother.
01:15:01Who cares?
01:15:02Such fine coffee, isn't it?
01:15:19Oh, Albert.
01:15:20Here he is.
01:15:32What?
01:15:42What?
01:15:42What?
01:15:42What?
01:15:43What?
01:15:43What?
01:15:44What?